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. Ben Shapiro explains why this is happening, and why it s a symptom of a deep-rooted desire by governments to seize power through emergency situations. Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. For peace of mind, whenever you go online, visit expressvpn.co/thebencast and use the promo code: "PODCAST" to get 3 months of ExpressVPN for FREE. That's ExpressVPN, you click one button, you download it, and you click another button to be ready to go. You're not going to want to miss this! Use my link at ExpressVPN to get three extra months for FREE, and get 3 extra months of 3-Plus for FREE! That s 3 more months for you get 3 years of Express VPN for free! Use the code: PODCAST at expressVPN.COM slash BenShapiro on the sign up form to receive 3 months free of charge. If you like what you hear on the show, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and tell a friend about the show and tell me what you think about it! You can also become a supporter of the show on Apple Podcasts! or wherever else you re listening to the show is available. It helps spread the word of The Ben Shapiro's work. Thank you Ben Shapiro. His new book "The Dark Knight" is out there! and much more! Subscribe to Ben Shapiro is a must-listen to his newest book, The Dark Knight: A Guide to all things Ben Shapiro on the Dark Knight is on the best! He's on all things Dark Knight. Click here to get exclusive ad-free, no matter where you get the most profound and the most influential guy in the best of all the good stuff on the place you listen to the most powerful guy on the podcast on the internet. Ben's newest book is out on the highest podcast on that's the best thing on the web is also on the most important thing he's listening to it. . Thanks for listening to Ben's podcast? You'll get a discount code: Ben Shapiro s latest book is also getting the most of it? and there's more than $5,000 gets 20% off the best deal in the world?
00:00:00.000Governor 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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00:01:30.000Alrighty, 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.
00:01:39.000We saw this most prominently with COVID.
00:01:41.000When 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.
00:01:54.000We 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.
00:02:03.000On 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.
00:02:12.000If you declare something an emergency, people are more likely to give you the means necessary in order to solve the emergency.
00:02:17.000And 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.
00:02:29.000And it's an emergency, that means it's time for Caesar to take control.
00:02:33.000Dictators 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.
00:02:45.000And 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.
00:02:53.000The latest indicator of this is Andrew Cuomo.
00:02:55.000This 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.
00:03:04.000Andrew Cuomo did a horrible job in New York, didn't matter.
00:03:06.000He was celebrated as the greatest politician in America, even though he is a nasty, cruel person, according to members of his own party.
00:03:16.000Who 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.
00:03:26.000All the while he was sexually harassing the staff.
00:03:28.000So really just a genius of leadership.
00:03:31.000Remember just a few months ago when Andrew Cuomo was supposedly on the outs?
00:03:34.000Remember there were all these women who came forward and suggested that he had sexually harassed and or assaulted them?
00:03:40.000Because 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.
00:03:46.000It's either die a hero, live long enough to become a villain, or live even longer and become a hero again.
00:03:50.000And this is what's happened with Ralph Northam in Virginia, who could be just as racist as he wanted 30 years ago.
00:03:56.000Everybody would call for him to leave.
00:03:57.000If you stick around long enough, Joe Biden will campaign with you.
00:03:59.000Andrew Cuomo can sexually harass the help as much as he wants and kill all the olds in New York.
00:04:03.000And eventually, if you just stick around long enough, everything will go away.
00:04:06.000Politicians who brazen it out are the ones who are doing the best in the modern era, for sure.
00:04:11.000But Andrew Cuomo, bottom line is, the dude fell in love with control.
00:04:15.000And this is not rare for politicians from New York.
00:04:17.000There 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.
00:04:26.000And again, when you declare an emergency, you get to grab control of the reins.
00:04:56.000But 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.
00:05:06.000The police were underfunded and they were told not to enforce the law.
00:05:10.000I received much mockery when I suggested that New York City mayoral candidates ought to be talking about banning crime.
00:05:16.000The reason I said that is because they literally are allowing crime to take place.
00:05:19.000They're just saying we're not even going to prosecute crime.
00:05:22.000In 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.
00:05:30.000Okay, so the reason we've seen this massive uptick in crime is because when you tolerate crime, you get more of this.
00:05:33.000This is a very robust social science finding.
00:05:35.000When you want crime to go away, you need more cops.
00:05:37.000But Democrats don't want to admit that the police are the good guys.
00:05:40.000They don't want to admit that the cops are overwhelmingly people who are standing between them and disorder.
00:05:46.000And so instead, they've come up with a new math.
00:05:48.000And 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.
00:06:13.000Yes, you might say that if you were an intelligent human, but if you're a Democrat.
00:06:16.000If you're a Democrat by the name of Andrew Cuomo, you do have an emergency, and the emergency is guns.
00:06:21.000And if you can declare a public health emergency on the basis of guns, then you can do whatever you want.
00:06:26.000In 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.
00:06:39.000Now, again, that's not a description of a thing, right?
00:06:44.000You can say there's a violence emergency and a crime emergency because those are activities in which people engage.
00:07:44.000But 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?
00:07:51.000In 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.
00:08:00.000And gun violence, which as it turns out, is not transmissible.
00:08:04.000There'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.
00:08:14.000But again, the point is that once you declare an emergency, you can do whatever you want.
00:08:17.000So we'll get to exactly what Andrew Cuomo is proposing in just one second.
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00:09:26.000OK, so the governor has now, because he declared an emergency, allocated $139 million to address shootings.
00:09:33.000And what exactly is he attempting to do?
00:09:34.000Well, he had some tweets about what exactly he was attempting to do to the governor.
00:09:38.000So he tweeted out, the gun industry is the only industry in America with immunity from civil lawsuits.
00:09:43.000It's an insult to victims of gun violence.
00:09:45.000Today, I'm signing legislation to reinstate public nuisance liability for gun manufacturers in New York state.
00:09:50.000And then he thanks a couple of Democrats.
00:09:51.000Okay, so let's start with what this means.
00:09:54.000Number one, this is legally nonsensical.
00:09:55.000The gun industry is not the only industry in America that is legally immune to liability.
00:10:00.000The 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.
00:10:12.000You can sue somebody because there was a manufacturing liability issue, right?
00:10:16.000You bought a crib and there's a manufacturing defect in the crib and God forbid your child gets hurt.
00:10:21.000You can sue the company based on the manufacturing defect.
00:10:39.000A gun that is properly designed is designed to shoot.
00:10:42.000If the gun blows up in your face, that's a product's liability suit.
00:10:46.000If the gun is so poorly designed that it damages somebody you're not shooting at, then that's a product's liability suit.
00:10:52.000But 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.
00:11:02.000Democrats 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.
00:11:09.000That is what he's talking about there.
00:11:10.000When he says that there should also be public nuisance liability, public nuisance is when a corporation pollutes a river.
00:11:18.000The corporation has downstream effects polluting the environment.
00:11:21.000It is not a public nuisance when you manufacture a product that somebody buys and the person misuses the product.
00:11:26.000Any 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.
00:12:34.000Those are the two things we have a public health emergency about in the United States.
00:12:38.000Interesting take, in that neither of those is a public health emergency.
00:12:41.000What exactly are these strategies that Andrew Cuomo is pushing?
00:12:44.000He wants to deploy a public health approach to gun violence.
00:12:46.000What, is he going to lock you in your home and force you to wear a mask or what?
00:12:49.000Target hotspots using science and data.
00:12:52.000Oh, you mean doing the things that police used to be allowed to do, but now are no longer allowed to do?
00:12:56.000Because if you target gun violence hotspots, disproportionately this will affect minority communities because that's where much of the gun violence is taking place.
00:13:02.000Like, it's fun when he says things like, we're going to target hotspots using science and data.
00:13:06.000Literally, that was CompStat introduced by William Bratton in the 1990s.
00:13:09.000And 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.
00:13:18.000Positive engagement for at-risk youth.
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00:15:21.000As I've said, the declaration by the left that gun violence is an emergency and therefore, the governor can literally just invoke emergency powers.
00:15:36.000We actually just take control and we solve the problem because the problem is an emergency.
00:15:42.000And 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.
00:15:58.000The left's argument is that America is in the crisis of race and a crisis of racial division.
00:16:07.000Now normally, when there is a reckoning, what that means is that the people who are guilty pay, right?
00:16:11.000When there's a reckoning, it means that somebody is guilty and that person pays, that person has had a reckoning.
00:16:15.000In 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.
00:16:24.000That's effectively the argument that is made by the left these days.
00:16:28.000And 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.
00:16:41.000It's like World War II, but with race.
00:16:44.000World 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.
00:16:50.000World War II, we had to regiment the population to act in particular ways and make particular sacrifices.
00:16:55.000We had to, hell, draft every eligible man over the age of 18 in order to fight in a war.
00:17:58.000The more they don't go away, the more the war is endless, the more control you need.
00:18:03.000During the Vietnam War, Lyndon Baines Johnson engaged in a military strategy, egged on by his idiot Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, of graduated escalation.
00:18:11.000Graduated 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.
00:18:28.000But the notion of graduated escalation is exactly how the left treats government involvement in these wars.
00:18:34.000We will gradually escalate the amount of government control.
00:18:36.000And the goal there is precisely the opposite of what graduated escalation was supposed to accomplish in Vietnam, namely the end of the war.
00:18:42.000Here, 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.
00:19:08.000And when this is challenged, people go nuts.
00:19:11.000When this is challenged, people go crazy.
00:19:12.000And that's the current debate that you're seeing over critical race theory, for example, or teaching in the schools.
00:19:16.000The 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.
00:19:27.000And now when it's challenged, they're very angry that you've noticed.
00:19:30.000They're very angry that you've seen it.
00:19:33.000And so they are fighting back in major ways or declaring that this stuff is just not a big deal.
00:19:47.000It 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.
00:19:55.000And how these institutions need to be renormalized.
00:19:57.000All 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.
00:20:04.000But it needs to happen because the reality is the left continues to declare these emergencies.
00:20:09.000These emergencies are necessary in order for them to once again centralize all power in themselves.
00:20:15.000And it's happening in the institutions you'd least expect.
00:20:19.000It's amazing to see the left defend the military only and only, really only, when the military is indoctrinating its soldiers in wokeism.
00:20:28.000When the military is doing its actual job, namely breaking things and protecting people.
00:20:34.000When the military does its job abroad, then the military is bad and brutal and vicious and imperialist and colonialist.
00:20:38.000When 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.
00:20:49.000That's when the military is at its best.
00:20:54.000Which 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.
00:21:07.000According 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.
00:21:17.000Now, this is the thing to understand about critical race theory.
00:21:19.000Critical race theory is not just one of many theories.
00:21:22.000Critical race theory has a praxis component.
00:21:45.000And it suggests that you are complicit in the systems of power unless you engage in precisely that activism.
00:21:51.000So when people say, well, why shouldn't we teach critical race theory?
00:21:54.000Because you can't teach critical race theory, unless you're doing so critically, which they don't want you to do.
00:21:59.000You 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.
00:22:09.000It's like teaching Marxist activism in class.
00:22:11.000Not Marxism as a theory, Marxist activism in class.
00:22:14.000That's what critical race theory is with regard to race.
00:22:17.000Political scientist Lynn Chandler Garcia said the Constitution brought about inequality and that George Washington was a racist.
00:22:23.000She argued the history of the United States proved that racism has shaped both foreign and domestic policy.
00:22:28.000Garcia teaches the Marxist theory at the U.S.
00:22:31.000Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
00:22:32.000She said she agreed with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley, who recently told Congress critical race theory is not unpatriotic.
00:22:42.000It overtly argues capitalism has to be dismantled.
00:22:45.000Individual rights have to be dismantled.
00:22:47.000Because those are just mere facades for hierarchies of power.
00:22:51.000Hey, so now this stuff is being taught to our cadets.
00:22:53.000Garcia 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.
00:23:01.000In my classes, cadets learn about the ideals embedded in this founding document.
00:23:05.000We 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.
00:23:18.000Yes, 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.
00:23:31.000Vile and disgusting, but again, when you're fighting the emergency of racism, everything is on the table, guys.
00:23:36.000Racism 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?
00:23:52.000Any 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.
00:24:05.000The 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.
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00:25:54.000Every aspect of American society must be drafted into this war on racism.
00:25:59.000Even though, again, racism is at the lowest ebb it has ever been in human history.
00:26:03.000It is a war that is taking over the streets of the United States.
00:26:08.000So, 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.
00:26:18.000Raytheon forced its employees to, or encouraged its white employees to confront their privilege, reject the principle of equality, and defund the police.
00:26:31.000They've launched their own critical race theory program in coordination with Blue Ocean Brain.
00:26:36.000Here's a little bit of their guide, and it's worth going through a little bit in detail here.
00:26:41.000Stronger Together is what the guide is titled.
00:26:44.000Commitment to diversity and inclusion takes all of us, they say.
00:26:47.000CEO 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.
00:26:58.000You see, these CEOs, they have to maintain control over you because they are the greatest.
00:27:02.000Just 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.
00:27:12.000Take the I Act On pledge they encourage their employees at Raytheon.
00:27:15.000We all contribute to our company culture.
00:27:18.000Make a commitment to foster an inclusive workplace through your behavior by signing the I Act On pledge.
00:27:23.000I pledge to check my bias, speak up for others, and show up for all.
00:27:26.000I will check my own biases and take meaningful action to understand and mitigate them.
00:27:30.000I will initiate meaningful, complex, sometimes difficult conversations with my friends and colleagues.
00:27:34.000I will ask myself, do my actions and words reflect the value of inclusion?
00:28:00.000A collection of unearned advantages, both visible and invisible, based on a person's social identity or group membership.
00:28:07.000Now, one of the things here that's really interesting is they say a collection of unearned, and the un is in parentheses.
00:28:11.000So, if there's a collection of earned advantages, that's not privilege anymore, right?
00:28:14.000Privilege is where you didn't earn it.
00:28:16.000But they say that even if you earned it, maybe you didn't earn it.
00:28:18.000Privilege is relational and situational.
00:28:20.000While everyone has some degree of privilege, the corresponding advantages a person receives are based on where they are and who they are with.
00:28:26.000You see, it depends on your societal status.
00:28:28.000If you're a white man, you have had all the privileges.
00:28:31.000If you are, in fact, an Asian man who earns more than the white man, apparently not.
00:28:36.000Well, you use your everyday privilege.
00:28:38.000Privilege, says this program over again at Raytheon, a defense contractor.
00:28:42.000Privilege is often ignorable unless you don't have it.
00:28:45.000As 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.
00:28:55.000This is called ordinary privilege because these identities and traits easily blend in with the people and norms around us.
00:29:55.000Be sure to amplify others instead of attempting to speak for them.
00:29:58.000Yes, you have to be quiet, says the Raytheon program.
00:30:02.000Straightness is a powerful example of privilege.
00:30:04.000If 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.
00:30:11.000Actually, as it turns out in a free society, you can pretty much go all the time.
00:30:15.000Without considering how your sexual orientation affects your place in the world because no one cares!
00:30:52.000Pro-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.
00:31:02.000Give them the floor in meetings or on calls, even if it means silencing yourself to do so.
00:31:06.000You learn more when you listen than when you speak anyway.
00:31:09.000Unless, 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.
00:31:19.000And 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.
00:31:27.000Again, this is being taught to our defense contractors.
00:31:30.000What not to say to your black colleagues right now.
00:31:32.000I'm scared to say the wrong thing to you.
00:31:56.000You're supposed to talk about what a victim the other person is.
00:32:00.000You're supposed to say things like, I'm taking steps to become a better ally.
00:32:03.000I'm shutting down racist comments on my team.
00:32:05.000I'm supporting the fight against racism by calling my representatives, backing black businesses and or XYZ, right?
00:32:10.000This is where you move from the theory to the praxis component.
00:32:13.000Do all the things we want you to do, or you are a racist.
00:32:16.000Do all the things we want you to do, or you are complicit in the systemic injustices of American life.
00:32:20.000Also, you're supposed to say things like, I realize my discomfort is a fraction of what you are feeling.
00:32:25.000According to one of the teachers, black people are, quote, exhausted, mentally drained, frustrated, stressed, barely sleeping, scared, and overwhelmed.
00:32:32.000Feelings which demand empathy and action.
00:32:35.000Like every single black person is exhausted, mentally drained, frustrated, stressed, barely sleeping?
00:32:39.000Oh, 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.
00:32:51.000Instead, what we have to do is we have to build ramps and give people affirmative boxes in order so that everybody can get ahead.
00:32:58.000See, 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.
00:33:14.000The equality slide, they say equality is bad.
00:33:16.000Because 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?
00:33:23.000Some of us are created smarter, some dumber, some taller, some shorter, etc.
00:33:26.000So it shows a slide of three people behind a fence trying to watch a game, apparently illegally, because they should be buying tickets.
00:33:32.000And 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.
00:33:41.000So the short person can barely see, and the person in the wheelchair can't see at all.
00:33:44.000Equity 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.
00:33:56.000When it comes to the equity the left is pushing, it is a zero-sum game.
00:33:59.000It is not a system where everybody gets more out of it and no one loses.
00:34:03.000It is not Pareto optimal in the economic terminology.
00:34:06.000Instead, 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.
00:34:24.000See, equity is a bloody business, gang.
00:34:26.000When 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.
00:34:42.000You are doomed to do violence to the people who are supposedly privileged in your society.
00:34:48.000If you catch any of this, then people get very angry.
00:34:52.000If 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.
00:35:03.000Which 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.
00:35:16.000Eddie Glaude speaking with Chris Ruffo, and Ruffo is detailing how critical race theory is, in fact, racist.
00:35:21.000And Glaude just starts rolling his eyes, because, of course, you're not supposed to catch on to what all of this is.
00:35:26.000Here is Eddie Glaude versus Chris Ruffo on MSNBC.
00:35:30.000It's not accurate to say that I'm not concerned about the substance.
00:35:32.000I've written policy papers, white papers.
00:35:35.000I'm deeply concerned about the substance.
00:35:37.000But 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.
00:35:54.000Okay, Glaude is rolling his eyes at that, but Rufo is correct.
00:36:06.000There 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.
00:36:17.000Okay, but again, the eye-rolling from the media is not a true eye-roll because they know it's true.
00:36:21.000It's just they object to you noticing this.
00:36:24.000They don't like that you're noticing this.
00:36:26.000And by the way, it's the biggest teachers' unions in the country.
00:36:28.000The American Federation of Teachers, Randy Weingarten, one of the worst people in the country.
00:36:31.000I mean, just truly a bad person with regard to shutting down schools, with regard to disadvantaging children.
00:36:37.000The AFT's Randy Weingarten says, if people break the law, states are now passing laws to ban critical race theory, as they should.
00:36:43.000Because again, it is a practical, it is not a theory.
00:36:56.000Mark my words, our union will defend any member who gets in trouble for teaching honest history.
00:37:06.000We have a legal defense fund ready to go, and we are preparing for litigation as we speak.
00:37:13.000Well, 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.
00:37:20.000Again, there is an indoctrination movement on the left that has moved throughout our schools.
00:37:27.000And by the way, it does not just apply with regard to race.
00:37:29.000It also obviously applies with regard to sexual identity.
00:37:32.000We'll get to that in just one moment because every form of radicalism has set its roots deep into the bedrock of the fundamental institutions of American life.
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00:39:54.000It's not merely that our schools have been taken over by a critical race theory.
00:40:02.000They've also been taken over by gender theory, because gender theory is an aspect of critical theory more broadly.
00:40:07.000Critical theory is the idea that it comes out of deconstructionism in the 1960s, particularly Foucault.
00:40:12.000The basic idea is that all institutions, all language is the language of power.
00:40:16.000Gender 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.
00:40:30.000Gender theory suggests more broadly that all motions of male and female are in and of themselves a social construct, completely dispensable.
00:40:38.000And not only dispensable, they must be torn down.
00:40:40.000Very 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.
00:40:51.000We need to allow people the freedom to self-identify from the time they are in kindergarten.
00:40:55.000And 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.
00:41:08.000And this sort of stuff is being taught in our schools as well.
00:41:12.000The 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.
00:41:25.000And a lot of this is now being legislated into law.
00:41:27.000For 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.
00:41:38.000In 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.
00:41:48.000It requires school districts to provide students with integrated, comprehensive, accurate, and unbiased sexual health and HIV prevention education.
00:41:55.000It must be taught in grades 7 through 12, at least once in middle school and once in high school.
00:41:59.000It can also be taught in any grade, K through 6 inclusive.
00:42:02.000But it is not restricted just to sexual health and HIV prevention, of course.
00:42:12.000It is an attempt to cram down particularly socially leftist values on kids.
00:42:16.000All 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.
00:42:21.000Teaching 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.
00:42:33.000None of that is going to have any deleterious effect on children or future generations.
00:42:38.000None of this has to do with raising a healthier crop of small children, by the way.
00:42:42.000As a father of small children, I guarantee you that.
00:42:44.000What 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.
00:42:54.000It'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.
00:43:03.000According to the ACLU, here is what sexual health and HIV prevention instruction in grades K-6 must include the following.
00:43:12.000They must affirmatively recognize different sexual orientations in kindergarten and be inclusive of same-sex relationships in discussions and examples.
00:43:22.000K-6, you must teach about gender, gender expression, gender identity, and the harm of negative gender stereotypes.
00:43:29.000You have to teach, presumably, gender fluidity.
00:43:31.000They 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.
00:43:41.000Additional content that may be taught in K-6 include things, can be taught, right?
00:43:54.000Also, 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.
00:44:06.000Okay, this is not an outlying theory that is pushed by the left.
00:44:09.000It is recommended by people writing for the American Federation of Teachers.
00:44:13.000In 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.
00:44:20.000There's an article by Jill Herman Wilmarth and Caitlin Ryan talking, it's called, Reading and Teaching the Rainbow.
00:44:27.000And the affirmative case that it makes is that you should use elementary school classrooms as indoctrination centers for LGBTQ plus agenda items.
00:44:37.000They say people are sometimes shocked by the notion that teachers should address lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer topics in elementary schools.
00:44:43.000Maybe they think children those ages are too young, that those conversations are better had at home, or that the whole topic is simply inappropriate.
00:44:52.000Instead, we simply want them to talk about the diversity of families and relationships and communities in ways that include LGBTQ plus people.
00:45:00.000After all, public schools are for everyone.
00:45:02.000Except if you're religious or you hold traditional values or believe in natural law, then they're not for you.
00:45:09.000If 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.
00:45:19.000If 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.
00:45:24.000I don't think that this is what the left actually believes, by the way.
00:45:36.000I would never allow my kid within 30 feet of people like this.
00:45:39.000You'd have to be out of your damn mind.
00:45:41.000And these are people who are writing long pieces for the American Federation of Teachers.
00:45:46.000The 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.
00:45:58.000And here I'm saying, yes, that's a bad thing.
00:46:00.000You don't want to blur the divisions between boys and girls because this creates gender confusion that is unmerited and unwarranted.
00:46:05.000But they think that it's a good thing to blur the lines.
00:46:08.000This blurring can help students learn to respect people who live those categories differently.
00:46:13.000When 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.
00:46:26.000Teaching 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.
00:46:35.000We believe such questioning helps students become more aware of and more sensitive to the multiple ways of doing gender or being in relationships.
00:46:43.000Don't worry, it has nothing to do with sex.
00:46:44.000It has nothing to do with sexual confusion or gender confusion.
00:46:50.000And 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.
00:46:59.000Commentators, 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.
00:47:18.000If you do that, then the society, if you notice, then they become very, very angry.
00:47:24.000All of this is now more and more embedded in the life of our nation.
00:47:30.000Yeah, apathetic people in the middle so far.
00:47:31.000They sort of, okay, it doesn't bother me.
00:47:37.000adopted 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.
00:47:46.000This 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.
00:47:56.000They are attempting to cram this down on your kids because, after all, everything's an emergency.
00:48:01.000And if everything's an emergency, then totalitarian power implemented at the expense of your children is totally justified.