The Ben Shapiro Show - How To Create An Emergency To Grab Power | Ep. 1291

00:00:00.000 Governor Andrew Cuomo declares a disaster emergency on gun violence, our most powerful institutions have been hijacked by radicals, and our education system is now rife with critical theory of all sorts.

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00:01:30.000 Alrighty, so it is a common facet of all governments throughout human history that whenever a government seeks to maximize its own power, it declares an emergency.

00:01:39.000 We saw this most prominently with COVID.

00:01:41.000 When the government still has not let go, the emergency measures put in place to try and fight a virus that nobody knew anything about, even though we now have enough information to reopen, even though we now have a vaccine, we see all over the world, there are places still locking down for no apparent reason.

00:01:54.000 We see with regard to virtually every major topic of the day, a desire by governmental actors to declare an emergency specifically so they can then take greater control.

00:02:03.000 On the right, you might see President Trump, for example, declare a border emergency, even though it isn't technically an emergency in the sense that it actually invokes emergency powers.

00:02:12.000 If you declare something an emergency, people are more likely to give you the means necessary in order to solve the emergency.

00:02:17.000 And so governmental actors always, right, left, and center, have a deep desire, an abiding desire, to declare everything an emergency, so that people will throw up their hands and say, well, in an emergency, you need to call in the Brute Squad.

00:02:29.000 And it's an emergency, that means it's time for Caesar to take control.

00:02:33.000 Dictators rarely gain power without there being some sort of emergency that precedes the dictatorship, in which the people throw up their hands and they say, I don't care how it gets done, it needs to get done, and we need somebody to step in and do this thing right now.

00:02:45.000 And right now in the United States, the side that is most commonly invoking emergencies in order to centralize power is the political left, without question.

00:02:53.000 The latest indicator of this is Andrew Cuomo.

00:02:55.000 This is a dude who fell in love with power during COVID when he was widely championed as this unbelievable governor, even though half the people in his state died and he was killing all the olds.

00:03:04.000 Andrew Cuomo did a horrible job in New York, didn't matter. 0.95

00:03:06.000 He was celebrated as the greatest politician in America, even though he is a nasty, cruel person, according to members of his own party. 0.98

00:03:13.000 He is a botchery of a governor. 0.68

00:03:16.000 Who was shipping COVID positive old people back into nursing homes in order so that they could presumably spread that disease and then hiding the stats by suggesting that if you died at a hospital you didn't die in a nursing home. 0.96

00:03:26.000 All the while he was sexually harassing the staff.

00:03:28.000 So really just a genius of leadership.

00:03:31.000 Remember just a few months ago when Andrew Cuomo was supposedly on the outs?

00:03:34.000 Remember there were all these women who came forward and suggested that he had sexually harassed and or assaulted them?

00:03:38.000 Remember that?

00:03:39.000 And then it just sort of went away.

00:03:40.000 Because the rule in American politics is not the rule from the Dark Knight, where you either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain.

00:03:46.000 It's either die a hero, live long enough to become a villain, or live even longer and become a hero again.

00:03:50.000 And this is what's happened with Ralph Northam in Virginia, who could be just as racist as he wanted 30 years ago.

00:03:56.000 Everybody would call for him to leave.

00:03:57.000 If you stick around long enough, Joe Biden will campaign with you. 0.99

00:03:59.000 Andrew Cuomo can sexually harass the help as much as he wants and kill all the olds in New York. 0.96

00:04:03.000 And eventually, if you just stick around long enough, everything will go away. 0.95

00:04:06.000 Politicians who brazen it out are the ones who are doing the best in the modern era, for sure.

00:04:11.000 But Andrew Cuomo, bottom line is, the dude fell in love with control.

00:04:13.000 He loves control.

00:04:15.000 And this is not rare for politicians from New York.

00:04:17.000 There is something to the notion of a populist leftist state where people in control, people in charge, love the power and they are constantly declaring emergencies.

00:04:26.000 And again, when you declare an emergency, you get to grab control of the reins.

00:04:29.000 So.

00:04:30.000 New York has seen this radical increase in crime, particularly violent crime in New York City.

00:04:35.000 And it's very, very obvious why this is happening.

00:04:37.000 We've seen this massive spike in violence in every major metropolitan area run by a Democrat across the United States during COVID. 0.55

00:04:45.000 And the reason that you've seen that is because of the George Floyd movement.

00:04:49.000 The BLM movement that was specifically dedicated at kneecapping the police and suggesting the police were systemically racist.

00:04:55.000 It was time to defund them.

00:04:56.000 But the big problem in America's major metropolitan areas is that there were too many police officers and the police officers were just too terrible and just too brutal.

00:05:03.000 And so the police stopped policing.

00:05:04.000 Many police officers quit.

00:05:06.000 The police were underfunded and they were told not to enforce the law.

00:05:10.000 I received much mockery when I suggested that New York City mayoral candidates ought to be talking about banning crime.

00:05:16.000 The reason I said that is because they literally are allowing crime to take place.

00:05:19.000 They're just saying we're not even going to prosecute crime.

00:05:22.000 In fact, there's a story I believe out of Los Angeles recently that suggested that the new DA there is now declaring that low-level crimes will never be prosecuted essentially.

00:05:30.000 Okay, so the reason we've seen this massive uptick in crime is because when you tolerate crime, you get more of this.

00:05:33.000 This is a very robust social science finding.

00:05:35.000 When you want crime to go away, you need more cops.

00:05:37.000 But Democrats don't want to admit that the police are the good guys.

00:05:40.000 They don't want to admit that the cops are overwhelmingly people who are standing between them and disorder.

00:05:46.000 And so instead, they've come up with a new math.

00:05:48.000 And the math is, we do have an emergency, but it's not an emergency having to do with crime in which we would give more power to the police to crack down on crime.

00:05:54.000 No, the emergency is guns.

00:05:57.000 The emergency is gun violence.

00:05:59.000 And you say to yourself, wait a second, aren't guns just an inanimate object?

00:06:02.000 And haven't the number of guns in circulation in the United States risen dramatically since like, say, 1994 to now?

00:06:07.000 While crime rates, particularly violent crime rates, declined up until about 2014, 2015?

00:06:10.000 So there's no correlation there?

00:06:13.000 Yes, you might say that if you were an intelligent human, but if you're a Democrat.

00:06:16.000 If you're a Democrat by the name of Andrew Cuomo, you do have an emergency, and the emergency is guns.

00:06:21.000 And if you can declare a public health emergency on the basis of guns, then you can do whatever you want.

00:06:26.000 In the same way that Lori Lightfoot in Chicago has now declared racism a public health emergency, and then suggested, I need more power in order to solve this emergency, Andrew Cuomo has now declared gun violence an emergency in New York State.

00:06:39.000 Now, again, that's not a description of a thing, right?

00:06:44.000 You can say there's a violence emergency and a crime emergency because those are activities in which people engage.

00:06:50.000 Gun violence is a tool. 0.57

00:06:51.000 OK, guns are a tool.

00:06:53.000 Violence is an activity.

00:06:55.000 To suggest that the tool is the emergency is, of course, nonsensical on its face.

00:06:59.000 But as long as you invoke an emergency, you're fine.

00:07:01.000 So here's Andrew Cuomo yesterday declaring a disaster emergency on gun violence.

00:07:06.000 We're post-COVID, but There's still low tide inequality and it is still a matter of life and death.

00:07:17.000 We went from one epidemic to another epidemic.

00:07:21.000 We went from COVID to the epidemic of gun violence and the fear and the death that goes along with it.

00:07:29.000 It's been all over the newspapers.

00:07:31.000 It is undeniable.

00:07:35.000 It's unbelievable.

00:07:36.000 Okay, so the point is that he says that more people in New York State were shot last weekend over July 4th than died of COVID.

00:07:43.000 That's true.

00:07:44.000 But there is no correlation between COVID, which was an actual viral emergency in which people were giving each other a disease and overwhelming the hospitals, right?

00:07:51.000 In which the government, you can make the argument, had to step in and tell people to stay home for a bit while they figured out what exactly was going on so that the hospital system, particularly in New York, wasn't overwhelmed.

00:08:00.000 And gun violence, which as it turns out, is not transmissible.

00:08:04.000 There's not a single person who has ever committed an act of gun violence in the United States who then transmitted it to another person who then had to engage in gun violence because they were transmitted a disease.

00:08:14.000 But again, the point is that once you declare an emergency, you can do whatever you want.

00:08:17.000 So we'll get to exactly what Andrew Cuomo is proposing in just one second.

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00:09:26.000 OK, so the governor has now, because he declared an emergency, allocated $139 million to address shootings.

00:09:33.000 And what exactly is he attempting to do?

00:09:34.000 Well, he had some tweets about what exactly he was attempting to do to the governor.

00:09:38.000 So he tweeted out, the gun industry is the only industry in America with immunity from civil lawsuits.

00:09:43.000 It's an insult to victims of gun violence.

00:09:45.000 Today, I'm signing legislation to reinstate public nuisance liability for gun manufacturers in New York state.

00:09:50.000 And then he thanks a couple of Democrats.

00:09:51.000 Okay, so let's start with what this means.

00:09:54.000 Number one, this is legally nonsensical.

00:09:55.000 The gun industry is not the only industry in America that is legally immune to liability.

00:10:00.000 The gun industry is the only industry in America where Democrats have attempted to craft a new form of liability for gun manufacturers, suggesting that normally when it comes to products liability, there are a few different sort of defects that you can sue somebody for.

00:10:12.000 You can sue somebody because there was a manufacturing liability issue, right?

00:10:16.000 You bought a crib and there's a manufacturing defect in the crib and God forbid your child gets hurt.

00:10:21.000 You can sue the company based on the manufacturing defect.

00:10:23.000 You can do design defect.

00:10:24.000 They designed the crib in such a way that it was likely to do harm.

00:10:28.000 It's a design defect.

00:10:29.000 This is all products liability kind of stuff.

00:10:30.000 There is no product liability when there's no design defect in the crib and no manufacturing defect in the crib.

00:10:35.000 And instead, you took your baby and you slammed your baby's head against the crib.

00:10:38.000 Same thing with a gun. 0.75

00:10:39.000 A gun that is properly designed is designed to shoot.

00:10:42.000 If the gun blows up in your face, that's a product's liability suit.

00:10:46.000 If the gun is so poorly designed that it damages somebody you're not shooting at, then that's a product's liability suit.

00:10:52.000 But if you use a gun for its intended purpose, or even for its not intended purpose, but it operates as designed, It is treated like any other tool.

00:11:02.000 Democrats have tried to say that a gun is inherently dangerous and therefore should be subject to liability if a bad person uses a gun for a bad thing.

00:11:09.000 That is what he's talking about there.

00:11:10.000 When he says that there should also be public nuisance liability, public nuisance is when a corporation pollutes a river.

00:11:16.000 That's what public nuisance is.

00:11:18.000 The corporation has downstream effects polluting the environment.

00:11:21.000 It is not a public nuisance when you manufacture a product that somebody buys and the person misuses the product.

00:11:26.000 Any more than a chainsaw manufacturer is engaged in public nuisance when a horror movie villain decides to go through a sorority house with a chainsaw.

00:11:33.000 That's not how any of that works.

00:11:35.000 It is a violation of basic black letter law.

00:11:38.000 What he is pushing here will be struck down immediately by any court with half a brain, obviously.

00:11:41.000 But again, the point here is not to actually solve the problem.

00:11:44.000 The point here is to accrete power in the center of power, namely under Andrew Cuomo's auspices.

00:11:50.000 He tweeted out over the July 4th weekend, more people in New York State were shot than died of COVID.

00:11:53.000 Gun violence is an epidemic.

00:11:55.000 No, it is not.

00:11:56.000 It does not fit any of the definitional terms of an epidemic.

00:11:59.000 None.

00:12:00.000 Okay, the definition of an epidemic is not a person did a thing that has no impact on me.

00:12:07.000 And that's it.

00:12:09.000 That's not an epidemic.

00:12:11.000 The definition is the widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.

00:12:14.000 Dictionary definition.

00:12:16.000 Is this a widespread disease?

00:12:18.000 Do you catch gun violence?

00:12:20.000 It is so maddening, but if you change the definitions, you can declare a public health emergency.

00:12:23.000 He says we should treat gun violence as a public health crisis.

00:12:25.000 So according to Democrats, just to be straight about this, we have a public health emergency of racism.

00:12:33.000 And of gun violence.

00:12:34.000 Those are the two things we have a public health emergency about in the United States.

00:12:38.000 Interesting take, in that neither of those is a public health emergency.

00:12:41.000 What exactly are these strategies that Andrew Cuomo is pushing?

00:12:44.000 He wants to deploy a public health approach to gun violence.

00:12:46.000 What, is he going to lock you in your home and force you to wear a mask or what?

00:12:49.000 Target hotspots using science and data.

00:12:52.000 Oh, you mean doing the things that police used to be allowed to do, but now are no longer allowed to do?

00:12:56.000 Because if you target gun violence hotspots, disproportionately this will affect minority communities because that's where much of the gun violence is taking place.

00:13:02.000 Like, it's fun when he says things like, we're going to target hotspots using science and data.

00:13:06.000 Literally, that was CompStat introduced by William Bratton in the 1990s.

00:13:09.000 And then it was declared that this was a form of racial profiling because it turns out a huge amount of gun violence, particularly in major metros, happens in poor minority areas.

00:13:18.000 Positive engagement for at-risk youth.

00:13:20.000 That's gonna change things.

00:13:21.000 Double funding in proven violence intervention programs.

00:13:25.000 Get illegal guns off the streets.

00:13:26.000 Keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.

00:13:28.000 Strengthen the police-community relationship.

00:13:31.000 Okay, how's any of this solving gun... How about, like, more funding for the cops?

00:13:37.000 How about let the cops do their job?

00:13:40.000 But again, it's not about any of that.

00:13:41.000 It's about pretending to solve a problem while declaring an emergency.

00:13:44.000 So again, you can accrue more power and use it to cram down your particular point of view.

00:13:50.000 And this is how the left operates these days.

00:13:52.000 Everything is an emergency.

00:13:54.000 And if it's a solvable emergency, then you just ignore the solution in order so you can declare it a broader emergency.

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00:15:14.000 All right, so emergency breeds control.

00:15:17.000 Emergency breeds control for the left.

00:15:19.000 And so everything is an emergency.

00:15:21.000 As I've said, the declaration by the left that gun violence is an emergency and therefore, the governor can literally just invoke emergency powers.

00:15:26.000 That's dangerous stuff.

00:15:28.000 As we'll talk about in a bit, they do the same thing with climate change.

00:15:30.000 Climate change is an emergency.

00:15:31.000 Therefore, give us power.

00:15:32.000 We don't need checks and balances.

00:15:33.000 We don't need considered public policy.

00:15:35.000 We don't need to battle this out.

00:15:36.000 We actually just take control and we solve the problem because the problem is an emergency.

00:15:42.000 And the big public health emergency of our day is, of course, rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr And the hour just gets longer and rolls more as time goes on and as the emergency becomes deeper and more profound.

00:15:58.000 The left's argument is that America is in the crisis of race and a crisis of racial division.

00:16:04.000 A reckoning!

00:16:05.000 A reckoning.

00:16:07.000 Now normally, when there is a reckoning, what that means is that the people who are guilty pay, right?

00:16:11.000 When there's a reckoning, it means that somebody is guilty and that person pays, that person has had a reckoning.

00:16:15.000 In the United States, the way reckoning works is that we are all supposed to take blame for a bunch of crap that we didn't do, specifically so that people can game the system and take control of it.

00:16:24.000 That's effectively the argument that is made by the left these days.

00:16:28.000 And this argument has now made its way in nearly every major institution in American society, that we are experiencing such an emergency that all aspects of the institutional structures of the United States must be activated in order to fight this emergency.

00:16:41.000 It's like World War II, but with race. 0.94

00:16:44.000 World War II, we had to commandeer all of industry and we had to use all of it to produce the weaponry necessary in order to defeat the Nazis.

00:16:50.000 World War II, we had to regiment the population to act in particular ways and make particular sacrifices.

00:16:55.000 We had to, hell, draft every eligible man over the age of 18 in order to fight in a war.

00:16:59.000 This is a war.

00:17:00.000 The left loves the language of war, you may notice.

00:17:02.000 It's a war on poverty.

00:17:04.000 It's a war on racism.

00:17:05.000 It's a war on inequality.

00:17:06.000 It's always a war. 0.59

00:17:07.000 Why does the left love the language of war so much?

00:17:09.000 The reason they love the language of war is because war requires regimentation.

00:17:13.000 War requires top-down control.

00:17:16.000 Now, they tend to apply the term war to things that can never be defeated.

00:17:21.000 Racism can never be defeated.

00:17:23.000 Racism can be mitigated.

00:17:24.000 You can change legal structures to prevent racism from benefiting people, for example.

00:17:30.000 You can stop Jim Crow, but racism as a phenomenon in the human heart can never be defeated.

00:17:35.000 The left loves declaring wars.

00:17:36.000 You want to talk about endless wars?

00:17:38.000 People talk about endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

00:17:39.000 Those were not endless wars, but put that aside.

00:17:42.000 The actual endless wars are the wars left declares.

00:17:44.000 We have still not reached the end of the war on drugs declared by the left in the 60s.

00:17:47.000 We still have not reached the end of the war on poverty declared by the left in the 60s.

00:17:51.000 We still have not reached the end of the war on racism declared by the left in the 60s.

00:17:54.000 Because these are things that will never go away.

00:17:54.000 Why?

00:17:57.000 And that's the point.

00:17:58.000 The more they don't go away, the more the war is endless, the more control you need. 0.96

00:18:03.000 During the Vietnam War, Lyndon Baines Johnson engaged in a military strategy, egged on by his idiot Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, of graduated escalation. 0.89

00:18:11.000 Graduated escalation was the notion that we were going to, instead of just flooding the zone in Vietnam with an overwhelming number of troops and thereby defeating the Viet Cong quickly, instead what we were going to do is we're going to gradually ratchet up the pressure and eventually the Viet Cong would probably learn that they shouldn't screw with us. 0.93

00:18:26.000 Well, that didn't work.

00:18:28.000 But the notion of graduated escalation is exactly how the left treats government involvement in these wars.

00:18:34.000 We will gradually escalate the amount of government control.

00:18:36.000 And the goal there is precisely the opposite of what graduated escalation was supposed to accomplish in Vietnam, namely the end of the war.

00:18:42.000 Here, graduated escalation is supposed to make you accustomed to the government being more in control of your life and to the institutions of power being shifted and twisted into tools of the government.

00:18:53.000 So slowly you don't even notice.

00:18:55.000 So slowly that the roots of ideology grow deep into the bedrock of the foundational systems of the country.

00:19:03.000 And then it's too late to uproot them.

00:19:05.000 It's too late to change them.

00:19:06.000 This is the goal of the left.

00:19:08.000 And when this is challenged, people go nuts.

00:19:11.000 When this is challenged, people go crazy.

00:19:12.000 And that's the current debate that you're seeing over critical race theory, for example, or teaching in the schools.

00:19:16.000 The left has spent the last 60 years in this country attempting to infiltrate every major institution with radical ideas about what humanity should be and who should control other people.

00:19:27.000 And now when it's challenged, they're very angry that you've noticed.

00:19:30.000 They're very angry that you've seen it.

00:19:33.000 And so they are fighting back in major ways or declaring that this stuff is just not a big deal.

00:19:37.000 Why are you even noticing?

00:19:38.000 Why is it even a big deal?

00:19:39.000 And it is nearly every major institution in American society.

00:19:43.000 I will once again here pitch my upcoming book, The Authoritarian Moment.

00:19:46.000 It is about this.

00:19:47.000 It is about how every major institution in American society has been weaponized and militarized by the ardent left over the course of the last six decades.

00:19:55.000 And how these institutions need to be renormalized.

00:19:57.000 All it would have taken is that apathetic middle standing up on its hind legs and saying, no, it's happening late, but it's starting to happen.

00:20:04.000 But it needs to happen because the reality is the left continues to declare these emergencies.

00:20:09.000 These emergencies are necessary in order for them to once again centralize all power in themselves.

00:20:15.000 And it's happening in the institutions you'd least expect.

00:20:17.000 Like, for example, the U.S.

00:20:18.000 military.

00:20:19.000 It's amazing to see the left defend the military only and only, really only, when the military is indoctrinating its soldiers in wokeism.

00:20:28.000 When the military is doing its actual job, namely breaking things and protecting people.

00:20:34.000 When the military does its job abroad, then the military is bad and brutal and vicious and imperialist and colonialist.

00:20:38.000 When the military is a tool for social engineering, whereby we cram down on America's fighting men and women, Bizarre radical notions about race in the United States, then that is a good thing.

00:20:49.000 That's when the military is at its best.

00:20:51.000 When it's an indoctrination system.

00:20:54.000 Which is why the UK Daily Mail is reporting today, a US Air Force Academy professor backs critical race theory for all troops, says the Constitution created inequality, that George Washington was a racist, and that US domestic and foreign policy is shaped by racism.

00:21:07.000 According to the UK Daily Mail, a United States Air Force Academy professor has argued critical race theory should be taught to all cadets so they can understand how the United States was quote-unquote shaped by racism.

00:21:17.000 Now, this is the thing to understand about critical race theory.

00:21:19.000 Critical race theory is not just one of many theories.

00:21:22.000 Critical race theory has a praxis component.

00:21:24.000 Praxis is Latin for practice.

00:21:26.000 It has a component in which you are expected to engage in activism.

00:21:30.000 Critical race theory is not an analytic tool for examining the universe.

00:21:33.000 It is an activist wing of the radical left A critical race theory is not just a theory any more than gender theory is just a theory.

00:21:41.000 It is a way of approaching the world that calls for activism.

00:21:44.000 It requires activism.

00:21:45.000 And it suggests that you are complicit in the systems of power unless you engage in precisely that activism.

00:21:51.000 So when people say, well, why shouldn't we teach critical race theory?

00:21:54.000 Because you can't teach critical race theory, unless you're doing so critically, which they don't want you to do.

00:21:59.000 You can't teach critical race theory without also teaching that you are complicit in racism, white supremacy, heteronormativity, bigotry of all sorts, if you are not tearing down the system actively.

00:22:09.000 It's like teaching Marxist activism in class.

00:22:11.000 Not Marxism as a theory, Marxist activism in class.

00:22:14.000 That's what critical race theory is with regard to race.

00:22:17.000 Political scientist Lynn Chandler Garcia said the Constitution brought about inequality and that George Washington was a racist.

00:22:23.000 She argued the history of the United States proved that racism has shaped both foreign and domestic policy.

00:22:28.000 Garcia teaches the Marxist theory at the U.S.

00:22:31.000 Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

00:22:32.000 She said she agreed with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley, who recently told Congress critical race theory is not unpatriotic.

00:22:38.000 That is a lie.

00:22:39.000 It is deeply unpatriotic.

00:22:41.000 Its essence is unpatriotic.

00:22:42.000 It overtly argues capitalism has to be dismantled.

00:22:45.000 Individual rights have to be dismantled.

00:22:47.000 Because those are just mere facades for hierarchies of power.

00:22:51.000 Hey, so now this stuff is being taught to our cadets.

00:22:53.000 Garcia writes in the Washington Post, quote, Cadets, like all military members, take an oath to defend the Constitution with their lives, so it's crucial they have a sensitive understanding of that Constitution.

00:23:01.000 In my classes, cadets learn about the ideals embedded in this founding document.

00:23:05.000 We explore the liberalist theories that promoted these ideals and we embrace our democratic system of government, but we also acknowledge the United States was founded on a duality, liberalism and equal rights on the one hand, inequality, inegalitarianism and second-class citizenship on the other.

00:23:18.000 Yes, clearly we want the people who have vowed to give their lives to protect the Constitution to believe that the thing that they are giving their lives to defend is a racist document that is rife with inequality and in fact enshrines it in America's fundamental law.

00:23:31.000 Vile and disgusting, but again, when you're fighting the emergency of racism, everything is on the table, guys.

00:23:36.000 Racism is such an emergency in American life, in a country in which black people have a higher household income than any other country on earth, bar none, in which black people have more power in America's institutions than any other country on earth, bar none, right? 1.00

00:23:52.000 Any other diverse country, I should say, because they're presumably countries that have significantly less diversity than the United States, in which black people hold an enormous amount of power, but not nearly as powerful countries as the United States. 0.81

00:24:03.000 Just a corrective there. 0.76

00:24:05.000 The basic idea that black people are experiencing an emergency with regard to race in the United States in 2021 is patently insane, but again, the emergency is the point. 1.00

00:24:13.000 We'll get to that in just one second. 0.69

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00:25:25.000 Okay, so in the US military, We are now teaching this stuff because again, emergency requires it.

00:25:31.000 It requires it!

00:25:33.000 This is exactly the case that is made, for example, by Raytheon.

00:25:37.000 So our defense contractors, the private industry, takes a hint from government.

00:25:41.000 They take a hint from all the other major institutions in the United States.

00:25:44.000 They have to please their bosses in the government.

00:25:47.000 And so what they do is they've started to cram down critical race theory on their own employees, again, in order to solve the emergency.

00:25:52.000 Everything must be weaponized.

00:25:54.000 Every aspect of American society must be drafted into this war on racism.

00:25:59.000 Even though, again, racism is at the lowest ebb it has ever been in human history.

00:26:03.000 It is a war that is taking over the streets of the United States.

00:26:08.000 So, Chris Rufo, who has been doing unbelievably great work with regard to calling out critical race theory and the teaching of quote-unquote anti-racist propaganda in America's corporate world.

00:26:18.000 Raytheon forced its employees to, or encouraged its white employees to confront their privilege, reject the principle of equality, and defund the police.

00:26:31.000 They've launched their own critical race theory program in coordination with Blue Ocean Brain.

00:26:36.000 Here's a little bit of their guide, and it's worth going through a little bit in detail here.

00:26:41.000 Stronger Together is what the guide is titled.

00:26:44.000 Commitment to diversity and inclusion takes all of us, they say.

00:26:47.000 CEO Action was founded on a shared belief that diversity, equity, and inclusion is a societal issue, not a competitive one, and that collaboration and bold action from the business community, especially CEOs, is vital to driving change at scale.

00:26:58.000 You see, these CEOs, they have to maintain control over you because they are the greatest.

00:27:02.000 Just as the left has always pined for a top-down, organized economy in which a few big bosses get to run the whole show, so too, with societal change, the CEOs will guide us.

00:27:12.000 Take the I Act On pledge they encourage their employees at Raytheon.

00:27:15.000 We all contribute to our company culture.

00:27:18.000 Make a commitment to foster an inclusive workplace through your behavior by signing the I Act On pledge.

00:27:23.000 I pledge to check my bias, speak up for others, and show up for all.

00:27:26.000 I will check my own biases and take meaningful action to understand and mitigate them.

00:27:30.000 I will initiate meaningful, complex, sometimes difficult conversations with my friends and colleagues.

00:27:34.000 I will ask myself, do my actions and words reflect the value of inclusion?

00:27:39.000 Oh, so beautiful.

00:27:40.000 This is all infighting racism.

00:27:42.000 Don't worry, it gets a lot worse.

00:27:43.000 A lot, lot worse.

00:27:45.000 Let's continue.

00:27:46.000 They recommend developing intersectional allyship in the workplace.

00:27:51.000 Ooh, time for some intersectional allyship.

00:27:53.000 So, how can you be a really good ally?

00:27:54.000 Well, first you have to acknowledge your privilege and intersectionality.

00:27:57.000 A collection of unearned advantages.

00:27:59.000 This is what privilege is.

00:28:00.000 A collection of unearned advantages, both visible and invisible, based on a person's social identity or group membership.

00:28:07.000 Now, one of the things here that's really interesting is they say a collection of unearned, and the un is in parentheses.

00:28:11.000 So, if there's a collection of earned advantages, that's not privilege anymore, right?

00:28:14.000 Privilege is where you didn't earn it.

00:28:16.000 But they say that even if you earned it, maybe you didn't earn it.

00:28:18.000 Privilege is relational and situational.

00:28:20.000 While everyone has some degree of privilege, the corresponding advantages a person receives are based on where they are and who they are with.

00:28:26.000 You see, it depends on your societal status.

00:28:28.000 If you're a white man, you have had all the privileges.

00:28:31.000 If you are, in fact, an Asian man who earns more than the white man, apparently not.

00:28:34.000 How do you become an ally?

00:28:36.000 Well, you use your everyday privilege.

00:28:38.000 Privilege, says this program over again at Raytheon, a defense contractor.

00:28:42.000 Privilege is often ignorable unless you don't have it.

00:28:45.000 As award-winning psychologist and professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, Dali Chu writes, In America, if you are white or Christian or able-bodied or straight or English-speaking, these particular identities are easy to forget.

00:28:55.000 This is called ordinary privilege because these identities and traits easily blend in with the people and norms around us.

00:29:01.000 The question for allies is this.

00:29:02.000 How can you use your privilege to help others?

00:29:05.000 First, identify your privilege.

00:29:06.000 Consider those aspects of your identity.

00:29:08.000 You think about the least, be it your gender or ethnicity or sexual orientation.

00:29:12.000 Once you pinpoint your ordinary privileges, you can better utilize them to help people who don't share the same ones.

00:29:17.000 You can learn about others' disadvantages.

00:29:19.000 You can do this by increasing your awareness in your own life and looking beyond to the world in general.

00:29:22.000 You can speak up, just as the luxury to ignore microaggressions and other injustices is a tenet of privilege.

00:29:28.000 Action is the cornerstone of allyship, right?

00:29:30.000 So you have to speak up.

00:29:32.000 No more microaggressions, you know, like treating other people like normal human beings who are capable of shying off a joke or something.

00:29:38.000 No, you have to speak up.

00:29:39.000 And not only that, you have to step aside.

00:29:40.000 So which is it?

00:29:41.000 These are in conflict, right?

00:29:42.000 You have to speak up, but also step aside.

00:29:44.000 Recognizing your privilege also means recognizing when other voices are more important than your own.

00:29:51.000 And this means that you have to shut up. 1.00

00:29:54.000 Shut up! 1.00

00:29:55.000 Be sure to amplify others instead of attempting to speak for them. 1.00

00:29:58.000 Yes, you have to be quiet, says the Raytheon program.

00:30:02.000 Straightness is a powerful example of privilege.

00:30:04.000 If you're a straight person, it's likely you can go long periods without consciously considering how your sexual orientation impacts how you interact with the world.

00:30:11.000 Actually, as it turns out in a free society, you can pretty much go all the time.

00:30:15.000 Without considering how your sexual orientation affects your place in the world because no one cares! 1.00

00:30:20.000 Also, Raytheon suggests pro-inclusion tip.

00:30:22.000 Someone's race or ethnicity isn't a taboo topic.

00:30:25.000 Talk openly about it to appeal to people's conscious values and challenge their unconscious biases.

00:30:29.000 You should walk up to people and you should immediately label them by race.

00:30:29.000 Yes, this is good.

00:30:33.000 And you should identify everybody's race, they say, including those who are white.

00:30:36.000 In any conversation, you should say, as a white male, or I'm going to shut up because I am a white male.

00:30:42.000 Or you should just, I think a great way to start a dinner party is to just go around and have everybody name their race.

00:30:47.000 I think that's a great way to start a dinner party. 0.99

00:30:50.000 Shut up! 1.00

00:30:51.000 It all comes down to shut up. 1.00

00:30:51.000 Right? 1.00

00:30:51.000 Notice it. 1.00

00:30:52.000 Pro-inclusion tip, according to, again, a Raytheon educational program, listen to the experiences of others, especially those with marginalized identities, who often don't have an equal say in decision-making.

00:31:02.000 Give them the floor in meetings or on calls, even if it means silencing yourself to do so.

00:31:06.000 You learn more when you listen than when you speak anyway.

00:31:08.000 So it's a win-win.

00:31:09.000 Unless, apparently, you're a member of a marginalized community, in which case, everybody else is supposed to shut up and you should never listen, ever, ever, ever, because those people have nothing to teach you, because, obviously, they are a member of the privileged class.

00:31:19.000 And then, this is, I think, my favorite part of the program, they explain things to say to black people and not to say to black people, which is not dictatorial and insane in any way.

00:31:27.000 Again, this is being taught to our defense contractors. 0.94

00:31:30.000 What not to say to your black colleagues right now. 0.97

00:31:32.000 I'm scared to say the wrong thing to you. 0.98

00:31:34.000 You shouldn't say that. 0.95

00:31:35.000 Because this asks your black colleague to either console you or help you figure out what to say. 1.00

00:31:39.000 And that isn't fair.

00:31:41.000 You also should not say, I hope and pray things change soon.

00:31:43.000 This shows you mean well, but meaning well isn't enough.

00:31:46.000 You have to do the work.

00:31:49.000 I can't wait for things to calm down and get back to normal.

00:31:51.000 This says that your comfort is more important than the message of anti-racism.

00:31:55.000 No, no, no.

00:31:56.000 You're supposed to talk about what a victim the other person is.

00:32:00.000 You're supposed to say things like, I'm taking steps to become a better ally.

00:32:03.000 I'm shutting down racist comments on my team.

00:32:05.000 I'm supporting the fight against racism by calling my representatives, backing black businesses and or XYZ, right? 0.96

00:32:10.000 This is where you move from the theory to the praxis component.

00:32:13.000 Do all the things we want you to do, or you are a racist.

00:32:16.000 Do all the things we want you to do, or you are complicit in the systemic injustices of American life.

00:32:20.000 Also, you're supposed to say things like, I realize my discomfort is a fraction of what you are feeling.

00:32:25.000 According to one of the teachers, black people are, quote, exhausted, mentally drained, frustrated, stressed, barely sleeping, scared, and overwhelmed.

00:32:32.000 Feelings which demand empathy and action.

00:32:34.000 All of them?

00:32:35.000 Like every single black person is exhausted, mentally drained, frustrated, stressed, barely sleeping?

00:32:39.000 Oh, and then we get the obligatory Kamala Harris communist slide in which we find out that equality is unequal because when you give everybody equal rights under the law, then some people finish behind other people.

00:32:51.000 Instead, what we have to do is we have to build ramps and give people affirmative boxes in order so that everybody can get ahead. 0.57

00:32:58.000 See, the problem with this particular The problem with this particular equity versus equality slide, this famous cartoon, is that the real cartoon would not involve the person on the left, the tallest person, for those who are not seeing this visually.

00:33:14.000 The equality slide, they say equality is bad.

00:33:16.000 Because equality doesn't take into account people's pre-existing conditions, and the fact that we are not all created equal in all respects, right?

00:33:23.000 Some of us are created smarter, some dumber, some taller, some shorter, etc.

00:33:26.000 So it shows a slide of three people behind a fence trying to watch a game, apparently illegally, because they should be buying tickets.

00:33:32.000 And the person on the left is tall, the person in the middle is short, and the person on the right hand side of the little slide is in a wheelchair.

00:33:41.000 So the short person can barely see, and the person in the wheelchair can't see at all. 0.99

00:33:44.000 Equity is where we build a giant ramp so that the person in the wheelchair can now see over the fence, and where we take a box away from the tall guy and give it to the short person to ensure that she can see as well.

00:33:55.000 Okay, there's only one problem.

00:33:56.000 When it comes to the equity the left is pushing, it is a zero-sum game.

00:33:59.000 It is not a system where everybody gets more out of it and no one loses.

00:34:03.000 It is not Pareto optimal in the economic terminology.

00:34:06.000 Instead, what the equity slide should actually show is chopping off the legs of the guy on the left and then sewing them on to the person in the middle who, because she is still better off than the person in the wheelchair, then has to chop off her arms and those can be used as a sort of props to prop up the wheelchair.

00:34:24.000 See, equity is a bloody business, gang.

00:34:26.000 When you start deciding that you are going to privilege certain populations at the expense of other populations based on either preexisting conditions or not based on preexisting conditions, based instead on simple choice that people are making on an individual level.

00:34:42.000 You are doomed to do violence to the people who are supposedly privileged in your society.

00:34:48.000 And now, here's the thing.

00:34:48.000 If you catch any of this, then people get very angry.

00:34:52.000 If you catch the fact that this has moved into all aspects of our society, including the military, including the training of our defense contractors, then people get very, very upset with you.

00:35:03.000 Which is why, for example, Eddie Glaude, who's just a professor, if you remember where Eddie Glaude is a professor, I believe he's at Princeton, which is kind of incredible considering how unimpressive his writings are, and I've read many of them.

00:35:16.000 Eddie Glaude speaking with Chris Ruffo, and Ruffo is detailing how critical race theory is, in fact, racist.

00:35:21.000 And Glaude just starts rolling his eyes, because, of course, you're not supposed to catch on to what all of this is.

00:35:26.000 Here is Eddie Glaude versus Chris Ruffo on MSNBC.

00:35:30.000 It's not accurate to say that I'm not concerned about the substance.

00:35:32.000 I've written policy papers, white papers.

00:35:34.000 I've written investigative reports.

00:35:35.000 I'm deeply concerned about the substance.

00:35:37.000 But what I'm concerned about and what millions of parents are really concerned about is things that are happening in hundreds of public schools in Illinois and Chicago, where they're teaching children as young as kindergarten that whiteness is the devil and attempts to lure people into it.

00:35:54.000 Okay, Glaude is rolling his eyes at that, but Rufo is correct.

00:36:06.000 There isn't, in fact, a children's book directed at your kids that teaches them that your whiteness is a deal that you effectively make with Satan, in which you get all these wonderful privileges, all you have to give up is your soul.

00:36:17.000 Okay, but again, the eye-rolling from the media is not a true eye-roll because they know it's true.

00:36:21.000 It's just they object to you noticing this.

00:36:24.000 They don't like that you're noticing this.

00:36:26.000 And by the way, it's the biggest teachers' unions in the country.

00:36:28.000 The American Federation of Teachers, Randy Weingarten, one of the worst people in the country.

00:36:31.000 I mean, just truly a bad person with regard to shutting down schools, with regard to disadvantaging children.

00:36:37.000 The AFT's Randy Weingarten says, if people break the law, states are now passing laws to ban critical race theory, as they should.

00:36:43.000 Because again, it is a practical, it is not a theory.

00:36:45.000 It is not a way of viewing the world.

00:36:47.000 It is an activist indoctrination tool.

00:36:50.000 Okay, Randy Weingarten says, if teachers violate the law, then we will defend them in court.

00:36:54.000 That is, we will do that.

00:36:56.000 Mark my words, our union will defend any member who gets in trouble for teaching honest history.

00:37:06.000 We have a legal defense fund ready to go, and we are preparing for litigation as we speak.

00:37:13.000 Well, I'm sure they would not have similar thoughts about teaching, you know, traditional American history if you got fired for that over at the AFT.

00:37:20.000 Again, there is an indoctrination movement on the left that has moved throughout our schools.

00:37:25.000 It is truly amazing.

00:37:27.000 And by the way, it does not just apply with regard to race.

00:37:29.000 It also obviously applies with regard to sexual identity.

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00:39:54.000 It's not merely that our schools have been taken over by a critical race theory.

00:40:02.000 They've also been taken over by gender theory, because gender theory is an aspect of critical theory more broadly.

00:40:07.000 Critical theory is the idea that it comes out of deconstructionism in the 1960s, particularly Foucault.

00:40:12.000 The basic idea is that all institutions, all language is the language of power.

00:40:16.000 Gender theory suggests that gender is completely disconnected from biological sex, that it is a social construct designed to re-enshrine hierarchies of power, just as Critical race theory suggests the same about our hierarchies of power and America's institutions.

00:40:30.000 Gender theory suggests more broadly that all motions of male and female are in and of themselves a social construct, completely dispensable.

00:40:38.000 And not only dispensable, they must be torn down.

00:40:40.000 Very important to tear that stuff down so that people can live freer and better lives, free of the expectations of a society that represses them.

00:40:49.000 Cramps their style.

00:40:51.000 We need to allow people the freedom to self-identify from the time they are in kindergarten.

00:40:55.000 And the real idea here is that you can overthrow all systems of power which are embedded in patriarchal systems if all you do is just overthrow basic notions of human biology, science, physics, virtually any sort of verifiable data.

00:41:08.000 And this sort of stuff is being taught in our schools as well.

00:41:12.000 The reality is, unfortunately, That the AFT, the NEA, all of these educational assorted unions have decided to indoctrinate our kids in nearly every radical left theory they can imagine.

00:41:25.000 And a lot of this is now being legislated into law.

00:41:27.000 For example, in the state of California, the state of California does in fact require K through 6 LGBTQ plus agenda items be taught to small, small children.

00:41:38.000 In fact, the ACLU has an entire Guide to how to comply with the so-called California Healthy Youth Act, which is about as much of a misnomer as I can imagine.

00:41:48.000 It requires school districts to provide students with integrated, comprehensive, accurate, and unbiased sexual health and HIV prevention education.

00:41:55.000 It must be taught in grades 7 through 12, at least once in middle school and once in high school.

00:41:59.000 It can also be taught in any grade, K through 6 inclusive.

00:42:02.000 But it is not restricted just to sexual health and HIV prevention, of course.

00:42:08.000 It is also a values teaching seminar.

00:42:12.000 It is an attempt to cram down particularly socially leftist values on kids.

00:42:16.000 All in the name of the health of the kids, by the way, because confusing kids about their gender at the age of five is definitely good for them. 0.97

00:42:21.000 Teaching kids at the age of five that there is nothing beneficial about male-female relationships for the production and rearing of children, and also that male and female are completely arbitrary categories to which you personally could belong, any category you choose.

00:42:33.000 None of that is going to have any deleterious effect on children or future generations.

00:42:38.000 None of this has to do with raising a healthier crop of small children, by the way.

00:42:42.000 As a father of small children, I guarantee you that.

00:42:44.000 What this really has to do is with adults who have decided they need to indoctrinate the next generation in order to accept whatever they decide to engage in sexually that day or whatever they decide to identify as that day.

00:42:54.000 It's about remolding society in a radical left-wing hierarchical mold in which the people at the top of the hierarchy are the people who purport to be the greatest victims.

00:43:03.000 According to the ACLU, here is what sexual health and HIV prevention instruction in grades K-6 must include the following.

00:43:12.000 They must affirmatively recognize different sexual orientations in kindergarten and be inclusive of same-sex relationships in discussions and examples.

00:43:22.000 K-6, you must teach about gender, gender expression, gender identity, and the harm of negative gender stereotypes.

00:43:29.000 You have to teach, presumably, gender fluidity. 1.00

00:43:31.000 They have to be free of bias, based on actual or perceived disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race or ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexual orientation.

00:43:41.000 Additional content that may be taught in K-6 include things, can be taught, right?

00:43:46.000 Allowed.

00:43:47.000 Information about accessing resources for sexual and reproductive healthcare.

00:43:51.000 It can be taught, K-6, in California.

00:43:54.000 Also, you're allowed to teach kids about Effectively, abortion, reproductive, so-called reproductive health, and gender theory is deeply embedded in all of this stuff and is recommended.

00:44:06.000 Okay, this is not an outlying theory that is pushed by the left.

00:44:09.000 It is recommended by people writing for the American Federation of Teachers.

00:44:13.000 In 2019, there was an article brought out by the official journal of the American Federation of Teachers, which is the second largest teachers union in the United States after the NEA.

00:44:20.000 There's an article by Jill Herman Wilmarth and Caitlin Ryan talking, it's called, Reading and Teaching the Rainbow.

00:44:27.000 And the affirmative case that it makes is that you should use elementary school classrooms as indoctrination centers for LGBTQ plus agenda items. 1.00

00:44:37.000 They say people are sometimes shocked by the notion that teachers should address lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer topics in elementary schools.

00:44:43.000 Maybe they think children those ages are too young, that those conversations are better had at home, or that the whole topic is simply inappropriate.

00:44:49.000 This is not what we believe at all.

00:44:52.000 Instead, we simply want them to talk about the diversity of families and relationships and communities in ways that include LGBTQ plus people.

00:45:00.000 After all, public schools are for everyone.

00:45:02.000 Except if you're religious or you hold traditional values or believe in natural law, then they're not for you.

00:45:06.000 But everyone else, they're definitely for.

00:45:09.000 If children themselves don't have LGBTQ parents, perhaps they have a peer with two moms at daycare, or a relative who comes out as gay, or maybe they've heard a story about transgender rights on the news.

00:45:17.000 So now it is the job of schools.

00:45:19.000 If a kid hears something on the news, or could hear something on the news, we need to teach kids about that immediately in all possible contexts.

00:45:24.000 I don't think that this is what the left actually believes, by the way.

00:45:28.000 The best part of this article?

00:45:30.000 is how you should teach small children about gender.

00:45:32.000 Again, they're talking about kindergartners.

00:45:34.000 I'm not five-year-olds.

00:45:34.000 I have a boy who's five.

00:45:36.000 I would never allow my kid within 30 feet of people like this. 1.00

00:45:39.000 You'd have to be out of your damn mind. 1.00

00:45:41.000 And these are people who are writing long pieces for the American Federation of Teachers. 0.99

00:45:46.000 The American Educator, Spring 2019, quote, If we help students see there aren't strict rules about what girls and boys can do or how girls and boys should be, then we help to blur those divisions between categories.

00:45:58.000 And here I'm saying, yes, that's a bad thing.

00:46:00.000 You don't want to blur the divisions between boys and girls because this creates gender confusion that is unmerited and unwarranted.

00:46:05.000 But they think that it's a good thing to blur the lines.

00:46:08.000 This blurring can help students learn to respect people who live those categories differently.

00:46:13.000 When people disrupt any of the matrix categories through their gender identity, through their gender expression, or with whom and how they might fall in love, they are queering, disrupting, and expanding the heterosexual matrix to make more kinds of lives and loves visible.

00:46:26.000 Teaching in this way, a method that we call questioning categories, means helping your students investigate how both people in the real world and characters in books disrupt the heterosexual matrix and to what effect.

00:46:35.000 We believe such questioning helps students become more aware of and more sensitive to the multiple ways of doing gender or being in relationships.

00:46:43.000 Don't worry, it has nothing to do with sex.

00:46:44.000 It has nothing to do with sexual confusion or gender confusion.

00:46:47.000 It's just good for your kids.

00:46:49.000 It's just good. 1.00

00:46:50.000 And if you notice that they are teaching bullcrap gender theory that was brought about by a bunch of morons in the 1960s pretending at being intelligent. 0.87

00:46:59.000 Commentators, if you point out that there is no scientific basis for what they are talking about right here, and that it has nothing to do with the overall health of school children, what it has to do instead is promoting a broader social agenda on the back of a very small group of people who have some problems that cannot be solved by shaping the entire society around those problems. 0.96

00:47:18.000 If you do that, then the society, if you notice, then they become very, very angry.

00:47:24.000 All of this is now more and more embedded in the life of our nation.

00:47:30.000 Yeah, apathetic people in the middle so far.

00:47:31.000 They sort of, okay, it doesn't bother me.

00:47:33.000 What's the big deal?

00:47:34.000 Okay, it is a big deal.

00:47:35.000 The NEA.

00:47:37.000 adopted a measure in 2019 saying that the NEA would create model legislative language that state affiliates can use to lobby for a K-12 cross-content curriculum that is LGBTQ-plus inclusive.

00:47:46.000 This is why when you see people, people I respect, who say that state legislation should not be involved in banning CRT or banning gender theory from K-12 classrooms, the left ain't shy about this.

00:47:56.000 They are attempting to cram this down on your kids because, after all, everything's an emergency.

00:48:01.000 And if everything's an emergency, then totalitarian power implemented at the expense of your children is totally justified.

00:48:08.000 That, indeed, is the goal.

00:48:10.000 All righty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

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00:48:14.000 Today, he discusses the crime spikes in San Francisco and Chicago.

00:48:17.000 You can hear more details about that over on Michael's show.

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How To Create An Emergency To Grab Power | Ep. 1291

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