The Ben Shapiro Show - For The Sexual Left, Confusion Is The Point | Ep. 1287

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00:01:39.000 So yesterday I was browsing the world of sports and I came across an article that was so astonishing in its stupidity and confusion, that it forcibly struck me. 0.98

00:01:50.000 I mean, it really was the single worst piece of writing I have ever seen. 0.98

00:01:54.000 And the reason it was the single worst piece of writing I've ever seen is because it is utterly incoherent.

00:01:58.000 I want to read it to you.

00:01:59.000 It's about a person named Licia Clarendon, the WNBA's first openly non-binary and transgender player.

00:02:07.000 It's by a person named Katie Barnes.

00:02:09.000 Okay, here is the piece.

00:02:11.000 I'm gonna read you the first three paragraphs, and you will immediately not understand anything.

00:02:16.000 Okay?

00:02:17.000 This is a thing that a human wrote.

00:02:18.000 wrote, Leishia Clarendon wrapped their hand around the back of a fussy newborn, looking up at them in the maternity recovery room at a Bay Area hospital.

00:02:28.000 A nurse had just shown Leishia how to cradle the baby in a football hold, and Leishia rested the soft skin of the baby's back against her own left forearm and held the baby's head in her hand.

00:02:37.000 Okay, so at the beginning, you're like, okay, so we were talking about a non-binary person who wants to be called them.

00:02:44.000 Within the same paragraph, this person is now being called her.

00:02:47.000 But wait.

00:02:49.000 Baby C, they them because the baby doesn't have a gender either. 0.94

00:02:52.000 Okay, we're now working in this bizarre universe in which a baby comes out, we know whether it's a boy or a girl, but we pretend we don't know whether it's a boy or a girl because literally you can change your gender up to the day you die, and then after you die and after your body decays and all that's left is your bone structure, scientists a thousand years from now can also know whether you're a boy or a girl.

00:03:09.000 In any case, They them.

00:03:11.000 Baby C, they them, gurgled and squirmed at Lecia's touch.

00:03:15.000 Lecia accepted shampoo from the nurse, silently wondering if it would be appropriate for black hair. 1.00

00:03:20.000 With her right hand, she gently rubbed her fingers through the silky curls of Baby C's full head of hair.

00:03:25.000 So, so far, it's a woman, right? 0.93

00:03:27.000 A woman who identifies as they-them. 0.99

00:03:28.000 That's what you can get from the first couple paragraphs.

00:03:31.000 Here's where things take a sideways turn.

00:03:32.000 It was December 21st, 2020, Baby C's birthday and first wash day.

00:03:38.000 LeShea's wife Jessica, she her, had just given birth to Baby C by cesarean section after a 29-hour labor after carrying the baby for just over 41 weeks.

00:03:46.000 As Jessica recovered, LeShea found himself alone with his first child.

00:03:51.000 I know what you're thinking.

00:03:54.000 What?

00:03:55.000 But he never expected to have these first moments alone with baby.

00:03:59.000 See, Lashia and Jessica had planned for a vaginal birth and for these moments to be shared. Exhausted and weak, Jessica joined Lashia and baby see in the recovery room. 0.78

00:04:08.000 Thirty minutes later, Lashia held the baby up to Jessica's chest to assist with baby sees first meal. As Jessica drifted off, Lashia placed baby see back in the hospital bassinet.

00:04:16.000 He removed his shirt and sat down. Lashia picked the baby back up, cradling baby see against their chest. So in the first several paragraphs of this piece, we now learn that Lashia Clarendon is referred to as wait for it. They, them, her, she, he and him.

00:04:39.000 We're going to go ahead and get started.

00:04:40.000 Now this makes a mockery of language, right?

00:04:42.000 You have no idea.

00:04:43.000 You now have less information about Laetia Clarendon than you did at the beginning of the piece.

00:04:47.000 You don't know anything about Laetia Clarendon.

00:04:49.000 If you just read this piece, if you're an alien from outer space or a normal English speaker, either of the two, and you read this piece, you would not know whether Laetia Clarendon is a boy or a girl or anything else.

00:05:00.000 It makes no sense.

00:05:02.000 It's deliberate confusion.

00:05:03.000 It's deliberate confusion.

00:05:05.000 And if you mention that it's deliberate confusion, then you are called a bigot.

00:05:08.000 If you point out that this is absolutely nonsensical, that the terms he and she and they have quite specific meanings in English.

00:05:18.000 He refers to males.

00:05:19.000 She refers to females.

00:05:20.000 And they generally refers to the plural.

00:05:23.000 Unless it is a they at the end of a sentence and it is referring back to a she or he antecedent, typically.

00:05:30.000 But here you have all of these terms being used for one person.

00:05:34.000 The only purpose here is to convey less information with language.

00:05:37.000 It is to isolate you more.

00:05:39.000 It's to make you feel more confused.

00:05:41.000 For the sexual revolutionary left, confusion is the point.

00:05:44.000 Boys and girls, they're not supposed to mean anything.

00:05:46.000 They're all social constructs.

00:05:48.000 Unless sexual orientation is invoked, in which case it's not a social construct, it's a biological reality.

00:05:53.000 But also, you can shape your sexual orientation and choose it over time.

00:05:57.000 They can be bisexual or pansexual or gay or lesbian or straight at any time.

00:06:01.000 They can identify as any of those things.

00:06:04.000 But they are both biologically immutable and also social constructions, according to the radical left.

00:06:11.000 We have now entered the world of Michel Foucault in which language is just power.

00:06:15.000 The arbitrary shifts in language are designed to promote power, just as in an authoritarian governmental system.

00:06:21.000 Arbitrary shifts of the rules that you're supposed to know and you get punished if you find yourself in breach of those rules.

00:06:26.000 They are designed to simply re-enshrine and reinforce the power of the system over you.

00:06:32.000 Radical shifts in language where words suddenly don't mean what they meant five seconds ago and where if you use the word in its traditional sense, you have now crossed some invisible line.

00:06:40.000 You become a bigot.

00:06:42.000 This is a way for the social left to rule your life. 0.55

00:06:45.000 It is a way for the social left to out you, to treat you as a bigot.

00:06:49.000 I have a new book coming out called The Authoritarian Moment.

00:06:51.000 And one of the things that I point out in The Authoritarian Moment is that this power game has now infiltrated virtually every institution of our society.

00:07:00.000 To even point this out puts you at risk of censorship from the big tech companies.

00:07:03.000 To even point this out makes you a person who shouldn't be welcomed into polite conversation.

00:07:09.000 We now identify each other as members of the ruling class, and there is a ruling class in the United States.

00:07:14.000 The way that you are identified as a member of the ruling class, the people who deserve to rule, is you put pronouns in your profile.

00:07:19.000 If you put pronouns in your Twitter profile, it's not an indicator that there was any confusion about who you were.

00:07:23.000 We all know who you were because we have eyes and we have ears and we have minds, right?

00:07:27.000 We can identify people based on objective characteristics.

00:07:31.000 The whole purpose of putting a pronoun in your profile is not even to demonstrate solidarity because you've demonstrated nothing.

00:07:37.000 We don't really know anything about your politics simply based on what pronouns apply to you.

00:07:42.000 All it is is a way of signaling that you speak the vocabulary, that you speak woke.

00:07:47.000 It's a socially authoritarian method of ostracizing people who think in terms of traditional objective metrics. 0.99

00:07:54.000 Now, how stupid is this particular ESPN story? 0.98

00:07:56.000 I use this as an example because this is the cover story at ESPN Magazine, by the way. 0.99

00:08:00.000 So the reason I use this is because not only is this supremely confusing and designed to be confusing, there's an editor's note attached.

00:08:07.000 The editor's note says this, quote, Again, if you are non-binary, meaning you don't actually have a gender, how are you transgender?

00:08:20.000 Are you a woman who became a man?

00:08:22.000 Are you a woman who became nothing? 1.00

00:08:24.000 Are you a woman who became a genderless widget? 1.00

00:08:26.000 Like, what exactly are you?

00:08:28.000 The terms transgender and non-transgender suggest that you change your gender from one to the other, typically.

00:08:33.000 Non-binary means that you don't identify as any gender.

00:08:36.000 So these two terms should be somewhat mutually exclusive, they're not, right?

00:08:39.000 Lachia Clarendon, who identifies as transgender and non-binary, uses he, him, she, her, and they, them pronouns interchangeably.

00:08:47.000 We do so throughout this piece.

00:08:49.000 We also introduce the preferred pronouns for others who appear in this story and for whom pronouns are used.

00:08:54.000 Okay, so instead of the editors, doing what editors typically do, which is make sure that language conveys information.

00:09:01.000 This is what editors and writers are designed to do.

00:09:05.000 There's a postmodern discourse in literature in which language is not supposed to convey information.

00:09:09.000 It is instead supposed to enshrine certain moods, it's supposed to generate certain feelings, but typically the purpose of language is to convey information.

00:09:19.000 This is true in the animal kingdom as well.

00:09:21.000 Whether it's clicks and chirps from animals or whether it is the human voice, the goal is generally to convey more information.

00:09:27.000 Except now.

00:09:28.000 Now the goal is to convey less information because the true idea is to elicit from you whether you object to this and thus can be ostracized safely from the membership in the new ruling class.

00:09:40.000 And this is nothing new.

00:09:41.000 There's an article, we talked about it on the show way back in April in the New York Times called A Guide to Neopronouns.

00:09:48.000 So you are confused by all of this?

00:09:49.000 Well, let the New York Times guide you through all of this.

00:09:51.000 You will be more confused by the end than you were at the beginning.

00:09:55.000 According to the New York Times, non-binary pronouns have become widespread.

00:09:59.000 A 2019 Pew Research study found, already, that 1 in 5 Americans knew someone who uses non-binary pronouns.

00:10:05.000 And then, there are neopronouns.

00:10:07.000 A neopronoun can be a word created to serve as a pronoun without expressing gender, like g and ger.

00:10:12.000 A neopronoun can also be a so-called noun-self pronoun, in which a pre-existing word is drafted into use as a pronoun.

00:10:20.000 Noun-self pronouns can refer to animals, so your pronoun can be bun, bun-self, and kitten, kitten-self.

00:10:27.000 Others refer to fantasy characters, vamp, vamp-self, prin, ses, princess-self, fae, fair, fair-self, or even just common slang like innit, innits, innitself.

00:10:39.000 So, is this for real, says the New York Times?

00:10:41.000 Yes.

00:10:42.000 And, around any leading-edge behavior online, trolling, hijinks, and bad faith collide indistinctly.

00:10:46.000 For those unfamiliar with the culture surrounding neopronouns right now, it's likely impossible to distinguish between what's playful, what's deeply meaningful, and what's people being mean.

00:10:55.000 Many neopronoun users are dead serious, and are also part of online communities that are quick to react swiftly to offenses.

00:11:01.000 A popular Twitch streamer who goes by AndyVMG recently apologized after jokingly tweeting that her pronouns were bad AF, which led many neopronoun users to accuse her of transphobic invalidation of their identities.

00:11:14.000 AndyVMG wrote on Twitter, it wasn't meant to mock people who use neopronouns.

00:11:18.000 However, I've since educated myself on the matter and spoken to people who use neopronouns, and I see why what I said was hurtful.

00:11:25.000 Okay, now, again, the idea here that these neopronouns, kitten, kitten self, express just the same amount of information as a person saying that the person, a biological woman, is both he and she and them.

00:11:38.000 Precisely nothing.

00:11:39.000 The only thing that it expresses is a person who is either unable or unwilling to identify with reality.

00:11:47.000 That's all.

00:11:47.000 But the whole point is that you too are now supposed to be drafted into this movement to normalize delusion.

00:11:55.000 You're supposed to be drafted into this movement to normalize delusion.

00:11:59.000 And this notion that personal identity, that how I identify, must be reflected by the society at large.

00:12:05.000 And if you refuse to go along with my moral vision of society, if you refuse to clap and cheer along, you have denied me my identity.

00:12:14.000 You have undermined me as a human being.

00:12:17.000 And corporations, because so many corporations are in the business of catering to clientele, right?

00:12:22.000 This is what corporations do.

00:12:23.000 Corporations are going to sell you what you want to buy.

00:12:25.000 Well, right now, what people want to buy is a vision of themselves, and that vision of themselves can be anything.

00:12:30.000 And so corporations are simply going to celebrate whatever you believe you are in order to make money, right?

00:12:37.000 So this has led people on the right to say capitalism is the problem.

00:12:39.000 Capitalism is not the problem.

00:12:40.000 Capitalism is just not designed to be the moral imprimatur.

00:12:45.000 Okay, capitalism is the greatest system for the distribution and increase in wealth in human history, without a doubt.

00:12:52.000 But capitalism is not inherently tied, the system itself, is not inherently tied to anything beyond provision of services and products to people who want them.

00:13:00.000 And so if you are a business and you are seeking to cater to people, and those people have immoral wants, capitalism will serve those wants the same way that it would serve somebody who has a moral want.

00:13:10.000 In other words, the lack that we are seeing in American society right now is not the result of economics.

00:13:14.000 The lack that we are seeing in American society right now is a result of lack of a moral basis, a moral foundational grounding in reality.

00:13:22.000 The reality that we are embodied human beings.

00:13:24.000 We are not just a free-floating spirit inside a meatball.

00:13:27.000 We are actually an embodied thing, which means that our biology and our soul are connected.

00:13:35.000 And that means that we cannot ignore our biology or treat our biology as though it were our enemy.

00:13:40.000 But that's precisely what the left seeks to do.

00:13:43.000 The left not only seeks to treat our biology as an enemy, the left seeks to treat you as an enemy if you even notice the fact that objective facts, which allow us to have conversations with one another, by the way, that if objective facts exist and you acknowledge the existence of these objective facts, you are now engaged in an act of bigotry.

00:13:59.000 Because I'm denying your identity.

00:14:01.000 Subjectivism now rules the day.

00:14:03.000 And anybody who insists on objective uses of language that we can share, because there has to be A term that means something in order for us to both use it and understand one another.

00:14:12.000 If you insist on that, you're now engaged in an act of bigotry.

00:14:16.000 All of this is a power game.

00:14:18.000 All of this is a power game.

00:14:21.000 The confusion, the meaninglessness, that is the point.

00:14:25.000 Because if you can make everybody confused, and then if you can use that confusion in order to instill in everybody else the idea that if you refuse to acquiesce to the confusion, this makes you the bad guy.

00:14:34.000 Well then, you are just as arbitrary in your use of power as most authoritarians are.

00:14:39.000 And we have a set of cultural authoritarians who are joining us in the guise of tolerance and acceptance, which is not what this is.

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00:16:03.000 Okay, so.

00:16:05.000 There is a certain zero-sum game between subjectivism and objectivism.

00:16:09.000 Between objectivity and subjective self-interpretation.

00:16:13.000 If people who believe that subjectivity ought to rule the day win, objective language loses.

00:16:18.000 If objective language loses, we can't have a conversation with one another.

00:16:21.000 Because the minute you use a term, and then I use the exact same term, In its traditional sense.

00:16:26.000 And you claim now that this is bigotry.

00:16:29.000 Basically what you're saying is it is not possible for any two human beings to understand each other.

00:16:33.000 This is how the sexual left is part of the general, radical left.

00:16:37.000 Because the racial left says the same thing. 0.67

00:16:38.000 The racial left says that there's a certain racial essentialism wherein black people cannot understand white people and white people cannot understand black people.

00:16:46.000 And thus, you can't have an honest-to-God, open conversation about the decision-making that leads to success in a society because we can't understand each other's experiences or each other's identities.

00:16:57.000 And this is being reinforced by every major force in our society right now, particularly our cultural forces.

00:17:02.000 And cultural forces, by the way, in a free society like the United States, or at least a fairly free society with regard to government, cultural forces bleed upward into politics.

00:17:10.000 And we've always said that culture is upstream of politics, and that is exactly right.

00:17:15.000 Usually, the law follows the culture.

00:17:17.000 The culture has decided to validate the notion that subjectivity ought to rule.

00:17:24.000 And then the law, which is supposed to be an objective tool.

00:17:27.000 Once the law becomes subjective, it really is authoritarian.

00:17:30.000 Once the law is just subjectively interpreted to go after particular people, that is the definition of authoritarianism.

00:17:35.000 Once it bleeds up into the law, you got a real problem on your hands, and that's exactly what has been happening.

00:17:40.000 And this is how you end up with, for example, situations like we have apparently at an aquatic center in, of all places, Pella, Iowa.

00:17:49.000 According to Breitbart.com, the Pella Aquatic Center in Pella, Iowa has confirmed to a newspaper it allowed a teenage girl to go topless and use the men's restroom and locker room because she said she identified as a man.

00:18:00.000 According to the Iowa Standard, she shared the facility with boys and men of all ages.

00:18:03.000 The incident happened on June 16th.

00:18:06.000 According to two people at the Aquatic Center, the incident did indeed happen.

00:18:08.000 The Aquatic Center policy allows it to happen.

00:18:11.000 The assistant manager told the Iowa Standard, the policy says anyone can wear the clothing necessary in line with their gender identity, rather than biological sex.

00:18:18.000 The policy is set by the City Council, according to the Aquatic Center's assistant manager.

00:18:23.000 In addition to concerns for the young children exposed to this, as well as the men and boys, a resident said it's dangerous for the young minor girl to expose herself.

00:18:29.000 Which, of course, is true. 0.88

00:18:31.000 Apparently, this isn't the only incident.

00:18:34.000 So, this sort of stuff is bleeding over into policy. 0.97

00:18:37.000 We saw a video emerge from a spa in Los Angeles recently, in which a black woman is complaining at the counter because apparently there is a biological man who is walking around in the women's section of the spa with his junk hanging out. 0.98

00:18:50.000 And the SPA said, no, no, no. 0.97

00:18:51.000 He's just identifying as what he identifies as.

00:18:53.000 We have no rules on this sort of thing.

00:18:55.000 Objective reality is to be put aside.

00:18:57.000 And now this has been shrined in federal law.

00:18:59.000 They have Justice Gorsuch idiotically ruling in Bostock that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was meant to protect men who say they are women in the same way that the law protects women. 0.98

00:19:09.000 Which is, of course, incredibly silly. 0.97

00:19:10.000 So you've got the law pushing it. 0.89

00:19:13.000 You have culture pushing it.

00:19:16.000 By the way, the insulting nature of this to women is truly amazing.

00:19:20.000 Apparently, a transgender woman has now taken the state Miss USA crown in Nevada.

00:19:27.000 Right, and basically this is a tribute to the surgeons, because let's face it, when it comes to Miss USA contests, which are beauty contests, which are supposed to have, presumably, some sort of non-subjective beauty standards, in order for a biological man to win a Miss USA contest, that person would have had to have tremendous hormone treatment and surgery.

00:19:44.000 It wouldn't just be like a normal biological man without surgery and hormone treatment walking into the Miss USA contest and winning the contest.

00:19:51.000 And so what this really speaks to is stereotypical beliefs about female beauty, which I thought the left opposed until five seconds ago, but apparently the left is very into it right now.

00:20:01.000 Here's the first transgender Miss Nevada Cataluna Enriquez, a biological man, explaining the breakthrough nature of this, which again is less a tribute to tolerance than it is a tribute to how surgeons and doctors can treat people and make them look like members of the opposite sex without actually changing their underlying biology.

00:20:21.000 It's amazing because it's Pride Month and it's the 52nd anniversary of Stonewall so it's a special moment for my community.

00:20:28.000 I'm the first trans woman and a trans woman of color and it's time that our voices are heard.

00:20:38.000 When I was young I said that one day I hope to see someone like me on stage in Miss USA and there just happened to be I was the person that I needed.

00:20:49.000 Okay, so all of culture is pushing the idea that men can be women.

00:20:53.000 And in fact, the best women, as it turns out.

00:20:56.000 And it's pushed, you know, in every arena of our society.

00:20:59.000 And we're supposed to celebrate all of this as though this is some sort of societal breakthrough.

00:21:03.000 That pretending men can be women and that terms have no meaning, that all this is a societal breakthrough.

00:21:08.000 And what it leads to, in the end, is a lot of suffering, particularly directed at children.

00:21:13.000 There's a piece in Daily Wire today by Amanda Prestigiacomo talking about a woman in Australia who's now writing that her gender-confused daughter is going through early menopause and she's quote, so proud of him.

00:21:25.000 And we have 15-year-olds who are being treated with heavy doses of testosterone to stop them from having periods and to go through early menopause to prepare them for life-altering surgery when we have not actually checked out the longitudinal effects of this stuff in any serious way.

00:21:40.000 There are consequences to this.

00:21:41.000 But again, the personal is political.

00:21:44.000 The personal is... The personal is political.

00:21:49.000 What you do in your own personal life is now considered to be what the law should be for everybody else.

00:21:54.000 And again, what that's really designed to do is say that if you have any standards for your own children, if you have any standards for meaning in society, if you go to church, if you simply believe in natural law, all of this makes you the actual target.

00:22:08.000 In just one second, we're going to get to the situation in New York, which is quite hilarious.

00:22:14.000 We'll get to that in a second.

00:22:15.000 First, I do want to talk to you about how this sort of radical leftism with regard to subjectivity also applies to race.

00:22:23.000 So when it comes to the radical left on race, again, the confusion is the point.

00:22:26.000 You're not supposed to have any objective standards for how we measure people's performance.

00:22:31.000 If you use objective standards for how to measure people's performance, this is now considered racist.

00:22:35.000 In the same way that it is considered sexist now.

00:22:37.000 If you say, objectively speaking, there's a man and there's a woman and they are not the same thing. 0.99

00:22:41.000 If you point that out, this is bad with regard to sex.

00:22:44.000 Because again, the confusion is the point.

00:22:45.000 You set up all these varying standards that don't have any consistent basis for them, and then you use them as a club against everybody that you don't like, who disagrees with you and actually holds to objective standards.

00:22:55.000 The same thing holds true on race. 0.70

00:22:56.000 And this leads to some incredibly racist places, because basically what you have is the racial radicals in our society, which has increasingly taken over the entire Democratic Party. 0.90

00:23:04.000 You have them basically saying that any objective metric used with regard to performance is inevitably going to consign black people to doom.

00:23:11.000 Which is a pretty racist idea. 0.96

00:23:13.000 The wokes and the racists have a lot in common. 0.96

00:23:15.000 They both seem to believe in the inferiority of black people or their inability to perform at the same levels as white people, which is fairly incredible. 1.00

00:23:23.000 And many of them will just acknowledge this openly. 0.94

00:23:26.000 For example, there's a video that went viral yesterday of a New York K-12 educator suggesting that black students do not think analytically.

00:23:34.000 Black people, we are relational people.

00:23:37.000 We are people of context.

00:23:39.000 Like, it's very Western and European to dissect and analyze and take apart things, whereas Afrocentric schooling or Afrocentric spirituality or African epistemology or ways of knowing, everything is connected.

00:23:56.000 So this is why education is not working for so many students of color, because we are context-driven people.

00:24:05.000 Okay, so the person speaking right there, by the way, is Maria Acanelli, Ph.D., the founder and lead education consultant of Aguirre Learning, an organization that has helped hundreds of school leaders and organizations embrace, strategize, and enact positive change.

00:24:18.000 Also, this person apparently teaches as an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University.

00:24:23.000 Okay, that's sort of racism that she's speaking there, in which she basically says that black people think relationally, but black people do not think in terms of analytic skill.

00:24:31.000 I mean, that's an astonishing statement.

00:24:34.000 But it goes back to the basic deconstructionist idea, which lies behind both the sexual radical policies and the racially radical policies, which is that objective metrics and objective abilities to adjudicate what goes on in the world, all of any attempt to be objective about the world that surrounds you, what that really is, is your own Western bias.

00:24:55.000 It is how you value objectivity that is the problem.

00:24:58.000 Because maybe we should just not value objectivity.

00:25:01.000 It's not that facts aren't facts.

00:25:02.000 Facts can be facts.

00:25:02.000 It's that you think facts are important.

00:25:04.000 Facts aren't important.

00:25:05.000 That's a cultural hallmark of whiteness. 0.99

00:25:08.000 It's a cultural hallmark of Western imperialist culture.

00:25:12.000 This is why you had that exhibit in the National Museum of African American History over at the Smithsonian, specifically saying that things like timeliness and hard work were white behaviors, which is insane.

00:25:24.000 Anytime anybody tells you that merit-based activities are racist, you should immediately begin to wonder whether they are attempting to divide and use power.

00:25:36.000 Because that really is what they are attempting to do.

00:25:38.000 One of the people who does this the most is Ibram X. Kendi, of course.

00:25:41.000 Ibram X. Kendi basically says that if you use anything like objectivity, if you ever suggest that individually-based rights are the fundamental basis for a free society, or that people ought to be treated equally, under the law, without regard to their race, this makes you a racist.

00:25:57.000 So he was asked about his own racism by Joy Reid, who of course is fully in line with the Ibram X. Kendi playbook.

00:26:04.000 Kennedy is one of the great grifters of our time. 0.70

00:26:06.000 He's a sloppy thinker.

00:26:08.000 To say that he's a thinker, I think, is an insult to thinkers.

00:26:10.000 He's an incredibly sloppy thinker.

00:26:12.000 His book, How to Be an Antiracist, is one of the great racist atomes in modern American history. 0.99

00:26:16.000 He's a person who is a fascist.

00:26:18.000 I mean, he has openly suggested there ought to be a Department of Antiracism at the federal government level, unelected, and their job would be to strike down any state, federal, or local policy that ends with inequality of outcome.

00:26:29.000 So here's Ibram X. Kennedy trying to explain why what he's saying is not racist when it pretty clearly is racist.

00:26:35.000 Black people are also dying at the highest rates from COVID-19.

00:26:39.000 Maybe they should also receive vaccine first. 0.98

00:26:42.000 Maybe they should also receive vaccine first.

00:26:44.000 Maybe we should have a system in which those who have the greatest needs are provided with what they need, but they call that reverse discrimination.

00:26:58.000 They call that discrimination.

00:26:59.000 They're against that.

00:27:00.000 How are we going to create equity and justice for all if we're providing the same resources to middle-income people as we're providing to billionaires?

00:27:11.000 Okay, so what Ibram Kendi there is saying is he's talking specifically about COVID policy.

00:27:15.000 Okay, what he's saying about COVID policy, this just shows the nonsensical nature of what he argues.

00:27:19.000 First of all, he argues that he's not saying that white people are racist.

00:27:22.000 He's just saying that complicity in the system makes you a racist.

00:27:26.000 And also, if you're white, you're complicit in the system, just by nature. 0.66

00:27:29.000 I mean, that really is his argument.

00:27:31.000 What he's saying about COVID there is so typical of how we are supposed to think about objective metrics.

00:27:36.000 So COVID-19 policy is what he's talking about there.

00:27:39.000 You'll remember there was a big debate when it came to tranching out vaccines, in which many people, myself included, said the single greatest variable that explains COVID and how it affects people is age.

00:27:50.000 If you're older, you're much more likely to die of COVID.

00:27:52.000 If you're younger, you're much less likely to die of COVID.

00:27:55.000 Abraham Kennedy, because he only sees the world in terms of race, he says, well, if you're black, you're more likely to die of COVID than if you are white.

00:28:01.000 Okay, well, that is seeing through like the tertiary or, you know, way down on the list, like the ninth place factor, because the reality is you have a bunch of complications that cross streams with race.

00:28:13.000 You have age, you have obesity, you have underlying health conditions.

00:28:16.000 If we were to trench out vaccines based on race, as opposed to based on age, you would end up with more dead black people, as we explained at the time, because you'd be ignoring the older black people in favor of the younger black people, because black America is demographically younger than white America. 0.87

00:28:31.000 So what you'd end up with is more black people getting the vaccine, but also more black people dying. 0.91

00:28:35.000 Ironically. 0.98

00:28:35.000 Okay, but Ibram X. Kendi doesn't care about any of that. 0.98

00:28:38.000 Because objectivity, statistics, math, these things are bad.

00:28:43.000 These things are very bad.

00:28:45.000 And this is how you end up with stories over and over in the New York Times in which you just ignore data and objective metrics in favor of a softer sense that there is supposed to be an outcome.

00:28:57.000 Right?

00:28:57.000 In favor of subjective sense, that what I want from the world is what the world must give to me.

00:29:01.000 And the government must be my tool in making that happen for me.

00:29:04.000 So, for example, today in the New York Times, there's an article about Target store closings in Baltimore.

00:29:08.000 Now, the reason that the targets are closing in Baltimore is pretty obvious.

00:29:11.000 Baltimore is a very violent place.

00:29:12.000 It has extremely high levels of shoplifting.

00:29:14.000 There's not a lot of family income in Baltimore. 1.00

00:29:17.000 The education system sucks. 0.98

00:29:18.000 There's a lot of crime, right? 0.99

00:29:20.000 None of these make for a very safe place to open a Target.

00:29:23.000 And every time there's a riot, people loot the Target.

00:29:25.000 That is a very bad way.

00:29:27.000 Like, Target opened these stores in order to service the local community.

00:29:33.000 They found that they could not service the local community profitably, so they closed the stores.

00:29:38.000 Instead, the New York Times suggests that it must be racism.

00:29:40.000 Because again, to look at objective metrics, to look at actual complicating factors, would be to undermine the power argument that they are making.

00:29:47.000 It is a power argument they are making.

00:29:49.000 They should have power over you.

00:29:51.000 And if we have to throw the stats out the window, and objective, we will do that.

00:29:55.000 Here's the New York Times.

00:29:56.000 When Target announced it was opening a store in Mondowman, a predominantly black neighborhood in Baltimore, struggling with crime and poverty, it seemed like a ticket to a turnaround.

00:30:04.000 And from the start, it was a practical success and a point of community pride.

00:30:07.000 The store, which opened in 2008, carried groceries, operated a pharmacy, and had a Starbucks cafe, the only one in this part of Baltimore's West Side.

00:30:14.000 People came from across the city to shop there, helping to soften the Mondowman's area's reputation for crime and the looting that followed protests over the 2015 death of Freddie Gray.

00:30:23.000 who was fatally injured while in city police custody.

00:30:26.000 As an employer, Target seemed to cater to the community's needs, making a point of hiring black men, providing an office in the store for a social worker to support the staff.

00:30:33.000 Elijah Cummings was known to shop there.

00:30:34.000 But in February 2018, with almost no warning or explanation, Target closed the store.

00:30:39.000 Now, you may notice the timeline here, right?

00:30:42.000 This is the New York Times saying this must be, it must've been a profitable, magical store, right?

00:30:45.000 I mean, everything's going great.

00:30:46.000 Here's the timeline.

00:30:47.000 They opened in 2008.

00:30:47.000 In 2015, the entire store was looted.

00:30:51.000 In 2018, they closed.

00:30:53.000 Apparently, it's racism.

00:30:54.000 According to the New York Times, residents, especially those without cars, lost a convenient place to shop for quality goods.

00:31:00.000 And a marker of the community's self-worth was suddenly taken away.

00:31:03.000 Well, you know what should be a marker of a community's self-worth?

00:31:06.000 Whether the community makes decisions capable of supporting a target.

00:31:11.000 Whether the community is capable of working with the police to quash crime, whether the community is capable of providing a social framework necessary to ensure that kids go to school and get educated, and that there are not people looting the target.

00:31:25.000 The presence of the target is merely a symptom.

00:31:27.000 The absence of the target is merely a symptom.

00:31:29.000 There are underlying causes to whether a target locates in a particular area.

00:31:32.000 But if you point this out, then of course, you are not validating the subjective assessments of people who live in a particular area.

00:31:40.000 Reverend Frank Glantz, pastor of Mount Lebanon Baptist Church in Mount Dowman, says, to open a store like Target in an African-American neighborhood gave this area legitimacy.

00:31:47.000 When the store closed, it was like saying, you are not worthy after all.

00:31:51.000 Right?

00:31:52.000 It's Target's job to validate people who live in this area at loss to their own profit.

00:31:58.000 It is their job to validate the subjective sense of self-worth that people hold in a particular area.

00:32:03.000 It is not the job of people in a particular area to facilitate an environment in which a target can stay.

00:32:10.000 You may notice that there are black communities all over the United States that have targets.

00:32:13.000 This is not one of them.

00:32:14.000 The reason that this is not one of them is because of the high crime areas.

00:32:19.000 It is because of the behavior of members of the community.

00:32:24.000 Again, it's all about how people react to you.

00:32:25.000 It's not about how you act.

00:32:28.000 Because if you're going to focus in on equality of outcome without looking at the behavior of individuals, then what you are inevitably going to do is suggest that the system is rigged against individuals.

00:32:38.000 Three years later, according to the New York Times, the store remains empty.

00:32:41.000 Its closing still stings.

00:32:42.000 Mondowman residents and Baltimore officials have granted $15 million in subsidies to help develop the property.

00:32:48.000 Many national retailers have faced criticism in the past for failing to open in black and poor communities, creating food deserts, or a lack of access to quality goods.

00:32:55.000 Again, the notion is that national retailers are responsible for the food deserts, as opposed to the lack of ability to create a store that is profitable in particular areas.

00:33:03.000 In Montalban, Target invested in a struggling area, but the outcome was almost more disheartening.

00:33:07.000 The company ultimately decided that despite its social goals, the store wasn't financially successful enough to keep open.

00:33:14.000 The closing is a sobering reminder of the realities of capitalism.

00:33:17.000 You see, it's capitalism that is to blame.

00:33:19.000 Always, always.

00:33:20.000 In a moment when corporations are making promises to support black Americans, saying their commitment to racial equity is stronger than ever.

00:33:27.000 It can't be underlying behavior of people in a community that make these stores not profitable.

00:33:32.000 It's capitalism itself that is the problem.

00:33:35.000 It is all a power game.

00:33:37.000 It's a power game.

00:33:40.000 And that is truly Unpleasant for the future of the United States.

00:33:45.000 There's another article in the New York Times today all about this by a person named Samuel Getachow.

00:33:49.000 He graduated from 2020 from Oakland Technical High School in California.

00:33:52.000 This is in the New York Times.

00:33:53.000 And he's the 2019 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate.

00:33:57.000 And apparently he talks about being a valedictorian in Oakland and how at a particular school there are not a lot of black valedictorians.

00:34:09.000 He's talking about some black valedictorians.

00:34:12.000 And he talks about how it took 106 years for Oakland Tech to award the honor of valedictorian to a black male student.

00:34:19.000 And that valedictorian Who was a person by the name of Ahmed Mohammed.

00:34:24.000 He said, why me?

00:34:25.000 I don't know.

00:34:26.000 But for all those who didn't get to maximize their potential, for all those who had the ability but lacked the opportunity, I owe it to them to appreciate this history made by the people who put me in this position.

00:34:33.000 We owe it to them to make sure that while I may be the first young black man to be our school's valedictorian, I won't be the last.

00:34:38.000 Okay, all of that is fine.

00:34:40.000 But then this person writing in the New York Times says we owe it to them to be more dedicated to dismantling racism than to congratulating them for being among the few to thrive despite it.

00:34:49.000 That requires an examination of the structures that helped us thrive but weren't available to others.

00:34:54.000 Okay, but we're not actually going to look at the structures that helped these people to thrive.

00:34:58.000 We're not going to look at two-parent families, for example.

00:35:00.000 We're not going to look at charter schools.

00:35:02.000 Instead, we are going to suggest that schools that are disproportionately Asian and white because they have entrance exams and not enough black students, unfortunately, are performing well on the entrance exams, it's because they're racist.

00:35:11.000 Of course, of course.

00:35:13.000 Subjectivity in public policy and in social policy, subjectivity are the hallmark of authoritarian thinking.

00:35:20.000 Alrighty, coming up, we are going to be getting to Gwenberry, who continues to be at the top of the news.

00:35:26.000 Plus, we'll get to the New York mayoral race, because this is truly an astonishing story from the New York mayoral race.

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00:39:01.000 ♪♪ Alrighty, meanwhile, absolute chaos breaking out in New York.

00:39:09.000 I mean, it really is kind of an amazing thing.

00:39:11.000 So, last night, there is this shocking new information.

00:39:15.000 So the way that New York's mayoral race works is that there's ranked choice voting.

00:39:18.000 As I've explained on the program before, basically, you choose your top five candidates.

00:39:23.000 If your first candidate doesn't end up in the top two, then we actually don't throw out your ballot, right?

00:39:28.000 Then we go to your second choice.

00:39:30.000 For the mayor.

00:39:31.000 And then if your second choice doesn't make it, we move down to your third choice for mayor.

00:39:34.000 So everybody's vote gets counted, but sort of in order of preference.

00:39:38.000 And the goal of ranked choice voting, of course, is to mean that you don't have to really strategically vote anymore.

00:39:42.000 Now, instead of strategically voting, you can just kind of pick the order of your candidate preference, and then it all comes out in the wash.

00:39:49.000 I'm actually not a super giant opponent of a ranked choice voting.

00:39:51.000 It just needs to be tabulated a lot more quickly.

00:39:53.000 So last night, There was this news that came out where after the initial round of balloting, without counting the absentee ballots, Eric Adams had been up by about nine points in the mayor's race.

00:40:03.000 He had had like 31% compared to Catherine Garcia, who had had like 22%.

00:40:07.000 Maya Wiley was at like 21%.

00:40:08.000 Andrew Yang was way down at 11%.

00:40:11.000 Okay, but that was before they had kicked out all of the lower-ranking candidates and then checked everybody's second choices.

00:40:17.000 So last night, there was information that broke suggesting that Maya Wiley was out and that Catherine Garcia had closed the gap almost entirely.

00:40:27.000 According to those results, the original results, again, had this thing split 20 different ways, with Eric Adams having like 35% of the vote, and then Maya Wiley having like 26% of the vote, and Catherine Garcia having 23% of the vote.

00:40:42.000 Then, after the ranked choice ballots were taken into account, Maya Wiley was eliminated. 1.00

00:40:48.000 Andrew Yang was eliminated.

00:40:50.000 And virtually all of those votes ended up going to Catherine Garcia.

00:40:53.000 So suddenly it looked like Eric Adams only had 51% of the vote and Catherine Garcia had 49% of the vote.

00:41:00.000 And that was still before we had like 120,000 outstanding ballots that had yet to be counted.

00:41:04.000 So it looked very much possible that Catherine Garcia could become the mayor of New York, overcoming that lead that Eric Adams held in the initial balloting.

00:41:12.000 That's what it looked like.

00:41:13.000 Okay, so Eric Adams then started protesting the election.

00:41:17.000 You're never supposed to do this, by the way.

00:41:19.000 I've heard that this is very bad.

00:41:21.000 That if you start with the stop the steal stuff, then this makes you bad.

00:41:24.000 So Eric Adams, he put out a statement.

00:41:27.000 He said, the vote total just released by the Board of Elections is 100,000 plus more than the total announced on election night, raising serious questions.

00:41:33.000 We've asked the Board of Elections to explain such a massive increase and other irregularities before we comment on the ranked choice voting projection.

00:41:39.000 We remain confident Eric Adams will be the next mayor of New York because he put together a historic five borough working class coalition of New Yorkers to make our city a safer, fairer, More affordable place.

00:41:48.000 OK, so when this first came out, people were like, oh, look at that guy doubting the results of elections.

00:41:51.000 How could he do such a thing? 0.99

00:41:52.000 That's what a schmuck. 1.00

00:41:54.000 Can't believe. 1.00

00:41:55.000 Well, now it turns out that Eric Adams was right.

00:41:59.000 According to The New York Times, quote, The New York City's mayor's race plunged into chaos on Tuesday night when the city's board of elections released a new tally of votes in the Democratic mayoral primary and then removed the tabulations from its website after citing a discrepancy.

00:42:12.000 The results released earlier in the day had suggested the race between Eric Adams and his two closest rivals had tightened significantly.

00:42:18.000 But just a few hours after releasing the preliminary results, the Elections Board issued a cryptic tweet, revealing a discrepancy in the report, saying it was working with its technical staff to identify where the discrepancy occurred.

00:42:28.000 By Tuesday evening, the tabulations had been taken down, replaced by a new advisory that the ranked choice results would be available starting on June 30.

00:42:35.000 Then, around 10.30pm, The board finally released a statement explaining it had failed to remove sample ballot images used to test its ranked-choice voting software.

00:42:45.000 So basically, they ran a simulation a few weeks ago, and then they just sort of forgot to scrub it.

00:42:50.000 And then they actually added it in to their actual vote tabulations.

00:42:55.000 When the board ran the program, it counted, quote, both test and election night results, producing approximately 135,000 additional records.

00:43:02.000 The ranked-choice numbers, it said, would be tabulated again.

00:43:06.000 For the Board of Elections, which has long been plagued by dysfunction and nepotism, this was its first try at implementing ranked-choice voting on a citywide scale.

00:43:13.000 Skeptics had expressed doubts about the Board's ability to pull off the process, though it has been used successfully in other cities.

00:43:19.000 The Board of Elections released preliminary unofficial ranked-choice tabulations Tuesday afternoon, showing Adams narrowly ahead of Catherine Garcia and Maya Wiley eliminated.

00:43:27.000 But the results may well be scrambled again.

00:43:29.000 Even after the Board of Elections sorts through the preliminary tally, it must then count around 124,000 Democratic absentee ballots.

00:43:36.000 Once they're tabulated, the Board will then take the new total that includes them and run a new set of ranked-choice elimination rounds with a result not expected until mid-July.

00:43:43.000 So it's a complete, absolute mess.

00:43:45.000 Republicans have pointed out that processes like giant numbers of absentee ballots and failures of tabulation, there are ways to stop that through, you know, voter laws.

00:43:55.000 And then the left has immediately declared that all of that is deeply and horrifically racist, right?

00:44:00.000 In New York, this is happening and the person who just got hurt by it is the only serious black mayoral candidate.

00:44:07.000 Maya Wiley is not going to be the mayor of New York. 0.96

00:44:09.000 So that is awkward, to say the least.

00:44:12.000 If this had happened in Georgia, you'd hear every newspaper in the United States talking about the innate racism of the Georgia election system. 0.99

00:44:18.000 Instead, it's happening in New York, which is just a crap festival. 0.98

00:44:20.000 And now they're like, oh, well, you know, people make mistakes. 0.99

00:44:23.000 People make mistakes.

00:44:24.000 Maya Wiley did lace into the Board of Elections. 1.00

00:44:27.000 She said the error was, quote, The result of generations of failures that have gone unaddressed and said, sadly, it is impossible to be surprised.

00:44:33.000 Once again, we've seen the mismanagement that has resulted in a lack of confidence in results.

00:44:37.000 Not because there is a flaw in our election laws, but because those who implement it have failed too many times.

00:44:41.000 The Board of Elections must now count the remainder of the votes transparently and ensure the integrity of the process moving forward.

00:44:48.000 She says, I'm confident that every candidate will accept the final results and support whomever the voters have elected.

00:44:54.000 I have doubts.

00:44:55.000 If Adams ends up losing, I have some serious doubts that Adams is going to accept the results of the election.

00:45:00.000 Instead, we may get a very Trumpy Adams take on the election, which would just be the height of irony.

00:45:06.000 Again, sophisticated New York proving itself to be less than sophisticated when it comes to actually running its city in pretty much every available way.

00:45:13.000 By the way, if it turns out that Andrew Yang and Garcia campaigning together ended with Yang's voters going to Garcia and thus putting her over the top against Adams, wait for the cries of racism inside the Democratic Party.

00:45:23.000 It's just going to be delicious.

00:45:24.000 It's just going to be wonderful.

00:45:26.000 I am here for it, to say the very, very least.

00:45:29.000 So once again, Democrats demonstrating that they are excellent at running cities. 0.99

00:45:34.000 And by excellent, I mean absolute horrific crap shows on every available level. 0.98

00:45:39.000 So I'm, you know, is it shredding fraud? 0.96

00:45:41.000 Yeah, just a little bit.

00:45:43.000 Remember, it was Georgia and Arizona and Florida and all the states that are passing new election laws to crack down on voter fraud, voter irregularity, to make people feel safer about their elections.

00:45:54.000 Those are the bad guys.

00:45:55.000 New York is filled with the good guys who can't perform a simple tabulation and then idiotically release the fake results to the general public and have to walk it back. 0.93

00:46:06.000 Yeah.

00:46:07.000 Pretty grand stuff there from the biggest city in the United States and the height of sophistication.

00:46:13.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:46:16.000 In the meantime, go check out the Michael Knowles Show.

00:46:17.000 Today, he discusses the story of Nike CEOs saying their brand is quote, of China and for China.

00:46:22.000 Yep.

00:46:23.000 You can hear more details over on Michael's show available right now.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 30, 2021

For The Sexual Left, Confusion Is The Point | Ep. 1287

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