The Ben Shapiro Show - February 25, 2016


Ep. 79 - Shapiro at CSULA: Screw You Leftist Fascists

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Melina Abdullah William Covino Obama Martin Luther King Royce White Malcolm X Frisk Ruben Martin John Jay College Phyllis Schlafly James Surowiecki Adele Nazarian Charles Manson Gloria Steinem Mother Teresa Robert Putnam O.J. Simpson Peter Moskos George Casey N. How and 5 more
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Ben Shapiro's appearance at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Monday sparked a massive protest that forced the administration to call off the event, and the president of the university, William Covino, called it "dyslexic" and threatened to shut it down if it happened again. In response, YAF stepped up to the plate and organized a counter-protest outside of the building, and in response, the administration canceled Ben Shapiro's lecture on the topic of "When Diversity Becoming a Problem." Well, what happens when "diversity" becomes a problem? What happens when people who have a different point of view are blocked from speaking on campus because they don't "discover it"? Is that a problem, or is it just a problem outside of this country where people don't have the right to speak freely and have to be protected by the First Amendment right to free speech? Or is it a problem inside the United States because we don't actually have a free exchange of ideas on America's college campuses? or are we just living in a fantasy world where we live in Stalinist Stalinist utopia where we're supposed to be tolerant and open to everyone's ideas? What's the problem here in America, then? ? Do you have a problem with the idea that we're not allowed to have free speech because we're all supposed to agree with each other? . Or are we can't have it? , or do we have to have it all? in America's First Amendment rights because it's too hard to be free? Or do we're too hard on each other ? Or is that too difficult to be allowed to talk about things we disagree with? and so on and so we can t have it ? or can't we have a say in what we want to have any say in the first place? ... or can we have it at all ? What do you want to hear from the other side? Join the conversation on this episode of The Weekly Standard? Subscribe to our new show, on social media? to let us know your thoughts, opinions, thoughts, and thoughts on the matter? on this and other topics related to this and much more! in the future of the culture we're talking about in the next episode of the podcast? we'll be posting them on the next one! Subscribe on Insta:

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00:00:00.000 I'm going to give this speech.
00:00:08.000 I'm going to say what I have to say, and then we'll see what happens outside.
00:00:12.000 All right.
00:00:14.000 First, I want to thank the Young Americans Foundation chapter here, all the brave kids who went out and risked life and limb.
00:00:21.000 I mean, I was just out there listening to the crowds outside, risked life and limb to go out there and put flyers up on behalf of a dissenting message.
00:00:30.000 Who risked their academic careers to make themselves publicly available to do these sorts of things.
00:00:34.000 I want to thank all of you.
00:00:35.000 You guys are brave.
00:00:36.000 Let me give you a round of applause.
00:00:42.000 That's what YAF does.
00:00:43.000 And I want to thank also the Fred R. Allen for sponsoring this lecture series.
00:00:47.000 I think he's probably getting more than he bargained for.
00:00:50.000 So the topic of my talk today is when diversity becomes a problem.
00:00:55.000 This is apparently too rough for some of the people who go to this university.
00:00:58.000 I'm talking about the rainbow unicorn gumdrop fascists outside who live in their little fantasy world and demand that everyone else participate in this fantasy world or they will shut down free debate. 0.98
00:01:10.000 I'm talking about the pathetic, cowardly, macho professors who mouth off about physically aggressing against people who disagree. 0.97
00:01:18.000 I'm talking about the ridiculous, self-aggrandizing president of this university, William Covino, who tried to cancel this event on Monday after weeks of approval and hard work from students at this university. 0.99
00:01:29.000 That's who I'm talking about.
00:01:30.000 And if you're coming in, welcome.
00:01:31.000 I'm glad you were finally able to run the gauntlet. 0.92
00:01:35.000 Here is what the pathetic president of this university wrote when he canceled this event earlier this week, or tried to cancel it because I wasn't going to go along with his ridiculous notions of what diversity constitutes. 0.77
00:01:46.000 Diversity means that he gets to approve any speech that happens on this campus, which is precisely what Stalin thought diversity meant. 0.81
00:01:53.000 Here's what William Covino said, quote, after careful consideration, I have decided, I have decided, that it will be best for our campus community.
00:02:02.000 He's decided it will be best for you.
00:02:03.000 I mean, come on.
00:02:04.000 If we reschedule Ben Shapiro's appearance for a later date so that we can arrange for him to appear as part of a group of speakers with differing viewpoints on diversity, such an event will better represent our university's dedication to the free exchange of ideas and the value of considering multiple viewpoints.
00:02:22.000 You can hear how well this free exchange of ideas is going when there are people literally standing outside, pushing down reporters like Adele Nazarian of Breitbart, assaulting people outside, threatening acts of violence to prevent people from hearing a dissenting point of view.
00:02:35.000 That's free exchange of ideas on America's college campuses.
00:02:38.000 That's free exchange of ideas thanks to the American left.
00:02:41.000 That's free exchange of ideas thanks to William Covino and his thug rule here.
00:02:46.000 The value of considering multiple viewpoints.
00:02:48.000 How about this viewpoint?
00:02:50.000 Let people say what they're going to say.
00:02:52.000 Is that so rough?
00:02:58.000 So, in the name of a free exchange of ideas and considering multiple viewpoints, Covino and company tried to shut this event down, of course.
00:03:06.000 In the name of diversity, he went full brown shirt. 1.00
00:03:09.000 Let me explain, for the idiots in this administration. 1.00
00:03:12.000 I am the diversity. 1.00
00:03:14.000 Free speech does not require your censorship.
00:03:17.000 I don't have to be drowned out by opposing views.
00:03:19.000 It turns out that that's what you're trying to do outside.
00:03:22.000 Turns out that's what your faculty does every day in your classrooms, with my taxpayer dollars, since I pay taxes in this state.
00:03:28.000 So, we're here.
00:03:30.000 We're here for free speech, and we're here for the First Amendment.
00:03:33.000 Welcome to America, where you and your jackboots don't get to shut down debate just because you disagree.
00:03:38.000 No matter how hard you try, you can all go screw yourselves.
00:03:48.000 It's not just William Covino, of course.
00:03:50.000 It's Professor Robert Wyde, who objected to this lecture taking place on campus, just like a good little intellectually inferior professor should. 0.84
00:03:57.000 He said that the students who sponsored this event are white supremacists.
00:04:02.000 And if you've ever met the students of YAF, you know how untrue this is.
00:04:05.000 He has invited those students to fight him at the gym in the USU building at 1 p.m.
00:04:10.000 tomorrow, stating, quote, I lift, bro. 0.66
00:04:14.000 By the way, white supremacists love Orthodox Jews.
00:04:16.000 They're famous for having their meetings at our synagogues.
00:04:19.000 So he says, I lift, bro.
00:04:21.000 Well, simmer down there, Mongo.
00:04:23.000 We live in a country where we don't actually have to fight each other physically in order to make our point.
00:04:27.000 It's called civilization.
00:04:29.000 You should try it sometime.
00:04:32.000 And again, folks, if you're watching on the live stream, the waves of students that you see entering right now are being sneaked in.
00:04:38.000 Because in America in 2016, you have to use the back door if you want to participate in free speech.
00:04:43.000 You get to block the front door if you're a member of the left.
00:04:47.000 Professor Whyde, by the way, he doesn't want to try it, apparently.
00:04:50.000 He doesn't want to try this whole free speech thing.
00:04:52.000 When he spotted students putting up flyers for this event, he called in the guys with the guns, the campus security, because he wouldn't want posters microaggressing you, of course.
00:05:00.000 He then said that the students putting up these posters were fascists, because putting up posters, that's fascist.
00:05:07.000 And then he suggested that the students were responsible for death threats he had received, and he wrote on a sign outside his office, the best response to microaggression is macroaggression.
00:05:15.000 In other words, if I'm offended, I get to take physical action against you, I get to be violent with you, and that's what we're watching outside right now.
00:05:23.000 For those of you who don't speak low IQ, what Professor Wide means is that the best response to hearing things that you don't like is hurting people who say those things.
00:05:33.000 I guarantee you this, I've certainly received more death threats than Professor Wyde.
00:05:37.000 Some might be from people in this room, like, for example, certainly from people outside.
00:05:41.000 One Reuben Martin, who told another professor at this university, Malina Abdullah, via Facebook, and this is how it's written.
00:05:51.000 And there it is, gang.
00:05:55.000 Guess what?
00:05:57.000 You know what?
00:05:59.000 They're not going to stop us.
00:06:13.000 All right.
00:06:14.000 Melina Abdullah's fan, Ruben Martin, wrote, You want, I should hoidom, boss.
00:06:20.000 I got a few's ideas.
00:06:22.000 Me and da fellow's been kickin' round.
00:06:24.000 Only ting is, he won't be talkin' or lookin' so nice no more.
00:06:27.000 We'll take the cannolis.
00:06:29.000 The reason I'm reading it in this way is because this is exactly how it's written.
00:06:33.000 Hoidom is spelled H-O-I-W-T apostrophe E-M.
00:06:37.000 Speaking of Professor Abdullah, she posted this on her Facebook wall earlier this week.
00:06:42.000 Folks, if you're just joining the live stream, somebody pulled the fire alarm to stop this, because this is how the fascists do it.
00:06:48.000 Professor Abdullah posted this on her Facebook wall, quote, when diversity becomes a problem has been scheduled for February 25th at Cal State LA, a campus that is 90% students of color and during black history month.
00:07:01.000 I say this event is a problem.
00:07:02.000 What we gun do y'all?
00:07:04.000 And again, gun is spelled G O apostrophe N. How about you could try listening?
00:07:09.000 How about that?
00:07:10.000 Instead of pulling the fire alarm or stopping people from entering or at the very least, why don't you start using proper grammar?
00:07:15.000 You're a professor.
00:07:18.000 By the way, Professor Abdulla teaches a class that fulfills a diversity requirement at this university, a requirement designed to encourage tolerance and acceptance of others.
00:07:28.000 You can hear the tolerance and acceptance coming from the speakers in this room as they attempt to evacuate the premises so people don't hear my deeply scary and frightening ideas.
00:07:40.000 I have a question.
00:07:41.000 Where the f- is the administration on this campus? 0.76
00:07:44.000 Where the hell is the administration on this campus?
00:07:48.000 If this sort of language came from the right against the left, you can guarantee the administration would be looking at suspensions or firings.
00:07:55.000 If this sort of thing happens or in classes at this university, the kid who pulled the fire alarm would be off this campus so fast it would make your head swim.
00:08:03.000 But not you out there, the protesters, those special, magical leftist children protected from the consequences of living in the real world with my taxpayer dollars. 0.99
00:08:12.000 You get to shut us down for disagreeing with your thug tactics and your nasty, pathetic, evil ideology. 0.97
00:08:18.000 So, with those preliminaries out of the way, let's talk about when diversity becomes a problem. 0.99
00:08:25.000 Let's start by defining our terms for a second.
00:08:28.000 Diversity can mean a whole host of things.
00:08:29.000 Some of those things are good.
00:08:31.000 Some of those things are bad.
00:08:32.000 If you had a dinner party that was comprised of O.J. 0.65
00:08:35.000 Simpson and Charles Manson and the Menendez brothers, that's a diverse dinner party in one way.
00:08:39.000 In another way, it's not a very diverse dinner party at all.
00:08:43.000 If you had a dinner party comprised of Mother Teresa, Gloria Steinem, and Phyllis Schlafly, that would also be a diverse dinner party in one way, and in another way, wouldn't be diverse at all.
00:08:51.000 You'd have three women with different points of views. 1.00
00:08:53.000 In the first case, you'd have three murderers with differing races. 0.95
00:08:56.000 So what exactly are we talking about here?
00:08:58.000 There are three types of diversity.
00:09:00.000 Diversity of skin color or ethnicity, diversity of fundamental values, and diversity of viewpoint.
00:09:06.000 Two of these types of diversity are complete wastes of time.
00:09:10.000 We're good to go.
00:09:31.000 So, let's start with diversity of skin color.
00:09:33.000 Diversity of skin color and ethnicity is absolutely meaningless. 1.00
00:09:36.000 It is absolutely meaningless.
00:09:38.000 The color of your skin should not matter one iota. 0.97
00:09:41.000 It is anti-scientific.
00:09:42.000 It is a waste of time.
00:09:43.000 It is an excuse for people of one political perspective to shut people up who don't have that political perspective.
00:09:51.000 It's become cliche at this point to cite Martin Luther King.
00:09:54.000 and his admonition to judge people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin, that doesn't mean that MLK was wrong.
00:10:01.000 He was right.
00:10:03.000 Malcolm X was wrong.
00:10:04.000 But just walk out front.
00:10:05.000 Malcolm X won.
00:10:06.000 Martin Luther King lost.
00:10:08.000 All the racist leftists outside, they seem to think that's wrong.
00:10:11.000 Skin color is the only thing that matters. 1.00
00:10:14.000 My viewpoint, according to Professor Abdullah, had to be shut down because this college is 90% people of color. 1.00
00:10:20.000 This is called racism, gang.
00:10:23.000 Viewpoints being shut down because of the color of skin is called racism.
00:10:27.000 So, first a question.
00:10:29.000 How is this college statistically diverse, by your own measures?
00:10:33.000 By your standards, isn't it racist and discriminatory against white people?
00:10:36.000 Here's how your college breaks down ethnically, as well as sexually.
00:10:39.000 37% male, 57% female, 9% black, 21% Asian Pacific Islander, 50% Hispanic, 11% white, and 9% race or ethnicity unknown.
00:10:44.000 Here are the ethnicity statistics for the City of Los Angeles.
00:10:55.000 41.3% white, 47.5% Latino or Hispanic, 9.8% black, 10.7% Asian, and 0.2% Pacific Islander. 1.00
00:11:04.000 So get cracking, you racist bastards! 1.00
00:11:06.000 Throw out all the extra Asians you got hanging around here, as well as those 10% of extra Hispanics. 1.00
00:11:11.000 Start piping in some white folks, because apparently the only thing that matters is skin color, right gang? 0.98
00:11:16.000 The only thing that matters is that you be represented at population levels equal
00:11:19.000 We're good to go.
00:11:38.000 Blacks received a bonus of 230 points on the 1600 point SAT. 0.97
00:11:43.000 Hispanics got a bonus of 185 SAT points on average. 0.98
00:11:47.000 Asians, who as we all know, there's Asian privilege in America.
00:11:49.000 I mean, come on.
00:11:50.000 It was founded by Asians.
00:11:51.000 It's been a nation of Asian men forever. 1.00
00:11:53.000 Asians face a loss of 50 SAT points on average.
00:11:57.000 And this is out of a 1600 point scale.
00:12:00.000 So let's take a look at your current admission stats and throw out all these terrible beneficiaries of Asian privilege who overpopulate your campus by statistics. 1.00
00:12:07.000 Or doesn't it work that way?
00:12:09.000 See, I don't care whether my doctor or my lawyer or my mechanic or my plumber is white or black or green or brown.
00:12:16.000 You should not either.
00:12:18.000 But you do if you're on America's campuses.
00:12:21.000 The reason that people on this campus feel good about using discriminatory racial language, calling for students to be indoctrinated in the value of diversity of skin color, is because it gives them a feeling of unearned moral superiority.
00:12:32.000 They're better people.
00:12:33.000 Well, they're not superior, and they're certainly not moral.
00:12:37.000 Facts that hurt your feelings, it turns out, are still facts, regardless of your race, and as I am deeply fond of saying, facts do not give one good damn about your feelings.
00:12:47.000 Correct arguments are correct, regardless of who's arguing.
00:12:50.000 Bad arguments are bad, no matter how much melanin you have in your skin.
00:12:54.000 The focus on skin color diversity makes people empty-headed, close-minded at the same time. 0.99
00:12:59.000 Any problem people have can be blamed on your skin color or somebody else's skin color.
00:13:03.000 You're so focused on retreating like a turtle into some ridiculous, arbitrary group identity based on skin color, you blame all of life's problems on somebody else. 0.94
00:13:12.000 That's what this term white privilege is all about. 0.97
00:13:14.000 A way of blaming somebody else for your problems in purely racist fashion based on the color of their skin.
00:13:19.000 The higher poverty rate in minority communities is not a result of white privilege or any other magical racist ether out there.
00:13:27.000 It is a result of educational and lifestyle decisions about childbearing and childrearing. 0.96
00:13:31.000 The higher criminality rate in the black community is not the result of evil white cops. 0.95
00:13:36.000 And thank you to the cops who are doing their jobs under heavy threat here. 0.87
00:13:46.000 And under pressure from this administration to make room for people to do things that are blatantly violated of First Amendment principles.
00:13:55.000 You don't want to go to jail for murder, it turns out, or for any crime.
00:13:57.000 Don't commit the crime.
00:13:59.000 It's that simple.
00:14:00.000 Here's the fact about that supposedly evil justice system.
00:14:03.000 It under-prosecutes murder in minority communities because minority communities are under police.
00:14:07.000 There aren't enough cops in minority communities. 0.72
00:14:10.000 When the police do come into contact with black people, like, for example, the Lying Black Lives Matter movement says, police are less likely to kill black people than white people in the same circumstances, according to John Jay College professor Peter Moskos.
00:14:24.000 As early as 1994, the DOJ surveyed felony cases
00:14:28.000 in the country's 75 largest urban areas and found lower felony prosecution rates for blacks than for whites.
00:14:35.000 In New York City, minorities keep running into cops because minorities keep committing an outstanding number of crimes. 0.98
00:14:40.000 From January to June of 2008, 98% of all gun assailants in New York City were Hispanic or black.
00:14:46.000 Stop and Frisk in that city, the supposedly racist Stop and Frisk, under-targeted minorities by about 15%. 0.98
00:14:52.000 So, you can bitch and you can moan about these white skin privilege and the need for diversity of skin color. 1.00
00:14:58.000 Let's go out and arrest, I guess, some innocent white people so that we can make up for this statistical imbalance. 0.99
00:15:03.000 Or, you can fix the problem by leading a responsible life and not getting involved in negative activities. 0.99
00:15:08.000 It appears that at this university, the professors prefer to bitch and moan. 1.00
00:15:11.000 So, Professor Abdullah, that delight. 1.00
00:15:14.000 She calls the police slave catchers. 0.60
00:15:16.000 She says the police ought to be abolished, because nothing will be better for the high-crime areas of the country, particularly in ethnic minority communities, than the police completely moving out.
00:15:25.000 It's working beautifully in cities like Detroit and Washington, D.C.
00:15:29.000 and New York City.
00:15:31.000 It's why we've seen crime rates skyrocket in the major cities all around this country in the last year.
00:15:36.000 Diversity of skin color doesn't help people of color, it hurts people of color, at least as a principle. 0.99
00:15:42.000 That's because of the second type of diversity the left preaches, and that is diversity of fundamental values.
00:15:47.000 So here's the second type of diversity.
00:15:49.000 The second type of diversity is diversity of fundamental values.
00:15:52.000 People on the left seeking to blame one culture and one culture only for all the problems in life.
00:15:57.000 The constitutional, capitalistic, Judeo-Christian system of the United States. 0.67
00:16:01.000 They proclaim that all values are equally deserving of wonderful consequences.
00:16:05.000 All values are just great.
00:16:07.000 Including values of blocking people from hearing dissenting speech.
00:16:11.000 Diversity means accepting fundamental value systems that overthrow good values like the ones that the United States is based on.
00:16:18.000 So, for example, after 130 Parisians were killed by radical Muslims in Paris, President Obama said, quote,
00:16:30.000 In the aftermath of Paris, nobody in the mainstream political conversation or close to it was talking about expelling Muslim citizens from the United States, which would be horrifying and violative of an actual basic principle, freedom of religion.
00:16:43.000 So what exactly was Obama talking about?
00:16:46.000 Presumably he meant that we shouldn't use our head and elevate our security concerns based on statistical probability.
00:16:52.000 Police and our national security apparatus should pretend that Swedish Unitarian grandmothers pose as much of a security risk as young Muslim males immigrating from Middle Eastern countries. 0.99
00:17:02.000 After the Fort Hood Islamic terrorist attacks, killing 13 American soldiers, Obama's Chief Army Officer, General George Casey, said, quote, Our diversity, not only in our army, but in our country, is a strength.
00:17:13.000 And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse.
00:17:20.000 Worse than the 13 dead people.
00:17:21.000 Again, the implication seems to be that if we treat all value systems, including those with a higher probability of terrorist involvement or violence, equally beneficial and benevolent, that's a good thing.
00:17:34.000 It's not.
00:17:34.000 It hurts people.
00:17:36.000 Turns out, certain values work and certain values don't.
00:17:38.000 Sorry to break it to folks.
00:17:40.000 Sorry to break it to people.
00:17:41.000 Certain values are better than other values.
00:17:44.000 But by pretending that all fundamental value systems are equal, the left gets rid of any relationship between cause and effect, because all the left truly cares about is fairness of outcome, not fairness of opportunity.
00:17:54.000 So if you are a criminal and you end up in jail, that's unfair, according to the left, because you ended up in jail.
00:17:59.000 Never mind that you are a criminal.
00:18:01.000 All of this is designed to abolish responsibility.
00:18:04.000 That's what the left wants.
00:18:05.000 No responsibility.
00:18:07.000 When bad things happen, blame white supremacy, blame the system.
00:18:10.000 So here's the deal.
00:18:11.000 Your life is in your hands.
00:18:13.000 If you want to have a successful life, you want to be successful, stop blaming other people for your own mistakes.
00:18:19.000 The greatest predictor for intergenerational poverty in America is single motherhood.
00:18:23.000 The white man isn't responsible, the white system isn't responsible for any person, unless it's rape, and that's a rare occurrence, isn't responsible for you getting your girlfriend pregnant and then ditching her. 1.00
00:18:36.000 That's a result of you being a piece of garbage. 0.99
00:18:39.000 Your inability to hold down a job isn't the result of some racist white system unless you can show that your employer is actually doing things for racial reasons. 1.00
00:18:47.000 It's either the result of an individual racist, which is still not the result of a system, so we should move to get him fired.
00:18:53.000 Because racist firings are illegal, you'll be prosecuted.
00:18:57.000 Or it's not racism, it could be your lack of skills.
00:18:59.000 Your inability to get a proper education isn't white racism either. 0.99
00:19:03.000 It's a government system that sucks for everybody. 0.96
00:19:06.000 I mean, for people who went to LAUSD like I did, we all know this. 1.00
00:19:09.000 LAUSD's a garbage heap. 0.99
00:19:11.000 The crimes you commit are on you. 1.00
00:19:13.000 They're not on anybody else.
00:19:14.000 These are basic values of decency.
00:19:16.000 Being a decent human being is a worthwhile value.
00:19:19.000 Being indecent and then saying that diversity makes it all okay is an indecent value.
00:19:24.000 And by the way, it tears communities apart.
00:19:25.000 Robert Putnam, who is not a conservative, he's a leftist, he wrote a book called Bowling Alone, and he believed in the mantra, diversity is our strength, when he started investigating.
00:19:34.000 Then he started doing experiments regarding communities.
00:19:37.000 What he saw
00:19:38.000 Was that diversity in communities, racial, ethnic diversity, which these days comes along with diversity of fundamental values thanks to the left, it didn't lead to better or more cohesive or more tolerant communities.
00:19:50.000 He said, this is what he wrote, quote, the only two things that go up as the diversity of your census track goes up are protest marches and television watching.
00:19:58.000 Does this sound familiar?
00:20:00.000 Putnam concluded, the only way to create social capital, that's all the good stuff that allows us to trust our next door neighbor, leave your door unlocked at night, have somebody babysit for your kid, it comes from shared values.
00:20:12.000 Shared values.
00:20:13.000 Not diversity of values.
00:20:14.000 Not diversity of skin color.
00:20:16.000 Shared values.
00:20:17.000 Putnam said, this is what happens in religious communities.
00:20:19.000 This is why diversity of skin color, for example, works in religious communities just fine.
00:20:23.000 Because if everybody has the same goal, and that goal involves
00:20:27.000 Fundamental values that are good, then you end up with a freer, better society.
00:20:31.000 Then diversity is wonderful.
00:20:32.000 It's a diversity of experience, but shared values and shared goals and a shared vision for a better country.
00:20:39.000 So, what are these common fundamental values we shouldn't be diverse about?
00:20:42.000 How about an easy one?
00:20:43.000 How about free speech?
00:20:44.000 Can we start there?
00:20:45.000 How about that as a fundamental value?
00:20:57.000 How about freedom of religion and of the press, assembly and petition?
00:21:00.000 How about freedom to come to lectures you want to come to without jackasses blocking the doors to prevent people from hearing differing points of view?
00:21:11.000 And how about some basic civic values too?
00:21:13.000 How about don't have babies without being married? 1.00
00:21:16.000 Don't engage in crime.
00:21:18.000 President Obama says we can't define liberty in exactly the same way, but we should, otherwise your liberty is my tyranny, and your tyranny is my liberty.
00:21:25.000 And that's exactly where we are.
00:21:26.000 Those people out front who are protesting right now, blocking people from engaging in their First Amendment rights, those people, those people, they think they are standing up for liberty, when what they are really standing up for is tyranny.
00:21:38.000 Finally, the third type of diversity, and the only one that really matters, diversity of viewpoint.
00:21:43.000 That's the only one that's really useful.
00:21:45.000 You know the kinds of viewpoint that your professors want to shut down when they call me a racist without evidence?
00:21:50.000 Or when they suggest that you're a white supremacist because you sponsored this lecture and wanted to come?
00:21:55.000 Science actually demonstrates diversity of viewpoint is a highly useful thing.
00:21:59.000 New takes on old subjects are a good thing.
00:22:02.000 When we all have the same goals and the same fundamental values of freedom, liberty, and consent, magic happens.
00:22:07.000 That's the power of the free market.
00:22:09.000 That's the power of diversity.
00:22:11.000 That's how the free political debate works.
00:22:13.000 We argue about the best solutions, and then we meet, and sometimes we disagree, and somebody wins, and somebody loses, and we try it out, and we see what works.
00:22:20.000 A diversity of viewpoints makes stuff better.
00:22:23.000 That's why you have nice phones, because there is a diversity of viewpoint on what a nice phone constitutes, and so there is competition in the marketplace, and you end up with a really nice phone that has a camera on it, so you can go outside, be a reporter, and take pictures of all of the terrible people doing terrible things and assaulting people out front.
00:22:38.000 In the wisdom of crowds, a reporter named James Surowiecki, and he writes, quote, Diversity and independence are important, because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
00:22:51.000 You need debate.
00:22:52.000 It's a worthwhile, good, positive thing.
00:22:55.000 We argue, we don't agree, and we are better for it, as individuals and as a community.
00:23:00.000 We listen to each other.
00:23:02.000 Listen to each other.
00:23:03.000 What a tough idea.
00:23:05.000 And that's why lectures like this one are necessary.
00:23:07.000 That's why the monopoly of your professors is damaging and terrible.
00:23:10.000 This is why the safe spaces of the people outside are just fascist spaces.
00:23:15.000 Spaces that are supposed to be cleared of all ideas that could possibly hurt feelings. 0.79
00:23:19.000 That's why trigger warnings make you intellectual weaklings and moral bullies and bigots.
00:23:25.000 There's only one problem with the diversity of viewpoint.
00:23:27.000 It might challenge your feelings.
00:23:29.000 It's not easy.
00:23:30.000 It turns out people might hurt your feelings.
00:23:32.000 People might be mean to you.
00:23:34.000 People might make you feel inferior.
00:23:36.000 People might hurt your precious self-esteem.
00:23:40.000 Well, tough.
00:23:42.000 It might include microaggressions.
00:23:43.000 In a civilized society, you can't use macroaggressions to fight microaggressions.
00:23:48.000 That's called being a behemoth.
00:23:51.000 So, to all the people who are standing outside, the people here understand the value of free speech.
00:23:54.000 That's why you're here, right, left, or center.
00:23:56.000 If you didn't, you wouldn't be here listening.
00:23:58.000 For all the people outside. 0.98
00:24:06.000 So here's my message to the bloviating jackasses outside. 1.00
00:24:10.000 Toughen up, you spoiled brat snowflakes, if you actually want a better world. 1.00
00:24:26.000 We can have an actual conversation if they were up for it.
00:24:28.000 There are mics here.
00:24:29.000 People can ask questions.
00:24:30.000 They could have engaged that way.
00:24:31.000 They chose not to.
00:24:33.000 Maybe they're right about how to solve America's problems.
00:24:35.000 Maybe I'm right.
00:24:35.000 Maybe somebody in the audience is right.
00:24:37.000 We're never going to know because they won't let the conversation happen.
00:24:41.000 So as I say, there are three types of diversity.
00:24:43.000 Seeking those first two as goals, diversity of skin color, diversity of fundamental values.
00:24:47.000 That means real human suffering.
00:24:49.000 Shutting down debate.
00:24:50.000 Targeting people who oppose you. 0.98
00:24:51.000 Outright racism, sexism, bigotry, totalitarianism from the highest levels of this godforsaken university.
00:24:59.000 The third type of diversity, diversity of viewpoint, it means a happier, better, more productive world.
00:25:04.000 Not all diversity is bad. 1.00
00:25:06.000 Some diversity is terrific.
00:25:08.000 The left just ignores the only type of diversity that actually matters.
00:25:11.000 And until they stop, America will only become a more pinched, bitter, divided country, divided by tyrants, like some of those who are standing outside this hall, at the front of your classrooms, and in the halls of your administration.
00:25:25.000 Thank you so much, and thank you for standing for free speech.