The Ben Shapiro Show - The Cancellations Will Continue Until Morale Improves | Ep. 1219

00:00:00.000 Alexi McCammond is forced from her job as editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for tweets from her teenage years.

00:00:05.000 Democrats continue to defend their rotten COVID policy, and the left continues to insist that anti-Asian racism is an outgrowth of white supremacy alone.

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00:01:36.000 We begin today with the continuation of cancellation.

00:01:40.000 The cancellations will continue until morale improves.

00:01:42.000 So here's the thing.

00:01:43.000 Unless you are just pure as the driven snow, and I mean, you haven't said a word since you are a baby, because we know from a wide variety of left-leaning studies that babies begin to get racist around three months.

00:01:54.000 I'm not kidding.

00:01:55.000 These articles have been reported in NBC News.

00:01:57.000 This means that basically the only people we should be allowing to have any sort of influence in public life are people who have not spoken a word Since they were capable of speaking.

00:02:06.000 Basically, anybody who has spoken, like, when you learned language as a toddler, when you were like 13, 14 months old and you really started to learn how to say words, at that point, you need to shut the hell up.

00:02:16.000 You need to shut the hell up all the way until you want a job at Teen Vogue. 1.00

00:02:19.000 That is the way this now works. 0.75

00:02:21.000 Is that nothing you say is off limits.

00:02:24.000 Everything you have ever said is going to be held over your head for all time.

00:02:27.000 Because what we have created in this country is an arbitrary system of justice whereby, since everything is online and since we can basically surveil everything that you have ever said, we can always dig up something from your past to hit you with.

00:02:39.000 If you become inconvenient, we can just punish you.

00:02:42.000 See, there's this notion in law that selective prosecution is a bad thing.

00:02:47.000 That if you're holding one person to a standard and everybody else to a different standard, that that is unfair.

00:02:52.000 But that is the way that our social media social justice crowd works right now, is that the standards are completely arbitrary.

00:03:01.000 The points don't matter, and then we name a winner.

00:03:04.000 Whose line is it anyway?

00:03:05.000 At any given point, we can go back into your past, pluck a thing that you said, and then we can use it to hit you over the head, even if you've apologized for it or explained it away 10 million times.

00:03:16.000 And this is exactly what happened to Alexi McCammond.

00:03:17.000 Now, listen.

00:03:19.000 Some of us here on the right are willing to defend people on the left or in the center who get canceled for no reason other than the animus and spite of a bunch of woke staffers who have decided that they are the purity police and have decided they don't want this particular person in power at this particular time.

00:03:33.000 Because make no mistake, this is not about a principled stand that anyone who has ever said anything bad must be ousted because we've all said things that are bad.

00:03:39.000 We all have bad social media posts.

00:03:40.000 If you've been online for more than a couple of years, the chances that you have said something at some point that is unpleasant are really, really high.

00:03:47.000 In fact, if you've ever used email or text messages, if you've ever been on WhatsApp, if you've ever been on like a group board, if you've ever done any of those things, the chances that you have said something that could be taken out of context or misinterpreted or that you actually said something bad are 193%.

00:04:02.000 Because we're all human and we all sin.

00:04:04.000 As it says in Ecclesiastes, we have all sinned.

00:04:06.000 Every single one of us.

00:04:08.000 But we have a society where we can arbitrarily choose which sins to bring up at any given time, and then we can choose to just destroy you.

00:04:16.000 So this is what just happened to Alexei McCammon.

00:04:18.000 Now, Alexei McCammon is not a member of the right.

00:04:20.000 Alexei McCammon is a member of the left.

00:04:23.000 Alexi McCammon was hired by Teen Vogue specifically because they said they wanted to make their editorial page and their editorial oversight more diverse.

00:04:31.000 Alexi McCammon is a black woman. 1.00

00:04:33.000 Well now, she's been ousted from her job at Teen Vogue because a bunch of 23-year-old woke staffers decided that tweets that she sent when she was a freshman in college, like 10 years ago, that she sent when she was a freshman in college, are bad and racist. 0.96

00:04:46.000 And they are, they're not good tweets.

00:04:47.000 But that this is an excuse for now denying her a career promotion.

00:04:51.000 And this is usually how it works.

00:04:53.000 Well usually, Alexi McCammon wasn't cancelled when she was over at Axios.

00:04:57.000 Alexi McCammon wasn't cancelled when she was reporting stories from the White House.

00:05:00.000 Alexi McCammon was cancelled when she felt that she had reached the apex of her career thus far.

00:05:05.000 The same thing happened with Kevin Hart.

00:05:07.000 In other words, keep your head down, try not to get any level of career advancement.

00:05:11.000 The moment that you advance a little bit, that is when they club you.

00:05:14.000 Same thing with Gina Carano. 1.00

00:05:15.000 As soon as Gina Carano hits the Mandalorian, suddenly the hate comes out. 0.98

00:05:18.000 As soon as Chris Pratt is doing Guardians of the Galaxy, that's when all the hate comes out.

00:05:22.000 The higher you rise in your career, the more people want to tear you down, and so they will just bring up anything from the past in an attempt to smear you and destroy you, and it doesn't matter, again, whether you've repented, because we are not a culture of repentance.

00:05:32.000 We're a culture of graceless jackassery.

00:05:36.000 According to the New York Times, Alexi McCammon, who made her name as a politics reporter at the Washington news site Axios, had planned to start as the editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue next Wednesday.

00:05:43.000 Now, after Teen Vogue staff members publicly condemned racist and homophobic tweets Ms.

00:05:47.000 McCammon had posted a decade ago, she has resigned from the job.

00:05:51.000 Condon asked, as Teen Vogue's publisher, they announced the abrupt turn on Thursday in an internal email that was sent amid pressure from the publication's staff readers and at least two advertisers just two weeks after the company had appointed her to the position.

00:06:02.000 So, Alexi McCammon put out a statement about this.

00:06:06.000 So did HR, obviously, because you always have to have a statement from HR.

00:06:10.000 Alexi McCammon's statement was an announcement, of course, that she was no longer going to be the editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue.

00:06:21.000 She wrote, quote, I became a journalist to help lift up stories and voices of our most vulnerable communities.

00:06:25.000 Again, she's not a member of the right.

00:06:27.000 As a young woman of color, that's part of the reason I was so excited to lead the Teen Vogue team in its next chapter.

00:06:31.000 My past tweets have overshadowed the work I've done to highlight the people and issues I care about, issues that Teen Vogue has worked so tirelessly to share with the world.

00:06:38.000 First of all, does anyone understand the irony of Teen Vogue, which is the teen version of a fashion magazine, like a high fashion magazine, deciding that they are now the moral police?

00:06:48.000 Teen Vogue?

00:06:49.000 It's where you go for your political morality.

00:06:52.000 Teen Vogue, which writes pieces every few days about how socialism is wonderful.

00:06:58.000 Hey, Conde Nast and I have decided to part ways, says Alexa McCammon.

00:07:00.000 I should not have tweeted what I did, and I have taken full responsibility for that.

00:07:03.000 I look at my work and growth in the years since and have redoubled my commitment to growing in the years to come as a person and as a professional.

00:07:09.000 I wish the talented team at Teen Vogue the absolute best moving forward.

00:07:12.000 Their work has never been more important.

00:07:13.000 I will be rooting for them.

00:07:14.000 There are so many stories left to be told, especially about marginalized communities and the issues affecting them.

00:07:18.000 I hope to have the opportunity to rejoin the ranks of tireless journalists who are shining light on the issues that matter every single day.

00:07:24.000 Okay, so, we'll see who hires her next. 1.00

00:07:27.000 Because apparently advertisers are so afraid of this, they are so cowed by the woke staffers, that they are deeply concerned that if Alexi McCammon were to edit Teen Vogue and they were to be associated with that person, then they would lose, what, their consumer base?

00:07:40.000 The sheer cowardice of people in institutional power, and the sheer brazenness of all the woke staffers who decide that they get to decide who their bosses are, is pretty impressive.

00:07:49.000 Again, if a bunch of employees at the Daily Wire came to me and they were like, you know what?

00:07:54.000 We don't like the stuff that you've been saying on your show.

00:07:57.000 And so you're supposed to now fire yourself.

00:07:59.000 My answer would be, no, that's not your job.

00:08:02.000 The Teen Vogue publisher should have said to the woke staffers, guess what?

00:08:05.000 You don't get to appoint the EIC.

00:08:06.000 I get to appoint the EIC.

00:08:08.000 But all of these companies are so afraid of their own staff and they're so afraid they're gonna be accused in other media outlets of being racist and terrible. 0.75

00:08:15.000 They're so afraid they just fired a black editor. 0.89

00:08:16.000 Okay, Alexi McCammond is a black woman. 1.00

00:08:19.000 That didn't save her, because she crossed swords with the woke, because the woke decided they didn't like her enough.

00:08:25.000 Kansan asked, their HR department put out an entire statement and said, hi everyone, Yoshika Olden, our Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, again, the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer is the most Orwellian title in all of American corporate life, because it's not about inclusion or about diversity, certainly not on an ideological level, it's about complete corporate conformity rammed down from the absolute top.

00:08:45.000 That is what the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer always is, and it's a billion-dollar industry.

00:08:49.000 I mean, multi-billion dollars.

00:08:51.000 As of 1990 or something, we were spending $8 billion on diversity initiatives at these various companies.

00:08:57.000 Now it's got to be a multiple of that, obviously.

00:08:59.000 Yeshika Olden, our Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, i.e.

00:09:02.000 a professional useless person, and I have had conversations with many of you over the past week.

00:09:06.000 We know this has been a challenging time for so many. 0.73

00:09:08.000 Really, was it a challenge?

00:09:09.000 Was it a super challenging time that you read a tweet that was 10 years old from a freshman in college, and you thought to yourself, God, my life is ruined.

00:09:14.000 Why don't I just get rid of this person?

00:09:16.000 Our most important work as a company right now is embodied in the focused efforts we are all undertaking to become more equitable and inclusive.

00:09:22.000 By equitable and inclusive, they mean not inclusive, and we need to fire somebody.

00:09:26.000 Our commitment to these issues is sincere and unwavering.

00:09:29.000 It is fair to say that Alexi McCammon's appointment with Teen Vogue brought many difficult and important conversations to the forefront over the last few weeks.

00:09:36.000 I want to be fully transparent with you about our decision-making process regarding her appointment.

00:09:40.000 When Alexi was a teenager, she made racially charged statements on social media about Asian people.

00:09:44.000 Alexi was straightforward and transparent about these posts during our interview process and through public apologies years ago.

00:09:48.000 Okay, so that should be the end of the conversation.

00:09:50.000 It's one thing if the company says, I was sandbagged, right?

00:09:52.000 I had no idea that this stuff was out there.

00:09:54.000 And now that I found out, well, that changes the math.

00:09:56.000 But they knew she had dealt with it in the interview process.

00:09:59.000 And this company was still so pusillanimous, still so cowardly, they decided to dump her on the side of the road.

00:10:04.000 After saying, yeah, we see what you did, and we accept your explanation and your apology and the fact that you've grown over time.

00:10:12.000 It's amazing, amazing stuff, right?

00:10:13.000 So they're actually reversing their own grace that they'd given this woman.

00:10:18.000 Given her previous acknowledgment of these posts and her sincere apologies, in addition to her remarkable work in journalism elevating the voices of marginalized communities, by the way, all of that kind of stuff where they talk about journalism elevating the voice of the marginalized, that is an ideological goal.

00:10:33.000 Journalism is usually covering the news, but now you're considered a good journalist if you are ideologically driven to cover certain stories at the expense of other stories, but that is a side point.

00:10:43.000 They say we were looking forward to welcoming her into our community.

00:10:46.000 In addition, we were hopeful that Alexi would become part of our team to provide perspective and insight that is underrepresented throughout media.

00:10:52.000 We were dedicated to making her successful in this role and spent time working with her, our company leadership, and the Teen Vogue team to find the best path forward.

00:10:57.000 To that end, after speaking with Alexi this morning, we agreed it was best to part ways so as to not overshadow the important work happening at Teen Vogue.

00:11:04.000 Again, all that important work.

00:11:05.000 You need that important work.

00:11:07.000 Various sexual positions, as well as the latest in Lady Gaga's makeup. 0.99

00:11:14.000 I'm including the notes you shared on Twitter today.

00:11:16.000 As always, the People team and I are here to support you and answer any and all questions you may have.

00:11:21.000 Thank you for your patience with us.

00:11:22.000 Thank you for your patience with us?

00:11:23.000 What patience?

00:11:24.000 We're available to meet with you and your teams to continue these important conversations.

00:11:28.000 Amazing, amazing stuff from HR.

00:11:31.000 Again, it's a graceless, terrible society, and the cancellations will continue until morale improves.

00:11:35.000 Now, I gotta tell you, as a conservative, I'm rooting for the cancellations.

00:11:38.000 I'm rooting for the cancellers.

00:11:40.000 I'm rooting for the cancellers at this point.

00:11:43.000 I hope that they cancel everybody on the left side of the aisle so that they learn that cancellation is bad.

00:11:47.000 Okay, because if they gotta burn down the village in order to save the village, go for it, guys.

00:11:52.000 I'm rooting for you.

00:11:53.000 I'm here for you. 1.00

00:11:54.000 You guys wanna cancel a bunch of decent people who are attempting to do good work because you are graceless jerks? 1.00

00:12:00.000 Plenty of room on this side of the aisle for you. 1.00

00:12:00.000 Guess what? 1.00

00:12:03.000 You want to wish everybody out in the cornfield?

00:12:04.000 Eventually, there are going to be enough of us here out in the cornfield that we vastly outnumber you.

00:12:10.000 So you want to continue doing this?

00:12:11.000 You're just going to open business opportunities for those of us who do not accept the fundamental basis of the nonsense you are now proposing.

00:12:17.000 You want to keep canceling Gina Carano?

00:12:19.000 I'll just hire her. 1.00

00:12:21.000 You want to cancel a bunch of journalists?

00:12:22.000 We'll hire them. 0.99

00:12:24.000 You woke corporations decide that you wanna cater to your woke base, we'll just form corporations that are not woke, and we'll cater to a much broader and more diverse base, ideologically and racially speaking, probably.

00:12:36.000 Just keep doing it, guys.

00:12:37.000 Just keep it up.

00:12:37.000 You're doing great.

00:12:39.000 You're making America a better place one cancellation at a time.

00:12:43.000 And then they, what's amazing is that these people actually think that they're making the country more pure.

00:12:47.000 They probably do.

00:12:48.000 I mean, I'm gonna grant them the purity of their intent.

00:12:51.000 Or is it just that they have nothing better to do?

00:12:53.000 And their lives are empty.

00:12:54.000 The people who spend their days trolling the internet for bad old comments to cancel people.

00:12:59.000 Their lives are empty.

00:13:00.000 They have no sense of community.

00:13:01.000 They have no sense of grace because they don't actually deal with human beings.

00:13:04.000 They just deal with people online.

00:13:05.000 And they go for the retweets and the clicks.

00:13:07.000 And so the goal is the destruction of other human beings for fun and profit.

00:13:12.000 Guess what?

00:13:12.000 At a certain point, the fun stops being fun.

00:13:15.000 And you're gonna make those of us who are not on the side of the cancelers, the actual profitable ones.

00:13:21.000 Just keep doing it.

00:13:22.000 Just keep doing it.

00:13:23.000 You're stuffing money in the pockets of your political opponents.

00:13:25.000 You're giving us all political credibility.

00:13:27.000 So I hope that this continues.

00:13:28.000 And I hope the Democratic Party continues to cater to it.

00:13:30.000 I hope the folks at Teen Vogue continue to do this sort of stuff.

00:13:33.000 Because eventually, it's just going to be the woke talking to themselves.

00:13:36.000 That is the choice that they made, by the way.

00:13:38.000 The way this works is that the only way Alexi McCammond could have gotten out of this, presumably, was not only to apologize for her past commentary, but to have joined the Borg, to have assimilated to the Borg, and found them another target for them to attack.

00:13:51.000 Right?

00:13:51.000 Don't kill me.

00:13:52.000 Kill that person over there. 1.00

00:13:53.000 But Alexi McCammond didn't do that. 0.98

00:13:55.000 Or maybe it didn't matter.

00:13:56.000 Maybe no matter what she did, they were going to take her down.

00:13:59.000 And the fact that you have now brought me to the point where I've now defended, over the past few years, Sarah Zhang, who's awful, Alexi McCammon, with whom I wildly disagree, James Gunn, who I wildly disagree with, and is in favor of cancel culture, and is awful, I will defend people from having their lives ruined because these rules are not rules that anybody can live by.

00:14:17.000 But if the left continues to live by these rules, they're gonna alienate everybody, and good.

00:14:21.000 Good.

00:14:21.000 I hope they do continue this.

00:14:22.000 I hope they alienate everybody.

00:14:24.000 Okay, meanwhile, COVID policy continues to be a contentious issue.

00:14:29.000 It is amazing to see the Biden administration continue to downplay, simultaneously upplay the success that they've had on vaccine distribution, and downplay the actual effectiveness of the vaccines.

00:14:41.000 It's kind of a weird combo.

00:14:42.000 Because on the one hand, they want to say that Biden's done a wonderful job tranching out the vaccines, which The administration has done fine.

00:14:48.000 I'm not going to pretend they've done horribly.

00:14:50.000 They haven't done, like, amazing.

00:14:52.000 Again, by the end of February, they were supposed to have 100 federal mass vaccination sites.

00:14:55.000 They had 7.

00:14:56.000 It's the states that have been doing all the heavy lifting with regard to the vaccinations.

00:15:00.000 But they've been talking up Joe Biden's performance on COVID.

00:15:02.000 At the same time, they've been saying that we have to wear masks until the end of time because, you know, the vaccines might not solve all the problems and all of this.

00:15:10.000 They've been saying the schools have to remain closed, but the schools can kind of open, but they should remain closed. 0.96

00:15:14.000 Their COVID policy, in other words, has been a bag of garbage, but they want it both ways.

00:15:17.000 We're doing a great job on COVID, and also COVID still haunts the land, which is why you need us. 0.83

00:15:21.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:15:22.000 In order to promote that, they have to promote a bunch of bad science.

00:15:24.000 So yesterday, Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky, he questioned the great and glorious Dr. Anthony Fauci, second best doctor in America, after Dr. Joe Biden, who, of course, will diagnose you with a need for a junior college degree should you have a heart attack.

00:15:35.000 Dr. Anthony Fauci appearing in front of Rand Paul's committee, And Rand Paul points out that once you are vaccinated, once you've gone through the vaccinations, and once you've had COVID, then wearing a mask is essentially theater.

00:15:47.000 That you are wearing a mask because it makes other people feel comfortable.

00:15:51.000 But the reality is that if you want people to get the vaccine, if you want to cut down on vaccine hesitancy, what you tell people is, you can go back to regular life after you've had both doses of the vaccine in your two weeks past the last dose.

00:16:01.000 He's right.

00:16:02.000 He's absolutely right.

00:16:03.000 Rand Paul in this exchange is 100% correct, and Dr. Anthony Fauci is wrong.

00:16:07.000 Scientifically speaking, Rand Paul is correct.

00:16:09.000 I checked the work, okay?

00:16:10.000 So I went to Dr. Marty Makary, frequent guest on the program from Johns Hopkins University.

00:16:14.000 He's written in the Wall Street Journal.

00:16:16.000 He was a member of several prior administrations.

00:16:20.000 And I said, in this exchange, who is right, Fauci or Paul?

00:16:23.000 He said, Fauci is just wrong.

00:16:24.000 Okay, so the case that you're about to hear Rand Paul make is that once you're vaccinated, or once you've had COVID, you now have immunity, right?

00:16:33.000 You are now immune.

00:16:34.000 We don't know how long the immunity lasts, but we do know that the immunity is pretty damn good, and there is no countervailing data that suggests widespread second infections.

00:16:43.000 And so once you do that, why are we worried about you wearing a mask?

00:16:46.000 We shouldn't care whether you wear a mask at that point.

00:16:49.000 And he says to Dr. Fauci, what you're doing is just for show, right?

00:16:52.000 You've been vaccinated.

00:16:53.000 So why exactly are you double masking?

00:16:56.000 It's just pretend at this point.

00:16:58.000 And Fauci's answer, which is that there might still be variants out there, Is an answer without a limiting principle.

00:17:06.000 It's like saying, sometime in the future, an asteroid could hit Earth.

00:17:08.000 So we better prepare for it now.

00:17:10.000 Okay, well, I mean, how?

00:17:13.000 By wearing a mask every single day?

00:17:15.000 He says that there could be variants that come along that are really bad.

00:17:17.000 Yes, and there could be a brand new pandemic tomorrow that could be really bad.

00:17:19.000 So maybe we should just keep wearing masks forever.

00:17:22.000 The point that he is making is not scientifically correct.

00:17:24.000 The vaccines have been extraordinarily resilient against most of the, virtually all of the variants.

00:17:29.000 There's one single situation, I believe in Brazil, in a very small area where there was a variant that did not end up spreading beyond that, that had some secondary infections.

00:17:39.000 But there is very little evidence at this point at all to suggest, in fact, no major study, as Rand Paul points out, that suggests that if you're vaccinated or if you've had COVID, that you should be deeply worried about a second wave of COVID from a variant, so why are you wearing a mask?

00:17:53.000 Here's Rand Paul pointing this out to Fauci, and Fauci getting angry that he's being called on the carpet.

00:17:59.000 What studies do you have that people that have had the vaccine or have had the infection are spreading the infection?

00:18:05.000 If we're not spreading the infection, isn't it just theater?

00:18:08.000 No, it's not.

00:18:09.000 You've had the vaccine and you're wearing two masks.

00:18:11.000 Isn't that theater?

00:18:12.000 Here we go again with the theater.

00:18:12.000 No, it's not.

00:18:14.000 Let's get down to the facts.

00:18:16.000 In the South African study conducted by J&J, they found that people who were infected with wild type and were exposed to the variant in South Africa, the 351, it was as if they had never been infected before.

00:18:33.000 They had no protection.

00:18:35.000 Okay, except for the fact that when these South African variants have hit Europe, when they've hit the United States, in places where there's been mass vaccination, you're not seeing secondary infections.

00:18:47.000 There is no evidence in the United States at all, and as far as I'm aware, no evidence in Europe, that there has been widespread secondary infection of people who have already been infected with COVID from the variants.

00:18:57.000 The variants are, in fact, variants.

00:19:00.000 Some of them spread faster.

00:19:02.000 Some of them are apparently more deadly.

00:19:04.000 But vaccination has thus far been extraordinarily resilient to that.

00:19:10.000 And if you've already had COVID, the generalized notion that the variants are now going to reinfect you and kill you, maybe you get reinfected, but the severity of the infection is another matter that matters here.

00:19:22.000 The masks are in fact theater at this point, if you've already been vaccinated.

00:19:25.000 And yet you have the entire administration saying that you're supposed to wear the mask until when?

00:19:30.000 There's no end point here, because a variant could arise literally at any point along the line.

00:19:33.000 Again, there's no limiting principle here.

00:19:35.000 That's what's so weird about the position that this administration is taking.

00:19:38.000 They have to justify their policy.

00:19:40.000 They have to justify masking until the end of time.

00:19:43.000 They have to justify lockdowns.

00:19:44.000 Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford University yesterday, he did a presser, and he points out lockdowns have not stopped the spread.

00:19:50.000 He did this presser with Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida.

00:19:53.000 The international evidence and the American evidence is clear.

00:19:57.000 The lockdowns have not stopped the spread of the disease in any measurable way.

00:20:03.000 The disease spreads by aerosol, by droplets.

00:20:10.000 It's a respiratory disease.

00:20:11.000 It's very difficult to stop.

00:20:13.000 The idea of the lockdown is incredibly, I mean, in some ways, beguiling.

00:20:17.000 If you just stay apart far enough, like rats in cages, We won't spread the disease.

00:20:23.000 The humans are not like that.

00:20:24.000 Okay, and that is exactly right.

00:20:26.000 What you've seen is that places that did lockdown, like New York or like California, they got hit just as hard as places that didn't lockdown.

00:20:31.000 In some cases, significantly harder.

00:20:34.000 By the way, how unscientific is the Biden administration?

00:20:37.000 The CDC is now revising its guidelines on COVID distancing.

00:20:39.000 They're supposed to do that today.

00:20:41.000 They're supposed to point out that in classrooms, kids can be three feet apart.

00:20:45.000 We just spent a year doing six feet apart for no reason at all.

00:20:48.000 So when people say follow the science, what they really mean is just listen to experts who tell you stuff that's not based on the science.

00:20:52.000 That's where Fauci comes in.

00:20:55.000 And then they wonder why people have doubt in our scientific institutions.

00:20:58.000 If you can't explain the science, then you're doing a bad job.

00:21:01.000 End of story. 0.99

00:21:03.000 Okay, meanwhile, the entire media has decided that this shooting in Atlanta is once again evidence of America's widespread white supremacy, which is a weird take considering, again, we have no evidence at this point that the accused gunman, the alleged gunman, that this piece of crap targeted the women because of race. 0.98

00:21:23.000 We have fairly good evidence at this point that he targeted these particular places because they were sex shops that he had visited before. 0.98

00:21:29.000 According to the New York Times, he checked himself into a rehab clinic for a self-described sexual addiction.

00:21:34.000 He was so intense on avoiding pornography, he blocked websites from his computer and only used a flip phone.

00:21:38.000 He worried to a roommate about falling out of God's grace.

00:21:40.000 Months before the shooter, we don't mention shooters' names on the show, was charged with carrying out a bloody rampage at three massage parlors that horrified the nation and stoked a furious outcry over anti-Asian violence, the 21-year-old suspect who'd grown up in a conservative Baptist church appeared fixated on guilt and lust.

00:21:55.000 Okay, so the New York Times is saying that this is about sex addiction.

00:21:57.000 It's about guilt and lust, by all of the available evidence.

00:22:01.000 And presumably, the New York Times also thinks this is about religion, because if religion didn't make you feel so guilty about your guilt and lust, then you wouldn't do this sort of stuff, which is a pretty extraordinary claim.

00:22:09.000 As investigators on Thursday pieced together whether and how racism and sexism might have motivated Tuesday's attacks, people who knew the shooter offered new details about a dangerous collision of sexual loathing and what a former roommate described as religious mania that marked his life in the years before the shooting spree.

00:22:24.000 This guy went to a church that strictly prohibited sex outside of marriage, was distraught by his failed attempts to curb his sexual urges, said a former roommate.

00:22:31.000 Nearly once a month, he would admit he had again relapsed by visiting a massage parlor for sex, said the roommate.

00:22:37.000 He once asked the roommate to take his computer away from him.

00:22:40.000 Atlanta police said on Thursday that the shooter had been a customer at two spas in the city that were targeted in the attacks that killed eight people overall, including six women of Asian descent.

00:22:48.000 They did not specify whether he had sought anything more than a massage at the two businesses, Aromatherapy Spa and Gold Spa, both of which appear on sort of sex place listings online apparently.

00:22:58.000 Apparently when the shooter was arrested, he said he was on his way to Florida to carry out another attack on a business tied to the pornography industry.

00:23:03.000 He's been charged with eight counts of murder.

00:23:05.000 Okay, so it seems pretty obvious that this is chiefly not about race.

00:23:10.000 What this is chiefly about is this guy's perverse views on sex, his blaming women in the sex trade for his own inability to control himself.

00:23:22.000 And there are plenty of issues to discuss there.

00:23:25.000 The sexualization of American culture, how people deal with things like pornography addiction, which is a very real thing.

00:23:31.000 Where the blame ought to lie, how we deal with that in a society that champions the virtues of sexual profligacy.

00:23:38.000 There are all sorts of issues to discuss here.

00:23:40.000 But race is pretty low on the evidence-based issues to discuss.

00:23:47.000 Again, there's not a lot of evidence that this guy was doing this because he hated Asian people.

00:23:51.000 There's a fair bit of evidence that he was doing this because he hated sex workers. 0.84

00:23:56.000 He hated massage shops that were actually brothels.

00:24:00.000 Now, the Atlanta police have come under a lot of fire because the Atlanta police have just reported what this guy said.

00:24:06.000 Here is the deputy police chief, Charles Hampton, saying that he doesn't have a position on whether it was a hate crime or not because they literally have no evidence at this point it was a hate crime.

00:24:15.000 The investigation into a possible hate crime, that's still on the table.

00:24:19.000 Our investigation is looking at everything, so nothing is off the table for our investigation.

00:24:24.000 What is APD's position on that?

00:24:28.000 I don't have a position.

00:24:30.000 Like I said, I'm only going to comment about our investigation.

00:24:34.000 And again, we're not prepared to talk a lot about what has been said because, again, we're not trying to try the case in public.

00:24:45.000 The media are hungry for a narrative.

00:24:46.000 How hungry are they for a narrative?

00:24:48.000 There was a police spokesperson yesterday who did a presser on this and talked about how the suspect had said that he had a really bad day.

00:24:57.000 That's what the suspect said.

00:24:58.000 He didn't say, I think he had a really bad day.

00:25:00.000 He said the suspect told us that he had a really bad day.

00:25:02.000 So he was narrating what the suspect had said. 0.91

00:25:06.000 There's a jackass online named Aaron Rupar. 0.98

00:25:07.000 He's a terrible, terrible source of misinformation. 0.98

00:25:10.000 He frequently cuts things out of context and then just puts them up.

00:25:12.000 He put up the clip as though the police chief, the police spokesperson, was making the claim that this guy had a really bad day and somehow this justified the murders.

00:25:21.000 That is not true.

00:25:21.000 I mean, it's overtly not true.

00:25:23.000 If you just look at the entirety of the clip that he took out of context, what you'll see is that the police spokesperson was relaying what the suspect had said.

00:25:32.000 The blowback against the police officer was so strong that people were calling for his firing.

00:25:36.000 People were saying the police officer should be fired for even narrating the words of what the suspect had told them.

00:25:42.000 Because the narrative is obvious, right?

00:25:44.000 The narrative is that this was anti-Asian animus, that it was an anti-Asian hate crime.

00:25:48.000 And the reason the media are intent and focusing on this particular story as an anti-Asian hate crime is because their narrative is anytime there is hate, and it can be tied to broader American quote-unquote whiteness, then we can talk about racial hatred.

00:26:00.000 If it's hatred between blacks and Asians, you can't talk about that at all.

00:26:03.000 That is an unmentionable thing.

00:26:05.000 Yes, now I want to make a correction on yesterday's show.

00:26:07.000 So yesterday's show, I talked about violent crime statistics by community.

00:26:11.000 And I pointed out that violent crime statistics by community, if you look at the victimizers of Asian people in violent crime, it was disproportionately black people who were targeting Asian people in crime.

00:26:21.000 Now, that was not hate crime statistics, okay?

00:26:23.000 So that could just be casual crime.

00:26:24.000 That could just be a black person robbed an Asian person or something. 0.57

00:26:26.000 And when I say disproportionate, I mean that about 24% of all crimes committed against Asians or by Asians, about 24% are committed by whites against Asians, and about 25% are committed by black people against Asians.

00:26:36.000 But that's normal everyday crime.

00:26:37.000 I mean, that's not necessarily racially motivated.

00:26:40.000 So I wanna correct the record on that, okay, because that was wrong.

00:26:44.000 The information was incorrect.

00:26:46.000 What we do know is that according to the FBI statistics, there were more than 4,000 hate crimes in the United States in 2019.

00:26:52.000 About 4.4% of those were committed against Asian Americans.

00:26:56.000 Which amounts to about 220 crimes against Asian Americans.

00:27:01.000 They don't give the source of the crimes, so we don't actually know who is committing the hate crimes against Asian Americans.

00:27:05.000 But we have no evidence, by the same token, to suggest that it is quote-unquote white supremacy that is responsible for the uptick in anti-Asian violence.

00:27:13.000 And the anecdotal evidence shows that there's been a pretty significant spike in violent crime, including in the major cities.

00:27:20.000 That are not being done by white people, predominantly.

00:27:25.000 If you look at a major crime uptick in New York City, there's been a major murder uptick in New York City, major murder uptick in Los Angeles. 0.92

00:27:31.000 If you look at that, you wouldn't automatically say, well, that's an outgrowth of white supremacy.

00:27:35.000 That'd be a weird take.

00:27:36.000 So if you say there's been an elevated level of crime in New York City against Asian-Americans, or in Los Angeles against Asian-Americans, and your first take is that's white supremacy?

00:27:44.000 These cities are extremely racially diverse.

00:27:46.000 These cities are very much to the left. 0.89

00:27:49.000 The notion that you had a bunch of red-hatted MAGA trolls who, you know, people who are like, well, you know, he said Chinese virus. 0.95

00:27:55.000 I'm gonna go target a Chinese person today. 1.00

00:27:56.000 That's what's been happening in America's major cities, which is where most of the spike is happening.

00:28:00.000 Kind of a weird take.

00:28:01.000 Certainly evidence-free.

00:28:02.000 There's no basis for, and evidence for that.

00:28:04.000 But the narrative must be promulgated at all costs, because the narrative is always the same.

00:28:08.000 America broadly writ is to blame, and America broadly writ is a white supremacist country, and thus, any bad thing that happens is attributable to the white supremacy.

00:28:15.000 I've even seen the argument that even if it is disproportionately black people who are harming Asian American people in the United States, that that is an outgrowth of white supremacy, because our white supremacist system has forced conflict between minorities.

00:28:27.000 It's the, you know, the atheists will talk about how religious people who don't know how to defend their religion will kind of use the God of the gaps argument.

00:28:34.000 We don't know why X happened, therefore God.

00:28:37.000 There is a racism of the gaps argument, a white supremacy of the gaps argument that is frequently used, not just frequently, ubiquitously used by the left.

00:28:45.000 Something bad happens, therefore, racism of the gaps, right?

00:28:49.000 White supremacy of the gaps. 0.95

00:28:51.000 We don't know why there's been this uptick in anti-Asian crime. 0.94

00:28:54.000 White supremacy, it must be white supremacy. 0.95

00:28:55.000 Must be Trump. 0.98

00:28:56.000 Must be a bunch of things that I don't like.

00:28:58.000 It can never be the possibility that maybe there's a disproportionate amount of minority on minority violence in this particular situation.

00:29:05.000 Which, by the way, again, if you look at the overall crime statistics, there is a disproportionate amount of black on Asian violence, just by percentages of population.

00:29:14.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second because this also goes to which kind of stories are ignored by the media and which kind of stories are covered by the media and how exactly the media cover these stories.

00:29:24.000 The broader point here, which is that the media are blaming the right wing for this without any evidence whatsoever at this point, that's undeniable.

00:29:33.000 The editorial board at the New York Times says Asian Americans are scared for a reason. 1.00

00:29:36.000 Bigotry and demagoguing have pushed communities close to a crisis point.

00:29:41.000 So the suggestion, of course, is once again that it was Donald Trump that is responsible for the uptick in anti-Asian crime, even though the uptick in anti-Asian crime is happening almost entirely in large metropolitan blue areas.

00:29:54.000 After a year of vitriol and violence against Asian Americans amid the coronavirus pandemic, it's long past time to admit the country has a problem.

00:30:01.000 A year ago this month, after the pandemic had already established a beachhead in the United States, this board wrote, There's a long history of diseases triggering waves of violence against Jews during the Black Death right through the animus linked to Ebola, SARS, and Zika.

00:30:12.000 Chinese Americans and other Asians, lumped together with them by races, are being beaten, spat on, yelled at, insulted from coast to coast.

00:30:18.000 The president then was Donald Trump.

00:30:20.000 Mr. Trump said China virus again this week during a Fox News interview.

00:30:23.000 There is no evidence that this was driven by Trump saying China virus.

00:30:28.000 And by the way, the virus did come from China.

00:30:30.000 That is not an anti-Asian sentiment. 1.00

00:30:32.000 That's asinine. 0.98

00:30:33.000 That's like saying that the South African variant of the virus should be blamed on South Africans or the Brazilian variant of the virus should be blamed on Brazilians. 0.98

00:30:41.000 It's just a location.

00:30:42.000 The Spanish flu did not mean that you're supposed to be a racist against people who originate from Spain.

00:30:49.000 And again, there's no evidence to suggest that this is a result of Trump saying China virus over and over and over.

00:30:55.000 But the message has to be promulgated, and this is a broader problem.

00:31:00.000 Our media are basically now saying that anytime a crime is committed by a white person against a person of another race, the answer must be racism.

00:31:08.000 But if a crime is committed by a minority against a person of another race, then the answer is also white supremacy, but by extension.

00:31:15.000 Hey, you've created a completely unfalsifiable thesis here.

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00:33:44.000 Now remember, all of this is a broader argument by the left.

00:33:53.000 And that broader argument by the left is, if a white person does a bad thing, that is reflective of American racism and white supremacy and whiteness more generally.

00:34:01.000 And we can impute intent without actually showing evidence of intent, right?

00:34:05.000 This does tie back into the general cancel culture idea, which is that it's the impact of your words that matters, not why you said it or what you did.

00:34:14.000 So this sort of thought has sort of seeped in this sort of strict liability notion of how we ought to treat fellow human beings.

00:34:20.000 This has seeped into every area of our discourse.

00:34:22.000 So Trevor Noah over on Comedy Central who, I mean, I used to, it's in the name of the network, Comedy Central, but I'm just wondering where the comedy went.

00:34:29.000 Now it's just Central.

00:34:31.000 So Trevor Noah He says the Atlanta shooter is clearly operating from racist premises.

00:34:37.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:34:38.000 Again, I don't know whether he's a racist.

00:34:39.000 Maybe he is.

00:34:40.000 Maybe he isn't. 1.00

00:34:41.000 He's crap either way. 1.00

00:34:42.000 It turns out you don't have to be a racist to be a complete piece of crap. 1.00

00:34:44.000 There are lots of people who are awful, evil people who are not, in fact, driven primarily by race or racial animus. 1.00

00:34:51.000 Happens all the time.

00:34:52.000 There are lots of people who commit evil, horrifying crimes against members of their own race.

00:34:55.000 They are evil and horrifying.

00:34:57.000 But since the great sin in America is not actually doing things that are evil, but being a racist, There is only one type of sin that lies at the root of all other sin.

00:35:05.000 In any case, here is Trevor Noah making the strict liability case, which is, if you are a member of, if you are a white person, and you hurt a non-white person, we do not even have to investigate intent.

00:35:15.000 The actions themselves are racist, so we don't even have to listen to what you have to say in order for us to impute your action to all of America, her background, her history, and her institutions.

00:35:26.000 One of the first things that's been the most frustrating for me is seeing the shooter say, oh, it wasn't racism, it was sex addiction. 1.00

00:35:32.000 First of all, fuck you, man. 1.00

00:35:33.000 You killed six Asian people. 1.00

00:35:35.000 Specifically, you went there. 0.99

00:35:37.000 If there's anyone who's racist, it's a mother who killed six Asian women. 0.99

00:35:40.000 Your murders speak louder than your words. 0.99

00:35:44.000 Six Asian women were killed. 0.78

00:35:46.000 Okay, so your murders speak louder than your words. 0.96

00:35:48.000 Okay, so by his standard, by his standard, which is your actions speak louder than your words, so we can impute racist intent, then I can, by Trevor Noah's standard, go back to the stats I was using yesterday, in which some 27% of all violent crimes committed against Asian Americans are committed by Black Americans. 0.94

00:36:02.000 A wildly outsized number.

00:36:04.000 More Asian Americans are victimized in violent crime by Black Americans than by members of any other race.

00:36:09.000 Now, earlier, I corrected the record because I said, I don't know whether those are racially motivated or whether they're not, whether they're just street crime.

00:36:14.000 But according to Trevor Noah, I don't even have to do that.

00:36:16.000 I can say that because Black Americans target Asian Americans for crime at outsized rates, that must mean that that is racial hatred that is driving it. 0.98

00:36:27.000 Now, I can do that by his standard, except I can't, because the standard only works this way with white people. 0.89

00:36:32.000 It only works this way with white people, according to the left. 0.97

00:36:35.000 Which is why it is not a major national news story when two black teenagers light a mentally ill man on fire and let him die in Rochester, New York. 0.95

00:36:44.000 Now, you know if the races were reversed, this would not only be a national news story, it would be the only national news story.

00:36:49.000 If there were two white teenagers, 16 and 14, and they'd found a mentally ill black man, and then they had set him on fire in his own home and burned him to death, That would certainly be not only a national news story, it would spark a thousand think pieces about what kind of culture could create kids who would do such a thing. 0.60

00:37:05.000 How the ingrained history of 400 years of racism in America had led to this sort of evil.

00:37:11.000 As it is, you've never even heard this story.

00:37:13.000 I mean, it's not a national news story.

00:37:15.000 It's one of the things you'll find wonderful about our establishment media.

00:37:18.000 They get to decide what a national news story is and what a national news story is not.

00:37:22.000 It is not a national news story every weekend when a dozen people get shot to death in Chicago.

00:37:26.000 It is a national news story if a white person says a mean thing to a black person and it's caught on tape.

00:37:32.000 Because again, the narrative is more important than what actually is the news.

00:37:35.000 By the way, here's that story from Rochester, New York.

00:37:38.000 is according to Amanda Prestigiacomo, two black teens have been charged with assault and arson in connection to the brutal death of a mentally ill white man in Rochester, New York.

00:37:46.000 The two reportedly sneaked into the home of the man on Friday afternoon, sprayed him with an ignitable fluid and set him on fire until 70% of his body was covered in second and third degree burns.

00:37:55.000 A man identified as either a mail carrier or a gas and electric worker burst into the apartment to try to put out the burning man, who was apparently left to die.

00:38:02.000 By the time the 911 call was made and police arrived, it was too late.

00:38:05.000 The victim fought for his life for four days in a burn trauma unit before he passed.

00:38:10.000 The story was reported by local station WHAM 13 News, but the races of the individuals involved were not specified.

00:38:19.000 Rochester journalist and radio host Bob Lonsbury made the races public and highlighted the double standard in news coverage that has contributed to the deterioration of Rochester, a city engulfed in a at times violent campaign against police officers over alleged racism.

00:38:31.000 Citing law enforcement sources, Lonsbury reports the teens instructed the victim during the incident to tell authorities it was two white men who perpetrated the crime.

00:38:39.000 A police source confirmed Lonsbury's reporting to the Daily Wire.

00:38:43.000 Again, the races were considered irrelevant when this was reported by WHAM 13 in Rochester.

00:38:49.000 Is there any circumstance, any circumstance, where the races were reversed?

00:38:53.000 Or where white teens had burned to death an Asian person?

00:38:56.000 Or any minority person, for that matter?

00:38:58.000 And this is not a national news story that leads the nightly news every night for several weeks?

00:39:02.000 Any situation, of course not.

00:39:04.000 Of course, that is the chief news story.

00:39:05.000 But if it's a white person you impute, this is the rule of the left these days.

00:39:09.000 If it's a white person you impute intent.

00:39:11.000 Intent matters if it's, it does not matter if it's a white person.

00:39:14.000 And if it's a minority person who does something terrible to a white person or a black person who does something terrible to an Asian person, then we try to brush that under the rug a little bit because the only racism that matters is of course racism combined with power. 0.54

00:39:27.000 Now what's amazing about this is the entire argument is that racism combined with power is true racism.

00:39:31.000 This is the argument you'll hear from the radical racial left.

00:39:35.000 That racism is not just animus about other racial groups.

00:39:38.000 It is that combined with institutional power.

00:39:40.000 But who actually has the institutional power when the only narrative that you are allowed to promulgate is this narrative?

00:39:46.000 That's the irony.

00:39:47.000 Who is the actual institutional power here when certain types of crime get brushed under the rug as racialized crime?

00:39:54.000 And other types of crime that there's no evidence are racially based are treated as racial crimes.

00:39:59.000 Who has the institutional power when that narrative is not only promulgated, but if you deny the narrative, you are considered out of the mainstream and crazy and terrible. 0.93

00:40:05.000 And racist, by the way.

00:40:07.000 Who has the actual institutional power here? 0.96

00:40:10.000 It is not the supposed white supremacists who run the system, is it?

00:40:16.000 The treatment of these cases, the disparate treatment, is pretty telling.

00:40:20.000 And the media are just going to repeat this stuff over and over and over again.

00:40:23.000 So CNN's Lisa Ling, she went on the air and she said Americans are always scapegoating minorities.

00:40:27.000 That's what that's what Americans do.

00:40:30.000 That Americans are constantly scapegoating minorities.

00:40:34.000 No, actually.

00:40:36.000 And if we're going to talk about scapegoating minorities, you can't say all Americans, because that breaks the leftist taboo against saying that some Americans of minority status might victimize other Americans of minority status.

00:40:46.000 If you're going to talk about Americans blaming minorities, you might want to talk about the left, which literally says that we have to shut down merit-based high schools because too many Asians are doing well, and that we should have discriminatory admissions policies into major universities because Asians are doing too well.

00:41:00.000 That's not the narrative you're gonna hear on CNN.

00:41:01.000 On CNN, it is wonderful and progressive to bar Asian-Americans from high-performing high schools, and in fact, to shut down the high schools entirely, as they're doing in New York and San Francisco. 1.00

00:41:11.000 But it is anti-Asian, if you can find no evidence that somebody did something that's anti-Asian, per se, did something evil, but no evidence yet that it's anti-Asian specifically.

00:41:21.000 One of those things is anti-Asian, one of those things is clearly not, but it's not what the media are telling you.

00:41:25.000 Here is Lisa Ling, again, blaming America for all of this.

00:41:30.000 Asian people are being scapegoated like they have for a century in this country, and this has to stop?

00:41:39.000 This has to stop.

00:41:40.000 We cannot be continued to be scapegoated.

00:41:43.000 And this is frankly a pattern of scapegoating that happens in this country.

00:41:47.000 Yesterday, it was Muslim and Southeast Asian people after 9-11.

00:41:52.000 When there's an economic downturn, it's the Latin population. 1.00

00:41:55.000 You know, it's always the black community being scapegoated for so many things. 0.91

00:42:00.000 During the Cold War, it was gay people.

00:42:02.000 This scapegoating of entire populations Has to stop in this country.

00:42:08.000 Okay, you noticed something.

00:42:09.000 I'm just going to notice something right there.

00:42:12.000 That narrative is so... Her final line does not comport with everything else that she has said there.

00:42:16.000 The scapegoating of entire populations has to stop in this country.

00:42:19.000 And then she names a bunch of people who have been victimized by the American system.

00:42:22.000 Asians. 0.97

00:42:23.000 Gay people. 0.98

00:42:24.000 Black people. 0.99

00:42:25.000 Latinos.

00:42:25.000 You noticing one group that is never mentioned here?

00:42:28.000 Ever, ever, ever, ever?

00:42:29.000 White people, of course, right? 0.99

00:42:30.000 Those are the victimizers. 0.99

00:42:31.000 In all those circumstances, it's white people who are the victimizers. 0.95

00:42:34.000 What if not every story comports with that?

00:42:37.000 What if it turns out the vast majority of white people Are not racist.

00:42:41.000 What if it turns out the American meritocracy is not racist?

00:42:43.000 In fact, it is the American meritocracy that has led to Asian Americans being the highest earning income group in the United States.

00:42:49.000 But so long as the narrative is the narrative, it must be preserved at all costs.

00:42:53.000 Intent doesn't matter.

00:42:54.000 Evidence doesn't matter.

00:42:55.000 Only, only the narrative matters.

00:42:58.000 Which is why you have Olivia Munn on national television saying that a sheriff from Atlanta who is just repeating the words of the suspect ought to lose his job.

00:43:07.000 First of all, I don't know why Olivia Munn is an expert on this.

00:43:09.000 I mean, she's a person of Asian ancestry, but I assume they could have found, like, an actual political expert of Asian ancestry.

00:43:13.000 Turns out there are many of them.

00:43:14.000 Here's Olivia Munn on MSNBC. 0.96

00:43:19.000 This captain actually tried to humanize the shooter in this way.

00:43:25.000 It just dehumanizes all of the victims.

00:43:29.000 And then to find out that he had been posting racist Facebook posts about blaming the pandemic on China, I don't even know how this guy still has a job.

00:43:39.000 It's just mind-boggling, but it makes so much sense once you see where he stands. 0.98

00:43:44.000 He is a racist. 0.98

00:43:46.000 And he shouldn't have that job. 0.97

00:43:48.000 How can he protect and serve all of us when he clearly has viewpoints that he hates a large portion of us?

00:43:54.000 Okay, she literally has no evidence of this.

00:43:56.000 The entire evidence that this police staffer is apparently a bad guy, this police captain, is that he wore a shirt that said China virus.

00:44:03.000 That's the entirety of it.

00:44:05.000 And he was not defending the shooter.

00:44:06.000 He was literally just relating what the shooter said.

00:44:08.000 It was taken out of context, and then they called for his head.

00:44:11.000 Because again, you notice the race on that police officer?

00:44:14.000 That's the way that it works in the United States.

00:44:16.000 Intent is not necessary to impute racism to white people in the United States.

00:44:20.000 My view is consistent.

00:44:21.000 If you can show racist intent, that is an act of racist evil.

00:44:25.000 But you require evidence.

00:44:27.000 You require intent.

00:44:28.000 And you don't get to attribute to the entire American quote-unquote white supremacist system crimes that are committed by specific people without an actual explanation of how that happened or why that happened or how that occurred in the first place.

00:44:39.000 The left doesn't need evidence.

00:44:41.000 All they need is just a talking point.

00:44:42.000 All right, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

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The Cancellations Will Continue Until Morale Improves | Ep. 1219

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