The Ben Shapiro Show - The Social Policy Madness Breaking The Country | Ep. 1555

The Biden administration's embrace of critical theory on race and gender undermines fundamental American principles and divides Americans from each other. This week on The Ben Shapiro Show, we discuss the role of Critical Theory in understanding the Democratic Party s embrace of Marxist ideas, and the implications for our political and economic systems. Ben Shapiro is the host of the podcast and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, NPR, and other media outlets. He is also a frequent contributor to The Daily Wire, and has been featured on CNN and NPR. His work has been widely anthologized, and he is a frequent guest on conservative media outlets such as The Weekly Standard, The Daily Caller, and The Huffington Post. Ben's work has also been featured in The Daily Beast, The Nation, and Rolling Stone, and many other publications. You can find Ben on all social medias, if you search for him, you'll find us. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and tell a friend about Ben Shapiro's if you're a supporter of his work. Subscribe to his new show on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms wherever you get your news and information. Learn more about your ad choices. Use the promo code at apple.fm/BenShapiro to receive 10% off his new book "Ben Shapiro's Next Big Thing" when you buy a copy of his newest book "Next Big Thing: How to Be Better Together" out on Amazon Prime Day, wherever he gets his book "Mr. Ben Shapiro also gives his book out in paperback edition "The Best Thing Is Better Than You Can Say It." or wherever he sells his book is available. The Best of Ben Shapiro s new book is also available for $5 or more than $10,000 or $25,000, he also gives a limited edition paperback edition of his new edition of "The Ben Shapiro Is Better than You Can Help Me Say That?" Thanks for listening to Ben Shapiro: His New Book is out now! Subscribe and review the book is out on Audible, Ben Shapiro Read it on Amazon? Watch the video version of the book? Subscribe on Vimeo and review it on VaynerSpeaker is also on Vulture? It's also on Podchronicity, Subscribe on iTunes and Subscribe on Itunes Download it on Podcoin?

00:00:00.000 The Biden administration's embrace of critical theory on both race and gender undermines fundamental American principles and divides Americans from each other.

00:00:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:22.000 Oh, this week on the show, we've discussed a bunch of areas where the Biden administration is radically out of touch with the American public, ranging from energy prices to inflation to immigration.

00:00:32.000 There's one area where the Biden administration is extraordinarily radically out of touch, and that is because, once again, as always, Joe Biden reflects the center of the Democratic Party, and the center of the Democratic Party has meant engagement with radical theory when it comes to race and gender.

00:00:45.000 You have to understand their philosophy in order to understand sort of the ramifications of that philosophy.

00:00:49.000 We'll see sort of occasional stories bubble up in the news, and those are the tip of the iceberg stories, but they represent a far broader ideological shift that's taken place inside the Democratic Party over time, and that's a shift from Government as sort of the do-something government of the 1960s or even the 1930s to a government that combines two forces.

00:01:07.000 One is, yes, do something, do something.

00:01:09.000 And we need an LBJ, FDR-type government.

00:01:11.000 But on the other hand, a consistent campaign against the systems of the United States.

00:01:15.000 This really started under Barack Obama.

00:01:17.000 There's sort of a merger of the idea that you should trust me to fix everything, but you can't trust the government.

00:01:21.000 But you can trust me, but you can't trust the government.

00:01:23.000 Don't trust the system, but trust me to change and break and mold the system.

00:01:28.000 This new Democratic Party is a transformative Democratic Party.

00:01:31.000 Not all of them, not Joe Manchin, not Kyrsten Sinema.

00:01:33.000 But Joe Biden and his administration are a reflection of a movement that has taken over the Democratic Party that says that America is inherently, in her bones, a problem.

00:01:43.000 And that America must be fundamentally changed.

00:01:46.000 I mean, not you're tinkering around the edges, not you're redirecting the stream of American politics, not you're shaving off the rough corners, not any of that.

00:01:53.000 It's a complete replacement of the systems of the United States because those systems are so poisoned.

00:01:58.000 And you see this in a couple of areas, particularly race and gender.

00:02:02.000 And those happen to be the areas in which the Biden administration is wildly outside the realm of what most Americans think.

00:02:08.000 To understand what they believe about race and gender, you have to understand something called critical theory.

00:02:13.000 Not critical race theory, we'll get to that in a moment, but critical theory more generally.

00:02:16.000 So, at the beginning of the 20th century, Marxists had a real problem.

00:02:19.000 The problem that Marxists had is that they were making all sorts of inroads and strides in the first couple of decades, and the idea was going to be that there was a worldwide revolution of class consciousness in which the lower classes overthrew the bourgeois hierarchy, and world revolution occurred.

00:02:34.000 That didn't happen.

00:02:35.000 Instead you got World War I, in which it turns out that societal ties, like nationalism, Societal ties with regard to governmental loyalty.

00:02:43.000 These actually united people across class lines.

00:02:46.000 And so Marxists were left with a real problem because Marxist theory had suggested that the inevitable breakdown of capitalism, the contradictions inherent in capitalism, would cause a class consciousness revolution which would eventually emerge in a world revolution.

00:02:59.000 That didn't happen.

00:03:00.000 So they had to shift their approach.

00:03:02.000 What they said instead was, well, here's the problem.

00:03:05.000 These systems of capitalism have so infiltrated the minds of people that there is no way for this revolution in class consciousness to occur.

00:03:12.000 So we have to break the machinery.

00:03:14.000 It's important to break all of the systems.

00:03:16.000 If we don't break the systems, how can we ever have the class consciousness that we require in order to overthrow these patriarchal and viciously capitalistic classist systems?

00:03:27.000 There are a bunch of Marxists who started proposing this in the 1920s, in terms of sort of cultural Marxism.

00:03:31.000 This is what they were talking about.

00:03:33.000 An early form of this particular type of cultural Marxism was pushed by members of the so-called Frankfurt School.

00:03:38.000 You've probably heard of them.

00:03:40.000 Max Horkheimer is one of their leaders.

00:03:42.000 He suggested that because all human beings were products of their environment, all the evils in America were attributable to capitalist, democratic environments.

00:03:50.000 He said, there's a direct quote, the wretchedness of our own time is connected with the structure of society.

00:03:55.000 All of your misery, is because the system is failing you.

00:03:58.000 And the system has shaped you, so you can't even escape the system.

00:04:00.000 So we have to break the system.

00:04:01.000 Eric Fromm, who's another member of the Frankfurt School, said that American freedoms actually were fascist.

00:04:05.000 He said the right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own.

00:04:11.000 And the way that he could tell that you weren't having thoughts of your own is you disagreed with him.

00:04:14.000 Because if you had thoughts of your own, you would agree with him.

00:04:17.000 So it must be that the system was forcing you to have thoughts that were not your own.

00:04:20.000 So if we could break the system, you would totally agree with him.

00:04:23.000 Which is pretty Catch-22 logic.

00:04:27.000 If you disagree with him, it's because you're brainwashed.

00:04:29.000 If you agree with him, it's because you're not brainwashed.

00:04:31.000 Pretty convenient.

00:04:33.000 American consumerism, according to Fromm, had deprived Americans of the ability to think and made them ripe for what he called proto-fascism.

00:04:40.000 Proto-fascism just meant anything that was not Marxism.

00:04:42.000 So what this meant is that systems of power had to be destroyed.

00:04:45.000 One of the big thinkers in the Frankfurt School was a guy named Eberhard Marcuse.

00:04:48.000 He was one of the founders of the anti-war movement in the 1960s.

00:04:53.000 He was the make love not war guy.

00:04:55.000 He said that the only way that you could totally have freedom was to crush dissent.

00:05:01.000 Liberating tolerance would mean intolerance against movements from the right and toleration of movements from the left.

00:05:07.000 It would extend to the stage of action as well as of discussion and propaganda of deed as well as of word.

00:05:12.000 This was especially true for minority groups who could assert their power only by striking back against the system.

00:05:18.000 If you're a minority group in the United States, you didn't have the power through majoritarian politics to actually get your voice heard.

00:05:23.000 And so we had to give you the power so you could crush the system, particularly people from the right.

00:05:27.000 And then you would have a blooming of thought.

00:05:29.000 I mean, everyone would agree with Herbert Markewitz, of course, but that's the idea.

00:05:32.000 That's the true mark of freedom is that you agree with the hive mind, the Marxist hive mind.

00:05:36.000 And so this took a couple of different forms.

00:05:40.000 Normally, in economic terms, the idea would be we have to crush the capitalist system so as to awaken class consciousness.

00:05:45.000 The problem was that wasn't going to work in America because there's incredible class mobility in the United States.

00:05:48.000 See, the Marxism of class consciousness makes a lot more sense in a society in which societal birth Basically guarantees your status.

00:05:57.000 If you live in Great Britain in 1850 and you have essentially lords and ladies and then you have people who are the bourgeois merchant class and then you have people who are the laborers and these are very hard and fast classes and it's very difficult for you to gain social status. 0.81

00:06:09.000 Like if you are a bourgeois person who becomes very wealthy you're still looked at a scant because you got your wealth as opposed to you inherited your wealth.

00:06:16.000 When you have hard and fast classes Distinction's that way.

00:06:19.000 Resistance to the class distinction makes some sort of sense.

00:06:22.000 When you have high levels of societal income mobility, when you can be born in America and you can become very, very wealthy, when you can be a middle class person and you can get rich, very difficult to make the case that the system is stacked against you.

00:06:34.000 So the left had to come up with another way to ram their cultural Marxism through.

00:06:38.000 And what they came up with was race.

00:06:40.000 Because while the United States historically has not had massive class distinctions that are hard and fast, it has had race distinctions that were hard and fast for the vast majority of America's lifetime, right?

00:06:48.000 Until the 1960s.

00:06:49.000 So from 1776 to the 1960s, you had hard and fast racial distinctions in law in many parts of the country.

00:06:57.000 And that was a serious problem.

00:06:58.000 So what the Marxists did is they glommed onto this and they said, aha, what we need to do is make Americans understand that the systems are racist and you need to tear down the systems so you can have essentially racial mobility.

00:07:09.000 That is the only way to do this.

00:07:11.000 So that was the argument that was made by critical race theory.

00:07:13.000 So critical race theory arrives in the 1960s.

00:07:15.000 Stokely Carmichael, who's then the head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, he makes the argument on the heels of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, right?

00:07:23.000 The first real movement in America to undercut this argument.

00:07:25.000 Because the argument is now, okay, we're going to get rid of those race distinctions in federal law.

00:07:30.000 So we've reached the end of the road, right?

00:07:31.000 I mean, we've now gotten rid of any excuse you have for some sort of Revolution based on class.

00:07:37.000 Stokely Carmichael says, no, no, no, that's not good enough.

00:07:40.000 The systems are already stacked based on class.

00:07:42.000 It's not that the systems are fair, but they were excluding people.

00:07:45.000 And so if you include the people in the systems, now things are good.

00:07:48.000 The entire system is racist and bad.

00:07:51.000 And we can tell because there's inequality in outcome.

00:07:53.000 So any system that has an inequality, like, we can look at the systems, we can see that the system itself says you can't be discriminatory.

00:07:59.000 That's not enough.

00:08:01.000 Because so long as there's an inequality of outcome, this means that the system is stacked against you.

00:08:05.000 This is the notion of critical race theory.

00:08:07.000 So Stokely Carmichael's intellectual heirs launched the actual critical race theory project in the late 70s, early 80s.

00:08:15.000 I've talked about this before.

00:08:16.000 Some of the expositors, people like Richard Delgado and Gene Stefanchik, they set out the basic principles of critical race theory.

00:08:21.000 First, that racism is ordinary, not aberrational.

00:08:24.000 It's just present in American society.

00:08:26.000 It's everywhere.

00:08:26.000 It's the ordinary.

00:08:27.000 It's not that there's a bad guy over there who's racist, so we tell him to stop being racist.

00:08:30.000 No, everyone is racist.

00:08:32.000 And also that the system of, quote, white over color ascendancy serves important purposes, both psychic and material.

00:08:38.000 So the system is stacked because white people want it to be stacked. 0.72

00:08:42.000 And what this means is that even parts of the system that seem like they are cutting against racism, they're actually just cover for racism.

00:08:48.000 So the Civil Rights Act itself is cover for deeper underlying racism.

00:08:52.000 Attempts to fight back against racism in law, that's just perpetuating the racist system.

00:08:59.000 In order to fix this, of course, what you need is exactly what the Frankfurt School said, right?

00:09:02.000 In order to fix this, what you need is to destroy all the systems.

00:09:05.000 Capitalism is a racist system.

00:09:07.000 Not a classist system, a racist system.

00:09:08.000 So Derek Bell, who was very warm with Barack Obama back in the day, he wrote, quote, the whole liberal worldview of private rights and public sovereignty mediated by the rule of law needs to be exploded.

00:09:18.000 A worldview premised upon the public and private spheres is an attractive mirage that masks the reality of the economic and political power.

00:09:25.000 So this led Bell to the peculiar conclusion that again, even the laws that protect black people are specifically designed in order to cover for a system that hurts black people. 0.85

00:09:36.000 .

00:09:38.000 Bell actually wrote a short story in 1992 saying that white Americans would sell black Americans to space aliens if they could, if they could alleviate the national debt.

00:09:46.000 And he said in 1992, not 1970, that black Americans were more oppressed than at any time since the end of slavery.

00:09:53.000 So you have to understand that this is what lies at the root of the Joe Biden equity agenda.

00:09:58.000 Equity is not the same as equality. 0.91

00:09:59.000 Equality suggests that everybody should be treated the same under the law.

00:10:02.000 Equity suggests that the systems are so corrupt that they have to be completely remade by people like Joe Biden, elderly white gentlemen.

00:10:09.000 They need to be completely remade and they need to be remade so that the results are equal.

00:10:14.000 So he announced at the very beginning of his administration, like right away on his first day in office, he signs an executive order, quote, advancing racial equity and support for underserved communities throughout the federal government.

00:10:25.000 And here's what Joe Biden had to say.

00:10:27.000 When I became president, one of the first things I did, I signed an executive order to advance equality and racial justice throughout our federal policies and all our institutions.

00:10:38.000 That's because delivering the promise of America is not the work of one department.

00:10:43.000 It has to be the business of the whole of the federal government.

00:10:46.000 The bottom line, advancing equity is not a one-year project.

00:10:51.000 It's a generational commitment.

00:10:54.000 These plans are an important step forward, reflecting the Biden-Harris administration's work to make the promised America real for every American.

00:11:02.000 And I mean every American.

00:11:03.000 So what does that mean?

00:11:04.000 What does that mean?

00:11:05.000 So here is what his executive order says, quote, This is the White House.

00:11:09.000 The President's order emphasized the enormous human cost of systemic racism.

00:11:12.000 Systemic racism is exactly the sort of language used by CRT.

00:11:15.000 Persistent poverty and other disparities.

00:11:17.000 And directed the federal government to advance an ambitious whole-of-government equity agenda that matches the scale of the challenges we face as a country.

00:11:24.000 Again, whenever they talk about disparities, understand, they're not talking about one person is richer and one person is poorer because they made different decisions and therefore they have different outcomes.

00:11:33.000 What they mean is that no matter what decisions you made, any disparity is evidence of discrimination.

00:11:39.000 According to the White House, over 90 federal agencies across the federal government, including all cabinet-level agencies, as well as over 50 independent agencies, mobilized quickly and effectively to implement the executive order.

00:11:49.000 Agencies conducted equity assessments of three to five of their agencies' high-impact services for the American people to uncover where systemic barriers to access may exist.

00:11:59.000 And of course, he included in this rubric, not just black Americans, he included in this rubric all intersectional identities.

00:12:06.000 Quote, These plans are an important step forward reflecting the Biden-Harris administration work to make the promise of America real for every American, including communities of color, tribal communities, rural communities, LGBTQI plus divided by sign, minus sign, happy face emoji, people with disabilities, women and girls, and communities impacted by persistent poverty.

00:12:24.000 They are part of a broader equity agenda, which also includes implementing the first-ever national strategy on gender equity and equality.

00:12:30.000 Gender equity, we'll get to that in just one second, because it's, again, part and parcel of critical theory.

00:12:34.000 Working to ensure the federal government is a model for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace.

00:12:40.000 Advancing LGBTQ plus I, divided by sign, civil rights.

00:12:44.000 In releasing these action plans across the interagency, as well as snapshots of the largest agency's plans, the administration commits to deepening the conversation with community advocates and all stakeholders.

00:12:55.000 And what this means is that they're going to promote, for example, crackdowns on the police by the Department of Justice.

00:13:04.000 This means, for example, that they're going to pursue quote-unquote economic justice, which is economic redistributionism.

00:13:10.000 That they are going to actively discriminate in government jobs between members of different races.

00:13:15.000 That they're going to support educational affirmative action programs and force the teaching of critical race theory in public schools if they can. 0.65

00:13:24.000 All the most divisive racial components of President Biden's agenda have very, very deep roots.

00:13:30.000 And part of this is strategic because the Democratic Party has been under the severe misimpression since 2012 when Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney despite losing about 3 million votes from 2008.

00:13:39.000 They're under the misimpression that the future Democratic coalition is an intersectional coalition of white college-educated women and minority groups.

00:13:46.000 Now what they're learning is that a lot of minorities are not particularly interested in this very racialized pursuit of American politics.

00:13:52.000 But this is what they're rooting for.

00:13:54.000 And they're not particularly shy about this.

00:13:57.000 About three weeks after the 2020 election, there's a professor named Cheryl Cash of Georgetown University.

00:14:02.000 And what she said is that they shouldn't reach out to Trump voters, they shouldn't reach out to blue-collar white voters.

00:14:06.000 is quote, a more viable strategy for progressives than trying to win over Trump's supporters right away would be to continue to win elections powered by energized majority of black Americans in critical states in coalition with other energized people of color rightfully taking their place in American politics and the critical mass of whites willing to see and resist racism.

00:14:24.000 So add the big government policies of the left to their anti-racist priorities and there's the winning coalition.

00:14:29.000 So this is, it's not just theory, it's also their political strategy.

00:14:33.000 Okay, well, add to this gender theory and you have basically the Democratic Party on social politics, well outside the mainstream of what most Americans think. 1.00

00:14:40.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:15:50.000 Okay, so, The Biden administration is a believer that the systems of America are corrupt and need to be overthrown.

00:15:55.000 This is an outgrowth, again, of critical theory.

00:15:57.000 That has manifested as critical race theory.

00:15:59.000 It's also manifested as radical gender theory. 0.57

00:16:01.000 So radical gender theory makes essentially the same claim as critical theory.

00:16:04.000 That men and women are androgynous widgets. 1.00

00:16:08.000 The only reason that we think of men and women as different is because of evil patriarchal systems that have been embedded over time.

00:16:13.000 And so all inequities, all inequalities between men and women, disparities between men and women, that's not an outgrowth of biology.

00:16:21.000 It's not an outgrowth of choice.

00:16:23.000 It's an outgrowth of our evil, horrible, patriarchal system.

00:16:26.000 And so if you just tear away that system, then magically everybody becomes a free-floating gender androgynous widget who can choose their own path in life and all sorts of happiness will break out. 1.00

00:16:35.000 And in ancillary fashion, when we break down the systems, we also get to break down the capitalist system and property ownership and all of the rest of this.

00:16:41.000 All of this is part and parcel of a broader overarching philosophy that sees the systems at work in American life and across the West more broadly as bad.

00:16:50.000 So to understand how gender theory ties in with critical theory, you have to understand that the earliest roots of gender theory begin with the idea that men and women are artificial categories.

00:16:59.000 And just like the critical theory posits the class as an artificial category that will eventually be obliterated by class revolution, gender is an artificial category that will be obliterated by the future gender revolution.

00:17:13.000 So in 1953, Simone de Boivier, who was a Marxist, wrote a book called The Second Sex.

00:17:17.000 She argued that femininity was utterly disconnected from biology. 1.00

00:17:20.000 Here's what she wrote, quote, the female is a woman insofar as she feels herself as such, right, it's a feeling. 0.75

00:17:24.000 It's not about the biology, it's about the feeling.

00:17:26.000 Some essential biological givens are not part of her lived situation.

00:17:29.000 For example, the structure of the ovum is not reflected in it.

00:17:32.000 So womanhood is not having babies. 1.00

00:17:34.000 That's not important to womanhood. 1.00

00:17:35.000 The thing that's most important is your sexual pleasure.

00:17:37.000 Nature does not define woman. 0.95

00:17:38.000 It is she who defines herself by reclaiming nature for herself in her affectivity.

00:17:42.000 So to the obvious question, so why do so many women like getting married and having babies? 1.00

00:17:49.000 She then said the same thing that essentially the critical theorist said, right?

00:17:52.000 You disagree with Simone de Bovillier because you've been indoctrinated.

00:17:55.000 So we have to get rid of the system that indoctrinates you and then you will agree with Simone de Bovillier.

00:17:59.000 So she says, quote, everything helps to confirm this hierarchy in the eyes of the little girl.

00:18:03.000 The historical and literary culture to which she belongs, the songs and legends with which she is lulled to sleep are one long exaltation of man.

00:18:10.000 Children's books, mythology, stories, tales all reflect the myths born of the pride and desires of men.

00:18:14.000 Thus, it is through the eyes of men, the little girl discovers the world and reads therein her destiny.

00:18:19.000 Du Boisvilliers, in order to obliterate the systems, actually advocated for barring women from becoming mothers entirely. 0.82

00:18:25.000 She actually wrote, no woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. 1.00

00:18:28.000 Society should be totally different.

00:18:30.000 Women should not have that choice. 1.00

00:18:32.000 Precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one. 1.00

00:18:36.000 Right, so if we just, we have to deprogram people by destroying all cultural hallmarks of femininity. 1.00

00:18:43.000 Okay, by 1963, this perspective is being much more mainstreamed by Betty Friedan.

00:18:47.000 She writes The Feminine Mystique. 0.85

00:18:49.000 She says that motherhood and marriage are, quote, a comfortable concentration camp, which is, it's unbelievable that this sort of language was considered okay.

00:18:55.000 That, like, you being in the home with your kids is similar to, you know, a concentration camp where Jews were being murdered by the millions.

00:19:01.000 No, but she's a very famous person.

00:19:05.000 She suggested that gender roles turned women into walking corpses. 1.00

00:19:08.000 So the separation between sex and gender has already begun, right?

00:19:11.000 Because once you separate sex and gender, then you can make people into whatever you want to be. 0.61

00:19:15.000 Two years later, you get John Money.

00:19:17.000 In 1965, he founds the Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic.

00:19:21.000 His basic theory is, of course, that you could make a boy a girl and a girl a boy.

00:19:25.000 He was most famous for mutilating the victim of a botched circumcision, telling the parents to raise the kid as a girl.

00:19:30.000 Money argued, quote, gender identity gate is open at birth for a normal child, no less for one born with unfinished sex organs.

00:19:36.000 So all kids can either be a boy or a girl.

00:19:39.000 It stays open for at least something over a year after birth.

00:19:43.000 And that's a lie.

00:19:44.000 It is not true.

00:19:45.000 But it has become the basis for gender theory.

00:19:47.000 By 1968, there's an author named Robert Stoller.

00:19:50.000 He wrote a book called Sex and Gender, arguing that sex and gender were entirely distinct.

00:19:54.000 And by 1970, you can hear the entire transgender movement being laid out by Shulamith Firestone, a radical feminist.

00:19:59.000 She was arguing, quote, the end goal of feminist revolution must be, unlike that of the feminist movement, not just the elimination of male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself.

00:20:07.000 Genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.

00:20:12.000 Male-female sex would no longer be a standard.

00:20:13.000 Instead, you would have a reversion to an unobstructed pansexuality.

00:20:17.000 Freud's polymorphous perversity would probably supersede hetero-homo-bisexuality. 0.78

00:20:21.000 You'd just be gender-fluid, and you'd be sex-queer, and all the rest of the things that we see today. 1.00

00:20:26.000 Firestone foresaw a time of artificial reproduction, where children were born of both sexes, motherhood would be replaced, all to end the tyranny of the biological family.

00:20:35.000 In 1970, Kate Millett was writing the same thing.

00:20:37.000 She said that sexual revolution was dependent on, quote, an end to traditional sexual inhibitions and taboos, particularly those that most threatened patriarchal monogamous marriage, homosexuality, illegitimacy, adolescent and pre and extramarital sexuality.

00:20:49.000 Judith Butler would move in the same direction.

00:20:52.000 She relied that transgenderism relies on the gender binary, so she was anti-transgenderism.

00:20:56.000 She said instead, basically, you should just be able to define yourself however you want.

00:21:00.000 She argued that there is total gender fluidity, which is why you see the bizarre stuff you see today where like a fully physical male will suddenly declare he's a female and all of the leftists will be like, yeah, he is a female.

00:21:10.000 No, he's not.

00:21:11.000 But the idea from Butler was this.

00:21:13.000 She said, we are not carving out a place for autonomy if by autonomy we mean a state of individuation taken as a self-persistent, self-persisting state prior to and apart from any relations of dependency on the world of others.

00:21:23.000 In other words, the rest of the world has to mirror what you think of you.

00:21:27.000 So all of this is part and parcel of an attempt to tear down systems.

00:21:31.000 And Joe Biden is fully in line with this because the Democratic Party has decided to embrace this wholesale.

00:21:35.000 Here is Joe Biden on Transgender Day of Visibility announcing his fealty to this ideology.

00:21:40.000 To everyone celebrating Transgender Day of Visibility, I want you to know that your president sees you.

00:21:47.000 Jill, Kamala, Doug, our entire administration sees you for who you are.

00:21:52.000 Made an image of God and deserving of dignity, respect, and support.

00:21:56.000 To parents of transgender children, Affirming your child's identity is one of the most powerful things you can do to keep them safe and healthy.

00:22:04.000 To any transgender American who's struggling, please know you're not alone.

00:22:09.000 Total insanity, right?

00:22:11.000 But this is part and parcel of a broader ideology.

00:22:13.000 So first of all, the idea that Joe Biden sees you, what he means is that he's just going to pretend that you are a member of the sex to which you claim membership.

00:22:20.000 He's saying that he doesn't see you, right?

00:22:22.000 He can see what you are, but he's going to ignore that.

00:22:23.000 He's just going to say you are what you say you are.

00:22:25.000 Because again, all of the structures of the patriarchal society have placed boundaries on you.

00:22:30.000 We have to obliterate them.

00:22:30.000 And we have to focus on kids.

00:22:32.000 We have to pretend that kids, who are being sexually confused by their parents and the society around them in many cases, that those kids actually are members of the opposite sex.

00:22:39.000 And then he's sticking his justice department on states that bar the mutilation of kids.

00:22:44.000 I mean, the DOJ is literally warning states at this point that they are not allowed to prevent mutilation surgeries and shooting little girls full of testosterone.

00:22:54.000 You're not allowed to prevent that, according to Joe Biden's DOJ.

00:22:57.000 And you have the Undersecretary for Health and Human Services, Rachel Levine, who is a dude, saying that we need to empower kids to go on puberty blockers.

00:23:04.000 This is part of this administration's pitch.

00:23:06.000 That it's gender-affirming healthcare.

00:23:08.000 That if you say that a boy is a girl and then you start pumping the boy full of estrogen, that this is gender-affirming healthcare.

00:23:14.000 It's being recommended by the top of this administration.

00:23:16.000 This is part of a broader ideological push.

00:23:17.000 It is not rooted in science.

00:23:19.000 It is not rooted in social data.

00:23:20.000 It is not rooted in any of this.

00:23:22.000 It is rooted in a fealty to an ideology that says that the systems of power in the United States are corrupt and have to be torn away.

00:23:28.000 Now they're suffering politically motivated attacks through state actions against these vulnerable transgender youth.

00:23:36.000 This is not based upon data.

00:23:37.000 These actions are politically motivated.

00:23:41.000 And so we really want to base our treatment and to affirm and to support and empower these youth, not to limit their participation in activities and sports, and even limit their ability to get gender affirmation treatment in their state.

00:23:58.000 Okay, so the HHS is openly saying right there.

00:24:02.000 A man who believes he is a woman, Rachel Levine, is saying that it is important that children be, quote-unquote, empowered to take cross-sex hormones.

00:24:09.000 That's the result of ideology.

00:24:10.000 That is not the result of anything remotely resembling science.

00:24:13.000 The White House put out a statement, quote, Today, the Department of Health and Human Services has announced several actions to keep transgender children in Texas and their families safe.

00:24:20.000 These announcements make clear that rather than weaponizing child protective services against loving families, child welfare agencies should instead expand access to gender-affirming care for transgender children.

00:24:30.000 By the way, the way this is going to manifest is the taking away of kids who go to school and say that they're a member of the opposite sex from parents who say, no, you're not.

00:24:38.000 That is the way this is going to manifest.

00:24:39.000 Now, the American people are not in line with any of this.

00:24:40.000 It turns out the vast majority of Americans, including Hispanic Americans, who are moving away from the Democratic Party in droves, disagree with the fundamental idea here, which is that America's systems are inherently corrupt and evil and need to be torn away.

00:24:50.000 Whether we're talking about race or whether we're talking about gender, the idea that the systems of America, which have provided more freedom and prosperity for more human beings than any other systems in the history of mankind, That those systems are inherently bad and need to be wrecked from the inside in favor of gender-fluid silliness or racial tribalism. 0.60

00:25:09.000 Most Americans are not on board with this.

00:25:11.000 But the Biden administration is.

00:25:12.000 And the Democratic Party is.

00:25:14.000 And that's why you're seeing the country driven apart.

00:25:16.000 Because, I mean, these are fundamental issues.

00:25:18.000 If you believe that the system of America is inherently bad, if you believe that men and women, any system that perpetuates the belief that men and women exist is inherently bad, if you believe That any system that promotes free markets and free speech and individual rights is inherently bad?

00:25:33.000 That is not a country that can hold together if half the country doesn't believe that.

00:25:36.000 But that is what Joe Biden and the Democrats have been pushing.

00:25:39.000 It is apparent in all of their policy proposals, and it's extraordinarily dangerous.

00:25:43.000 Alrighty, we've reached the end of the show.

00:25:44.000 We'll be back here on Monday with much, much more.

00:25:46.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:25:46.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - August 12, 2022

The Social Policy Madness Breaking The Country | Ep. 1555

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