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00:00:00.000Alexi McCammond is forced from her job as editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for tweets from her teenage years.
00:00:05.000Democrats 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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00:01:43.000Unless 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.
00:01:55.000These articles have been reported in NBC News.
00:01:57.000This 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.
00:02:06.000Basically, 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.
00:02:16.000You need to shut the hell up all the way until you want a job at Teen Vogue.
00:02:21.000Is that nothing you say is off limits.
00:02:24.000Everything you have ever said is going to be held over your head for all time.
00:02:27.000Because 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.
00:02:39.000If you become inconvenient, we can just punish you.
00:02:42.000See, there's this notion in law that selective prosecution is a bad thing.
00:02:47.000That if you're holding one person to a standard and everybody else to a different standard, that that is unfair.
00:02:52.000But that is the way that our social media social justice crowd works right now, is that the standards are completely arbitrary.
00:03:01.000The points don't matter, and then we name a winner.
00:03:05.000At 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.
00:03:16.000And this is exactly what happened to Alexi McCammond.
00:03:19.000Some 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.
00:03:33.000Because 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.
00:03:40.000If 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.
00:03:47.000In 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%.
00:04:02.000Because we're all human and we all sin.
00:04:04.000As it says in Ecclesiastes, we have all sinned.
00:04:08.000But 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.
00:04:16.000So this is what just happened to Alexei McCammon.
00:04:18.000Now, Alexei McCammon is not a member of the right.
00:04:20.000Alexei McCammon is a member of the left.
00:04:23.000Alexi McCammon was hired by Teen Vogue specifically because they said they wanted to make their editorial page and their editorial oversight more diverse.
00:04:33.000Well 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.
00:04:46.000And they are, they're not good tweets.
00:04:47.000But that this is an excuse for now denying her a career promotion.
00:05:15.000As soon as Gina Carano hits the Mandalorian, suddenly the hate comes out.
00:05:18.000As soon as Chris Pratt is doing Guardians of the Galaxy, that's when all the hate comes out.
00:05:22.000The 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.
00:05:32.000We're a culture of graceless jackassery.
00:05:36.000According 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.
00:05:43.000Now, after Teen Vogue staff members publicly condemned racist and homophobic tweets Ms.
00:05:47.000McCammon had posted a decade ago, she has resigned from the job.
00:05:51.000Condon 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.
00:06:02.000So, Alexi McCammon put out a statement about this.
00:06:06.000So did HR, obviously, because you always have to have a statement from HR.
00:06:10.000Alexi McCammon's statement was an announcement, of course, that she was no longer going to be the editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue.
00:06:21.000She wrote, quote, I became a journalist to help lift up stories and voices of our most vulnerable communities.
00:06:25.000Again, she's not a member of the right.
00:06:27.000As 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.
00:06:31.000My 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.
00:06:38.000First 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?
00:06:49.000It's where you go for your political morality.
00:06:52.000Teen Vogue, which writes pieces every few days about how socialism is wonderful.
00:06:58.000Hey, Conde Nast and I have decided to part ways, says Alexa McCammon.
00:07:00.000I should not have tweeted what I did, and I have taken full responsibility for that.
00:07:03.000I 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.
00:07:09.000I wish the talented team at Teen Vogue the absolute best moving forward.
00:07:12.000Their work has never been more important.
00:07:14.000There are so many stories left to be told, especially about marginalized communities and the issues affecting them.
00:07:18.000I hope to have the opportunity to rejoin the ranks of tireless journalists who are shining light on the issues that matter every single day.
00:07:24.000Okay, so, we'll see who hires her next.
00:07:27.000Because 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?
00:07:40.000The 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.
00:07:49.000Again, if a bunch of employees at the Daily Wire came to me and they were like, you know what?
00:07:54.000We don't like the stuff that you've been saying on your show.
00:07:57.000And so you're supposed to now fire yourself.
00:07:59.000My answer would be, no, that's not your job.
00:08:02.000The Teen Vogue publisher should have said to the woke staffers, guess what?
00:08:08.000But 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.
00:08:15.000They're so afraid they just fired a black editor.
00:08:16.000Okay, Alexi McCammond is a black woman.
00:08:19.000That didn't save her, because she crossed swords with the woke, because the woke decided they didn't like her enough.
00:08:25.000Kansan 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.
00:08:45.000That is what the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer always is, and it's a billion-dollar industry.
00:09:09.000Was 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.
00:09:14.000Why don't I just get rid of this person?
00:09:16.000Our most important work as a company right now is embodied in the focused efforts we are all undertaking to become more equitable and inclusive.
00:09:22.000By equitable and inclusive, they mean not inclusive, and we need to fire somebody.
00:09:26.000Our commitment to these issues is sincere and unwavering.
00:09:29.000It 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.
00:09:36.000I want to be fully transparent with you about our decision-making process regarding her appointment.
00:09:40.000When Alexi was a teenager, she made racially charged statements on social media about Asian people.
00:09:44.000Alexi was straightforward and transparent about these posts during our interview process and through public apologies years ago.
00:09:48.000Okay, so that should be the end of the conversation.
00:09:50.000It's one thing if the company says, I was sandbagged, right?
00:09:52.000I had no idea that this stuff was out there.
00:09:54.000And now that I found out, well, that changes the math.
00:09:56.000But they knew she had dealt with it in the interview process.
00:09:59.000And this company was still so pusillanimous, still so cowardly, they decided to dump her on the side of the road.
00:10:04.000After saying, yeah, we see what you did, and we accept your explanation and your apology and the fact that you've grown over time.
00:10:13.000So they're actually reversing their own grace that they'd given this woman.
00:10:18.000Given 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.
00:10:33.000Journalism 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.
00:10:43.000They say we were looking forward to welcoming her into our community.
00:10:46.000In addition, we were hopeful that Alexi would become part of our team to provide perspective and insight that is underrepresented throughout media.
00:10:52.000We 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.
00:10:57.000To 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.
00:12:11.000You'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.
00:12:17.000You want to keep canceling Gina Carano?
00:12:24.000You 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.
00:13:28.000And I hope the Democratic Party continues to cater to it.
00:13:30.000I hope the folks at Teen Vogue continue to do this sort of stuff.
00:13:33.000Because eventually, it's just going to be the woke talking to themselves.
00:13:36.000That is the choice that they made, by the way.
00:13:38.000The 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.
00:13:56.000Maybe no matter what she did, they were going to take her down.
00:13:59.000And 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.
00:14:17.000But if the left continues to live by these rules, they're gonna alienate everybody, and good.
00:14:24.000Okay, meanwhile, COVID policy continues to be a contentious issue.
00:14:29.000It 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.
00:14:42.000Because 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.
00:14:48.000I'm not going to pretend they've done horribly.
00:14:56.000It's the states that have been doing all the heavy lifting with regard to the vaccinations.
00:15:00.000But they've been talking up Joe Biden's performance on COVID.
00:15:02.000At 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.
00:15:10.000They've been saying the schools have to remain closed, but the schools can kind of open, but they should remain closed.
00:15:14.000Their COVID policy, in other words, has been a bag of garbage, but they want it both ways.
00:15:17.000We're doing a great job on COVID, and also COVID still haunts the land, which is why you need us.
00:15:22.000In order to promote that, they have to promote a bunch of bad science.
00:15:24.000So 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.
00:15:35.000Dr. 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.
00:15:47.000That you are wearing a mask because it makes other people feel comfortable.
00:15:51.000But 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.
00:16:24.000Okay, 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?
00:16:34.000We 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.
00:16:43.000And so once you do that, why are we worried about you wearing a mask?
00:16:46.000We shouldn't care whether you wear a mask at that point.
00:16:49.000And he says to Dr. Fauci, what you're doing is just for show, right?
00:17:15.000He says that there could be variants that come along that are really bad.
00:17:17.000Yes, and there could be a brand new pandemic tomorrow that could be really bad.
00:17:19.000So maybe we should just keep wearing masks forever.
00:17:22.000The point that he is making is not scientifically correct.
00:17:24.000The vaccines have been extraordinarily resilient against most of the, virtually all of the variants.
00:17:29.000There'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.
00:17:39.000But 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?
00:17:53.000Here's Rand Paul pointing this out to Fauci, and Fauci getting angry that he's being called on the carpet.
00:17:59.000What studies do you have that people that have had the vaccine or have had the infection are spreading the infection?
00:18:05.000If we're not spreading the infection, isn't it just theater?
00:18:16.000In 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.
00:18:35.000Okay, 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.
00:18:47.000There 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.
00:19:02.000Some of them are apparently more deadly.
00:19:04.000But vaccination has thus far been extraordinarily resilient to that.
00:19:10.000And 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.
00:19:22.000The masks are in fact theater at this point, if you've already been vaccinated.
00:19:25.000And yet you have the entire administration saying that you're supposed to wear the mask until when?
00:19:30.000There's no end point here, because a variant could arise literally at any point along the line.
00:19:33.000Again, there's no limiting principle here.
00:19:35.000That's what's so weird about the position that this administration is taking.
00:20:26.000What 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.
00:21:03.000Okay, 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.
00:21:23.000We have fairly good evidence at this point that he targeted these particular places because they were sex shops that he had visited before.
00:21:29.000According to the New York Times, he checked himself into a rehab clinic for a self-described sexual addiction.
00:21:34.000He was so intense on avoiding pornography, he blocked websites from his computer and only used a flip phone.
00:21:38.000He worried to a roommate about falling out of God's grace.
00:21:40.000Months 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.
00:21:55.000Okay, so the New York Times is saying that this is about sex addiction.
00:21:57.000It's about guilt and lust, by all of the available evidence.
00:22:01.000And 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.
00:22:09.000As 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.
00:22:24.000This 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.
00:22:31.000Nearly once a month, he would admit he had again relapsed by visiting a massage parlor for sex, said the roommate.
00:22:37.000He once asked the roommate to take his computer away from him.
00:22:40.000Atlanta 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.
00:22:48.000They 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.
00:22:58.000Apparently 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.
00:23:03.000He's been charged with eight counts of murder.
00:23:05.000Okay, so it seems pretty obvious that this is chiefly not about race.
00:23:10.000What 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.
00:23:22.000And there are plenty of issues to discuss there.
00:23:25.000The sexualization of American culture, how people deal with things like pornography addiction, which is a very real thing.
00:23:31.000Where the blame ought to lie, how we deal with that in a society that champions the virtues of sexual profligacy.
00:23:38.000There are all sorts of issues to discuss here.
00:23:40.000But race is pretty low on the evidence-based issues to discuss.
00:23:47.000Again, there's not a lot of evidence that this guy was doing this because he hated Asian people.
00:23:51.000There's a fair bit of evidence that he was doing this because he hated sex workers.
00:23:56.000He hated massage shops that were actually brothels.
00:24:00.000Now, the Atlanta police have come under a lot of fire because the Atlanta police have just reported what this guy said.
00:24:06.000Here 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.
00:24:15.000The investigation into a possible hate crime, that's still on the table.
00:24:19.000Our investigation is looking at everything, so nothing is off the table for our investigation.
00:24:48.000There 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.
00:24:58.000He didn't say, I think he had a really bad day.
00:25:00.000He said the suspect told us that he had a really bad day.
00:25:02.000So he was narrating what the suspect had said.
00:25:06.000There's a jackass online named Aaron Rupar.
00:25:07.000He's a terrible, terrible source of misinformation.
00:25:10.000He frequently cuts things out of context and then just puts them up.
00:25:12.000He 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.
00:25:23.000If 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.
00:25:32.000The blowback against the police officer was so strong that people were calling for his firing.
00:25:36.000People were saying the police officer should be fired for even narrating the words of what the suspect had told them.
00:25:42.000Because the narrative is obvious, right?
00:25:44.000The narrative is that this was anti-Asian animus, that it was an anti-Asian hate crime.
00:25:48.000And 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.
00:26:00.000If it's hatred between blacks and Asians, you can't talk about that at all.
00:26:05.000Yes, now I want to make a correction on yesterday's show.
00:26:07.000So yesterday's show, I talked about violent crime statistics by community.
00:26:11.000And 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.
00:26:21.000Now, that was not hate crime statistics, okay?
00:26:24.000That could just be a black person robbed an Asian person or something.
00:26:26.000And 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.
00:26:46.000What we do know is that according to the FBI statistics, there were more than 4,000 hate crimes in the United States in 2019.
00:26:52.000About 4.4% of those were committed against Asian Americans.
00:26:56.000Which amounts to about 220 crimes against Asian Americans.
00:27:01.000They don't give the source of the crimes, so we don't actually know who is committing the hate crimes against Asian Americans.
00:27:05.000But 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.
00:27:13.000And the anecdotal evidence shows that there's been a pretty significant spike in violent crime, including in the major cities.
00:27:20.000That are not being done by white people, predominantly.
00:27:25.000If 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.
00:27:31.000If you look at that, you wouldn't automatically say, well, that's an outgrowth of white supremacy.
00:27:36.000So 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?
00:27:44.000These cities are extremely racially diverse.
00:27:46.000These cities are very much to the left.
00:27:49.000The 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.
00:27:55.000I'm gonna go target a Chinese person today.
00:27:56.000That's what's been happening in America's major cities, which is where most of the spike is happening.
00:28:02.000There's no basis for, and evidence for that.
00:28:04.000But the narrative must be promulgated at all costs, because the narrative is always the same.
00:28:08.000America 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.
00:28:15.000I'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.
00:28:27.000It'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.
00:28:34.000We don't know why X happened, therefore God.
00:28:37.000There 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.
00:28:45.000Something bad happens, therefore, racism of the gaps, right?
00:28:56.000Must be a bunch of things that I don't like.
00:28:58.000It can never be the possibility that maybe there's a disproportionate amount of minority on minority violence in this particular situation.
00:29:05.000Which, 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.
00:29:14.000We'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.
00:29:24.000The 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.
00:29:33.000The editorial board at the New York Times says Asian Americans are scared for a reason.
00:29:36.000Bigotry and demagoguing have pushed communities close to a crisis point.
00:29:41.000So 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.
00:29:54.000After 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.
00:30:01.000A 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.
00:30:12.000Chinese Americans and other Asians, lumped together with them by races, are being beaten, spat on, yelled at, insulted from coast to coast.
00:30:33.000That'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.
00:30:42.000The Spanish flu did not mean that you're supposed to be a racist against people who originate from Spain.
00:30:49.000And again, there's no evidence to suggest that this is a result of Trump saying China virus over and over and over.
00:30:55.000But the message has to be promulgated, and this is a broader problem.
00:31:00.000Our 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.
00:31:08.000But if a crime is committed by a minority against a person of another race, then the answer is also white supremacy, but by extension.
00:31:15.000Hey, you've created a completely unfalsifiable thesis here.
00:31:18.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:33:44.000Now remember, all of this is a broader argument by the left.
00:33:53.000And 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.
00:34:01.000And we can impute intent without actually showing evidence of intent, right?
00:34:05.000This 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.
00:34:14.000So this sort of thought has sort of seeped in this sort of strict liability notion of how we ought to treat fellow human beings.
00:34:20.000This has seeped into every area of our discourse.
00:34:22.000So 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.
00:34:57.000But 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.
00:35:05.000In 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.
00:35:15.000The 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.
00:35:26.000One 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.
00:35:46.000Okay, so your murders speak louder than your words.
00:35:48.000Okay, 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.
00:36:04.000More Asian Americans are victimized in violent crime by Black Americans than by members of any other race.
00:36:09.000Now, 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.
00:36:14.000But according to Trevor Noah, I don't even have to do that.
00:36:16.000I 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.
00:36:27.000Now, I can do that by his standard, except I can't, because the standard only works this way with white people.
00:36:32.000It only works this way with white people, according to the left.
00:36:35.000Which 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.
00:36:44.000Now, you know if the races were reversed, this would not only be a national news story, it would be the only national news story.
00:36:49.000If 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.
00:37:05.000How the ingrained history of 400 years of racism in America had led to this sort of evil.
00:37:11.000As it is, you've never even heard this story.
00:37:13.000I mean, it's not a national news story.
00:37:15.000It's one of the things you'll find wonderful about our establishment media.
00:37:18.000They get to decide what a national news story is and what a national news story is not.
00:37:22.000It is not a national news story every weekend when a dozen people get shot to death in Chicago.
00:37:26.000It is a national news story if a white person says a mean thing to a black person and it's caught on tape.
00:37:32.000Because again, the narrative is more important than what actually is the news.
00:37:35.000By the way, here's that story from Rochester, New York.
00:37:38.000is 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.
00:37:46.000The 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.
00:37:55.000A 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.
00:38:02.000By the time the 911 call was made and police arrived, it was too late.
00:38:05.000The victim fought for his life for four days in a burn trauma unit before he passed.
00:38:10.000The story was reported by local station WHAM 13 News, but the races of the individuals involved were not specified.
00:38:19.000Rochester 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.
00:38:31.000Citing 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.
00:38:39.000A police source confirmed Lonsbury's reporting to the Daily Wire.
00:38:43.000Again, the races were considered irrelevant when this was reported by WHAM 13 in Rochester.
00:38:49.000Is there any circumstance, any circumstance, where the races were reversed?
00:38:53.000Or where white teens had burned to death an Asian person?
00:38:56.000Or any minority person, for that matter?
00:38:58.000And this is not a national news story that leads the nightly news every night for several weeks?
00:39:04.000Of course, that is the chief news story.
00:39:05.000But if it's a white person you impute, this is the rule of the left these days.
00:39:09.000If it's a white person you impute intent.
00:39:11.000Intent matters if it's, it does not matter if it's a white person.
00:39:14.000And 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.
00:39:27.000Now what's amazing about this is the entire argument is that racism combined with power is true racism.
00:39:31.000This is the argument you'll hear from the radical racial left.
00:39:35.000That racism is not just animus about other racial groups.
00:39:38.000It is that combined with institutional power.
00:39:40.000But who actually has the institutional power when the only narrative that you are allowed to promulgate is this narrative?
00:39:47.000Who is the actual institutional power here when certain types of crime get brushed under the rug as racialized crime?
00:39:54.000And other types of crime that there's no evidence are racially based are treated as racial crimes.
00:39:59.000Who 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.
00:40:36.000And 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.
00:40:46.000If 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.
00:41:00.000That's not the narrative you're gonna hear on CNN.
00:41:01.000On 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.
00:41:11.000But 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.
00:41:21.000One of those things is anti-Asian, one of those things is clearly not, but it's not what the media are telling you.
00:41:25.000Here is Lisa Ling, again, blaming America for all of this.
00:41:30.000Asian people are being scapegoated like they have for a century in this country, and this has to stop?
00:42:58.000Which 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.
00:43:07.000First of all, I don't know why Olivia Munn is an expert on this.
00:43:09.000I mean, she's a person of Asian ancestry, but I assume they could have found, like, an actual political expert of Asian ancestry.
00:43:19.000This captain actually tried to humanize the shooter in this way.
00:43:25.000It just dehumanizes all of the victims.
00:43:29.000And 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.
00:43:39.000It's just mind-boggling, but it makes so much sense once you see where he stands.
00:44:28.000And 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.