Trump says he might want to end birthright citizenship by executive order. Plus, the President of the United States has now unleashed a new controversy: He says that he may want to sign an executive order getting rid of Birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants.
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00:01:54.000The President of the United States has now said in an interview that he is interested in signing an executive order that would end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrant children.
00:02:03.000So here is the way the law currently operates.
00:02:05.000If you come to the United States for virtually any purpose, unless you are a foreign diplomat,
00:02:10.000You come to the United States and you have a baby in the United States.
00:02:12.000That baby is automatically a citizen of the United States entitled to all rights and privileges conferred upon all citizens of the United States.
00:02:20.000The reason that this is a controversial issue is because nothing in the Constitution actually says that this is the case.
00:02:26.000Not only does nothing in the Constitution actually say that this is the case,
00:02:29.000There's pretty good evidence that the framers of the 14th Amendment had no intent to do anything remotely like this.
00:02:36.000Suggest that just because you come to the United States and then you have a baby here, your baby is now a United States citizen.
00:02:42.000And this does have some pretty significant costs involved.
00:02:45.000Right now you have in California, we've seen many stories about this, you've had situations where
00:02:50.000Legitimate birth tourism is happening.
00:02:52.000People are traveling to the United States just to have babies in the United States so that their kids become American citizens.
00:02:58.000And there's some pretty significant impacts.
00:03:00.000The Center for Immigration Studies, which is very anti-illegal immigration.
00:03:04.000They estimate that between 300,000 and 400,000 children are born to illegal immigrants in the United States every single year, meaning one out of every ten births in the United States is to an illegal immigrant mother.
00:03:14.000All of those children are considered by the executive branch of the U.S.
00:03:51.000And this does lead to chain migration because children are now U.S.
00:03:55.000citizens and they can sponsor their parents for United States citizenship.
00:03:59.000The Center for Immigration Studies suggests that many of the welfare costs associated with illegal immigration are due to current birthright citizenship policy.
00:04:06.000They say greater efforts at barring illegal aliens from federal welfare programs do not reduce costs because the kids are still American citizens.
00:04:14.000Nationwide, 40% of illegal alien-headed households receive some type of welfare.
00:04:52.00059% of illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children live in or near poverty.
00:04:58.000And again, then these kids are able to sponsor their parents for residency in the United States.
00:05:02.000So there's a lot of talk today about this is racist, this is the Trump administration trying to simply bar people who are differently colored from coming into the United States.
00:05:11.000No, there are serious economic costs associated with low-income people and poorly educated folks who are illegally immigrating to the United States, coming here, having babies, their kids become citizens, and now their kids are entitled to all of the benefits that American citizenship confers.
00:05:28.000So, President Trump suggested today that he could change all of this by executive order.
00:06:06.000If you're just coming across the border and having a baby in the United States, that does not mean that you have come in through our legal immigration system and your children are going to be much more impacted, obviously, by their parents than they're going to be impacted simply by force and dint of living in the United States.
00:06:20.000So, if you're interested in a country that assimilates people to American values, you need people immigrating legally and then having babies here legally.
00:06:27.000Now, listen, legal residents of the United States, different story, because legal residents very often are preparing to become immigrants to the United States.
00:06:34.000So my in-laws, for example, were legal residents to the United States.
00:06:59.000But her younger brother was born in the United States, and he was an American citizen, as he should have been.
00:07:04.000His parents were legal residents of the United States.
00:07:06.000The 14th Amendment essentially guarantees that if you are a legal resident of the United States or a citizen of the United States, your children are American citizens.
00:07:14.000Which, again, makes a fair bit of sense.
00:07:16.000Because if you want to make sure that kids are ensconced in the American way of life, you want to make sure that their parents are loyal to the United States government and are loyal to the American Constitution.
00:07:27.000The same is not true for the children of illegal immigrants.
00:07:29.000If you just come across the border, have a baby, never go through the legal process, we didn't want you, right?
00:07:35.000I mean, there's no evidence that we wanted you.
00:07:37.000Maybe we do want you, but we don't know.
00:07:39.000Then suggesting that this inherently is a good idea is kind of foolhardy.
00:07:45.000President Trump says that we're the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby's a citizen of the United States.
00:08:14.000So for all the talk about Europe being open and welcoming to immigrants, the United States' birthright citizenship policy is significantly more open than the European policy.
00:08:23.000If you come in from Morocco to France, you have a baby in France that does not make your citizen an actual citizen of France.
00:08:28.000You have to apply for legal citizenship
00:08:37.000And you're seeing a lot of folks in the media who don't know anything about constitutional law opine on these issues, suggest that the 14th Amendment dictates that children of illegal immigrants are, by necessity, under the Constitution, citizens of the United States.
00:09:31.000What does the phrase subject to the jurisdiction thereof come to add?
00:09:34.000Well, the people who framed this amendment knew what it came to add.
00:09:37.000It was to prevent a situation where a foreign diplomat comes to the United States, the ambassador from France comes to the United States, and his wife has a baby, and now the baby is an American citizen.
00:09:46.000Not only that, it was meant to prevent citizenship for Native American tribes because we were trying to ensure that Native American babies born to Native American tribes were not automatically American citizens because that would be taking sovereignty from the Native American tribes.
00:10:00.000The same thing was true of soldiers who were fighting from abroad in the United States.
00:10:03.000Let's say there was a mercenary force that came to the United States.
00:10:06.000Some of them brought along their wives.
00:10:07.000They were fighting the United States government.
00:10:09.000Their wives had babies in the United States.
00:10:13.000Because they were not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States government.
00:10:16.000Meaning, that if you were subject to the jurisdiction of another government, you were not subject to the jurisdiction of the American government.
00:10:24.000Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute points out, again, the phrase was originally written to exclude the children of Native American tribes from American citizenship, as well as the children of foreign diplomats and soldiers from abroad fighting on American land.
00:10:35.000The amendment itself, the 14th Amendment, was specifically designed to reverse Dred Scott.
00:10:39.000There's an awful, evil Supreme Court case in which an escaped slave named Dred Scott sued for his American citizenship.
00:10:46.000He said, I'm an American citizen, I was born in the United States, I was freed, I escaped my masters, I'm now in the North, and now I'm free.
00:10:53.000I'm not going to be returned to slavery.
00:10:56.000And it abrogates my rights to be returned to slavery.
00:10:58.000In Dred Scott, the Supreme Court, in evil fashion, found that the Constitution of the United States did not apply to black people born in the United States because they were not covered by the Constitution.
00:11:07.000The 14th Amendment was designed to reverse that and say that if you're a freed slave, if you're a black person born in the United States, then you are a citizen of the United States.
00:11:16.000Senator Jacob Hauer, Republican of Michigan, explained the purpose of the subject to the jurisdiction thereof provision back when it was written.
00:11:22.000He said, This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.
00:11:35.000It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States.
00:11:41.000Well, in just a second, we'll get to the Supreme Court jurisprudence on this, which kind of muddies the issue more than the amendment actually does from the very outset.
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00:13:01.000What I mean by this is there's a line of cases with regard to citizenship that don't actually clarify the issue with regard to children of illegal immigrants.
00:13:10.000In 1884, there was a Supreme Court case.
00:13:12.000It's called Elk v. Watkins, I believe?
00:13:15.000In which the Supreme Court ruled that a Native American born under the jurisdiction of a Native American tribe could not unilaterally make himself a citizen of the United States.
00:13:23.000So what happened is there was a baby who was born to a Native American family under Native American tribal sovereignty.
00:13:28.000He said, listen, I don't want to be subject to Native American tribal sovereignty.
00:13:35.000And the court said, no, you don't get to make yourself a United States citizen just because you were born in the United States if your parents were subject to the jurisdiction of a foreign body, namely Native American tribes.
00:13:45.000This seems to cut against birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants.
00:13:49.000Illegal immigrants are, in fact, citizens of another country.
00:13:52.000And they're subject to the jurisdiction of those other countries.
00:13:58.000If an illegal immigrant in the United States from Mexico, say, commits a crime, we have an obligation under the Vienna Convention to let him know about his consular rights.
00:14:06.000We have to let him know that he can go to his local consulate and that the consulate will provide him services.
00:14:11.000This was adjudicated in a case called Midian v. Texas.
00:14:14.000It went all the way to the Supreme Court, in which this guy who murdered someone on American soil
00:14:23.000In any case, he was not informed of his right to consular access, and this was considered a violation of his rights because he was an illegal immigrant in the United States.
00:14:32.000So this seems very much in line with that, right?
00:14:35.000This 1884 case that says, just because you're born in the United States, if you are subject to the jurisdiction of a foreign power, you are not a United States citizen.
00:14:42.000In 1898, there was another case, and this is the one that proponents of birthright citizenship like to cite.
00:14:47.000The Supreme Court ruled that Wong Kim Ark, who was a child born in the United States to a legal resident Chinese immigrant couple, was included in birthright citizenship.
00:14:55.000But again, that was to legal residents.
00:14:57.000That's more like the case of my parents-in-law and my brother-in-law.
00:15:01.000He was born in the United States to legal resident parents, and therefore he's an American citizen.
00:15:07.000The question of illegal immigrant children was not adjudicated all the way until 1982.
00:15:12.000We're going to talk about this ruling, which is really the only ruling on record with regard to birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants in just one second.
00:15:19.000So, the case in 1982 is a very famous case called Plyler v. Doe.
00:16:40.000And the fact is that there is legal standing for Plyler versus Doe.
00:16:44.000What that means is that when President Trump says that he can simply issue an executive order and overrule that Supreme Court ruling or overrule the federal laws that have taken precedent in order to ensure the quote-unquote rights of children of illegal immigrants, that's not correct.
00:17:01.000Inactive Congress might be able to do it, maybe not.
00:17:03.000In any case, it was going to go to the Supreme Court, and that's really what this is all about.
00:17:06.000President Trump was going to sign an executive order, and then this was going to be litigated all the way to the top of the Supreme Court, at which point the Supreme Court would rule on all this.
00:17:15.000Now, is Trump really going to do all of this?
00:17:19.000And when I see folks on the left who are very, very upset about Trump talking about executive orders this way,
00:17:24.000I don't like executive orders this way either.
00:17:25.000I don't think this is what the executive branch should be doing.
00:17:28.000The executive branch does not have the power, nor does it have the capacity, to rewrite laws or rewrite the Constitution.
00:17:34.000I felt that way about Barack Obama rewriting the laws to simply suggest he was not going to prosecute illegal immigrants, and I don't like it when President Trump says he can rewrite the laws with regard to birthright citizenship from the office of the presidency.
00:17:46.000The executive branch is not a monarchy.
00:17:48.000With that said, the same folks who cheered when President Obama said he could unilaterally rewrite law to prevent the deportation of millions of illegal immigrants in the United States, without any change from Congress,
00:18:00.000Those same people are suddenly finding refuge in the Constitution and in the balance of powers and checks and balances of the American constitutional system.
00:18:23.000This is really about ginning up the base in advance of the 2018 election.
00:18:27.000And it ties into what President Trump's key argument has always been with regard to immigration, going all the way back to 2015-2016, which is that we are far too nice about illegal immigration in this country.
00:18:39.000And that we have to start taking measures and steps to prevent illegal immigration from draining the United States of economic benefit, right?
00:18:46.000That's been President Trump's contention for legitimately years at this point.
00:18:51.000It's also connected with his rhetoric with regard to the caravan that is coming up through Mexico.
00:18:56.000Now, there are a lot of folks who are suggesting that his rhetoric with regard to the caravan is over the top, that his rhetoric with regard to the caravan is not accurate.
00:19:05.000In some ways it's accurate and in some ways it's not.
00:19:07.000I want to be as fair as I can to both the president and his critics when it comes to his treatment of this migrant caravan.
00:19:13.000The migrant caravan is indeed a publicity stunt.
00:19:16.000I mean, there's just no question that that's what it is.
00:19:18.000It's being promulgated and pushed by Central American, Latin American governments.
00:19:22.000It's being pushed by the government of Mexico, which is allowing migrant caravans to travel toward the United States border.
00:19:27.000When the president says these are not folks who are eligible for asylum, he is basically correct.
00:19:31.000Asylum is for people who are being targeted by a government.
00:19:34.000It is not for economic migrants who simply want to cross over into the United States in order to take advantage of the economic benefit of living in a rich and powerful country.
00:20:11.000But what you shouldn't do is suggest that the United States is in imminent doom and peril from a thousand people who are walking up to points of entry at the southern border because that does raise hackles in a way that seems inaccurate.
00:20:23.000You know, alarmism is not something I'm very much in favor of on either side of the political aisle.
00:20:27.000I'm not going to pretend I haven't engaged in it from time to time, but
00:20:30.000We need to be at least somewhat circumspect in how we approach these issues, even though I'm generally on President Trump's side of the illegal immigration issue.
00:20:37.000We'll talk about that in just one second.
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00:22:07.000Okay, so let's talk about President Trump's rhetoric with regard to illegal immigration and the caravan.
00:22:11.000Because here's where the news really meets its sort of nexus right now.
00:22:15.000The left is contending that President Trump's language about illegal immigration and about the migrant caravan is what led to the shooting at a Pennsylvania synagogue in Pittsburgh, the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
00:22:25.000The case that they're making is basically a white supremacist got all riled up about illegal immigration because of President Trump railing against migrants, and then he went and shot up a synagogue.
00:22:34.000Now, suffice it to say, white supremacists have been shooting up Jewish places of worship and Jewish sites for as long as I can remember.
00:22:41.000As I mentioned yesterday on the show, in 1991, in my community, a synagogue was firebombed.
00:22:46.000In 1999, the West Valley JCC was shot up by a white supremacist.
00:22:49.000That same year, there was a shooting of Orthodox Jews in Chicago by a white supremacist.
00:22:55.000It's not infrequent, and it is a real threat in the United States.
00:22:58.000But I guess the case is that he wouldn't have shot up this particular synagogue or gone after this particular group, except that he was very angry at the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which is a group that welcomes refugees into the United States.
00:23:10.000And so if President Trump weren't using such inflammatory rhetoric, then this shul wouldn't have been targeted.
00:23:51.000There's nothing at all to worry about.
00:23:54.000When they did this... Okay, now the question is whether people really believe, whether people really believe that when Trump says there's an invasion taking place, whether he means this in sort of generalized fashion, meaning that waves of illegal immigrants are coming across the border.
00:24:09.000Thousands at a time, and that this is having an impact on our culture, it's having an impact on our economics, it's having an impact on our labor force, or whether they actually believe the most inflammatory version of this, which is that there are legitimately people who are coming in to destroy the United States with ill intent.
00:24:24.000I'm not a fan of this sort of rhetoric of invasion because I don't actually think that illegal immigrants are invading the country.
00:24:31.000I think they're people who are coming here for the most part to work.
00:24:33.000That doesn't mean we have to accept them.
00:24:35.000It doesn't mean that it's in the United States' interest to simply allow people to cross the border illegally.
00:24:41.000I don't, I'm not fond of the sort of rhetoric, you know, the sort of scare tactics that people are bringing in criminality and disease.
00:24:47.000Like we actually have to look at the statistics and see whether that is true or not.
00:24:51.000With that said, with that said, I am deeply worried that people are connecting rhetoric to violence in a way that actually risks censorship.
00:25:00.000So, let's be frank about the connection between rhetoric and violence.
00:25:04.000It is true that speech is related to action.
00:25:27.000With that said, the attempt by folks on the left to connect every action of speech with violence, and to suggest that speech is connected with violence, is a way of shutting down speech.
00:25:38.000Of course, more nasty rhetoric is more likely to create more nasty action.
00:25:44.000That is a question really of us being circumspect, but I really don't think that that's what we ought to be debating in the how we speak question.
00:25:53.000First of all, I will note that the left's utter refusal to acknowledge that the left hasn't been in any way responsible for the heightening of rhetoric over the past 10 years,
00:26:19.000All we've got right now is everybody pointing fingers at everybody else and nobody looking at themselves and saying, OK, what can I do to change the tenor and climate of the political debate?
00:26:28.000And what the left has been doing with regard to Trump's talk on caravans and migrants has been saying, well, Trump is causing violence.
00:26:34.000I don't actually think that's the biggest problem with what President Trump is doing.
00:26:38.000And the same thing is true on the left.
00:26:40.000When Bernie Sanders says millions will die because of Republican health care,
00:26:43.000I don't think that the big problem with that is that somebody is going to go and shoot up a congressional baseball game.
00:26:48.000I don't hold Bernie Sanders responsible for that.
00:26:51.000I think the problem with the sort of radical polarized rhetoric, the kind of inflamed rhetoric, the problem with that sort of thing is that when something terrible does happen,
00:27:00.000When somebody does something that is truly evil, when somebody goes and shoots up a synagogue, for example, instead of us unifying and saying, all of that is bad, we are now more likely to see the other side as responsible for a crime that we all agree is evil.
00:27:14.000The social fabric relies on us looking at each other as though we are friends and not enemies.
00:27:18.000But if our politics is all about how we are enemies, then when something bad happens, the first reaction is to blame it on your enemy.
00:27:25.000And when that happens, the social fabric actually decays.
00:27:27.000That's the biggest problem that I see here.
00:27:29.000You know, when Cass Sunstein, he writes a piece for Bloomberg today in which he says that Trump's hateful speech raises the risk of violence, the one-sided focus on President Trump's speech as opposed to the left's speech is counterproductive.
00:27:44.000If we want to say let's all take it down, let's all take it down a notch, this I agree with.
00:27:48.000But if you want to say that Trump is uniquely responsible for the tone and tenor of American political debate right now,
00:28:45.000And that's the move that's being made in, for example, Europe.
00:28:48.000It's being made, right now I'm broadcasting from Vancouver.
00:28:50.000It's a move that's being made in Canada.
00:28:53.000In Europe, and there's a case that's being wildly undercover, in Europe, there's an amazing, amazing case in which a woman was fined for criticizing the Prophet Muhammad.
00:29:04.000This is the description of the case from The Atlantic.
00:30:02.000The Austrian woman repeated these claims.
00:30:04.000The Austrian court ruled she had to pay 480 euros or spend 60 days in jail.
00:30:08.000And the ECHR ruled Austria had not violated her rights.
00:30:11.000This is the consequence of restricting speech because you believe that speech either leads to violence or is violence.
00:30:17.000There are consequences on the other side of this equation.
00:30:19.000It's not all about rhetoric and violence are connected, therefore take down the rhetoric.
00:30:24.000There is a problem with saying rhetoric and violence are connected and therefore we must restrict the rhetoric.
00:30:29.000So let's be very careful about what it is that we are calling for here.
00:30:32.000We have to be very careful, because if we're not careful, then the impact of that is going to be a lot worse than the actual disease itself.
00:30:40.000Okay, in just a second, I want to talk about antisemitism, about the media's radical rhetoric.
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00:33:32.000I want to talk about the polarization and one of the reasons that lying about the level of rancor on the other side while whitewashing yourself is a bad idea.
00:33:50.000The 2 1⁄2-year-old has now decided he's had enough.
00:33:53.000And so he's going to harass her every waking minute of every single day.
00:33:57.000And we as parents have to decide exactly how we're going to treat this.
00:34:00.000Now, the easy response is that when he pushes her and she screams in his face, which is basically every hour or two in our house right now, do I simply punish him or do I punish her also?
00:34:13.000The answer is what I do is I say to him, you need to go in your crib right now, right?
00:34:44.000She doesn't get to do any of those things.
00:34:45.000Right now in American politics, here's how things are going.
00:34:48.000People on the left see themselves as my daughter.
00:34:52.000People on the right see themselves as my daughter.
00:34:54.000Everybody feels like they are being pushed by the other side.
00:34:57.000And they feel like it's okay to scream back in that person's face.
00:35:00.000Nobody is saying, yeah, I'm being pushed by the other side, and that's bad.
00:35:03.000But also, I shouldn't scream in anybody's face and push back.
00:35:05.000Maybe what I should do instead is appeal to the broader moral authority of the American people and not act like this.
00:35:11.000You know, the media have been saying for a long time, President Trump needs to stop saying the press are the enemy of the people.
00:35:15.000Now, President Trump, I got a lot of blowback yesterday because I tweeted out that President Trump should not say that the media are the enemy of the people.
00:35:21.000A lot of folks on the right say, no, no, no, he means the fake news are the enemy of the people.
00:35:26.000I would buy that narrative, except that President Trump has never been very clear about what constitutes the fake news.
00:35:31.000Now, there's stuff I think is fake news, right?
00:35:34.000People who are quote-unquote journalists, who are actually just opinion makers.
00:35:39.000There are actual headlines that are wrong.
00:35:42.000That stuff is fake news, but the president has been a blunderbuss in his use of the term fake news.
00:35:46.000If there's a poll he doesn't like, it's fake news.
00:35:48.000If there's a story that he doesn't like, it's fake news.
00:35:50.000He's never actually been very good about objectively saying what is fake news and what is not, so I'm not going to buy that exact excuse.
00:35:57.000The press, though, say, you know, the president shouldn't say that Trump... Trump shouldn't say that the press are the enemy of the people.
00:36:04.000The media should not portray President Trump as the enemy of the people, which they have been doing literally since the day he was elected and before.
00:36:22.000And you can see this sort of attitude.
00:36:24.000You want to know why folks are angry at the media on the right?
00:36:26.000This is one of the reasons that folks are angry at the media on the right.
00:36:28.000Here's Jim Acosta going after Sarah Huckabee Sanders on this basis.
00:36:32.000Can you state, for the record, which outlets that you and the President regard as the enemy of the people?
00:36:41.000I mean, the President is going to say that fake news media are the enemy of the people, and if you're going to stand there and continue to say that there are some journalists, some news outlets in this country that meet that characterization, shouldn't you have the guts, Sarah, to state which outlets, which journalists are the enemy of the people?
00:37:02.000Okay, and really what she should say is, I mean, what Trump thinks is, you, Jim Acosta, right?
00:37:07.000I mean, that's what's obviously running through Sarah Huckabee Sanders' head.
00:37:10.000She's stuck between a rock and a hard place because, as the press secretary, you don't want to start labeling people enemy of the people.
00:37:15.000It's why Trump shouldn't be using the phrase.
00:37:18.000But if you're going to talk about fake news, right?
00:37:20.000I mean, I think that Jim Acosta is not a good journalist.
00:37:23.000I think just as objectively speaking as I can be, I think Jim Acosta loves him some Jim Acosta.
00:37:28.000He sees himself as an activist more than as a journalist.
00:38:20.000This president has radicalized so many more people than ISIS ever did.
00:38:24.000I mean, the way he talks, the way he... The way he... That is... That's just... It's impossible to say that.
00:38:30.000The way he talks, the way that he allows these people... The way he winks and nods to these groups, the way he says, I know I'm not supposed to say it, but I'm...
00:38:40.000It's so insane she actually had to come back and quasi-apologize for it.
00:38:43.000But let's not pretend that the heated rhetoric and the escalation of moral calumny on the other side, that that hasn't taken place on both sides because it absolutely has.
00:38:51.000Okay, in just one second I want to talk about anti-Semitism because I think that there's a deeper debate to be had right now in the wake of the Pittsburgh shooting about what anti-Semitism is and what's driving anti-Semitism on the far right and on the mainstream left.
00:39:04.000Okay, it's not the mainstream right that has embraced anti-Semitism.
00:39:07.000It is the mainstream left, which has embraced Keith Ellison and Linda Sarsour, has embraced BDS, has embraced an anti-Israel position that amounts to anti-Semitism.
00:39:15.000Not every opposition to Israeli policy is anti-Semitism.
00:39:18.000I've opposed many Israeli policies, but that does not amount to anti-Semitism.
00:39:23.000What does, is if you are embracing policies that lead to the destruction of the Jewish state.
00:39:34.000If you want the Jewish state to be destroyed by treating it like unlike any other state on planet Earth, then this means that you're engaged in anti-Semitism.
00:39:42.000But the left and the right see anti-Semitism as two very different things.
00:39:45.000And I'm not even sure it's a left-right divide.
00:39:47.000I think that it's a correctly understanding anti-Semitism versus not correctly understanding anti-Semitism divide.
00:39:53.000Here are the two ways of seeing antisemitism.
00:39:55.000One, antisemitism is a unique evil in world history.
00:39:58.000It is not like any other form of bigotry.
00:40:00.000Antisemitism is based on a generalized conspiracy theory whereby anything that happens in the world that is bad is the responsibility of the Jews.
00:40:07.000So, if you are a capitalist and you don't like the communists, it's because the communists are Jews that you really have a problem.
00:40:13.000And if you're a communist and you don't like the capitalists, the real problem is Goldman Sachs and all those Jews who are at the top of the heap.
00:40:18.000And if you are an internationalist and you don't like nationalism, well, it's those evil Jews in Israel who are responsible for the breakdown of the global order.
00:40:25.000And if you're a nationalist who doesn't like internationalism, it's the globalist cuck Jews who are responsible for everything in the world.
00:41:03.000But a conspiracy theory about folks running the world is a different sort of evil than an evil that says that people are genetically inferior.
00:41:13.000So, theory number one is that anti-semitism is a unique evil in world history where you attribute everything bad happening in the universe to the Jews.
00:41:21.000And, in essence, anti-semitism is sort of an anti-God position because if you're a God-based person, what you believe is that the world is the way that God made it.
00:41:30.000And the Jews are not responsible for the world the way that God made it.
00:41:33.000If you are anti-God, then you say, okay, I have to look for some nefarious force behind world events.
00:41:39.000And this is the thread that holds true, whether you're talking about Christian antisemitism during the Crusades, it's the Jews who are undermining our society because they killed Christ, or you're talking about Islamic antisemitism today, it's the Jews who are behind the state of Israel, and who are the sons of dogs and pigs and monkeys, and they're manipulating world events against us, it's behind Nazi antisemitism and communist antisemitism, this generalized conspiracy theory.
00:42:02.000And it gets violent, because if you believe the Jews have power, then that means the Jews must be stopped.
00:42:06.000That's what drove this white supremacist in Pittsburgh.
00:42:08.000If you look at his feed, it was all about the Jews have too much power, the Jews must be stopped.
00:42:12.000So anti-Semitism is a difference in kind, not just a difference in degree.
00:42:16.000The second theory of anti-Semitism is that all anti-Semitism is just basically a small version of generalized bigotry.
00:43:09.000So that means that America is a success story specifically because America does not see this grave ill that is plaguing the world as the Jews or anything like that, that speaks to America's bastion of liberty.
00:43:21.000The version of antisemitism as a sort of subset of generalized bigotry
00:43:27.000That version of anti-semitism, that really suggests that America is a bad place.
00:43:33.000Because even if the United States is different, it's only different because the Jews are white.
00:43:38.000The reason that anti-semitism isn't bad in the United States is because Jews are more powerful and they are higher on the intersectional hierarchy of power than other groups.
00:43:46.000Now, what this leads to on the left is a belief that anti-Semitism is actually less important than other forms of bigotry, specifically because the left sees all bigotry as rooted in hierarchies of power.
00:43:56.000So if Jews are powerful, if Jews are rich, if Jews are tolerated in the United States, that means anti-Semitism is less important than other forms of bigotry.
00:44:05.000And that means that you can attribute Jewish success not to freedom, not to the good of the United States, not to the good of the world.
00:44:12.000Instead, you can attribute lack of anti-Semitism to Jews gaining power themselves.
00:44:16.000Because Jews can actually be outstripped in the intersectional hierarchy by other forms of racism.
00:44:21.000And so the intersectional version of what antisemitism is actually can lead to more antisemitism.
00:44:27.000Because what it suggests is if the Jews escape antisemitism, if the Jews succeed in Israel, if the Jews succeed in the United States, that is an effect of them climbing that intersectional power hierarchy and thus leaving behind their membership in the group victimhood clan.
00:44:44.000And this is why the left-wing version of antisemitism is not only wrong, it is actually counterproductive and leads to more antisemitism and has been mainstreamed into the Democratic Party today.
00:44:55.000Understanding antisemitism is the key to fighting it, and I fear that a lot of folks don't actually understand what antisemitism is, or if they do, they're ignoring it.
00:45:02.000Okay, time for a quick thing I like, and then a thing that I hate, and then we'll be out of here.
00:45:09.000I sort of pine for a Dane American when our ideals were the same.
00:45:14.000Our ideals used to be that if you came to the United States to engage in the freedoms and liberties provided by the United States Constitution, if you came here and you embraced what we were, then you were part of our country.
00:45:27.000And this has always been sort of my guiding light.
00:45:29.000I've said a thousand times, really a thousand times, that people who are born in the United States, who don't believe in the foundational ideals of the United States,
00:45:37.000I would trade those folks for people who live outside the United States and who want to come in and join those ideals in a heartbeat.
00:45:42.000Because ideals matter to me a lot more than where you were born.
00:46:09.000Well, during World War II, very end of World War II, the studios cut a 10-minute little movie.
00:46:16.000With a very, very young Frank Sinatra called The House I Live In.
00:46:19.000And it was basically an ode to what America should be.
00:46:25.000And the plot of this little 10-minute movie is basically there's a Jewish kid in a neighborhood and kids start taunting him and chasing him.
00:46:30.000And Frank Sinatra stops them from taunting and chasing the Jewish kid and then he sings a song called The House I Live In.
00:46:34.000This was the closing number for Sinatra for years.
00:46:36.000He believed that this was what America was all about.
00:46:39.000Here's a little bit of The House I Live In, which
00:46:42.000was written by real leftists, real leftists in the United States who still believed in the at least aspirational ideal that America's people could all live together if we abided by certain notions of freedom and liberty.
00:47:24.000A house I live in, a plot of earth, a street, a grocer and a butcher,
00:47:34.000And the people that I meet The children in the playground The faces that I see All races and religions That's America to me
00:47:59.000I played the whole thing, but it's, you know, it's worth listening to again.
00:48:03.000There was a time in America where we all sort of agreed on this stuff, but apparently that time is long gone in favor of intersectional identity politics on one end and then a sort of responsive reactionary identity politics on the other.
00:48:15.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:48:21.000Okay, so thing number one that I hate.
00:48:22.000So I don't know what Hollywood is doing.
00:48:26.000So apparently there is a new movie that's going to come out about a story of a refugee from Syria who is trying to, or I guess she was fleeing Egypt, and she was trying to flee Egypt for Sweden, and she was shipwrecked along the way, and she basically held her two small children as she was shipwrecked.
00:49:03.000I mean, you're pretty much able to get away with virtually anything on the left.
00:49:08.000I mean, Lena Dunham has a very, very poor track record in public, from allegedly abandoning dogs to the stuff that she wrote in her autobiography about molesting her sister.
00:49:17.000You know, she's still getting shots in Hollywood because everyone gets a shot in Hollywood so long as you are of the proper...
00:49:23.000As long as you're of the proper political persuasion.