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00:00:26.000So, yesterday, I was just kind of trolling around on Twitter, as per our usual arrangement, and I came across this insane display from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
00:00:37.000And it really does speak to our bizarre cultural moment, because the fact is that the new anti-racist movement, the sort of Ibram Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, anti-racism movement that has become so popular on the left, that has really overwhelmed The old version of what racism was.
00:00:50.000Racism used to be defined, as we've been talking about, as you believe in the supremacy or inferiority of a group based on characteristics they cannot control, like skin color.
00:00:58.000This was defined as white supremacy or as racism, depending on who was being the racist and who was being the victim.
00:01:03.000Well, that has now been changed to the entire system is racist.
00:01:06.000And if you are complicit in any system that produces inequality, then you are part of the problem and you are a racist.
00:01:12.000And to be anti-racist, you have to fight the system.
00:01:14.000Well, this sort of idea has now been promulgated with your taxpayer dollars at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, a project of the Smithsonian Institution.
00:01:22.000And I want to go through the display that they put forth because not only is it hideous and horrifying, it's overtly racist against black Americans.
00:01:33.000You cannot distinguish the verbiage on this poster from anything David Duke would say.
00:01:38.000It's impossible to actually tell the difference because in the end what it suggests is that all the hallmarks that make a person or culture or civilization successful are white things.
00:01:47.000David Duke would say this in order to tell white people.
00:01:50.000The National Museum of African American History and Culture is saying this in order to downgrade the quote-unquote standards of success.
00:01:57.000And this has real ramifications because when we look at problems in American society, we look at problems like police brutality, or if we look at problems like income gaps between black Americans and white Americans and educational gaps between black Americans and white Americans.
00:02:10.000These are specific problems with specific solutions.
00:02:13.000There are things we can do about some of these things.
00:02:15.000There are things we can't do about some of these things.
00:02:17.000But if politics is the solutions business, right?
00:02:19.000Politics is the place you're supposed to go to discuss a problem and then come up with an answer.
00:02:23.000That is the goal of politics, is solution-making.
00:02:26.000But our politics these days has become more about feelings.
00:02:28.000I've said before on this show, I've talked about this, that when my wife and I first got married, right?
00:02:32.000When you first get married, there are always some bumps that you have to iron out.
00:02:35.000Thank God my wife and I have an incredible marriage.
00:02:37.000We've been married 12 years now with three kids, very happy.
00:02:39.000But at the very beginning, There's a sort of situation that would continually arise.
00:02:44.000And the situation was, my wife would come to me with a problem.
00:02:46.000And I, being a doting husband, would say, okay, let's talk about the solution.
00:02:58.000She wanted me to show that I cared about her experiences.
00:03:01.000And this made no sense to me because I am a solutions-oriented person.
00:03:05.000And so I literally had to say to her, sweetheart, I need you to tell me upfront in the conversation, whether this is a conversation where you just want me to show sympathy, or is this a con... I'm kind of a robot this way.
00:03:14.000Or is this a conversation where you want me to provide a solution?
00:03:18.000Well, politics is supposed to be all about the latter, right?
00:03:20.000It's all supposed to be about solutions, but virtually none of politics in modern America is about solutions.
00:03:25.000And in fact, if you offer solutions to any of these problems, if you suggest that maybe a solution to the income gap is to Culturally pressed forward with the cause of less single motherhood.
00:03:35.000If you suggest that maybe one of the things we should do is push school vouchers, maybe one of the things we should do is push standards of education inside homes that value education more.
00:03:45.000If you suggest that maybe one of the things we ought to do is put more police officers in high crime areas so as to crack down on crime and provide a safe haven for businesses and investment that raises the tax base, increases the funding for public schools, and provides jobs for more people, then you are part of the problem, you see.
00:04:01.000If you're Senator Tim Scott and you come forward with a bill that is meant to take the first steps toward curbing police brutality, you are hit with more vitriol by the left than if you had never provided any sort of solution at all.
00:04:13.000Because the solution is not the point.
00:04:21.000If you shore up the system, then all you are doing is merely supporting a system of brutality and racism and cruelty.
00:04:28.000Now, that is not a recipe for a future for the country.
00:04:30.000There cannot be a future to a country that basically suggests that anytime there is a problem, if you try to solve it, you yourself are part of the problem.
00:04:37.000That is a movement that is destined to destroy the country.
00:04:43.000This is what my new book is about, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, out next Tuesday.
00:04:46.000You can get it at Amazon or you can buy a signed copy at dailywire.com.
00:04:50.000It's all about the quest to destroy America with a vision of America that sees America as pure power politics and the system itself as an indicator of hierarchical brutality.
00:05:01.000It is something that the left is pushing these days very hard.
00:05:04.000And now it is being embedded in cultural institutions.
00:05:07.000So first of all, I think most Americans should be able to look at this and say this is ridiculous.
00:05:11.000But most Americans, I think, are not looking at this anti-racist, you know, the new definition of anti-racist, which is to say, disestablishmentarianism, get rid of the system.
00:05:19.000They're not looking at this and saying this is ridiculous.
00:05:21.000They've been so trained to treat any accusation of racism as gospel.
00:05:26.000That they are willing to even hear the redefinition of racism even if it means that they are supposed to now silence themselves, silence their common sense, tear down the system that provides them the opportunity for a civilized and wonderful life.
00:05:39.000That's how powerful the charge of racism has become.
00:05:41.000You can even shift the definition of racism and people will still be so cowed by the very word with a completely different definition that they will go along to get along.
00:05:49.000So here is the new definition of whiteness and racism.
00:05:53.000Get ready for this because this is amazing.
00:05:54.000And this is from taxpayer-sponsored National Museum of African American History and Culture.
00:05:59.000Aspects and assumptions of whiteness and white culture in the United States.
00:06:05.000It refers to the ways white people and their traditions, attitudes, and ways of life have been normalized over time and are now considered standard practices in the United States.
00:06:14.000And since white people still hold most of the institutional power in America, we all have internalized some aspects of white culture, including people of color.
00:06:20.000So in other words, if you're a black person and you believe in any of the following lists that we're going to get to in a second, any of the following principles, if you're black and you believe this, it's because on the inside you're white.
00:06:28.000You've now turned into an Oreo, right?
00:06:29.000That is the, really, this is what this is saying.
00:06:31.000It is saying that if you have internalized any of the things I'm about to explain to you, then it is because you have now internalized whiteness.
00:06:37.000You have now suffered from assimilationism, as Ibram Kendi suggests, and how to be an anti-racist.
00:06:42.000Okay, here are some of the things that are associated with whiteness and white-dominant culture.
00:07:07.000So individualism itself is just a white thing.
00:07:10.000If you believe that you have agency in your own life, which by the way is the precondition to any success in this life or any other, If you believe that you have the power to shape your own future, that is your whiteness talking.
00:07:22.000Because only white people have historically had such power, except for the fact that now everybody has that power in the United States, and legally has had that power since the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
00:07:30.000Okay, other things that are aspects of whiteness in the United States.
00:08:33.000There's not been a single brown person, steeped in their own culture and human history, who thought in a linear, quantitative, cause-and-effect way.
00:08:41.000Which is bizarre, ahistorical, and insane.
00:08:43.000Okay, if you emphasize the scientific method, that's only because you're white.
00:08:48.000I'm telling you, David Duke could have written this.
00:08:51.000Because David Duke's like, you know what's great about white people?
00:09:05.000If you mention Western civilization, That's a white thing, because Western civilization is not important, apparently, in the broad view of humanity, despite the fact that Western civilized values have now taken over most of humanity and have been responsible for the uplift and freeing of billions of human beings.
00:09:20.000A heavy focus on the British Empire in history is a white thing, because apparently the British Empire was not important except for the fact that the sun literally never set on the British Empire, so there was that.
00:09:28.000It was kind of an important part of human history.
00:10:09.000And if you believe in them, you have internalized the white culture.
00:10:14.000Other things that they say are white are things like value on ownership of goods, space, and property, which, okay, just the utter insanity of suggesting that only white people have ever valued ownership of goods, space, and property.
00:10:25.000Really, why are there tribal chiefs in literally every civilization ever known to man, and they are the richest, most powerful people?
00:10:38.000If you believe in English common law and protecting private property, if you believe that intent counts in justice, if you believe that there is a difference between manslaughter and first-degree murder, if you believe that people should have to show intent to be blamed fully for a crime, then this is an aspect of whiteness.
00:11:01.000If you make decisions If you are oriented toward solutions, if you must always do something about situation, that means that you are oriented toward whiteness.
00:11:10.000We're gonna get into more of this and what exactly this means and how this destroys the country and how woke white people bowing to this bullcrap, how these woke white people are destroying the country.
00:13:22.000Well, to understand this, you really have to read the idiocy of Ibram Kendi, who's been held up as some sort of great thinker, and who, indeed, must have been dropped on his head multiple times as a child, because that is the only way I can really support the notion that this was in any way related to rationality.
00:13:35.000I have a simple rule, online it's called Hanlon's Razor, attribute to stupidity that which you cannot attribute to malice.
00:13:42.000Okay, well, you know, the fact is that I actually don't think Ibram Kendi's a dumb guy, so it's hard for me to attribute his perspective to simple stupidity or simple blindness.
00:13:54.000If I were going to say that it was malicious and that it were a plan, honestly, I don't like conspiracy theories, and so I'm not going to support one here.
00:14:04.000If there were to be a conspiracy theory, it would sound something like this.
00:14:07.000That there are people out there who actively want to make people's lives worse so as to be able to blame the system for people's lives being worse and then tear it down.
00:14:13.000That would be the simple sort of cloward-pivot conspiracy theory here.
00:14:25.000Ibram Kendi, in his ridiculous book, How to Be an Antiracist, which is Purely crazy.
00:14:30.000He argues that racism is not, in fact, a belief in the inherent superiority or inferiority of a particular race.
00:14:35.000You should know, by the way, Robin DiAngelo, who I've reviewed at length, Robin DiAngelo is just a white knockoff of Ibram Kendi.
00:14:41.000Kendi says that racism is an embedded system that results in racial inequality.
00:14:45.000In other words, any system that results in racial inequality is a bad system.
00:14:49.000Which is weird because every system in human history results in some level of racial inequality because literally if you take two groups and you divide them just with a random line, there will be inequalities between the two groups statistically.
00:15:00.000It does not like this is a fact of stats.
00:15:06.000Measure what happens when you draw a line down the middle of a room.
00:15:09.000If we took all of my employees and we drew a line down the middle of the room, there would be differences in sexual orientation, in gender, in race, in income level, in height, right?
00:15:20.000You couldn't just average them and say, okay, generic blob of humanity.
00:15:23.000Because of that, there will always be racial inequalities because bottom line is that any group division means there will be differences in group.
00:15:30.000And by the way, one of the things that I always notice about people who talk about racial inequality in the United States is that they always target the system, the evil, terrible, no good, very bad American system.
00:15:39.000If you're going to write an equation, here I go with my scientific thinking again, aspects of whiteness and all of this.
00:15:44.000If you're going to write an equation about inequality, And you're going to have the statistical inequality and then the independent variable, meaning the thing that changes.
00:15:53.000So most thinkers of the left will simply suggest that the independent variable is America.
00:15:58.000America's policies are responsible and therefore the only differences in inequality is the American system.
00:16:05.000But in order to say that that's the independent variable, shouldn't you have some sort of comparative analysis of whether there is racial inequality in other systems?
00:16:13.000If you're going to say that America is the problem, really, you should look at other systems and determine whether racial inequality persists in other systems.
00:16:20.000Black Americans are significantly better off on a household income level, for example, than black Canadians or black Britishers or black French.
00:16:28.000That is a simple statistical analysis to do.
00:16:37.000There are inequalities across Africa, right?
00:16:39.000This is just a common aspect of humanity is racial inequality.
00:16:42.000So blaming it on America, you're going to need to do a little bit better than just the simple assumption that all systems that produce inequality are evil Americanism.
00:16:48.000But this is Ibram Kendi's suggestion, which is completely a factual.
00:16:52.000Now, the good news is he's also labeled science racist.
00:16:54.000So that means that if you question him with science, then that means that you are just exhibiting your white supremacy or something.
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00:18:34.000So Ibram Kendi says that any system that results in racial inequality is a racist system.
00:18:41.000Any complicity in that system is racist also because silence is violence, right?
00:18:44.000So anti-racism means opposition to such systems.
00:18:47.000Here's what Kendi says in his dumb book.
00:18:49.000Quote, to be anti-racist is to reject cultural standards and level cultural differences.
00:18:55.000Okay, now this is a pretty radical statement.
00:18:57.000And so, I've said before, and if you're gonna look at inequality, you do have to look at factors in personal choice, and you have to look at differences in culture.
00:19:04.000If you have one culture that values education, this is not a racial statement, there are values in white America.
00:19:08.000There are certain cultures in white America that do not value education.
00:19:12.000JD Vance talks about them eloquently in Hillbilly Elegy.
00:19:15.000If you have a culture that doesn't value education, the same way as another culture that values education, that is gonna have some pretty significant ramifications for how your children are educated, for example.
00:19:23.000And if you have a culture that presses forward with single motherhood as opposed to pressing for the nuclear family, that's going to have ramifications for the next generation.
00:19:30.000Ibram Kendi says, if you say that there are differences between cultures, not there are differences between races.
00:19:35.000Differences between races on the pure basis of race, that's racism.
00:19:38.000Differences between culture on the basis that cultures are different, which is perfectly obvious to everyone.
00:20:21.000So by conflating culture with race, what he's essentially saying is no matter what decisions you make in life, no matter what things you value, we should end up in the same place if the system were fair, which is totally insipid.
00:21:21.000The idea is that things like hard work, individualism, family structure, thinking about the future, delayed gratification, those are the systems that have created unprecedented wealth for black Americans.
00:21:32.000The system that Martin Luther King was fighting for was access to the system for black Americans, not destruction of the system.
00:21:39.000He was saying we need more access to the system.
00:21:51.000And no matter what choices I make, I should have exactly the same outcome as the guy next door to me.
00:21:55.000It creates an unfalsifiable standard because no system is going to end with equality when you remove all human choice and all human agency from the equation.
00:22:04.000So in essence, what this isn't, it's not just rejecting good ideas as racist, it is damning black Americans to lack of success by pushing against every possible variable that would militate in favor of success.
00:22:15.000If you stand for a nuclear family, if you stand for education and hard work and individualism, if you stand for the notion that you should delay gratification, you are being a white person.
00:22:24.000You're being complicit in the system of racism.
00:22:27.000How does rejecting family structure make any black life better?
00:22:49.000And the sad part is that white people are going along with it simply because they are so afraid that somebody is going to shout at them racist with no basis whatsoever.
00:22:55.000That's how powerful the charges become.
00:22:57.000You can completely shift what racist means and shout the same word and people will still react by saying, okay, what do I have to do to make you stop calling me that?
00:23:05.000And that's what we are seeing right now.
00:23:06.000I'm gonna read you a piece from the Washington Post in just a second.
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00:24:25.000Underlying all of this, by the way, underlying all the faux sympathy from the white woke liberals on this sort of stuff, is a really racist perception of black Americans.
00:24:35.000Ibram Kenzi, in his book, when he talks about this sort of stuff, Ibram Kenzi makes the distinction between what he calls the segregationists and the assimilationists.
00:24:44.000Assimilationists are people who say, if you work hard within the system, you will succeed.
00:24:49.000And the segregationists are the people who say, no matter how hard you work within the system, you cannot succeed.
00:24:53.000The only thing that separates the segregationists from Ibram Kendi is he wants to destroy the system.
00:24:56.000Well, there are a lot of white woke liberals who actually have this bizarre vision of black Americans that they cannot succeed within the system.
00:25:03.000For some reason, they think that all black Americans are living in abject poverty in the United States when they are not.
00:25:08.000The typical black family in the United States is not living in abject poverty.
00:25:11.000The median household income for black Americans is nearly $60,000 a year.
00:25:17.000The vast majority of black Americans are middle class or above.
00:25:21.000And they're not living in abject poverty.
00:25:24.000But again, this image has been promulgated by the media, it's been promulgated by the left, that everybody who is black in America is living in squalor.
00:25:31.000Okay, but what this generates, the charge of racism is so powerful in American life, because of course, there were a lot of racists in American history.
00:25:38.000And because America did have an embedded racist system of segregation and Jim Crow.
00:25:42.000Because of all of that, the charge holds power, even if you are now lying about the charge.
00:25:47.000And so this has driven white people to new depths of insanity.
00:25:50.000There's a piece over at the Washington Post today that is just crazy.
00:25:54.000It's called Stumbling Toward Wokeness.
00:25:56.000After George Floyd's death, she wanted to be anti-racist.
00:26:00.000It's the profile of a woman named Christine Tell by Robert Samuels.
00:26:05.000And it's all about this white woke lady in Tulsa trying to figure out her own whiteness.
00:26:12.000The text messages were flying in to Christine Tell's cell phone.
00:26:15.000They were coming from a group of friends who taught with her at a preschool inside the Methodist chapel near the green fields of the University of Tulsa.
00:26:21.000A woman on our Facebook post is claiming we are a whites-only school, one woman wrote about the interaction on Facebook.
00:26:42.000Tell tried to figure out the right way to contribute to the conversation.
00:26:45.000Ever since she watched a video of a police officer digging his knee into the neck of George Floyd, she pledged to become a better white person.
00:26:52.000By the way, the actual reason why this particular school had pictures of white kids is because they were able to reach the parents to ask for permission.
00:26:59.000It seriously says this right in the article.
00:27:00.000The craziest part of this article, and it really is indicative of what the anti-racist movement wants from white woke liberals, is shut up and repeat what we tell you.
00:27:11.000Don't really try to figure out what you can do.
00:27:13.000Pay Robin DiAngelo $10,000 to come to your business and yell at you.
00:27:16.000Listen to what Ibram Kendi tells you are the systems of oppression, and then dismantle those systems of oppression by shutting the hell up.
00:28:44.000And Tell was like, well, maybe that's because the system is even more racist!
00:28:48.000No matter what the justification is, there's always more work to be done, guys.
00:28:52.000And by work, we mean doing nothing and navel-gazing.
00:28:56.000I think part of our responsibility as white people is to reflect back on our own experiences and what ways we have unconsciously chosen the white baby doll, said Tell.
00:29:09.000If you need people like Christine Tell to save racial America, if you're a black person waiting for Christine Tell to save, you're gonna be waiting an awful long time.
00:29:16.000Just gonna let you know that right now.
00:29:19.000Cody told the other teachers the Floyd video moved her to want to do her part to bring unity to this country.
00:29:24.000Cody said she'd spent her adult life trying not to pay attention to skin color because she didn't want anyone to be judged by their race.
00:29:29.000That would be the reasonable position.
00:29:31.000Now she could not stop paying attention to a person's skin color and the injustice it might bring.
00:29:35.000So now she didn't think about race before.
00:29:55.000I thought that that was an aspect of racism, right?
00:29:58.000That if you walk down the street, you see a black person, you immediately make a judgment about their situation on the basis of their race alone.
00:30:04.000She wanted to do more than get more diverse baby dolls.
00:30:08.000I seriously thought about going to North Tulsa, she said, and knocking on doors, and saying, hey, I'd really love for your child to come to preschool here, and we'll give you a full scholarship for it, she said.
00:30:16.000So now they're talking about overtly doing something good for people who are minority.
00:30:20.000And they're like, now's not the time, guys.
00:30:22.000I mean, is that racist for us to do that?
00:30:25.000I don't know what the hell's going on, but I'm so scared.
00:30:27.000time, Tell said. So now they're talking about overtly doing something good for people who are minority. And they're like, now's not the time, guys. I mean, is that racist for us to do that? Is it not racist? I don't know. I don't know what the hell's going on, but I'm so scared. I'm so scared of being called racist for doing stuff that's not remotely racist. Columbine, the other teacher, was nervous about coming up with ideas to help the black community that came from a group of white women who had few black friends in their lives and who didn't actively think about race until the summer.
00:30:53.000You could lose your job, Columban said.
00:30:55.000You don't want to be viewed that way when you're trying to help.
00:31:19.000That is probably also why it's hard, as a white person, to know how to help, or speak up, or be an advocate for the black community.
00:31:26.000But it's our job to speak out, Tell said.
00:31:27.000It's our job to hear what is being said to us and take the time to read a book or watch a movie that's recommended and try to put our experience aside and really try to understand.
00:31:40.000How does that make life better for anyone in the black community?
00:31:42.000How does my not watching a movie keep them down?
00:31:45.000Tell had not fully worked out the answer to this question.
00:31:47.000She hoped conversations with white people would help change votes and change minds, but sometimes she asked herself, how could she be sure?
00:31:53.000She couldn't be certain because she wasn't certain of anything.
00:31:56.000In a month, she'd realized pervasive racism in the school system and in the prison system, in her family and her friends, in herself.
00:32:02.000The tectonics of what made it great to be an American seemed to be shifting, and she had no idea what it meant for the future.
00:32:18.000It doesn't make anybody's life better.
00:32:19.000It forecloses paths to success for minority Americans.
00:32:22.000It even stops white people from trying to help black Americans.
00:32:24.000Because any solution is you being paternalistic.
00:32:27.000So all this is designed to do in the end is shame white people into feeling bad enough to give up any sort of agency to the Ibram Kendi's of the world to give them orders as to how to be an anti-racist.
00:33:11.000All of those are products of our Declaration.
00:33:14.000The notion that you have to tear down the Declaration in order to achieve something better, and that in any system, aspects of success like the scientific method, that is tied to subjugation.
00:33:42.000But if you fall for this trick, if you fall for this garbage, you're not only an idiot and a dupe, you're making the country a worse place.
00:33:47.000Again, I talk about this at length in my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.
00:33:51.000It's just, it's being weaponized so fast and taking over the culture so fast.
00:33:56.000And I guess you can sell any sort of idiocy so long as you threaten somebody with the club of calling them a racist, even if they're not a racist.
00:34:03.000We'll get to more about this in just one second because you can see it being internalized and weaponized.
00:34:06.000You've got Ilhan Omar using exactly this logic to suggest all of her critics are racist.
00:34:11.000And you got Joe Scarborough writing entire columns about internalizing his own whiteness and such.
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00:36:11.000As I've been talking about, the book covers these fundamentally different visions of America.
00:36:14.000One vision is unifying the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, a culture of rights, a history of greatness.
00:36:20.000The other disintegrates all the things that tie us together.
00:36:22.000America is an evil, historically terrible place.
00:36:24.000The Constitution is a document of subjugation.
00:36:26.000The Declaration is mere papering for hierarchies of power.
00:36:41.000How this alternative worldview has gained so much cultural ground so quickly, and it doesn't just investigate this, it rebutts it, which is really the important part.
00:36:48.000It's the kind of book that you should buy for your good-hearted liberal friends to remind them exactly why we ought to belong in the same country.
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00:37:32.000Okay, so the ticket to entry into the anti-racist world is to, in malice fashion, denounce yourself and denounce your own goodly vision of the United States.
00:37:48.000If you believe the United States is a good place, founded on fundamentally and eternally true values, if you believe that, if you believe that America has not always lived up to that, that there are many flaws and dark times in American history, deeply dark, devastating times in American history, where Americans failed to live up to the vision of the Founding Fathers.
00:38:04.000Indeed, many of the Founding Fathers failed to live up to their own vision.
00:38:06.000But that America was founded on true, good principles, and that the striving to fulfill those principles has created the most powerful, most free country in the history of the world.
00:38:15.000If you believe that stuff, you're bad.
00:38:16.000And so you have to struggle with that now.
00:38:17.000And you have to demonstrate your struggling.
00:38:25.000Thus, you have Joe Scarborough over at MSNBC.
00:38:28.000He has a piece in the Washington Post today called, I Still Believe in the American Dream, But I Know Why So Many Others Don't.
00:38:33.000Now listen, if you've actually lived in privation in the United States, if you've actually lived in abject poverty, if you've grown up in a family in which education was just not a priority and everyone around you was dependent on government, I understand that too.
00:38:50.000If you take somebody from a deeply, devastatingly poor area who has a broken family structure and you drive them around Beverly Hills and you say, if you work hard, one day this could be you, right?
00:39:20.000Joey's dad, after all, was a six foot four inch white man born in a suburban middle-class home whose parents were raised in the throes of the Great Depression and started their family during the American century's zenith.
00:39:28.000They bequeathed to their children a faith in God, a good name, the unshakeable belief that anything was possible through hard work.
00:39:33.000My election to Congress as a young outsider only served to reinforce the Scarborough family's faith in the dream.
00:39:38.000Then he talks about how his son nearly drowned And he says, you know, that feeling of panic is now the feeling of panic that happens for basically all black people.
00:39:50.000He says, I know I am blessed to have had the luxury of living fearlessly through the first four decades of my life.
00:39:55.000Unlike my post colleague, Eugene Robinson, I never had to warn my teenage boys how to behave when stopped by a police officer.
00:40:00.000Unlike the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, I did not know the fear that arises from being born of a people who control nothing, who can protect nothing.
00:40:07.000As Coates told his son, black people love their children with a kind of obsession.
00:40:10.000You are all we have and you come to us endangered.
00:40:31.000To just repeat, Ta-Nehisi Coates makes a damn good living.
00:40:37.000Ta-Nehisi Coates is a product of a system that has generated enormous wealth and prosperity for Ta-Nehisi Coates.
00:40:45.000And yet, according to Ta-Nehisi Coates, all black children everywhere are living in a sort of endangered species situation in which society is conspiring to crush them.
00:40:54.000It's a conspiracy theory without any conspiracy.
00:40:57.000The streets of West Baltimore, says Joe Scarborough, do not allow a child to walk through life carrying a sense of invincibility.
00:41:01.000Instead, parents harbor an unremitting dread when their child does something as mundane as walking to school.
00:41:06.000And now, Scarborough is just conflating problems that are solvable in West Baltimore with the system as a whole.
00:41:12.000You know why kids fear walking to school in West Baltimore?
00:41:15.000The reason that kids fear walking to school in West Baltimore is because people are getting shot every day on their way to school in West Baltimore.
00:41:22.000Fathers across the south side of Chicago, says Joe Scarborough, Cannot assure their children that a faith in God, a love of country, and a life filled with hard work will lead them to the dream.
00:41:42.000That is the worst thing you can say to a kid.
00:41:44.000For millions of Americans, says Joe Scarborough, that dream appears to be little more than a white man's conjuring designed to conceal a country's sins and hold its citizens harmless for crimes committed against black humanity over the past 400 years.
00:41:56.000And now again, if the game here is that black Americans have been historically victimized in the United States, and therefore we cannot say to a young black child growing up in America today that you have opportunity, then that's an insidious game.
00:42:10.000Coming from a historically oppressed people myself, I can say I have lived the freest, God-blessed life I could possibly imagine in this country.
00:42:19.000And so did my great-grandparents coming to this country.
00:42:22.000Now, the very idea that everybody who's being born in 2020 is subjected to the same sorts of evil systems of oppression that existed 60 years ago is patently insane.
00:42:33.000But it has become a rote article of faith.
00:42:35.000And the reason Scarborough is writing all this is not to provide a solution.
00:42:38.000At no point does he provide a solution in this column.
00:42:40.000Instead, we now know that Joe Scarborough is a good person because he read Ta-Nehisi Coates, guys.
00:42:54.000He says, as Coates wrote in Between the World and Me, maybe the most overrated book ever written, Americans should take their exceptionalism seriously and subject the country to an exceptional moral standard.
00:43:03.000The journey can only end when every citizen is raised free of fear and filled with the same dream that so many of us take for granted.
00:43:08.000But what if, what if there's an entire side of the culture, a disintegrationist culture, that believes it is negative and wrong to teach your children that the dream is even possible?
00:43:32.000The people who are pushing this anti-racist redefinition, they believe that even the idea of the American dream is racist, and all the methodologies to achieve success within that dream are bad.
00:43:43.000Joe Scarborough will always be part of the enemy contingent to these folks, which Joe should acknowledge.
00:43:49.000No matter what Joe does, he can read Ta-Nehisi Coates before his kids to bed at night as a catechism.
00:43:55.000It will not matter one iota so long as he keeps saying that America's an exceptional place and a good place.
00:44:01.000All of this also allows enormous credibility for people like Ilhan Omar, who talks about ripping down the system, and then says that anybody who criticizes her is a racist, right?
00:44:09.000Which, again, relies on this redefinition.
00:44:11.000Because if she says, rip down the system, you say, well, that sounds kind of terrible.
00:44:14.000Weren't you given opportunity, Ilhan Omar?
00:44:16.000Didn't you immigrate to the United States at age 12 from the hellscape that is Somalia?
00:44:20.000And then you were elected to Congress?
00:44:23.000I mean, like, that's a pretty great, pretty damned great American success story.
00:44:27.000Shouldn't you be a little bit grateful for the system?
00:44:29.000If you say that, you're a racist according to Ilhan Omar.
00:44:31.000So she says, she quotes herself talking about how she wanted to tear down the system.
00:44:36.000She said, we are not merely fighting to tear down systems of oppression in the criminal justice system.
00:44:40.000We're fighting to tear down systems of oppression that exist in housing and education and healthcare and employment in the very air we breathe.
00:44:46.000As long as our economic and political systems prioritize profit, without considering who is profiting and who is being shut out, we will perpetuate this inequality.
00:44:53.000So we cannot stop at the criminal justice system.
00:44:55.000We must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it.
00:45:00.000Which sounds an awful lot like the entire system needs to be torn down.
00:45:04.000So according to Ilhan Omar, if you quote her, you're bad now.
00:45:08.000If you note that she's an anti-Semite who believes that the Jews control world money, it's all about the Benjamins, Israel support and all of this, then that's because you're a racist.
00:45:16.000So she says, the criticism, she says, the criticism was something I've become accustomed to as a black Muslim woman in public life.
00:45:24.000Okay, no, it's not about you being a black Muslim woman in public life.
00:45:26.000It's about the fact that you said something absolutely terrible and that the American system should not be torn down.
00:45:33.000I've done an entire podcast on Robin DiAngelo saying the same stuff.
00:45:37.000But the nice thing for Ilhan Omar is because of her identity, she can now claim that if you criticize her opinion, you're criticizing her race, which is absolute nonsense.
00:45:46.000She says this is something female leaders and leaders of color have dealt with for years.
00:45:49.000Hillary Clinton's every move was scrutinized.
00:45:51.000Barack Obama was hounded by claims he was a Muslim and not born in the United States.
00:45:54.000Keith Ellison was subject to an anti-Muslim smear campaign when he ran for Democratic party chair.
00:45:58.000Fear of the other stems, I believe, from the myth of scarcity pitting minority groups against one another in a fight for scraps.
00:46:06.000By the way, the only people who talk like this are people of the left.
00:46:13.000And all part of this tearing down the system routine.
00:46:15.000Now, the nice thing also is that this means that you can basically be as racist as anti-Semitic as you want to be so long as you have the right opinions.
00:46:24.000So yesterday, Nick Cannon, who I guess is a Nickelodeon host, haven't paid much attention to him.
00:46:28.000He lost his job at ViacomCBS after he went on a podcast and suggested that white people were devils, which apparently, by the way, did not earn chiding from ViacomCBS.
00:46:35.000He suggested that the Jews were basically in control of everything.
00:46:39.000He was just a bunch of Louis Farrakhan-based anti-Semitic conspiracy nonsense.
00:47:22.000Imagine if white people came out defending the anti-Semitic conspiracy theorizing of David Duke.
00:47:27.000They would be, correctly, thrown out of Congress, right?
00:47:30.000I mean, if you even express sentiments approaching that, like Steve King did in Iowa, many of us max out to your opponent.
00:47:36.000When I say many of us, I mean, I led the way on that one, right?
00:47:38.000Charlemagne the God is out there openly defending Nick Cannon.
00:47:40.000P. Diddy offered him a job through Charlemagne the God defending Nick Cannon by saying, you know, he said that the Jews have all the power.
00:47:46.000Him being fired shows the Jews have all the power.
00:47:48.000So, um, when does Charlemagne the God actually have to answer for this bit of anti-Semitism?
00:49:36.000Gareth Jones was the journalist who first reported on the Holodomor, the murder, the starvation of millions of Ukrainians, Ukrainian farmers, during the five-year plan of Joseph Stalin that was intended to industrialize the Soviet Union by basically depriving everybody of grain in Ukraine and starving them to death.
00:50:04.000Okay, so this movie is not just about Gareth Jones reporting on it and the evils of the Soviet Union.
00:50:08.000It's also about the evils of the New York Times because Walter Duranty was the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, the fiction writing Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, yes, nothing has changed much, who decided it was more worthwhile to back the narrative that the Soviet Union was a godsend than to report on the fact that the Soviet Union was slaughtering, via starvation, millions and millions of people in Ukraine.
00:51:19.000And I kept waiting for the sucker punch, but the movie goes right at it.
00:51:22.000I mean, there's a full scene in which Gareth Jones is talking with sort of an acolyte of Walter Durante, and she says, listen, the cause is really important, right?
00:51:31.000Communism is the dream of the future, and there has to be time to allow the progress to be achieved.
00:51:37.000And he says, people are being murdered.
00:51:41.000And it finally occurs to her that this is the case.
00:51:43.000Walter Durante is really revealed in all of his true glory.
00:51:47.000I mean, like in every way in this film.
00:51:49.000And it is demonstrative of what happens when journalists become so invested in their cause, they're willing to falsify the facts and cover up evil.
00:51:56.000And this is, unfortunately, that has not changed.
00:51:59.000One of the modern movements that we are watching in journalism right now is the attempt to not prioritize truth, but to prioritize my truth.
00:52:06.000There's a scene in this film Where Gareth Jones, the character, where he is talking about the importance of journalism.
00:52:13.000And he says, journalism is the quest for the truth.
00:52:16.000And the person he's talking to says, well, there are many facets of truth.
00:52:19.000He says, no, there's just like objective fact.
00:52:21.000And then there's a lot of opinion, which is something I've said myself.
00:52:24.000And that's the perspective of the film, which is what makes it a great film, right?
00:52:28.000Because the fact is that when journalists become so invested in the cause that they have decided to ignore all countervailing evidence, they're no longer journalists.
00:52:37.000This is what's happening over at the New York Times, where the woke now run the place, where the quest for truth has become completely secondary to the idea that they are the repositories of all knowledge and all orthodoxy, and they're cramming it down from above.
00:52:52.000From Walter Duranty to Nicole Hannah-Jones, when the narrative matters more than the facts, ugly things emerge.
00:52:58.000And Nikole Hanna-Jones just won a Pulitzer Prize, just like Walter Duranty, for writing a bit of fiction.
00:53:02.000Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize for suggesting that Stalin's Russia was the greatest place on Earth and that Ukraine was Disneyland.
00:53:09.000Nikole Hanna-Jones just won a Pulitzer Prize for suggesting that America is a repository of all evil, was founded and steeped in evil, that the true founding of America was 1619, not 1776.
00:53:18.000She wrote it in her own fact-challenged manner.
00:53:20.000She is, by the way, a conspiracy theorist on a variety of topics.
00:53:23.000Doesn't matter, the narrative above all.
00:53:25.000Wesley Lowry, the former Washington Post reporter, has basically decided that it's time to ditch all notions of objective journalism, that what we need more is more of the Nikole Hannah-Jones style of journalism.
00:53:35.000But they won't label it opinion journalism, they will just label it morally right journalism.
00:53:39.000See, the difference between what we do here at Daily Wire and what they do over at the New York Times now, or what they are doing in the Wesley Lowry world, is that I will openly tell you my assumptions, I will openly tell you my political point of view, and I will tell you that if you want to form your own viewpoint, You should listen to my show, and then you should go listen to Podsafe America.
00:53:56.000You should read Daily Wire, and then you should go read Huffington Post.
00:53:58.000You should read a variety of viewpoints, and then come away with your own perspective on the issue.
00:54:03.000You shouldn't just swallow everything hook, line, and sinker, because I'm overt about my own biases.
00:54:07.000What the sort of moral betters in journalism say is there is no countervailing point of view that is worth discussing.
00:54:39.000There are good journalists at the Washington Post.
00:54:40.000There are good journalists over at the New York Times.
00:54:42.000It means the institutions have decided, as institutions, to go back to the bad old days of Walter Duranty and to reward the people who openly acknowledge what they are doing.
00:54:50.000At least Walter Duranty was lying to his superiors.
00:54:53.000I mean, Walter Duranty was just telling his superiors stuff that wasn't true.
00:54:56.000I don't think anybody at the New York Times is lying to their superiors.
00:54:58.000I think they're just badgering their superiors.
00:55:01.000The editors of the New York Times are not in control of the New York Times.
00:55:03.000Pinch Solsberger is not in control of the New York Times.
00:55:05.000Nikole Hannah-Jones is in charge of the New York Times.
00:55:08.000So if you worry about the future of journalism, if you worry about the idea that the narrative ought to trump the facts, and if you worry that the woke are so invested in the narrative they can't give you the truth, you should check out the movie Mr. Jones.
00:55:20.000By the way, I will note that it is amusing to me that it only took Like 70 years after Stalin died for people in Hollywood to start recognizing Stalin was a bad man.
00:55:28.000There have been a couple movies made in the last three years recognizing that Stalinism was actually quite evil.
00:55:33.000It only took them like 70 years on that one.
00:55:36.000So I'm glad that they finally came around in Hollywood to the perspective that Stalin was indeed one of history's great monsters.
00:55:41.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
00:55:44.000In the meantime, go pre-order a copy of my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, or we'll see you here tomorrow.
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