The Ben Shapiro Show - The Elites Hate You And Want To Indoctrinate Your Children | Ep. 1463

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00:01:40.000 Alrighty, so Ron DeSantis, the most evil governor in America, of course, signed into law the Florida Parental Rights and Education Bill, which says merely that you are not allowed to indoctrinate, without parental permission, small children into your sexual orientation and gender identity nonsense.

00:01:53.000 That is all the bill says.

00:01:55.000 That is the entirety of the controversial status of this bill.

00:01:57.000 And now it is a national issue.

00:01:58.000 And it's a national issue because the left has decided, they really believe this, that you should be able, and you must, in fact, as a moral person, indoctrinate small children into gender fluidity and Equality of sexual orientation at the youngest possible ages.

00:02:14.000 This is the goal.

00:02:15.000 The White House yesterday, Kat Bedingfield, over at the White House, she actually said that the Department of Education is now going to evaluate whether or not this Florida bill, this Parental Rights and Education Act, violates federal civil rights law.

00:02:28.000 Because in 1965, when they were writing the Civil Rights Act, what they clearly had in mind is that your child, your five-year-old, should be taken away from you and informed that he might be a she. 0.96

00:02:38.000 And if you won't allow your child to be taken away by the local authorities and indoctrinated in a bunch of absolute gobbledygook nonsense damaging to your child, then this means that you're violating federal civil rights law.

00:02:50.000 Here is the White House making this announcement yesterday.

00:02:53.000 The president also put out a statement yesterday about the tragic impact of this kind of law on an incredibly vulnerable population.

00:03:04.000 And he said that by signing this bill, the governor has chosen to target some of Florida's most vulnerable students and families, all while under the guise of parents' rights.

00:03:13.000 So the Department of Education, as you noted, will monitor this law upon implementation to evaluate whether it violates federal civil rights law. 0.70

00:03:22.000 These people are insane.

00:03:24.000 They're insane, and it's purely non-violative of federal civil rights law, of course. 0.99

00:03:29.000 Okay.

00:03:30.000 In order to understand what's truly happening here, I think we have to start from a few very basic premises.

00:03:35.000 These should be non-controversial.

00:03:37.000 And the truth is, they are non-controversial.

00:03:38.000 But some people will argue that they are controversial, specifically because they wish to avoid the consequences of the argument.

00:03:45.000 So, here are the controversial points.

00:03:47.000 One, children are malleable and thus vulnerable.

00:03:50.000 That is point number one.

00:03:51.000 Children are not tiny adults.

00:03:53.000 They are malleable.

00:03:54.000 They don't know things.

00:03:56.000 They have to be treated with care.

00:03:57.000 They are innocent.

00:03:58.000 They are placed into your protection by God above or nature, whichever you prefer.

00:04:03.000 And it is your job to protect their innocence because they are malleable.

00:04:06.000 Because they don't know what to think.

00:04:08.000 Because they will believe pretty much anything.

00:04:10.000 Because they have wild imaginations.

00:04:11.000 Children are malleable.

00:04:13.000 The left knows this.

00:04:14.000 The right knows this.

00:04:15.000 The right and people who are moderate and mainstream liberals wish to protect kids.

00:04:19.000 The radical left wishes to prey on children and turn them into little widgets of social change for them.

00:04:25.000 Okay, so premise number one, children are malleable and thus require protection.

00:04:30.000 Premise number two, sexual behavior is malleable.

00:04:33.000 Sexual thought is malleable.

00:04:35.000 Now, I understand that the left wishes to say that this is rigid.

00:04:38.000 It's encoded in your DNA and what you are and how you identify.

00:04:42.000 All of that is encoded in your DNA from the time that you were a small baby and it's manifest at the age of five.

00:04:47.000 First of all, your sexual behavior is not manifest at the age of five because you don't actually have the hormones necessary for sexual behavior to take place manifesting in your body at the age of five.

00:04:56.000 When people say that there's a gay child at the age of five, the answer is there's no such thing as a gay child at the age of five because no one is gay or straight at the age of five because no one is sexually oriented at the age of five.

00:05:06.000 You don't have the hormones that are capable of orienting you sexually at the age of five.

00:05:10.000 You don't even have the hormones capable of giving you a sexual feeling at the age of five.

00:05:13.000 But anyone who denies this is denying biology.

00:05:16.000 So kids are not gay, they're not straight, they're not sexual beings.

00:05:20.000 This is precisely why we have pedophilia laws in this country. 0.96

00:05:23.000 Because kids are not sexual beings and therefore should not be sexualized at the age of five.

00:05:29.000 Sexual behavior is malleable.

00:05:31.000 Sexual identification is malleable.

00:05:33.000 This has been true throughout human history.

00:05:35.000 This is true whether you identify as gay, or you identify as straight, or you identify as bisexual.

00:05:39.000 This does not mean that your orientation is not biologically encoded in part, or even in large part, or in some cases, in entirety.

00:05:48.000 It does mean, however, that there is malleability to human behavior.

00:05:51.000 We're not talking about orientation now.

00:05:53.000 We're not talking about feelings.

00:05:54.000 We're talking about behavior.

00:05:57.000 There is no such thing as a genetic encoding of behavior in you.

00:06:02.000 It does not work that way when it comes to your choice of sexual partner or your choice of sexual lifestyle.

00:06:07.000 Those are all choices you get to make as a human being.

00:06:09.000 Now, that doesn't mean that all those choices are equally easy or equally desirable.

00:06:14.000 This is not an argument in favor of you choosing a particular sexual lifestyle, one or another.

00:06:19.000 What it does mean is that to pretend that people's sexual thoughts, people's sexual behavior is not malleable, runs counter to literally all available evidence.

00:06:29.000 Which is why, for example, you have seen skyrocketing rates of trans identification.

00:06:33.000 This is not because gender dysphoria, which is in fact a biologically ingrained condition, it's a disorder as listed under the DSM-5, gender dysphoria, or gender identity disorder, whichever term you choose to use.

00:06:46.000 It is not that that has become wildly more prevalent at this biological moment in time.

00:06:52.000 That until now, evolution had basically bottlenecked gender identity disorder and gender dysphoria, but now, magically, boom!

00:06:58.000 No one knows why, there's just a massive genetic uptick in gender identity disorder or gender dysphoria in the last generation alone.

00:07:05.000 Either that, or it turns out that how people identify and how people think of themselves, a lot of that is defined by societal rules.

00:07:11.000 A lot of that is defined by societal norms and by incentive structures.

00:07:16.000 In other words, there is a reason why there's been a massive uptick in trans identification among young people.

00:07:22.000 Well, at this point, it seems as though you might think gender theory and radical gender ideology, it's a waste of time.

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00:08:39.000 Write Shapiro in there.

00:08:40.000 How did you hear about us, Fox?

00:08:41.000 So they know that I sent you.

00:08:43.000 Abigail Schreier pointed this out.

00:08:45.000 Historically, childhood gender dysphoria afflicted about 0.01% of the population, almost exclusively boys.

00:08:52.000 Before 2012, there was no scientific literature on girls aged 11 to 21 ever having developed gender dysphoria.

00:08:58.000 In the past decade, that has changed dramatically.

00:09:00.000 The Western world has seen a sudden surge of adolescents claiming to have gender dysphoria and self-identifying as transgender.

00:09:06.000 In Britain, Canada, Sweden, and Finland, clinicians and gender therapists began reporting a dramatic shift in the demographics of those presenting with gender dysphoria from predominantly preschool-aged boys to predominantly adolescent girls.

00:09:17.000 In Britain, in 2018, there was a 4,400% rise over the previous decade in teenage girls seeking gender treatment.

00:09:25.000 Does that sound like evolutionary biology just suddenly reversed itself?

00:09:29.000 Suddenly, the biologically encoded behavior of human beings change radically overnight.

00:09:35.000 Does it sound like that would happen?

00:09:36.000 Or is that there's now a social contagion that is taking place with regard to identification as a sexual minority?

00:09:42.000 Well, it certainly seems like the latter, because there's a there's good polling data to suggest that this is generational.

00:09:50.000 You would imagine that something as deeply biologically ingrained as sexual behavior is supposed to be, right?

00:09:56.000 It's supposed to be completely biologically ingrained.

00:09:58.000 According to folks on the left, it is who you are.

00:10:00.000 It is in you from the moment of conception.

00:10:03.000 That would mean, presumably, not tons of change in sexual behavior over the course of time.

00:10:08.000 This is absolutely untrue.

00:10:10.000 If you look at the latest Gallup poll, this came out like a month and a half ago, latest Gallup poll, Americans' self-identification as LGBT by generation.

00:10:19.000 You'd imagine there would be a fair level of stability.

00:10:21.000 I mean, this is, of course, the most key component, we have been told, of your identity.

00:10:21.000 No.

00:10:26.000 Who you are is mostly about where you want to put your genitals. 1.00

00:10:29.000 That's really what you are. 0.96

00:10:31.000 We have entire civilizations built along the lines that that is not entirely what you are.

00:10:35.000 This is one part of your life.

00:10:36.000 You draw boundaries around it.

00:10:38.000 You make behavioral choices around it that affect the rest of your life. 0.91

00:10:40.000 But we in Western society have decided that the core of your being is where you wish to put your genitals. 0.92

00:10:44.000 So this is the most key thing.

00:10:46.000 So if this is the most key thing, you would assume a certain level of stability over time.

00:10:50.000 You wouldn't assume massive change over time.

00:10:52.000 Here are the stats.

00:10:54.000 For those born before 1946, 0.8% identify as LGBT.

00:11:00.000 0.8%.

00:11:00.000 That's not for gay or for... That's for all of them.

00:11:00.000 Less than 1%.

00:11:05.000 LGBTQ plus IA minus caret sign squiggly thing over the Spanish letters dollar sign hashtag.

00:11:11.000 92.2% identify as straight or heterosexual.

00:11:11.000 0.8%.

00:11:13.000 7.1% no response.

00:11:14.000 92.2% identify as straight or heterosexual, 7.1% no response.

00:11:19.000 For baby boomers, people born between 1946 and 1964, 2.6% identify as LBGTQ.

00:11:28.000 For Generation X, born between 1965 and 1980, starts to rise to 50.

00:11:34.000 For Millennials, it more than doubles. 0.56

00:11:39.000 For people born between the ages 1981 and 1996, everybody who's essentially below the age of 40, between the ages of say 40 and 25, 10.5% identify as LGBT.

00:11:54.000 And for Generation Z, born 1997 to 2003, 20.8%.

00:12:02.000 20.8% identify as LGBTQ.

00:12:04.000 So, is sexual behavior malleable?

00:12:08.000 Is sexual identification malleable?

00:12:09.000 I mean, clearly sexual identification is, because you have a massive malleable change.

00:12:14.000 You have an increase by a factor of over 20.

00:12:18.000 Between people born before 1946 and people born after 1997.

00:12:23.000 And that trend is going to continue.

00:12:25.000 If you carry this forward and you say people who are born, say, after 2003, that number is going to look more like 25% or 30%.

00:12:30.000 Now that is a result of society changing its rules.

00:12:37.000 Now, what people will say is that, well, this is because we live a freer and better life.

00:12:40.000 This is because we have decided to remove the shackles.

00:12:43.000 If these shackles had been removed in 1946, then yeah, all the old people, all the 80-year-olds, all the 90-year-olds, they too would be LGBTQ.

00:12:49.000 Or alternatively, we live in a system in which there's a massive social contagion, in which this sort of behavior is rewarded, and you're considered a victimized minority in our society.

00:13:00.000 And in which there is an active push by the top levels of our culture toward children.

00:13:05.000 There's an attempt to teach children in order to validate these particular political, yes, and sexual lifestyle choices.

00:13:13.000 In order to validate those choices, we are going to go to small children and we are going to encourage those small children to engage in a wide variety of sexual thoughts and sexual behaviors.

00:13:25.000 And we're going to encourage this at the youngest possible.

00:13:26.000 We're going to do this at five, six, seven years old.

00:13:28.000 We're going to ingrain in them that the natural state of things is not a mommy and a daddy producing a baby.

00:13:34.000 It is a bunch of other stuff.

00:13:35.000 It's important.

00:13:37.000 To understand, this is the making of utopia.

00:13:39.000 The utopia that the radical sexual revolutionaries wanted in the 1960s is now achievable.

00:13:44.000 All you have to do is get small kids away from their parents and indoctrinate them in this set of values, and they will change their behaviors, they'll start experimenting, they'll start identifying in particular ways, and then you will have created an entire society that validates your choices.

00:13:59.000 That is what this is about.

00:14:00.000 This is not about the protection of children.

00:14:02.000 This is about the hijacking of children and the removal of their innocence on behalf of a political agenda.

00:14:07.000 That's what this is about.

00:14:08.000 Because there is no such thing again as it there should be no such thing as a sexualized 5 year old.

00:14:13.000 And yet this is exactly what the left would love.

00:14:15.000 They want this because they understand again back to our premises.

00:14:19.000 Children are malleable and sexual behavior is malleable.

00:14:21.000 So if you can go after small kids.

00:14:24.000 Then you can change how they think about these issues and you can turn them into activists on behalf of your agenda.

00:14:30.000 That's what this is about.

00:14:31.000 And it's infusing all aspects of our culture.

00:14:34.000 This is why the left is mad.

00:14:35.000 They're not mad because they misunderstand the Florida bill.

00:14:37.000 They're mad because they understand the Florida bill.

00:14:40.000 They're not mad because they're lying about the Florida bill.

00:14:43.000 They're mad because they know what the Florida bill actually says and they actually oppose it.

00:14:47.000 The Florida bill does not say that you can't say gay anywhere in Florida.

00:14:51.000 It doesn't say that if you are a kid and you go to class and you have two dads because you're a surrogate baby or because you were adopted or whatever.

00:14:58.000 It doesn't say that you can't say my two dads and I went on vacation this weekend.

00:15:01.000 It doesn't say that in the bill.

00:15:03.000 Nowhere does it say that in the bill.

00:15:05.000 It says you are not allowed to have childhood instruction from members of staff on matters of sexual orientation and gender identity.

00:15:13.000 The left is not misunderstanding the bill.

00:15:16.000 Understand.

00:15:16.000 There are a bunch of people in the middle who maybe lied about, maybe they heard the lies from the media, and so they misunderstand the bill, and so they are assessing their opinions based on the lies of the media.

00:15:25.000 The media say, don't say gay, and they're like, oh, that sounds terrible.

00:15:28.000 Okay, so they don't understand.

00:15:30.000 The activist class full well understands the bill.

00:15:33.000 They actively want the indoctrination of your kids.

00:15:36.000 They want to separate you off from your kids.

00:15:38.000 They want your values subsumed under their own.

00:15:41.000 They want your values destroyed.

00:15:42.000 They want you.

00:15:43.000 They want to be the teachers of your children when it comes to their values.

00:15:48.000 And they know full well that this will shape how your kids grow up.

00:15:51.000 That is the point.

00:15:52.000 It is not a bug.

00:15:53.000 It is a feature.

00:15:55.000 This is not about the protection of kids who identify as trans, gender dysphoric, small children who are a minute percentage of the population and who ought to be treated with the highest level of care and watchful waiting.

00:16:07.000 Not gender confirmation surgeries and hormone treatments and social transitioning away from their parents, the people who care about the most.

00:16:14.000 It's not about those kids.

00:16:15.000 It's about everybody else.

00:16:17.000 Because the rule on the left is if you can find somebody who you can pretend is the sympathetic victim of a law, you can change the entire societal standard.

00:16:24.000 So they have to invent the victims of the law.

00:16:27.000 There are no victims of this Florida law.

00:16:30.000 The law is designed to protect small children.

00:16:32.000 They don't want small children protected.

00:16:34.000 They want to invade the privacy of small children.

00:16:36.000 This is their goal.

00:16:38.000 The left knows exactly what this bill says, and that's the reason that they oppose the bill.

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00:17:46.000 A lot of people have been throwing around the word grooming with regard to small children.

00:17:51.000 Now, grooming suggests that they want to victimize children sexually. 0.73

00:17:55.000 It's sort of an older term that is rooted in a sort of homophobic belief that gay men prey on young boys or whatever. 0.92

00:18:01.000 And it's wrong. 0.78

00:18:02.000 What they are doing, however, is ideological grooming.

00:18:06.000 What they are doing is political grooming.

00:18:08.000 If we can indoctrinate your kids in a particular belief system regarding morality and immorality, regarding what is good and what is bad and what is acceptable and what is celebrated, then we will have groomed you politically.

00:18:19.000 And that is the actual goal.

00:18:21.000 To create a society safe for me and my choices as an adult.

00:18:25.000 This, by the way, underscores so much of what you see from the left.

00:18:28.000 When it came to COVID, it was the same thing.

00:18:30.000 You gotta mask up the small kids so I don't get COVID.

00:18:32.000 I was unaware that you were the victim in this situation.

00:18:35.000 I was unaware that your job isn't to protect the kids.

00:18:38.000 It is not the kid's job to protect you.

00:18:40.000 It is the opposite.

00:18:42.000 But again, we have a society run by people who are adults who act like children and believe that children must be treated like adults so they can act like children.

00:18:48.000 That is what this is really about.

00:18:51.000 This is what you see in the reaction to the Florida bill.

00:18:53.000 Again, they are reacting to what the bill actually says.

00:18:55.000 This is the great misnomer from both the right and the left.

00:18:58.000 The left is saying, well, it says don't say gay and that's why we oppose it. 0.99

00:19:01.000 Nope, that's not why you oppose it.

00:19:02.000 And the right is like, well, they're misconstruing the bill and that's why they oppose it.

00:19:05.000 Wrong.

00:19:06.000 They know exactly what the bill says and they don't like what the bill says.

00:19:09.000 They don't like what the bill says because the bill runs directly counter to their agenda and their ideological agenda is perfectly clear as we're going to get to in just one moment.

00:19:17.000 So, for example, there's a teacher on MSNBC yesterday, and this teacher said, you know, I can't believe this.

00:19:22.000 I won't be able to talk about my sex and love life with my kindergartners.

00:19:26.000 Who gave you the right to talk about your sex and love life with your kindergartners?

00:19:29.000 What makes that the priority?

00:19:30.000 What makes your weekend in the Adirondacks with your husband, dude, well, what makes that a priority to your kindergarten children?

00:19:39.000 When I was growing up in school, I had no idea what the private lives of my teachers were.

00:19:43.000 Because who the hell cares?

00:19:44.000 It was their job to do reading, writing, and arithmetic.

00:19:46.000 That was it.

00:19:48.000 The whole goal here is to hijack your kids and to shape your kids so that those kids reflect the values of the teacher.

00:19:56.000 Because they want to be surrogate parents. This is what they want.

00:19:59.000 As a parent, my job is to shield my kids and protect their innocence. And yes, to inculcate in them values that I think are important. The left feels the same way.

00:20:07.000 They just want their values to prevail with your kids. Here's this clip from MSNBC.

00:20:11.000 It scares me to death that I'm not going to be able to have these conversations with my children because they're going to ask me what I did on the weekend.

00:20:21.000 I don't want to have to hide that my partner and I went paddle boarding this weekend, because then they ask, well, what does partner mean, Mr. Bernard?

00:20:27.000 And, you know, I'm worried.

00:20:28.000 Can I tell them what it means?

00:20:30.000 It just it opens up for parents to really take some legal action against the schools and teachers.

00:20:37.000 And I am afraid for myself, my colleagues and my students.

00:20:41.000 Okay, my children, they're not your children.

00:20:43.000 They're not your children, but this is how the left thinks of them.

00:20:46.000 It takes a village after all.

00:20:46.000 Because they're everybody's children.

00:20:48.000 It takes society to rip children away from their parents and then indoctrinate them.

00:20:52.000 Plato's style in the needs of the regime.

00:20:54.000 This is what it requires.

00:20:55.000 They're building a new utopia and that means hijacking your kids.

00:20:58.000 That's what this is about.

00:21:00.000 By the way, there's a quick and easy answer to this.

00:21:02.000 If he says, I went with my partner paddle boarding over the weekend, which by the way, look, why are you talking to kindergartners about this?

00:21:08.000 Okay.

00:21:08.000 But, I went paddle boarding.

00:21:11.000 Who will stand for the gay paddle boarders of Florida against the children? 1.00

00:21:16.000 But you know what the actual answer to that is?

00:21:18.000 If the kid says, what is a partner, Mr. Bernard?

00:21:20.000 The answer is, why don't you talk to your mom and dad about it?

00:21:22.000 Why don't you talk to your parents about it?

00:21:25.000 Why is that such a hard answer?

00:21:27.000 The answer is because they don't want you to talk to your kids about this stuff. 0.94

00:21:30.000 They believe that they are a bulwark between kids and their bigot, horrible parents.

00:21:36.000 Which is why they have to step in and indoctrinate all the children.

00:21:38.000 And this has bled all the way up to the White House.

00:21:41.000 It is a crusade for them.

00:21:44.000 It is a moral crusade for them.

00:21:46.000 And you see this most of all at Disney, okay, because Disney is a company directed solely and completely at the production of safe and innocent magic for children.

00:21:55.000 I'm so annoyed by this, irritated by this, because yes, I grew up on Disney, because everyone grows up on Disney.

00:22:02.000 My kids grew up on Disney.

00:22:04.000 I love taking my kids to Disney World, but I swear to God, if these a**holes decide that they are going to indoctrinate my kids and their left-wing values via their movies, I will never watch their movies.

00:22:13.000 I will never take my kids.

00:22:14.000 My kids will live a perfectly happy life like millions of people, billions of people all over the world have, never having visited Disney World if they decide to make these choices.

00:22:22.000 It is not their job to raise my kids with their values.

00:22:24.000 So the entire left has now embraced the proposition that you should be able to sexually indoctrinate children.

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00:23:34.000 It's the reason that I bring up Disney here is because there is Chris Rufo who does amazing work over at Manhattan Institute.

00:23:40.000 He was leaked The insider meeting between members of the Disney cast and crew and production and executives on the Florida bill.

00:23:52.000 And the things these people say to each other about how they wish to rip away the innocence of children is astonishing.

00:23:59.000 It's astonishing.

00:24:00.000 They want your kids and they want them bad.

00:24:03.000 That is the message that is coming out of Disney right now.

00:24:06.000 I said to my wife this morning, here's the thing.

00:24:09.000 If you're a parent, it's hard being a parent.

00:24:11.000 If you're a parent, and you just want a break for an hour on a Sunday, and you're like, okay, you know what, I'll use the TV as the babysitter, and my kids like the music, and they like the bright colors, and fine, you know, let them watch Encanto.

00:24:22.000 Encanto's fine.

00:24:23.000 It's a fine movie.

00:24:25.000 I now have to pre-screen every single thing my kid watches or reads.

00:24:29.000 Everything.

00:24:30.000 Because the left has made everything political.

00:24:32.000 It used to be that the least political space was the kids' space.

00:24:35.000 Because after all, who would want to attack the innocence of children?

00:24:39.000 Who would want to insinuate themselves between parents and kids by teaching controversial social values of the left?

00:24:44.000 Who would want to? 0.97

00:24:45.000 What kind of sick person would do that?

00:24:47.000 Who would want to do that? 0.63

00:24:49.000 Well, now people want to do that.

00:24:51.000 And not only do they want to do it, they're doing it.

00:24:53.000 And so this means I now have to act.

00:24:55.000 I can't just turn on Disney Plus and put on a movie.

00:24:58.000 I mean, for God's sake, I can't even put on an old movie on Disney Plus without having a warning about how Peter Pan is racist or something.

00:25:03.000 But I can't even put on a new movie.

00:25:04.000 I couldn't put on Onward without having to pre-screen to see just how clear the LGBTQ plus IA minus caret sign was going to be. 0.98

00:25:13.000 How clear was this going to be?

00:25:14.000 Was I going to have to?

00:25:15.000 Am I ready to explain to my two-year-old what is going on here in terms of the radical social policies of the left?

00:25:22.000 So I have to pre-screen everything.

00:25:23.000 That's a lot of work for parents.

00:25:25.000 It's a lot of work for parents.

00:25:27.000 And Disney knows this, which is why they feel they can get away with it.

00:25:30.000 They believe that parents are so lazy that they're just going to be like, OK, fine, you want to do your radical social values?

00:25:35.000 Well, you know what?

00:25:35.000 You know, whatever.

00:25:36.000 I guess I'll deal with it.

00:25:37.000 And you'll just and you know, they do want to watch Encanto.

00:25:40.000 I mean, that's that's the idea here.

00:25:43.000 Really, Disney is counting on the laziness of parents to get away with this. 0.99

00:25:46.000 They're counting on the laziness of parents. 0.76

00:25:49.000 To basically say, yeah, we know you're spending multi-million dollars on the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, and I do like the Obi-Wan Kenobi series.

00:25:55.000 So, you know, that means that I will allow my kids to watch whatever Pride Festival film you have decided to jam into their little brains.

00:26:03.000 I think they're underestimating parents by a pretty long shot, because it turns out that for the vast majority of parents, this is my number one priority in life is protecting my kids.

00:26:10.000 Number one with a bullet.

00:26:12.000 There is no second priority.

00:26:13.000 This is the only priority to me in the end.

00:26:16.000 And if Disney wants to go up against parents, they're making a grave mistake, considering the only people who purchased their product.

00:26:21.000 My kid doesn't have my credit card number.

00:26:23.000 The only person who has my credit card number is me and my wife.

00:26:26.000 Those are the only people.

00:26:27.000 If Disney wants my money, they're going to have to not attack me as a parent.

00:26:32.000 And the reason I say this is because, again, the clips that you're about to listen to and watch here from this meeting, this Disney executive meeting, are astonishing.

00:26:41.000 So here is Disney executive producer Latoya Raveneau.

00:26:45.000 It is an executive producer, Latoya Raveneau.

00:26:47.000 And this person is about to tell you that she has leveraged what she calls her not-so-secret gay agenda into children's television. 0.56

00:26:57.000 Not-so-secret gay agenda. 0.92

00:26:59.000 Just right out there. 0.84

00:27:00.000 I have a question.

00:27:01.000 Why do you have an agenda with regard to kids?

00:27:02.000 Why?

00:27:04.000 Is this your job?

00:27:05.000 It makes these people feel good about themselves.

00:27:07.000 It's about them.

00:27:08.000 It's about what it makes them feel inside.

00:27:09.000 If I can indoctrinate kids into the belief that all sexual lifestyles are morally equivalent, then I have struck a blow for Utopia.

00:27:18.000 And I'm going to take advantage of the most powerful entertainment company on the face of the planet, Walt Disney, in order to do this.

00:27:23.000 And I know that my higher-ups agree with me politically, and so they will do that.

00:27:26.000 So they're taking advantage of their shareholders, they're taking advantage of their consumers, all to leverage in their own politics.

00:27:31.000 It's disgusting.

00:27:32.000 Here we go.

00:27:34.000 All that like momentum that I felt like that sense of I don't have to be afraid to like, let's have these two characters kiss.

00:27:42.000 Let's in the background.

00:27:43.000 Like I was just wherever I could just basically adding queerness to like, if you see anything queer in the show, grab them. 0.99

00:27:51.000 But like, I just was like, no one would stop me.

00:27:55.000 She's adding queerness wherever she could. 1.00

00:27:56.000 By the way, what are the credits for this person?

00:27:58.000 We are talking about shows directed at small children.

00:28:00.000 We are talking about the series Puppy Dog Pals from 2017-2018.

00:28:04.000 We are talking about the series Final Space from 2019.

00:28:08.000 We are talking about Super Monsters Monster Pets from 2019.

00:28:14.000 Rise Up and Sing Out in 2022.

00:28:17.000 These are animated shows directed at children.

00:28:21.000 And she's leveraging in LGBTQ messaging.

00:28:24.000 Two children.

00:28:26.000 Sound like... Are these the people you want raising your kids?

00:28:29.000 Really?

00:28:30.000 How about Disney production coordinator Alan March?

00:28:32.000 He says his team is committed to exploring queer stories.

00:28:35.000 For children, of course.

00:28:38.000 I've had the privilege of working with the Moon Girl team for the last two years, and they've been really open to exploring queer stories.

00:28:45.000 And part of, I'm on the production side, part of the work that I feel like I can put in is making sure that we take place in modern day New York.

00:28:55.000 So making sure that that's like an accurate reflection of New York.

00:28:58.000 So I put together like a tracker of our background characters to make sure that we have like the full breadth of expression.

00:29:05.000 Very important.

00:29:06.000 Gotta put this stuff in.

00:29:07.000 The kids have to see it.

00:29:08.000 It's very, very important.

00:29:10.000 How about the Disney Diversity and Inclusion Manager, Vivian Ware?

00:29:14.000 This person says that Disney has now eliminated, at their parks, all mentions, you ready for this?

00:29:20.000 Of ladies, gentlemen, boys, and girls.

00:29:23.000 Now, as a former Disney annual pass holder when I lived in SoCal, I can say that this was the way that they basically announced pretty much all the parades.

00:29:31.000 For example, you'd have a parade down Main Street and it would be, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.

00:29:35.000 Now, they're not going to use that anymore.

00:29:36.000 Why?

00:29:37.000 Because, well, you might not be a lady or a gentleman.

00:29:39.000 You might be a third unspecified sex.

00:29:42.000 You might be an alien.

00:29:43.000 You might be, who knows? 0.99

00:29:45.000 You could be a pan-fluid, queer-identifying chicken. 1.00

00:29:48.000 You could be anything. 0.98

00:29:49.000 We don't know.

00:29:50.000 And so we have just decided to go with a generic term, like birthing people, basically.

00:29:55.000 We're just gonna go with dreamers of all ages because we wouldn't want to alienate.

00:29:59.000 Here we go.

00:30:00.000 We no longer say ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.

00:30:04.000 We've provided training for all of our cast members in relationship to that.

00:30:09.000 So now they know it's hello everyone or hello friends.

00:30:12.000 We are in the process of changing over those recorded messages.

00:30:16.000 And so many of you are probably familiar when we brought the fireworks back to the Magic Kingdom.

00:30:20.000 We no longer say ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.

00:30:22.000 We say dreamers of all ages.

00:30:23.000 And so I love the fact that it's opened up the creativity, the opportunity for our cast members to look at that.

00:30:29.000 What an opportunity.

00:30:30.000 What an opportunity to not use language describing actual human beings, but to use language so generic that it describes aliens and animals and... Hello, friends.

00:30:43.000 Hello, fr... That's not the most radical stuff.

00:30:45.000 For the most radical stuff, you have to wait for the Disney corporate president, Kerry Burke.

00:30:50.000 So this person is about to tell you that 50%, she wants 50% of all characters on Disney to be LGBTQIA plus minus divided by sign, percentage sign, backslash colon, or people of color.

00:31:05.000 50%.

00:31:06.000 And the reason she wants this most of all is because she has two queer children. 1.00

00:31:12.000 Here we go.

00:31:14.000 I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually, one transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a leader.

00:31:27.000 One of our execs stood up and said, you know, we only have a handful of queer leads in our content.

00:31:34.000 And I went, what?

00:31:35.000 That can't be true.

00:31:36.000 And I realized, oh, It actually is true.

00:31:40.000 We have many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories, and yet we don't have enough leads.

00:31:51.000 Remember, this is all just pure biology.

00:31:53.000 It's pure biology.

00:31:54.000 It just happens to be that in Hollywood, an extraordinary, exorbitant number of kids in liberal areas are now identifying as trans and LGBTQIA plus minus and all the rest of it. 0.93

00:32:04.000 It must just be biological bottlenecks or something.

00:32:06.000 Or maybe it has to do with the social incentive structure and the values being taught to children.

00:32:10.000 Maybe as it turns out, I am correct that both children are malleable and sexual behavior is malleable.

00:32:15.000 Maybe these things are malleable.

00:32:16.000 Maybe it has to do with the values that are being taught to kids.

00:32:18.000 Maybe that's the entire point and they know it, which is why they are putting it in the entertainment.

00:32:21.000 If they didn't believe it made a difference, they wouldn't be putting it in the entertainment.

00:32:24.000 Why alienate a huge base of consumers if you can't change their behavior?

00:32:28.000 The whole point is to change the behavior.

00:32:30.000 The whole point is to indoctrinate entire generations of children.

00:32:33.000 So I have a question.

00:32:34.000 You want these people raising your kids? 1.00

00:32:36.000 These ones over here?

00:32:38.000 Is this what you are looking for?

00:32:42.000 This group of people who have decided that it is very important to indoctrinate your kids, this is what you want?

00:32:50.000 So Florida passes this law to prevent this stuff in kindergarten to third grade, and the left goes absolutely nuts, and Disney goes absolutely nuts, and you know what?

00:32:57.000 They've exposed their agenda.

00:32:59.000 At least they're clear about it now.

00:33:00.000 At least they're clear about it now.

00:33:01.000 And so parents are now on alert.

00:33:03.000 So now it's on you, parents.

00:33:04.000 It's on you to decide whether you wish to consume the latest Disney film.

00:33:07.000 I'm not saying you can never watch another Disney film.

00:33:10.000 I'm saying you damns well better pre-screen that film before you show it to your kids.

00:33:14.000 You damns well better decide what you want in your kid's head before you put it in your kid's head.

00:33:18.000 Because they have put you on notice. 0.82

00:33:20.000 Now what's amazing about this is that they didn't want to.

00:33:22.000 They didn't want to.

00:33:23.000 They wanted to make a statement, broadly speaking, about how they oppose this bill so they can placate the loudest voices inside their own contingent.

00:33:30.000 That's what they really wanted in the end.

00:33:31.000 That's what they were desiring.

00:33:33.000 However, what they say behind closed doors is the thing.

00:33:36.000 What they say behind closed doors is, we don't oppose this bill because it's a don't-say-gay bill.

00:33:41.000 We know it's not a don't-say-gay bill.

00:33:43.000 We oppose this bill because we want to indoctrinate your kids.

00:33:47.000 We oppose this bill because we wish to be the activists who determine what your children think and feel and believe and what the future trajectory of their sexual lives looks like.

00:33:57.000 We wish to do that.

00:33:59.000 That's what they are saying to each other behind closed doors, running the most powerful corporations on planet Earth that mainline entertainment and values directly into the brains of your kids.

00:34:08.000 That's dangerous and it's scary.

00:34:10.000 And it should be scary to you.

00:34:11.000 Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis over in Florida, the governor, he makes a pretty obvious point.

00:34:15.000 He says, you know, I've noticed that if there were a bill that banned the discussing of oppression of Uyghurs, Disney would be first on board. 1.00

00:34:22.000 People ask me, you know, kind of about, you know, their posture on the bill.

00:34:25.000 I said, you know what?

00:34:27.000 If we would have put in the bill that you were not allowed to have curriculum that discuss the oppression of the Uyghurs in China, Disney would have endorsed that in a second. 0.61

00:34:39.000 I will also point out here that Disney uses Americans because we are more tolerant, because we are more moderate in our social politics and all of this.

00:34:47.000 They actually use us as the social experiment and our kids as the social experiment.

00:34:50.000 You notice that they're not pulling out of Disney Tokyo.

00:34:54.000 They're not doing any of that, even though same-sex marriage, by the way, is still not legal in Japan.

00:34:59.000 Same-sex marriage, okay? 0.71

00:35:01.000 Not any of the rest of this, like, second-order stuff.

00:35:06.000 I've noticed that they are still running cruises, apparently, where homosexuals are banned in places like China, apparently.

00:35:13.000 So, yeah, it's, they push as far as they can, or as far as you let them push you.

00:35:18.000 So you could just say no.

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00:36:23.000 Alrighty, well it's no secret Politics have infused pretty much everything in life, ruining pretty much everything, including sports.

00:36:29.000 What was once pure entertainment is now an ad espousing the left's bizarre and obscene political ideology.

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00:37:05.000 Meanwhile, our cultural elites, they hate you.

00:37:13.000 They really, really hate you.

00:37:14.000 They love them.

00:37:15.000 Everything for them is about assuring their own sense of virtue and a place for them among the peoples.

00:37:23.000 This is their goal.

00:37:24.000 And never do you see this more than when it comes to people who are just panderers like Jon Stewart.

00:37:29.000 So Jon Stewart has a new show on Apple TV.

00:37:33.000 And this new show is basically just old man spouting left-wing propaganda talking points.

00:37:39.000 And it's awkward.

00:37:41.000 It's hard to watch.

00:37:42.000 But it does demonstrate how members of the left think of you, particularly in our entertainment elite.

00:37:47.000 This is how they think of you.

00:37:49.000 And they wish to push the most left-wing views imaginable.

00:37:53.000 So here is Jon Stewart.

00:37:54.000 This is The Other Night.

00:37:55.000 Doing a, first of all, the screen cap is everything.

00:37:58.000 It is a white man sitting in front of a bill, in front of a board that says, the problem with white people, the problem with white people, and it's a bunch of people, white people looking like they are carving a turkey for dinner.

00:38:10.000 It's like a traditional white family.

00:38:12.000 When I say traditional, I mean it looks like mom and dad and some kids and some grandkids. 0.89

00:38:16.000 The problem with white people, says this old white man. 0.82

00:38:19.000 And yes, Jon Stewart now qualifies as an old white man. 1.00

00:38:23.000 Fury is ranting about how white people are the worst, Jon Stewart. 0.98

00:38:27.000 For however sincerely we want to reckon and listen, the truth is America has always prioritized white comfort over black survival. 0.99

00:38:38.000 Black people have had to fight so hard for equality that they've been irreparably set back in the pursuit of equity.

00:38:49.000 Hmm.

00:38:50.000 So this 59 year old white man is telling you that white people have always prized their own comfort.

00:38:55.000 Now, apparently it doesn't apply to him, but here's the thing.

00:38:56.000 It does apply to him.

00:38:58.000 It does apply to him because Jon Stewart is about assuring his own comfort, his own ideological comfort. 0.95

00:39:03.000 It makes him feel better to dissociate from the other bad white people. 0.98

00:39:07.000 When he says this, he becomes one of the good white people.

00:39:09.000 There's a point that black author Shelby Steele has made repeatedly in his book, White Guilt, that so much of our current Media, culture, so much of our elite culture is driven by white liberals who wish to run the whole thing.

00:39:22.000 And no more even white liberals, white radical leftists who wish to run the whole thing. 0.95

00:39:25.000 And the way that they get to maintain their moral imprimatur is by condemning all the other bad white people, all the other bigoted people. 0.97

00:39:33.000 And Jon Stewart is indicative of this case. 0.99

00:39:36.000 And so there is this very strange and awkward exchange between Jon Stewart And Andrew Sullivan, who is a gay white man, and a crazy white race-baiting lady named Lisa Bond. 0.96

00:39:49.000 Lisa Bond runs an organization that is just one of the great grifts I've ever heard of. 0.94

00:39:55.000 I've talked about it on the program before.

00:39:56.000 She runs it with Sarah I. Rao, and the entire thing is, she gets together with guilty white, upper-crust liberals, and she lectures them about racism.

00:40:05.000 That is, it's called Race to Dinner. 0.57

00:40:08.000 It costs $2,500, and you can enlist the services of Race to Dinner, according to Mediite, whose helpful grifters will come to your house, eat your food, and tell you how racist you are.

00:40:15.000 It's an actual thing.

00:40:17.000 And Lisa Bond runs it. 0.96

00:40:18.000 So, Jon Stewart has on Lisa Bond and Andrew Sullivan.

00:40:21.000 And Andrew Sullivan points out that wokeness is a big negative for the vast majority of Americans. 0.96

00:40:25.000 They're not interested in being categorized by race.

00:40:27.000 They want to be treated as individuals.

00:40:29.000 And Lisa Bond goes off on Andrew Sullivan because, after all, he has no authority to speak.

00:40:33.000 He is a white man.

00:40:35.000 Now, just on the intersectional hierarchy, let's point out here that Lisa Bond is a white woman. 1.00

00:40:41.000 Andrew Sullivan is a gay white man. 0.83

00:40:43.000 So I don't know Lisa Bond's sexual orientation, but assuming that she's not gay, this means that he outranks her on the intersectional hierarchy because Andrew Sullivan is openly gay. 0.95

00:40:53.000 That doesn't matter, because Andrew Sullivan is about to say something that is not in line with leftist thinking.

00:40:57.000 You only get to be on the leftist intersectional hierarchy if you agree with everything that they say.

00:41:01.000 Which is how Jon Stewart gets to say the things he says.

00:41:03.000 So Lisa Bond is about to rip into Andrew Sullivan, and Jon Stewart will agree.

00:41:07.000 Because Jon Stewart has lost the thread.

00:41:09.000 Because left-wing America has lost the thread.

00:41:12.000 I'm gonna put everybody in the thing.

00:41:15.000 All of us white people do this.

00:41:17.000 I don't care if we say we're abolitionists.

00:41:19.000 I don't care if we say we're progressive.

00:41:20.000 I don't care if we're literally members of the KKK.

00:41:24.000 Every single white person upholds these systems and structures of white supremacy.

00:41:29.000 And we have got to talk about it.

00:41:31.000 If I could finger snap, I would finger snap right now. 0.84

00:41:37.000 Look at all these white people talk about how morally superior to you they are.

00:41:41.000 We have to talk about it, says LisaVaughn. 1.00

00:41:43.000 Okay, let's talk about how much money you are making off of stupid radical leftists who think that they've alleviated their white guilt by hiring a white broad to tell them about their own internalized racism. 1.00

00:41:55.000 You morons. 1.00

00:41:55.000 I mean, it's just incredible. 1.00

00:41:57.000 But this is bled up to every element of our society.

00:41:59.000 Every element.

00:42:00.000 The radical left.

00:42:01.000 It starts everything that starts off as a radical left proposal in America eventually becomes mainstream.

00:42:05.000 And so now you have, for example.

00:42:07.000 The NFL, which has announced that they are going to create rules that force the hiring of women and people of color.

00:42:15.000 Force it.

00:42:15.000 Which, by the way, is a violation of the Civil Rights Act.

00:42:18.000 And we talked at the beginning of the show about the Biden administration suggesting it's a violation of the Civil Rights Act for you to say, I don't want my kindergartner indoctrinated with LGBTQ propaganda.

00:42:27.000 You know what's actually a violation of the Civil Rights Act?

00:42:29.000 Hiring people because of their race.

00:42:31.000 That is a violation not only of the Civil Rights Act, it's a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

00:42:38.000 But the NFL's doing it now.

00:42:40.000 According to NPR, at an owners' meeting this week in Florida, the league announced other diversity steps as well.

00:42:45.000 A six-person committee of advisors from outside the NFL to review the league's hiring practices, and a commitment by teams to increase diversity among team owners, a fraternity that's almost entirely white.

00:42:56.000 The NFL says teams have to actually hire a quote, a female or a member of an ethnic or racial minority as an offensive assistant coach in 2022. 0.91

00:43:04.000 So it's now a make work program for affirmative action candidates over in the NFL.

00:43:08.000 Why?

00:43:09.000 Because after all, we are also racist.

00:43:11.000 We are also racist.

00:43:12.000 And this myth must continue to be parade that America is a deeply racist country.

00:43:16.000 Despite the fact that by polling data, we are perhaps the least, the least racist country on planet earth.

00:43:21.000 It's amazing how critics of America have spent zero time actually investigating other countries. 0.88

00:43:26.000 You're so solipsistic and self-centered.

00:43:27.000 The only country on earth, apparently, is America.

00:43:30.000 So, yesterday, for example, the Biden administration signed into law a bill that passed nearly unanimously that made lynching a federal hate crime.

00:43:38.000 Now, let's just put it this way.

00:43:40.000 Ain't nobody who believes that it's not some sort of grave evil to lynch people or that it's not a hate crime to lynch people.

00:43:47.000 It turns out murder has been illegal in the United States for literally all time.

00:43:52.000 Murder has been illegal.

00:43:54.000 In fact, in all societies, of which I am aware, murder is illegal, as it turns out.

00:43:59.000 The drive to suggest that we have to have an anti-lynching law is, of course, undergirded by a left-wing perspective right now.

00:44:06.000 This is why you need the law, right?

00:44:08.000 I don't know a single person who's pro-lynching, except for maybe Jussie Smollett.

00:44:11.000 There's not a single person in America who's pro-lynching.

00:44:14.000 Jussie Smollett is in favor of lynching Jussie Smollett, except when he's against lynching Jussie Smollett.

00:44:17.000 Otherwise, everyone is against lynching.

00:44:19.000 But we needed to pass a law.

00:44:21.000 And the reason, according to the left, we needed to pass a law is because lynching is happening each and every day.

00:44:26.000 There's so much lynching in America.

00:44:28.000 It's crazy how much lynching there is in America.

00:44:30.000 So you might be saying to yourself, wait, is there a lot of lynching in America?

00:44:32.000 And I just missed it.

00:44:34.000 Isn't the only lynching of which you heard last year, the self-lynching by Jussie Smollett?

00:44:39.000 That's right.

00:44:39.000 But no, the entire propaganda of the left here is that we have to have an anti-lynching law.

00:44:44.000 And the reason we must definitely have an anti-lynching law is because America has not changed since Emmett Till was lynched.

00:44:50.000 We have not changed in 70, 80, 90 years.

00:44:54.000 We've not changed.

00:44:55.000 It's the same.

00:44:56.000 Here is Joe Biden, who remembers the days of actual lynching because he's very, very, very old.

00:45:01.000 And he used to hang out with racists.

00:45:03.000 Here is Joe Biden talking about how we need an anti-lynching law today because racial hate is a persistent problem.

00:45:10.000 From the bullets in the back of Ahmaud Arbery to countless other acts of violence, countless victims known and unknown, the same racial hatred that drove the mob to hang a noose brought that mob carrying torches out of the fields of Charlottesville just a few years ago.

00:45:33.000 Racial hate isn't an old problem.

00:45:36.000 It's a persistent problem.

00:45:38.000 A persistent problem.

00:45:41.000 Okay, I'm unaware.

00:45:42.000 Will the anti-lynching law allow for the prosecution of the Charlottesville racist mob?

00:45:48.000 Will it allow for that prosecution?

00:45:50.000 Or were they exercising their First Amendment rights even though what they were saying was very evil?

00:45:56.000 He does not make this clear.

00:45:57.000 So again, the anti-lynching law was basically just sort of a launching off point for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to suggest that America is a deeply racist country, vote for me.

00:46:05.000 So Kamala Harris said this yesterday also.

00:46:06.000 Kamala Harris goes out there.

00:46:08.000 By the way, This human, Kamala Harris, tweeted out in support of Jussie Smollett after Jussie Smollett did this about how Jussie Smollett had been lynched.

00:46:18.000 So I will just take whatever Kamala Harris says with a grain of salt, but here is faux sincere Kamala Harris saying that lynching is not actually a relic of the past.

00:46:26.000 Apparently it's happening every day.

00:46:29.000 Lynching is not a relic of the past.

00:46:34.000 Racial acts of terror still occur in our nation. 1.00

00:46:39.000 And when they do, we must all have the courage to name them and hold the perpetrators to account.

00:46:47.000 Um, it's, it's happening all the time.

00:46:49.000 Really?

00:46:49.000 It's, it's not a relic of the past.

00:46:51.000 I'm going to read you the statistics on lynching in the United States.

00:46:53.000 You ready?

00:46:54.000 There's some actual statistics compiled by the University of Kentucky.

00:46:59.000 Here we go.

00:47:00.000 Here are the lynchings by year and race.

00:47:03.000 1882, 64 white people were lynched, 49 black people were lynched.

00:47:06.000 And one of the great untold stories about lynching, of course, is that there is racist lynching.

00:47:09.000 There's a lot of non-racist lynching as well, right?

00:47:11.000 There are white people who are lynching other white people for various crimes.

00:47:14.000 So 1886, or in 1885, for example, 110 white people were lynched, 74 black people were lynched.

00:47:18.000 Okay, but in 1898, you had 101 black people who were lynched, 19 white people lynched.

00:47:25.000 And these numbers are, they're horrifying, obviously.

00:47:27.000 I mean, these are evil, evil crimes, what we are talking about right here.

00:47:32.000 Grand total. 0.95

00:47:33.000 I'm just going to give you the total, because at a certain point, basically once you get past maybe 1909, pretty much everybody who's getting lynched is black. 0.51

00:47:41.000 So here are the stats, okay?

00:47:43.000 1935, 20.

00:47:43.000 1910, 76.

00:47:43.000 1920, 61.

00:47:43.000 1930, 21.

00:47:43.000 These are the grand total number of lynchings in the United States.

00:47:46.000 1961, 1930, 21, 1935, 20.

00:47:50.000 These are the grand total number of lynchings in the United States.

00:47:53.000 Fast forward.

00:47:54.000 1950, 2.

00:47:54.000 1952, 0.

00:47:54.000 1956, 0.

00:47:54.000 1958, 0.

00:47:54.000 1960, 0.

00:47:55.000 So, is lynching a relic of the past?

00:47:55.000 1962, 0.

00:47:55.000 1964, 3.

00:47:55.000 1965, 66, 67, 68, 0, 0, 0, 0.

00:47:58.000 Why, yes!

00:47:59.000 1956, zero.

00:48:00.000 1958, zero.

00:48:02.000 1960, zero.

00:48:04.000 1962, zero.

00:48:05.000 1964, three.

00:48:07.000 1965, 66, 67, 68, zero, zero, zero, zero.

00:48:11.000 So is lynching a relic of the past?

00:48:14.000 Why, yes, it turns out that lynching is a relic of the past.

00:48:17.000 People are not being hanged from trees on a regular basis.

00:48:23.000 This is not a thing that is happening in the United States.

00:48:26.000 I mean, if you want to make things that aren't happening a crime, I mean, I suppose I don't really care.

00:48:29.000 If you're going to ask me, should it be a federal hate crime to lynch somebody?

00:48:32.000 Sure.

00:48:33.000 Why not?

00:48:33.000 Okay.

00:48:34.000 But the entire goal of the left here is to, of course, suggest that America remains a deeply racist country, the same country that lynched Emmett Till would lynch black people today if they could get away with it.

00:48:46.000 This is the elite mentality when it comes to this country.

00:48:49.000 Everything can be shoehorned or pushed into the box of racism.

00:48:55.000 This also happens to be how the media is approaching the Will Smith debacle.

00:49:00.000 So Will Smith, and basically it's over at this point because Will Smith apologized.

00:49:03.000 I'm sure Chris Rock will accept the apology and we will all move on and pretend that none of this ever happened except for the memes, which will remain as they should because the memes are awesome.

00:49:11.000 But the left has its take and its take is, of course, that what happened between Will Smith, a black man, and Chris Rock, a black man, is because of white supremacy.

00:49:22.000 Most people agree the slap shouldn't have happened, but there's something that feels precious at best, and downright racist at worst, about white people's reaction to the now infamous smack.

00:49:31.000 The radio host Howard Stern compared Smith to Donald Trump, while white women on Twitter somehow decided Smith's actions meant he must be beating his wife. 0.85

00:49:38.000 It would seem there's a layer of hyperviolence that's being projected onto Smith simply because he is a black man who is defending his black wife.

00:49:45.000 Well, no, I think that the hyperviolence being projected onto Smith is because he walked up in the middle of one of the most watched broadcasts in America and smacked another man in the face on public television.

00:49:55.000 Like, I'm pretty sure it's that.

00:49:58.000 It turns out that if you want to label somebody hyperviolent, it turns out that it's not all that hard to do when they just walk up to somebody and beat them on live television.

00:50:06.000 While it's justifiable, says this columnist, important even, to interrogate his motives for delivering the slap, it's clear that the backlash against Smith is rooted in not just anti-Blackness, but respectability politics as well.

00:50:18.000 It's not about just what Smith did, it's where he did it and who was watching.

00:50:24.000 I find it hard to believe that the same white audiences who consume violence against black people on screen to an almost fetishistic degree are so distraught about an open palm slap. 0.98

00:50:32.000 Again, this kind of performative pearl clutching is only ever reserved for black men who mess up. 1.00

00:50:36.000 Okay, so let me just point something out right here. 0.97

00:50:38.000 Let's say that Bradley Cooper had gotten up and beat the... beat... like the redheaded stepchild, Chris Rock. 0.61

00:50:44.000 Let's say that... that... that...

00:50:47.000 Whoever Bradley Cooper is dating right now, let's say that this person had been insulted by Chris Rock, and Bradley Cooper had gotten up and just smacked Chris Rock.

00:50:55.000 How do you think that would have gone?

00:50:59.000 You think that would have allowed him to remain?

00:51:02.000 Or, let's say, for example, That Chris Rock had not been Chris Rock.

00:51:06.000 He had been a white comedian.

00:51:07.000 Let's say you were Ricky Gervais.

00:51:08.000 And he said something bad about Jada Pinkett Smith.

00:51:10.000 And Will Smith had gone up and smacked Ricky Gervais across the face.

00:51:13.000 How do you think people would have generally reacted?

00:51:16.000 On the left, they would have just made him king automatically.

00:51:19.000 He would have just been the king.

00:51:20.000 There wouldn't have been an election.

00:51:22.000 They just would have immediately removed him from the Oscars, put a crown on his head, and he would be king of America. 0.99

00:51:27.000 So you're telling me that this is about anti-blackness, but in the left view, everything is about anti-blackness because America is racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe. 0.98

00:51:33.000 That's what we all are. 0.99

00:51:34.000 And the left will lecture you and lecture your kids on all of this.

00:51:38.000 Because after all, no one should have to take a joke, according to Roxanne Gay, a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.

00:51:44.000 This is not a defense of Will Smith, who does not need me to defend him.

00:51:48.000 Instead, this is a defense of thin skin.

00:51:50.000 It's a defense of boundaries and being human and enforcing one's limits.

00:51:53.000 It's a repudiation of the incessant valorizing of taking a joke, having a sense of humor.

00:51:57.000 It's a rejection of the expectation we laugh off everything people want to say and do to us.

00:52:02.000 Yes, according to this particular columnist, apparently we should stop valorizing taking a joke.

00:52:08.000 Instead, we should be really, really thin-skinned and smack people. 0.95

00:52:11.000 That's the best thing that we can do.

00:52:13.000 Because if we do that, we will have a better, warmer, more wonderful society.

00:52:18.000 And that, of course, is the goal.

00:52:22.000 It is incredible.

00:52:23.000 A lot of people tried to explain Donald Trump away by talking about his politics.

00:52:27.000 They tried to say that the reason that Donald Trump was elected in 2016 is because Donald Trump was a populist who was anti-free trade in his rhetoric.

00:52:36.000 It's because he was anti-immigration.

00:52:38.000 It was because of this or it was because of that.

00:52:39.000 Donald Trump was elected because he is a pulsating middle finger to all of these people.

00:52:44.000 That is why Donald Trump was elected.

00:52:46.000 And the more the left decides that they are going to hijack our kids, and call you a racist, and have dinner with Sarah Irel, and suggest that you can't speak up on topics, and the more they rip on you for saying that it is bad to smack people for telling a joke, the more they do this sort of stuff, the more people are going to rebel by picking whoever is the biggest pulsating middle finger and just throwing it out there at the left.

00:53:07.000 And the left deserves this.

00:53:08.000 They deserve this.

00:53:10.000 Because in their goal to remould society, everybody is either a tool or an obstacle.

00:53:14.000 And if you refuse to be their tool, they will make you their obstacle.

00:53:17.000 So, here are your choices, Americans.

00:53:19.000 You can either be the speed bump, or even worse, you can be the person.

00:53:23.000 You can be the blood bag these folks feed on.

00:53:26.000 You can be the cash infusion for them.

00:53:28.000 You can continue to shop with them.

00:53:30.000 You can continue to give them what they want.

00:53:31.000 You can continue to assume good motives on their part.

00:53:34.000 Or, you can look at what they say behind closed doors over at Disney, or what they say quite openly, if you're Jon Stewart, and you can say to yourself, you know what?

00:53:40.000 I don't feel like patronizing these folks, because they hate my guts.

00:53:43.000 They hate my guts.

00:53:44.000 And not only do they hate my guts, they see me as a dangerous obstacle to them, by dint of the fact that I am a parent, and I wish to raise my children with my values.

00:53:54.000 The best way to strike back against these folks is to parent your kids with your values and protect your kids.

00:53:57.000 That is the number one way that you will end up victorious in life and that your kids will end up with a successful, happy life.

00:54:03.000 Because I promise you, the kids of these folks... I mean...

00:54:09.000 I'm not going to name any names.

00:54:11.000 Let's just say broad swath.

00:54:13.000 The folks who raise these kids with their values, those kids do not look like the happiest of children.

00:54:18.000 They don't look and they don't seem like the happiest of people as they grow into adults.

00:54:21.000 And our society does not seem massively happier for having embraced a set of values that wishes to subsume basic morality under the rubric of personal authenticity and indoctrination of other people's kids.

00:54:33.000 All right, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:54:36.000 In the meantime, go check out the Michael Nolans show that's available right now.

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00:55:22.000 Disney has gotten caught peddling transgenderism to kids, and Joe Biden outlaws a crime that does not happen and is already illegal. 0.76

00:55:30.000 Good job, Joe.

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The Elites Hate You And Want To Indoctrinate Your Children | Ep. 1463

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