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00:00:00.000The left decries anti-Asian hate, but only when they believe the culprit is whiteness, and the left's racist vision of equity infuses America's government and boardrooms.
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00:00:24.000Alrighty, so the news of the day remains this horrific shooting in Atlanta.
00:00:29.000According to USA Today, authorities on Wednesday said a gunman suspected of killing eight people, six of whom were Asian women, at three spas may have frequented the business, but that it was too early to determine if the shootings would in fact be considered a hate crime.
00:00:41.000At least four of the victims of the Atlanta-area spas shootings were women of Korean descent, South Korea's foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
00:00:47.000Two others were of Asian descent, police said.
00:00:49.000Atlanta police chief Rodney Bryant said it was too soon in the investigation to say whether the shootings were in fact a hate crime.
00:00:55.000The suspect, whose name we won't mention because we don't mention mass shooting suspects' names to give them The attention that they seek here was charged with eight counts of murder Wednesday in all three shootings.
00:01:04.000Four of the counts against this person are related to shootings at the two spas in Atlanta.
00:01:08.000The other four related to shootings at a spa in Cherokee County.
00:01:12.000The shooter has not been charged with a hate crime.
00:01:13.000A specific charge authorities must prove a crime was committed on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, or sexual orientation.
00:01:19.000He purchased a firearm on Tuesday, the day of the attacks from a sporting goods store in Cherokee County.
00:01:24.000The shop's attorney said the clients are fully cooperating with the police.
00:01:28.000According to the Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds, he said that the shooter told authorities his actions were not racially motivated, and that, in fact, he had a sex addiction.
00:01:37.000All three spas that were shot up were listed on an erotic review site that allows users to search for and review illicit massage parlors.
00:01:43.000The site is the most popular of its kind, where buyers who call themselves hobbyists or mongers looking for sex go to find and share information, according to a study by Polaris, a nonprofit group that operates the National Human Trafficking Line.
00:01:54.000Aromatherapy Spa and Gold Spa, both in Atlanta, have around 100 reviews, many recent.
00:01:58.000A review for Goldspawn March 9th indicated it was full service, as did a similar review from five days prior.
00:02:02.000Young's Asian Massage in Acworth, Georgia has 39 reviews on this particular site, the latest posted in February.
00:02:09.000Apparently, there is no criminal record for the shooter.
00:02:11.000In 2019, the shooter's parents reported him missing when he ran off with his girlfriend.
00:02:14.000Authorities note in the 2019 report his parents said that the shooter was not suicidal, didn't take any medication, and had no mental illness.
00:02:21.000Okay, so here is the sheriff discussing what was the possible motive here.
00:02:26.000The sheriff says that this may have been about the shooter having a sex addiction and then wanting to Shoot sex workers as a result of his sex addiction and guilt over his sex addiction, which of course is a tremendous act of evil.
00:02:37.000But he says we are not sure at this point whether this in fact is a hate crime or not, whether this was targeting Asians or whether he was doing this act of evil out of some other motivation.
00:02:46.000He made indicators that he has some issues, potentially sexual addiction, and may have frequented some of these places in the past.
00:03:00.000But the working theory is a sexual addiction issue rather than a racial profile.
00:03:04.000During our interviews, we asked that specific question and and that did not appear to be the motive.
00:03:12.000OK, and this, of course, is not what our media wanted to hear.
00:03:17.000What our media wanted to hear is that this was just the latest outgrowth of a spate of anti-Asian hate that has swept the nation in 2020-2021.
00:03:26.000Since the outbreak of the pandemic, there has been a spike in anti-Asian hate crime.
00:03:30.000But what the media would like to say is that this is because of President Trump, and this is because of white hate for Asian Americans.
00:03:37.000The reality is that the media do not care about anti-Asian hate.
00:03:39.000They've not cared about anti-Asian hate for a very long time.
00:03:42.000They only care about anti-Asian hate as just another way of ripping, quote-unquote, whiteness or ripping Trump.
00:03:48.000The fact of the matter is, unfortunately, all anti-Asian hate, all racism is bad, but only certain types of racism are bad, according to the left.
00:03:56.000All animals are equal, but only some animals are more equal than others.
00:03:59.000That's the way that it works in Leftville.
00:04:01.000So when it comes to the Left and anti-Asian hate, they only care about anti-Asian hate when it can be attributed to whiteness, or to a broader white supremacy, or to something else.
00:04:10.000And they don't need evidence to actually show this.
00:04:15.000There's a CNN headline today that is so beyond the pale that it just demonstrates exactly where the media's head is at when it comes to this thing.
00:04:23.000Now, again, we don't know the motive in this particular case yet.
00:04:27.000It could very well be that this guy was driven by anti-Asian animus.
00:04:47.000The investigation is ongoing, and the question of motivation is still to be determined.
00:04:55.000But whatever the motivation here, I know that Asian-Americans are in very Very concerned, but I'm making no connection at this moment to the motivation of the killer.
00:05:08.000I'm waiting for an answer from, as the investigation proceeds, from the FBI.
00:05:18.000President Biden saying that he's going to wait for more information is what a responsible politician would do, or what a responsible media would do.
00:05:23.000Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of responsible politicians on the left, and we have apparently no one who is responsible in our establishment media.
00:05:48.000So the facts are immaterial is the way that you're putting this.
00:05:51.000It's completely immaterial what actually happened in this particular case.
00:05:54.000We have a narrative, and the narrative must be pushed, and the narrative is, of course, that the uptick in racial crimes against Asian Americans are being driven specifically by white supremacy, and they are being driven by whiteness more broadly.
00:06:05.000Now understand, when the left says white supremacy, the left doesn't actually mean actual, honest-to-God white supremacists who are overtly racist and believe in the supremacy of the white race.
00:06:13.000They mean Ibram X. Kendi-type Whiteness or Ibram X. Kendi type white supremacy in that you do not agree with the baseline reality that the left wishes to purport and therefore you are somehow broadly guilty of crimes in which you yourself did not engage.
00:06:26.000That is why they don't need actual evidence that this particular shooter was actually a white supremacist to attribute his actions to white supremacy because you see white supremacy is broader than just being a white supremacist.
00:06:36.000In order, normally, for a normal person to attribute a shooting crime to a white supremacist, the person has to be a white supremacist.
00:06:42.000Like, for example, when there was a shooting at the West Valley JCC when I was a kid, it was done by an actual honest-to-God white supremacist, and you could actually name the guy, you could look at the groups he was a member of, the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting.
00:06:53.000That was an actual white supremacist crime, and you could tell because the guy was an actual white supremacist.
00:06:57.000Same thing at the Chabad of Poway shooting in the last couple of years.
00:07:00.000You can tell when people are over white supremacists.
00:07:02.000Usually they're pretty obvious and clear about it.
00:07:04.000But the left wants to attribute this more broadly to the problem of whiteness.
00:07:08.000Not just white supremacists, but white supremacy, which they say means the system as a whole, the system as a whole is responsible, and particularly white people are responsible for this.
00:07:18.000So they broadened out the terminology here.
00:07:24.000And also, if we are going to examine the uptick in anti-Asian hate crime, we might actually at some point, you know, want to actually look at like the stats.
00:07:32.000We might want to look at who is who is actually purveying crime against Asians in the United States.
00:07:38.000So the most recent statistics that I have seen where we actually have stats broken down by the race of the offender, right?
00:07:47.000Hate crime stats broken down by the race of the offender is from the Bureau of Justice Statistics circa 2018.
00:07:51.000So unless this wildly changed in 2020, which seems somewhat unlikely to me, could happen, but I think it's somewhat unlikely.
00:07:58.000Unless that wildly changed, this is a fairly good indicator of exactly who is committing crimes against Asian Americans in the United States, hate crimes against Asian Americans.
00:08:06.000And when people say, well, we, data is not racist.
00:08:43.00024.1% of the people who victimized Asians were Asian.
00:08:49.0007% of people who victimized Asians were Hispanic.
00:08:53.00024.1% of people who victimized Asians were white.
00:08:56.00027.5% of people who victimized Asians were black.
00:08:59.000This is according to the percent of violent incidents by victim and offender status.
00:09:03.000Right, that is the latest stat that is available to me showing who's perpetrating violence against Asians in the United States.
00:09:10.000And actually, those stats are kind of stunning because virtually every other racial group, the vast majority of people who commit crimes against a racial group are members of the own racial group, right?
00:09:19.000If you're looking at people who are victims, if you're looking at offenders against white Americans, 62.1% of all white Americans who are victimized by violent incidents are victimized by other white people in the black community.
00:09:31.000Something like 70.3% same table 70.3% of all crimes violent crimes committed against black Americans are committed by black people among Hispanic Americans 45.4% of all crimes committed against Hispanic people are committed by Hispanic people but among Asians but among Asians Asian Americans are only, they rank like third in terms of the racial groups that victimize Asians, which is really weird.
00:09:56.000And number one is Black Americans victimizing Asian Americans, according to the 2018 Bureau of Justice Statistics.
00:10:02.000So normally what you'd want to do when you look at a rise in anti-Asian hate crime is look at the source of the anti-Asian hate crime.
00:10:08.000But the problem is our media don't actually want to do that.
00:10:10.000Because if our media do that, what they might discover is that the source of a lot of the anti-Asian hate crimes are actually coming from another minority group, namely the Black community.
00:10:18.000The same thing has happened with anti-Semitic hate crimes in the United States.
00:10:21.000A huge number of anti-Semitic hate crimes in the United States are not attributable to white supremacists.
00:10:25.000A huge percentage of anti-Jewish hate crimes in the United States are attributable to black Americans.
00:10:30.000And, frankly, are very often not charged as such because it's uncomfortable for prosecutors to point out that black Americans are capable of committing hate crimes.
00:10:39.000We've seen these hate crimes occur, right?
00:10:42.000We've seen a lot of these hate crimes actually occur on tape.
00:10:44.000For example, in San Jose, there was a pretty terrible incident that was caught on tape just a couple of weeks ago, in which a black perpetrator just started beating the hell, essentially, out of an Asian person.
00:10:57.000There was an anti-Asian hate crime in Seattle not all that long ago, in which you really had to dig to get to the point where you actually found the race of the perpetrator.
00:11:06.000But it turns out that the race of the perpetrator happened to be a black person.
00:11:11.000The media will not mention the race of the perpetrator in these cases if the perpetrator happens to be black.
00:11:23.000The media do deeply care about the race, because if they suggest that maybe anti-Asian hate crime should always be treated the same, well, what this would mean is that we would have to look at racism outside of white Americans.
00:11:33.000And what they want to do is say that whiteness writ large is really the problem here.
00:11:36.000They want to say whiteness writ large is really the problem.
00:11:48.000A new study based on police department statistics across major United States cities found a nearly 150% surge in anti-Asian hate crimes in 2020, while overall hate crimes fell by 7%.
00:11:57.000The numbers reflect a growing trend of discrimination against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.
00:12:03.000Now, again, there are some confounds here.
00:12:05.000It's difficult to tell whether this is because Americans are angry at Asian people.
00:12:10.000On the basis of COVID or whether it just turns out that a lot of people are home and a lot of people don't have jobs and this results in an increase in violence in particular areas of particular cities.
00:12:21.000It's difficult to attribute COVID motivation to all of this and I'm not really aware that there's been a study that's been done linking it.
00:12:28.000I'm just not aware there's a study that's explicitly linked this stuff.
00:12:31.000The report released this week by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at CSU San Bernardino examined hate crimes in 16 of America's larger cities and found the first spikes rose alongside COVID-19 cases in March and April.
00:12:41.000New York City saw the highest jump, rising from 3 to 28.
00:12:45.000followed with increases from 6 to 14 and 7 to 15, respectively.
00:12:50.000Hate incidents defined by the DOJ as acts of prejudice that aren't crimes are also on the rise.
00:12:56.000And some of these people are suggesting that this is because of anti-Asian sentiment in the aftermath of COVID.
00:13:04.000But some of it is not about that, presumably.
00:13:07.000Some of this may just be about people who don't have jobs, who are now home doing bad things to other people.
00:13:12.000But again, the way that the media have decided to treat this is that American whiteness, American white supremacy is responsible for this increase in anti-Asian American sentiment.
00:13:23.000And they're going to use this latest shooting in Atlanta in order to push forward that narrative.
00:13:27.000The shooting is an act of evil no matter what.
00:13:29.000The guy who committed the shooting is a piece of crap who should be executed.
00:13:32.000The person who killed people should go to death row, should be executed.
00:13:37.000And if the person is a white supremacist, that is a good indicator that white supremacy, like actual, honest-to-God white supremacy, is evil.
00:13:43.000But that's not the case that the media would like to make.
00:13:46.000The media would like to make the case that America, more broadly, is responsible for all of this anti-Asian hate, only matters under certain circumstances for the media.
00:13:54.000Not two weeks ago, Yahoo News ran a piece titled, Anti-Asian Violence Has Been Rampant.
00:13:59.000Here's why it's not always a hate crime.
00:15:21.000According to Yahoo News, as the recent wave of attacks on older Asian Americans prompts calls for action and activism, experts urge the use of precise, accurate language in discussing the violence.
00:15:29.000Weird how all of the urges to use precise and accurate language in describing the violence have gone completely out the window the moment you have a story where the media are seeking to suggest that whiteness more broadly is responsible for anti-Asian violence.
00:15:41.000The robberies and assaults in several big city Chinatowns have led to significant media coverage and outcry from activists, many of whom have labeled the incidents hate crimes.
00:15:48.000But recent higher profile cases that have gone viral on social media aren't being investigated as such, law enforcement officials say.
00:15:53.000Officials say the occurrences don't show signs of being racially motivated.
00:15:57.000Well, you know what's an incident that doesn't show signs yet of being racially motivated is this latest one in Atlanta.
00:16:03.000Social media posts have conflated violence against people who are Asian American with hate crimes against the community at large, tying the crimes to pandemic-related racism.
00:16:11.000Some sources have declared a spike in hate crimes, citing an astronomical increase, but the figure they refer to specifically reflects New York City and New York police data obtained by NBC Asian America, which showed three anti-Asian hate crimes in 2019 and 28 last year.
00:16:23.000No hate crimes were reported this year so far.
00:16:25.000Other sources refer to 18 incidents this year involving Asian Americans in Alameda County, California, but local law enforcement said there's no proof any of them have been racially motivated.
00:16:33.000In San Francisco, six hate crimes were reported in 2019, nine the following year.
00:16:37.000In 2021, the city reported one hate crime.
00:16:45.000Okay, but where exactly, why exactly is the media now getting sensitive about anti-Asian hate crime reporting?
00:16:52.000Because there was a spate of videos that came out that showed, unfortunately, black Americans victimizing Asian Americans.
00:17:00.000And so as soon as those videos hit the internet, you started to see articles crop up about how this isn't really anti-Asian animus, it's just sort of normal crime.
00:17:10.000If a hate crime is a hate crime, then a hate crime is a hate crime.
00:17:13.000Racism can come from any end of the spectrum, but you have to understand that according to leftist worldview, it cannot come from any end of the spectrum.
00:17:19.000See, racism is only capable of being attributed to white people.
00:17:42.000When a Jew in Williamsburg has the hell beat out of him by a black guy on the street, that is not considered a hate crime by folks on the left.
00:17:49.000When a Jew gets shot at the Free of Life Synagogue by a white supremacist, this is a hate crime, according to the left.
00:17:53.000Now, in my view, both are hate crimes.
00:17:56.000Hey, first of all, I have some rather serious legal objections to the terminology of hate crime in and of themselves, because all crimes in essence are motivated by hate and disregard for the humanity of the other person you're committing a crime against.
00:18:06.000But so long as we are having a category called hate crime, the guy walking down the street in a yarmulke who has the crap beat out of him by a guy walking down the street who happens to be black, that's just as much of a hate crime as somebody doing that if they were white supremacists, but not according to our wonderful, wonderful media.
00:18:23.000And this is why you see folks like Ibram Kendi tweeting out about these hate crimes.
00:18:30.000He tweeted out, Locking arms with Asian Americans facing this lethal struggle and facing this lethal wave of anti-Asian terror.
00:18:54.000She tweeted, White masculinity fetishizes and dehumanizes Asian women and is intrinsically tied to racism.
00:19:01.000It's crucial we don't erase the way that misogyny and racism operate together to justify killing Asian women.
00:19:06.000So you see, even if there's no proof in this particular case that this evil piece of crap who committed the shooting actually was anti-Asian, we can still say that it's anti-Asian white supremacy without any evidence at all.
00:19:19.000They're wildly inconsistent on the left as to exactly when Asians ought to be treated as a victimized minority and when they ought not to be treated as a victimized minority.
00:19:29.000Let's take, for example, the wonderful and brilliant Nicole Hannah-Jones, the de facto editor-in-chief of the New York Times.
00:19:34.000So Nikole Hannah-Jones, who is the creator of the Garbage 1619 Project, the fictionalized history of the United States, on August 13th of last year, she tweeted out, Most Asian Americans arrived in this country after the end of legal segregation and discrimination, thanks to the Black resistance struggle.
00:19:50.000Further, the DOJ is not going after the segregated and unequal schools that black children attend.
00:19:54.000This was her objecting to the fact that Trump's DOJ had gone after Yale for openly discriminating against Asian Americans.
00:20:01.000See, the left is fine with anti-Asian hate so long as it's directed at prospective college students.
00:20:06.000They are fine with anti-Asian hate so long as it's directed at high-achieving kids in merit-based public high schools.
00:20:13.000Nicole Hannah-Jones said, I did not say no Asian people immigrated here prior to 65.
00:20:16.000I said most in this country did not because of the Chinese Exclusion Act and a racist immigration quota system.
00:20:21.000That means most present day Asian-Americans did not experience legal discrimination here.
00:20:26.000So in other words, Asian-Americans are not a victimized minority in Nicole Hannah-Jones' view.
00:20:30.000But as soon as there is a shooting, And they can tie this to, in some way, without any evidence, white supremacy.
00:20:37.000Then, Nicole Hannah-Jones tweets out, So now, they're a victimized minority.
00:20:39.000was recruiting Chinese men to come to the labor white workers would not.
00:20:42.000They barred Chinese women from entering the U.S. in order to ensure the men would not settle and start families in America. So now they're a victimized minority. So here's the thing.
00:20:49.000Asian Americans were historically a victimized minority.
00:20:52.000They've also taken advantage of the fact that America is a wonderful meritocracy to become the most successful subgroup in American life, economically speaking.
00:20:59.000These two things are not mutually exclusive.
00:21:00.000Asian-Americans did not stop being the victims of hate simply because they are economically successful any more than Jews stopped being the victims of hate because they were economically successful.
00:21:08.000But according to the left, these two things are mutually exclusive.
00:21:16.000Asian Americans and Jewish Americans are like the light waves of physics.
00:21:20.000Are they a wave or are they a particle?
00:21:22.000It completely depends on the lens with which you view them.
00:21:25.000If a white person victimizes a Jew, or victimizes an Asian American, then they are a victimized minority.
00:21:30.000If those people are being victimized by either a racist admissions system, or by black Americans, or by any other minority Americans, then those people are part of the overgroup.
00:21:42.000Then they are part of the white American superstructure.
00:21:46.000The inconsistency is mind-blowing, but it is perfectly predictable.
00:21:53.000And again, this is part of a broader agenda, and part of the broader agenda is to suggest that the system itself is responsible for anti-Asian hate crimes.
00:22:00.000When something bad happens to an Asian, that's because of America.
00:22:03.000When something bad happens to a Jew, that's because of America.
00:22:06.000Unless the person who happens to be victimizing an Asian or a Jew is not.
00:22:11.000In which case, it's just sort of a random thing that happened.
00:22:14.000And we don't really pay too much attention to that.
00:22:15.000Because it doesn't support the narrative.
00:22:17.000Again, none of this, not a single word I've said here sits down and plays the specific evil that was done in Atlanta and we still don't know the motive.
00:22:23.000And if it turns out the guy was a white supremacist, then we should blame white supremacy.
00:22:26.000But otherwise, it's going to be kind of hard to prove that white supremacy was responsible for the crime when you don't have evidence of that.
00:22:31.000While Joe Biden is saying that he is going to hold off on attributing motive in this particular shooting, Jen Psaki is not.
00:22:38.000Jen Psaki is simply saying that, without evidence, Trump saying Chinese virus is what spurred this wave of hate crimes.
00:22:43.000Again, I've yet to be made aware of exactly the motivations of people who have, or even the race of the people who have been committing these hate crimes against Asian Americans over the course of the last year, but that's not stopping Jen Psaki.
00:22:55.000I think there's no question that some of the damaging rhetoric that we saw during the prior administration blaming, you know, calling COVID, you know, the Wuhan virus or other things led to, you know, perceptions of the Asian American community that are inaccurate, unfair.
00:23:18.000Kamala Harris is saying the same thing.
00:23:28.000She's saying, we stand with you in the face of anti-Asian hate crimes.
00:23:31.000They don't stand with Asian-Americans when it comes to whether your kids can go to school.
00:23:34.000But they're definitely standing with you now, now that they can suggest that it's America, writ broadly, that is racist against Asian-Americans, just not we who specifically are discriminating against Asian-Americans.
00:23:41.000Here is Kamala Harris, the vice president.
00:23:44.000I do want to say to our Asian American community that we stand with you and understand how this has frightened and shocked and outraged all people.
00:23:53.000But knowing the increasing level of hate crime against our Asian American brothers and sisters, we also want to speak out in solidarity with them and acknowledge that none of us should ever be silent in the face of any form of hate.
00:24:09.000You should definitely not be silent in the form of discrimination against any form of discrimination against Asian Americans.
00:24:14.000Like say, for example, the colleges were overtly discriminating against Asian Americans and not allowing them in because they were performing too well on standardized tests.
00:24:21.000Then you definitely want to stand up and say something about it, wouldn't you?
00:24:24.000Quote, Biden DOJ drops lawsuit claiming Yale discriminates against white nation students this February 2021. The Department of Justice on Wednesday dropped a Trump-era lawsuit alleging Yale University discriminated against white and Asian applicants, backing away from former President Trump's fight against college affirmative action policies.
00:24:41.000The DOJ filed a request to dismiss in federal court in Connecticut, effectively ending a four-month-old legal gambit claiming Yale's admissions officers disadvantaged white and Asian students by placing too much weight on applicants' race.
00:24:52.000A DOJ spokesperson told Forbes, its decision was made in light of all available facts, circumstances, and legal development.
00:24:59.000Federal officials will continue a three-year-old investigation into Yale's admissions practices.
00:25:03.000They are no longer alleging the school broke civil rights laws at all.
00:25:06.000So, totally fine for Yale to discriminate against Asian students.
00:25:10.000Meanwhile, same week, back in February, the San Francisco School Board voted to end merit-based admissions at Lowell High.
00:25:16.000They moved the school into a lottery system.
00:25:18.000Because too many Asian Americans, based on merit, were getting into Lowell High.
00:25:23.000According to KGO, on Tuesday night, San Francisco's Board of Education voted to end the merit-based admission at Lowell atop Academic High School.
00:25:29.000The issue has been an emotional lightning rod within the district, Lowell's alumni, community, residents of San Francisco, the Bay Area, and beyond.
00:25:35.000The vote followed hours of public comment and discussion via Zoom.
00:25:38.000The vote was 5-2 in favor of changing Lowell's admission policy.
00:25:41.000In October, because of the pandemic, the San Francisco School Board proposed eliminating selective merit-based admission at Lowell for one school year.
00:25:47.000When racist incidents resurfaced at the high school last month, the board quickly proposed a resolution to make the change permanent.
00:25:54.000According to California School Dashboard, 50% of the students at Lowell, again, this is merit-based, are Asian.
00:25:59.00018% are white, 12% Latino, 2% African American.
00:26:10.000Meanwhile, in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has been moving for years to stop Asians from getting into New York City's elite high schools.
00:26:17.000In fact, his plan was to basically shut down high schools rather than allow there to be elite high schools at which Asian Americans were overrepresented.
00:26:25.000So active discrimination, active discrimination against Asian Americans is a core part of the democratic platform.
00:26:32.000That seems like anti-Asian hate to me, frankly.
00:26:34.000If you're saying that a person can't get into school because they are performing too well, because they don't have the right race, that is anti-Asian discrimination.
00:26:42.000That's a lot more hateful, frankly, than suggesting that a virus that came from China is in fact a Chinese virus.
00:26:49.000Okay, but according to the left, racism against Asian Americans is fine so long as it comports with their agenda, and it is not fine when they are allowed to use it as a brick bat with which to club the United States more broadly, which is how you end up with pieces like this one from The Root.
00:27:05.000Okay, there's a guy named Damon Young.
00:27:28.000It shortens life expectancies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks and funds wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people.
00:27:38.000White people and people who are not white, my mom included.
00:27:40.000There will be people who die in 2050 because of white supremacy-induced decisions from 1850.
00:27:56.000Because whiteness is buried in the superstructure.
00:27:59.000Whiteness is at the root of the tree that is the civilization.
00:28:02.000And so every bad fruit of that tree is because the root itself is rotten.
00:28:08.000A line can and should be drawn from the actions of the white supremacist who walked into three Atlanta-area massage parlors yesterday and allegedly killed eight people, six of whom were of Asian descent, to the relentless anti-Asian rhetoric pollinating national discourse over the past year.
00:28:23.000Damon Young, are you going to provide any evidence of this?
00:28:26.000The former president and the party of the former president can and should be blamed for this and the sudden increase of racist violence against Asian Americans.
00:28:33.000It extends back 400 years and has tentacles clawing everywhere white supremacy exists here in America, which is everywhere.
00:28:41.000There's a line connecting this act of terror to the 11 people killed at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, the nine people killed at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015, of course.
00:28:50.000Well, first of all, you'd have to show the evidence of that.
00:28:51.000Those were actual, overtly white supremacist acts of terrorism.
00:29:10.000It was Michael Harriet, who also writes for The Root.
00:29:13.000He tweeted, quote, There will never be any data that says racial violence is because of white supremacy, because most white supremacists don't think they are white supremacists.
00:29:22.000So, in other words, we don't actually have to prove white supremacy at any point.
00:29:25.000We don't even have to listen to the motivations of people who are committing these acts.
00:29:29.000All we have to do is just attribute white supremacy to them because they don't know their own minds.
00:29:32.000That is complete, unfalsifiable nonsense.
00:30:17.000What I do know is that the left does not give two damns about anti-Asian discrimination in education.
00:30:22.000They don't care about anti-Asian discrimination in the workplace.
00:30:25.000They don't care about anti-discrimination in virtually every area of life where Asians are considered part of the broad white majority because they are quote-unquote too successful.
00:30:33.000They don't care about Asians who are beat up by particular members of particular races.
00:30:37.000They only care about anti-Asian hate when it becomes a convenient point for them to try and plant the notion that America is a white supremacist country.
00:30:47.000By the way, if America is such a terribly white supremacist country, one indicator it is not a particularly white supremacist country overall would be that the single greatest economically performing subgroup in America are Asian Americans.
00:31:00.000So, none of this makes any sense, but again, it doesn't have to make sense.
00:31:04.000Any club that can be wielded against the foundational ideas of America, the meritocracy, the freedoms of America, any idea that can be wielded against that, any incident without evidence that can be wielded against that, that can be attributed to quote-unquote whiteness, and whiteness means all the institutions, According to the left.
00:31:41.000There's only one... There's one set of rules that applies to people who are higher ranking on the intersectional hierarchy.
00:31:48.000Who get apparently to victimize Asian Americans whenever they want.
00:31:51.000And then there is a second set of rules that applies to a society that is not even responsible for this particular act or for an independent white supremacist movement, an actual white supremacist movement that commits acts of evil at every available turn.
00:32:02.000Again, it's the same way they treat antisemitism.
00:32:05.000The way they treat antisemitism is it only exists if you can try to plant it on the right.
00:32:10.000Meanwhile, we will back every antisemite we can find in Congress so long as they have a D next to their name.
00:32:16.000It's cynical, and it's gross, and it does not fight hate, and it does not mitigate against hate.
00:32:21.000If we're not fighting all hate the same way, then you're not actually fighting hate, are you?
00:32:26.000In just a second, we'll get to how this is now infusing.
00:32:29.000Our government, how it has infused our culture, this basic theory that America is a racist country and all sins can be attributed to that racist country, but we must never attribute sinfulness or racism to individuals who are of victimized heritage in the United States.
00:32:45.000We'll get to that in just one moment first.
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00:35:22.000This theory of the United States, that the United States is deeply racist.
00:35:31.000Therefore, if a white person in the United States does an indubitably bad thing, it must be attributable to racism without any evidence.
00:35:37.000You're not supposed to show the evidence.
00:35:39.000It can just be attributed to the system more broadly, not even to specific white supremacist beliefs.
00:35:43.000But to the system more broadly, but that if an Asian is beat up by a black person on the streets of New York, that that does not count as a hate crime because racism only counts sometimes or it's not racism.
00:35:52.000Or even if that does happen, that in and of itself is attributable to the system in which people live, and therefore it's still whiteness to blame.
00:35:59.000This sort of mentality has now infused all areas of our government.
00:36:02.000When Joe Biden talks about equity in American government, this is what he is talking about.
00:36:05.000This is why today Emily Zanotti reporting at the Daily Wire.
00:36:09.000The State Department is quote-unquote racing to address 232 year old problem of quote-unquote entrenched whiteness.
00:36:15.000Do you notice how the terminology has changed here?
00:36:54.000Imagine if someone said blackness is the problem and you understand just how racist that is off the tip of your tongue, right?
00:36:59.000But according to our entire government now, whiteness is the problem.
00:37:03.000So according to the Daily Wire, the Department of Defense is not the only cabinet level agency undergoing a woke makeover, according to Politico.
00:37:10.000The State Department is also wrestling with its identity and quote-unquote racing to address a 232-year history of quote-unquote entrenched whiteness.
00:37:18.000According to Politico, Antony Blinken's State Department is racing to address a 232-year-old problem, the overwhelming and entrenched whiteness of the nation's oldest government agency.
00:37:27.000The department's 23,000 or so American staff may be the global face of America, but they don't look like it, and the gap is growing, not shrinking by many metrics.
00:37:34.000Though 40% of the American population is from a racial or ethnic minority, only 13% of the department's senior executive service are people of color, said Ambassador Gina Abercrombie Winstanley, a career diplomat.
00:37:44.000It was more diverse in 1986, literally, than it is now, says Eric Rubin, president of the American Foreign Service Association, which represents the department's diplomats.
00:37:53.000According to Politico, President Joe Biden has pledged to run the most diverse government ever that involves rethinking and reformatting some of the most significant governmental institutions.
00:38:01.000Lincoln has submitted a report on the State Department's diversity and inclusion program.
00:38:04.000Now, can they name a procedure inside the State Department that is overtly discriminating against non-white people?
00:38:09.000I have significant doubts they can, because that violates the Civil Rights Act of 1965.
00:38:13.000So instead, they're simply saying that it is discriminatory on the basis that there are not enough members of particular races in particular positions, which inherently means, because this is a zero-sum game, there's only one person who can get each job, what that means is that there are going to be people who are left out of the job on the basis not of merit, but on the basis of race, which is in fact racial discrimination.
00:38:34.000This is the same logic that is used by the left when it comes to college admissions.
00:38:37.000It's the reason they're shutting down high schools, because there are quote-unquote too many Asians.
00:38:41.000Although the report was focused on the agency's issues, it also proposed solutions, including hiring a Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.
00:38:48.000To quote-unquote, advance and align DNI policies across the department, bring transparency to these initiatives, and hold senior leadership accountable on progress.
00:38:56.000The State Department is committed to educating its workforce on anti-racism.
00:38:59.000Remember, anti-racism is the garbage Robin DiAngelo, Ibram Kendi philosophy that suggests that any institution that results in non-equal outcomes by racial group is inherently racist and must be torn to the ground.
00:39:11.000It is not about whether equal opportunity has been provided.
00:39:15.000Meritocracy is itself racist according to these same folks.
00:39:19.000The State Department gave an announcement.
00:39:21.000They scheduled an instructional Zoom, stressing the idea that racism is a threat to national security.
00:39:25.000The event, titled Racism Being a Threat to National Security and Democracy, featured a range of progressive speakers, including former Democratic Representative Tom Perriello, who currently serves as Executive Director for George Soros' Open Society Foundation and Center for Constitutional Rights Attorney Diala Shammas and Western State Center Executive Director Eric Ward.
00:39:43.000Secretary Blinken has made it 100% clear he is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:39:48.000And again, these are code words for we get to be as racist as we want to be so long as what we are attempting to do is do this work on behalf of only particular minority groups in the United States.
00:39:58.000I promise you that if there is an outside surge of Asian Americans in the State Department, that is not going to be counted by the Biden administration as sufficiently diverse.
00:40:07.000This ideology has infused our corporations.
00:40:09.000Deloitte and Touche has now told employees that microaggressions are a punishable offense.
00:40:14.000According to Daily Wire, during a mandatory anti-racism training, U.S.
00:40:17.000employees at Deloitte were introduced to the company's new quote-unquote anti-racist culture.
00:40:21.000Employees were told they are expected to help cultivate the quote-unquote anti-racist culture when working with personnel and clients and to promote equity.
00:41:15.000If you're just not anti-racist, meaning you don't believe that all of America's systems are racist, that meritocracy you believe is not racist, or individual rights are not racist, this means you may have violated corporate policy over at Deloitte.
00:41:28.000This ideology has infused all of American government.
00:41:34.000Okay, this ideology, the supposed anti-racist ideology, which in fact divides us by race and then talks about racial essentialism and then suggests that we have to discriminate, we must discriminate on the basis of race, that causes more hatred.
00:41:50.000Meanwhile, these same racist leftists, and it is racism, these same racist leftists are turning around and attributing to all of American society racism when an incident occurs that may or may not have been a racist incident and that still has nothing to do with mainstream American society.
00:42:07.000So it seems that the term racist, according to the left, is a completely fungible one.
00:42:10.000Sometimes, it is completely inapplicable.
00:42:14.000Just when they decide that it's not applicable.
00:42:15.000And sometimes, it is not only applicable, it is a brick to hurl through whatever window is convenient to hurl the brick through today.
00:42:23.000And well, I am going to give a shout out here to the best governor in America, my home state governor, Ron DeSantis in Florida.
00:42:30.000Ron DeSantis announced yesterday that Florida is not going to allow this kind of crappy theory to be taught in public schools in the state of Florida.