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00:01:34.000This weekend marked the anniversary of D-Day, of course, June 6th, 1944, during which Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy to finally take back Europe from the Nazi predations that had taken over the entire continent, effectively, starting in 1939 and onwards.
00:01:52.000It's a day that pretty much every president has paid tribute to on the day.
00:02:01.000In fact, according to the New York Post, Biden omits mention of D-Day on 77th anniversary of Normandy invasion.
00:02:07.000President Biden seemed to have forgotten about the anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Northwestern Europe that turned the tide against Nazi Germany in World War II.
00:02:15.000He didn't reference the 77th anniversary of Operation Overlord on either his personal Twitter account or his official President of the United States account on Sunday, the date of the invasion.
00:02:23.000He didn't mention it yesterday either.
00:02:26.000The president did highlight his remarks in Tulsa, Oklahoma last week that marked the 100th anniversary of that city's 1921 race massacre.
00:02:34.000So there was mention of, of course, the evils of racism in the United States, his case being that those evils persisted today and require a complete remaking of the American bargain.
00:02:43.000And of course, we're going to put tremendous focus on the evils of American history, but not the great deeds done by Americans in American history, including D-Day.
00:02:52.000He tweeted, The White House did not put out a statement referencing D-Day or any statement at all on Sunday.
00:03:03.000It did note the 40th anniversary of the known beginning of the AIDS epidemic the previous day.
00:03:06.000So it's pretty obvious where the Biden administration is putting its focus.
00:03:11.000VP Harris did actually tweet something out.
00:03:13.000She tweeted out, on the 77th anniversary of D-Day, we honor the heroes who stormed the beaches of Normandy and liberated a continent.
00:03:19.000We'll never forget their courage and sacrifice.
00:03:22.000But the fact that the President of the United States did not, but we did get tributes to the beginning of the AIDS crisis, as well as the 1921 Tulsa massacre, is telling as to what the priorities of this administration are.
00:03:34.000And more importantly, There's something else that's going on in American life that is sort of fundamental to understand, and that is the transformation of the words that we use to describe things as good.
00:03:46.000Those words have changed tremendously.
00:03:48.000The President of the United States still has not tweeted anything out about D-Day, which of course is this week, the 77th anniversary.
00:03:55.000But Joe Biden did, in fact, tweet out about the bravery of young trans people.
00:04:00.000So no tweets about the bravery of young men, 18-year-old, sometimes younger, who are storming the beaches of Normandy and getting killed in the process in order to fight for the freedom of the West.
00:04:12.000Nothing about that, but true bravery apparently is declaring that you are a member of the opposite sex.
00:04:18.000So President Biden tweeted out yesterday to transgender Americans across the country, especially the young people who are so brave.
00:04:24.000I want you to know your president has your back during Pride Month and all the time.
00:04:30.000Okay, so Let's talk for a second about the concept of bravery.
00:04:33.000I mean, first, let's just make clear that there is no good reason why the White House decided to ignore D-Day.
00:04:38.000I mean, Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, was directly asked why Joe Biden didn't bother to pay tribute to D-Day, and her answer was sufficiently nonsensical.
00:04:47.000Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump all commemorated D-Day anniversaries on D-Day, the D-Day anniversary.
00:04:56.000Well, I can tell you that certainly his value for the role that the men who served on D-Day and the memory of them, the families who have kept their memories alive over the course of years on this day is something the President has spoke to many, many times in the past.
00:05:16.000I wouldn't be surprised if there's more we would have to say on it.
00:05:19.000Okay, so no good reason why exactly the administration decided to ignore D-Day.
00:05:24.000But it's the definition of bravery I want to focus in on here.
00:05:26.000Because according to Joe Biden, the bravery of the men of D-Day was not worthy of note this year, but the bravery of young trans people is worthy of note.
00:05:33.000So this does require us to actually ask what definition of bravery we're using.
00:05:36.000I mean, for years, I've joked publicly that our definition of bravery has changed rather radically since Normandy.
00:05:42.000Because it seems that the old definition of bravery was a more classical definition of bravery.
00:05:46.000The new definition of bravery is, I'm living my truth and I demand your applause.
00:05:49.000That is the new definition of bravery.
00:05:53.000And if you don't applaud, then I guess that just makes me even more brave, because one day I will force you to applaud.
00:06:01.000So to understand how the notion of truth and courage has morphed over time, I think we first have to understand the classical definition of bravery.
00:06:08.000There's no better place to go for a classical definition of courage than back to Aristotle.
00:06:13.000And I know it sounds pedantic, but these words do demand definition because the change in fundamental terms in our society demands some sort of explanation.
00:06:22.000We're redefining terms like man and woman.
00:06:24.000And now we're redefining basic human attributes and virtues like courage.
00:06:28.000So Aristotle spends an inordinate amount of time in Nicomachean Ethics talking specifically about the definition of courage.
00:06:33.000What makes a person courageous or not?
00:06:35.000First of all, there's a certain irony to the fact that the word used in Greek to describe courage, andria, is actually Literally manliness, right?
00:06:43.000The idea of courage is connected with being a man because the idea is that men are the ones who are supposed to put themselves at physical risk in order to protect something higher.
00:06:52.000The Aristotelian definition of courage involves a few things.
00:06:55.000First of all, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.
00:07:02.000Aristotle's definition of what makes a good person, and even the biblical definition.
00:07:05.000The biblical definition suggests that there's a bunch of rules, and if you follow these rules, then this means at the end of your life you have been a good person.
00:07:11.000Aristotle's idea of a good person, later adopted by both Thomas Aquinas and Maimonides, his basic idea is instead that the way you become a good person is you cultivate virtues within you.
00:08:16.000The idea would be that you're defending something higher and you do something at personal risk in order to achieve that something higher.
00:08:23.000So the most obvious example that Aristotle talks about is, of course, soldiers doing battle in order to defend family and friends and homeland.
00:08:32.000The idea there, of course, is that you are putting yourself at risk to protect something higher.
00:08:36.000It is almost a sort of self-abnegation.
00:08:42.000And Aristotle even says, But there are certain types of fear.
00:08:45.000As I say, courage is supposed to be somewhere between fear and confidence.
00:08:49.000There are certain types of fear that are perfectly OK.
00:08:51.000For example, Aristotle specifically says, fear of shame does not make you a coward.
00:08:55.000Fear of shame is actually a good thing because it drives you to do things that are not shameful, which is an amazing thing, because in our society, the idea is somehow that courage lies in rejection of shame completely.
00:09:04.000You're never supposed to be ashamed of anything you do.
00:09:06.000You're not supposed to be worried about what anybody else thinks of you.
00:09:08.000True courage is standing up to everybody and ignoring their words about you.
00:09:13.000OK, and this Definition of courage was the definition of courage in most of the West for most of time And now we have sort of a new definition of courage and the new definition of courage is complete self-involvement You are courageous if you live your truth, if you're authentic.
00:09:29.000Because identity itself, like who you are as a human being, in the ancient world, and again, throughout most of human history, was, identity lay in your relationship with a system outside, how you adjust to the rules of your society.
00:09:43.000In fact, we are brought up as human beings to be civilized into the rules of our society.
00:10:30.000You're living your life, no matter what anybody else says.
00:10:33.000And this is because identity itself has shifted.
00:10:35.000It used to be, again, that you found your identity in adjusting yourself to your sort of place in civilization and to the rules of civilization.
00:10:43.000You found happiness in living by the natural law in the view of the ancient Greeks, or living by the morality of the Bible in Judeo-Christian ethics, or living by both in sort of the merger of the two.
00:10:56.000Which I talk about in my book, The Right Side of History.
00:10:58.000Now, identity is found instead within.
00:11:01.000True courage is finding who you are within, in the same way that a small child would.
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00:13:02.000Maybe my new definition, or the new definition that I think the left is using with regard to courage, which is self-proclamation and authenticity.
00:13:11.000Maybe I'm selling it a little bit short.
00:13:12.000Maybe there is some sort of world-changing thing happening when you decide that you're going to buck all convention and you're going to redefine basic terms like man or woman.
00:13:24.000Even in an older sense, all that requires is a complete rejection Of the telos, of the final goal.
00:13:31.000So if the final goal was that you recognize nature for what it is, and then you live in accordance with nature's laws, which again is the point that Aristotle was making throughout Nicomachean ethics.
00:13:40.000It's a point that was made by Plato as well.
00:13:42.000And then it was a point that was adopted by most of the Judeo-Christian world.
00:13:45.000And by the way, early on in the Islamic world as well, the Everos and Al-Farabi.
00:13:51.000If you reject all of those final goals and you decide there are new final goals in which your personal self-definition is supposed to be projected out onto the world to change the world.
00:14:02.000Then, I suppose, according to this point of view, that is an almost classical definition of courage.
00:14:07.000You're putting yourself at quote-unquote risk in order to change the entire system, in order to change the entire society.
00:14:14.000And in this case, the personal is political.
00:14:16.000When you declare that your sense of the authentic you is that you are a member of the opposite sex, what you are actually declaring is war, On the idea of sex, biologically.
00:14:26.000What you're actually declaring is that the entire society is wrong and you are right and the entire society has to change.
00:14:31.000You're putting yourself supposedly at personal risk, although in our society I can't say that you're putting yourself at personal risk when you declare that you are not heterosexual, for example.
00:14:41.000It seems more like the media is going to celebrate you tremendously, as demonstrated by Elliot Page or Demi Lovato, but If you are, the idea is that you're putting yourself at personal, the personal is political.
00:14:52.000Your sense of the authentic now must be projected out into the world to change all of the standards.
00:14:58.000The higher cause is changing all the standards.
00:15:00.000The higher cause is tearing down all the definitions.
00:15:03.000And this is how you get to the point where the president of the United States is ignoring soldiers on the battlefield 77 years ago, fighting actual Nazi fascists and getting killed for their efforts.
00:15:13.000He's ignoring that in favor of the idea that if you declare yourself a member of the opposite sex, you, in fact, are acting in accordance with some virtue called courage or some virtue called bravery.
00:15:23.000All that takes is a reorientation or redefinition of what your end goal is, and that is to tear down the system as a whole.
00:15:28.000And your very act of self-definition is a is a personal act of defiance at those definitions, which, of course, have to be torn down.
00:15:36.000And this, of course, according to the left, makes you a hero.
00:15:39.000And you can see this happening right throughout American life now.
00:15:43.000The complete redefinition of courage based on not merely a sort of self-involvement, but based on a deep abiding desire to build a coalition to tear down all of the systems of definition The heterosexual patriarchy, the cisgender patriarchy, all of the systems and hierarchies of power that have been imbued in our society, all those have to be torn down.
00:16:04.000And the minute you declare yourself not living in accordance with those things, you are a person who is brave.
00:16:11.000That is, I think, the deeper philosophical point that is being made, that is buried well underneath the sort of tweets that Joe Biden is sending out.
00:16:19.000And you can see this play out in every area of American life.
00:16:23.000Because here's the thing, when you look at the sort of woke coalition that's been built, and all these members of the woke are patting each other on the back for their bravery and their courage, even though they don't actually get along inside their own halls of power, right?
00:16:43.000You have trad feminists and traditional lesbians, people like Martina Navratilova, who is in open battle with transgender rights advocates, who of course argue that there is no definition of man and woman, that is not absolutely malleable.
00:16:57.000Lesbians argue that there is such a thing as a woman, and we are women who are sexually attracted to women, and then you have transgender rights advocates who argue that a man who identifies as a woman is now a woman, so there is no such thing as a woman.
00:17:09.000And if you're a woman who is not attracted to a trans woman, then this means that you are in some way sexist.
00:17:15.000There's all sorts of internal schisms and battles that are going on inside the woke community, but if everybody pats each other on the back for their courage in taking on the higher goal, which is tearing down the system as a whole, then we are ushered into a new utopian vision.
00:17:29.000And that coalition, it is almost hysterically funny how fragmentary this coalition is.
00:17:36.000And how clear it is that the goal is to cobble together a coalition of people who disagree about nearly everything under a rubric of resistance.
00:17:45.000So I have to take just the most obvious visual manifestation of this that I've ever seen.
00:17:51.000So yesterday on pinknews.co.uk, they had a story about the progress pride flag.
00:17:59.000The Progress pride flag has been redesigned by an intersex activist to include intersex people.
00:18:04.000A yellow triangle with a purple circle in it has been added to represent intersex people, community, and rights.
00:18:09.000The new pride flag was designed by Valentino Vichetti of Intersex Equality Rights UK, who is an intersex activist and Diva magazine columnist, continuing a tradition of pride flags being updated and reimagined.
00:18:19.000So usually the goal of a flag is, of course, to unify.
00:18:23.000We all look at a symbol, and we all recognize our shared humanity in that particular symbol.
00:18:27.000You look at the American flag, and it represents the states, and it represents the original colonies, and you say, wow, that's our history.
00:18:38.000You see the Union Jack, you're in Britain, same sort of thing.
00:18:40.000The new Progress Pride flag is not about the idea that there's any sort of shared values.
00:18:45.000The idea here is that you have your individual stripe in the flag, right, as a coalitional flag.
00:18:51.000And if your coalition doesn't appear on the flag, the flag ain't for you.
00:18:55.000So does a cobbled together agglomeration of people who disagree on nearly everything, but this flag exists in opposition to other unified ideas.
00:19:03.000I mean, the flag looks, frankly, like a cat vomited and then you looked at it through a kaleidoscope.
00:19:07.000I mean, it's the ugliest flag that anybody's ever seen.
00:19:10.000At least the original Pride flag is something visually pretty to look at, right?
00:19:14.000Here you have, apparently, some sort of invasion from the left side of the screen.
00:19:19.000Like, it looks like a military movement from the left side of the screen.
00:19:22.000It's black, brown, blue, pink, white, yellow, with a purple circle.
00:19:26.000I mean, it's just visually incoherent.
00:19:28.000But that's sort of the idea, is that every single... Eventually, we're going to reach the point We're in opposition to the unified flags that are provided by countries.
00:19:38.000We're going to end up with flags in which every single human has their own little dot.
00:19:41.000We're going to have pixelated flags with 330 million dots, one to represent you.
00:19:45.000And if your dot isn't represented in the flag, the flag doesn't represent you anymore.
00:19:49.000The idea is we can only be unified in opposition to something else because we don't share any values.
00:19:53.000We can only be unified in opposition to another thing.
00:19:58.000Which is why it is kind of important that the Department of Defense is refusing to fly the pride flag.
00:20:04.000So there is a big uproar inside the Biden administration.
00:20:06.000The State Department decided they were going to fly the pride flag at the State Department.
00:20:22.000We should not have any of those flags.
00:20:23.000Because again, the American flag is non-sectarian.
00:20:26.000The American flag is supposed to represent all of us because we are all Americans.
00:20:29.000Nonetheless, Joe Biden has decided that all Americans are apparently in support of the entire LGBTQ plus 2 AAIZ agenda.
00:20:38.000And therefore, we're going to fly this at the State Department, but only in countries where nobody's going to do anything about it.
00:20:43.000We're definitely not going to do that in like Malaysia.
00:20:44.000We're certainly not going to do it in Saudi Arabia.
00:20:46.000We're not going to do it anywhere in the Middle East, actually.
00:20:48.000Well, the Defense Department announced yesterday that they are not going to be flying the pride flag over military bases.
00:20:53.000First of all, the fact that this was even an issue, the fact that we were even having the discussion about flying pride flags over military bases is somewhat insane.
00:21:01.000Why exactly would we fly a pride flag over a military base?
00:21:21.000There's open debate about the extent to which Americans support every aspect of the agenda promoted by radical activists.
00:21:28.000Some people are supportive of some, some are supportive of others, some are supportive of none.
00:21:31.000But the idea that this is representative of some sort of unified body of opinion in the United States is kind of crazy.
00:21:35.000Okay, so the Department of Defense rejected this, but here's what they announced.
00:21:39.000They said the reason that they are rejecting this is not because they're reflecting any lack of respect or admiration for people of the LGBTQ plus community.
00:21:48.000Instead, they were afraid that if they made an exception, then people might want to fly other flags, like the don't tread on me flag.
00:21:55.000So they've decided to ban all flags except the American flag because you might want to fly like a don't tread on me flag and that would be super duper duper bad.
00:22:03.000Again, these things matter because when we talk about what unifies us as a country, or what unifies us as a society, shared ideas of what courage is, or shared ideas of what the good is, or shared idea of what represents the good life for Americans, these are basic ideas we should share but we no longer share them and so we're falling apart as a country.
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00:23:42.000Alrighty, so as I've been talking about here, What you can see is a sort of woke coalition that is mobilizing against symbols of unity.
00:23:49.000That's the reason why we're even having a discussion about why we should put up LGBT flags at Defense Department bases.
00:23:55.000It's a wild idea from the very beginning.
00:23:57.000It's also the reason why, for example, the Democratic Party has decided that they are no longer going to call mothers mothers.
00:24:03.000I used to every joke that I used to tell is now a reality.
00:24:05.000So I for years I was telling the joke because this is what Democrats apparently think about the nature of sex and gender, that every Mother's Day is actually primary legal guardian of unspecified gender day.
00:24:16.000And every Father's Day is secondary legal guardian of unspecified gender day.
00:24:20.000Well now, it's not even a joke anymore.
00:24:22.000This is stuff they are literally writing into legislation.
00:24:24.000According to the Washington Free Beacon, President Joe Biden embraced the woke terminology favored by radical left-wing activists in his 2022 budget proposal.
00:24:31.000It refers to mothers as birthing people.
00:24:37.000Now, men can also have babies, which of course is a lie and one of the stupider ideas ever posited by anybody who has even a half-functional prefrontal cortex.
00:24:55.000The text of Biden's record-breaking $6 trillion budget unveiled last month includes a section highlighting more than $200 million in health care spending aimed at reducing the quote, high rate of maternal mortality and race-based disparities in outcomes among birthing people.
00:25:08.000So first of all, even this is gendered language.
00:25:16.000So I mean, they got to get rid of that.
00:25:18.000But again, the whole goal here is to tear down definitions and true courage is tearing down those definitions and tearing down your rights in the process.
00:25:25.000Because this is broader than merely tearing away definitions or redefining things.
00:25:30.000It is the militarization of this approach.
00:25:36.000It's not enough to tear down the hierarchies.
00:25:38.000In order for those hierarchies to be torn down, your fundamental rights must be abridged.
00:25:42.000Your right to freedom of speech must be abridged.
00:25:44.000Your right to freedom of religion must be abridged.
00:25:47.000For the last again, the true courage today is in identifying how you want internally and forcing the rest of society to shift its entire perspective on life in order to account for your perspective.
00:26:00.000And what that means is that their rights must be abridged.
00:26:04.000This is the reason why there's a case that's going to the Supreme Court right now about whether Catholic charities ought to be able to engage in foster decisions, whether they ought to be able to have foster homes and whether they ought to have foster agencies.
00:26:17.000And the case being made is that because Catholics Actually believe in one man, one woman as the standard for marriage and believe that man, woman, child is the model for a traditional and healthy family that they have to be discriminated against because if they were allowed to actually go forward with their foster agencies, what they would be doing is acting in discriminatory fashion in reinstituting the hierarchy that the truly brave, courageous people are fighting to tear down.
00:26:44.000Freedom of religion has to be abridged.
00:26:47.000The basic notion of children having a mother and a father has to be abridged in deference to a redefinition.
00:26:52.000And every time you fight the patriarchy by identifying in a way that runs contrary to biology, this means that you are a brave person.
00:26:59.000Braver, even, than the people who stormed the beaches of Normandy, who, of course, were fighting on behalf of a bad cause.
00:27:04.000I mean, they were fighting truly on behalf of a reinstitution of hierarchies, just slightly better hierarchies than the hierarchies that were being pushed by America's fascist enemies at the time.
00:27:13.000And you're seeing America's quote unquote liberal institutions fall to exactly this.
00:27:16.000They have joined the woke coalition, which again is oriented toward the destruction of all systems of power.
00:27:22.000Despite the fact that the American systems of power, which have been gradually broadened to include more people over time in great and good ways.
00:27:29.000Despite the fact that those systems have provided more health, more prosperity, more freedom than any systems in the history of man.
00:27:36.000By a long shot, by the way, those systems have to be torn down and the ACLU is now on the side of the tearing down.
00:27:41.000So the American Civil Liberties Union, you may notice the words civil liberties in the middle of their title.
00:27:46.000The American Civil Liberties Union has now decided that civil liberties are of no consequence whatsoever.
00:27:51.000Michael Powell has a piece in the New York Times titled Once a Bastion of Free Speech.
00:27:58.000It was supposed to be the celebration of a grand career, as the American Civil Liberties Union presented a prestigious award to the longtime lawyer David Goldberger.
00:28:05.000He had argued one of its most famous cases defending the free speech rights of Nazis in the 1970s to march in Skokie, Illinois, home to many Holocaust survivors.
00:28:12.000Mr. Goldberger, now 79, adored the ACLU.
00:28:15.000But at his celebratory luncheon in 2017, he listened to one speaker after another and felt a growing unease.
00:28:20.000A law professor argued that the free speech rights of the far right were not worthy of defense by the ACLU, and that black people experienced defensive speech far more viscerally than white allies.
00:28:29.000In the hallway outside, an ACLU official argued it was perfectly legitimate for his lawyers to decline to defend hate speech.
00:28:35.000Mr. Goldberger, a Jew who defended the free speech of those whose views he found repugnant, felt profoundly discouraged.
00:28:41.000I got the sense it was more important for ACLU staff to identify with clients and progressive causes than to stand on principle, he said in a recent interview.
00:28:47.000Liberals are leaving the First Amendment behind.
00:28:51.000Their principles are just not your principles.
00:28:53.000Their principles are not even tolerant of your principles.
00:28:55.000Their principles are about tearing down the systems.
00:28:58.000They have to have the ACLU stripe and that bizarre flag that we saw earlier in which everybody has their stripe so as to create a coalition against the presumed systems of power.
00:29:07.000According to the New York Times, the ACLU-America's high temple of free speech and civil liberties has emerged as a muscular and richly funded progressive powerhouse in recent years, taking on the Trump administration in more than 400 lawsuits.
00:29:18.000But the organization finds itself riven with internal tensions over whether it has stepped away from founding principle, unwavering devotion to the First Amendment.
00:29:25.000Its national and state staff members debate often hotly whether defense of speech conflicts with advocacy for a growing number of progressive causes, including voting rights reparations, transgender rights, and defunding the police.
00:29:37.000So, for example, the New York Times points out that Chase Strangio, the lawyer for the transgender wing of the ACLU, openly pushed for censorship of a book by Abigail Schreier.
00:29:50.000Now, the New York Times is so unbelievably gutless that they wouldn't even mention Abigail Schreier's book here.
00:29:56.000Like, they literally will not mention Abigail Schreier's book anywhere in the article because they, too, are cowards when it comes to defense of free speech.
00:30:05.000But it is truly incredible how the ACLU is in excellent bellwether for the movement of the left, which at least used to agree on certain basic principles, but no longer.
00:30:15.000Now the basic principle is tear down the system.
00:30:51.000And National Geographic instead issues a letter from the editor about the history of race in America, in which she asks everybody to literally carry around a race card.
00:31:02.000More than a decade ago, writer Michelle Norris began the Race Card Project, in which she asked people to think about the word race, and boil their thoughts down to six words.
00:31:12.000So far, more than 500,000 people have written six-word micro-essays about race, hailing from every state in about 100 countries and territories.
00:31:19.000Michelle recently has brought the race card project to the National Geographic Society as a storytelling fellow.
00:31:24.000We'll support Norris in using a wealth of tools, audio, video, animation, cartography, photography, art technology, to bring the project's archived stories to life.
00:31:31.000These aren't just binary conversations about black and white people.
00:31:34.000This quote, as she describes it, pulls at all manners of cultural threads from Latinos and indigenous people to Asians and Iranians.
00:31:42.000Writes Susan Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of National Geographic.
00:31:45.000This is a hard exercise, but reflecting on the difficult past year, on our fraught politics, and so many frank conversations I've had with friends and colleagues, for now, I'll leave it at this.
00:31:57.000Okay, now, some of us would call this cowardice.
00:31:59.000Some of us would say that you are attempting to avoid the cancellation of the woke mob because, after all, it sounds, from your name, as though you're a Jewish woman who is editing a major magazine.
00:32:06.000And anytime you want, you could theoretically give up that slot to a person of color if you are so dedicated to the proposition that systems of power in the United States are biased toward white people and Jews.
00:32:15.000But you're not going to do that, so instead you're going to virtue signal.
00:32:19.000But according to the left, this is in an attempt... She's expressing her authentic fears, her authentic wants, and that authenticity is directed at tearing down the system.
00:32:29.000And this form of courage is going to be taught in America's public schools.
00:32:31.000This is what critical race theory effectively is.
00:32:34.000It's teaching you that true bravery lies in taking on... This is the anti-racism of Ibram X. Kendi.
00:32:39.000It is the critical race theory of Derrick Bell that true bravery lies in speaking truth to power and speaking truth to power means tearing down all the systems.
00:32:48.000And this sort of new redefinition of courage, this sort of new redefinition of national mission is being promoted by none other than Barack Obama, one of the most divisive political figures of my lifetime.
00:32:56.000I think maybe the most divisive political figure of my lifetime.
00:32:59.000And yes, I'm including President Trump in there because President Trump followed Obama.
00:33:03.000Barack Obama deliberately decided he could have been a unifying president.
00:33:06.000In 2008, he came along and said, And then, he immediately proceeded to polarize Americans along racial lines, along gender lines, along lines of sexual orientation, and he proceeded to try to cobble together a coalition to take down the systems of power and enshrine himself in power at the exact same time.
00:33:24.000And now, of course, What is he pushing for?
00:33:26.000He's pushing for critical race theory, which is not a shock considering that he was a proponent of critical race theory back in the 1980s.
00:33:32.000He was literally hugging Derrick Bell, right?
00:33:34.000One of the founders and promoters of critical race theory in the 1980s when Derrick Bell was denied tenure at Harvard Law School.
00:33:39.000So here's Barack Obama complaining that Republicans have noticed what he is doing.
00:33:44.000You would think with all the public policy debates that are taking place right now that, you know, the Republican Party would be engaged in a Significant debate about how are we going to deal with the economy and what are we going to do about climate change and what are we going to do about Lo and behold, the single most important issue to them apparently right now is critical race theory.
00:34:07.000Who knew that that was the threat to our republic?
00:34:13.000Because you were the one who started promoting it, Mr. President.
00:34:16.000You were the one who decided that it was very important to polarize Americans along racial lines and suggest that all the systems of power of America were significantly infused, and indeed irredeemably infused, with white supremacy.
00:34:27.000And again, the goal here for the left is continue to form that coalition.
00:34:31.000It's all about the coalition, which is, of course, why Barack Obama is blaming a rise of anti-Semitism.
00:34:36.000On not his own party, not his own actions, by the way, in supporting the Iranian regime or supporting the Palestinian regime?
00:34:42.000Instead, Barack Obama is blaming Donald Trump and Republicans, despite the fact that the radical uptick in anti-Semitism we have seen over the past couple of years is deeply tied into the left-wing ideologies that are associated with Black Lives Matter, that are associated with the pro-Palestinian cause.
00:34:58.000that are associated with his own sort of conspiratorial viewpoint on hierarchies of power in the United States.
00:35:04.000I've noticed that Barack Obama isn't spending any time condemning, for example, Ilhan Omar, who's out there comparing Israel to Hamas.
00:35:09.000He's only condemning Trump, suggesting that Trump is responsible for anti-Semitism.
00:35:13.000Again, this is courage, according to the left, because courage is dependent on the final goal in the Aristotelian notion.
00:35:20.000This is why Barack Obama... Why are you paying attention?
00:35:24.000Why do you care if we're indoctrinating your kids in the idea that true bravery lies in authentically identifying as less if they are a member of a particular race?
00:35:33.000Also, I'm going to stand up for the most radical members of my coalition.
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00:37:37.000So, if the chief goal here is keeping the coalition operative, that it's all just about the coalition, and it's got to be a woke coalition that is designed at tearing down the system, this naturally means that enemies must atone.
00:37:54.000All who defend any aspect of the system must be destroyed, from the most minor to the most grave violations of the system.
00:38:02.000This is why Ellie Kemper has to be forced to apologize for being in a beauty pageant in, like, 1999 that had nothing to do with racism at the time.
00:38:11.000And now she's being forced to apologize.
00:38:13.000You'll remember her from The Office and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
00:38:18.000She says, Hi guys, when I was 19 years old, I decided to participate in a debutante ball in my hometown.
00:38:22.000The century old organization that hosted the debutante ball had an unquestionably racist, sexist and elitist past.
00:38:28.000I was not aware of this history at the time, but ignorance is no excuse.
00:38:30.000I was old enough to have educated myself before getting involved.
00:38:33.000Well, she's now done her mea culpa and she can she can be allowed back into the halls She says, I unequivocally deplore, denounce, and reject white supremacy.
00:38:43.000At the same time, I acknowledge that because of my race and my privilege, I am the beneficiary of a system that has dispensed unequal justice and unequal rewards.
00:38:50.000Now, again, most of us, in the traditional sense, would call this cowardice.
00:38:54.000Because all this is, is just fear that she is going to be rejected by a group of people who are bullies and totalitarians.
00:39:02.000But according to the left, this is true courage, because true courage, again, lies in joining the mob to tear down the system.
00:39:07.000They're an army on behalf of a higher good.
00:39:11.000And this means, when you're an army on behalf of a higher good, that anyone who is a threat has to go.
00:39:16.000And right now, who is the highest threat?
00:39:18.000The highest threat is Joe Manchin, because Joe Manchin is an obstacle.
00:39:21.000Joe Manchin has now refused to go along with the Democratic dream of completely remaking the way we vote in the United States, federalizing all election procedures, allowing ballot harvesting, getting rid of voter ID laws.
00:39:31.000He said, I'm not going to kill the filibuster, which is in fact a check and balance on mob rule.
00:39:36.000It is a check and balance against the predation of the mob against individual rights, which is exactly, of course, what the left is looking for.
00:40:17.000The filibuster used by Chuck Schumer is good.
00:40:19.000The filibuster used by the right is bad and should be nuked.
00:40:23.000And Joe Manchin is standing in the way of all of this.
00:40:25.000And so now his own party is going to war with Joe Manchin.
00:40:27.000We'll see how far this gets them, by the way.
00:40:29.000Because it turns out that you generate a lot of resistance to yourself and to your agenda when you decide that it's a battle of all against all.
00:40:38.000When you decide that it is your coalition versus the prevailing systems of power.
00:40:42.000And anybody who stands in the way and argues for like neutral principles like maybe the filibuster should stay even if it hurts our side this time.
00:40:48.000Which by the way Republicans did a couple of years ago.
00:40:51.000Hilarious to watch all the members of the journalistic Yes, now do the Democrats.
00:40:55.000You know who kept the filibuster the whole time?
00:40:57.000Mitch McConnell, who was in the majority.
00:40:59.000the filibuster to remain. Yes, now do the Democrats. You know who kept the filibuster the whole time? Mitch McConnell, who was in the majority.
00:41:06.000Anyway, Joe Manchin has become persona non grata inside the Democratic Party.
00:41:11.000James Clyburn of South Carolina, who is in fact a pretty radical politician, not quite Bernie Sanders openly, but a very radical, and says very inflammatory things on the issue of race on a fairly regular basis.
00:41:22.000He decided to go after Joe Manchin yesterday.
00:41:23.000Again, it's a bold strategy to go after a senator from a state that voted 40 percentage point gap in favor of Donald Trump.
00:43:07.000I mean, the ignorance truly is sort of on display there with regard to just basic Roman history is fairly incredible.
00:43:12.000But the strategic move here, again, it's an ideological move, but once you're committed, you're committed.
00:43:18.000And there's no such thing as being insufficiently committed.
00:43:20.000Once you're committed to the fight, You gotta be committed to the fight.
00:43:23.000Jamaal Bowman, who is a radical congressperson from New York, again from a very blue district, he is out there ripping Joe Manchin as well.
00:43:30.000Joe Manchin has become the new Mitch McConnell.
00:43:33.000Mitch McConnell, during Obama's presidency, said he would do everything in his power to stop Obama.
00:43:40.000He's also repeated that now during the Biden presidency by saying he would do everything in his power to stop President Biden.
00:43:48.000And now Joe Manchin is doing everything in his power to stop democracy and to stop our work for the people, the work that the people sent us here to do.
00:43:58.000No dissent will be brooked, institutions must be torn down, and Joe Manchin is in the way.
00:44:25.000country, record number of black voters show up to save this democracy only for white supremacy to be upheld by a cowardly power hungry white dude. Joe Manchin is a clown. Okay, this is such a self contradictory tweet. Let us count the ways. First of all, when you say record number of black voters show up to save this democracy and the white supremacy is upheld. Um, what if a record number of black voters showed up to save the democracy and we're not suppressed? That would suggest that there is not massive voter suppression when a record number of black voters show up.
00:44:53.000That is pretty much definitionally not voter suppression.
00:44:55.000And when you say that they voted up to show up to save this democracy, which, by the way, is the argument the left was making about how Trump was a threat to the democracy, only for white supremacy to be upheld by a cowardly, power-hungry white dude, I have a question.
00:45:16.000So you're just unhappy that, so basically this falls under the rubric of everything I like is democracy in action, anything I don't like is white supremacy.
00:45:23.000Jemele Hill's a clown, I mean really, just clownish, clownish stuff from Jemele Hill.
00:45:42.000Barack Obama upheld the filibuster and bragged about upholding the filibuster and how important it was.
00:45:48.000Joe Biden bragged about upholding the filibuster.
00:45:52.000But in pursuit of utopia, true courage is doing anything you can to join the coalition of the woke.
00:45:59.000And the personal is political in this battle.
00:46:01.000The redefinition of courage is deeply intertwined with the attempt to tear down all of the systems that have made America great.
00:46:11.000I'm not talking about systems of discrimination.
00:46:12.000I'm talking about systems of freedom, individual rights, checks and balances in government, federalism.
00:46:17.000All these things have to be torn down.
00:46:19.000And if you join that cause, And if you join that cause by joining the coalition against traditional definitions of things ranging from sex to marriage, then this means that you are doing something good for the world.
00:46:30.000And that is why Joe Biden is paying tribute to you today and not the people who died on D-Day.
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