Ben Shapiro on racism and identity politics: How to deal with it, and why we should ignore it. Ben Shapiro is a conservative commentator, writer, and host of the podcast "The Ben Shapiro Show" on the Fox News Channel. He's also a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, NPR, and other media outlets, and is a frequent guest on Fox News and NPR. He's a frequent contributor to The Daily Beast and has been featured on CNN, CBS, NBC, NPR and NPR, among other outlets. In this episode, Ben explains how identity politics and critical race theory are the root cause of racism in America, and how we should deal with racism in the 21st century, not in the past, but in the present, and what we can do to combat racism in a post-racial America. Ben also explains why racism is not a problem, but a symptom of systemic racism, and the role of identity politics in combating racism in our political system, and explains why we need to address racism in all areas of our society, not just in the media, in order to fight against racism and white supremacy and white identity politics, as a means to fight for racial justice and racial equality. The Ben Shapiro show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Secure your online data today by visiting Express VPN.com/secureyouronlinedata and get 3 months for free! Get an extra 3 months of ExpressVPN for FREE! Subscribe to the show on the App or wherever else you get your news and information, and access all of your favorite resources, including the latest breaking news, including blogs, podcasts, social media and social media, and more! Want to become a supporter of the show? Become a supporter? Subscribe today using the Anchor.fm? Subscribe, rate, and review the show recommendations, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, and become a Friend? Learn more about what's going on in the show and more? Subscribe on Audible, subscribe to the podcast, and much more! Learn more on what s going on around the world, including our new podcast, The Pitchcast, the future of what s trending on the world of podcasting and what s happening in podcasting, and so much more? Subscribe to our new episodes, coming soon, coming to your ad-free listening experience, and we'll be giving you more like it on the next episode of the Ben Shapiro s newest podcast, coming in 2020?
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00:01:32.000Alrighty, so there is a simple truth when it comes to today's racial debate.
00:01:37.000And that simple truth is that if you are on the side of the angels, you can do or say whatever you want.
00:01:42.000You can be as racist as you could possibly want to be, and you will survive.
00:01:46.000But if you hold the wrong positions, you don't have to be racist in order for you to be clocked about the ears.
00:01:51.000And if we don't know, if we're just not sure where you are, then we'll cudgel you about the ears until you declare that you are on the side of the angels.
00:01:59.000That is the way that this particular debate works.
00:02:01.000If you are not on the side of the woke, Well, you don't have to be racist in order for them to declare you racist and just go after you.
00:02:08.000If you're in the middle, you're kind of neutral.
00:02:10.000And then evidence comes out that you may, in fact, not even be racist, but like have been associated once with some people who may once have been racist.
00:02:20.000Then we'll just cudgel you until you come out in favor of the woke.
00:02:39.000Systemic racism is simply defined as any system of power, anywhere, that results in inequality of outcome, as we've discussed at length on the show.
00:02:47.000Well, what that means, according to the proponents of wokeism and identity politics, is that if you wish to tear down those systems, if you're complicit in tearing down those systems, if you do what we want, then we will ignore your personal racism.
00:03:00.000Because personal racism is really just ancillary.
00:03:02.000It's something that you can use as a cudgel to hit people with, but If that person is helping you already, why would you care?
00:03:08.000Which is why Ralph Northam, the governor of Virginia, who was caught being in like his medical yearbook in the 1980s, either wearing a KKK outfit or blackface, right?
00:03:30.000Now you have Joe Biden basically campaigning with the guy.
00:03:33.000And you have Democrats like Terry McAuliffe talking up Ralph Northam.
00:03:37.000Because the rule, typically, in democratic circles, is not you either die a hero or you live long enough to become a villain.
00:03:45.000It's either you die a villain, or you stick around long enough to become a hero.
00:03:48.000Whether we're talking about Katie Hill, or whether we're talking about Al Franken, or whether we're talking about Ralph Northam.
00:03:53.000If you are a democrat, and you are useless to them at a particular time, and you are ousted, or you're yelled at, and then later you become useful, we will rehabilitate you.
00:04:03.000So, the person who articulates this, I think, quite beautifully is, of course, Nikole Hannah-Jones.
00:04:08.000So, Nikole Hannah-Jones, who is the de facto editor of the New York Times, a professional liar, a Pulitzer Prize winning liar, actually, considering the 1619 Project, is A false recapitulation of the nation's history from a racist perspective.
00:04:23.000Here's Nicole Hannah-Jones explaining that when it comes to critical race theory, when it comes to the teaching of history, when it comes to all this stuff, individual racism no longer matters.
00:04:31.000The only thing that matters is where you stand with regard to the structures of power.
00:04:35.000Which of course, Nikole Hannah-Jones, it's amazing.
00:04:37.000The structures of power never include the places where the left is in control.
00:04:40.000So they will say, oh, the structures of power, they're really bad.
00:04:42.000The hierarchies in America, they're just terrible.
00:04:44.000But everything's great at the New York Times, except for, you know, every so often they have to fire like a James Bennett or a Barry Weiss or something.
00:04:51.000But if you're Nikole Hannah-Jones, we never talk about the amount of power you wield in society.
00:04:55.000We never talk about the amount of power wielded by the woke in society.
00:04:59.000We're talking about the other structures of power.
00:05:08.000And they're actually trying to move us away from thinking that individuals alone are responsible.
00:05:13.000You know, a few bad apples are responsible for inequality and are responsible for discrimination and trying to show that there's actually much larger structures at play here.
00:05:21.000And that's really what they're trying to do.
00:05:23.000They don't want an examination of the systems of power.
00:05:26.000They don't want an examination of the larger structures that we started to see coming out of the global protest movements last year.
00:05:32.000They want to pretend that the inequality we see is just a matter of a few bad actors.
00:05:37.000And so they're trying to suppress these truths.
00:05:51.000In fact, if you're going to look at the systems of power in the United States, they are tremendously geared toward specific affirmative action programs that largely benefit black people.
00:05:59.000At the expense, in many cases, of Asian people.
00:06:01.000If you look at all of the affirmative action programs that are used at university levels, they are not directed toward helping all people of color.
00:06:06.000They're aimed at helping particular people of particular colors.
00:06:09.000Okay, so we can talk about the structures of power, but it works both ways.
00:06:13.000Individual racism will be overlooked if it helps to destroy the structures of supposed power.
00:06:20.000Case in point today, Sheldon Whitehouse.
00:06:22.000Okay, so Sheldon Whitehouse is a really terrible senator from Delaware.
00:06:28.000And according to the New York Post, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is facing new scrutiny over his decades-long membership in an allegedly all-white private beach club as he builds himself as a progressive and prominent critic of systemic racism, dismissing membership based on race as a long tradition in Rhode Island.
00:06:42.000The controversy began when White House was confronted Friday by a go-local Providence reporter who published the video along with an article on Saturday detailing what occurred after asking about the senator's membership at the Newport-based Bailey's Beach Club, part of the Spouting Rock Beach Association.
00:06:56.000The progressive politician answered this way.
00:06:58.000Here is how he answered when he was asked about his membership at Bailey's.
00:07:01.000By the way, for like several years, people have been asking about his membership at this particular beach club, which apparently has no black members.
00:07:08.000Are there any minority members of the club now?
00:07:11.000I think the people who are running the place are still working on that.
00:07:17.000I mean, obviously it's been four years.
00:07:19.000You had remarks on the floor following the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd saying, you know, hoping to root out systemic racism in the country.
00:07:28.000Your thoughts on an elite, all-white, wealthy club again in this day and age?
00:07:34.000You know, should these clubs continue to exist?
00:07:37.000It's a long tradition in Rhode Island, and there are many of them.
00:07:41.000I think we just need to work our way through the issues.
00:07:46.000My understanding is that it is illegal to have all white clubs in the United States, right?
00:07:50.000The Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars discrimination in public and private.
00:07:54.000Any sort of public accommodation is barred from single-race membership.
00:07:59.000So, I am unaware whether this beach club, I mean, I've not seen any reports on this.
00:08:02.000I don't think, from my understanding, that this beach club overtly has a rule that says no black members.
00:08:08.000In fact, I think in the past they have had black members.
00:08:10.000So the normal answer that Sheldon Whitehouse would provide here is, we have membership criteria, we evaluate the membership criteria based on merit, and sometimes there are people who are black and sometimes there are people who are not black.
00:08:21.000But the problem is, because Sheldon Whitehouse has fallen into the woke trap of believing that equal outcome is the guarantor of equity, of fairness, Because he believes that.
00:08:31.000He now has to answer for the fact that there are no black members of this particular club, and there haven't been for quite a while.
00:08:36.000In fact, when he was first elected in 2006, he disavowed his membership and pledged to quit the club.
00:08:41.000Currently, his wife, Sandra, is one of the three largest shareholders in the club.
00:08:50.000Meghan McCabe said the country club was not all white, but declined to provide further information or proof.
00:08:54.000McCabe said the club has no such restrictive policy.
00:08:56.000The club has had and has members of color.
00:08:58.000The senator has dedicated his entire career to promoting equity and protecting civil rights, as his record shows.
00:09:03.000Efforts to reach management at Bailey's by phone were unsuccessful.
00:09:05.000The individual who answered refused to transfer the call and said the club was declining to comment.
00:09:10.000Golocal had pressed White House, according to the New York Post, and his office over his membership multiple times in 2017, noting that more than a decade had passed since his unkept campaign promise was made.
00:09:20.000After the lawmaker repeatedly declined requests for comment, that's when you saw that particular video.
00:09:26.000And the left-wing senator told the outlet, I think it would be nice if they changed a little bit, but it's not my position.
00:09:30.000And asked if he intended to pressure the club to do better on diversity, White House said, I will take that up privately before declining to comment on the matter further.
00:09:37.000Okay, so let's say that this were a Republican.
00:09:41.000For just a second, do you think that this answer would prove sufficient to the media?
00:09:45.000There's been like a 24-hour news cycle and that's pretty much it.
00:09:47.000By the end of the week, nobody will be asking Sheldon Whitehouse about this.
00:09:49.000There will be no calls for him to resign.
00:09:51.000There will be no calls for him to issue any sort of shame-faced apology.
00:09:55.000All he has to do is basically just wait it out.
00:09:57.000And Sheldon Whitehouse knows this because he is in the good graces of the people who believe that the only true racism is opposing their agenda.
00:10:16.000Again, it does not have a specific policy that bars black people, as far as I'm aware, because that would be federally and state illegal.
00:10:22.000But Sheldon Whitehouse can't give that answer.
00:10:24.000Because again, Sheldon Whitehouse's entire perspective is rooted in the idea that if there is any group that does not include a proper percentage of people by the general population statistics, then it must inevitably be inequitable.
00:10:39.000So long as he holds that position in public, he doesn't actually have to hold that position in private.
00:10:43.000This is the beautiful thing about being properly well.
00:10:46.000You can say the right things publicly, and if privately, you live by the same rules as everybody else, namely, you belong to a beach club, and the beach club has membership requirements, and sometimes there are black people who meet that, and sometimes there are black people who don't meet that.
00:11:00.000Same thing with universities, you send your kid to a private school, and that private school does not admit people based solely on the basis of race.
00:11:07.000And maybe the racial constituency of that private school is not adjudicated on the basis of ethnicity.
00:11:13.000It's instead adjudicated on the basis of entrance exams, or on the basis of past academic experience, or on the basis of community membership.
00:11:21.000You can do all of those things so long as you are properly woke.
00:11:25.000This is the beauty of the systemic racism argument.
00:11:28.000You never, ever have to be held accountable for living your politics personally.
00:11:34.000When it comes to the right, the personal is political, right?
00:11:36.000So if you're somebody on the right and you send your kid to a private school, then we rip you up and down.
00:11:39.000But if you're on the left and you're against school vouchers, you can send your kid to a private school and no one's gonna say boo.
00:11:44.000If you're on the left and you say all the proper words about equity, you can belong to an all-white beach club and nobody is going to say boo beyond about 15 hours of controversy, and then we'll all just move on because we all know the real thing that's important here, and that is fighting the systems of power.
00:11:59.000Fighting the systems of power, but only the systems of power the left says you should fight.
00:12:04.000All righty, in just a second, we're going to see that this sort of push from the left is having some rather deleterious consequences on their own perspective when it comes to winning elections.
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00:13:18.000Alrighty, so meanwhile, Democrats once again are realizing that their agenda is not what the American people want.
00:13:24.000See, the thing is that Joe Biden was elected on the basis that he would be not Donald Trump, right?
00:13:28.000That he would basically restore a sense of calmness and solidity.
00:13:32.000and absolute placidity to American politics.
00:13:36.000That American politics would return to a new normal where the professionals were in charge and we wouldn't have these sort of radical shifts in the winds each and every day, no tweeting from the toilet and all of that.
00:13:46.000So Joe Biden has kept the face of placidity and solidity because he's not alive.
00:13:51.000But the actual policy being pursued by the Democrats is anything but placid.
00:13:55.000See, this was the great weirdness of the Trump administration.
00:13:58.000Every day was a new news cycle about whatever the man decided to tweet, but the actual stuff that the administration was doing was fairly traditional.
00:14:04.000Lowering taxes, strengthening the military, allowing for people to practice their religion in free ways, right?
00:14:10.000Like, these were fairly traditional American things under the last administration.
00:14:14.000The major policy shifts over the last 20 years have all been Democrat policy shifts.
00:14:18.000It's been Barack Obama attempting to revise the entire nature of the bargain between the individual citizen and the government by forcing you to buy health insurance or fining you.
00:14:27.000It was Joe Biden who is now attempting to suggest basically universal basic income in another guise and make millions of people more dependent on the government.
00:14:37.000It is Democrats who have been making all these radical policy changes.
00:14:39.000It is not Republicans who've been making radical policy changes.
00:14:43.000Okay, so Joe Biden's not being alive has helped shield Democrats from the impact of this, but not completely.
00:14:48.000Because it turns out that every so often, Americans get a glimpse behind the veil of Joe Biden's unaliveness, and they suddenly see what Democrats are pushing, and they don't like it very much.
00:14:58.000A perfect case in point is Democrats walking back their opposition on voter ID.
00:15:03.000And you can tell how bad this is for Democrats by the way the Washington Post phrases this.
00:15:08.000So Aaron Blake is the senior reporter at the Washington Post covering this.
00:16:07.000I think Warnock is in serious trouble.
00:16:08.000He got in basically because of the fluke of Donald Trump intervening in the Georgia Senate elections last time around.
00:16:13.000Otherwise, he definitely would not be in the Senate right now.
00:16:18.000But put that aside, Raphael Warnock was campaigning pretty openly for a long time about how things like voter ID were racist because Raphael Warnock is a radical.
00:16:27.000So here was Warnock just a few months ago comparing Georgia's voting law, which included voter ID, to Jim Crow.
00:16:33.000It all began right here in Georgia with these unnecessary and unjustifiable voter ID laws.
00:16:43.000There are some who say, well, we are concerned about voter fraud.
00:16:48.000We're worried that people might, without these state IDs, which constitute, in my estimation, a poll tax, that they might vote twice.
00:17:02.000It's hard enough to get people to vote once.
00:17:05.000Meanwhile, Stacey Abrams did the exact same thing.
00:17:07.000It is incredible to me that Stacey Abrams is still brought forth by the media as the representative of true, honest American voting when she has claimed for years without any evidence that voter suppression led to her defeat in her Georgia gubernatorial race.
00:17:22.000She was literally honored by the Democrats at the last Democratic National Convention in the governor's room.
00:17:29.000And Stacey Abrams was included as though she'd been elected governor.
00:17:32.000And then they all have the temerity to say, how dare Donald Trump not concede an election?
00:17:35.000Stacey Abrams, as far as I'm aware, still has not conceded, really, the Georgia election.
00:17:40.000She still says that she was only not elected because of voter suppression, for which she has provided zero evidence.
00:17:45.000And then after Georgia decided they were going to pass this law that shored up some of their voting procedures, she over and over and over again suggested that voter ID was bad, that this new Georgia law was like Jim Crow.
00:17:55.000She openly suggested in a USA Today editorial That she understood why people would boycott the state of Georgia over that Georgia voting law.
00:18:03.000And then when it turns out that her intervention, her radical intervention was likely to lose Georgia, both of its Democratic senators, then she started to walk that back.
00:18:11.000And she actually had USA Today retcon her story.
00:18:14.000They actually went in and removed the section.
00:18:16.000It's amazing that they were, I mean, honestly, like any outlet would do this.
00:18:58.000OK, so now the Democrats looked at the polls.
00:19:00.000It turns out that every single subsection of the American population is fine with voter ID, which makes perfect sense because we all show ID for everything in this country.
00:19:08.000And when you fly on a plane, you have to show ID.
00:19:11.000When you buy alcohol, you have to show ID.
00:19:13.000When you're driving, you have to be carrying ID.
00:19:16.000No one has a problem with this except for idiot Democrats who apparently believe that it's a form of voter suppression to ask people to show that they are who they say they are when they vote.
00:19:45.000Well, here is Aaron Blake explaining the evolution, quote, It still isn't clear exactly what will happen with Senator Joe Manchin III's middle ground proposal on voting rights. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer is planning to bring up the For the People Act, which Joe Manchin opposes in its current form for a vote on Tuesday while saying he will work with Manchin.
00:20:00.000But that's just about getting to all 50 Democratic votes. Getting to the necessary 60 still looks prohibitive based on early GOP reviews of even Manchin's friendlier proposal.
00:20:09.000But regardless of what happens with the bill, Manchin's proposal has moved the needle in one significant way, signaling a softening by key Democrats on voter ID.
00:20:16.000Among the carrots for Republicans in Manchin's proposal is a voter ID provision.
00:20:20.000Republicans pushed voter ID hard at the state level in recent years, but rather than merely describe Manchin's voter ID proposal as a concession, some key Democrats have suggested they don't really object to it or the broader concept at all.
00:20:32.000Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was asked last week on CNN whether she could accept this compromise with Joe Manchin laid out, even if voter ID was part of it.
00:20:40.000And Abrams said, quote, that's one of the fallacies of Republican talking points that have been deeply disturbing.
00:20:44.000No one has ever objected to having to prove who you are to vote.
00:20:48.000It's been part of our history since the inception of voting.
00:20:53.000I just played you a clip of Stacey Abrams saying that voter ID was a form of voter suppression.
00:21:17.000Warnock said in 2015, voters without a driver's license or state ID must surrender their personal information and risk identity theft just to receive an absentee ballot.
00:21:35.000Every argument is directed toward power.
00:21:38.000Of course, it is not directed toward honesty.
00:21:40.000These people didn't actually believe that voter ID was a form of voter suppression.
00:21:43.000They just believed that if they said it over and over and over again, they could get a bunch of voters, progressive white voters in the suburbs and black voters, presumably, to vote Democrat.
00:21:51.000If you just call things Jim Crow over and over, maybe people will think that your opponent is Jim Crow.
00:21:56.000This is the way that Democrats attempt to win arguments now.
00:22:00.000They're not attempting to actually push forward the power and positivity of their agenda.
00:22:05.000Instead, it's all about, if you oppose me, it's because you're in favor of systemic racism.
00:22:09.000It truly is an amazing, amazing thing.
00:22:12.000And this is why you're seeing them trot out Barack Obama to make the same arguments now.
00:22:15.000It's why they keep bringing up the specter of Trump.
00:22:17.000We'll get to all that in just one second.
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00:23:28.000Okay, so, If the Democrats' agenda seems to be falling off in popularity, and they've got a real problem here, because the Democrats have basically hit high watermark.
00:23:36.000I don't think they're passing any more serious legislation aside from some sort of budget through reconciliation here.
00:23:42.000Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, because they are Democrats in purple to very, very red states in Manchin's case, they are not going to kill the filibuster.
00:23:49.000Kyrsten Sinema has a piece in the Washington Post today saying as much.
00:23:52.000She says, we have more to lose than gain by ending the filibuster.
00:23:56.000Because everyday Arizonans are focused on questions that matter most in their daily lives.
00:24:05.000Meanwhile, much of Washington's focus is on a Senate rule requiring 60 votes to advance most legislation.
00:24:11.000Arizonans expect me to do what I promised when I ran for the House and Senate, to be independent, like Arizona, and to work with anyone to achieve lasting results.
00:24:17.000Lasting results, rather than temporary victories, is destined to be reversed, undermining the certainty that America's families and employers depend on.
00:24:24.000The best way to achieve durable, lasting results is bipartisan cooperation.
00:24:28.000I understand bipartisanship, says Kristen Sinema.
00:24:31.000But the difficult work of collaboration is what we expect in Arizona.
00:24:34.000And I still believe it is the best way to identify realistic solutions instead of escalating all-or-nothing political battles that result in no action or in whipsawing federal policy reversals.
00:24:42.000I mean, by the way, the fact that it is now considered controversial to hold the position that the filibuster should remain is pretty incredible.
00:24:50.000I see a lot of Democrats saying, well, if Mitch McConnell were in charge, he'd get riâ Democrats say this kind of stupid crap without realizing Mitch McConnell was in charge with a Republican House, with a Republican president, and didn't kill the filibuster.
00:25:00.000It is only Democratic leadership now that is pretty openly calling for killing the filibuster.
00:25:05.000But the reality is this agenda is going nowhere.
00:25:07.000So, that means that Democrats are sort of left with nothing to campaign on.
00:25:12.000Remember, they control all branches of government at this point.
00:25:15.000And the only thing that they've done is pass a giant spending bill.
00:25:58.000And the reason that they can't let go of it is because Trump was the fond head of all evil.
00:26:02.000And because Trump was so likely to jump into these pitched kind of political battles with them, they loved being able to push up against Trump.
00:26:09.000You think Joe Biden wins 80 million votes if he's running against anybody but Trump?
00:27:56.000Okay, that's not to minimize Donald Trump's bad rhetoric between November 6th and January 6th, or November 4th and January 6th.
00:28:03.000That is not to minimize the foolishness, stupidity, and malice of people who decided to invade the Capitol building seeking to do harm to others.
00:28:12.000But in the end, when faced with a mob intent on doing bad things around a pretty predictably targeted building, the real failure, there was a security failure, which is what a bipartisan Senate committee already found, right?
00:28:26.000But to treat that as some sort of assault on the democracy itself, meaning that democracy itself was not going to work anymore unless you do what Barack Obama wants you to do, namely loosen voting procedures to the point where voter fraud becomes extremely possible, to foster a voting system that has less verifiability.
00:28:59.000The obsession they have with Trump is unreal.
00:29:03.000Donald Trump lied over and over and over again, poisoning our democracy, lighting a fire beneath Republican state legislatures who immediately launched the most sweeping voter suppression effort in at least 80 years.
00:29:20.000Just a note, how despicable a man is Donald Trump?
00:29:24.000Okay, again, the most, the most voter suppression, 80 years?
00:29:30.000The most despicable voter suppression in 80... You realize that you go 80 years backwards from here.
00:29:34.000You're talking about the 1940s, right?
00:29:36.000So he's talking about, like, comparing these laws about voter ID, which are widely popular, to Jim Crow, again.
00:29:42.000And it's all because of Trump, because Trump's a Jim Crow figure.
00:29:45.000The Democrats don't have much, but they need Trump to kick around.
00:29:49.000They're just gonna get clobbered in 2022, and they deserve to get clobbered in 2022 if they continue to push this partisan agenda, and then to defend their own worst players, like the Sheldon White Houses of the world.
00:30:00.000All right, in just a second, we're gonna get to the big social issues of the day, including the first openly gay active NFL player!
00:30:07.000I know, it's a majestic moment in American history.
00:30:12.000Because we're going to do this with every industry, every time, so that we can continue to pretend that Americans care deeply about this stuff?
00:30:19.000First, let us talk about the fact that now would be an excellent time for us to get involved to stop the left-wing indoctrination of our children.
00:30:25.000You may have noticed that Sesame Street decided that they are now going to bring out A gay couple to introduce to three and four-year-old children.
00:30:31.000It's really, really important that your kids learn about the variety of sexual orientation at the age of three and four, according to Sesame Street.
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00:33:22.000All right, meanwhile, we have massive social issues shaking America and an administration committed to demonstrating to the world what is best about America, which is of course why Tony Blinken, the Secretary of State has said that the Pride Progress flag, which again is the ugliest flag, I mean, just on an aesthetic level, okay?
00:33:46.000Forget about what it represents, Just on an aesthetic level, it looks like...
00:33:50.000As I've said before, a kaleidoscopic whirlpool of stained glass crap.
00:33:57.000It is the original rainbow flag, and then, coming in from the side, are these weird arrows pushing the rainbow flag aside, with a variety of colors to represent transgender, intersex, gender non-conforming people.
00:34:09.000And eventually, it'll just be a giant collage of every single human in the United States.
00:34:13.000Because of course, every single person has their own sexual orientation, as well as their own gender identity.
00:34:27.000We're going to fly that above the State Department because nothing unifies America quite like transgender radicalism.
00:34:32.000So here is Tony Blinken saying we're going to fly that.
00:34:34.000I assume we're not going to be flying that above the State Department in, say, Yemen.
00:34:39.000Call me crazy, I just have a feeling we're not going to be doing that.
00:34:43.000We'll be flying the progress flag, a symbol that encompasses the diversity and intersectionality of LGBTQI persons in communities around the world at the State Department later this month.
00:34:56.000We'll fly the flag from June 26th to the 28th.
00:35:00.000And that's a period that I know so many know marks a couple of important turning points in our history for LGBTQI rights.
00:35:09.000Yeah, nothing says unifying America quite like intersectionality and flags that represent each individual orientation on the flag.
00:35:27.000And a few years ago, there was a big controversy because the Chicago Dyke March banned people from flying any flag that had a Jewish star on it.
00:35:33.000And so people were like, oh, that seems anti-Semitic.
00:35:35.000And there's this big controversy, and then they walked it back.
00:35:37.000Well, now they're really not making any bones about where they are at the Chicago Dyke March.
00:35:41.000Here is the poster they put out for the Chicago Dyke March, which is to take place June 26th.
00:35:46.000Okay, it is a woman, I assume, who is wearing a bikini and a thong, standing on top of a burning police car that says Chicago Police, so you know it's a burning police car.
00:36:01.000And on her butt is written ACAB, which is the radical slogan, All Cops Are Bastards.
00:36:08.000And in one hand, she's holding a burning American flag.
00:36:12.000And in the other hand, she's holding a burning Israeli flag.
00:36:17.000Yes, nothing is unifying quite like intersectional LGBTQIA plus politics.
00:36:24.000It just, I mean, it really unifies us all pretty, pretty obviously.
00:36:28.000And by the way, it is not just Chicago.
00:36:30.000According to Jason Rant, who by the way is a gay man living in Seattle, he reports, organizers for a Seattle gay pride event say they are charging white people a reparations fee to attend.
00:37:32.000However, this is a black and brown queer trans censored prioritized valued event.
00:37:36.000White allies and accomplices are welcome to attend, but will be charged a $10 to $50 reparations fee that will be used to keep this event free of cost for black and brown, trans and queer community.
00:37:47.000Okay, meanwhile, the big story, and it's leading like all of the newspapers, and it is leading over at ESPN, and it's leading at Huffington Post, and at Drudge Report.
00:37:55.000The big story of the day is that there is an active gay NFL player.
00:37:58.000Now, you may be asking yourself, wait a second, wasn't Michael Sam drafted by the St.
00:38:03.000And it was a huge issue at the time because he kissed his boyfriend at the time on national television when he was drafted, and this was considered like a huge deal.
00:38:11.000Because the way that this works in American politics, Is that anytime a gay person becomes the first of anything in any industry, this is a, it's a new groundbreaking moment that doesn't actually accomplish progress because that's the way intersectionality and identity politics work.
00:38:26.000Because if we were to say, you know, Michael Sam was already in the NFL, at least he was on the practice squad for the St.
00:38:32.000Louis Rams before he ended up with, I think it was like the Montreal Alouettes and then fell out of football.
00:38:36.000Before any of that happened, if you said, well, you know, life for gay people in America is pretty good.
00:38:52.000In the same way that when it comes to race in the United States, if you're like, you know, you guys keep claiming that America's super duper racist.
00:38:58.000And it seems kind of like not since we had a black president for two terms.
00:39:03.000And when he was elected, it was hailed by the media as a historic moment.
00:39:06.000It's only a historic moment if it marks something.
00:39:09.000OK, if it marks nothing, it's not a historic moment.
00:39:11.000But according to the left, progress is a treadmill, right?
00:39:14.000It can never be reached, and you never move forward, really.
00:39:22.000So if you say, yeah, America doesn't seem so racist because, you know, well over 50% of the population elected a rather incompetent president twice, and he was black, then everybody is like, no, no, no, that's not progress.
00:40:01.000But instead, five minutes from now, it'll be like, and yes, the NFL has more to do.
00:40:06.000The NFL is still a cruel, vicious place.
00:40:09.000So here is how this was covered over at ESPN.
00:40:11.000Carl Nassib, I don't know how to pronounce his name, of the Las Vegas Raiders announces he is gay and pledges $100,000 to the Trevor Project.
00:40:19.000Nasib28 made the announcement in an Instagram post.
00:40:30.000I've got the best family, friends, and job a guy could ask for.
00:40:32.000I'm a pretty private person, so I hope you guys know I'm really not doing this for attention.
00:40:35.000I just think representation and visibility are so important.
00:40:37.000I actually hope that like one day, videos like this and the whole coming out process are not just necessary, but until then, I'm going to do my best and do my part to cultivate a culture that's accepting, that's compassionate.
00:40:45.000I'm going to start by donating $100,000 to the Trevor project.
00:41:28.000But it's going to be turned into a thing by the media for purposes of suggesting that America is really backwards, which is always so weird because, again, it's the same thing they've done with Juneteenth.
00:41:36.000Juneteenth is a mark of how far America came in abolishing slavery.
00:41:39.000And yet it is treated as a sign of how far America did not come in doing anything.
00:41:43.000Okay, it can't be a historic moment unless you allow it to be a historic moment.
00:41:46.000It can't be an important moment unless you allow it to be an important moment.
00:41:51.000I'll tell you what is an important moment in sport.
00:41:54.000Apparently, and it is a glorious moment, it is truly incredible.
00:41:57.000An Olympics New Zealand weightlifter, okay, and this weightlifter's name is Laurel Hubbard.
00:42:04.000We'll become the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics.
00:42:07.000Now, you gotta love the language here, because the reality is that in normal headlin- So much of our media is dedicated to obscuring actual stories by just changing the verbiage, by just changing the wording.
00:42:19.000Now, the actual headline should be, if we all spoke English together, the actual headline would be, biological male to become first biological male to compete at the games in women's weightlifting.
00:42:33.000If the story were just a biological female of any sort of identity, competing against other women, everybody would be like, oh, that's not a story.
00:42:39.000The reason it's a story is because this is a dude, okay?
00:42:44.000Hubbard will compete in the super heavyweight, 87 plus kilogram category.
00:42:48.000Her selection made possible by an update to qualifying requirements in May." Again, the simple adoption of the pronouns demanded changes the nature of the story.
00:42:56.000Because if you just read that sentence, you'd be like, I don't understand why this is a story.
00:42:59.000Right? If you just read the first couple of paragraphs, you would not understand what exactly is going on if you spoke English from like two years ago.
00:43:09.000Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will become the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics after being selected by New Zealand for the women's event at the Tokyo Games, a decision set to reignite a debate over inclusion and fairness in sport.
00:43:19.000Hubbard will compete in that category, her selection made possible by an update to qualifying requirements in May.
00:43:25.000Hey, you have to get all the way to the third paragraph before you understand what the hell is going on.
00:43:28.000The 43-year-old, who will be the oldest lifter at the Games, had competed in men's weightlifting competitions before transitioning in 2013.
00:43:33.000Okay, let me just put it this way to the women.
00:43:37.000This is a dude who is a full dude in every respect and continues to be a full dude just with either some surgeries or some hormone therapy, but was competing in men's weightlifting competitions As of 2013, which means you had the full bone and muscle development of a man all the way, not just through puberty, but through adulthood and was competing against dudes in the same category.
00:43:59.000And now we're going to pretend that this is an even playing field and that it makes no difference.
00:44:03.000Hubbard said, I'm grateful and humbled by the kindness and support that has been given to me by so many New Zealanders.
00:44:08.000The New Zealand Olympics chief, Karen Smith, said it was a historic moment in sport and for the New Zealand team.
00:44:13.000She is our first Olympian who has transitioned from male to female.
00:44:16.000Except you can't become a female after being a male.
00:44:51.000Hubbard has been eligible to compete at the Olympics since 2015, which the IOC issued guidelines allowing any transgender athlete to compete as a woman provided their testosterone levels are below 10 nanomoles per liter for at least 12 months before their first competition.
00:45:02.000So literally a year and a half after this person was competing as a male in male weightlifting competitions.
00:45:07.000Take some estrogen and now you can compete with the females.
00:45:18.000Advocates for transgender inclusion argue the process of transition decreases that advantage considerably, and that physical differences between athletes means there is never truly a level playing field.
00:45:27.000There are broad categories of male and female in human biology and all mammalian biology, as it turns out.
00:45:35.000But, you know, I'm rooting for Hubbard, frankly.
00:45:38.000I think that it's, I think it's great.
00:45:39.000I think Hubbard should win, and I think that every male who takes some estrogen should compete in all the female categories, and then we can truly have a more truly diverse and inclusive society.
00:45:53.000Hubbard's gold medal wins at the 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa, where she topped the podium ahead of Samoa's Commonwealth Games champion, Figuega Stowers, triggered outrage in the host nation.
00:46:02.000Samoa's weightlifting boss said Hubbard's selection for Tokyo would be like letting athletes dope, feared it would cost the small Pacific nation a medal.
00:46:43.000I think that he is the least bad of the available candidates over there.
00:46:47.000But I will never cease amusement at the fact that every single New York mayoral candidate, with the exception of one, has run directly screaming away from Bill de Blasio and wants more cops.
00:46:57.000Well done, liberal governance in New York City.
00:46:59.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today for an additional hour of content.
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