As our institutions of power move ever more toward Critical Race Theory, Americans are fighting back and winning. Ben Shapiro explains how CRT has infiltrated our institutions for decades, and how the media have been slow to confront it. He explains why CRT is a symptom of racism, and why the media are powerless to stop it from spreading like manure through the halls of government, academia, and corporate America. And he explains why it s time to stand up to Big Tech, protect your data, and fight back against Big Racist America. Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on Fox News Radio and host of the conservative radio show The Weekly Standard. He is a regular contributor to The Daily Caller and the Daily Caller, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, The Huffington Post, and The Daily Wire. His work has been featured on CNN, NPR, CBS, and other media outlets, and he is the author of several books, including the best-selling book, CRT: and . CRT Theory is a new term for the ideology that has taken over our major institutions and is spreading like wildfire across the political and corporate media, and academia. It s become so prevalent that it has become so common, it has been given its own name in the mainstream media coverage and has been adopted by the mainstream press, and promoted by the right wing of the American public, that it is practically everywhere. . . . What's the problem with CRT theory? How the system is rigged against you? What are you need to do in order to be fair and fair in the 21st century society? Why is CRT good and fair? How do you know you can be fair, not fair and just fair enough? ? Why do you have to do the work in the first place? And why does it matter if you don t have enough money to do what you deserve? Can you have it all, or don t you have enough, or do you need it enough, and you don't need to have it? You need to be good enough, not enough, but you need enough, right enough, enough, good enough and enough enough, then you can t have it, right now, and enough, so you can begin to begin to get it, you can start to change it, can you begin to change, right? - Ben Shapiro
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00:01:40.000Alrighty, so you may have noticed that critical race theory has become the topic of the day.
00:01:46.000And the media are fighting mad about it.
00:01:50.000As we'll discuss, critical race theory has been infiltrating our institutions for literally decades.
00:01:55.000And it is the ideology that has taken over most of our major institutions.
00:01:59.000This is why we saw the specter last week of an admiral in the United States Navy explaining why he had recommended that sailors be reading Ibram X. Kendi, who's one of the great race grifters and racists of our time.
00:02:11.000It's the reason why there are corporations all over America training their workers that if they are white, they suffer from inevitable whiteness.
00:02:19.000And this inevitable whiteness is, in fact, a symptom of discrimination since they have to do the work, do the work in order to be properly woke and in order to properly address their own flaws, these inherent flaws in them.
00:02:33.000Not that they've done anything bad in their life, but because of their whiteness, they are bad.
00:02:37.000This is why you see corporations giving money to things like Ibram X. Kendi Center.
00:02:40.000This is why you see Jack Dorsey of Twitter giving $10 million to Ibram X. Kendi Center for anti-racist research, which to date has produced no actual research.
00:02:48.000It's the reason why you see the media consistently using the language of CRT.
00:02:53.000Always using the language of equity rather than the language of equality.
00:02:56.000The language of equality is in the Declaration of Independence.
00:02:59.000The language of equity is not because equity is a mush term that in modern parlance has come to mean equal outcome rather than actual fairness.
00:03:08.000Fairness, typically speaking, if you go back to the ancients, the idea is fairness is you get what you deserve, right?
00:03:13.000Your action results in particular results, and this would be equity.
00:03:17.000That is not what the modern definition of equity means.
00:03:19.000The modern definition of equity means that no matter what your action, the outcome should always be the same.
00:03:24.000Because after all, the system is rigged against you, and failure is just a symptom that the system is rigged against you.
00:03:31.000The basic tenets of critical race theory have in fact been watered down and then spread like manure all the way through most of our major institutions from corporate America to the media to academia where it began and certainly into the halls of government.
00:03:45.000And what you see from the media is an unwillingness to confront this or a willingness to champion it.
00:03:50.000The media's reaction on this has been utterly irresponsible because of course they are proponents of CRT.
00:03:57.000It started off as a legal theory, sort of like intersectionality started off as a legal theory, and then it became an actual activist point.
00:04:03.000This happens in politics all the time, by the way.
00:04:06.000There are kind of highfalutin theories, and then they are kind of dehydrated, and dehydrated more, and dehydrated more, to the point where they become a pill, and then all you do is you take the pill, and now you have become sort of an advocate for that ideology.
00:04:19.000And the game that people like to play is that after people take that pill and you get the inevitable results of that pill, then they say, well, you know, that really has nothing to do with the original ideology, right?
00:04:29.000The reality is that CRT was corrupt and wrong in its first instance, And that the logical progression of CRT, what we are seeing now, is in fact connected to critical race theory.
00:04:41.000So I'm going to start today by going through what exactly critical race theory is, in the words of some of the creators of critical race theory.
00:04:48.000And then we're going to show you how the media boiled this down and how terrible it is for America, because they are actively spreading this stuff.
00:04:55.000And the reason that I'm bringing this up is because yesterday I was browsing in advance of the show, And I noticed that the front page of the Washington Post, like the front page of the Washington Post, had this video on it.
00:05:09.000And the title on the video, it's from some news show they call The Lily, is what is white racial identity and why is it important?
00:05:17.000And the first thing that occurred to me when I saw this, by the way, is that video that was put out by the comedian.
00:05:29.000That video in which it showed a woke person and a racist person and it turns out they agreed on everything.
00:05:33.000Okay, because how else do you get a headline from the Washington Post that says, what is white racial identity and why is it important?
00:05:40.000It's at the very top of the Washington Post page and it's connected to a five minute video about basically why you are, if you are white, you are inevitably guilty and you are responsible for evil systems that are promulgated throughout American life and that result in inequity.
00:05:59.000So we're going to start before we get to the video with an explanation of what CRT is, and then you'll see how it has been basically rebranded, repackaged, gussied up, and then just shoved in your face via places like the Washington Post.
00:06:13.000So, here are the basic tenets of critical race theory.
00:06:16.000Richard Delgado and Gene Stefanchik were two of the founders of critical race theory in the late 1970s.
00:06:21.000So, what I'm about to quote is from their book, Critical Race Theory, An Introduction.
00:06:24.000And the reason I'm doing this is because one of the games that the media love to play is when you say critical race theory, they will say, what do you even mean by critical race theory?
00:06:31.000What I mean is exactly what the founders of critical race theory are saying.
00:07:18.000Even the founders of that movement understand that it is a movement.
00:07:22.000Like most things in life, it started as an academic theory, and then eventually turned into a political activist movement.
00:07:28.000And Marxism originally started as an academic theory and then it turned into a politically activist movement that resulted in the slaughter of, you know, a hundred million people.
00:07:34.000Okay, so it turns out a lot of ideological movements eventually turn out to be practical political movements.
00:07:41.000Although critical race theory began as a movement in the law, it has rapidly spread beyond that discipline.
00:07:45.000Today, many in the field of education consider themselves critical race theorists who use CRT's ideas to understand issues of school discipline and hierarchy, tracking controversies over curriculum and history.
00:07:56.000and IQ and achievement testing. Political scientists ponder voting strategies coined by critical race theorists. Ethnic studies courses often include a unit on critical race theory, and American studies departments teach material on critical white studies developed by CRT writers.
00:08:09.000Unlike some academic disciplines, critical race theory contains an activist dimension.
00:08:13.000Again, this is the founders admitting this is an activist ideology.
00:08:17.000It not only tries to understand our social situation, but to change it.
00:08:21.000It sets out not only to ascertain how society organizes itself along racial lines and hierarchies, but to transform it for the better.
00:08:43.000It's not a figment of our imagination.
00:08:45.000The people who founded it brag openly about how this ideology has spread throughout our institutions.
00:08:50.000Everything from testing philosophy with regard to educational movements To how people vote, right?
00:08:56.000All of that has been bled in with regard to CRT.
00:09:00.000So what are the principles of critical race theory?
00:09:03.000So there are essentially four laid out by Delgado and Stefanczyk in this particular book.
00:09:07.000There are two that pretty much everybody agrees on and there are two that are kind of argued about because they're in direct conflict with one another.
00:09:12.000It's the first two that everybody agrees about are, quote, first, that racism is ordinary, not aberrational.
00:09:19.000Normal science, the usual way society does business, the common everyday experience of most people of color in this country.
00:09:25.000Right, so that means that you are racist even if you don't know you're racist because the systems are racist and you are shaped by the systems.
00:09:39.000Racism is just the water in which we swim.
00:09:42.000Racism is the air that we breathe, everything that surrounds us, the miasmatic substances that surround us, and in which we live our lives.
00:10:47.000It means that racism is difficult to cure or address.
00:10:49.000Colorblind or formal conceptions of equality expressed in rules that insist only on treatment that is the same across the board can thus remedy only the most blatant forms of discrimination such as mortgage redlining or the refusal to hire a black PhD rather than a white high school dropout that do stand out and attract our attention.
00:11:05.000And so here is where we immediately start sliding into, if there is no equal outcome, then some sort of deep inequity has been done.
00:11:12.000They're saying that if you fight racism by pointing out that a black PhD should get the math job over the white high school dropout, that's not actually fighting racism, it doesn't do any good.
00:11:20.000Because racism is hard to fight and that would be easy.
00:11:24.000It's one of the games that the CRT advocates like to play, is refusal to define terms.
00:11:29.000The vaguer they are, the more they can claim that you are failing to achieve their purposes.
00:11:34.000See, when you give people the idea that they get to go ghost hunting, that basically the way you fight racism is not to fight actual on-the-ground racism, it's to actually ghost hunt.
00:11:42.000And no matter what they do, you can say they've not achieved it.
00:11:45.000No matter what racism they have fought, no matter what racism they oppose, you can say, well, it doesn't matter.
00:11:49.000Because you see, it's very difficult to fight racism.
00:11:52.000And you haven't internalized that battle yet.
00:11:54.000Okay, this is why critical race theory, in essence, is just a cult.
00:11:59.000You are supposed to follow whatever the cult leaders tell you.
00:12:01.000And if you don't follow what the cult leaders tell you, they will tell you that you have not been sufficiently loyal to the cause of anti-racism.
00:12:09.000We're going to get to more from the authors of Critical Race Theory, and I'm quoting the people who write this stuff.
00:12:15.000And the reason I'm doing this, again, is because the media lie, and they say that if you are critical of Critical Race Theory, it's because you haven't done the reading.
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00:13:50.000Richard Delgado and Gene Stefanchik continue in Critical Race Theory and Introduction.
00:13:54.000So we've already established a few key principles here, okay?
00:13:56.000One, racism is ordinary, not aberrational.
00:13:58.000Two, White overcolor ascendancy serves important purposes.
00:14:02.000Okay, what they say here is that this second principle, white overcolor ascendancy serves important purposes, this actually is deeply tied into policy.
00:14:12.000They say, this second feature, sometimes called interest convergence or material determinism, adds a further dimension.
00:14:18.000Because racism advances the interests of both white elites materially and working class people psychically, large segments of society have little incentive to eradicate it.
00:14:28.000Okay, so the idea here is that racism, again, is all around you, and it serves you.
00:14:32.000You may think that you're against racism.
00:14:41.000Therefore, you are racist in upholding the system.
00:14:44.000If you are a poor white person, you are still privileged by the system because you psychically get to look at all these people of color and say, those people of color are less than I am, and therefore, I have more common cause with the white elite than I do with the people who are of my own class.
00:14:57.000You may notice the Marxist tinge here, right?
00:14:58.000Because now we're talking about class differentiation and why really people should have class solidarity rather than racial solidarity.
00:15:04.000You can see that the Marxist dimension has started to slip in here because as we'll explain in just a second, critical race theory isn't a neo-Marxist movement.
00:15:11.000It is an offshoot of critical theory, which is in and of itself a Marxist movement.
00:15:17.000Okay, so Derrick Bell, who's again a major critical race theorist, we'll get to more on him in a second, he had a shocking proposal that Brown versus Board of Education, for example, right?
00:15:25.000That is one of the great anti-racist moments in American history of an actual Supreme Court decision saying that under the Constitution of the United States, it is illegal for blacks and whites to be forced into separate schools.
00:15:37.000Derrick Bell says that this just promulgated more racism.
00:15:42.000He says that the Brown vs. Board of Education considered a great triumph of civil rights litigation may have resulted more from the self-interest of elite whites than a desire to help blacks.
00:15:50.000Okay, so these are the first two themes.
00:15:52.000And these are the ones that everybody kind of agrees on.
00:15:54.000One is that racism is ordinary, not aberrational.
00:15:56.000And the second is that that ordinariness serves important psychic and material purposes for white people, right?
00:16:01.000Your whiteness makes you enjoy the racism of the system.
00:16:04.000Okay, then we get to two principles of CRT that are sort of in conflict with one another.
00:16:09.000And when I say sort of, I mean almost directly in opposition to one another.
00:16:13.000According to Delgado and Stefanczyk, a third theme of critical race theory, the social construction thesis, holds that race and races are products of social thought and relations, not objective, inherent, or fixed.
00:16:23.000They correspond to no biological or genetic reality.
00:16:26.000Rather, races are categories that society invents, manipulates, or retires when convenient.
00:16:31.000Okay, so then you might say, okay, well, that sounds more like, you know, the Martin Luther King thing.
00:16:36.000Okay, so if race is a social construction, then we really should attempt to see beyond race.
00:16:40.000We should see individuals as individuals.
00:16:42.000Okay, but no, this is not what critical race theorists argue.
00:16:45.000Instead, they argue the systems of power are racist, and they have made up race as a social construct in order to damn other people.
00:16:53.000But the way that you get beyond that is not by seeing beyond race.
00:16:55.000The way that you get beyond that is by embracing race.
00:16:58.000Which brings us to the fourth thesis, which is in direct conflict with the third thesis.
00:17:02.000The fourth thesis is the notion of a unique voice of color.
00:17:06.000Coexisting in somewhat uneasy tension with anti-essentialism, the Voice of Color thesis holds that because of their different histories and experiences with oppression, Black, Indian, Asian, and Latino writers and thinkers may be able to communicate to their white counterparts matters that the whites are unlikely to know.
00:17:21.000Minority status, in other words, brings with it a presumed competence to speak about race and racism.
00:17:25.000The legal storytelling movement urges black and brown writers to recount their experiences with racism in the legal system and to apply their own unique perspectives to assess law as master narratives.
00:17:34.000This is where you get into the superiority of the perspective of people of color.
00:17:39.000White people can't talk about this stuff.
00:17:42.000They're presumed incompetent to talk about this stuff.
00:17:43.000Now, you may say, wait a second, I thought that race was a social construct.
00:17:54.000If you are white, you suffer from whiteness.
00:17:55.000If you're a person of color, you have a presumed superiority to speak about racism, and we must listen to your perspectives on the system.
00:18:03.000Now, all of this is the outgrowth of critical theory.
00:18:05.000Critical theory is a branch of thought that began in the early 20th century with something called the Frankfurt School.
00:18:09.000The Frankfurt School posited, basically, that systems of power and hierarchy throughout the world were, in fact, covers for discrimination and cruelty.
00:18:18.000And thus, we had to be super critical about all of those systems of power.
00:18:22.000It was a Marxist theory that basically said that everything bad in Nazi Germany was a product of capitalism, everything America... The Frankfurt Theorists actually openly said that America in the 1950s was proto-fascist, that it was going to lead to Nazi Germany, which is of course insane.
00:18:36.000They were Marxists, of course they believed that.
00:18:38.000Critical theory is a sort of neo-Marxist movement in which power defines everything.
00:18:44.000As you can see, the only difference between critical theory and critical race theory, you can see the similarity in the names, is the word race.
00:18:51.000Instead of saying that all the systems of power are created in order to help the upper class, which is sort of what critical theory posits, critical race theory posits that all of the systems of power were created in order to help people of specific races.
00:19:04.000Hey, which is why there is pretty heavy crossover.
00:19:06.000So Derek Bell, who I mentioned earlier, again, one of the founders of critical race theory, and a man who Barack Obama famously hugged in the 1980s as he was trying to preserve his tenure at Harvard Law School, despite having done very little academic work.
00:19:18.000Derek Bell wrote the whole liberal worldview of private rights and public sovereignty mediated by the rule of law needed to be exploded.
00:19:26.000A worldview premised upon the public and private spheres is an attractive mirage that masks the reality of economic and political power.
00:19:32.000So what is the end goal of critical race theory, according to people like Derrick Bell?
00:19:51.000The idea of liberal worldviews in which you have the right to freedom of speech or the right to own your own property.
00:19:58.000All of these things lead to discrimination and not only lead to them, spring from a desire to uphold discrimination.
00:20:05.000This is the fundamental political theory of critical race theory.
00:20:08.000Okay, so all of this is the lead-up to how the media present this stuff.
00:20:13.000Okay, so the way that the media present this stuff is as a way to fight racism.
00:20:18.000So they discovered that using the term critical race theory is actually not particularly helpful because people look at it and they go, wait, this sounds like super stupid and racist.
00:20:24.000This sounds like you want to tear down the most successful systems that have ever been created for creating the possibility of prosperity, wealth, equality, Right?
00:20:37.000So instead, they came up with this new rubric, and the new rubric is, this is anti-racism.
00:20:42.000So what they do is they take Critical Race Theory's idea of race, which is that it is implicit in everything, and then they say, in order to be anti-racist, you have to tear down the systems.
00:20:50.000So they've shifted the definition of racism from stuff that we all understood to be racism, namely, a belief in the superiority or inferiority of an individual based on their racial characteristics.
00:21:01.000And they said, no, that's not what real racism is.
00:21:03.000Real racism is believing in the system.
00:21:06.000So anti-racism would be destroying the system.
00:21:09.000So under that rubric of quote-unquote anti-racism, they've started to infiltrate all of the major institutions.
00:21:14.000The word racism is such a powerful word in American public life because of the true and vicious history of racism in the United States.
00:21:22.000And if you can hijack that word, if you can morph that word into a code word for the system and tearing down the system, if you can do all of that, you've achieved unbelievable things on behalf of the left that wishes to destroy all of those systems in the name of some sort of greater equity.
00:21:36.000And this is exactly what the Washington Post proposes to do.
00:21:39.000Now, to normal people who watch this stuff, it looks like gobbledygook.
00:21:42.000You watch this and you're like, I don't understand what in the F you are talking about.
00:21:45.000When we watch this Washington Post video together, which again is about five minutes long, when we watch that together and listen to it, you will see it makes no sense.
00:22:05.000The whole purpose is, in order for you to be a member of the elect, a member of the political and intellectual elite, you have to buy into a system.
00:22:15.000It is all about social virtue signaling.
00:22:17.000You wonder what people are learning in colleges these days?
00:22:19.000They're not learning about American history, for sure.
00:22:21.000Instead, what they are learning is how to speak this language because this is the key into the elite in modern American society.
00:22:28.000It's the key to institutional power in American society.
00:22:33.000In just one second, we're going to go through this video because it really is indicative of where we are in the debate and why there is blowback right now.
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00:23:45.000Okay, finally, this brings us to the Washington Post's Understanding Your Whiteness video.
00:23:51.000It is all about understanding your whiteness.
00:23:53.000And truly, this is racist crap because, as you may have noticed, the notion of racial essentialism, that your racial characteristics define you and define your perspective, is racism.
00:24:02.000The notion that we ought to treat you as superior or inferior in your outlook on the world based on your race is, in fact, the classical definition of racism.
00:24:11.000But it's now anti-racism because it's directed against destroying the quote-unquote racist systems.
00:24:15.000Okay, so this comes out as a weird bunch of gobbledygook nonsense.
00:24:18.000I'm gonna try and translate it for you here.
00:24:19.000Here's the Washington Post lead story yesterday, again, from Washington Post's The Lily.
00:24:25.000Racism, racialization, white body supremacy is not episodic, it's structural.
00:24:31.000Remember that there were thousands of George Floyd before the one that you saw.
00:24:37.000Your bodily response to this horror, right, is not the same thing as you dealing with the structural aspects of this.
00:24:47.000George Floyd's death became a deeply personal and racial tragedy for many Americans.
00:24:53.000For the first time, white people were becoming aware of their whiteness and the systemic ways that white supremacy affects all of us.
00:25:00.000White people in particular get aroused, get upset, say, this is unjust, this isn't right, this shouldn't happen.
00:25:07.000There's like an awakening that happens.
00:25:09.000And so part of their racial identity development is seeing that awakening.
00:25:15.000What they do with it is really the next piece of it.
00:25:19.000In this episode, we're tackling white racial identity and why understanding your whiteness is integral to becoming self-aware as a white person.
00:25:26.000I'm Nicole Ellis, and this is the New York- Can you pause it there for a second?
00:25:31.000Alrighty, so understanding your white identity now, you may have thought to yourself, I don't really have a white identity.
00:25:36.000Like for me, I'd be considered white by these folks.
00:25:39.000My identity is many different things, but kind of in terms of ethnicity, it's more Jewish because that actually connects to how I act in the real world.
00:25:48.000And honestly, I don't care about ethnicity.
00:25:49.000So my Jewish ethnic identity is really only tied into the fact that as the son of a Jewish mother, I am religiously Jewish, right?
00:25:56.000My ethnicity really has nothing to do with it.
00:25:58.000And the idea of a general white identity is also very weird because the only aspect of quote-unquote white identity is generally in American history in opposition to quote-unquote black identity or Asian identity or Mexican identity.
00:26:11.000But the reality is that for the vast majority of history and including American history, people didn't see themselves in terms of white identity.
00:26:19.000They saw themselves in terms of sort of where they came from.
00:26:32.000Like Brits and Italians, they have different cultural heritages because culture is not the same as ethnicity.
00:26:38.000The attempt to cudgel everybody who is not a person of color into the white identitarian category is an awkward one and is in fact a social construction.
00:26:47.000But for these folks, like Nicole Ellis of the Washington Post, it is important that you understand your white identity.
00:26:51.000What they mean is they're going to cudgel you into an identity where you are responsible for all the evils of the world.
00:26:56.000You're responsible for the George Floyd situation.
00:26:59.000And first of all, when Resmaa Menakem, at the very beginning, an author, when he says at the beginning, there are thousands of George Floyds you never saw, Well, I mean, under what time context are we talking?
00:27:10.000Are we talking, like, the last several hundred years?
00:27:51.000The idea again is that In reality, Derek Chauvin isn't really, according to CRT, even to blame for Derek Chauvin's activity.
00:27:57.000Derek Chauvin is just an agent of the structure, and the structure is to blame.
00:28:02.000And you are both to blame for upholding the structure, and you are a symptom of that structure because you were created by that structure.
00:28:08.000Okay, let's continue with this Washington Post video.
00:28:15.000It says, why is white racial identity important?
00:28:17.000I am originally from a smaller town in Oklahoma.
00:28:23.000Whiteness was the default and whiteness was the comfort.
00:28:26.000Part of the structure of racism and the way that it's maintained is to keep us from recognizing that racism is a part of our daily lives.
00:28:36.000And so it's a longer term process of looking at your understanding of yourself in the world, both historically, but also contextually, the family you live in the community you live in, and what role whiteness plays in that.
00:28:52.000So, Here, you have a woman named Kelsey Arias, originally saying that whiteness was her default and her comfort.
00:28:59.000I don't know what that's supposed to mean, other than this is her confessing her sins in Maoist style.
00:29:04.000She didn't know she was racist, but it was her default and her comfort.
00:29:07.000She didn't even know, she didn't even know what kind of sin she was committing, but she was, by dint of just where she lived.
00:29:12.000And then you have Rebecca Telbrek, who is one of these authors who was speaking before, saying that, you know, finding your whiteness and discovering your own sin is a lifelong process.
00:29:20.000Now that sounds very much, again, like cultic language.
00:30:04.000The more you kind of dive into that, the more I'm really realizing how deeply rooted racism is into like my everyday thought process.
00:30:13.000No matter how much you work at that, there's still even almost more work to be done.
00:30:18.000A living embodied anti-racist culture does not exist among white people.
00:30:23.000White people got to start getting together specifically around race.
00:30:26.000White accountability groups are really helpful in terms of having a place to process, having a group of people whose responsibility it is to call me on things or to challenge me.
00:30:38.000We're unpacking wrong things that we've been taught in history class.
00:30:44.000I realized that I needed to go back and unpack and reorganize everything that I had learned because it was completely true.
00:31:43.000So they're now suggesting that in exactly the same fashion, we have quote-unquote accountability groups.
00:31:48.000You have white people get together and call each other out on their racism and then presumably forgive each other.
00:31:53.000And the more you confess, the more praiseworthy you are.
00:31:56.000The more you say, this is why you see Rebecca Toprak in this video.
00:32:01.000Saying things like, well, you know, you almost never finish the work.
00:32:04.000It's almost impossible to finish the work.
00:32:06.000You can never get to the end of the work.
00:32:07.000Or Kelsey Arias saying, I've never even discovered the depth of my own racism.
00:32:12.000I was never able to come up with the depth of my own racism.
00:32:15.000Or Elise Kennedy saying, I have to go back.
00:32:17.000This is where it starts to get institutional.
00:32:18.000We have to go back and we have to see the way we teach history.
00:32:20.000And we have to reteach ourselves history this way.
00:32:24.000And here you start to see the creepover from these personal brow beating and the self-scourging, the 12th century style self-scourging and Maoist style struggle sessions to now we have to teach how we teach it.
00:32:37.000We have to change how we teach this stuff in schools to children.
00:32:42.000Completely through a white lens, most of us in doing this work have experienced this where there's a period of deep shame for being white and for acknowledging the harm that our ancestors have caused.
00:32:56.000And that's a very legitimate piece of this work.
00:33:00.000And we can't ask people of color to hold our hands through the shame piece.
00:33:05.000That needs to happen with other white people.
00:33:07.000When you do that for one, two, three, four, five years, right?
00:33:12.000You end up with actually a community that is aligned with each other.
00:33:17.000In theory, that sounds like a good idea, but I guess I'm curious to hear, like, what are some of the pitfalls or risks that you run if that's the only step you take?
00:33:26.000The biggest answer is white people don't really understand racism.
00:33:32.000And so if I'm relying on other white people to teach me about racism, that can only go so far.
00:33:38.000I only best understand racism by talking to people who are directly impacted by racism from different perspectives.
00:33:46.000So in addition to having white accountability groups and white accountability buddies, it's also really important to have sustained and meaningful relationships with people of color.
00:34:28.000Normally, shame attaches when you do something wrong.
00:34:31.000But the idea is that by the very color of your skin, you are complicit in this racist system because the system benefits you, even unconsciously.
00:34:38.000And so, you can't even fight racism, right?
00:34:39.000This goes back to the critical race theory principles that we were talking about.
00:34:43.000The critical race theory principles, one of them, is that white people can't even properly understand race.
00:34:52.000Only people who are not white can properly understand racism.
00:34:55.000So now the Washington Post says you need to find a black friend.
00:34:58.000Now, recognize that you are also, in the same video, they're saying that if you ask a black person to guide you on racism, this is in and of itself racist because you are assuming that that person has either the wherewithal or the desire to tell you about racism.
00:35:11.000It's using that black person as sort of a token to lead you.
00:35:14.000But you have to find black friends because those black friends are the only ones who are capable of awakening you to your own racism and to your own complicity in the system.
00:35:29.000I don't have the ability to like inherently name things as upholding white supremacy or as being racist.
00:35:37.000My whiteness is going to show up at different points in my life and at different points in different relationships.
00:35:42.000But is it fair or healthy to be seeking out relationships with people just to have a diverse network?
00:35:49.000Because I feel like for people of color, you're kind of constantly trying to gauge whether or not it's worth it to be vulnerable or share how someone hurt you when your white colleagues or co-workers or friends mess up.
00:36:02.000There's a different cost for my friends of color to be in relationship with me.
00:36:07.000So I think one of the things that's really important is ongoing being a friend on an ongoing basis for lots of different things.
00:36:15.000Not just like thinking about racism as a part of our friendship when there's something horrible that happens.
00:36:22.000Those relationships are Number one, for me to be there for them as them for me.
00:38:03.000Joe Biden's administration agrees with this Washington Post video.
00:38:07.000I dare you to find a single member of the Washington, honestly, of the Biden administration who would dare to say that this video is the pretentious, crappy, self-defeating nonsense that it is.
00:38:16.000You won't find one person in the entire administration who would say that.
00:38:24.000It is not a coincidence that the same day that the Washington Post ran this particular video, the Washington Post also ran a very long piece being very angry that anybody Including Christopher Rufo, who's one of the people leading the charge, has been fighting back against critical race theory.
00:38:39.000The left has been renormalizing America by pushing radical ideas slowly into the mainstream by being intransigent and very, very loud inside specific institutions.
00:38:50.000And they push a little bit and then they push a lot, but they continue to push and they are very intransigent and they hope that by bullying you into silence and making you feel shame for your own race and making you feel shame for your own systems and making you feel shame for America, that they can shut you up and then take over the institutions.
00:39:05.000And what's happening right now is that that vast middle is saying no.
00:39:08.000All it takes to quote unquote renormalize and already renormalize institutions is a bunch of people in the middle saying absolutely not, we're not doing this.
00:39:15.000And this is why the left is getting pissed, because a bunch of people who are heretofore silent, a bunch of people who are very quiet up to this point, they're now standing up and they're taking back their school boards, they're standing up and they're retaking their legislatures, they're standing up and they're retaking congressional seats and they're saying, no.
00:39:29.000And the left can't handle it, because for a long time, 20% of the country has run the other 80% of the country.
00:39:34.000And now, there's a vast swath in the middle who are saying, no, we're not going to do this stuff.
00:39:40.000And the first step on that is awareness of the fact that this 20% of people, these radicals who have created this coalition in order to push this nonsense, have started to take over the institutions and in many cases have already have done that.
00:39:50.000You can renormalize as long as you have a core percentage on the other side of 20% and the 60% in the middle, the unaligned side with the 20% pushback rather than the 20% radicals who are pushing this stuff in the first place.
00:40:02.000That's how renormalization happens and it's already happening and it's great to watch and the left is scared out of their wits.
00:40:07.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:40:09.000First, Let's talk about the fact that thieves could come after your most valuable asset.
00:40:15.000Okay, the reality is your most valuable asset is probably your home title.
00:40:19.000That's pretty much true for everybody.
00:40:21.000Can people actually steal your home title?
00:40:43.000After I've stolen the title, borrowed against it, or sold the property, or done whatever I've done with it, it's 60 to 90 days to even figure out that they're the victim of this crime.
00:40:53.000You know, by that point, you start getting foreclosure notices, and you realize you've got four mortgages on your house.
00:40:59.000Not only that, you don't even own your home anymore.
00:41:20.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:41:21.000First, if you've been paying attention to the left's weaponization of the dictionary, you'll have noticed the accepted language now changes as quickly as a car changes lanes.
00:41:28.000History has demonstrated that when a political party takes control of the language, things do not end well, which is why Michael Knowles wrote Speechless, controlling minds in it.
00:41:36.000He not only writes words in a book, he also breaks down the history of political correctness and what the future will resemble if that is not stopped.
00:41:41.000So, if you haven't been to the bookstore lately, now is the time.
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00:43:12.000All right, so the pushback to critical race theory has begun.
00:43:19.000Christopher Rufo is one of the lead researchers on that particular issue.
00:43:23.000He now works over at the Manhattan Institute, and he has a book coming out pretty soon with Harper, which, full disclosure, is also my publisher.
00:43:32.000And he's been pushing into sort of common parlance critical race theory.
00:43:35.000The term that was used before critical race theory was wokeism.
00:43:38.000Critical race theory is more specific because it actually goes to the ideological roots of all of this.
00:43:43.000Well, the root of the pushback has now created fruit and you're seeing it all over, right?
00:43:50.000So you're seeing videos, like here's one that went viral of a father and daughter, a black father and daughter pushing back against critical race theory.
00:43:57.000And the reason it is so telling is because critical race theory suggests that all the systems of America are deeply racist and inherently directed at promoting the subservience of black Americans particularly.
00:44:09.000It means that you're basically saying black people, they have no agency.
00:44:20.000And so here is a young black man named Corey Yeshua and his six-year-old daughter, Royalty, pushing back on critical race theory and saying, this is nonsense and it hurts black people, which it absolutely does.
00:44:30.000Depriving people of agency is the worst single thing you can do to anyone in life.
00:46:11.000Even the mainstream media, the reason that they are starting to get so worried about this, and to lie about it, is because they are deeply, deeply worried that the right is going to be able to mobilize on this because people in the middle, that unmotivated 60% in the middle, are looking at the left and saying, what you're preaching right now is cultic, crazy garbage that tears away every system of freedom in the United States.
00:46:30.000Here's a PBS reporter fully acknowledging on national TV on Sunday that critical race theory is mobilizing people as well it should.
00:46:37.000Specific to this idea of critical race theory, I have to tell you, I just spent some time reporting on this county in Virginia about an hour outside of Washington, and to your point, this is something that is mobilizing people and resonating very deeply.
00:47:05.000Again, if you want to renormalize the institutions, if you want to make them normal again, then what you're going to have to do is stand up and say no.
00:47:12.000And people in the middle have to be made aware.
00:47:14.000They're waking up to it, and they are fighting back.
00:47:16.000And this scares the living hell out of the left, because this is the first institutional pushback that we have seen in America for quite some time against a systemic, motivated left.
00:47:30.000Expose critical race theory for what it is.
00:47:32.000Number two, tell people they have to form coalitions with people who are in the middle, and that those coalitions have to be mobilized against this very core, hardened group of people who are pushing a radical ideology, and the institutions can, in fact, be taken back.
00:47:44.000I talk about this in my new book, The Authoritarian Moment, at length, because it's really, really important.
00:47:50.000Okay, so meanwhile, the media is pushing back on all of this, right?
00:47:52.000And they're telling you lies about all of this.
00:47:54.000The media have decided that they are going to simply lie about what critical race theory is.
00:47:59.000So now, because there's a giant pushback, because Americans are pushing back against critical race theory, because finally, for the first time in a very long time, you have a large swath of Americans looking at a movement from the left that's now been promoted across the military, across your schools, across your universities, and across your media, and in sports, and in every area of your life, because We have noticed it.
00:48:18.000The media has come up with two areas of pushback because again, they are activists.
00:48:21.000Critical race theory, as the founders say, of critical race theory is not merely an idea, an ideology or philosophy.
00:48:59.000So you saw Marc Lamont Hill, who is a radical idiot, He had on James Lindsay.
00:49:04.000And he started explaining to him, well, you know, let me let me explain how this really isn't about Gramsci and you haven't read enough Gramsci.
00:49:09.000And let me explain how it's really not about Delgado or Stefan Ciprioli.
00:49:12.000It's about various other Marxist thinkers and really has nothing to do with Marxism, even though everybody I'm quoting is a Marxist.
00:49:18.000And everyone's like, wow, that's... He knows critical... Okay, I just read you the tenets of critical race theory.
00:49:23.000Now you know the tenets of critical race theory.
00:49:25.000They, in their inception, were not vague.
00:49:27.000They've been made deliberately vague so that people who are criticized can then say, actually, you don't know even what you're talking about.
00:49:34.000Actually, you've never read any critical race theory.
00:49:37.000Actually, you are just saying something that is... Okay, so the way this is broadened out in the public view with regard to the media, And you have members of the media saying, actually, critical race theory is just us teaching accurate history.
00:49:49.000Accurate history is just critical race theory.
00:49:53.000Because critical race theory, again, assumes that whiteness is pervasive everywhere, that white supremacy is pervasive in every institution, and that institutions and principles of power were created in order to re-establish and re-enshrine white supremacy.
00:50:06.000Okay, that's what critical race theory says.
00:50:10.000Okay, but what you get from the media is if you push back against this, you get the coverage from the Washington Post.
00:50:14.000Okay, here's how the Washington Post covers the pushback against critical race theory.
00:50:18.000Quote, critical race theory holds that racism is systemic in the United States, not just a collection of individual prejudices, an idea that feels obvious to some and offensive to others.
00:50:27.000Rufo alleged that efforts to inject awareness of systemic racism and white privilege, which grew more popular following the murder of George Floyd by police, posed a grave threat to the nation.
00:50:36.000It's the latest cultural wedge issue playing out largely, but not exclusively, in debate over schools.
00:50:41.000At its core, it pits progressives who believe white people should be pushed to confront systemic racism and white privilege in America against conservatives who see these initiatives as painting all white people as racist.
00:50:51.000Again, the way that the Washington Post is boiling this down is that if you believe that there is racism in America, then this means that you are a critical race theorist.
00:51:15.000I think that critical race theory can go by another name, uh, America's history.
00:51:20.000It's amazing that we're having this discussion where we're celebrating Juneteenth and now individuals don't want to teach us what led us up to Juneteenth.
00:51:27.000It's as if we want to keep a secret from our children that the founders of this country actually owned slaves.
00:51:33.000Um, you know, at what point will we be able to teach children that what happened six years ago yesterday and Charleston, South Carolina was a white nationalist who walked into a church and murdered nine people.
00:51:42.000I mean, that is a part of America's history.
00:51:58.000And that many of the founders owned slaves.
00:51:59.000Yes, we all know that because that is part of American history.
00:52:02.000In fact, there was a giant, you may have missed it, there was a giant civil war where like hundreds of thousands of Americans died over exactly this question.
00:52:10.000And in fact, pretty much everybody understands that a white nationalist shot up a black church in South Carolina because we were all alive when that happened.
00:52:17.000But the basic idea here is that if you don't push the idea that every institution in America is rife with racism and you as a white person don't properly understand racism, this means that you're just not studying regular history.
00:52:26.000You get the same thing from the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart.
00:52:30.000People are trying to stop us from learning history.
00:52:32.000So this is misdirect number one, is that if you hate critical race theory because it's garbage, the real thing you're trying to do is stop people from learning history.
00:52:41.000The people who are trying to, you know, pushing back against quote-unquote critical race theory, which is basically a blanket way of keeping us from recognizing, talking about, and teaching the fullness of our history, what they're doing is they're denying the country its full retelling.
00:53:01.000The United States is a great nation, and even though people are trying to keep us from learning all of our history, Ms.
00:53:09.000Opal Lee showed that it is possible to do things to make it possible so that the generations coming and the generations unborn get to know their entire history, warts and all.
00:53:23.000Okay, so this is misdirect number one.
00:53:25.000Is that critical race theory is just history?
00:53:54.000And if you've noticed that all the theories of critical race theory have been entered into education, and if you've noticed that there are educational departments that explicitly say critical race theory is taught, if you noticed that there are actual military departments that talk openly about critical race theory, if you've noticed that Robin DiAngelo is getting hired by your corporation, or Ibram X. Kendi is being pushed by your corporation, or that on your recommended book list from your toothbrush company is Ibram X. Kendi, if you've noticed any of this, it's because you're crazy.
00:54:37.000Let's take this, uh, this so-called controversy over critical race theory, and I say so-called controversy because it's sort of, it's a creation that keeps people watching, or keeps people clicking, and suddenly, you know, yadda yadda yadda, school board meetings are getting disrupted, right?
00:54:54.000And you're just sort of like, wait a minute, are you covering the news that people need to know?
00:55:19.000We'll go for four years on Donald Trump as a Russian cat's paw, but we won't spend 30 seconds on most school boards in major metropolitan areas of the United States have taken up the rubric of anti-racism, which is really just a renaming of critical race theory.
00:55:55.000Look at these people obsessed with race.
00:55:56.000Here's Chris Hayes doing this routine.
00:55:58.000Critical race theory, as a sort of technical term, is basically a set of analytic tools that academics in some fields use, starting in law, for studying systematic racism in our society.
00:56:09.000The right has rendered the term meaningless through over-deployment, making it into a culture war rallying cry.
00:56:15.000Since February, month over month, the mentions of the term have more than doubled.
00:56:20.000Entire right-wing media machinery has become obsessed, whipping up a moral panic almost entirely among white people that their children are being taught toxic truths about America's long history of racial oppression hierarchy.
00:56:43.000It's an actual theory that was meant to be an activist theory according to his founders.
00:56:47.000Second, the lie is that it doesn't exist.
00:56:49.000It absolutely does exist and it has a cost.
00:56:52.000And the cost is that we are not allowed anymore, according to critical race theory, to call out problems as we see them in the United States, whether they are problems of actual racism or whether they are problems that are not due to racism, but result in an unequal outcome.
00:57:05.000Because it turns out that if you want to prevent unequal outcome, if you would like more equal outcome, people have to act differently.
00:57:11.000But if you notice that people have to act differently, for example, you say that crimes should be policed.
00:57:15.000That you should actually spend time policing crime rather than suggesting that the cops are racist.
00:57:19.000This is because you have not imbibed from the well of critical race theory.
00:57:22.000You have not recognized your own white supremacy.
00:57:24.000You've not recognized that the police are in fact a tool of white supremacy in the United States.
00:57:28.000And the cause of this are largely borne by black Americans.
00:57:32.000Not entirely, but largely borne by black Americans.
00:57:35.000The same people who are pushing critical race theory are pushing defund the police because they believe that the police are, in the words of Nicole Hannah-Jones, basically the errors to the slave catchers.
00:57:43.000And so is it any wonder that you see kids being caught in crossfire in the Bronx?
00:57:48.000We have video of kids being caught in a crossfire in the middle of New York City.
00:57:52.000This wouldn't have happened even 10 years ago in New York City.
00:57:55.000When you drink deep from critical race theory, what you end up with is more suffering, more inequality, more cruelty, more violence, and apparently more happy members of the media.