The Ben Shapiro Show - January 17, 2023


The Battle Over Racial Reparations | Ep. 1648

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00:00:00.000 Democrats reinvigorate the debate over racial reparations for Black Americans.
00:00:03.000 Joe Biden talks up his radical agenda while being unable to sing Happy Birthday.
00:00:07.000 And we examine how to fight wokeism in the classroom.
00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:09.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:10.000 Well, folks, yesterday was MLK Day, and that was an excuse for people on the left to start talking about racial reparations once again.
00:00:24.000 San Francisco, apparently, is now considering a regime of racial reparations.
00:00:29.000 San Francisco's reparations committee has now proposed a $5 million payment to each black longtime resident, as well as total debt forgiveness of, like, all debt.
00:00:38.000 Based on what?
00:00:40.000 I'm unaware that anybody who's alive today was a slave in the United States.
00:00:44.000 If so, then we should probably find out about that.
00:00:46.000 I'm unaware that the members of the San Francisco taxpaying community were slaveholders at any point in their lives or in the lives of their parents or in the lives of their grandparents.
00:00:55.000 However, that is not stopping San Francisco from talking up race reparations.
00:00:59.000 According to Fox News, San Francisco's reparations committee has proposed paying each black longtime resident $5 million, probably California was a free state when it was originally admitted to the union, and granting total debt forgiveness due to the decades of systemic repression by the local black community.
00:01:12.000 The San Francisco African-American Reparations Advisory Committee, which advises the city on developing a plan for reparations for black residents, released its draft report last month to address reparations, not for slavery, but to, quote, address the public policies explicitly created to subjugate black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slaveries.
00:01:30.000 So presumably these would be policies of, for example, redlining, despite the fact that it has been illegal in the United States to redline since the late 1970s, despite the fact that the federal government and state government in California have subsidized Black homeownership for decades on end, despite the fact that public policy in the United States has been heavily tilted in favor of discriminatory actions on behalf of Black Americans since the affirmative action moves of the 1960s and 1970s.
00:01:55.000 Doesn't matter.
00:01:56.000 The draft says, quote, while neither San Francisco nor California formally adopted the institution of chattel slavery, the tenets of segregation, white supremacy and systematic repression and exclusion of black people were codified through legal and extralegal actions, social codes and judicial enforcement.
00:02:11.000 The draft plan includes a long list of financial recommendations for black San Francisco residents, including a one time lump sum payment of five million dollars to each eligible individual.
00:02:18.000 Now, you will notice, again, the vagary of the language here.
00:02:22.000 That, yeah, we didn't actually have slavery here, but there were tenets of segregation.
00:02:26.000 Now, again, there were no Jim Crow laws in California, as far as I'm aware.
00:02:30.000 That was reserved exclusively for the Southern United States.
00:02:33.000 There may have been informal regimes of racism in California.
00:02:36.000 There certainly were, no question.
00:02:39.000 That does not mean that that was legal action by the government of California in order to uphold that.
00:02:43.000 So you actually have to look at each specific law and each individual person who is impacted by that specific law.
00:02:50.000 And that's on the moral side, right?
00:02:51.000 When you're talking about reparations, you have to discuss who sinned and who was sinned against.
00:02:54.000 You actually have to show who was sinned against by what policy promulgated by whom, if you actually wish to pay reparations.
00:03:01.000 If you're seriously talking about repairing a damage that was done, you have to ask who did the damage and to whom.
00:03:06.000 And then you have to ask a secondary question, which we'll get to in just a moment, which is, is this designed to work?
00:03:11.000 What ill is this designed to remedy?
00:03:13.000 Specifically when we are talking right now about people, predominantly in San Francisco, who were born post the civil rights era.
00:03:20.000 You're talking in San Francisco, people who are born in the year 2000, right?
00:03:23.000 Those people are 23 years old right now.
00:03:26.000 In the year 2000, was vast racial discrimination the way in San Francisco?
00:03:30.000 Is that a serious problem in public policy in San Francisco in say the year 2000 or say the year 1990?
00:03:36.000 How long is this going to go on?
00:03:39.000 A lump sum payment would compensate the affected population for decades of harms they've experienced and will redress the economic and opportunity losses that black San Franciscans have endured collectively as a result of both intentional decisions and unintended harms perpetuated by city policy according to the draft statement.
00:03:53.000 So now they're supposed to do reparations for unintended harms.
00:03:57.000 So public policy that accidentally harmed black folks, that is now going to be redressed by a giant bag of cash, presumably according to the San Francisco committee.
00:04:07.000 Now, that's going to be kind of a problem because as it turns out, virtually every democratic policy in a major American city for the last 60 years has harmed black Americans disproportionately.
00:04:14.000 I presume accidentally.
00:04:15.000 Do we now pay reparations for all of that bad policy?
00:04:18.000 Are we going to pay reparations for all the bad policing policy that has disproportionately harmed black Americans in major American cities over the course of the last four or five years?
00:04:26.000 How is that going to work?
00:04:28.000 To be eligible for the program, the applicant has to be 18 years old and has to have identified as black or African American on public documents for at least 10 years.
00:04:36.000 They must also prove at least two of eight additional criteria choosing from a list that includes born in San Francisco between 1940 and 1996 and has proof of residency in San Francisco for at least 13 years and or personally or the direct descendants of someone incarcerated by the failed war on drugs.
00:04:50.000 So now we are going to pay reparations to you if your parent went to jail for drug dealing.
00:04:57.000 Because every aspect of America, according to the woke left, has been impacted by the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, and that is up to and including your criminal violations.
00:05:07.000 So if you were selling cocaine to a minor, and then you went to jail, and you're the child of that person, now you deserve reparations because of the failed war on drugs.
00:05:13.000 The plan also calls on the city to supplement lower-income recipients' income to reflect the area median income of about $97,000 annually for at least 250 years.
00:05:19.000 annually for at least 250 years.
00:05:22.000 250 years.
00:05:25.000 Okay.
00:05:27.000 Racial disparities across all metrics have led to a significant racial wealth gap in the city of San Francisco.
00:05:31.000 It argued by elevating income to match AMI, black people can better afford housing and achieve a better quality of life.
00:05:36.000 The plan also seeks to establish a comprehensive debt forgiveness program that clears each eligible person's student and housing loans, credit card debt, etc.
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00:07:48.000 So now, if you want to go to college, you got your stuff together, you did well in high school, you want to go to college, all your student loan debt is going to be relieved.
00:07:55.000 They also want you to have your credit card debt relieved.
00:07:58.000 So if you've been spending exorbitant amounts of cash on random nonsense, that should be relieved also because of the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in the year 2023. 0.67
00:08:06.000 Again, calendars exist, folks.
00:08:08.000 We are not living in the year 1964.
00:08:09.000 We are living in the year 2023.
00:08:13.000 I had my 39th birthday on Sunday.
00:08:15.000 I was born in 1984, 20 years after the Civil Rights Act.
00:08:19.000 Two decades, like a full generation.
00:08:22.000 And so is pretty much everybody that we are talking about in San Francisco right now.
00:08:27.000 Black households are more likely to hold costly or riskier debt and are more likely to have outstanding student loan debt, the draft explains.
00:08:33.000 When this is combined with lower household incomes, it creates an inescapable cycle of debt.
00:08:36.000 Eliminating this debt gives black households an opportunity to build wealth.
00:08:39.000 So again, the idea is that if you have a bad credit history, we have to wipe away your credit card debt.
00:08:44.000 And then we have to give you a low interest loan.
00:08:46.000 And this is what's going to allow you to rise out of poverty.
00:08:48.000 The problem is all of these loans have largely been available to people who have established decent credit over the course of their lifetimes.
00:08:53.000 Why don't the rules apply to people who were born in San Francisco and are black and were born in the same year I was born in 1984 or well after that because apparently you have to be born like as long as you are born according to their recommendations between 1940 and 1996.
00:09:12.000 1996 okay which would make you again by my calculation 27 years old.
00:09:17.000 This means that you are now eligible for the kind of thing they're recommending.
00:09:22.000 Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin told the San Francisco Chronicle he hopes the plan is approved, quote, there are so many efforts that result in incredible reports that just end up gathering dust on a shelf.
00:09:29.000 We cannot let this be one of them.
00:09:32.000 Amazing stuff there from the San Francisco Reparations Committee.
00:09:36.000 Now, is this actually going to be effectuated?
00:09:39.000 Of course, this is not actually going to happen because the immediate result of this would be to radically increase the cost on San Francisco city government.
00:09:45.000 It would radically increase the taxes.
00:09:46.000 Businesses would flee.
00:09:48.000 San Francisco would turn into a ghost town.
00:09:50.000 You want to turn cities into Detroit?
00:09:52.000 Detroit was one of the most successful cities in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s.
00:09:56.000 And then racial conflict, increasing taxes, massive regulation drove a lot of people who had the means out of the city.
00:10:03.000 And you ended up with a de facto arena of racial separatism.
00:10:08.000 A largely black city where virtually everybody who is white moved out of the interior of the city, despite the fact that it had been one of the more integrated cities in the American North and one of the most successful industrialized cities in the American North, particularly for American blacks.
00:10:21.000 All of these policies have precisely the opposite of the consequences that they seek to achieve.
00:10:24.000 But we are having these conversations now because we have to achieve a quote unquote more equitable world, right?
00:10:29.000 This is the buzzword of the Biden administration.
00:10:31.000 And this has been the buzzword of Democrats going all the way back to Lyndon Baines Johnson in the 1960s.
00:10:35.000 And it has been a complete fail.
00:10:37.000 So here yesterday was the incompetent and horrifically untalented vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, who lives in a country so racist that she's vice president of the United States specifically because she was picked by affirmative action lottery by Joe Biden to be the vice president of the United States. If she were a white lady, she would not be vice president of the United States. She would just be a less talented Amy Klobuchar. So here is Kamala Harris talking up a more equitable world. 0.99
00:11:02.000 Hey, everyone. Today, we honor the legacy of Reverend Dr.
00:11:07.000 Martin Luther King Jr.
00:11:09.000 Dr. King was a prophet.
00:11:11.000 He saw the future as it could be.
00:11:14.000 A future of equity, justice, and opportunity for all.
00:11:19.000 Freedom is never really won.
00:11:21.000 You earn it and you win it in every generation.
00:11:26.000 So let us all commit to continue the fight for justice for our generation and for generations to come.
00:11:35.000 And what is she talking about?
00:11:36.000 She, of course, is talking about vast bevies of government spending.
00:11:40.000 Sunny Hostin on The View made it clear.
00:11:42.000 She said that on Martin Luther King Day, we should remember that the country was built on the backs of black people for free.
00:11:46.000 So we need to talk about racial reparations.
00:11:49.000 Now, if we're going to talk about the history of discrimination and people who have been victimized in the American project, that list is very, very long.
00:11:57.000 And of course, Black Americans historically are at the top of the list.
00:12:00.000 Also included in the list would be Asian Americans who were exploited to build the railroad, for example, or Latino Americans who were used for extraordinarily cheap labor in the 1920s, 30s, 40s, and 50s.
00:12:11.000 There have been a lot of people who've been victimized in the history of the United States, but the amazing thing about the United States is that everybody has the chance to rise in the modern era.
00:12:19.000 This is the difference.
00:12:20.000 The difference between the United States and every place else is not the evils that existed in the United States that have existed every place else.
00:12:25.000 The difference between the United States and every place else is the good that exists in the United States that does not exist nearly any place else.
00:12:31.000 In any case, here is Sonny Hostin making the claim that we need racial reparations for people who are not slaves from people who are never slaveholders.
00:12:38.000 He was deeply invested in economic equality, and he was deeply invested in making sure that black people got reparations and that there was wealth distribution, redistribution. 0.98
00:12:52.000 And that's the one area, when we talk about diversity and we talk about inclusion and we talk about equity, people are real comfortable lately with diversity, they're real comfortable with inclusion.
00:13:03.000 But when you ask them about giving us some reparations because this country was built on the backs of black people for free, no one wants to talk about that. 1.00
00:13:12.000 And that was really a big part of his dream and his legacy.
00:13:18.000 And the liberal white ladies who watch the view are all clapping in the background because it makes them feel good to talk about this sort of stuff, never paying attention to the fact that we actually have tried massive wealth redistribution in this country. 0.81
00:13:28.000 And in terms of healing the racial wealth gap, it has been utterly insufficient.
00:13:32.000 It has not worked.
00:13:33.000 So, LBJ, back in 1965, gave a very famous speech at Howard University.
00:13:37.000 It was a commencement address at Howard University, in which he explained that negative freedom was not enough.
00:13:42.000 That basically getting rid of segregation, making it illegal, was not enough.
00:13:46.000 That creating an even playing field for people was not enough, because after all, the legacy of racial oppression meant that the government now had to play favorites and actually reverse discriminate in order to redress the problems of history.
00:13:57.000 Now, you could make that case, certainly, in 1965.
00:13:59.000 There's a case to be made because the people who are the direct Victims of Jim Crow were alive, well, and Jim Crow was in operation.
00:14:07.000 So sure, you can make that case in 1965.
00:14:09.000 Very difficult to make the case in 2023.
00:14:11.000 And all of that puts aside, forget the moral case for a second, the utter inefficacy and failure of the regime, the regimen of racial reparations that were put into place by the war on poverty under LBJ.
00:14:23.000 So here's what LBJ said at the time.
00:14:27.000 He said, it's not enough to just open the gates of opportunity.
00:14:29.000 All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates.
00:14:31.000 You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, you are free to compete with all the others and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.
00:14:42.000 OK, I mean, again, that's a fair enough point, but after 60 years of extraordinary efforts by the federal and state governments of the United States to redress poverty, Largely directed toward minority communities, as LBJ openly discussed.
00:14:55.000 I mean, this was a commencement speech at Howard University.
00:14:58.000 Has it been a failure or has it been a success?
00:15:01.000 The answer is it has been a gigantic failure.
00:15:04.000 Now, the way that you can tell it's been a gigantic failure is because one thing that actually has happened is that the income gap in the United States, despite all of the talk about how income inequality is still the dominant factor in American life, that actually is not true.
00:15:16.000 Income inequality has actually become significantly better in the United States.
00:15:19.000 Why?
00:15:20.000 Because of the reparations, meaning all of the poverty reparations, all of the sort of redistributionism has actually alleviated Much of the income gap in the United States.
00:15:29.000 Whenever you see these gigantic stories about how the income inequality persists and the gap between the top and bottom households is 17 to 1, that's not actually true.
00:15:37.000 If you include taxes from the top and you include subsidies to the bottom in the form of welfare, in the form of food stamps, in the form of housing subsidies and all the rest, the 2017 income gap actually shrinks from 17 to 1 to about 4 to 1.
00:15:52.000 The government likes to play this little game where they point out that the income gap in terms of private income has not actually alleviated between black and white, and that's true. 1.00
00:16:00.000 What has happened is that all of the racial redistribution that has been happening has alleviated the income gap post-taxes and post-benefits.
00:16:07.000 But the problem is that doesn't actually heal the underlying problem.
00:16:10.000 Because the underlying problem that everybody wants to get to is the income gap without all of that, without the taxes and without the government subsidization.
00:16:17.000 Why hasn't that been healed?
00:16:19.000 And the answer there is that when you incentivize people to make bad decisions, they continue to make bad decisions.
00:16:25.000 The income that is gained through welfare, social safety net benefits, all of the stuff that's subsidized by the federal and state governments, that does not actually translate into healing the wealth gap, because all wealth is, is accrual of income over time.
00:16:39.000 Wealth happens when you save your income and when you invest your income and when you turn it into a home, for example.
00:16:43.000 And then when you take the income from your job, you pay your mortgage, you pay off your home, and then you take the extra income, you buy a second home and you rent it out.
00:16:50.000 This is how you actually achieve wealth in the United States.
00:16:53.000 Well, we've done an extraordinary amount to alleviate poverty directed at alleviating racial historical gaps.
00:17:00.000 And what we have done is we have alleviated some of the income gap, but we've done very little to alleviate the wealth gap.
00:17:05.000 The wealth gap is essentially the same as it was in 1960 before any of this starts.
00:17:09.000 The Washington Post acknowledges as much.
00:17:12.000 If you actually look at the racial wealth gap in the United States in 1960, black households and white households, it was much smaller, the wealth gap, in 1960 than it is today.
00:17:26.000 As of about 2020, White households were worth $149,000 on average in 2016.
00:17:31.000 Black households were worth $13,000 in 2016.
00:17:32.000 on average in 2016, black households were worth $13,000 in 2016.
00:17:37.000 That is a far larger gap than existed at the beginning of the so-called war on poverty.
00:17:44.000 Because it turns out that when you expend extraordinary amounts of federal money, and you do so not only in inefficient ways, but without really tackling the underlying crippling cultural problems that lead to intergenerational poverty, you don't end up alleviating anything.
00:17:58.000 You can throw $5 million at every black citizen of San Francisco, and it is not going to fix the racial wealth gap in San Francisco after about 10 years. 0.75
00:18:07.000 The reason being that people make different decisions with their money.
00:18:10.000 People make different life decisions.
00:18:12.000 And the notion that this is just a problem of Marxist redistributionism is a lie.
00:18:15.000 It's not true.
00:18:16.000 There's a good piece by Louis Andrews from 2020 over at the American Conservative talking about the failure of the sort of reparations ideal here.
00:18:28.000 He says one critical fact that is always ignored whenever the issues of reparations resurfaces, namely that any financially expressible amends the country might owe its black citizens was made long ago.
00:18:37.000 In January 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared an unconditional war on poverty in America.
00:18:42.000 By 2015, it had cost the nation more than $22 trillion, $22 trillion or three times what we previously spent on all shooting wars.
00:18:52.000 In the years since President Johnson's address in 1965 at Howard University, the poverty rate for African Americans has fallen a few points in good times, risen a few points in bad, on average remained essentially unchanged.
00:19:02.000 Today, 26% of blacks aged 25 and older have a bachelor's degree, compared with the national average of 36%.
00:19:08.000 The failure of Johnson's attempt to make up for the unfair historical treatment of American blacks was not an indicator of whether sufficient money had been raised for that purpose, only of how effectively it was spent.
00:19:18.000 The villains of that time were not the taxpayers of every color who allowed themselves, as well as their children and grandchildren, to be put on the hook for reparations.
00:19:24.000 The blame properly falls on the four groups of intermediaries most involved in shaping the war on poverty.
00:19:28.000 The first of those groups was the politicians, policymakers, and bureaucrats who channeled those anti-poverty funds into a complex administrative overlay involving 100 programs which ended up benefiting themselves far more than poor black Americans.
00:19:41.000 Feeding the horses to feed the sparrows, as Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan sarcastically described it at the time.
00:19:46.000 The second group of self-serving intermediaries consisted of all the university social scientists who prospered during the 60s and 70s by producing thick reports and demonstration projects to confirm whatever their government sponsors wanted to hear.
00:19:57.000 As John F. Kogan documents in his 2017 History of Federal Entitlement Programs, the high cost of good intentions.
00:20:03.000 All the seemingly scientific studies at that time, which purported to show how expanding welfare programs would make black Americans more independent, were consistently wrong.
00:20:09.000 There was, in fact, precious little evidence to support the contention that social welfare services would prevent welfare dependency or help existing recipients achieve self-sufficiency.
00:20:17.000 The third group to siphon off America's slavery reparations were the opportunistic attorneys unintentionally empowered by the centerpiece of President Johnson's War on Poverty, the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act, written to financially incentivize urban and rural minorities to form community action groups, which in turn could help local welfare recipients become social sufficient, self-sufficient, and while was soon exploited by legal services lawyers and related professionals to do the very opposite, sue the government for even more dependency creating benefits.
00:20:43.000 And this is why you saw a bunch of community activist organizations that were rent-seeking from local, state, and federal governments.
00:20:51.000 All of this created the new non-profits at the mercy of a fourth self-serving intermediary, Local Public Employee Unions, which especially in blue states could influence how much the legislature annually donated to various charities.
00:21:01.000 The result was that policies like school choice, extremely popular with black families, were rarely endorsed by any state-funded or union-subsidized group supposedly set up to look out for blacks.
00:21:10.000 At the same time, civil rights groups were expected to back union efforts to keep Washington's war on poverty money flowing through local welfare bureaucracies regardless of any negative effects.
00:21:19.000 All of this happens to be the case.
00:21:21.000 But we're supposed to pretend that none of it is the case, and that if we just shout about the injustices of life and then throw a firehose of money at it, it is going to solve all of the problems.
00:21:29.000 And that, of course, is not even remotely true.
00:21:32.000 It also is a great evil to call on people who have not sinned to pay people who have not been sinned against by those people.
00:21:42.000 And it also involves violations of liberty.
00:21:45.000 In pursuit of redressing problems, and in pursuit of a utopia to be built thereupon, there are a lot of people who are willing to run directly over individual rights.
00:21:55.000 This includes, of course, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, White supremacy is not a crime.
00:21:59.000 It's an evil.
00:22:00.000 It is not a crime.
00:22:00.000 criminalizing quote conspiracy to commit white supremacy, which would include criticism of non-white people, which influences an individual to commit a hate crime.
00:22:07.000 Now, all of that may sound well and good.
00:22:09.000 It does run directly foul of the first amendment.
00:22:11.000 White supremacy is not a crime. 0.71
00:22:15.000 It's an evil.
00:22:16.000 It is not a crime.
00:22:17.000 There's a difference between an evil and a crime.
00:22:18.000 And if we are now in the business of eviscerating particular viewpoints by the federal government to the tune of criminalizing those viewpoints, that is a far remove from the founding promise of the country and carries its own dangers.
00:22:32.000 Because the people who are in the political ascendancy today may not be in the political ascendancy tomorrow.
00:22:37.000 They're also victims to this whole new attempt at racial reparations.
00:22:40.000 Those victims obviously have been largely centralized at this point in the Asian community when it comes to colleges, which is why you've seen active discrimination against Asian Americans in our colleges and universities.
00:22:54.000 Very interesting story from the Wall Street Journal about all of that today.
00:22:56.000 Quote, Before the Supreme Court renders its decision on Harvard's and the University of North Carolina's use of race preferences in admissions, the justices might take a glance across the Potomac.
00:23:04.000 Northern Virginia Today offers a snapshot of how affirmative action intended as a benevolent effort to prevent discrimination has hardened into an ugly war on achievement.
00:23:12.000 The latest fuss was kicked off before Christmas when Asra Nomani, an India-born mom and reporter, wrote a piece for the Manhattan Institute City Journal detailing how her son's Virginia high school never informed him he'd actually been recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Program.
00:23:24.000 Other students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, known as TJ and regularly ranked America's number one high school, said they had the same experience.
00:23:31.000 So Virginia Attorney General Jason Mayares launched a civil rights investigation on January 4th.
00:23:36.000 Days later, principals at two more Fairfax County high schools, Westfield and Langley, admitted they too had failed to inform student award winners.
00:23:43.000 Mayares then expanded his investigation to all Fairfax County.
00:23:46.000 No sooner had he done so than neighboring Loudoun County reported that three of its high schools had delayed at notifying its students.
00:23:51.000 Officials insisted it wasn't intentional.
00:23:53.000 On Friday, four more Fairfax High Schools fessed up, followed by another on Monday.
00:23:59.000 Telling kids that they actually were finalists or semi-finalists, that stuff goes on your college resume.
00:24:04.000 Given that the program leaves notifications to the individual schools, it's possible this was bureaucratic failure, but the context offers a less generous reading.
00:24:11.000 Public education in Fairfax County has become the front line for an equity agenda that has hardened into a war on achievers who are disproportionately Asian-American, says a columnist for The Wall Street Journal.
00:24:21.000 As a federal judge pointed out in 2022 in a case contesting TJ's new admissions policy, the Fairfax County School Board eliminated the merit-based entrance exam to make room for African-American and Hispanic students by reducing the number of Asian-Americans.
00:24:32.000 In that sense, it quote-unquote worked.
00:24:33.000 The class admitted before the change was 73% Asian, 3% Hispanic, 1% African-American.
00:24:39.000 After the change, the figures went to 54% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 7% Black.
00:24:43.000 The share of white students grew, actually, from 17% to 22%.
00:24:49.000 What makes Asian-American achievement so resented by our equity warriors is that it exposes as false the narrative about an irredeemably racist America where minorities cannot succeed.
00:24:57.000 This progressive disdain for Asian-Americans is amplified by a resentment of moms and dads who believe they should have a say in their kids' education.
00:25:02.000 This happens to be exactly correct as William McGurn writes over at the Wall Street Journal.
00:25:08.000 And this is extending into the way that our kids are taught.
00:25:11.000 The attempt to use the educational system to cram down this perverse view of American life in which America is deeply evil, And the only way to fix that evil is by racial discrimination.
00:25:22.000 It has entered our classrooms.
00:25:23.000 It is being crammed down on students.
00:25:25.000 You have to target the youngest members of the American community and then indoctrinate them in the idea of intergenerational racial guilt and the necessity of violation of anti-discrimination law. 0.61
00:25:39.000 This is why, for example, the National Education Association Teachers Union has now created a race-based trauma learning course.
00:25:45.000 According to Fox News, the NEA, which is a major labor union in the educational sphere, there are two big ones, the NEA and the American Federation of Teachers, led by the ex-Gribble, Randy Weingarten, has announced a race-based trauma blended learning course.
00:25:57.000 The course will, quote, explore race-based trauma, its causes and effects, and offers research-based tools to address it, according to the NEA's Twitter.
00:26:04.000 Our students are shouldering the accumulation of inherited racial trauma, such as implicit bias or racism, and can affect young people's ability to learn, make responsible decisions, or maintain healthy relationships, says the NEA.
00:26:14.000 It is imperative to recognize the effects of racial trauma in order to restore equity and well-being.
00:26:18.000 Again, that word equity again.
00:26:19.000 You're not responsible for your own decisions.
00:26:21.000 It must be intergenerational racial trauma that has caused you to make a bad decision that wrecks your life today.
00:26:27.000 The NEA, of course, has a long history of involvement in racial and sexual issues, with the organization hosting an annual conference on racial and social justice.
00:26:34.000 Again, this is one of the two big teachers' unions in the United States.
00:26:37.000 The AFT is just as far to the left.
00:26:41.000 NEA experts are frequent speakers at South by Southwest, which includes seminars like, Why Porn Literacy Belongs in Sex Education Without Roe, Impact on Education and Workforce, and White Supremacy and Antisemitism on Campus.
00:26:53.000 You can see the impact of all of this in the classroom itself.
00:26:56.000 Libs of TikTok, which Khairachick runs that account, does an excellent job of exposing the woke indoctrination in our public schools.
00:27:04.000 Yesterday, she posted a video of one teacher bragging about fostering political unrest in her classroom.
00:27:10.000 Today I would like to talk about how I am the political unrest that Cedar City needs.
00:27:16.000 So besides the fact that I dyed my hair purple last night and I have two visible tattoos, I wrote my pronouns as she any up on the board.
00:27:24.000 I was teaching 10th grade and I told this to all my classes and it wasn't until the last period where someone was like, what's the second pronoun?
00:27:31.000 And so I explained, I was like, I do she any pronouns.
00:27:35.000 I do go by any pronouns, she, he, they, it, anything, but I am, Totally okay with you just referring to me as she.
00:27:44.000 But this is fostering, of course, the most important thing, political unrest in classrooms. 0.51
00:27:48.000 You have teachers across the nation who work for the NEA and the AFT who are teaching this crap to children and creating a whole new generation of intergenerational trauma while purporting to alleviate intergenerational trauma. 0.85
00:28:00.000 This is also how you end up with a Maryland classroom that looks like this. 0.92
00:28:04.000 There's a libs of TikTok tweet.
00:28:05.000 Sent to me by a parent.
00:28:06.000 A classroom in their kid's school in Maryland.
00:28:08.000 Homeschool your kids. 0.99
00:28:09.000 And what is there?
00:28:10.000 Well, blocking the window is a giant Black Lives Matter flag, as well as a Pride Progress flag hanging from the wall.
00:28:17.000 When it comes to your kid's education, so I saw a lot of responses from people on the right to this sort of stuff.
00:28:22.000 And the right seems to think, or at least many members of the right, seem to think that the best analogy is if you put a cross or the Ten Commandments in a classroom.
00:28:31.000 The idea being, well, you know, it's a value-neutral space.
00:28:35.000 All you members on the left, you should at least acknowledge that this is the equivalent of you pushing your brand of religion, and religion is banned in the classroom.
00:28:42.000 We're not allowed to pray in a classroom.
00:28:43.000 We're not allowed to have the Ten Commandments in a classroom.
00:28:46.000 And thus, you should acknowledge that your flags, your Black Lives Matter propaganda flag, and your Pride Progress propaganda flag, they don't belong in the classroom.
00:28:54.000 There's only one problem with this.
00:28:55.000 Someone is going to win when it comes to teaching values in the classroom, and someone is going to lose.
00:28:59.000 The notion of value neutrality in public schools is nonsense.
00:29:02.000 It has been nonsense for a very long time.
00:29:04.000 There is no value neutrality in America's public school classrooms.
00:29:07.000 There just isn't.
00:29:09.000 Would that it were so, but the NEA and the AFT make sure that that is not in fact the case.
00:29:14.000 Which means that if you wish to actually have your kids taught good values, you need to get active at the school board level.
00:29:20.000 The case that you should be making against the Black Lives Matter flag and the Pride Progress flag in the classroom is not that they are the equivalent of the Ten Commandments and the cross, because frankly, they are not.
00:29:28.000 They're not.
00:29:30.000 By the way, even if you put a cross in the classroom, that is different from the Ten Commandments.
00:29:33.000 The Ten Commandments is, in fact, interdenominational.
00:29:37.000 Jews, Muslims, and Christians all take very seriously the Ten Commandments.
00:29:40.000 They are the predicate for all moral systems of government in the West.
00:29:44.000 So this notion that the Ten Commandments is somehow an indoctrination into the religious precepts of Christianity or an attempt to force you to worship in the classroom is obviously a lie.
00:29:55.000 The moral distinction is the one that matters.
00:29:58.000 And people who are conservative should stop trying to aim for the value-neutral space when it comes to the classroom.
00:30:03.000 Instead, they should be, as parents, protecting the values that they wish to see their kids learn.
00:30:08.000 If value neutrality is the best that we can come to, if the left will agree to value neutrality, fine and good.
00:30:13.000 But guess what?
00:30:13.000 It ain't gonna happen.
00:30:15.000 The left purports that secular religious practice is superior.
00:30:19.000 That's why they are doing it.
00:30:20.000 They're not doing it because they believe that secularism is the way of the world and that religion is false or any of that.
00:30:26.000 What they believe is that they are doing an active good.
00:30:28.000 They're doing an active good by promulgating their point of view.
00:30:31.000 The right needs to start arguing that their point of view is good because the response to Black Lives Matter flags and Pride Progress flags in the classroom is not no flags in the classroom.
00:30:41.000 It is, in fact, the Ten Commandments.
00:30:42.000 No idolatry.
00:30:43.000 Idolatry is bad.
00:30:45.000 No tribal sectarianism.
00:30:47.000 It's bad.
00:30:49.000 No notion of sexual identity as the core of human living.
00:30:52.000 It's bad.
00:30:53.000 It's not something that should be taught to kids.
00:30:56.000 Parents had better get aggressive on this or they are going to lose.
00:30:58.000 Certainly the left has been aggressive on this.
00:31:00.000 And how aggressively does the left use our public schools?
00:31:03.000 So Lori Lightfoot, the awful mayor of Chicago, she apparently attempted to recruit Chicago public school students to help with her own re-election. 1.00
00:31:10.000 She offered them extra credit.
00:31:12.000 She was asked about this the other day.
00:31:14.000 Like, how is it that you are able to go into public schools and offer extra credit to students for working for your campaign?
00:31:19.000 It's just amazing, amazing stuff.
00:31:21.000 Here's Lori Lightfoot, the terrible mayor of Chicago. 1.00
00:31:24.000 Mayor Lightfoot, I gotta get you on one controversial thing before we let you go.
00:31:28.000 Your campaign, re-election campaign, is under investigation after being accused of trying to recruit Chicago public school students to help you get re-elected.
00:31:37.000 What's your response to this story out of NBC News?
00:31:41.000 Look, in our zeal to make sure that young people had an opportunity to participate, and they are flocking to our campaign, one of our staffers reached out through publicly available information to CPS teachers and our city colleges, and that was just simply a mistake.
00:31:59.000 Oh, oops.
00:32:00.000 It was just an oopsie.
00:32:02.000 It's not an oopsie.
00:32:03.000 In the NEA and the AFT, they work with politicians like Lori Lightfoot. 0.84
00:32:06.000 It is all part of a giant machine.
00:32:07.000 The NEA and the AFT get paid by politicians like Lori Lightfoot.
00:32:11.000 And they get funded by politicians like Lori Lightfoot. 0.86
00:32:13.000 And then they all use that power to indoctrinate your kids.
00:32:17.000 Which is why, as Lance Izumi writes over at the New York Post, the critical race theory debate is turning parents into unlikely activists.
00:32:23.000 Quote, a multidisciplinary education philosophy that places race at the center of American history and culture, CRT is akin to racial Marxism, with whites viewed as oppressors and non-whites framed as the oppressed.
00:32:33.000 In the Great Parent Revolt, we profile more than a dozen parents, students, and grassroots leaders who have courageously fought up and fought, stood up and fought CRT.
00:32:40.000 One unlikely hero is Gabs Clark, a widowed, low-income African-American mother of five children who had been living in a motel in Las Vegas. 0.77
00:32:46.000 Her high school-aged son, William, was in a local charter school which required a course called Sociology of Change.
00:32:51.000 According to Clark, the course included an assignment that asked students to list your identities, your race, your gender, your sexual orientation, your religion.
00:32:58.000 William, who is mixed race with blonde hair and blue eyes, refused to complete the assignment and was given a failing grade for the class, which kept him from graduating. 0.97
00:33:04.000 According to Clark, because of his fair complexion, the class viewed her son as a dirty, filthy oppressor.
00:33:09.000 Clark filed a federal lawsuit charging the school with violating William's First Amendment free speech rights, 14th Amendment equal protection rights, and federal anti-discrimination rights for compelling him to complete the race-based assignment.
00:33:18.000 The case has since been settled out of court.
00:33:21.000 And this sort of stuff is going to happen more and more commonly because parents are going to stand up because if they don't, they're going to lose their kids to this perverse worldview, which is, it's not only immoral, it's wildly ineffective at achieving even its stated goals.
00:33:34.000 Now, this is the sort of stuff that should theoretically make Democrats more unpopular.
00:33:39.000 Because Democrats were not, in fact, punished for their radicalism since 2020.
00:33:43.000 Since the Black Lives Matter riots of mid-2020. 0.88
00:33:45.000 They've not been punished for the sexual indoctrination of children.
00:33:48.000 They've not been punished for any of this, right?
00:33:49.000 They avoided the guillotine in 2020.
00:33:50.000 in 2020, and then they also avoided the guillotine in 2022.
00:33:57.000 So that means that Joe Biden is going strong on this.
00:34:00.000 He's moving harshly to his left, at least in terms of his rhetoric, on a wide variety of issues.
00:34:05.000 We will see how this pays off for him.
00:34:07.000 It's a bold strategy, Cotton.
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00:36:30.000 Meanwhile, while the left revivifies its radical bona fides in the aftermath of the 2022 election, Joe Biden is no exception.
00:36:37.000 He was out there giving speeches yesterday on civil rights, and he talked about being woke.
00:36:42.000 He said, I'm not woke, I'm just honest.
00:36:44.000 Well, no, you are woke and by necessity dishonest.
00:36:46.000 This is him speaking apparently at the National Action Network, which is Al Sharpton's grift group.
00:36:52.000 to make Juneteenth the first new federal holiday since the establishment of Dr. King's holiday.
00:36:57.000 The idea, if we can hold a second here, the idea that we're supposed to remain silent on the abuses of the past as if they didn't occur.
00:37:16.000 That's not being woke, that's being honest.
00:37:19.000 That's talking about history.
00:37:21.000 Well folks, we have a lot of unfinished work to do though.
00:37:27.000 A lot of unfinished work.
00:37:30.000 Oh, well, it's always unfinished work.
00:37:31.000 It's not being woke.
00:37:32.000 It's being honest to suggest that we need some form of additional government interventionism, more government spending, more racial reparations. 0.94
00:37:39.000 I urge the Democrats to run on this in a time of economic turmoil.
00:37:44.000 We're about to see a recession break out in the United States, like a real recession break out in the United States.
00:37:48.000 Most economists are foreseeing that.
00:37:49.000 At this point, earnings are way, way, way down at a variety of companies.
00:37:53.000 So I urge President Biden to run on redistribution of income and massive welfare payment and transfer payments.
00:37:59.000 That'll be fascinating.
00:38:00.000 And to say that's being honest, not being woke.
00:38:02.000 But he wasn't stopping there.
00:38:04.000 For some odd reason, he decided to go sort of into his litany of giant government programs, which is a strange thing to do, but it didn't stop him.
00:38:12.000 So he gave his usual shtick about how he wants to ban AR-15s, and particularly how you don't need an AR-15 because he will just blow you up with an F-15, which is not, I think, the, like, if you're encouraging me to give up my gun to resist government tyranny, And your argument is I could just nuke your house.
00:38:30.000 You're not actively achieving what you seek to achieve with this particular argument.
00:38:36.000 I am going to get assault weapons banned.
00:38:38.000 I did it once.
00:38:39.000 I'm going to do it again.
00:38:40.000 There's no social redeeming value.
00:38:46.000 Deer aren't wearing Kevlar vests out there.
00:38:48.000 What the hell you need a assault?
00:38:50.000 No, I'm serious.
00:38:51.000 I mean, if you need to work about taking on the federal government, you need some F-15s. 0.99
00:38:56.000 You don't need it.
00:38:57.000 An RAR-15.
00:38:58.000 I'm serious.
00:39:00.000 Think about it.
00:39:04.000 Think about it.
00:39:05.000 Think about how you don't need it.
00:39:07.000 I could just use a Moab.
00:39:09.000 Mother of all Moabs. 1.00
00:39:09.000 Just drop it on your house and kill your children. 1.00
00:39:12.000 You don't need an AR-15 to defend against me. 1.00
00:39:14.000 I'm a nice old man who's threatening you with a nuclear arsenal.
00:39:20.000 Yes, this is the way.
00:39:22.000 By the way, Joe Biden, he could have tried to ban assault weapons.
00:39:25.000 I noticed that he had control of the Senate as well as the House about five minutes ago.
00:39:29.000 So no, he's not going to ban assault weapons in the United States.
00:39:29.000 He did not achieve it.
00:39:32.000 Not just that, Joe Biden also wants more IRS agents.
00:39:34.000 We need more IRS agents, guys.
00:39:36.000 I know that this is something that you're all enthusiastic about.
00:39:38.000 I don't know about you, I love the IRS.
00:39:40.000 The IRS is great.
00:39:41.000 And what we need is more IRS agents who are combing through your old Restaurant deductions and trying to figure out whether or not you cheated on your taxes to the tune of $12.99.
00:39:49.000 You really have to find out whether that burger was at a business lunch or whether you're just kind of jobbing the system.
00:39:54.000 Here is Joe Biden talking about how we need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to hire 87,000 new IRS members, many of whom will in fact be agents despite their lies.
00:40:05.000 You know, all these new IRS agents we have is because they fired a lot of them and a lot of retiring.
00:40:12.000 And guess what?
00:40:13.000 Who needs serious agents to know what they're doing and not doing?
00:40:18.000 The billionaires.
00:40:20.000 The multi-multi-millionaires.
00:40:23.000 Hmm.
00:40:24.000 He keeps saying they're just going to audit the very, very rich people.
00:40:24.000 Yeah.
00:40:27.000 That is not true.
00:40:29.000 One of the great lies that Democrats like to tell is that there are enough rich people in the United States to pay for all of the kind of programs that Joe Biden wants to pay for.
00:40:35.000 And the answer is no, there aren't.
00:40:37.000 There are not.
00:40:38.000 In order for you to achieve the kind of spending and the kind of utopian redistributionist schemes that Joe Biden wants, you have to have Scandinavian-style tax programs.
00:40:46.000 The only person in American politics who's actually honest about this is Bernie Sanders, which is why he's a fringe old kook from Vermont. 0.98
00:40:52.000 Because Bernie at least has the stones to say, well, if you actually want to pay for all of this, we're going to have to tax you, the person who makes $60,000 a year, at 70%.
00:40:59.000 And that's just the way it's going to go.
00:41:01.000 And you'll have one type of bread at the store.
00:41:03.000 I do need seven types of bread.
00:41:04.000 You don't need rye.
00:41:05.000 Rye is bad.
00:41:06.000 Who eats pumpernickel? 0.63
00:41:07.000 You need white bread.
00:41:09.000 Maybe a little sourdough.
00:41:10.000 Nope.
00:41:10.000 Nope.
00:41:10.000 We do not have money for sourdough.
00:41:12.000 So like, at least Bernie is honest. 0.97
00:41:14.000 But Democrats are, like Biden, are just dishonest.
00:41:17.000 We need IRS agents that they can audit the very rich people.
00:41:19.000 So the very rich people can pay for these programs.
00:41:21.000 It's a lie.
00:41:22.000 It's not going to be very rich people paying for the programs.
00:41:23.000 You will pay for the programs through higher inflation rates.
00:41:26.000 You'll pay for the programs through lower economic growth or through higher taxes.
00:41:32.000 That's just the way that this is going to go.
00:41:35.000 Joe Biden then claimed that Republicans are quote unquote fiscally demented.
00:41:38.000 I mean, if there's one person who should know dementia, it's Joe Biden.
00:41:41.000 So I suppose this makes some sense.
00:41:42.000 Here we go.
00:41:44.000 I reduced the deficit last year, $350 billion.
00:41:49.000 And this year, the federal deficit is down $1 trillion plus.
00:41:58.000 Hear me, that's a fact.
00:42:01.000 And there's going to be hundreds of billions reduced over the next decade.
00:42:04.000 But so what?
00:42:04.000 These guys are fiscally demented, I think.
00:42:09.000 They don't quite get it. 0.99
00:42:14.000 Just to make clear that I'm not just making fun of Joe Biden for being old, I'm also making fun of him for being demented. 0.92
00:42:20.000 words. I said one long, long word. It says, Ooh, every time I look at my, Ooh, it's an all the letters in my cheerios spell dementia is the thing. 0.91
00:42:32.000 Not kidding. Guys. Um, just just to make clear that I'm not just making fun of Joe Biden for being all them also making fun of him for being, um, demented here. Here's Joe Biden flubbing over and over yesterday.
00:42:46.000 Hello, hello, hello.
00:42:48.000 Hello, no, ho, okay. 1.00
00:42:50.000 Ho, ho, go, go. 0.97
00:42:52.000 Also, he forgot who he was singing happy birthday to yesterday also.
00:42:58.000 So it went amazing.
00:42:59.000 Things are going great, guys.
00:43:02.000 Well, look, my wife has a rule in our family. 1.00
00:43:05.000 When somebody's birthday, you sing happy birthday.
00:43:07.000 You ready?
00:43:08.000 Happy birthday to you.
00:43:12.000 Happy birthday to you.
00:43:15.000 Happy birthday, dear Calvin.
00:43:19.000 Happy birthday to you.
00:43:22.000 Happy Birthday dear, dear Kyle- Pat Herman.
00:43:35.000 The CDC has a world beating agenda.
00:43:35.000 It is, again, a bold plan.
00:43:37.000 It is amazing the attempt to transform this doddering old fool into one of the world's great presidents and people are actually attempting to do this. 0.97
00:43:43.000 They really are. 0.97
00:43:44.000 We'll see how that works out for them.
00:43:45.000 It is again a bold plan.
00:43:48.000 Speaking of bold plans, there was an amazing clip of Sam Harris making the rounds yesterday Sam has gone off the rails in the past several years.
00:43:55.000 He was basically driven over the edge by the election of Donald Trump in 2016.
00:44:00.000 And Sam Harris, who has been a famous advocate in favor of everything from lockdowns to mask mandates with regard to vaccines and masking regiments and all the rest.
00:44:11.000 Yesterday, he was trying to make the case that We wouldn't have any VAX skepticism if COVID had been killing more kids.
00:44:18.000 We wouldn't have had any VAX skepticism if... We wouldn't have MASK skepticism if it had been killing more kids or if the death rate were higher.
00:44:24.000 Oh, you mean if the conditions were different, we might have different viewpoints?
00:44:29.000 Why, why no?
00:44:30.000 You shock me, sir.
00:44:31.000 Here's Sam Harris, though.
00:44:33.000 Unwilling to walk back his own positions on, for example, should there be VAX mandates, based on the science.
00:44:39.000 Instead, creating Bizarre hypotheticals in which the vaccines were, in fact, doing the things they promised to do.
00:44:47.000 If kids were dying by the hundreds of thousands from from COVID at a rate of whatever it was, you know, one percent, say, but it was pretty much all kids.
00:45:01.000 We we would have had a very different experience.
00:45:04.000 Let's say the vaccines really did block transmission, but then nothing else.
00:45:08.000 was, you know, all of the other mishigas about how, you know, untested they are and how dangerous they might be and the spike protein and blah, blah, blah.
00:45:16.000 The conspiracy thinking, the platforming of people who were obviously unwell and unbalanced professionally and mentally around vaccines and their skepticism, the patience for that would have been non-existent.
00:45:34.000 So, in other words, if, in fact, this disease had been something completely different and the vaccines had been something completely different, then we might have treated it differently.
00:45:42.000 Well, yes, that's sort of the point.
00:45:44.000 But the point now is that it's clear that the vaccines did not do what they had promised to do, namely stop or slow transmission in any serious way.
00:45:51.000 It is now clear, and it was very clear at the very beginning, that this thing was not killing kids, that it was predominantly killing the very elderly, which meant that you could shield and protect those people while allowing everybody else to go about their lives, which was actually the preferred policy of this show and the preferred policy throughout the pandemic of people like Jay Bhattacharya at Stanford University.
00:46:07.000 In fact, there's so many people who have to uphold the idea that they were right all along.
00:46:11.000 And if only you squint bizarrely through sort of a cracked glass, then you come up with the proper solution, which is that they were right.
00:46:19.000 Guys, maybe it is that what you promised just did not materialize because the facts were not on your side.
00:46:25.000 And so your hypotheticals are of no consequence whatsoever.
00:46:28.000 Speaking of which, by the way, brand new study out from the Wall Street Journal.
00:46:31.000 And you know what it says?
00:46:32.000 It says, I know we weren't allowed to say this during the pandemic.
00:46:35.000 If you're less fat, you died less often of COVID.
00:46:37.000 I know.
00:46:38.000 This is shocking.
00:46:39.000 It is a shocking circumstance.
00:46:41.000 Quote, people who exercise regularly had lower rates of hospitalization and death from COVID-19 in a study published recently in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
00:46:49.000 Regular exercise improves overall health, and healthier people generally have fewer serious complications with COVID-19.
00:46:54.000 Earlier research has shown an association between exercise and better COVID-19 outcomes.
00:46:58.000 This latest study goes a step further and suggests that even people whose age and or health conditions make them higher risk have better outcomes if they are regular exercisers.
00:47:05.000 You don't say.
00:47:07.000 You mean healthier people died less often?
00:47:09.000 That is crazy talk.
00:47:10.000 By the way, everyone knew this.
00:47:13.000 My parents were both 64 when this thing broke out.
00:47:16.000 And my dad, he felt like he wanted to drop some pounds specifically so he would not be in a higher risk group in terms of his weight.
00:47:22.000 So he started exercising a lot more regularly.
00:47:24.000 This was a smart move by my father.
00:47:27.000 A lot of other people should have done this.
00:47:28.000 Joe Rogan was encouraging this and then people laughed at him.
00:47:30.000 How dare you say that exercise is a cure for disease?
00:47:33.000 Joe never said that exercise is a cure for disease.
00:47:35.000 He said that exercise is a great way of preventing you from getting a serious version of the disease because your body is less vulnerable.
00:47:41.000 But this was considered verboten, right?
00:47:43.000 We had to shut down all the gyms because if you go to the gym, you might get infected with COVID as opposed to if you go to the gym, you might exercise and then be less vulnerable to COVID because you're not a fatso. 1.00
00:47:52.000 By the way, it is really incredible how much of the left-wing viewpoint with regard to health policy is predicated on ignoring the fact that America is an enormously fat country.
00:48:01.000 So much of our healthcare policy is predicated on just pretending that America is not fat and that we don't have horrible eating habits.
00:48:07.000 We are fat, we have horrible eating habits here in the United States.
00:48:10.000 So for example, the entire push for nationalized healthcare along the lines of Finland or Sweden or Norway, you want to know one reason why they have better health outcomes over there?
00:48:20.000 It's because they aren't as fat as we are.
00:48:22.000 40% of America is at least in the seriously overweight to obese category.
00:48:28.000 That is why people are dying at outsized rates in the United States.
00:48:30.000 If you go into young, healthy communities, so you're comparing apples to apples with other countries that have better health outcomes, what you'll find is that America actually has excellent health outcomes.
00:48:38.000 In other words, Swedes in the United States are very healthy.
00:48:41.000 In fact, they probably have just as high lifetime expectations, maybe higher than they would in Sweden.
00:48:48.000 You cannot compare populations without recognizing that the populations may be different in their health habits, may be different in their genetics.
00:48:56.000 It is a simple fact that there are certain diseases that attack certain populations at a differential rate.
00:49:02.000 So not comparing apples to apples is a huge mistake with all of this.
00:49:06.000 But again, so much of our public policy is rooted in the idea that if you notice differences between people, this is in and of itself racist, inequitable, problematic.
00:49:17.000 And that makes for a horrible public policy, whether you're talking about health, whether you're talking about slavery reparations, whether you're talking about any of this stuff.
00:49:22.000 The differences in people's habits, the differences in what people do, the differences in the choices people make.
00:49:26.000 Those are the predominant factors in how their life goes.
00:49:29.000 And attempting to cure all of that with broad public policy mandates, redistributionist measures is bound to fail.
00:49:35.000 Alrighty, guys, the rest of the show is continuing now.
00:49:38.000 You're not going to want to miss it.
00:49:39.000 We are going to get to disaster breaking out in terms of the Chinese economy. 1.00
00:49:43.000 Their population is actively declining at this point.
00:49:45.000 Is that the future of the United States as well?
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