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00:00:28.000Okay, so while we watch the fire raging out of control, and good news was last night, it seems like it raged a little bit less out of control.
00:00:34.000There wasn't major rioting in Los Angeles.
00:00:36.000Doesn't seem like there was as major rioting in New York.
00:00:39.000There were some problems in New York, but it wasn't nearly as bad.
00:00:41.000DC seems to have gotten things more under control.
00:00:43.000Minneapolis was under control as well.
00:00:47.000Because of all the evil, terrible police officers and law enforcement officers who are apparently systemically racist who are out there protecting the veneer of civilization from rioting and looting.
00:00:56.000We ought to recognize a couple things can be true at once.
00:01:00.000Second, the police who you are indicting as systemically racist and evil are the people who are standing between you and a smashed window.
00:01:06.000They're the people who are standing between you and being beaten on the streets.
00:01:09.000There is a reality in the world and that reality is there are bad people who are willing to do you harm And the people who are in blue are very often the last line of defense against those people.
00:01:19.000That does not mean that police brutality is okay.
00:01:21.000It means that you ought to actually be accurate in your portrayal of the police instead of this binary decision-making where you see people chanting things like abolish the police.
00:01:30.000Abolish the police ain't gonna go so well if the last week was any indicator.
00:01:34.000Okay, so here is the thing that's super irritating about everything that is going on.
00:01:38.000I mean, there are many things that are very irritating about everything that's going on.
00:01:41.000The big narrative that is supremely irritating is the narrative that Americans, broadly speaking, are responsible for the death of George Floyd.
00:01:50.000And this can be attributed to a larger narrative, which is that America, writ large, is responsible for every inequality that exists in America, that inequality is inequity, and that every inequality can be laid at the feet of the American system.
00:02:02.000Which is, of course, how you get people justifying the looting of Target.
00:02:05.000Because the idea is, by looting Target, I am looting an institution of the American hierarchy.
00:02:10.000Now normally we would just say that if you loot Target, you're a piece of crap.
00:02:14.000But, as long as you cite these sort of Marxist pseudo-studies that university professors and members of our media spout, as long as you say that Target is just an institution of the capitalist structure, and therefore you breaking into an ATM is fighting back against the system that oppresses you, Well, then apparently it is utterly and totally fine.
00:02:33.000This would assume that most Americans didn't care about George Floyd.
00:02:36.000And if you listen to our politicians, it really is incredible.
00:02:38.000You listen to our politicians in our media and many of the protesters, they're screaming to the heavens that Americans don't care about George Floyd.
00:02:44.000Weird, because every single person I have met ever knows George Floyd's name.
00:02:47.000And every single person I have met ever believes that that police officer should go to jail for putting his knee on the neck of a man for nine long minutes while he says, I can't breathe and provides no threat to the officers.
00:02:58.000I'm still waiting to meet the people who think that the police officer was completely fine.
00:03:02.000But there is widespread, widespread agreement on virtually all of these issues.
00:03:09.000The fact is the vast majority of Americans, I mean like nearly all of them, believe that police brutality is bad.
00:03:16.000And if you look at the statistics on the protests that are happening right now, there is a poll that is out from Morning Consult and Monmouth.
00:03:27.000Regardless of the actual actions taken, do you think the anger that led to these protests was fully justified, partially justified, or not at all justified?
00:04:15.000And another 13% say they are somewhat satisfied, and neither did satisfied nor satisfied.
00:04:21.000Okay, so that means that, doing some quick mental math, 84% of Americans say they are somewhere between, eh, they're okay, and they're doing a great job on their own police force.
00:04:30.000So does that suggest that people believe that their police force is systemically racist and that their police officers are evil and terrible and no good and very bad?
00:04:37.000Also, a clear majority of Americans say they support supplementing city police forces with the military in order to stop rioting.
00:04:43.000A very large majority of Americans, in fact, 58% of Americans say they either strongly support or somewhat support sending in the military, if necessary, in order to stop rioting.
00:05:01.000Now, there is one data point where Americans have shifted.
00:05:04.000So all of those stats, by the way, are extremely consistent.
00:05:07.000They've been very consistent for a very long time.
00:05:09.000Americans like and respect police officers in their neighborhood, by and large, by statistics, by poll statistics.
00:05:14.000Americans, by and large, Like, universally, think police brutality is bad.
00:05:19.000And Americans don't want to see rioting and looting in their streets.
00:05:21.000These seem like things that we can all agree on, right?
00:05:22.000That seems like a pretty good starting point for a society and a civilization.
00:05:26.000The one area where opinion has shifted is in the area of whether they believe that black Americans are more likely to be victims of excessive force than white Americans.
00:05:37.000In July 2016, when Barack Obama was president, that answer was 34% of Americans said that black Americans were more likely than white Americans to be victims of excessive force if they are black.
00:05:47.000That was during Barack Obama's presidency.
00:05:49.000Now Trump is president, and that number has skyrocketed to 57%.
00:05:51.000I would suggest that the partisan breakdown is that a lot more Democrats than Republicans have now shifted their opinions on this because of the nature of the President of the United States.
00:05:59.000I think that has very little to do with the underlying feelings about all of this.
00:06:02.000So if we all basically agree on a lot of this stuff, then why the division?
00:06:06.000And the answer, again, goes back to this suggestion that is being put forward by the media, by our politicians, by academia.
00:06:13.000by the political class, that the death of George Floyd is supposed to be a referendum on you as a person, on you as an individual, and on America writ large.
00:06:21.000And there we do have some pretty significant and severe disagreements.
00:06:24.000And we'll get to those disagreements in just one second.
00:06:28.000First, let's talk about the fact that if you've got a medical problem, like for example, erectile dysfunction, it can be really difficult to talk about that with a doctor.
00:07:32.000All right, so we're gonna get to the narrative problem in just a second, but suffice it to say that the narrative dichotomy that's been set up by our media, by our political betters, by the elites in our society, That political narrative that America is bad and terrible means that our political class have gone incredibly soft on rioters and looters.
00:07:52.000They've gone incredibly soft on people who are acting violently.
00:08:46.000Of a family member standing over his body as the man dies on the sidewalk.
00:08:52.000But you wouldn't know David Dornan's name, really, except for a few media stories.
00:08:57.000We're going to have mass nationwide protests over George Floyd, because apparently the great threat to black Americans is the police.
00:09:03.000But this 77-year-old retired police captain Who is black, was murdered, and nobody's gonna know David Dorn's name within 48 hours, because that's the way our media culture works in this country.
00:09:14.000Just as nobody knows the name of the federal officer, the black federal officer who was shot to death and murdered in cold blood in Oakland, nobody's gonna remember his name either, because it doesn't fit the narrative.
00:09:22.000The narrative is that black people in America are an existential threat because of white people in America, even though that is not true.
00:09:29.000It isn't true, and we're gonna get to how not true that is in just one second.
00:09:32.000So, President Trump, of course, tweeted about the officer who was shot, And he tweeted out a tribute to the officers and our highest respect to the family of David Dorn, a great police captain from St.
00:09:41.000Louis who was viciously shot and killed by despicable looters last night.
00:09:44.000We honor our police officers perhaps more than ever before.
00:09:48.000And we should keep in mind, by the way, that the police in the vast majority of situations, as in like 98% of situations, are doing their best and are not violating the law.
00:09:58.000And yes, there are police officers who are brutal.
00:09:59.000And yes, there are police officers who are doing bad things.
00:10:01.000And you can see videos of them right now.
00:10:02.000Because if you expand the number of police-civilian interactions, the number of bad things on a raw level is going to go up.
00:10:08.000That's just the reality of the situation.
00:10:11.000But officers like David Dorn, who again is a retired police officer, they matter too.
00:10:20.000In New York City, Bill de Blasio, who's the head of the police department, because in New York City, the mayor is the head of the police department, he's allowed the NYPD officers to basically, they've been abandoned.
00:10:31.000There was video of NYPD cars yesterday that was going around, and how many of them had their windows shattered, how many of them had been spray painted.
00:10:45.000And by the way, abandonment of civilians, which we'll get to in just one second.
00:10:49.000But here is a list in the last 96 hours of the police officers who have been attacked over the last 96 hours.
00:10:57.000And you won't hear about any of this, right?
00:10:59.000Because again, the story is only the police officers are the bad guys and that they are systematically attempting to exterminate, viciously brutalize black Americans.
00:11:07.000Even though the fact is that the people that they are largely protecting from crime in areas where they are having encounters with black Americans are other black Americans.
00:11:14.000The police get called when a black American calls the police because another black American is trying to hurt them, just the same way the police show up when a white American calls because a white American is trying to hurt them.
00:11:23.000And the vast majority of crime in the United States is intraracial, not interracial.
00:11:29.000And by the way, if you're going to speak about interracial crime, there is vastly more by percentages black on white crime than there is white on black crime.
00:11:36.000But the bottom line here is that if we're gonna talk about what the police are doing on a day-to-day level, what we see in the George Floyd case is not what the police are doing on a day-to-day level.
00:11:52.000And by the way, there are certain policies that we should all be able to agree on, that the left won't agree on five moments from now, right?
00:11:59.000We should get rid of qualified immunity.
00:12:01.000That means that right now, by 1982 Supreme Court doctrine, Police officers, if you are acting outside the scope of your authority, if you violate somebody's civil rights, you're granted immunity by Supreme Court doctrine.
00:12:14.000Just because you are in a blue uniform does not mean that you get to put your knee on the neck of a guy for nine minutes while he asphyxiates, obviously.
00:12:21.000And then there is the problem of police unions.
00:12:24.000Public sector unions across the board are a problem.
00:12:27.000I'm one of the few Americans, right, left, or center, who's been saying this for years.
00:12:31.000Police unions, fire unions, teachers unions, anybody who's unionizing against the taxpayer, which is what public sector unions are, it's a problem.
00:12:40.000Because then, presumably, you're going to strike against the public.
00:12:43.000That's always the threat of a union, is they're going to strike.
00:12:46.000And negotiating contracts with the city that are not in the interest of the civilian population is pretty ridiculous.
00:12:51.000So those are some things we could do right now.
00:12:53.000We could simply say that police unions, that public sector unions broadly, ought not exist.
00:12:58.000That is something that, by the way, that was true for most of American history.
00:13:02.000It only became public sector unions as important facets of American life in the 1930s, really, late 1930s under FDR and under the Wagner Act.
00:13:10.000But those are things the left won't agree on in a moment, because as soon as we get down to specifics, we realize the left doesn't actually care about the specifics.
00:13:16.000For a lot of people politically, all they care about is the broader message, which we'll get to.
00:13:20.000So, in the last 96 hours, here's what's happened to the police officers who, broadly speaking, have been maligned as racist and part of a systemically discriminatory system.
00:13:29.000A Las Vegas metropolitan police officer shot in the back of the head struggling with a rider.
00:13:32.000An active shooter opened fire on law enforcement at a Las Vegas courthouse.
00:13:36.000Louis police officers were shot by an active shooter.
00:13:38.000A New York police officer was struck by a vehicle.
00:13:39.000Three Buffalo law enforcement officers were struck by a vehicle in front of a police station.
00:13:43.000Three Davenport law enforcement officers were ambushed and one was shot.
00:13:47.000132 officers were injured in Chicago during a riot.
00:13:49.000Nine Pittsburgh officers were injured by objects during a riot.
00:13:52.000Several officers in Rhode Island were injured during riots.
00:13:54.000An active shooter opened fire at the Oakland Police Department.
00:13:56.000Two officers were struck in the head with projectiles in Santa Ana.
00:13:59.000Two Richland officers were struck in Virginia.
00:14:01.000One officer was struck in the head by a brick in Albany.
00:14:03.000Four Prince William County police officers sustained head injuries from projectiles, seven officers injured in Sacramento, several officers shot at and injured in Lynchburg, several Champaign police officers injured, three Oak Law police officers injured, 21 officers injured in Salt Lake City, at least 50 Secret Service agents injured by Molotov cocktails in Washington, three Denver police officers run over by vehicle, 33 New York police officers injured during riots, six Athens police officers injured during a protest, two Capra police officers injured during a riot in Harrisburg, 12 Las Vegas metropolitan police officers injured during riots.
00:14:30.00021 Minneapolis law enforcement officers injured in riots.
00:14:33.000One federal protective services officer shot and killed.
00:14:48.000The police officers who are on the streets are being abandoned by a lot of the political class.
00:14:51.000Again, in defense of the broader narrative, which is that police departments across the country are systemically racist because America is systemically racist.
00:14:57.000And thus, all Americans are somehow guilty for the death of George Floyd.
00:15:02.000About which 99.99% of Americans agree that the officer who did that should go to jail.
00:15:07.000Now we're gonna get to the Sergeant's Benevolence Association.
00:15:10.000They put out a statement that is pretty astonishing yesterday in response to the abandonment of the police force by Bill de Blasio, who's just a disgrace.
00:15:27.000It sounds like you're gonna have to go get like a personal painter to come to your house and you're all gonna have to stand there for three hours while they paint you in a still life.
00:16:50.000The Sergeant's Benevolence Association says, Dear fellow sergeant, I'm being inundated with calls, text messages, and emails pleading for help.
00:16:57.000Please know I'm reading each and every correspondence I receive.
00:16:59.000I want each of you to know, I'm very much aware of everything that is occurring in our city.
00:17:44.000You have inspectors and chiefs running around the city with no direction.
00:17:46.000Leave the police work to the frontline supervisors.
00:17:48.000I've been at these riots since the beginning.
00:17:49.000I've been hit with eggs, bricks, and rocks.
00:17:52.000My officers are depleted, tired, and beat up.
00:17:54.000Our officers and supervisors are getting hurt every night doing their jobs without any support from our PC, our chief of police, and our mayor.
00:18:01.000And this, by the way, is the widespread sentiment for police officers in areas across the country.
00:18:06.000I'm talking to police officers in major cities across the country.
00:18:09.000Again, because our political class is invested in a particular narrative.
00:18:13.000And that narrative is that the violence and the looting and the treatment of police officers is an outgrowth.
00:18:17.000It's a response to the evils of our entire system.
00:18:24.000So it comes, first and foremost, from the media.
00:18:26.000So our media, who are all Ivy League-educated, college-educated intelligentsia, who never are going to have to actually be in the middle of one of these riots, ever.
00:18:35.000They get to sit in their cush mansions in Upper West Side New York.
00:18:40.000They don't have to worry about their small store being looted in Van Nuys.
00:18:43.000They don't have to worry about their storefront windows being shattered in the middle of Midtown.
00:18:48.000So they can sit in their studios and they can do hits on CNN.
00:18:52.000Nicole Hannah-Jones, the New York Times editor who just won a Pulitzer Prize.
00:18:55.000She just won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1619 project, which again is a bag of garbage.
00:19:00.000She said she was on CBS News last night, and she says it's actually not violent to loot.
00:19:30.000Burning down a black store owner's store.
00:19:32.000Or a white store owner's store, by the way.
00:19:34.000I have some notes in a few moments about the store owners who are posting BLM messages on the plywood outside their stores in a vain attempt to get the rioters and looters to leave them alone.
00:19:44.000But here was Nikole Hannah-Jones last night.
00:19:45.000Again, this commentary is so stupid she should be given another Pulitzer.
00:19:49.000Here she was explaining that violence does not include looting and rioting.
00:19:53.000It is disturbing to see property being destroyed.
00:19:56.000It is disturbing to see people taking property from stores.
00:20:02.000And violence is when an agent of the state kneels on a man's neck until all of the life is leached out of his body.
00:20:12.000Destroying property which can be replaced is not violence.
00:20:16.000And to put those things, to use the exact same language to describe those two things, I think really, it's not moral to do that.
00:20:27.000Oh, weird, because you know what I've heard over and over and over from members of the intelligentsia left is that speech is violence, hate speech is violence, using the wrong pronoun is violence, but apparently burning down someone's store is not violence.
00:20:58.000Too many see the protests as the problem.
00:21:01.000No, the problem is what forced your fellow citizens to take to the streets.
00:21:07.000Persistent and poisonous inequities and injustice.
00:21:11.000And please, show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful, because I can show you that outraged citizens are the ones who have made America what she is and led to any major milestones.
00:21:23.000Be honest, this is not a tranquil time.
00:21:28.000By the way, peaceful protests are usually the stuff that actually affects change.
00:21:32.000If you want to affect political change, the last thing you should do is riot.
00:21:35.000It turns out that Richard Nixon probably won an election in 1968 on the back of the rioting of 1968.
00:21:41.000If you actually want people elected to oppose your agenda, by all means go ahead and riot and burn crap down.
00:22:18.000I'm looking at those live pictures next to you and they seem very peaceful.
00:22:21.000There are always folks on the fringes of protests that do the things that we don't like.
00:22:26.000A few people who break a few windows and burn a few cars.
00:22:30.000No one should be destructing property and that sort of thing, but I understand the anger.
00:22:37.000Okay, this was the narrative from the media.
00:22:39.000By the way, you would never hear anything remotely like this for a cause the media didn't love.
00:22:45.000And then the media love this particular cause, because again, it ties into the narrative.
00:22:48.000We're going to get to the narrative and the falsehood of the narrative in just one second.
00:22:50.000But there is nobody who, if this were a Tea Party protest and swaths of the Tea Party were going out and looting and rioting, if this were an anti-lockdown protest and swaths of people were going, I mean, they were going nuts and calling the protesters violent for exercising their right to bear arms and breathing too close to other people.
00:23:08.000Now you have people who are attacking cops, burning down.
00:23:10.000We had curfew in a county of 10 million people in Los Angeles last night.
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00:24:58.000Okay, so what does this narrative that I've been talking about, and I'm going to get to in a second, lead to?
00:25:04.000The narrative leads to the bizarre situation where if you defend your own property, we are now going to declare you a vigilante.
00:25:09.000This is what happened in Philadelphia last night.
00:25:11.000According to townhall.com, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and Police Commissioner Daniel Outlaw paid lip service to the right of citizens to defend their businesses and lives on Tuesday during a press conference.
00:25:20.000But in the next breath, they expressed how disturbed they were that people would take matters into their own hands.
00:25:25.000Because it turns out when the police won't defend you, people tend to defend themselves.
00:25:49.000Well, because a group of four men using bolt cutters cut a lock before forcing open a door to the gun range about 4.15 a.m.
00:25:55.000The suspects then proceeded to a second floor, and that's where Isabella was waiting for them.
00:25:59.000One of the males pointed a gun at the owner.
00:26:01.000That's when the owner of the gun shop, who was in possession of one of his guns, fired several shots, striking one male at least one time in the head.
00:26:08.000So what exactly did the politicians have to say?
00:26:10.000Outlaw said, we do not endorse or condone any form of vigilante justice or taking the law into one's own hands.
00:26:18.000She encouraged people to use safe nonviolent methods when possible.
00:26:21.000She was forced to admit that there are very clear laws that allow us to protect ourselves and our property from harm.
00:26:25.000Kenny said he was deeply troubled by the incident.
00:26:36.000But again, this ties into the narrative that breaking into stores, rioting, looting, all of this ties into the bottom line narrative that America is cruel and America is evil and America is bad.
00:26:45.000And this has become a bipartisan narrative.
00:26:49.000So it started off as a narrative in academia and on the left.
00:26:51.000And now it has made its way into conciliatory Republican circles.
00:26:56.000There are a lot of conciliatory Republicans who are trying to understand the anger that they are seeing out there.
00:27:02.000And instead of saying, okay, well, the anger about police brutality is justified, the anger that suggests that America is to blame, broadly speaking, for instances like what we saw with George Floyd, that is not justified.
00:27:12.000That sometimes anger is not actually justified.
00:27:14.000That certain types of anger may be justified and certain types of anger may not be justified.
00:27:18.000We all feel this way in our lives, that there are certain types of anger that are justified and certain that are not.
00:27:22.000But just because somebody's angry, anger is not self-justifying.
00:27:25.000You have to provide evidence that your anger is rooted in something that is true.
00:27:30.000Okay, but that apparently has gone by the wayside.
00:27:31.000So, this has been a longtime democratic narrative, is that America is deeply racist and deeply sexist and bigoted, rooted in racism, that America's history began 1619 with the importation of African slaves to the American continent, that it did not begin in 1776 in freedom and liberty, that the American story is truly about the exploitation of black Americans by white Americans, and that has never let up.
00:27:51.000It has minimized slightly, but not really.
00:27:57.000That's been the narrative of the left for a very long time.
00:27:59.000And thus, all inequalities can be chalked up to America's innate evil.
00:28:03.000And even if you're not racist, even if you've never done a thing that's racist, you are a product of that racist system.
00:28:07.000And therefore, you are just as guilty as Derek Chauvin for what happened to George Floyd because you looked the other way.
00:28:25.000That's a big accomplishment for a man who's on the verge of senility.
00:28:28.000Here was Joe Biden, the former vice president, who for eight years apparently had nothing to say about, about any of this stuff, except to rip police every so often.
00:28:36.000Didn't solve the problem after 36 years in the Senate.
00:28:38.000But here he is now explaining that we've all turned away from inequality, which again, I'm going to need the evidence considering that Everyone agrees that the officer in the George Floyd case should go to jail and that when officers are brutal they should go to jail.
00:28:55.000I'm not going to accept collective responsibility for something I didn't do any more than a black American should accept collective responsibility for rioting and looting.
00:29:17.000The moment has come for our nation to deal with systemic racism, to deal with the growing economic inequity that exists in our nation, to deal with the denial of the promise of this nation.
00:29:32.000Okay, so he is just fulfilling the promise laid out by LBJ back in the 1960s, suggesting that you don't have to identify an actual inequity.
00:29:39.000You don't have to identify a difference in law.
00:29:41.000You don't have to identify an actual racist.
00:29:43.000All you have to do is say that when something happens that is unequal, that is an indicator that America, writ large, is broadly guilty.
00:30:15.000You can just go right down there and protest it.
00:30:17.000But going into a residential area, and then sitting, thousands of people sitting outside a private residence, because you don't like Eric Garcetti, is, can we point out, kind of threatening?
00:30:27.000It's right outside, how would you feel if somebody were right outside your door?
00:30:43.000You're killing grandma if you don't wear a mask a hundred feet away from everybody else.
00:30:46.000But if you're protesting against racial inequality, that's totally different than if you want to just go back to work or something, or you want to go to synagogue or something.
00:31:11.000A listening tour just means I'm not going to change anything, but I'm going to express my sympathy for your feelings.
00:31:16.000We're not going to address the core issues and whether you are justified in your feelings, and whether there's any data to back this, and practical measures to alleviate some of the problems.
00:31:24.000Instead, we're going to go on a listening tour!
00:31:26.000And you know I'm sympathetic because Eric Garcetti feels your pain.
00:32:04.000You're arguing with a straw man America that says that black people should simply die.
00:32:07.000What is the statistical evidence that anyone in America believes this?
00:32:11.000But this, of course, is the narrative that is set, because once the narrative is set, there's a predictable result.
00:32:15.000And that predictable result is unrest.
00:32:17.000It is, because once you declare that America is rotten, root and branch, once you declare that the foundations of America are fundamentally rotten, you cannot then suggest, well, what we need to do is we need to do a little touch-up job right here, you know, on like the corner of the building.
00:32:31.000Once the foundations of the building are completely rotten, there's only one solution, which is to destroy the building.
00:32:36.000And you can see that many of the rioters and looters, and yes, the protestors, some of the protestors, by the way, to pretend that all the protestors are unsympathetic to the rioting and the looting is not true.
00:32:46.000There are some protestors who are very sympathetic.
00:32:48.000We haven't done polls of the protestors.
00:32:56.000But to pretend, as the media have done, that all the protestors are unsympathetic to the looting is simply not true, especially when a lot of these A lot of the rioting and looting is springing out from the protests.
00:33:05.000They started the protests and the idea they're outside infiltrators, the data are not too certain on that.
00:33:11.000It is not blaming all protesters writ large for the actions of rioters and looters.
00:33:16.000But Ami Horowitz, documentarian, he went to Minneapolis and he actually asked some of the protesters, not the rioters and looters, some of the protesters how they felt about the rioting and the looting.
00:34:03.000Okay, if you push the narrative that America is rooted in exploitation and slavery and Jim Crow, if you push the narrative that all of today's inequality is driven by yesterday's injustices or today's continuing racism, Then is it a surprise when people rebel against that?
00:34:35.000They were marching with protesters against police brutality.
00:34:37.000But I'm certainly not going to march with people who suggest that Americans writ large are responsible for individual actions that are bad, racist, or evil.
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00:36:26.000And I think that it buys into a particular set of lies.
00:36:29.000And then we're going to get into the pathetic attempt by some Americans to basically avoid the rage of the mob by essentially parroting a line that is not true.
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00:37:36.000So the narrative again is America is evil.
00:37:47.000Every inequality in America is due to inequity.
00:37:50.000This comes out in as stupid as possible fashion in a column by a person named Savala Trebzinski, the executive director of the Center for Social Justice at the UC Berkeley School of Law.
00:37:59.000She has a book about race, gender, and the body published by Simon & Schuster in 2021.
00:38:03.000I'm sure it will be a massive bestseller.
00:38:05.000It is called Black and Brown People Have Been Protesting for Centuries.
00:38:07.000It's white people who are responsible for what happens next.
00:38:10.000What I love about that title, particularly, is the idea that white people had nothing to do with, you know, ending slavery.
00:38:15.000White people had nothing to do with ending Jim Crow.
00:38:17.000That basically there's this stark dichotomy between the races.
00:38:20.000Which, of course, is not true in terms of there are lots of good white people and lots of bad white people.
00:38:24.000There are lots of great black people and lots of bad black people.
00:38:27.000It turns out that individuals are both good and bad.
00:38:56.000You know why no one raised their hand?
00:38:58.000Because they're afraid you're going to yell at them.
00:39:00.000Because if you say, I know I'm white because of the color of my skin, you're gonna say, no, you're not acknowledging the systems and hierarchies of race that have made you so powerful.
00:39:09.000And if you say, I don't think of myself as white, I think of myself as Jewish, well, you don't understand that you are white because of the systems of privilege and power.
00:39:17.000No matter what you say, there's no right answer.
00:39:20.000According to this professor over at UC Berkeley School of Law, the way that you know you're white in the end is because you are part of whiteness.
00:39:27.000So you shouldn't be guilty because you're white.
00:39:30.000She says white students often stop short, unable to identify and articulate the cultural, political, economic, and historic clues that tell them they are part of whiteness, let alone what being part of whiteness truly means.
00:39:42.000Then I step in to suggest that this phenomenon is a significant part of America's problem with race.
00:39:46.000If you answer, she yells at you because you don't understand your own whiteness unless you shout that you are guilty for all of America's problems.
00:39:52.000And then if you don't answer, that's also the problem.
00:39:56.000So, this particular narrative is the end point of the academic nonsense that suggests collective responsibility for individual sins.
00:40:34.000It remains a shocking failure that many African Americans, especially young African American men, are harassed and threatened in their own country.
00:40:40.000Okay, can we have some, like, data on that?
00:40:42.000Or some specific people who are doing that?
00:41:03.000I understand the short-term strategy, but there's a problem.
00:41:06.000When you legitimize the anger by also legitimizing a lie, namely that America is in a horrible, terrible place for black Americans to live, that black Americans cannot experience equality, that black Americans are innately under the thumb of white America, there are going to be predictable results that do not end up working inside the political system.
00:41:24.000So George W. Bush puts out this statement, along with Laura Bush.
00:41:27.000He says, this tragedy, and a lot of similar tragedies, raises a long overdue question.
00:41:32.000How do we end systemic racism in our society?
00:41:34.000The only way to see ourselves in a true light is to listen to the voices of so many who are hurting and grieving.
00:41:38.000Those who set out to silence those voices do not understand the meaning of America or how it becomes a better place.
00:41:42.000Not sure who's trying to silence the voices, but are we allowed to say that if you suggest that America is a systemically racist place without any evidence whatsoever of actual policy, that maybe you need to provide some evidence?
00:41:52.000That's not silencing, that's asking for evidence.
00:41:57.000And anecdotal evidence is a form of evidence, but it is not statistical evidence.
00:42:04.000The buying into the narrative that America broadly writ is guilty for the sins of people like Derek Chauvin, that every one of those instances can be broadened out and blamed on American hierarchies of power, is a trope that has a predictable endpoint, and the predictable endpoint is the disintegration of the country.
00:43:12.000Disparate impact is the idea that if you pass a law and has a disparate impact on one group, meaning one group is harder hit than another group, that this is an element of racism.
00:43:21.000I will not endorse that version of systemic racism, because every single law that has ever been passed in human history impacts groups differently.
00:43:29.000The question is whether the law is directed at the group.
00:43:34.000The conflation is, okay, if black Americans by and large are poorer than white Americans, then that must be because of systemic racism.
00:43:41.000We can't look at any of the other factors.
00:43:43.000If more black Americans on a population level adjusted basis are shot by the police than white Americans, then we immediately have to announce that this is an aspect of American racism.
00:43:54.000The simple inequality is the inequity.
00:43:56.000The fact that group statistics are not identical across groups is evidence that the system is discriminating in favor of certain people against other people.
00:44:05.000Perfect example of this sort of bizarre and unfounded logic today in the New York Times.
00:44:09.000Minneapolis police use force against black people at seven times the rate of whites.
00:44:13.000Now, the first question for anybody who sees that headline is, okay, so why are the Minneapolis police encountering more black criminals than white criminals?
00:44:22.000And are those based on actual phone calls from people reporting crimes?
00:44:26.000Because, let me give you another example.
00:44:28.000Virtually all Americans who go to prison for violent crimes are men.
00:44:49.000So, if the question is, how many people are being shot by police?
00:44:51.000The second question should be, okay, and how many people committed crimes?
00:44:55.000Because if you look at the Washington Post database of how many people in America were black and unarmed and shot by police in 2019, this is the Washington Post database, the answer in 2019 was nine.
00:45:06.000If you want to talk about the number of black Americans who were shot who are unarmed and who are not fleeing from police, the answer is three.
00:45:13.000Does that sound like the extermination of black people across the country?
00:45:25.000It is not racist to point out that there are differential crime statistics any more than it is racist to point out that there are differential statistics when it turns to police officers shooting people.
00:45:40.000But apparently if you point out that a disproportionate share of crime is committed by young black men, this is racist.
00:45:46.000But if you point out that a disproportionate share of young black men are shot by police, then this is woke.
00:45:52.000How about both of those are stats and they are related stats, but we're not allowed to point that out.
00:45:56.000We just have to attribute the disparity, the second disparity, not the first.
00:46:00.000The second disparity we are supposed to attribute to broad scale American racism.
00:46:04.000So we have this long, long article about the evils of the Minneapolis police, My favorite quote in this is from David Schultz, professor at Hamline University in St.
00:46:11.000He says, the disparities in the use of force in Minneapolis parallel large racial gaps and vital measures in the city, like income, education, and unemployment.
00:46:19.000He says, it just mirrors the disparities of so many other things in which Minneapolis comes in very badly.
00:46:23.000Okay, might it mirror the disparity in crime statistics?
00:47:14.000But instead, we have to drive this narrative over and over and over again that every inequality is due to the innate evils of the United States.
00:47:23.000And so you saw CNN put up a piece today about racial inequalities in the United States in terms of the wealth gap.
00:47:29.000It is true that there are certain disparities in the wealth gap that are attributable to historic injustices like redlining, for example, because so much of wealth is concentrated in homeownership, for example.
00:47:40.000But it would not explain, racism would not explain, the continuing income disparity between black Americans and white Americans, particularly because you know where there is no income disparity.
00:47:49.000If you look at parental income, if your parents are poor, you are not going to have as high an income, generally speaking, after the same period of time as somebody who's born in a rich family, which is not a particular surprise, right?
00:47:59.000You're going to grow up in a richer community, you're going to have more connections.
00:48:02.000That is a class issue, that is not a race issue.
00:48:04.000But Let's say that you're a black woman who was born in a wealthy black family versus a white woman born in a wealthy white family.
00:48:22.000It's only among males, which might implicate behavior because it turns out that black women are also black.
00:48:29.000So again, statistics I know have been verboten here because we're trying to drive a narrative.
00:48:33.000It is wrong for people to try and buy their way out of conflict by buying into narratives that are going to create deeper conflicts over the nature of America.
00:48:41.000Because again, the idea that America is systemically racist and broadly racist just allows people to, number one, avoid naming and shaming.
00:48:51.000And being specific about policies and people who are doing bad things, and instead allows them to say the entire system is guilty, therefore tear down the entire system.
00:48:58.000And if you don't say tear down the entire system, then you're a racist.
00:49:01.000That is the implication of the narrative that is being drawn.
00:49:03.000Okay, in just a second, I'm going to get to some actual police statistics, and we'll talk about systemic police racism.
00:49:09.000We'll also talk about this attempt to buy penance, particularly by woke white people.
00:49:13.000Who are attempting to demonstrate their bona fides by mouthing platitudes.
00:49:28.000It ain't gonna matter because next time there is a police officer who is white who kills a black man unjustifiably, nobody's gonna care that you put up a black square three years ago.
00:49:37.000We're gonna get to all this in just one second.
00:49:40.000First, let's talk about the actual statistics.
00:49:43.000So Heather McDonald, who has spent her life studying the statistics on police brutality and racial disparities, she has a piece in the Wall Street Journal that is worth reading.
00:49:52.000We can acknowledge that people are angry.
00:49:54.000We can acknowledge that people have anecdotal evidence of the police mistreating them.
00:49:57.000We can even acknowledge that if you are a black person living in a high-crime area, there is a better chance that you had a bad run-in with a police officer than there is if you are a black person living in a high-income area, or if you're a white person living in a high-income area, or a white person living in a low-crime area.
00:50:12.000The area is determinative, and the amount of interaction between police officers and people of a particular race is determinative, too.
00:50:19.000My guess is that you can find quite a bit of anecdotal evidence of police abusing Latinos in East Los Angeles, where there are high crime rates and a lot of Hispanic populations.
00:50:28.000But, here's Heather McDonald talking about the myth of systemic police racism.
00:50:34.000She says, this charge of systemic police bias was wrong during the Obama years, it remains so today.
00:50:38.000However, sickening the video of Floyd's arrest, it isn't representative of the 375 million annual contacts police officers have with civilians.
00:50:45.000A solid body of evidence finds no structural bias in the criminal justice system with regard to arrests, prosecution, or sentencing.
00:50:51.000Crime and suspect behavior, not race, determine most police actions.
00:50:54.000In 2019, police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous.
00:51:00.000African Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops last year, 235, a ratio that has remained stable since 2015.
00:51:07.000Okay, so first of all, we should know just right off the bat that police officers fatally shot 235 black people last year.
00:51:20.000That share of black victims is less than what black crime rates would predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects.
00:51:27.000In 2018, the last year for which such data have been published, African Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S.
00:51:34.000and committed about 60% of robberies, although they are 13% of the population.
00:51:38.000In fact, if you actually want to break down that subset even further, You shouldn't really use 13% of the population as a substitute because really you're talking about young black men.
00:51:45.000It is not black women who are committing homicide and robbery, right?
00:51:48.000It's a smaller percentage of the population even than that.
00:51:51.000The post defines unarmed broadly to include such cases as a suspect in Newark, New Jersey who had a loaded handgun in his car during a police chase.
00:51:55.000Washington Post that is down from 38 and 32 in 2015.
00:51:58.000The Post defines unarmed broadly to include such cases as a suspect in Newark, New Jersey, who had a loaded handgun in his car during a police chase.
00:52:06.000That guy was still considered unarmed by the Post.
00:52:08.000In 2018, there were 7,400 black homicide Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African Americans killed in 2019.
00:52:19.000By contrast, a police officer is 18 and a half times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is likely to be killed by a police officer.
00:52:29.000On Memorial Day weekend in Chicago alone, 10 African Americans were killed in drive-by shootings.
00:52:48.000The latest in a series of studies undercutting the claim of systemic police bias was published in August 2019 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
00:52:55.000The researchers found that the more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that a member of that group will be fatally shot by the police officer.
00:53:03.000There is no significant evidence of anti-Black disparity in the likelihood of being shot by the police.
00:53:08.000A 2015 Justice Department analysis of the Philly Police Department found that white police officers were less likely than black or Hispanic officers to shoot unarmed black suspects.
00:53:16.000Research by Harvard economist Roland Fryer found no evidence of racial discrimination in shootings.
00:53:22.000So, none of this matters, though, because the narrative must be driven.
00:53:27.000And the easiest way for the narrative to be driven is to bully people into buying the narrative and to repeating the narrative.
00:53:33.000So, yesterday, I drove down Ventura Boulevard in the Valley because there were threats online that there was going to be rioting and looting in Encino and in Sherman Oaks.
00:53:42.000And I would say a quarter of the businesses were boarded up.
00:53:45.000There are a bunch of businesses that were boarded up.
00:53:46.000People had boarded up their windows so they didn't want them to be smashed and rocks thrown at the windows.
00:53:51.000And I would say of those, about half of them had BLM spray painted on the Black Lives Matter spray painted on the plywood or Justice for George Floyd painted on the plywood or something like that.
00:54:04.000Do you think that they spray-painted that on the plywood because they're out joining the protests?
00:54:08.000Or do you think they painted that on the plywood because they're under the strange misimpression that people who loot their stores give a damn about George Floyd or about racial justice?
00:54:16.000They were attempting to avoid their store windows being broken.
00:54:19.000You saw this, I saw several of these stores had signs up on the window that said minority-owned businesses.
00:54:25.000Which, by the way, is an unbelievable statement.
00:54:27.000Basically, don't break my windows if I'm your race.
00:54:30.000If you are another race, break the guy's next door windows.
00:54:55.000If we're not racially driven, then why are you putting up a race-based sign on who owns the business?
00:55:01.000The attempt by retailers, by businesses, by corporations to buy off the mob, because this is the other corollary of this.
00:55:10.000Once you've declared America as racist and systemically racist, Once you have gone to the extent of saying that Target and Best Buy, that these are just extensions of American hierarchies of power built on slavery and Jim Crow, once you say all that, there's only one way for those corporations to get off the schneid, so to speak, and that is for them to put out a mea culpa.
00:55:28.000It's for them to say, yeah, well, that may, sure, we're part of the American system, but, and we agree, we agree, America is racist, but don't hurt us because we agree with you.
00:55:39.000So the most pandering of these statements came from Nordstrom yesterday.
00:55:42.000So Nordstrom was looted over at the Grove in Los Angeles.
00:55:46.000Nordstrom put up a statement on his website, quote, The events of this weekend are one more painful reminder that injustice remains in the world.
00:55:54.000Windows and merchandise can be replaced.
00:55:55.000We continue to believe as strongly as ever that tremendous change is needed to address the issues facing black people in our country today.
00:56:13.000I'm sorry, woke white people involving themselves in performative virtue signaling so that they will be left alone online or in their business?
00:56:21.000I'm not sure how that's great for the country.
00:56:24.000You're not calling for actual changes to policy.
00:56:26.000You're not backing actual changes to policy.
00:56:29.000I'd love to see one of these corporations come out in favor of ending qualified immunity.
00:56:33.000I'd like to see one of these corporations come out, small businesses come out and say, you know what the big problem here is?
00:56:41.000I'd like to see one of these businesses come out and say, you know, one of the big problems here is that we have too little policing in high crime areas because that leads to continuing levels of crime against people of color in these areas.
00:56:52.000And that makes it very difficult to invest money in those areas.
00:56:55.000None of these businesses are going to say any of that because that's actual content.
00:56:58.000Instead, they're going to virtue signal with sloganeering, hoping they will be left alone.
00:57:03.000We're going to buy into the narrative that blame America writ large, kneel with the protesters, say that systemic racism is responsible for all inequality, and then maybe everybody can get along.
00:57:12.000That's not the way this is going to go.
00:57:14.000That's not the way this is going to go.
00:57:16.000Honestly, the best video of the last 24 hours came courtesy of our friend Ami Horowitz, who's in Minneapolis and who's in somebody's apartment building.
00:57:22.000And he took this video of these, appear to be frat bros, who are giving the thumbs up to protesters who are on the street.
00:57:29.000So they're a bunch of protesters who are walking along the street.
00:57:32.000And these frat bros start giving the thumbs up.
00:58:00.000We see this from our late night host, too.
00:58:02.000Jimmy Fallon is trying to buy his way out of out of woke jail.
00:58:05.000So Jimmy Fallon has been declared un-woke for several years, ever since he touched President Trump's hair, which is apparently the font of all evil.
00:58:12.000You're not allowed to touch President Trump's hair and ruffle it and treat him like a human being.
00:58:16.000So Fallon did that a few years ago back in 2016.
00:58:17.000He has never been let out of Woke prison since.
00:58:19.000He was leading in the ratings until then.
00:58:20.000Then the media turned on him and it became time for Woke Prince Jimmy Kimmel and Woke Prince Stephen Colbert to take the lead.
00:58:27.000So Jimmy Fallon, the other night on his show, he apologized for wearing blackface in 2000, as though this is going to get him out of Woke jail, which it will not.
00:58:48.000It turns out people cared about racism in 2000.
00:58:51.000Jimmy Kimmel apologized for it and then he hosted Don Lemon because he had to bring on his black friend to expiate his sins.
00:58:57.000If I bring on Don Lemon, one of the worst commentators in America, but he's black and he's my friend, to talk about this stuff, I have listened.
00:59:02.000I have demonstrated my listening quality.
00:59:18.000I respect this guy more than I respect most humans.
00:59:21.000So I thought about it and I realized that I can't not say I'm horrified and I'm sorry and I'm embarrassed.
00:59:31.000And what that small gesture did for me was break my own silence.
00:59:37.000And what then I started to do was talk to some experts, some of which are here tonight and this week, and I realized that the silence is the biggest crime that white guys like me and the rest of us are doing.
00:59:49.000It feels like the silence is not the biggest crime that white people are doing.
00:59:52.000It seems like the biggest crime that people are doing is actual crime.
00:59:55.000And by the way, again, I'm not sure who thought, like, the implication here is that if you do not sound off on Twitter about every issue, you therefore approve of bad behavior, which is insane.
01:00:04.000I haven't spent a lot of my time online talking about rape in the Congo.
01:00:12.000I haven't spent a ton of time talking about it because it hasn't been in the news.
01:00:15.000When it is in the news, I'll talk about it.
01:00:17.000But, I don't think that it's safe to assume that because I have not spent tons of time talking about rape in the Congo, that means I approve of rape in the Congo.
01:00:23.000I also do not believe that because Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon, and all the rest of the late night white hosts have not spent every day talking about systemic police racism, that they think that police brutality is okay.
01:00:33.000Who is, like, what, this implication is idiotic.
01:00:35.000It's idiotic, top to bottom, front to back, it's moronic.
01:00:39.000Okay, all of this, so much of this is performative.
01:00:41.000And you can tell so much of this is performative.
01:00:43.000Representative Eliot Engel, he's a Democrat from New York, let the cat out of the bag.
01:00:46.000He was supposed to speak at a rally, and he was caught on a hot mic saying, you know, I wouldn't care about making a speech in front of this crowd except that I have a primary coming up.
01:01:13.000So we're arguing over who gets to posture in front of a crowd for the sake of voting.
01:01:17.000These are people who take seriously the problems, or alternatively, you know you can, as long as you express sympathy for causes, even causes that, again, not the cause of anti-police brutality, the cause of America is bad, as long as you express sympathy for that, you can win some primary votes.
01:01:31.000Does that sound like a way to heal America, or does it really, really not?
01:01:35.000Okay, meanwhile, I have to comment on this because it's perfectly insane.
01:01:47.000Okay, so, remember that time when COVID-19 was a thing?
01:01:51.000Remember, that was really, that was kind of a thing, right?
01:01:53.000I mean, we were locked in our houses from like the middle of March all the way till now.
01:01:56.000And we were told that if you go out in public and you breathe anywhere close to anybody without a mask, you're evil and you're killing grandma.
01:02:01.000And if you talk about reopening businesses, if you even talk about it, you're killing grandma.
01:02:05.000You're engaging in an experiment in human sacrifice.
01:02:08.000Weird how that all went away over the last week.
01:02:23.000Yesterday, you had our moron Mayor Eric Garcetti Out in the middle of a crowd, in his neighborhood, with no mask, and people one foot around him.
01:02:32.000By the way, what do you think people do at rallies?
01:02:34.000Do you think that they whisper to one another, six feet apart?
01:02:36.000Or do you think they shout as loudly as possible, expelling germs from their mouth at every shout?
01:02:40.000The entire rationale for, by the way, shutting down churches, is that when people sing very loudly, they expel spittle, and that that gets in other people's orifices, and that this conveys COVID-19.
01:02:51.000What do you think protests with tens of thousands of people do?
01:03:31.000People pick up on the signal, you're not taking it seriously, when you're obviously not taking it seriously.
01:03:35.000NPR printed a piece yesterday called, Protesting Racism vs. Risking COVID-19.
01:03:41.000I wouldn't weigh these crises separately.
01:03:44.000So apparently, and then they quote supposed experts in the issue as saying that protesting racial inequality is very important because racial inequality kills people.
01:03:56.000But COVID-19 also kills people, but if you protest racism, you're also stopping COVID-19.
01:04:02.000So basically, if I go out in a giant crowd and I pray, COVID-19 is going to get me.
01:04:06.000If I go out there and I read Torah this weekend with my family at a shul, COVID-19 COVID-19 is, this is the most evil virus I've ever heard of.
01:04:15.000COVID-19 hates Jews, but here's the good news.
01:04:22.000COVID-19 will just stop existing as soon as you're protesting racism.
01:04:25.000So if you go out there, and in some ways it's very anti-Jewish, it seems, like COVID-19, very anti-Christian, very anti-Jewish.
01:04:31.000But in other ways, COVID-19 is really super virtuous.
01:04:34.000And the way that you know COVID-19 is really virtuous is that if you were to lock down protest, COVID-19 was not only going to kill you, it was going to kill your grandmother you're not associating with.
01:04:41.000But, if you're in a protest that is anti-American racism, COVID-19 not only will not kill you, you are inoculating yourself to COVID-19.
01:04:51.000Why has this not been unleashed on America before?
01:04:54.000According to this NPR piece, tens of thousands of people, masked and unmasked, have thronged the streets of Minneapolis, Atlanta, Louisville, Kentucky, and other cities in the weeks since George Floyd died after a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck.
01:05:06.000They are the largest public gatherings in the U.S.
01:05:08.000since the pandemic forced widespread shutdowns.
01:05:10.000Many local officials warned of a possible spike in new cases in one or two weeks.
01:05:14.000Dr. Elaine Nisossi, an assistant professor of global health at Boston University, said risk of transmission is lower in open spaces, but wherever there's a gathering, there is still the risk of transmitting the virus.
01:05:23.000Health experts urged protesters not to sing and shout to reduce the threat of person-to-person transmission.
01:05:29.000The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene issued a list of tips for demonstrators to lower their risk of contracting COVID-19.
01:05:39.000Mayor Muriel Bowser said she's worried about how consecutive days of protests could trigger an influx of COVID-19 cases.
01:05:46.000But, according to dozens of public health and disease experts who signed an open letter in support of the protests, the risks of congregating during a global pandemic shouldn't keep people from protesting racism.
01:05:56.000This is according to dozens of public health and disease experts.
01:05:59.000I feel like these medical experts are like Dr. Nick on The Simpsons.
01:06:28.000This has, we know, severe health consequences.
01:06:31.000We know that if you put tens of millions of people out of work, you're going to get an uptick in suicide.
01:06:34.000You're going to get an uptick in domestic abuse.
01:06:35.000You're going to get a massive uptick in drug dependency.
01:06:38.000You're going to get a massive uptick in mental illness.
01:06:39.000You're going to get a massive uptick in people who are not going in for their vaccinations and their surgeries.
01:06:42.000We know all this because all of this happens to be factual.
01:06:46.000But if you protested, if you said, hold on, there's some health costs to this COVID-19 shutdown, you are killing grandma.
01:06:51.000But if you're out there and you're just shouting that America is bad and police forces are racist, no solutions, nothing that actually alleviates the problem.
01:06:58.000If you just go out there and you yell a lot about George Floyd, COVID-19 is solved, guys.
01:07:04.000Have you seen the massive crowds in Europe?
01:07:06.000By the way, I do find it incredible that the crowds in Europe have so much time to protest about things happening in the United States.
01:07:12.000When's the last time you had massive crowds in the United States protesting about policy in Great Britain or something?
01:07:16.000But, and I love the Chinese government intervening here too.
01:07:19.000The Chinese government's like, yes, we also oppose racism, except for the million Uyghurs that we are holding in abject captivity in our country, and the billion people that we hold in abject forms of economic repression in our country, and the people of Hong Kong who we hold in forms of abject repression.
01:07:33.000I definitely trust the Chinese government on this one.
01:07:37.000These health experts saying that you can now go protest because we agree with the protest is insane.
01:07:44.000So this doctor, an associate, she said data is showing that blacks and Latinos have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19.
01:07:49.000Racism is one of the reasons this disparity exists.
01:07:52.000She said, racism is a social determinant of health.
01:07:54.000It affects the physical and mental health of blacks in the United States.
01:07:56.000I wouldn't weigh these crises separately.
01:07:59.000Okay, so put aside the notion that racism is killing people of COVID-19, which of course is a bizarre notion.
01:08:05.000Are people being wheeled into the hospital and doctors are like, not taking care of him, he's black, get him out of here.
01:08:09.000Toss him in that freezer out back, we're done.
01:08:12.000Not seeing a lot of evidence of that, but let's just take it at face value.
01:08:15.000She says, I wouldn't weigh these crises separately.
01:08:18.000Okay, so why should we weigh the government-imposed economic lockdown that has destroyed tens of millions of lives separately from the lockdown itself, from COVID-19?
01:08:56.000Your entire argument was, I can shut down churches and synagogues and leave certain businesses open because certain ones are essential and certain ones are not.
01:09:02.000Now he's just making clear he doesn't like churches and synagogues, and he likes these protests, so he's going to allow the protests to go on, but he's going to continue to shut down churches and synagogues.
01:09:09.000If that same exact crowd went out and protested lockdown very bad, shut them down, they're creating COVID.
01:09:14.000This is what Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan, said.
01:09:16.000Well, if you're out protesting, you may spread COVID.
01:09:18.000We're going to have a bigger lockdown now because of that.
01:09:20.000But if you're protesting racism, police racism in a state run by Democrats, then, well, you know, COVID-19.
01:09:51.000He sent a line of cop cars in the middle of Midtown Manhattan being looted and tens of thousands of protesters being trapped on the Manhattan Bridge.
01:09:57.000He was sending cop cars to Williamsburg to tell the Jews, don't go to Minyan.
01:10:03.000Stop going to Minyan, you 10 Jews congregating and praying to God.
01:10:11.000Here was de Blasio's insane and, by the way, First Amendment violative answer.
01:10:14.000When you see a nation, an entire nation, simultaneously grappling with an extraordinary crisis seeded in 400 years of American racism, I'm sorry, that is not the same question as the understandably aggrieved store owner or the devout religious person who wants to go back to services.
01:10:36.000This is something that's not about which side of the spectrum you're on.
01:10:42.000No, it is about exactly which side of the spectrum you are on, because you are now declaring it is a more important American activity to go out in the streets and shout about something without any practical solutions or evidence that this is broad systemic racism.
01:10:53.000That's more important than you having a business, you having a way to make a living, you putting food on the table, you praying to God.
01:10:59.000By the way, those last few things, seem to be at the heart of what most Americans do every single day and consider their fundamental freedoms.
01:11:07.000So, it's not important that you go back to work.
01:11:09.000It's not important that you earn a living.
01:11:10.000It's not important that you invest in yourself and your family.
01:11:12.000It's not important that you go to shul or that you go to church or that you go to mosque.
01:11:40.000The wokest virus in the history of the world.
01:11:42.000Or, alternatively, this is all bullcrap.
01:11:44.000Alternatively, it turns out that our political leaders were not actually being honest with us, because either they were lying then, or they are lying now.
01:11:51.000Either they are lying about the deadliness of COVID-19 then, in order to lock us down, or they are lying about the deadliness of COVID-19 now, in order to let people out of jail, so that they can go and protest.
01:12:04.000I'm glad that this whole situation could end with at least one positive, which is that people can apparently now go out and... I don't know if we can go back to work, though.
01:12:12.000But if your work involves you going out in the street and lying down on a bridge, then I guess you're good to go.