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00:01:53.000Okay, so obviously the big story of the day is the looting and burning in Minnesota and that follows hard on what is another video of an awful incident involving the police.
00:02:05.000And I think that, once more, it is important to recognize that everyone should be on the same side of this.
00:02:11.000Really, everyone should be on the same side of this.
00:02:13.000What we have seen here, and yet we are not, what we have seen here is a police officer kneeling on the neck of a black man for four straight minutes while he's being told by people, including the guy who was underneath his knee, that he cannot breathe.
00:02:25.000Okay, it's really, really ugly, and it's really, really bad.
00:02:28.000What is not clear is whether it is really, really racial.
00:02:31.000Now, the implication by the media is always that it is race-driven, because whenever there's a white officer doing something bad to a black suspect, the implication is that it is race-driven.
00:02:40.000Police officers, generally, do a very good job.
00:02:43.000There are some police officers who are terrible at their jobs and jackasses and treat everybody horribly.
00:02:48.000We have not yet seen evidence that this police officer is a racist, as we will see.
00:02:52.000People were trying to manufacture evidence of that yesterday, but this thing has been handled the way it's supposed to be handled.
00:02:57.000These officers probably will end up standing trial.
00:03:00.000We don't yet have a medical examiner's report, so this is part of the problem when you're going to put somebody on trial for, say, negligent homicide, for manslaughter, or for Murder or for something like that, you actually have to determine cause of death.
00:03:11.000So in the Eric Garner case in New York, to which this is being compared, in that particular case, Eric Garner didn't actually die of the quote unquote chokehold that he was put in.
00:03:19.000He died because he had an underlying heart condition.
00:03:21.000He died of a heart attack that was sort of attendant on Okay, so here's a little bit of the video.
00:03:25.000I'll narrate the video for people who can't actually watch.
00:03:29.000It is not clear at this point that this person died because he had a knee on the back of his neck.
00:03:35.000At the very least, the officer should go to jail for assault, you would assume, because this is not within the purview of employment.
00:03:41.000You don't get just to, it's police brutality, obviously.
00:03:44.000Okay, so here's a little bit of the video.
00:03:46.000I'll narrate the video for people who can't actually watch.
00:03:48.000So the original story from the officers is that this man, whose name is George Floyd, they were called on the, they were called because he was engaging in some sort of forgery, He was forging checks or something in his car, and they showed up.
00:04:01.000And the original narrative is that he had resisted arrest.
00:04:03.000The tape doesn't appear to show him resisting arrest in any real way.
00:05:05.000Not put on suspension, not put on leave, fired outright.
00:05:08.000Which means, by the way, a prosecution is coming down the pike.
00:05:11.000And other law enforcement officials are pointing out that this is insane.
00:05:15.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Floyd's death in custody draws condemnation from law enforcement officials.
00:05:22.000So according to law enforcement officials, the FBI, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, they said they are investigating the incident.
00:05:28.000President Trump tweeted late on Wednesday that he had asked the FBI and the Justice Department to expedite the investigation into Floyd's death.
00:05:34.000He said, my heart goes out to George's family and friends.
00:05:54.000Should the police office be prosecuted, sir?
00:05:57.000We're going to look at it, and we're going to get a report tomorrow when we get back.
00:06:01.000And we're going to get a very full report, but a very sad day.
00:06:04.000Okay, obviously, the president, does he look like he is celebrating racism in this particular clip?
00:06:10.000The Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frye, originally called for charges to be brought against the arresting officer.
00:06:15.000He said that we should see some sort of prosecution in short order.
00:06:20.000He'd like to see a prosecution in short order.
00:06:23.000The head of the Minneapolis Police Union, Bob Kroll, stirred controversy when he wore a Cops for Trump t-shirt to a Trump rally in the city and sold them as a fundraiser after Frye said that the president wasn't welcome.
00:06:32.000But that has really nothing to do with anything that has happened here.
00:06:36.000Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, who's president of an organization that represents police chiefs from America's largest cities, said it was unfathomable for an officer to put a knee into a handcuffed suspect's neck, as the video showed.
00:06:45.000Acevedo said, I haven't heard anybody justify this.
00:06:48.000The head of the Major City Chiefs Association said he couldn't recall such uniform condemnation of an officer's action by other police ever occurring in the past.
00:06:55.000The arresting officer has been identified as one Derek Chauvin by his lawyer, Tom Kelly, who declined further comment.
00:07:01.000Police are trained to pin down suspects by putting their knee on the shoulder blade, not the neck, unless deadly force is justified, according to Miami-Dade Police Chief Juan Perez.
00:07:09.000The FBI has declined to comment so far.
00:07:12.000To bring a federal civil rights case, the Justice Department has to reach a difficult standard of proof.
00:07:16.000They have to show that the officer not only acted with excessive force, but also willfully violated someone's constitutional rights.
00:07:39.000Police chiefs all around the country are condemning this.
00:07:42.000And the only sort of outstanding question right now is why exactly Floyd died, because the medical report is inconclusive at this point.
00:07:52.000The medical report says that the cause and manner of death is currently pending further testing and investigation by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office, and that will clear up what exactly the charges should be here.
00:08:00.000So this should be a situation where there is not actually a lot of controversy.
00:08:06.000The reason there shouldn't be controversy is because we're all reacting the same way.
00:08:09.000Except when it comes to the question of race.
00:08:10.000And the question of race has become, obviously, the focal point here.
00:08:14.000With people immediately jumping to, not only was the incident racist, not only is Derek Chauvin a racist, but also all of America is racist.
00:08:20.000And you saw a lot of tweets like this yesterday.
00:08:22.000All of America is doing this to black people.
00:08:24.000This is where the conversation starts to break down pretty quickly, because you're leaping beyond the evidence of the incident To make two conclusions.
00:08:32.000One, that the incident was driven primarily by racism, or even secondarily by racism.
00:08:37.000And two, that all of America is responsible, even if this officer was a vicious racist who decided to kill a black man that day by putting his knee on the guy's neck.
00:08:45.000How that indicates all of America is beyond me.
00:09:13.000You haven't been able to see your parents in a while if they are in their 60s or above, thanks to all of the lockdowns.
00:09:18.000If you want to get somebody a truly meaningful gift, I mean like the most meaningful gift you can get them, what you need to do is make sure that their memories are preserved.
00:10:25.000Okay, so This became quickly politicized, even though it didn't have to be politicized, because people decided to make claims that are simply beyond what the facts demonstrate.
00:10:34.000And then, because they're making those claims, they've decided to justify the rioting that is going on in Minnesota.
00:10:39.000This is so counterproductive, it's beyond belief.
00:10:41.000If you believe that protests are legitimate against police brutality, why in the world would you start justifying riots, like people looting targets and such?
00:10:50.000But it ties into the, again, broader American narrative that Target is somehow is guilty of this thing because Target is part of America, as you are guilty, as the officer is guilty.
00:10:58.000So Joe Biden, yesterday, suggested that the black community in America is under threat.
00:11:08.000It's a very good thing the black community in America is not under threat.
00:11:11.000There's this narrative that Joe Biden has been attempting to draw.
00:11:13.000I pointed this out last week when Joe Biden was saying that you can't be legitimately black if you vote for a Republican.
00:11:19.000The implication that he was drawing, which is a nasty and horrible and ugly implication, is that Republicans are seeking to exterminate black people, which is just disgusting and horrifying in every possible way.
00:11:50.000It's a tragic reminder that this was not an isolated incident, but a part of an ingrained systemic cycle of injustice that still exists in this country.
00:11:58.000It cuts at the very heart of our sacred beliefs that all Americans are equal in rights and in dignity.
00:12:07.000And it sends a very clear message to the black community and black lives that are under threat every single day.
00:12:14.000Okay, black lives are not under threat every single day from America, writ broad.
00:12:20.000Statistical studies continue to show over and over and over, like repeatedly, that there is no disproportionate shooting of black men by white officers in America.
00:12:39.000But if we are going to actively accuse the entire United States of victimizing black people to the extent that black lives are always in danger wherever you go, travel around America and you will see that this is not actually the case.
00:12:52.000A huge percentage of Americans are black.
00:12:55.000And the vast majority, nearly all of them, are not under threat of killing every single day.
00:13:17.000There's a study that was published in August of 2019 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
00:13:24.000And it showed that the police are not disproportionately shooting black men.
00:13:29.000What dictates who gets shot by the police is the rate of violent crime in a community.
00:13:33.000The more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chances that members of that group will be shot by a police officer.
00:13:39.000So if you are a police officer and you're in a high-crime Hispanic neighborhood, it is more likely you're going to shoot a Hispanic male.
00:13:44.000If you are in a high-crime white neighborhood, it is more likely you're going to shoot a white male.
00:13:48.000Black civilians are actually shot less compared to whites than their rates of violent crime would predict.
00:13:53.000Then there's a study by Roland Fryer, who is a black sociologist who studies crime over at Harvard University.
00:14:00.000He found that conditional on police interaction, there are no racial differences in officer-instigated shootings on either the extensive or intensive margins.
00:14:09.000After controlling for suspect demographics, officer demographics, encounter characteristics, suspect weapon, and year fixed effects, blacks are 27.4% less likely to be shot by police than relative to non-black and non-Hispanics.
00:14:22.000Investigating the intensive margin, who shoots first in an encounter with police, or how many bullets were discharged in the endeavor, there are no detectable racial differences, according to Roland Fryer, again a black professor from Harvard University.
00:14:33.000So the narrative that black Americans are under threat from police, broadly speaking, across America is just not true.
00:14:39.000That does not mean that there aren't more confrontations between black Americans and police, because police are usually in high-crime neighborhoods, and unfortunately, there are a lot of high-crime neighborhoods that happen to be black.
00:14:49.000That's a tragedy, and the only way that that's going to be solved is with more police, not fewer police.
00:14:55.000It's with crime rates going down, not crime rates going up.
00:14:57.000But the generalized narrative that America is broadly guilty for the actions of Derek Chauvin, or even, by the way, that Derek Chauvin is an unrepentant racist, and that's why this happened, It's a bizarre take, and people are stretching the truth to get there.
00:15:13.000So Ice Cube tweeted out, the rapper Ice Cube, the actor Ice Cube, he tweeted out yesterday a picture of Derek Chauvin with his knee on this guy's neck, and then a picture of another guy wearing a Make Whites Great Again, it looks like a MAGA hat, right?
00:15:29.000It's red with the white text, it says, Make Whites Great Again.
00:15:31.000He writes, a wolf in wolf's clothing, The demons are among us.
00:15:51.000According to Snopes.com, this is not the right person.
00:15:56.000The person who is actually wearing that hat, and this made the rounds yesterday, it was trending on Twitter, because the idea was this was an unrepentant racist who had killed a black man because he was a racist, and also a Trump supporter presumably because of the hat.
00:16:08.000It turns out that the photo actually shows a guy named Jonathan Riches, a supporter of President Trump, who's also a former federal inmate and an online troll who has garnered a reputation for filing lawsuits.
00:16:18.000Okay, so this was taken and it was placed next to the photo to demonstrate that this was obviously an instance of racism.
00:16:25.000Again, maybe it is and maybe it isn't.
00:16:27.000We're gonna have to find out the evidence on this.
00:16:29.000But even if it is, that does not indicate broad-based American racism.
00:16:33.000Then Ice Cube tweeted out, how long will we go for blue on black crime before we strike back?
00:17:10.000And not only should Gayle King not be saying this, the suggestion that black men everywhere are in danger from the police is just, like, at some point you're going to have to present the evidence for this.
00:17:21.000I'm very tired of the illogical jump between police were racist in 1960 and police are racist in 2020 to the extent that every black man in America is in danger.
00:18:06.000I'm really, really speechless about what we're seeing on television this morning.
00:18:09.000It feels to me like an open season, and that it's just not sometimes a safe place to be in this country for black men, and today is too much for me.
00:18:21.000Yes, America is a safe country for black men.
00:18:23.000It is a very, very safe country for black men.
00:18:26.000It's a safe country for nearly everyone.
00:18:27.000Crime rates in America have gone down so dramatically since the 1960s that it makes your head boggle.
00:18:32.000I mean, since 1994, the crime rates in America have just dropped into the basement.
00:18:38.000And the Minneapolis mayor did the same thing.
00:18:40.000He says being black shouldn't be a death sentence.
00:19:47.000This officer failed in the most basic human sense.
00:19:54.000Okay, agree with the passion, agree with the conviction, wildly disagree with the idea that if you're a black man in America, that is a death sentence.
00:20:18.000This sort of rhetoric is deeply polarizing for no reason because, again, we all agree this officer should go to jail based on the available evidence.
00:20:26.000We all agree that he did something that is disgusting and egregious.
00:20:30.000But the jump from that to the already set 1619 Project Narrative, that America is racist in every way, and everything in America that's good is fruit of the poisonous tree, and that America continues to be just as racist as it ever was, it's really, it's bad stuff.
00:20:44.000We'll get to more of this in just one second, because it's actually now being used, this sort of mentality, is being used to justify rioting and looting by some people, or at least overlooking rioting and looting.
00:20:54.000We're supposed to justify the anger of people who booted Target as though you're honoring George Floyd's memory by stealing a TV or some such nonsense.
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00:22:11.000There is something that is deeply despicable, obviously in a very different way than what appears to be the manslaughter and or murder of a human being, but deeply despicable politically and really bad for the country in suggesting that when a bad thing happens, that that thing innately demonstrates American racism and then you don't even have to provide evidence.
00:22:28.000The allegation is itself the evidence of the racism.
00:22:32.000And evidence of America's broad-based racism, even if America rejects the action itself.
00:22:51.000That doesn't mean that he's entitled to be this deeply wrong.
00:22:54.000So LeBron James, he's not entitled to his own set of facts, in other words.
00:22:57.000LeBron James put up this thing on his Instagram In which he compared the officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on the neck of this George Floyd unfortunate human being and Colin Kaepernick kneeling and said, this is why.
00:23:12.000He says, do you understand now or is it still blurred to you?
00:23:19.000Because Colin Kaepernick was not kneeling to protest police brutality alone.
00:23:24.000He was kneeling because his suggestion is that America tolerates police brutality, that America is pro-police brutality, that America is racist, that the American flag represents racism.
00:23:31.000And that is nasty, and it is garbage, and it is not true.
00:23:33.000And you know who knows that's not true?
00:24:11.000By evidence, it divides us in ways that are just unthinkably bad, unthinkably wrong.
00:24:17.000Because the fact is that there are so many black Americans who have fought for that flag.
00:24:20.000There's so many black Americans who serve in police forces.
00:24:23.000There's so many black Americans who are law-abiding citizens.
00:24:26.000And so many black Americans who rightly fight this kind of stuff in the proper ways that conflating people who are doing it in stupid and divisive and nasty ways with that is just, it's completely ridiculous and silly.
00:24:38.000And you're seeing this sort of thing arise in Minnesota.
00:24:40.000So in Minnesota overnight, there were a bunch of protests and protests are fine.
00:25:08.000Hey, that's not in any way, in any way excusing police brutality.
00:25:14.000I just, I'm wondering how smashing the cash registers at Target is solving police brutality exactly.
00:25:20.000How exactly is you breaking into a Target and then ransacking the shelves, solving police brutality, or burning down an auto zone, which is another thing that happened in Minneapolis last night?
00:25:32.000And no, it is not justified by this sort of stuff.
00:25:34.000It is not justified by the Derek Chauvin case.
00:25:36.000Protests outside the police station are justified by all this sort of stuff, but I'll tell you things that are not justified by this sort of stuff.
00:25:42.000Breaking into the Target, which is completely unrelated.
00:25:48.000There was a tape of two guys who had gone to their local store in Minneapolis, and they were standing outside their store with guns, saying the cops have been basically told to stand down.
00:25:56.000By the way, they should be protesting the police.
00:25:59.000These two things are not mutually exclusive.
00:26:01.000You can very much understand the protests of the police, even though the police, by the way, did the right thing and fired these guys, and there will be prosecutions, I am sure.
00:26:11.000But the attempt to excuse rioting is utterly asinine.
00:26:16.000And you're seeing a lot of that online right now.
00:26:17.000Well, you know, the anger is justified, the anger is just— You're not stealing a TV because you're angry.
00:26:21.000You're stealing a TV because you want a TV.
00:26:24.000You burning down an AutoZone is not you being angry.
00:26:27.000You burning down an AutoZone is because you're a criminal and you feel like burning down an AutoZone.
00:26:46.000There was... I would call it a riot, I suppose.
00:26:49.000In Los Angeles, people attacking cop cars, like full-on attacking cop cars.
00:26:53.000There's footage of people smashing cop car windows, gathering around cop cars and attacking police officers who had nothing to do with this in a completely different city.
00:27:03.000Anytime you say things like, well, you know, the anger is justified, the anger is justified, I don't care about whether your feelings are justified.
00:27:10.000I care mostly about whether your actions are justified.
00:27:14.000First of all, your feelings against an unrelated police officer are probably not justified.
00:27:22.000And your feelings against Target are certainly not justified.
00:27:23.000But the attempt to sort of shy away from exposing bad behavior and to pretend that bad behavior is not happening here is insipid and ridiculous on every level.
00:28:09.000Kneeling on the neck of a person until they die.
00:28:11.000That makes you, like, the worst piece of crap.
00:28:13.000But among other pieces of crap, who are less bad, but also pieces of crap, are people who loot targets because they feel like stealing bleep.
00:28:20.000And people who put up signs on the sides of buildings while they're burning down an unrelated building saying, F the police.
00:28:29.000Okay, and to pretend it is, and to go soft on it, or to suggest that all of this is deeply indicative of underlying American racism, and therefore you can burn down the target because the target is just part of the giant superstructure of America, and it's supported by capitalism, and it's insured anyway.
00:28:54.000But we have deliberately decided that we are not going to agree on this stuff.
00:28:56.000Instead, we are going to read into evidence things which have not yet been evidenced.
00:29:02.000And as we will see, we're going to carry this over to even the most minute and stupid of conflicts.
00:29:07.000At least in this case of Derek Chauvin, you could see the jump.
00:29:10.000But in many other cases that are popping up on Twitter, like every two days now, there's an attempt to attribute to America more broadly and to American history and to the deep superstructure of American racism, instances in which there's no actual evidence of racism.
00:29:22.000We're just going to destroy people on Twitter now for no apparent reason.
00:29:24.000We're going to get to that in just one second.
00:29:26.000First, let's talk about the fact that you need a VPN right now.
00:32:25.000There's a whole... I don't know what we're doing here, but there's a whole bunch of people who don't appear to be part of the... Y'all see these racers on there?
00:32:34.000Okay, so at no point here is there any implication of racism.
00:32:38.000Nonetheless, this guy is forced to go online and then issue a mea culpa saying that he's a part of the white supremacist infrastructure, because this is how stupid our world is now.
00:32:50.000So now we are saying that he's not allowed to ask anybody if they're in the private gym improperly, or to call anybody if somebody is in the private gym improperly, because God forbid, they should be of a different race.
00:33:32.000I told them I'd have done the same thing if they were white, or even if a bunch of girls were trespassing.
00:33:35.000What the videos didn't show is I spent 15 minutes listening to their grievances.
00:33:38.000I empathized with them, the challenges they faced.
00:33:40.000What surprises me is that this video was posted even though we worked out in the gym together for another 45 minutes while having friendly banter.
00:33:58.000Seems more about hyping up the community rather than trying to come to truth and having an honest conversation.
00:34:03.000Obviously, this guy is a vicious racist and we should end his career.
00:34:05.000Clearly, he did something deeply, deeply wrong.
00:34:08.000And we've seen so many of these in the past week and a half, like an incredible number of these, right?
00:34:11.000We had that clip between the FedEx employees and the homeowner where the FedEx employees suggested the homeowner did something truly terrible and racist.
00:34:17.000There was no evidence that any of this happened, so the story sort of disappeared from the news.
00:34:21.000There was no follow-up, because it turns out that no investigation could show, apparently, that something deeply horrible had happened in racist fashion.
00:34:28.000Here, these guys got fired from FedEx after posting the tape.
00:34:32.000We had a full week of controversy after two people basically yelled at each other in Central Park.
00:34:38.000After one man, a black man, saw a white woman who was walking her dog off leash in the birdwatching part of the park and asked her to put the dog on the leash and she refused.
00:34:46.000And he said, well, if you won't do what I want, then I'm going to do something that you don't like.
00:34:50.000And then he summoned her dog over with dog treats, even though he didn't have a dog and she felt threatened.
00:34:54.000And she said that I'm going to call the cops on you.
00:34:55.000And this became a major racial blow up.
00:34:58.000Okay, how is any of this like solving racism?
00:35:01.000A question, how is any of this helping us solve racism?
00:35:22.000If you leverage power and you fail, maybe you were overestimating your amount of racial power.
00:35:28.000The viral video of this tense interaction between a white woman walking her dog and a black man birdwatching in Central Park has become the latest flashpoint not only of discussions of racism and police brutality against black men, but also of the pivotal role played by white women.
00:35:39.000The damsel in distress archetype probably conjures up images of delicate maidens and chivalrous gentlemen.
00:35:44.000That's precisely what it's designed to do for white people.
00:35:47.000To people of color and especially African Americans who have borne the brunt of her power in the United States, the image is very different.
00:35:51.000So now we are going to compare this woman who called the cops after a guy tried to draw her dog over.
00:35:58.000With treats, from his pocket, and said a quasi-racist thing, that she's gonna call the cops and say an African-American man is threatening her and there's no reason to implicate race there.
00:36:08.000That when she does that, this is the same as the evil history in America of white women claiming that black men had ravished them and then justifying the activity of the Ku Klux Klan.
00:36:19.000That is the way that we are gonna work here.
00:36:22.000Every New York Times column is, here's the thing that happened in 2020.
00:36:25.000It's exactly the same as the thing that happened in 1852.
00:36:47.000This column then goes to the memoir of a woman named Harriet Jacobs, published in 1861.
00:36:52.000To connect to this, this tapestry of testimonials reveals a social fabric held together not only by the sexual abuse of black women, but also by the collective projection of blame back onto the victims.
00:37:05.000Wherever European men colonized, the damsel followed.
00:37:08.000Cooper has been fired from her job following an outcry at the way she yanks her thrashing and yelping Cocker Spaniel by the collar has surrendered her dog.
00:37:13.000By the way, I just I don't know dogs well enough.
00:37:15.000It seems to me that if you leash a dog and you are pulling the dog around by the leash, it's pretty much the same thing as holding the dog by the collar.
00:37:20.000But maybe I'm completely wrong on all of this.
00:37:23.000But again, the idea here is that she is a symbol of long lasting white supremacy, except she's the one who got fired.
00:37:30.000Did anything happen to Christian Cooper except that he got a bunch of wonderful coverage in the media?
00:37:35.000By the way, He said, I'm not excusing the racism.
00:37:39.000I don't know that her life needed to be torn apart.
00:37:40.000But then he said, he said, if we're going to make progress, we've got to address these things.
00:37:45.000If this painful progress is going to help us address this, there's a yellow warbler.
00:37:48.000If this painful process helps to correct or takes us a step further toward addressing the underlying racial horrible assumptions that we African-Americans have to deal with and have dealt with for centuries, that this woman tapped into, then it's worth it.
00:37:59.000So in other words, I'm sorry she lost her job, but I'm not so sorry she lost her job.
00:38:02.000Because racial progress depends on people blowing up racial incidents, or even non-racial incidents as it turns out in some of these cases, into massive indicators of broad-based American racism.
00:38:14.000And by the way, we're now extending this conversation into the world of COVID, which is purely insane because COVID is a disease, people.
00:38:23.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:38:26.000Then we'll get to President Trump going after Twitter.
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00:40:46.000So there was a time when in the aftermath of pandemic, everybody thought that intersectionality was going to go the way of the dodo bird.
00:40:58.000That the entire attempt to divide Americans by race, sex, class, and to try to suggest that America is just hierarchies of power, that was going to go by the wayside as we all faced down an extraordinarily dangerous disease, and we all locked down, and we all became Americans together.
00:41:11.000So that lasted approximately 27.2 seconds.
00:41:14.000Now, there's an attempt by the media to take the racialized narrative and draw it into COVID.
00:41:18.000I've been talking about this for a while.
00:41:19.000This attempt to suggest that America is deeply and interminably racist because black people are dying at a higher rate than white people from COVID-19.
00:41:26.000Neglecting to mention the confounding factors like obesity and diabetes rates.
00:41:30.000Neglecting to mention the possibility that vitamin D consumption might have something to do with this.
00:41:34.000That's according to a study from the Lancet.
00:41:35.000Neglecting to mention that there is a vast disparity between black and white death in Britain, like four to one.
00:41:40.000So that in-American brand racism that's causing that disparity, that's over in the UK.
00:41:45.000We've seen similar stuff with regard to maternal mortality rates.
00:41:48.000The 1619 Project suggested that black women die in childbirth a lot more than white women die in childbirth because of racism.
00:41:53.000There is virtually no evidence to support the idea that the racism is the deciding factor, that doctors are being like, oh, look, a black lady, gonna let her die.
00:42:00.000Or low birth weight for children that has anything to do with racism.
00:42:05.000So instead, you basically have to say, History was full of racism.
00:42:11.000So now we're trying to do that with COVID-19.
00:42:13.000There's an article in the New York Times today.
00:42:15.000It says the study of Louisiana hospitals highlights the pandemic's disproportionate burden on communities of color.
00:42:21.000The hospital system, Ochsner Health, serves a predominantly white population, but most patients hospitalized with COVID-19 over a recent six-week period were black, according to research published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
00:42:32.000Oxnard Health operates hospitals and outpatient facilities throughout Louisiana.
00:42:36.000About 30% of the patient population is black.
00:42:38.000Among the 1,382 patients with COVID-19 hospitalized from March 1st to April 11th, 77% were black.
00:42:44.000Black patients made up 80% of patients transferred to the ICU and nearly 82% of those put on ventilators to help with breathing.
00:42:51.000Are they only being put on ventilators and in the ICU because they are black?
00:42:54.000Or is it possible that maybe people are coming in because they are unhealthy and also happen to be black?
00:43:00.000And also, if you're going to talk about racism in the medical system, wouldn't the better indicator be that a lot of black people are dying out of the hospital and not being given care?
00:43:08.000That would be an indicator of racism, not that people are getting the care that they are supposed to need.
00:43:12.000The authors of the new study reported that compared with white patients who were hospitalized, black patients had higher rates of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and chronic kidney disease.
00:43:20.000Well, maybe that would be the factor here, would it not?
00:43:25.000But in the attempt to racialize everything, we have decided that COVID-19 is also racist, or that it just merely exposes underlying American racism.
00:43:33.000Again, all of this is terrible for the country.
00:43:40.000We all agree that racism should be fought at every turn.
00:43:43.000And any attempt to suggest that black Americans are under threat by America, broadly written, It's just a lie, and it's a nasty, disgusting lie at that.
00:43:50.000Attempting to impute guilt to people who are not guilty of things.
00:43:53.000Attempting to impute to America a guilt that America has spent generations attempting to alleviate.
00:44:26.000And the fact is that Twitter should not consider itself to be the arbiter of truth.
00:44:30.000Mark Zuckerberg has been raked over the coals by people right, left, and center.
00:44:33.000Mark Zuckerberg's perspective on free speech and the role of these websites is far, far, far better and far more intellectually coherent than anything Jack Dorsey, that dumbass over at Twitter, is doing.
00:44:42.000Here is Mark Zuckerberg treating all big tech like they're exactly the same is not accurate.
00:44:46.000Here's Zuckerberg on Dana Perino's show yesterday saying, listen, we're not the arbiters of truth.
00:44:50.000People have the ability to actually fact check things themselves.
00:44:54.000I have a different policy, I think, than Twitter on this.
00:44:57.000You know, I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn't be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online.
00:45:05.000I think in general, private companies probably shouldn't be, or especially these platform companies, shouldn't be in the position of doing that.
00:45:39.000So Daily Wire is responsible for the people that we pay and the people that we edit.
00:45:43.000We are not responsible for the comment sections.
00:45:45.000That does not mean we can't curate our comment sections.
00:45:47.000In fact, we can curate our comment sections.
00:45:49.000Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act was specifically created in order to protect companies who are attempting to shield people from viewing pornography in the comments, shield people from viewing obscenity in the comments.
00:46:00.000The basic idea was, why should it be that if you police your comments for the F word, that you will be held liable if there's a bad comment?
00:46:07.000But if you don't police your comments, then you won't be held liable.
00:46:10.000So, the Communications Decency Act, Section 230, which shields companies like Facebook and Twitter, quote-unquote, open platforms that are still curated in terms of the commentary, or edited, that shield those from liability.
00:46:22.000The original idea was that the two alternatives should not be either you are fully liable for all your comments or you have to have a completely unregulated comment section.
00:46:30.000That's why the provision was created in the first place.
00:46:33.000People have misread that to believe that Twitter has violated Section 230 by not being unbiased or something.
00:46:44.000But I would just recommend that people recognize that you know who's in favor of rewriting Section 230 the way that President Trump is talking about?
00:46:59.000Because Facebook isn't merely an internet company, he just wants to control Facebook.
00:47:04.000That is not a good thing for conservatives.
00:47:08.000The notion that if you are going to regulate YouTube or Google or Facebook or Twitter, that this is somehow going to redound to conservative benefit?
00:47:16.000I have some questions on how exactly you believe that's going to go when Elizabeth Warren is in charge of regulating Facebook or Twitter.
00:47:23.000Listen, I think Twitter is a garbage heap, too.
00:47:26.000I've talked about it extensively over the last several weeks.
00:47:30.000But the idea that you're somehow going to be able to regulate this from the top of government with some sort of executive order, that is a bizarre take.
00:47:40.000Now, some conservatives have been suggesting that we need to rewrite the Communications Decency Act because effectively, when you edit these comments enough, you're acting as a publisher.
00:47:49.000You're basically distinguishing between things that you think are okay to be up and things that you think are not okay to be up.
00:47:54.000But the CDA specifically provides for that sort of thing.
00:47:59.000And people should recognize that the actual result of this is going to be not that Twitter becomes a fully open platform in which everybody gets to publish whatever they want, but the shutdown of Twitter.
00:48:08.000And people should recognize that we'll shut down our comment sections at Daily Wire.
00:48:12.000We don't have time to curate all your comments.
00:48:13.000So we'll just shut down our comment section.
00:48:14.000Every comment section across the country will die if you get rid of Section 230.
00:48:19.000So, recognize that not every problem has a great government solution, and this would be one of those.
00:48:25.000I think Twitter is handled horribly, too.
00:48:27.000I think that an executive order against social media companies on the basis that Trump doesn't like Twitter is a very large-scale mistake.
00:48:33.000The expansion of size and scope of government is not... When is the last time this is redounded to the benefit of Americans?
00:48:42.000Alrighty, time for a bunch of things that I hate.
00:48:49.000Alrighty, so we are watching actual world historical events happening in real time.
00:48:52.000Hong Kong has now lost complete autonomy.
00:48:54.000According to the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, Hong Kong is no longer an autonomous government.
00:48:59.000The New York Times reports that Secretary of State Pompeo announced on Wednesday the State Department no longer considered Hong Kong to have significant autonomy under Chinese rule, a move that indicated the Trump administration was likely to end some or all of the US government's special trade and economic relations with the territory in southern China.
00:49:29.000It's a great time to crack down on all dissent inside Hong Kong and it's precisely what they have been doing.
00:49:34.000They have now pushed legislation that would make it treason to criticize the Chinese government.
00:49:38.000That is the next move that the Chinese government has been pursuing.
00:49:42.000This is really horrifying stuff and it demonstrates full-scale That when you run away from dictatorships, dictatorships don't treat you nicely.
00:49:51.000When the British decided to cede control of Hong Kong to the Chinese government in the name of local control back in 1997, there were a bunch of provisions that were supposed to protect the autonomy of Hong Kong.
00:50:01.000All of them have been ignored by the Chinese government.
00:50:03.000And nobody was able to do anything because once you leave, you can't go back.
00:50:06.000It's not like the British were going to reinvade Hong Kong.
00:50:10.000And for China, the possibility of controlling Hong Kong and then waiting for a friendly administration in the EU, waiting for a friendly administration in the United States, it's a pretty rich, it's a pretty rich thing, right?
00:50:20.000I mean, okay, so we'll take a hit for a couple years.
00:50:23.000We have a billion citizens who we can simply exploit.
00:50:26.000So, all right, we'll take the short-term hit in order to take control of the lives of millions of people in Hong Kong.
00:50:32.000China's legislature has now approved a proposal, according to CNN, to impose a highly contentious national security law in Hong Kong, an unprecedented move critics say threatens fundamental political freedoms and civil liberties in Hong Kong.
00:50:42.000By the way, if people can get out of Hong Kong, they are leaving en masse right now.
00:50:47.000The country's rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress, nearly unanimously approved the resolution on Thursday to introduce the sweeping security legislation.
00:50:55.000It bans secession, subversion of state power, terrorism, foreign intervention, and allows mainland China's state security agencies to operate in the city.
00:51:04.000So that is full-on Communist Party control of Hong Kong.
00:51:08.000The law drastically broadens Beijing's power over Hong Kong, which last year was roiled by anti-government protests calling for greater democracy and more autonomy from mainland China.
00:51:17.000Protesters took to the streets and clashed with police.
00:51:20.000The approval of the law is expected to result in more demonstrations, but nobody is actually expecting that the blowback from the world is going to stop the Chinese government.
00:51:29.000Mike Pompeo denounced the law as a disastrous decision, the latest in a series of actions that fundamentally undermine Hong Kong's autonomy and freedoms.
00:51:36.000He says no reasonable person can assert today that Hong Kong maintains a high degree of autonomy from China, given facts on the ground.
00:51:44.000Under the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, the U.S.
00:51:46.000government has to annually verify to Congress the city remains autonomous from China, or it risks losing its special status with the United States.
00:51:52.000It's about to lose all of its status from the United States.
00:51:56.000There may be visa sanctions, economic sanctions against the Chinese.
00:52:00.000There could be an end to the extradition treaty that exists between the U.S.
00:52:05.000And the Chinese government has yet to respond to the United States.
00:52:08.000But they say this is China's internal affair.
00:52:10.000Because it turns out that when China says, you know, two countries, one China, whether they say about Taiwan or whether they say about Hong Kong, what they actually mean is we are going to control this thing in top-down fashion and kill all of our opponents.
00:52:21.000Because communism is evil and remains evil.
00:52:25.000President Trump's foreign policy aides are discussing actions, according to the New York Times, that would be among the harshest punishments taken against China over the past three years.
00:52:32.000These could have far-reaching consequences for the 7.5 million Hong Kong residents.
00:52:38.000Hong Kong has been a financial and commercial hub since late last century.
00:52:41.000Many Chinese and foreign firms use Hong Kong as an international or regional base, and a lot of elite Communist Party members do business and own property there.
00:52:49.000Pompeo says the security law is a death knell for Hong Kong's freedom.
00:52:54.000The United Nations is going to do nothing because of course China sits on the UN Security Council demonstrating full scale that the UN is a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
00:53:02.000It is a garbage institution run by some of the worst countries on earth.
00:53:08.000The president is looking not to get into a serious conflict with China, but Trump said that we are going to give a very powerful response.
00:53:16.000Presumably, we're going to break off cooperation with trade and law enforcement.
00:53:20.000So your prices at the market are going to go up, but honestly, we never should have opened China in the first place.
00:53:25.000Good case to be made that we should have simply let them collapse the same way the Soviet Union collapsed, and we just put it off for 40 years.
00:53:30.000But this has been a long time coming, and the West looked the other way.
00:53:33.000Just like with North Korea, the West looked the other way and looked the other way and looked the other way until Hong Kong became a slave state to the Chinese government once again.
00:53:44.000In 2002, the Hong Kong government introduced its first proposal under Article 23 of the Basic Law that authorized the local administration to pass laws covering treason and sedition.
00:53:54.000Okay, the Regina Ip was the then security secretary.
00:53:58.000She pledged in 2017 to enact Article 23 in suitable measure.
00:54:02.000So five years, literally five years removed from the Hong Kong Treaty, China was already trying to institute full security control over Hong Kong.
00:54:14.000It took a while, but Hong Kong has now become, again, it's tragic.
00:54:19.000I mean, what we're watching right now is absolute tragedy, and again, demonstrative of the idea that when the United States, when the EU, when liberal powers leave, those spaces are filled by other people.
00:54:56.000So Andrew Cuomo continues to preside over a state that had the worst outcomes from COVID-19.
00:55:03.000He continues to clash with Mayor Bill de Blasio.
00:55:05.000They still can't decide on a unified policy.
00:55:07.000He continues to sort of futz his way through this thing, but because he's on TV a lot, Then he has very high popularity ratings.
00:55:13.000And now he's going to blame everybody else for his own stupid leadership.
00:55:16.000So yesterday, Andrew Cuomo was asked about the fact that a huge percentage of New Yorkers have died in nursing homes.
00:55:20.000Now, New York is lying about this because when New York does, when you talk about undercounting, what New York does is if you are from a nursing home and you get COVID-19, then they actually suggest that you are not from a nursing home if you die in a hospital.
00:55:31.000So you get COVID-19, you're at a nursing home, you're shipped to a hospital, you die in the hospital.
00:55:34.000New York does not count that as a nursing home death.
00:55:37.000But you obtained it at the nursing home.
00:55:42.000So they've been dramatically under-counting nursing home deaths.
00:55:44.000As we all know, for months, only relieved in, like, the last couple of weeks, New York had a policy, and the policy was that nursing homes were forced, by law, to re-accept people with COVID-19.
00:55:54.000Here was Andrew Cuomo yesterday blaming the nursing homes themselves for a law that he himself had promulgated.
00:55:59.000The obligation is on the nursing home to say, I can't take a COVID positive person.
00:56:39.000Maybe it's because you guys are running like hundreds of billions of dollars in debt because you've been passing crappy fiscal policy for decades on end.
00:56:46.000So Cuomo yesterday, he said, there's no national recovery without a federal government bailout.
00:56:50.000Or alternatively, you could take austerity measures that you always should have taken instead of signing garbage contracts with your local unions.
00:56:56.000Here was Andrew Cuomo blaming the federal government again.
00:56:59.000God, it's got to be easy to be a Democrat.
00:57:01.000All you got to do is blame the Republican president for everything on earth.
00:57:04.000And the media just goes right along with it.
00:57:05.000This dude has an 80% approval rating and he has presided over, what, one quarter of all deaths in America from COVID-19?
00:57:14.000You want to talk about Trump being a crappy president because 100,000 people have died?
00:57:16.000How about the fact that this dumbass was shipping old people back to nursing homes with COVID-19, not disinfecting the subways, not shutting down the subways, and then whining about the fact that he wasn't doing his job and getting resources for his own state.
00:57:28.000Somehow Governor Gavin Newsom here in California got resources for the state.
00:57:31.000Here was Andrew Cuomo blaming the federal government again.
00:57:35.000States are doing reopening, states are responsible for testing, states are responsible for tracing, states are responsible for the healthcare system, states are responsible for the enforcement of all the procedures around reopening.
00:57:50.000But, at the same time, the federal government has a role to play, and the federal government has to do its part.
00:57:58.000as we work our way through this crisis.
00:58:01.000And there cannot be a national recovery if the state and local governments are not funded.
00:58:12.000No, it actually can be a national recovery if the state and local governments acted responsibly in the first place.
00:58:17.000You blew out the credit card, then you had an unforeseen expense, and now you're blaming people for not filling in the part of the bill that you incurred in the first place.
00:59:29.000I am enjoying states' right to Andrew Cuomo.
00:59:32.000Because states' right to Andrew Cuomo is at war with, I want the federal government to do everything for me, Andrew Cuomo.
00:59:37.000So at the same time that he's saying, I have authority to run my state, Bill de Blasio doesn't have authority, Donald Trump doesn't have authority, he's saying...
00:59:47.000So at the same time he's saying there's no nation without the states, he's suggesting that it's the job of the nation to fill in the states.
01:00:31.000Okay, so you're going to have to explain to me how the nation is then supposed... If there's no nation without the states, and the nation is refusing to recognize your state, then why does the nation have money?
01:00:45.000The money isn't funneled through the states.
01:00:47.000The money is taken directly from citizens.
01:00:49.000The nation does exist in the absence of the states at this point, thanks to a federal bureaucracy built up over the course of the last 120 years.
01:00:54.000But, with that said, it also happens to be the case that the job of the federal government was not created to bail out the states from their bad financial decision-making.
01:01:01.000How this guy hasn't, like... What happened to New Yorkers?
01:02:16.000Hey everybody, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
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