The royal family responds to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, saying the couple is "saddened" by the challenges they have faced, especially those regarding race. But what does that actually mean? Is it an admission of guilt? Or is it just corporate speak from the royal family denying the accusations Meghan made about them being racist, bigoted, and bigots? Ben Shapiro breaks it all down and explains why it's not even remotely an apology at all. Plus, Piers Morgan loses his job for ripping Meghan, Taylor Lorenz defends Taylor, and Disney's CEO says Gina Carano's firing wasn't political at all! All that and more on today's show with Ben Shapiro on Protect Your Online Privacy, Protect Your Privacy, and The Ben Shapiro Show on Expressvpn. Subscribe today using our podcast s promo code PODCAST to receive 20% off your first month off the first month with discount code VIP. Use the promo code VIP at checkout at ExpressVpn and receive a discount of up to $99.99 when you sign up for VIP access to VIP membership. You get 10% off the entire month, plus free shipping, and a free VIP membership when you become a patron! You'll get access to all VIPships, including VIPs and VIPs get 20% OFF the entire VIP membership plan when you shop at Express VPN, and we'll get an ad-free version of the show. and get an exclusive VIP discount when you enter the VIP membership offer starts at $99, plus they'll get a discount when they receive the VIP discount, too get VIP access when they also get the code VIPs and they'll receive $99 gets $10% OFF THE FASTEST PRACTICALLY VIP gets their choice of VIP access gets the show starts, they'll also get $5/ VIP access, and they get $10/MBRELLER gets $4/AVAORORCHARD 4/MBRARETERPRISE AND VIP gets a VIP discount to use this offer gets $25/AMERICREPROMOTION AND VIP access. to use the VIP promo code, they get FREE TALKING TO VIPREASKEEPING ONLY THE FABULARY AND VIP REVIEW OF VIPREPRODCAST AND VIP SUPPORT AND VIPREZZER AND VIP PRIVATE PRIVATORY PRIVATION?
00:00:30.000Well 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.
00:00:59.000The reason that the media have decided that the royal family is bad is because the royal family is emblematic of British history.
00:01:04.000The 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.
00:01:14.000And anybody who stands in their way will be torn down as well.
00:01:17.000So, 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.
00:01:40.000In 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.
00:01:52.000Because this is the way that you're supposed to deal.
00:01:54.000This is what the PR experts tell you you're supposed to do when you face an accusation.
00:01:57.000You're not just allowed to say, I don't think the accusation is true.
00:02:00.000You're not allowed to say that anymore.
00:02:02.000Even 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.
00:02:09.000You 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.
00:02:14.000So that is what the royal family is now doing with Meghan Markle.
00:02:17.000They 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.
00:02:25.000The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning.
00:02:27.000Again, 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.
00:02:43.000They're just using the mush mouth kind of corporate speak that allows you to evade responsibility while simultaneously patting the woke on the head.
00:02:51.000That is, I'm very sorry you felt this way.
00:02:53.000I'm sorry you felt this way, is what the royal family is now saying.
00:02:57.000The statement from Buckingham Palace left room to dispute some of the couple's accusations.
00:02:59.000They said, while some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately.
00:03:05.000While some recollections may vary is code for, we don't think that what she's saying is true.
00:03:20.000Now, I understand that the way our media work is that we are supposed to pretend that none of this matters, right?
00:03:26.000We'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?
00:04:00.000Meghan Markle is so eminently believable and she is so victimized within the system that we can believe what she says because it rings true.
00:04:08.000Now, 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.
00:04:21.000And 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.
00:04:33.000That seems not super victim-y, especially when you're not providing any sort of extraneous evidence of the accusations that you're making.
00:04:39.000But according to Don Lemon, if it's good enough for Meghan Markle, it's good enough for Don Lemon.
00:04:43.000And being a great journalist, Don Lemon says, listen, this checks all of my priors.
00:04:47.000Since 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.
00:04:56.000Here is Don Lemon, objective journalist, journalism-ing all over the place, hot, sticky journalism-getting just all over the CNN studios here.
00:05:03.000People say, well, we haven't heard from the other side.
00:06:13.000And this is, you know, according to Piers.
00:06:16.000And then he didn't like the way that she was treating the royal family.
00:06:18.000Apparently she was trying to throw her weight around inside the royal family.
00:06:21.000She didn't respect a lot of the traditions.
00:06:22.000And so Morgan's been a longtime critic of Meghan Markle.
00:06:27.000Now, full disclosure, I'm friendly with Piers now, right?
00:06:29.000I 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.
00:06:47.000The direct quote from Piers Morgan is he said that if she, I wouldn't believe it if she read me a weather report.
00:06:54.000He'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.
00:07:04.000I don't believe a word she said, Meghan Markle.
00:07:05.000I wouldn't believe it if she read me a weather report.
00:07:08.000Okay, 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?
00:07:21.000You don't even have to check the story.
00:07:22.000You don't have to find out the other side.
00:07:24.000So 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.
00:07:36.000Who basically said that Morgan's take on the situation was disgusting and Piers got mad and walked off the show.
00:07:42.000I understand that you've got a personal relationship with Meg and Marco, or had one, and she cut you off.
00:07:49.000She's entitled to cut you off if she wants to.
00:07:52.000Has she said anything about you since she cut you off?
00:07:55.000I don't think she has, but yet you continue to trash her.
00:08:16.000Now, the reason that Morgan is out of a job is not because he walked off the show.
00:08:19.000The reason that Morgan is out of a job is because the government started to investigate ITV.
00:08:24.000And you know who's a person who put in a complaint to ITV?
00:08:27.000Our great victim, the victim of the hour, Meghan Markle.
00:08:30.000Because nothing says victimhood quite like trying to exercise institutional power in order to get somebody fired.
00:08:35.000That is definitely a good thing to do.
00:08:37.000And we're gonna get to more of this in just one second.
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00:10:08.000Okay, so apparently, according to the Hollywood Reporter, Meghan Markle filed an ITV complaint against Piers Morgan, which is not babyish behavior at all.
00:10:18.000Somebody criticizes you on TV, so you file a complaint with their bosses.
00:10:22.000I'm sorry, that's childish behavior under any circumstances.
00:10:27.000I've received more than my share of criticism over the course of my career.
00:10:31.000I'm a public figure, that's the way that it works.
00:10:33.000I cannot remember filing a complaint with somebody's boss asking to have them disciplined for something they said about me.
00:10:39.000In 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.
00:10:52.000According to The Hollywood Reporter, neither ITV nor Archwell have denied that a complaint was lodged on behalf of the Duchess.
00:10:58.000Meghan Markle made a formal complaint to ITV following Piers Morgan's incendiary comments about the Duchess, the UK broadsheet newspapers have reported.
00:11:04.000Both 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.
00:11:15.000The 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.
00:11:27.000Among 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.
00:11:35.000Okay, so he didn't actually say, I don't believe that she felt suicidal, right?
00:11:39.000If 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.
00:11:44.000And 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.
00:11:49.000Well, you know, if something bad happens, that's kind of on you.
00:11:51.000It's going to look bad for the family if we bring in a psychiatrist.
00:11:53.000Like they have their own medical team inside Buckingham Palace.
00:11:57.000Okay, the comments drew widespread condemnation, including from a mental health charity, and led to more than 41,000 complaints to regulator Ofcom.
00:12:05.000Okay, and this is where this becomes relevant for Americans.
00:12:08.000Because we are now living in a world in the United States where many, many people in America want an American version of Ofcom.
00:12:18.000So Ofcom is a regulatory agency who sees its job as to regulate the way that media is done.
00:12:28.000Ofcom is, again, a government agency that is designed to regulate what people can and cannot say.
00:12:36.000In 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.
00:12:46.000The Commons Digital, Culture, Media, and Sports Select Committee has launched inquiries into the reality TV industry, for example.
00:12:54.000Ofcom creates measures aimed at protecting vulnerable people and others not used to being in the public eye.
00:13:01.000Ofcom has its own Director of Standards and Audience Protection.
00:13:04.000Okay, 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.
00:13:16.000Ofcom is the Office of Communications.
00:13:17.000It's the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for broadcasting telecommunications.
00:13:22.000And again, they have wide ability to punish people for saying things that they don't like.
00:13:27.000So apparently, there was an official investigation by Ofcom, by the UK media regulator, based on Piers Morgan saying he didn't believe Meghan Markle.
00:13:58.000And so Ofcom does this on a regular basis.
00:14:01.000According 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.
00:14:09.000So first of all, who gives a crap, right?
00:14:11.000In 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?
00:14:18.000Because we have a First Amendment in this country, thank God.
00:14:20.000They don't have the same thing in Britain.
00:14:22.000On Monday's edition of the show, of course, Morgan made his comments.
00:14:26.000And so now, Ofcom was apparently investigating.
00:14:28.000An Ofcom spokesperson told Variety, we have, quote, launched an investigation into Monday's episode under Good Morning Britain under our harm and offense rules.
00:14:38.000Okay, 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.
00:14:46.000Now, 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.
00:14:57.000But let me just state for the record on my position on mental illness and on suicide.
00:15:00.000These 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.
00:15:06.000And if they belong to an institution like the royal family and they go and seek that help, they should absolutely be given it.
00:15:11.000It's not for me to question if she felt suicidal.
00:15:15.000My 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.
00:15:22.000If that's true, first, that person should be fired.
00:15:24.000And second, the royal family had serious questions that need to be answered.
00:15:28.000But that apparently didn't fix the problem.
00:15:30.000Morgan still had to go because Morgan had offended the woke princess.
00:15:34.000And 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.
00:15:46.000It's usually pretty easy to tell who is a victim and who is the victimizer in a situation like this.
00:15:52.000The way that you can tell is who is the person who is threatening to actually do something to another person.
00:15:56.000That's how you can tell who the actual victim is here.
00:15:59.000And Meghan Markle was not threatened by Piers Morgan in any way.
00:17:12.000Freedom of speech is a hill I'm happy to die on.
00:17:14.000Thanks for all of the love and the hate.
00:17:16.000I'm off to spend more time with my opinions.
00:17:18.000And 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.
00:17:26.000He said I don't believe anything that comes out of her mouth.
00:17:28.000I 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.
00:17:34.000If 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.
00:17:41.000I 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.
00:17:47.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:17:49.000Because, of course, the woke royalty doesn't actually have to be royalty.
00:17:52.000They can just be members of our establishment media.
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00:19:02.000Okay, so the woke being the actual Western royalty at this point.
00:19:07.000You 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.
00:19:12.000Piers Morgan losing his job over saying that he disagrees with Meghan Markle and doesn't believe her?
00:19:33.000Taylor Lorenz is a pseudo-reporter over at the New York Times.
00:19:36.000When 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.
00:20:01.000She's an activist, just like many members of the New York Times woke editorial crew.
00:20:07.000Well, yesterday she put out a tweet, and here is her tweet.
00:20:09.000For International Women's Day, please consider supporting women enduring online harassment.
00:20:13.000It'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.
00:20:20.000So 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?
00:20:37.000And so this means that the entire media infrastructure rushed to her defense for this rather self-centered tweet.
00:20:43.000So 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.
00:20:53.000So Tucker went after her on Fox News last night.
00:20:56.000By most people's standards, Taylor Lorenz would seem to have a pretty good life.
00:20:59.000One of the best lives in the country, in fact.
00:21:02.000Lots of people are suffering right now, but no one's suffering quite as much as Taylor Lorenz is suffering.
00:21:08.000People have criticized her opinions on the internet, and it destroyed her life.
00:21:12.000Let's pause on this International Women's Day and recognize that.
00:21:16.000You thought female Uyghurs had it bad.
00:21:22.000Okay, so the media went into full defense mode for Taylor Lorenz, of course.
00:21:27.000So 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.
00:21:42.000So first of all, I thought we're supposed to say people's names generally now, but apparently not.
00:21:45.000Apparently 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.
00:21:55.000And so this became the talking point among the media left.
00:22:00.000A 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.
00:22:14.000Steve 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.
00:22:29.000Okay, 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.
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00:24:53.000If they find that out, he's totally toast.
00:24:55.000So, he then put out an abject apology for having tweeted out a book.
00:24:59.000Because 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.
00:25:48.000If 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.
00:25:57.000That is you just zealously guarding decency.
00:26:00.000That's the way all this crap works right now.
00:26:02.000The 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?
00:26:17.000We get to choose who we want to be every single day.
00:26:21.000We get to define who we are every single day.
00:26:23.000And if you challenge our self-definition in any way, Advertently or inadvertently, then this means that you have somehow done us a harm, right?
00:26:32.000If you refuse to acknowledge my self-definition, this is an actual harm, and I get to do whatever I want to you.
00:26:40.000So 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.
00:26:53.000The way, by the way, that you can tell who the actual harm doer is.
00:26:56.000So, in real life, the way that you can tell who's doing the harm is who actually did serious damage to somebody.
00:27:00.000That's how you can tell who did the harm.
00:27:03.000In 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?
00:27:10.000If they're a member of a woke identity group, they don't actually have to demonstrate harm was done to them.
00:27:14.000All they have to demonstrate is that they were offended by something and you have challenged their self-identity.
00:27:20.000It's a hierarchy of power designed specifically to exclude certain people, and to include certain people, and to obviate the need to demonstrate harm.
00:27:28.000So, Winston Marshall didn't do any harm to anybody.
00:28:14.000For now, please know I realize how my endorsements have the potential to be viewed as approvals of hateful, divisive behavior.
00:28:20.000The entire book that Andy wrote is about how Antifa is hateful and divisive.
00:28:24.000But 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.
00:28:29.000I apologize, as this was not at all my intention.
00:29:20.000They'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.
00:29:29.000Now, 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.
00:29:42.000If 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.
00:30:15.000The 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.
00:30:26.000It has to be very sensitive to those with sensitive skin and not sensitive skin.
00:30:30.000According 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.
00:30:39.000Okay, no, most people don't feel excluded.
00:30:49.000Would you rather be a member of the victimized royalty or would you rather be one of those people on the outside looking in?
00:30:55.000So yes, I too feel very offended by things.
00:30:57.000And that sense of offense gives me ultimate power over the direction of society.
00:31:02.000Unilever is a company based in London.
00:31:03.000They own Dove, Axe, Sunsilk, and Vaseline, among other personal care brands.
00:31:07.000They 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.
00:31:14.000Because 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.
00:31:27.000An aim of these steps and others, Unilever said, was to better, quote, challenge narrow beauty ideals.
00:31:31.000Yes, I'm sure that men will find completely different things hot now that you're no longer digitally photoshopping your models.
00:31:37.000Now that you just left the pimple on the face.
00:31:58.000The advertising changes came after the company commissioned a 10,000 person study across nine countries, including Brazil, China, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and the US.
00:32:04.000The study found 56% of participants thought the beauty industry could make people feel excluded.
00:32:21.000Literally all the things could make somebody feel excluded.
00:32:23.000Seven in ten people agreed the word normal on products and in advertising had negative effects.
00:32:27.000Eight in ten people agreed among participants aged 18 to 35.
00:32:30.000Because again, anything that threatens your sense of self-identity is bad.
00:32:34.000And 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.
00:32:39.000Or, maybe I'm not normal because I should reconsider my behavior.
00:32:43.000Instead, it's the word normality itself is the offense.
00:32:48.00074% of participants said they wanted the beauty industry to make them feel better, not just look better.
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00:36:11.000You're supposed to instead focus on the spending bills and you're supposed to focus on the politics of the day.
00:36:17.000Now, the reality is you can focus on both, right?
00:36:19.000You can focus on the politics of the day and the spending bills.
00:36:21.000You 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.
00:36:27.000It is, in fact, the woke culture that has invaded your business.
00:36:29.000I 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.
00:36:46.000And that happens on a relatively frequent basis.
00:36:48.000But then we're told by these woke higher-ups that, you know what?
00:36:52.000When they do this kind of stuff, when they fire people for their beliefs, it's because they have universal standards.
00:36:56.000The beauty of being a member of the woke royalty is that you can pretend that your standard is everybody's standard.
00:37:01.000This is what the CEO of Walt Disney Company, Bob Chapek, said on Tuesday.
00:37:05.000He addressed the firing of Gina Carano from the Disney Plus show, The Mandalorian, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
00:37:10.000The executive was asked about the situation during an annual shareholders meeting.
00:37:13.000Asked 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.
00:37:24.000Okay, literally yesterday, Disney Plus announced that they would not allow the movies Dumbo, Peter Pan, and the Aristocats to be on children's playlists.
00:37:33.000They had to at least be seven or older to access those movies.
00:37:54.000Okay, 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.
00:38:03.000Now I read it and there's something racist.
00:38:05.000Okay, well then it didn't bother you at the time and it didn't make you more racist, did it?
00:38:08.000How many kids have been made racist by Dumbo?
00:38:45.000There'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.
00:38:52.000For 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.
00:38:59.000There are many, many Latino people who work in this particular office.
00:39:02.000We have several producers and security people and executives of the company.
00:39:07.000We have many people working at this company who are Latino.
00:39:09.000Not a single one of them uses the term latinx because it's an idiotic term.
00:39:14.000And yet the woke white liberals will use it.
00:39:24.000They're left-leaning because that's the expectation of them.
00:39:27.000Chapek says Disney stands for, quote, values that are universal.
00:39:29.000Values of respect, values of decency, values of integrity, and values of inclusion.
00:39:33.000Oh, 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.
00:39:40.000Literally comparing immigration in America to Nazi death camps is what Pedro Pascal did.
00:39:50.000Says 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.
00:40:03.000I'm just gonna say the words harmony and peace and diversity over and over again, but that's not left-wing at all.
00:40:08.000Those are universal values that are only held by people I agree with who are left-wing, but I'm not left-wing.
00:40:15.000It's just absurdity on its face, obviously.
00:40:18.000And unfortunately, it's this sort of absurd.
00:40:21.000This is one of the things that has happened on college campuses.
00:40:24.000One 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.
00:40:37.000Many 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.
00:40:42.000They just don't understand that that point of view exists about the world.
00:40:45.000And so they actually think that their opinions are fact.
00:40:48.000And therefore, their opinions are universal.
00:40:52.000Anybody who challenges that opinion is an outlier.
00:40:54.000Their opinions are the universal truth about the world.
00:40:57.000And this is how you end up with the absurdity of James Gunn.
00:41:00.000Again, he's a Disney director, James Gunn, right?
00:41:12.000And he ended up being fired from Guardians of the Galaxy.
00:41:15.000There were those of us, like me, I defended James Gunn.
00:41:18.000I 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.
00:41:25.000So 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.
00:41:37.000James Gunn, however, is a believer in the woke strictures of the day.
00:41:42.000So 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.
00:41:50.000People can be offended by something or think something sucks, and that's not cancel culture, it's free speech.
00:41:55.000Cancel culture is where you get somebody thrown out of their job.
00:41:58.000To 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.
00:42:09.000Okay, so far, I don't disagree with this, but here is where it gets fun.
00:42:13.000He says Pepe Le Pew is offensive because of the way he treats that cat.
00:42:16.000But Speedy Gonzales is not offensive, and so he shouldn't be cancelled.
00:42:19.000Okay, this is completely subjective now.
00:42:21.000So 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.
00:42:28.000But you should leave Speedy Gonzales because James Gunn, for some reason, loves Speedy Gonzales.
00:42:33.000Don't worry, guys, it's not cancel culture so long as they're only cancelling the stuff that I want cancelled.
00:42:38.000As long as they're just cancelling the stuff I want cancelled, then it's not cancel culture at all.
00:42:41.000Okay, this sort of mentality has infused everything.
00:42:44.000It has infused our schools, it has infused our colleges, it has infused our media, it has infused Hollywood, it has infused our corporate life.
00:42:52.000This view is now crammed down by the Western royalty, the wokes.
00:42:57.000They 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.
00:43:04.000Great piece by Barry Weiss today over at Substack about how this has infused America's elite institutions.
00:43:12.000She writes, The dissidents use pseudonyms and turn off their videos when they meet for clandestine Zoom calls.
00:43:16.000They're usually coordinating soccer practices and carpools.
00:43:45.000It's like 50 grand a year for your kids to go to Harvard Westlake.
00:43:48.000By normal American standards, they are quite wealthy.
00:43:50.000By the standards of Harvard Westlake, they are average.
00:43:52.000These are two career couples who credit their own success, not to family or inherited wealth, but to their own education.
00:43:57.000So 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.
00:44:08.000For most parents, the demonization of capitalism is the least of it.
00:44:11.000They say their children tell them they're afraid to speak up in class.
00:44:13.000Most 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.
00:44:25.000They're making my son feel like a racist because of the pigmentation of his skin, says one mother.
00:44:29.000Another poses a question to the group.
00:44:30.000How does focusing a spotlight on race fix how kids talk to one another?
00:44:33.000Why can't they all just be Wolverines?
00:44:35.000Well, Harvard Westlake has declined to comment.
00:44:38.000This 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.
00:44:47.000This 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.
00:44:53.000The parents in the backyard said that for every one of them, there are many more too afraid to speak up.
00:44:57.000They're all eager for their story to be told.
00:44:58.000Not a single one would let me use their name.
00:45:00.000They worry about losing their jobs or hurting their kids if their opposition to this ideology were known.
00:45:05.000The school can ask you to leave for any reason, said one mother at Brentwood, another LA prep school.
00:45:09.000Then 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.
00:45:14.000One 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.
00:45:20.000Another jokes we need to feed our families, owe and pay 50 grand a year to have our children to get indoctrinated.
00:45:25.000A teacher in New York put it more concisely, to speak up against this is to put all of your moral capital at risk.
00:45:31.000Parents who have spoken out against this ideology, even in private ways, say it hasn't gone over well.
00:46:02.000This 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.
00:46:12.000This 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.
00:46:17.000It is not about making the world a better place.
00:46:19.000It is an entry card to the new ruling class.
00:46:23.000A Harvard Westlake English teacher welcomes students back after summer with, I am a queer white womux of European descent.
00:46:29.000I use she, her pronouns, but also feel comfortable using they, them pronouns.
00:46:32.000She attached a self-care letter quoting Audre Lorde.
00:46:35.000Caring for myself is not self-indulgence.
00:46:36.000It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
00:46:40.000Woe 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.
00:46:50.000Yep, this is the world in which we now live.