The Ben Shapiro Show - The Woke Are American Royalty | Ep. 1212

00:00:00.000 Piers Morgan loses his job for ripping woke princess Meghan Markle.

00:00:03.000 The media rushed to defend awful New York Times pseudo-reporter Taylor Lorenz.

00:00:07.000 And Disney's CEO says the Gina Carano firing wasn't political at all.

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00:00:25.000 Alrighty, so the drama in the UK continues.

00:00:28.000 Oh my goodness, wow. 0.94

00:00:30.000 Well now, the drama has reached the point where the royal family has responded to the accusations made by Meghan Markle and Prince Harry in this bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey in which she asked precisely zero difficult follow-up questions and allowed them to just essentially call the royal family a bunch of racist, Bigoted, terrible people. 0.53

00:00:49.000 To the celebration of the media.

00:00:51.000 And again, here's my view as an American.

00:00:53.000 Royal family!

00:00:54.000 Don't care all that much.

00:00:54.000 Because, here's the thing, we fought a revolution to stay away from the royals.

00:00:57.000 But!

00:00:58.000 But!

00:00:59.000 The reason that the media have decided that the royal family is bad is because the royal family is emblematic of British history.

00:01:04.000 The Royal Family is emblematic of British institutions, and therefore the Royal Family has to be torn down, and if you need a woke, second-rate American actress to do it, well then, that's what's handy, so just go for it.

00:01:14.000 And anybody who stands in their way will be torn down as well.

00:01:17.000 So, the Royal Family has now issued a statement, and it's hilarious, because people on the left are pretending that this sort of hostage statement from the Royal Family represents them admitting the truth of what Meghan Markle had to say about them being racists, and then Suggesting bad things about her baby or stripping her baby of his title, even though, by the way, the baby had no legal title under British law since 1917 because that baby is not in line for the crown.

00:01:40.000 In any case, according to The Hill, Buckingham Palace is responding to Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex's bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, saying the royal family is quote-unquote saddened by the challenges the couple faced, especially those regarding race.

00:01:52.000 Because this is the way that you're supposed to deal.

00:01:54.000 This is what the PR experts tell you you're supposed to do when you face an accusation.

00:01:57.000 You're not just allowed to say, I don't think the accusation is true.

00:02:00.000 You're not allowed to say that anymore.

00:02:02.000 Right?

00:02:02.000 Even if you're Andrew Cuomo and you believe that all the women who are now coming out of the woodwork are not telling the truth about things, you're not just allowed to say, I don't think that's true.

00:02:09.000 You have to say instead, we are so happy that they are telling their story and they are entitled to their opinion about all of this.

00:02:14.000 So that is what the royal family is now doing with Meghan Markle.

00:02:17.000 They put out a statement that says the whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Meghan, which is not an admission of guilt, by the way.

00:02:25.000 The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning.

00:02:27.000 Again, not an admission of guilt or that any of the stuff that Meghan Markle said happened with regard to her going to the palace and saying that she was suicidal and them ignoring her and basically saying, well, whatever, lady, or them being completely racist and trying to deprive her children of benefits.

00:02:42.000 They're not admitting to any of that.

00:02:43.000 They're just using the mush mouth kind of corporate speak that allows you to evade responsibility while simultaneously patting the woke on the head.

00:02:51.000 That is, I'm very sorry you felt this way.

00:02:53.000 I'm sorry you felt this way, is what the royal family is now saying.

00:02:57.000 The statement from Buckingham Palace left room to dispute some of the couple's accusations.

00:02:59.000 They said, while some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately.

00:03:05.000 While some recollections may vary is code for, we don't think that what she's saying is true.

00:03:09.000 That is what that is code for.

00:03:11.000 If somebody comes to you and they make an accusation and you say, well, you know, my recollection varies.

00:03:15.000 What you are saying is that you don't think that's true.

00:03:17.000 That is what the royal family is saying.

00:03:19.000 They're not admitting guilt.

00:03:20.000 Now, I understand that the way our media work is that we are supposed to pretend that none of this matters, right?

00:03:26.000 We're supposed to pretend that because Meghan Markle made an accusation and because Meghan Markle is a woke person and she's released video after video over the course of the last year calling America systemically racist and suggesting that all of Western society is systemically racist and all this, because Meghan Markle checks all the proper woke boxes, this means we must believe her, right?

00:03:44.000 Listen and believe.

00:03:45.000 And apparently not only is this mandated by our woke media, it is also mandated apparently by British law in some way.

00:03:52.000 So our woke media, we're totally on board with this.

00:03:54.000 Don Lemon on CNN over the course of the last couple of days, he actually said, we don't even need to hear from the other side.

00:03:59.000 Right?

00:04:00.000 Meghan Markle is so eminently believable and she is so victimized within the system that we can believe what she says because it rings true.

00:04:08.000 Now, I have to say, we have watered down victimhood pretty far when you are talking about a woman who is a B-rate actress on a second-rate USA Network show becoming a princess of the UK.

00:04:21.000 And then leaving in order to get a giant Netflix deal and living on a $14.5 million estate in California on her mother-in-law's $25 million endowment. 1.00

00:04:33.000 That seems not super victim-y, especially when you're not providing any sort of extraneous evidence of the accusations that you're making.

00:04:39.000 But according to Don Lemon, if it's good enough for Meghan Markle, it's good enough for Don Lemon.

00:04:43.000 And being a great journalist, Don Lemon says, listen, this checks all of my priors.

00:04:47.000 Since my priors are that America is racist, the royal family is racist, Western history is racist, this means that Meghan Markle has to be telling the truth.

00:04:53.000 I don't even have to check the story.

00:04:54.000 The story is too good to check.

00:04:56.000 Here is Don Lemon, objective journalist, journalism-ing all over the place, hot, sticky journalism-getting just all over the CNN studios here.

00:05:03.000 People say, well, we haven't heard from the other side.

00:05:05.000 What's the other side going to say?

00:05:06.000 They're going to say, of course, we're not racist or whatever.

00:05:08.000 But what did they do?

00:05:10.000 Think about their actions. 0.93

00:05:11.000 They did not stand up for their own, because their own was married to a black woman, had a black child. 0.59

00:05:17.000 They didn't listen to him inside of the royal family. 0.60

00:05:20.000 They let him go.

00:05:21.000 They let him leave the country.

00:05:22.000 They wouldn't come to terms with what they wanted to do.

00:05:25.000 So listen, we've only heard from one side, but that one side at this point rings very true.

00:05:30.000 Okay, it rings true. 0.95

00:05:32.000 Therefore, I won't check the other side.

00:05:33.000 That's great journalism, guys.

00:05:35.000 Amazing journalism there from Don Lemon.

00:05:37.000 So that is the way that most of the establishment media has treated the accusations by Meghan Markle.

00:05:41.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:05:42.000 The British public disagrees.

00:05:43.000 According to the UK Sun, there was a poll.

00:05:44.000 It said that 51% of Brits want them stripped of any royal title.

00:05:48.000 Only 28% want them to remain official members of the royal family after that particular interview.

00:05:53.000 Okay, so over on UK TV, over on ITV, which is a big channel over in the UK, Piers Morgan was on Good Morning Britain.

00:06:01.000 Again, Piers Morgan is a big critic of Meghan Markle.

00:06:03.000 He has been for quite a while.

00:06:04.000 He was kind of friendly with Meghan Markle for a while, apparently.

00:06:07.000 And then she apparently ghosted him after she got involved with Prince Harry.

00:06:12.000 And she was kind of nasty to him. 0.98

00:06:13.000 And this is, you know, according to Piers.

00:06:16.000 And then he didn't like the way that she was treating the royal family.

00:06:18.000 Apparently she was trying to throw her weight around inside the royal family. 1.00

00:06:21.000 She didn't respect a lot of the traditions.

00:06:22.000 And so Morgan's been a longtime critic of Meghan Markle.

00:06:27.000 Now, full disclosure, I'm friendly with Piers now, right?

00:06:29.000 I mean, that is the hilarious of our, the hilarity of our current political moment is that anyone who doesn't buy into every narrative of the woke is now on one side and the woke are on the other.

00:06:39.000 That is the way this works.

00:06:40.000 So anyway, Piers Morgan was very critical of Meghan Markle.

00:06:44.000 We're on the show.

00:06:45.000 He said, I don't believe a word that comes out of her mouth.

00:06:47.000 Right?

00:06:47.000 The direct quote from Piers Morgan is he said that if she, I wouldn't believe it if she read me a weather report.

00:06:54.000 He's talking about her report that not only was she suicidal, but that she went to members of the palace and that they basically dismissed her complaints about being suicidal.

00:07:01.000 He said, who did you go to?

00:07:02.000 What did they say to you?

00:07:03.000 I'm sorry.

00:07:04.000 I don't believe a word she said, Meghan Markle.

00:07:05.000 I wouldn't believe it if she read me a weather report.

00:07:08.000 Okay, now this resulted in a massive outpouring of criticism because how dare Piers Morgan say that in his opinion, he doesn't believe Meghan Markle?

00:07:17.000 You must believe, right?

00:07:18.000 As Don Lemon says, she fits all the categories.

00:07:20.000 So you must believe.

00:07:21.000 You don't even have to check the story.

00:07:22.000 You don't have to find out the other side.

00:07:24.000 So this resulted yesterday in Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain getting into a spat with this guy who is apparently like the weather guy on Good Morning Britain on ITV.

00:07:36.000 Who basically said that Morgan's take on the situation was disgusting and Piers got mad and walked off the show.

00:07:42.000 I understand that you've got a personal relationship with Meg and Marco, or had one, and she cut you off.

00:07:49.000 She's entitled to cut you off if she wants to. 0.58

00:07:52.000 Has she said anything about you since she cut you off? 0.98

00:07:55.000 I don't think she has, but yet you continue to trash her. 0.92

00:07:58.000 Okay.

00:07:58.000 I'm done with this.

00:07:59.000 No, no, no.

00:07:59.000 Sorry.

00:08:00.000 Do you know what? 0.99

00:08:01.000 That's pathetic. 1.00

00:08:02.000 No, no, no. 1.00

00:08:02.000 I'm being serious. 1.00

00:08:03.000 Sorry.

00:08:03.000 Can't do this.

00:08:04.000 This is absolutely diabolical behavior.

00:08:09.000 Diabolical.

00:08:10.000 First of all, gotta love the Brits. 0.94

00:08:11.000 So, he goes after Morgan.

00:08:13.000 Morgan walks off the show.

00:08:14.000 And now Morgan's out of a job.

00:08:16.000 Now, the reason that Morgan is out of a job is not because he walked off the show.

00:08:19.000 The reason that Morgan is out of a job is because the government started to investigate ITV.

00:08:24.000 And you know who's a person who put in a complaint to ITV?

00:08:27.000 Our great victim, the victim of the hour, Meghan Markle.

00:08:30.000 Because nothing says victimhood quite like trying to exercise institutional power in order to get somebody fired.

00:08:35.000 That is definitely a good thing to do.

00:08:37.000 And we're gonna get to more of this in just one second.

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00:10:08.000 Okay, so apparently, according to the Hollywood Reporter, Meghan Markle filed an ITV complaint against Piers Morgan, which is not babyish behavior at all.

00:10:18.000 Somebody criticizes you on TV, so you file a complaint with their bosses.

00:10:22.000 I'm sorry, that's childish behavior under any circumstances.

00:10:27.000 I've received more than my share of criticism over the course of my career.

00:10:31.000 I'm a public figure, that's the way that it works.

00:10:33.000 I cannot remember filing a complaint with somebody's boss asking to have them disciplined for something they said about me.

00:10:39.000 In fact, I have a number of fairly good friends whose friendships were initiated by them writing something crappy about me in a fairly prominent place and me reaching out and saying I appreciated them listening to the stuff even though I think they got it wrong.

00:10:50.000 But not Meghan Markle, apparently.

00:10:52.000 According to The Hollywood Reporter, neither ITV nor Archwell have denied that a complaint was lodged on behalf of the Duchess.

00:10:58.000 Meghan Markle made a formal complaint to ITV following Piers Morgan's incendiary comments about the Duchess, the UK broadsheet newspapers have reported.

00:11:04.000 Both The Guardian and The Telegraph claim a complaint was lodged on behalf of the royal after Monday's episode of Good Morning Britain, in which Morgan repeatedly lashed out at Prince Harry and Markle over their revelations in the explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey.

00:11:15.000 The growing furor over the former CNN host's tirade, one that also saw him storm off set after being rebuked on air by a colleague, would ultimately lead to him quitting the breakfast news show with ITV making the announcement he was standing down on Tuesday evening.

00:11:27.000 Among Morgan's most controversial comments was that he didn't believe Markle's claims she had felt suicidal and had reached out for support from Buckingham Palace only for it to be rejected.

00:11:35.000 Okay, so he didn't actually say, I don't believe that she felt suicidal, right?

00:11:38.000 He didn't actually say that.

00:11:39.000 If you go back and watch the comments, what he said is, I don't believe a word she says, which is a pretty blanket statement.

00:11:44.000 And what he specifically cited was he didn't believe that she had gone to the palace and the palace had been like, yeah, you're suicidal.

00:11:49.000 Well, you know, if something bad happens, that's kind of on you.

00:11:51.000 It's going to look bad for the family if we bring in a psychiatrist.

00:11:53.000 Like they have their own medical team inside Buckingham Palace.

00:11:57.000 Okay, the comments drew widespread condemnation, including from a mental health charity, and led to more than 41,000 complaints to regulator Ofcom.

00:12:05.000 Okay, and this is where this becomes relevant for Americans.

00:12:08.000 Because we are now living in a world in the United States where many, many people in America want an American version of Ofcom.

00:12:16.000 So what exactly is Ofcom?

00:12:18.000 So Ofcom is a regulatory agency who sees its job as to regulate the way that media is done.

00:12:28.000 Ofcom is, again, a government agency that is designed to regulate what people can and cannot say.

00:12:36.000 In December of 2020, the regulator launched a review of what protections were in place with regard to mental health and well-being of individuals who take part in their show.

00:12:46.000 The Commons Digital, Culture, Media, and Sports Select Committee has launched inquiries into the reality TV industry, for example.

00:12:54.000 Ofcom creates measures aimed at protecting vulnerable people and others not used to being in the public eye.

00:13:01.000 Ofcom has its own Director of Standards and Audience Protection.

00:13:04.000 Okay, and so Ofcom, which is, again, this British agency which regulates, it's sort of like the FCC, except it has an enormous power over actual broadcast in a way that the FCC really does not.

00:13:16.000 Ofcom is the Office of Communications.

00:13:17.000 It's the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for broadcasting telecommunications.

00:13:22.000 And again, they have wide ability to punish people for saying things that they don't like.

00:13:27.000 So apparently, there was an official investigation by Ofcom, by the UK media regulator, based on Piers Morgan saying he didn't believe Meghan Markle.

00:13:35.000 Which is nuts!

00:13:36.000 Okay, that's an opinion by Piers Morgan.

00:13:39.000 How do you get investigated for an opinion?

00:13:41.000 I'm confused.

00:13:43.000 See, here in America, we have this thing called freedom of speech in the First Amendment.

00:13:45.000 It's pretty great.

00:13:46.000 In Britain, they don't have the same thing.

00:13:47.000 European standards of speech are very different.

00:13:49.000 This is why they have hate speech regulations.

00:13:51.000 They seek to measure harm of speech against value of speech, which of course is a completely subjective decision.

00:13:57.000 There's no limiting principle to it.

00:13:58.000 And so Ofcom does this on a regular basis.

00:14:01.000 According to Variety, Ofcom launched an investigation after more than 41,000 people wrote in to complain about ITV's Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan's comments on Meghan Markle. 0.99

00:14:09.000 So first of all, who gives a crap, right?

00:14:11.000 In the United States, if a bunch of people wrote in to the FCC about me having an opinion about Meghan Markle, you know what the result would be? 0.99

00:14:17.000 Nothing.

00:14:18.000 Because we have a First Amendment in this country, thank God.

00:14:20.000 They don't have the same thing in Britain.

00:14:22.000 On Monday's edition of the show, of course, Morgan made his comments.

00:14:26.000 And so now, Ofcom was apparently investigating.

00:14:28.000 An Ofcom spokesperson told Variety, we have, quote, launched an investigation into Monday's episode under Good Morning Britain under our harm and offense rules.

00:14:36.000 Harm and offense rules?

00:14:38.000 Okay, like, the fact that you have harm and offense rules in a supposedly free country means that your country is not nearly as free as you are pretending that it is.

00:14:46.000 Now, Morgan did come back on the air on Tuesday before the walk-off, and he said, when we talked about this yesterday, I said, as an all-encompassing thing, I don't believe what Meghan Markle is saying generally in this interview, and I still have serious concerns about the veracity of a lot of what she said.

00:14:57.000 But let me just state for the record on my position on mental illness and on suicide.

00:15:00.000 These are clearly extremely serious things and should be taken extremely seriously, and if someone is feeling that way, they should get the treatment and help they need every time.

00:15:06.000 And if they belong to an institution like the royal family and they go and seek that help, they should absolutely be given it.

00:15:11.000 It's not for me to question if she felt suicidal.

00:15:13.000 I'm not in her mind.

00:15:14.000 And that is for her to say.

00:15:15.000 My real concern was a disbelief that she went to a senior member of the royal household and told them she was suicidal and was told she couldn't have any help because it would be a bad look for the family.

00:15:22.000 If that's true, first, that person should be fired.

00:15:24.000 And second, the royal family had serious questions that need to be answered.

00:15:28.000 But that apparently didn't fix the problem.

00:15:30.000 Morgan still had to go because Morgan had offended the woke princess. 0.96

00:15:34.000 And the woke princess, the powerless, victimized woke princess, And her fans got him fired and got an investigation going from the Office of Communications in the UK.

00:15:46.000 It's usually pretty easy to tell who is a victim and who is the victimizer in a situation like this.

00:15:52.000 The way that you can tell is who is the person who is threatening to actually do something to another person.

00:15:56.000 That's how you can tell who the actual victim is here.

00:15:59.000 And Meghan Markle was not threatened by Piers Morgan in any way.

00:16:02.000 He had an opinion.

00:16:04.000 His opinion said that he didn't believe a lot of what Meghan Markle had to say.

00:16:07.000 And I frankly agree with a lot of that.

00:16:09.000 I don't agree with a lot of... I don't believe some of what Meghan Markle had to say either.

00:16:13.000 I find it largely self-serving.

00:16:16.000 But the fact is that in our culture, if you claim victimhood, this apparently gives you ultimate power to actually harm other people.

00:16:23.000 See, here's the thing.

00:16:23.000 We now live in a society where if Piers Morgan says something that offends Meghan Markle, that is considered harm.

00:16:28.000 If Meghan Markle files a complaint with ITV with the intent of getting Piers Morgan fired, that is not an actual harm.

00:16:34.000 So one loses their job.

00:16:35.000 The other has their feelings a little bit hurt.

00:16:37.000 And one is considered a very, very serious harm.

00:16:39.000 Now, how do we determine what the harm is?

00:16:40.000 We simply look to intersectionality.

00:16:42.000 We determine who's more woke.

00:16:43.000 If you're woke, you're a victim.

00:16:45.000 Even if you're the victimizer, you're the victim.

00:16:47.000 That's the way this works now.

00:16:48.000 The woke are the actual royalty. 0.87

00:16:50.000 The woke are the actual American and apparently British royalty.

00:16:53.000 Because now you have to be treated the way that royalty ought to be treated.

00:16:56.000 No one can say a word against you.

00:16:57.000 And if a word is said against you, you will be investigated.

00:17:00.000 Maybe you will be fired.

00:17:02.000 Piers Morgan.

00:17:03.000 Did put out a statement.

00:17:05.000 He, uh, on Twitter, he said, on Monday, I said, I didn't believe Meghan Markle in her Oprah interview.

00:17:09.000 I've had time to reflect on this opinion, and I still don't.

00:17:11.000 If you did, okay.

00:17:12.000 Freedom of speech is a hill I'm happy to die on.

00:17:14.000 Thanks for all of the love and the hate.

00:17:16.000 I'm off to spend more time with my opinions.

00:17:18.000 And then he quoted Winston Churchill, some people's idea of free speech, that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.

00:17:25.000 He later doubled down.

00:17:26.000 He said I don't believe anything that comes out of her mouth.

00:17:28.000 I think the damage she's done to the British monarchy and to the Queen at a time when Prince Philip is lying in the hospital is enormous and frankly contemptible.

00:17:34.000 If I have to fall on my sword for expressing an honestly held opinion about Meghan Markle and that diatribe of bilge that she came out with in that interview, so be it.

00:17:41.000 I think it's fair to say although the woke crowd will think they've cancelled me, I think they'll be rather disappointed when I re-emerge.

00:17:47.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

00:17:49.000 Because, of course, the woke royalty doesn't actually have to be royalty.

00:17:52.000 They can just be members of our establishment media.

00:17:54.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:19:02.000 Okay, so the woke being the actual Western royalty at this point.

00:19:07.000 You can't say a word against the woke because if you disagree with the woke, this proves that you are un-woke and therefore unfit for public consumption.

00:19:12.000 Piers Morgan losing his job over saying that he disagrees with Meghan Markle and doesn't believe her?

00:19:18.000 That is not an actual harm.

00:19:19.000 Piers Morgan having said he doesn't believe her is the actual harm because, of course, she is not just a princess.

00:19:24.000 She's a woke princess. 0.71

00:19:25.000 Okay, well, we have our own version of the woke royal case forecast here in the United States as well.

00:19:31.000 They're members of our media.

00:19:33.000 Taylor Lorenz is a pseudo-reporter over at the New York Times.

00:19:36.000 When I say pseudo-reporter, I mean that Taylor Lorenz basically spends her days just trolling the internet for bad things that people have said and then trying to get them cancelled. 1.00

00:19:45.000 That is her main job.

00:19:47.000 Most recently, she went on Clubhouse and she tried to get a tech investor cancelled for not saying a thing. 0.99

00:19:52.000 He didn't say something, she accused him of saying it.

00:19:54.000 I think it was Marc Andreessen.

00:19:56.000 And so she is, I would say, a bad reporter. 0.95

00:20:00.000 She's not a reporter at all.

00:20:01.000 She's an activist, just like many members of the New York Times woke editorial crew.

00:20:07.000 Well, yesterday she put out a tweet, and here is her tweet.

00:20:09.000 For International Women's Day, please consider supporting women enduring online harassment.

00:20:13.000 It's not an exaggeration to say that the harassment and smear campaign I've had to endure over the past year has destroyed my life. No one should have to go through this.

00:20:20.000 So number one, don't harass people online. Number two, if your way of commemorating International Women's Day is to say, and also could you guys please be nice to me?

00:20:30.000 That's rather self-centered.

00:20:31.000 But Taylor Lorenz, of course, checks the woke boxes.

00:20:34.000 She mirrors woke politics. 0.99

00:20:35.000 She is woke herself.

00:20:37.000 And so this means that the entire media infrastructure rushed to her defense for this rather self-centered tweet.

00:20:43.000 So Tucker Carlson points out that Taylor Lorenz claiming that she's a victim when she spends most of her day trying to find people to get them fired and to ruin their careers is rather ironic.

00:20:53.000 So Tucker went after her on Fox News last night.

00:20:56.000 By most people's standards, Taylor Lorenz would seem to have a pretty good life. 0.99

00:20:59.000 One of the best lives in the country, in fact.

00:21:02.000 Lots of people are suffering right now, but no one's suffering quite as much as Taylor Lorenz is suffering.

00:21:08.000 People have criticized her opinions on the internet, and it destroyed her life.

00:21:12.000 Let's pause on this International Women's Day and recognize that.

00:21:16.000 You thought female Uyghurs had it bad. 1.00

00:21:18.000 You haven't talked to Taylor Lorenz.

00:21:22.000 Okay, so the media went into full defense mode for Taylor Lorenz, of course.

00:21:27.000 So you had a member of the Washington Post, the media reporter for the Washington Post, a person named Jeremy Barr, tweeting out, notice how many times Tucker Carlson says Taylor's full name on this highly watched television show.

00:21:38.000 That's not a coincidence.

00:21:40.000 He said her name.

00:21:42.000 So first of all, I thought we're supposed to say people's names generally now, but apparently not.

00:21:45.000 Apparently we're not supposed to say people's names because if you say their names many times, then this is a form of targeting, which is a weird take, but the notification went out on the woke slack channels.

00:21:55.000 And so this became the talking point among the media left.

00:22:00.000 A reporter from Rico named Teddy Schliefer tweeted out, So Taylor Lorenz, who again has spent her career going after people and attempting to destroy their careers, if you mention her name on Fox News, this is a form of targeting now. 1.00

00:22:14.000 Steve Peoples, who is a reporter Okay, I hope the we are better than this crowd is ready to rush to the defense of people who actually lose their jobs and have their careers destroyed because people like Taylor Lorenz are reporting on their bad old tweets.

00:22:24.000 I somehow doubt it.

00:22:25.000 separate times in an obvious attempt to encourage more harassment.

00:22:27.000 We are better than this.

00:22:29.000 Okay, I hope that we are better than this crowd is ready to rush to the defense of people who actually lose their jobs and have their careers destroyed because people like Taylor Lorenz are reporting on their bad old tweets.

00:22:38.000 I somehow doubt it.

00:22:40.000 I somehow doubt it.

00:22:42.000 The woke brigade are, as I say, when I say their royalty, I mean that they are uncriticizable. 0.99

00:22:47.000 You are not supposed to criticize them.

00:22:49.000 You are not supposed to ask questions about them.

00:22:50.000 And they have the power to destroy.

00:22:53.000 They have the same sort of societal ability to excise people and ruin their lives as the royalty of old.

00:23:01.000 They are the new royalty.

00:23:03.000 And if you cross them at all, they will just come after you.

00:23:06.000 Then they'll deny they've done that, of course, but this is the way our society currently works.

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00:24:17.000 Okay, so how far has the woke brigade gone, the woke royalty?

00:24:22.000 Well, they are ascendant in every area of American life.

00:24:25.000 They're ascendant everywhere.

00:24:26.000 So, for example, Winston Marshall, who is from a band called Mumford & Sons, he's the banjo player on Mumford & Sons, apparently.

00:24:33.000 I'm not aware of the band, but all right.

00:24:35.000 He put out a tweet a few days ago, and you can see this one coming a mile away.

00:24:39.000 He put out a tweet a few days ago recommending Andy Ngo's new book about Antifa.

00:24:43.000 This is bad.

00:24:45.000 This is cancelable.

00:24:47.000 He read a book.

00:24:48.000 Ooh, man, wait till they find out that Winston Marshall once read If I Ran the Zoo.

00:24:52.000 I mean, my goodness.

00:24:53.000 If they find that out, he's totally toast.

00:24:55.000 So, he then put out an abject apology for having tweeted out a book.

00:24:59.000 Because if you tweet out a book that some people don't like, this means that you actually have to have your career destroyed or go into full penance mode.

00:25:05.000 So Winston Marshall put out a tweet.

00:25:06.000 It said, Over the past few days, I have come to better understand the pain caused by the book I endorsed. 0.99

00:25:12.000 Again, this is the way this crap works. 0.97

00:25:14.000 You trying to ruin his career isn't an actual harm. 0.99

00:25:17.000 Him saying that he read a book is an actual harm.

00:25:23.000 We now are in a place where in order to designate something as harmful, no actual harm must be done.

00:25:29.000 No actual harm must be done.

00:25:32.000 In tort law, if you hit my car, I can sue you because you did a damage to me.

00:25:36.000 If, however, we narrowly avoid a scrape, I cannot sue you because you have not done any harm to me.

00:25:41.000 However, in American politics, harm is constituted if I say something that offends you in any way.

00:25:48.000 That is harm.

00:25:48.000 If you try to ruin my career for having said something that offends you in any way, no matter how innocuous, like, hey, I read a book, then that is not a harm.

00:25:57.000 That is you just zealously guarding decency. 0.96

00:26:00.000 That's the way all this crap works right now.

00:26:02.000 The only way, the deep philosophical roots of that, by the way, again, go back to the notion that I've now mentioned several times in the past few weeks, the notion that we define ourselves through expressive individualism, right? 0.96

00:26:12.000 We want to express ourselves.

00:26:14.000 Who we are is not how we interact with reality.

00:26:16.000 Reality is of no consequence.

00:26:17.000 We get to choose who we want to be every single day.

00:26:21.000 We get to define who we are every single day.

00:26:23.000 And if you challenge our self-definition in any way, Advertently or inadvertently, then this means that you have somehow done us a harm, right?

00:26:32.000 If you refuse to acknowledge my self-definition, this is an actual harm, and I get to do whatever I want to you.

00:26:40.000 So if Winston Marshall read a book saying Antifa is bad by Andy Ngo, then this means that you can go after his career, and you are good, you are righteous for doing so because he has done an actual harm.

00:26:53.000 The way, by the way, that you can tell who the actual harm doer is.

00:26:56.000 So, in real life, the way that you can tell who's doing the harm is who actually did serious damage to somebody.

00:27:00.000 That's how you can tell who did the harm.

00:27:02.000 That is in real life.

00:27:03.000 In woke land, which is now becoming real life, the way you can tell somebody has been harmed is by, are they a member of a woke identity group?

00:27:10.000 If they're a member of a woke identity group, they don't actually have to demonstrate harm was done to them.

00:27:14.000 All they have to demonstrate is that they were offended by something and you have challenged their self-identity.

00:27:19.000 That is all they have to do.

00:27:20.000 It's a hierarchy of power designed specifically to exclude certain people, and to include certain people, and to obviate the need to demonstrate harm.

00:27:28.000 So, Winston Marshall didn't do any harm to anybody.

00:27:30.000 He recommended a book.

00:27:31.000 You don't like the book?

00:27:31.000 Don't buy the book.

00:27:32.000 That's fine.

00:27:33.000 But now he has to put out this mewling apology.

00:27:35.000 He says, over the past few days, I've come to better understand the pain caused by the book I endorsed.

00:27:39.000 By the way, it didn't cause any pain.

00:27:40.000 I've offended not only a lot of people I don't know, but also those closest to me, including my bandmates.

00:27:45.000 And for that, I am truly sorry. 0.95

00:27:46.000 Okay, so that means his jackass bandmates. 0.96

00:27:48.000 One time they were like, Bro, I don't like how you... It's like Beto, his bandmate. 0.97

00:27:53.000 I don't know how it was mean, bro.

00:27:54.000 You know, that book that's offensive, bro.

00:27:58.000 As a result of my actions, I am taking time away from the band to examine my blind spots.

00:28:02.000 Oh, we're gonna go to woke re-education camp. 0.94

00:28:05.000 Sounds great.

00:28:06.000 By the way, he ain't coming back to the band.

00:28:08.000 And if he does, anytime he says anything else in the future, they're just gonna slap him back into place.

00:28:12.000 You know that's the way this works.

00:28:14.000 For now, please know I realize how my endorsements have the potential to be viewed as approvals of hateful, divisive behavior.

00:28:20.000 The entire book that Andy wrote is about how Antifa is hateful and divisive.

00:28:24.000 But if you read the book, and if you recommend the book, this means you've done something hateful and divisive because you have offended the woke.

00:28:29.000 I apologize, as this was not at all my intention.

00:28:31.000 Ah, but intention doesn't matter.

00:28:33.000 Again, harm doesn't matter.

00:28:34.000 Intention doesn't matter.

00:28:35.000 All that matters is whether somebody's sense of identification has been challenged in some way.

00:28:41.000 It doesn't matter if you did it by accident.

00:28:42.000 None of that matters.

00:28:43.000 It doesn't matter if any actual harm was done.

00:28:45.000 None of that matters.

00:28:46.000 Because absolute royalty comes with absolute privileges, and the absolute royalty of our society now dictate the terms.

00:28:53.000 Which means that perfectly normal things have to be gotten rid of.

00:28:57.000 And when I say perfectly normal things, I mean like the word normal.

00:29:00.000 So, Dove soap has now announced they will no longer use the word normal on their beauty products.

00:29:06.000 So, a lot of people use Dove body wash, for example.

00:29:09.000 Right?

00:29:09.000 We use Dove body wash in our home.

00:29:12.000 And they have a bunch of different brands of the Dove body wash.

00:29:14.000 They have like for sensitive skin, and they have for rough skin, and then they have for normal skin, right?

00:29:19.000 Meaning, not any of those things.

00:29:20.000 They've now gotten rid of the word normal, because it might make some people feel as though they are abnormal, and if you are abnormal, this means that you are bad, and so you feel bad about yourself.

00:29:29.000 Now, if you are the kind of person who is walking through the soap aisle at CVS, and you come across a Dove product, and it says the word normal, and you start crying in the aisle, I have a feeling your problem ain't the Dove soap.

00:29:40.000 Okay, you need some mental help. 1.00

00:29:42.000 If you are so offended by the packaging on a Dove soap product that Dove has to change the name of the product to acquiesce to your stupid desires, the problem is you. 1.00

00:29:52.000 The problem is not the word normal. 1.00

00:29:53.000 You are, dare I say it, abnormal. 0.63

00:29:55.000 If you start crying at a Dove soap branding decision, this is because you are abnormal. 1.00

00:30:00.000 You have an abnormality.

00:30:02.000 That is not a normal thing to do.

00:30:04.000 I'm using the term normal in both the generic and the statistical sense.

00:30:07.000 Statistical normality suggests the vast majority of people do not cry at the packaging on Dove soap packaging.

00:30:12.000 At the words on Dove soap packaging.

00:30:15.000 The sort of generic sense of normalcy is that it is not a normal, regular, or reasonable thing to do to be very upset by the word normal on Dove soap.

00:30:22.000 But Dove is now acquiescing.

00:30:24.000 Because Dove has to be sensitive.

00:30:26.000 It has to be very sensitive to those with sensitive skin and not sensitive skin.

00:30:30.000 According to the New York Times, the beauty and personal care company Unilever said on Tuesday it would no longer use the word normal on its products after a study revealed it makes most people feel excluded.

00:30:39.000 Okay, no, most people don't feel excluded. 0.99

00:30:42.000 Most people don't give a crap. 0.98

00:30:44.000 Most people have never thought about this. 0.99

00:30:45.000 It's just that when you ask people if they're victims, people know the math.

00:30:48.000 They know how this works.

00:30:49.000 Would you rather be a member of the victimized royalty or would you rather be one of those people on the outside looking in?

00:30:55.000 So yes, I too feel very offended by things.

00:30:57.000 And that sense of offense gives me ultimate power over the direction of society.

00:31:02.000 Unilever is a company based in London.

00:31:03.000 They own Dove, Axe, Sunsilk, and Vaseline, among other personal care brands.

00:31:07.000 They said they would not digitally alter the body shape, size, or skin color of models in its advertising as part of the Positive Beauty Initiative, according to a news release.

00:31:14.000 Because obviously, if you just leave women looking the way that they are, then that is somehow better than digitally altering the women for some reason that remains unspecified. 0.82

00:31:27.000 An aim of these steps and others, Unilever said, was to better, quote, challenge narrow beauty ideals.

00:31:31.000 Yes, I'm sure that men will find completely different things hot now that you're no longer digitally photoshopping your models.

00:31:37.000 Now that you just left the pimple on the face. 0.89

00:31:39.000 I'm sure that you're right.

00:31:41.000 You've totally changed society's standards of beauty.

00:31:43.000 Standards of beauty.

00:31:45.000 Now people will find completely I'm sure that your new models will be people who are objectively worse looking.

00:31:53.000 That's probably what, and you're gonna change society's standards of beauty along those lines. 1.00

00:31:56.000 Probably that's what's gonna happen.

00:31:58.000 The advertising changes came after the company commissioned a 10,000 person study across nine countries, including Brazil, China, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and the US.

00:32:04.000 The study found 56% of participants thought the beauty industry could make people feel excluded.

00:32:09.000 Could, not does, could.

00:32:12.000 Okay, which is not a real study.

00:32:15.000 Oh my gosh, could it make somebody feel- Anything could make somebody feel excluded.

00:32:19.000 Anything.

00:32:21.000 Literally all the things could make somebody feel excluded.

00:32:23.000 Seven in ten people agreed the word normal on products and in advertising had negative effects.

00:32:27.000 Eight in ten people agreed among participants aged 18 to 35.

00:32:30.000 Because again, anything that threatens your sense of self-identity is bad.

00:32:34.000 And if you say that something is normal and I happen not to check that box, instead of me just saying, okay, well, I guess I'm not normal on that front, whatever.

00:32:39.000 Or, maybe I'm not normal because I should reconsider my behavior.

00:32:43.000 Instead, it's the word normality itself is the offense.

00:32:48.000 74% of participants said they wanted the beauty industry to make them feel better, not just look better.

00:32:53.000 There it is.

00:32:54.000 Society is now responsible for how you feel. 0.85

00:32:57.000 Which, by the way, is number one.

00:32:59.000 It is the recipe for a failed society, also for failed relationships, by the way.

00:33:03.000 If you expect your partner in a relationship to quote-unquote make you feel better, that is a recipe for a failed relationship.

00:33:08.000 You know who's responsible for your feelings?

00:33:09.000 You.

00:33:10.000 All you can say is that you wish that your partner in a relationship, that their behavior were better.

00:33:15.000 But if you are making someone else responsible for your feelings, you are going to have a miserable life.

00:33:19.000 And if you as a society are saying that society is responsible for your feelings, you are destined to have a miserable society.

00:33:25.000 That is the natural outcome of all of this.

00:33:28.000 The woke are in control of all the levers of power, meanwhile claiming victimization. 0.70

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00:35:58.000 All righty, so again, the left is on the march.

00:36:01.000 All righty, so again, the left is on the march.

00:36:07.000 You're not supposed to notice this, by the way, right?

00:36:09.000 If you notice this, it's very bad.

00:36:11.000 You're supposed to instead focus on the spending bills and you're supposed to focus on the politics of the day.

00:36:17.000 Now, the reality is you can focus on both, right?

00:36:19.000 You can focus on the politics of the day and the spending bills.

00:36:21.000 You could also focus on the woke culture, but when it comes to what impacts your daily life most, it is not, in fact, the spending bills coming out of Congress.

00:36:27.000 It is, in fact, the woke culture that has invaded your business.

00:36:29.000 I will tell you, dozens of emails every single day from people at various major companies around the United States and abroad talking about the woke standards being shoved down their throats, what they are forced to say, what they are forced to sit through, what they are forced to endure, and if they do not go along with it, whether they are fired or not.

00:36:46.000 And that happens on a relatively frequent basis.

00:36:48.000 But then we're told by these woke higher-ups that, you know what?

00:36:52.000 When they do this kind of stuff, when they fire people for their beliefs, it's because they have universal standards.

00:36:56.000 The beauty of being a member of the woke royalty is that you can pretend that your standard is everybody's standard.

00:37:01.000 This is what the CEO of Walt Disney Company, Bob Chapek, said on Tuesday.

00:37:05.000 He addressed the firing of Gina Carano from the Disney Plus show, The Mandalorian, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

00:37:10.000 The executive was asked about the situation during an annual shareholders meeting.

00:37:13.000 Asked by a caller during the Q&A portion if Disney had a blacklist, insinuating Carano by name was targeted for her conservative politics, Chapek responded he does not see Disney as a left-leaning or right-leaning company.

00:37:24.000 Okay, literally yesterday, Disney Plus announced that they would not allow the movies Dumbo, Peter Pan, and the Aristocats to be on children's playlists.

00:37:33.000 They had to at least be seven or older to access those movies.

00:37:38.000 Why?

00:37:39.000 Because presumably your four-year-old is going to watch Dumbo and come away with racist understanding of black Americans. 0.99

00:37:44.000 Which is nuts. 0.87

00:37:45.000 Okay, first of all, is there some racist stuff in Dumbo?

00:37:48.000 If you understand the references, yes.

00:37:50.000 But if you're four, do you understand the references?

00:37:52.000 No!

00:37:53.000 Because you're four.

00:37:54.000 Okay, you actually have to be in the- You know how long it takes people to under- This is the same thing as Philip Bump from the Washington Post saying, I grew up on If I Ran the Zoo and never thought there was anything racist in it.

00:38:03.000 Now I read it and there's something racist.

00:38:05.000 Okay, well then it didn't bother you at the time and it didn't make you more racist, did it?

00:38:08.000 How many kids have been made racist by Dumbo?

00:38:10.000 Show of hands.

00:38:11.000 Anybody?

00:38:12.000 Bueller?

00:38:13.000 Bueller?

00:38:14.000 How many kids grew up thinking that Native Americans are bad because they watch Peter Pan?

00:38:18.000 Anybody?

00:38:19.000 Anybody at all?

00:38:21.000 No?

00:38:22.000 Because again, you don't have to show actual harm.

00:38:24.000 All you have to show is quote-unquote potential for harm.

00:38:26.000 All you have to do is say, I am offended.

00:38:28.000 By the way, not by something even directed at me, because usually it's woke white people who are doing the work here.

00:38:33.000 Usually it's woke white people who are like, yeah, Dumbo's racist.

00:38:35.000 You know how many black Americans deeply care about Dumbo?

00:38:38.000 My guess is a very minimal number.

00:38:39.000 You know how many woke white college graduates care deeply about Dumbo?

00:38:43.000 Probably a lot.

00:38:45.000 There's a vast gap between what woke white liberals think about the world and what the people they are supposedly defending think about the world. 0.99

00:38:52.000 For the same reason that woke white liberals use the term latinx, which no Latino person has ever used or will ever use because it's idiocy. 0.99

00:38:59.000 There are many, many Latino people who work in this particular office. 0.99

00:39:02.000 We have several producers and security people and executives of the company.

00:39:07.000 We have many people working at this company who are Latino. 0.99

00:39:09.000 Not a single one of them uses the term latinx because it's an idiotic term. 0.99

00:39:14.000 And yet the woke white liberals will use it. 1.00

00:39:16.000 It's huge for them.

00:39:17.000 Very important. 0.99

00:39:18.000 Okay, so when Disney does this sort of stuff and they say they're not right-leaning or left-leaning, we all know that's crap. 0.94

00:39:22.000 Of course Disney is left-leaning. 0.92

00:39:24.000 They're left-leaning because that's the expectation of them.

00:39:27.000 Chapek says Disney stands for, quote, values that are universal.

00:39:29.000 Values of respect, values of decency, values of integrity, and values of inclusion.

00:39:33.000 Oh, so that's why you fired Gina Carano for tweeting a thing that is significantly less offensive than anything that Pedro Pascal has tweeted about immigration in the past few years.

00:39:40.000 Literally comparing immigration in America to Nazi death camps is what Pedro Pascal did.

00:39:45.000 That's fine.

00:39:47.000 Gina Carano, however, she had to go.

00:39:50.000 Says Chapek, we seek to have the content that we make reflective of the rich diversity of the world we live in, and I think that's a world we should all live in harmony and peace.

00:39:58.000 But don't worry, he's not left-wing.

00:39:59.000 He's just gonna spout a bunch of left-wing bullcrap at you. 0.92

00:40:02.000 I'm not left-wing.

00:40:03.000 I'm just gonna say the words harmony and peace and diversity over and over again, but that's not left-wing at all.

00:40:08.000 Those are universal values that are only held by people I agree with who are left-wing, but I'm not left-wing.

00:40:15.000 It's just absurdity on its face, obviously.

00:40:18.000 And unfortunately, it's this sort of absurd.

00:40:21.000 This is one of the things that has happened on college campuses.

00:40:24.000 One of the one of the great sort of One of the great sort of mental moves on college campus is that many college professors, and I wrote this in my very first book, Brainwashed, when I was like 19.

00:40:33.000 So it's been a long time.

00:40:35.000 It's been true for a very long time.

00:40:37.000 Many people on college campus, because they have a bubble of their own, never know that there is another point of view out there about the world.

00:40:42.000 They just don't understand that that point of view exists about the world.

00:40:45.000 And so they actually think that their opinions are fact.

00:40:48.000 And therefore, their opinions are universal.

00:40:52.000 Anybody who challenges that opinion is an outlier.

00:40:54.000 Their opinions are the universal truth about the world.

00:40:57.000 And this is how you end up with the absurdity of James Gunn.

00:41:00.000 Again, he's a Disney director, James Gunn, right?

00:41:02.000 He works for Marvel.

00:41:04.000 Disney originally fired James Gunn when a bunch of his bad old tweets came out. 0.96

00:41:07.000 These jokes about having sex with children and stuff. 0.86

00:41:10.000 They were obvious jokes.

00:41:11.000 They were like 2009, 2010.

00:41:12.000 And he ended up being fired from Guardians of the Galaxy.

00:41:15.000 There were those of us, like me, I defended James Gunn.

00:41:18.000 I said he should not be canceled for bad old tweets because we don't want to live in a society where people are canceled for bad old joke tweets.

00:41:23.000 It's a mistake.

00:41:25.000 So I stood up for James Gunn, because even though I disagreed with the tweets, and I think they were dumb, and I think the jokes were unfunny, and I think that James Gunn is wrong about politics, I don't want to live in a society where everybody gets cancelled for violating the woke strictures of the day.

00:41:37.000 James Gunn, however, is a believer in the woke strictures of the day.

00:41:40.000 He just doesn't want to be cancelled.

00:41:42.000 So James Gunn put out a thread Regarding all of this the other day, he said, stop calling everything cancel culture because you're too dim to have a nuanced opinion.

00:41:50.000 People can be offended by something or think something sucks, and that's not cancel culture, it's free speech.

00:41:55.000 That's true.

00:41:55.000 Cancel culture is where you get somebody thrown out of their job.

00:41:58.000 To all those writing me about the times people get unfairly attacked, yes, that sucks, but that doesn't mean every time someone is offended by something, it's cancel culture, calling everything that is a knee-jerk, calling everything that is a knee-jerk response that destroys your point.

00:42:09.000 Okay, so far, I don't disagree with this, but here is where it gets fun.

00:42:13.000 He says Pepe Le Pew is offensive because of the way he treats that cat.

00:42:16.000 But Speedy Gonzales is not offensive, and so he shouldn't be cancelled.

00:42:19.000 Okay, this is completely subjective now.

00:42:21.000 So basically what James Gunn is saying is that if you remove Pepe Le Pew from TV, that he has not been cancelled because he deserves to be cancelled.

00:42:28.000 But you should leave Speedy Gonzales because James Gunn, for some reason, loves Speedy Gonzales.

00:42:33.000 Don't worry, guys, it's not cancel culture so long as they're only cancelling the stuff that I want cancelled.

00:42:38.000 As long as they're just cancelling the stuff I want cancelled, then it's not cancel culture at all.

00:42:41.000 Okay, this sort of mentality has infused everything.

00:42:44.000 It has infused our schools, it has infused our colleges, it has infused our media, it has infused Hollywood, it has infused our corporate life.

00:42:52.000 This view is now crammed down by the Western royalty, the wokes. 1.00

00:42:57.000 They are the royalty because in the intersectional hierarchy, they sit right there at the very top, at the top of that privileged hierarchy of people whose opinions matter.

00:43:04.000 Great piece by Barry Weiss today over at Substack about how this has infused America's elite institutions.

00:43:12.000 She writes, The dissidents use pseudonyms and turn off their videos when they meet for clandestine Zoom calls.

00:43:16.000 They're usually coordinating soccer practices and carpools.

00:43:19.000 Now they come together to strategize.

00:43:20.000 They say they could face profound repercussions if anyone knew they were talking.

00:43:23.000 But the situation of late has become too egregious for emails or complaining on conference calls.

00:43:27.000 So one recent weekend on a leafy street in West LA, they gathered in person and invited me to join.

00:43:32.000 In the backyard behind a four-bedroom home, 10 people sat in a circle of plastic Adirondack chairs eating bags of Skinny Pop.

00:43:37.000 These are the rebels.

00:43:38.000 Well off LA parents who send their kids to Harvard Westlake, the most prestigious private school in the city.

00:43:42.000 And by the way, Harvard Westlake is prestigious.

00:43:44.000 It is a boatload of money.

00:43:45.000 It's like 50 grand a year for your kids to go to Harvard Westlake.

00:43:48.000 By normal American standards, they are quite wealthy.

00:43:50.000 By the standards of Harvard Westlake, they are average.

00:43:52.000 These are two career couples who credit their own success, not to family or inherited wealth, but to their own education.

00:43:57.000 So it strikes them as something more than ironic that a school that costs more than 40 grand a year, a school with Charlie Munger, Warren's right hand, and Sarah Murdoch, wife of Loughlin and Rupert's daughter-in-law on its board, is teaching students that capitalism is evil.

00:44:08.000 For most parents, the demonization of capitalism is the least of it.

00:44:11.000 They say their children tell them they're afraid to speak up in class.

00:44:13.000 Most of all, they worry the school's new plan to become a quote-unquote anti-racist institution unveiled July in a 20-page document is making their kids fixate on race and attach importance to it in ways that strike them as grotesque.

00:44:25.000 They're making my son feel like a racist because of the pigmentation of his skin, says one mother.

00:44:29.000 Another poses a question to the group.

00:44:30.000 How does focusing a spotlight on race fix how kids talk to one another?

00:44:33.000 Why can't they all just be Wolverines?

00:44:35.000 Well, Harvard Westlake has declined to comment.

00:44:38.000 This Harvard Westlake parents group is one of many organizing quietly around the country to fight what it describes as an ideological movement that has taken over their schools.

00:44:47.000 This story is based on interviews with more than two dozen of these dissenters at elite prep schools in two of the bluest states in the country, New York and California.

00:44:53.000 The parents in the backyard said that for every one of them, there are many more too afraid to speak up.

00:44:57.000 They're all eager for their story to be told.

00:44:58.000 Not a single one would let me use their name.

00:45:00.000 They worry about losing their jobs or hurting their kids if their opposition to this ideology were known.

00:45:05.000 The school can ask you to leave for any reason, said one mother at Brentwood, another LA prep school.

00:45:09.000 Then you'll be blacklisted from all the private schools and you'll be known as a racist, which is worse than being called a murderer.

00:45:14.000 One private school parent born in a communist nation says, I came to this country escaping the very same fear of retaliation my own child now feels.

00:45:20.000 Another jokes we need to feed our families, owe and pay 50 grand a year to have our children to get indoctrinated. 0.99

00:45:25.000 A teacher in New York put it more concisely, to speak up against this is to put all of your moral capital at risk.

00:45:31.000 Parents who have spoken out against this ideology, even in private ways, say it hasn't gone over well.

00:45:35.000 I had a conversation with a friend.

00:45:36.000 I asked him, is there anything about this movement we should question?

00:45:38.000 He said, a father with children in two prep schools in Manhattan.

00:45:40.000 And he said, dude, that's dangerous ground you're on in our friendship.

00:45:44.000 I've had enough of these conversations to know what happens.

00:45:48.000 Are you freaking kidding me?

00:45:49.000 This is the reality.

00:45:49.000 anxious, paranoid, and insecure, and closed off from even their close friends.

00:45:53.000 My son knew I was talking to you. He begged me not to," said another Harvard Westlake mother.

00:45:56.000 He wants us to go to a great university. He told me, one bad statement from me will ruin us. This is the USA.

00:46:01.000 Are you freaking kidding me?

00:46:02.000 This is the reality. This is the reality. Okay, the power in America, as Barry Weiss says, now comes from speaking woke, a highly complex, never-evolving language.

00:46:12.000 This is a point that I've made repeatedly and that I'm going to make in my upcoming book, which is that wokeism is about speaking the lingo.

00:46:17.000 It is not about making the world a better place.

00:46:19.000 It is an entry card to the new ruling class.

00:46:21.000 That is what wokeism is.

00:46:23.000 A Harvard Westlake English teacher welcomes students back after summer with, I am a queer white womux of European descent.

00:46:29.000 I use she, her pronouns, but also feel comfortable using they, them pronouns. 0.71

00:46:32.000 She attached a self-care letter quoting Audre Lorde.

00:46:35.000 Caring for myself is not self-indulgence.

00:46:36.000 It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

00:46:40.000 Woe betide the working class kid who arrives in colleges and uses Latino instead of Latinx, or who stumbles conjugating verbs because a classmate prefers to use the pronouns they, them. 0.87

00:46:50.000 Yep, this is the world in which we now live.

00:46:51.000 The woke rule.

00:46:52.000 It is, in fact, a cult.

00:46:54.000 It is a cult.

00:46:54.000 And that cult is in control of the major institutions in American society.

00:46:59.000 Alrighty.

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00:47:05.000 Michael will be talking about the ever-worsening Cuomo scandal.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - March 10, 2021

The Woke Are American Royalty | Ep. 1212

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