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00:00:25.000Alrighty, so the big story of the morning is that the unemployment rate shockingly declined to 13.3%.
00:00:31.000There are a lot of people who are expecting, most of the economists were expecting, an addition of some 7.5 million people to the unemployment rolls this month.
00:00:39.000Instead, it turns out that unemployment actually decreased by 2.5%.
00:01:31.000There was some bad news on Thursday, with the Labor Department stating that 1.8 million Americans made first-time claims for unemployment benefits last week.
00:01:38.000That pushed the number of people who had lost their jobs amid the pandemic above 42 million.
00:01:50.000A lot of people who are still claiming unemployment, but a lot of jobs were added to the economy because it turns out that people are not into being locked up and losing their jobs forever.
00:01:58.000And a lot of the people who are on unemployment have technically been sort of furloughed, right?
00:02:03.000A lot of them went to their employers and they said, if you could just kind of lay me off so that I'm eligible to make more money off unemployment than I am working for you right now, since I'm furloughed, that would be great.
00:02:11.000But those people are going to get their jobs back.
00:02:14.000The economy is expected to begin recovering during the second half of 2020.
00:02:17.000The CBO's May report had said the labor market is projected to materially improve after the third quarter, but obviously this was happening earlier, right?
00:02:24.000So bottom line is that people want to get back to work.
00:02:26.000People are getting back to work, and that is amazing.
00:02:30.000This led Paul Krugman, the expert over at the New York Times, because the experts are always right.
00:02:34.000This is the thing that we have learned over the past several months, is you must listen to data, you must listen to the experts, you must listen to the science.
00:02:40.000Now, as somebody who is kind of fond of listening to data and science, I've been noting all along that the data and science have not been backing a lot of the positions taken by the so-called experts.
00:02:49.000But it is amusing to watch as Paul Krugman becomes an employment truther.
00:02:53.000He tweeted out this morning, This being the Trump era, you can't completely discount the possibility.
00:02:58.000They've gotten to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
00:03:01.000President Trump went to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and he said, it's going to be your unemployment numbers or your brains on this piece of paper.
00:03:07.000But it's much more likely, says Paul Krugman, that the models used to produce these numbers have gone haywire in a time of pandemic.
00:03:13.000He says these numbers should make you more, not less, pessimistic about the economic outlook.
00:03:50.000People have been saying on the right, is it possible that Trump can still win given everything that's going on, given the fact that he's trailing Joe Biden heavily, given the fact that he's trailing in a lot of the swing states?
00:03:57.000The answer is if the economy really recovers, and if COVID doesn't kill everybody, then by the time we get to the election, the story ain't gonna be the riots.
00:04:03.000The story is going to be the economy booming again, or the economy skyrocketing again, or the, I mean, this month we had the greatest jobs growth since 1939.
00:04:13.000And in the face of that, Joe Biden and his performative wokeness.
00:04:16.000Because right now, the performative wokeness looks good when you got a lot of people out in the streets and when everybody is being forced to kneel at the altar, almost literally kneel, kneel at the altar of the proposition that America is systemically racist.
00:04:28.000Every major corporation putting out notices about this and Joe Biden out there rah-rahing it in the middle of rioting and looting.
00:04:33.000All of that looks good when President Trump doesn't look like he's in control.
00:04:36.000But if we get to November and the actual question is booming economy versus performative wokeness from a dead guy in Joe Biden, That is a better race for Donald Trump.
00:04:54.000If there's no economic recovery, he's toast.
00:04:56.000If there is an economic recovery, then he could win.
00:04:59.000He could win a fairly solid victory in the Electoral College.
00:05:02.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:05:05.000Let's talk about the fact that no matter what's going on in your life, there's one thing, one cost that typically is not going to go down, and that is your cell phone bill.
00:05:12.000Right now, it's certainly not going to go down because you've probably been using your phone nonstop, considering you can't see other live human beings.
00:05:18.000But there's one way you can save a ton of money on your cell phone bill.
00:07:52.000And right now, because all the cameras are out and every police officer in America is out, you're going to see more instances of that.
00:07:57.000And that being caught on camera and police officers being punished for this sort of thing, I think most police officers are on board with that.
00:08:04.000In this particular case, the shove is bad.
00:08:07.000The guy obviously does lose his balance and trips over himself.
00:08:10.000Don't shove 75-year-old people is the answer to this particular problem.
00:08:18.000when SWAT was attempting to disperse a crowd, and one SWAT member just goes right after a cameraman.
00:08:24.000There's a cameraman who's standing right there, and you see the SWAT guy take his shield and just slam the shield into the stomach of the cameraman.
00:08:33.000Because the narrative that we are being told by the Black Lives Matter crew is that police brutality is reserved for black people.
00:08:39.000That the issue here is not bad police training and police brutality and incidents thereof, but generalized systemic American racism.
00:08:45.000I've suggested that typically when you have incidents of police brutality, it's really more an issue of the fact That a lot of police are not well trained, a lot of police are too aggressive, that that happens across communities, it is not relegated to the black community, and that to pretend that every incident of brutality is in fact an incident of racism is to make a category error.
00:09:03.000In fact, everybody who's jumping to the conclusion that the Derek Chauvin killing of George Floyd, the alleged killing of George Floyd, and I say alleged because again there's conflicting autopsies on this, but the alleged killing of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin People who are jumping to the conclusion that Chauvin did that because he's a brutal racist as opposed to because he's just not a good cop and was involved in incidents of police brutality and was badly trained.
00:09:26.000The jump there is not supported by the evidence in that particular case.
00:09:30.000Now, there are cases in which there is evidence to support the racism charge.
00:09:34.000So a perfect case where you have evidence to support a racism charge would be the Ahmed Arbery case.
00:09:38.000So originally I said, maybe this is just vigilantes.
00:09:41.000Who were attempting to stop what they thought was a crime, and they were wrong, and they were acting like idiots and bad people, and they got into an armed confrontation with Arbery and shot him, which means they should go to jail.
00:09:55.000But that is not a case necessarily of racism.
00:10:07.000Knowing the motivations of people is generally going to be more helpful in generating data for a narrative than simply just assuming the narrative.
00:10:15.000And what you're seeing from the Black Lives Matter movement, what you're seeing from the media is, and what you're seeing from every major corporation, every major corporation in America is now saying, I've donated a million dollars to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in acknowledgement of systemic racism.
00:10:26.000By the way, if you think that those sorts of donations are going to now alleviate people calling you racist, if you're a major corporation, you're wrong.
00:10:34.000If Amazon thinks that by putting up a Black Lives Matter banner on their website that people are going to now just pretend that Amazon is fine, that the left is going to leave Amazon alone, good luck with that.
00:10:45.000But the reality is that in certain cases, you can actually tell whether racism is happening so.
00:10:52.000So, there is an allegation now that Travis McMichael, 34, called the alleged victim, Ahmaud Arbery, in that Georgia awful, awful, awful case, right?
00:11:01.000They're not being charged with murder.
00:11:02.000Travis McMichael, who is one of the shooters, called the alleged victim an effing N-word after the shooting and before police arrived, according to testimony from Special Agent Richard Dial.
00:11:10.000That came secondhand from a co-defendant, William Roddy Bryan, 50, the man who recorded video of the fatal shooting.
00:11:16.000Now, this has been called a little bit into question because the guy was recording the shooting from behind, he was in his car, so unless he yelled it, the question is how the guy in the car heard it.
00:11:24.000But, assuming that he's not lying, assuming he's not trying to, you know, get off the hook by basically saying this was a racist murder and I wasn't involved in any of it, it was the racism, but assuming it's true, which I don't see why we shouldn't assume it's true, assuming it's true, that is a case of a racist murder, right?
00:11:39.000Yes, we can identify it, and yes, we can punish it.
00:11:42.000But to immediately assume that every incident of police brutality involving a black person is really about the race of the black person, as opposed to the police brutality, I think is a fairly major category error.
00:11:54.000But we are not really supposed to talk about the category error, because again, there is a narrative to be driven.
00:12:00.000And the narrative is that America is deeply evil and deeply terrible in every possible way.
00:12:04.000And this is why you see senators kneeling at the US Capitol.
00:12:09.000Okay, now again, the kneeling symbol is, I don't know if it's deliberately vague or if it's obviously supposed to be the Colin Kaepernick thing, right?
00:12:16.000That was the symbol that Colin Kaepernick used.
00:12:17.000Colin Kaepernick, the former 49ers quarterback, got benched and then decided to kneel and wore socks with cops as pigs on them.
00:12:24.000He was kneeling for the national anthem and for the American flag.
00:12:29.000The implication being that America, broadly writ, is guilty for the sins of police brutality and racism is to blame for all police brutality.
00:12:36.000Now you have United States sitting senators who are kneeling in honor of George Floyd.
00:12:41.000Well, if the idea is that you have to accept that America is systemically racist, then that's a very bad thing for the country.
00:12:48.000Here's the problem with making arguments like institutionally racist or systemically racist.
00:12:53.000They are deliberately nonspecific and they are deliberately created so that you can never alleviate them.
00:12:59.000I don't like problems that you can never alleviate, especially in politics.
00:13:02.000It's a serious issue because first of all, if you're not able to alleviate it, then you really shouldn't concern yourself with it in politics.
00:13:10.000If something in politics is not alleviatable, then sometimes the solution is worse than the cure.
00:13:14.000This is true with regard to, for example, income inequality.
00:13:16.000If you want to solve income inequality, you could go full commie and everybody can have the exact same income.
00:13:21.000But that is not an alleviatable problem in which the solution is not worse than the problem.
00:13:25.000If you say systemic racism, you never actually have to cite the policy you think is racist or point to the person you think is racist.
00:13:31.000Instead, you just say everything is racist.
00:13:33.000And as I said yesterday, that's a religious belief.
00:13:35.000It is not an actual specific belief about something that we can fix.
00:13:39.000That's just racism is out there in the atmosphere.
00:13:56.000But deep down in your heart, without you even knowing it, you're probably racist.
00:13:59.000Okay, well now you've made an allegation that is completely unfalsifiable.
00:14:02.000Suggesting systemic racism or institutional racism is deliberately nonspecific.
00:14:07.000And if you want to talk about policy, if you want to talk about redlining, for example, back in the 1960s, which was a thing and was made illegal in 1975 by the federal government, if you want to talk about informal practices of redlining, which, by the way, are illegal, and by the way, you could sue banks over, Then you're talking about a policy that has been alleviated by law.
00:14:28.000If you want to talk about the fact that history has consequences, that of course is true.
00:14:33.000But the question is, what do you want to do about that today?
00:14:35.000Because I can't go back, I don't have a time machine.
00:14:37.000I can't go back in time and change stuff that happened in the past.
00:14:39.000So what policy would you like to pursue today that is going to alleviate the problem of quote-unquote systemic racism?
00:14:46.000And if your suggestion is that we have to do injustice today in order to rectify the injustices of the past, the answer is no.
00:14:51.000Because now you're just doing injustices today.
00:14:54.000Two wrongs do not actually make a right, nor do they alleviate the problem.
00:14:56.000If anybody thinks that slavery reparations, that signing checks to descendants of slaves, people are going to go, oh, OK, I guess we're done here.
00:15:13.000Your entire case is that the reparations are reparative.
00:15:16.000If you're saying it might not work, then it's not reparative.
00:15:19.000That's not, if you go to a mechanic and the mechanic says, you know, I'm going to need to complete, I'm going to charge you the worth of the car, all you need to do, and it might fix your car, it might not fix your car.
00:15:30.000I have serious doubts, have serious doubts.
00:15:32.000Okay, so we're going to talk more about the Black Lives Matter agenda because it's not clear exactly what people are stumping for other than that generalized sense of America being bad, which is something that you as an American should oppose.
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00:17:24.000Okay, so what does the Black Lives Matter movement want?
00:17:28.000So if you're talking about specific policies, the answer is that the BLM agenda as posted on their website is completely insane.
00:17:34.000I mean, it's things like defund the police, free Palestine, like it's just, it's radical, radical stuff.
00:17:39.000And if you don't remember the agenda, all you have to do is go back to 2014 when it was the exact same agenda that nobody actually wanted to adopt.
00:17:44.000So what exactly is driving all of this?
00:17:46.000What's driving a lot of this is the pitch, which is that America is deliberately keeping black people down.
00:17:53.000Now, I have a generalized view of human beings.
00:17:55.000They don't think about each other all that much.
00:17:57.000They don't spend an awful lot of time thinking about keeping other people down.
00:18:06.000I really don't think there are a lot of those people.
00:18:08.000So if there are not a lot of those people and you can't cite those people, then you need to cite me the rule.
00:18:11.000The rule that's keeping black people down.
00:18:13.000And if you can't cite me a rule, then I'm not sure exactly what we are supposed to do about your accusation.
00:18:19.000If instead what is actually happening is the generalized leftist pitch that any inequality can be chalked up to injustice, even if you can't name the injustice, I'm not going to go along with that.
00:18:29.000If the idea is that any inequality, that income inequality, can be chalked up to some sort of exploitation or historic grievance that can only be cured by some new injustice, no.
00:18:41.000And if you're going to imply that Americans are bad-hearted and racist, and that the only way to alleviate this is the expiation of sin through quasi-religious rituals in which you kneel and repeat after people, the answer is no.
00:18:53.000That is not something I'm willing to do as a free American who has not sinned against black people.
00:18:57.000That is not something I'm willing to do.
00:18:59.000I'm perfectly willing to accept my own sins.
00:19:00.000I have a full list on my website of things I feel I've said wrong over the course of my career.
00:19:04.000But I'm not willing to accept responsibility for something that my non-ancestors did.
00:19:09.000And I'm not willing, and nobody else should either.
00:19:12.000Just as a black person should not be forced to accept responsibility For things that black people do that are wrong, white people should not be forced to accept responsibility for things that white people do that are wrong or have done in the past.
00:19:22.000If you are looking to fix things, there's a basic rule in marriage.
00:19:26.000A basic rule in marriage is when you're having an argument, don't say, you always act.
00:19:36.000And usually it's inaccurate, because people don't always do anything.
00:19:39.000Instead, you have to say, what is the exact problem that we have, and how do we solve this problem that is right in front of us?
00:19:45.000If you're just going to suggest, without evidence, that every single instance of police brutality is indicative of broader American racism, And by the way, every instance of a black person killing a white person is not indicative of a bigger problem.
00:20:04.000And it does not help when you trot out spokespeople like Al Sharpton, the worst race baiter of modern American history.
00:20:09.000Al Sharpton completely falsified a rape case about Tawana Bradley.
00:20:13.000Al Sharpton was involved in inciting the riots, in my opinion, in Crown Heights in 1991 that ended with the murder of an Orthodox Jew.
00:20:20.000He literally went out in front of a crowd and said that if a Jew wanted to fight him, pin back your yarmulke and come on over.
00:20:27.000Al Sharpton was involved in the incitement of the burning of Freddy's Fashion Mart, in my opinion, again, in New York City in 1996, when he suggested that Jewish interlopers were taking over real estate in New York.
00:20:39.000That guy, and the guy, I mean, his shtick is that he goes to businesses, he claims that they're racist, and then if they sign a check to his fund, he leaves them alone.
00:20:49.000Nobody has made more money off of the lie of systemic American racism than Al Sharpton.
00:20:54.000Nobody has made more money off of it than Al Sharpton.
00:20:56.000So using him as your spokesperson is a mistake.
00:20:57.000So Al Sharpton yesterday made a statement in which he suggested that ever since 401 years ago, the reason we could never be who we wanted and dreamed of being is you kept your knee on our neck for 400 years.
00:21:09.000Now, Americans literally kept their knees on the necks of black people all the way up through the Civil War and then in the South through Jim Crow.
00:21:17.000But Al Sharpton has had no one's knee on his neck.
00:21:19.000Al Sharpton has made a very, very lucrative career out of blackmailing people so that he would leave them alone.
00:21:25.000He says, we were smarter than the underfunded schools you put us in, but you had your knee on our neck.
00:21:28.000We could run corporations and not hustle in the street, but you had our knee on our neck.
00:21:56.000The vaguer the charge, the harder it is to rebut.
00:21:58.000And that is why vague charges are being made.
00:22:01.000So, Kihana Mariah Ross, a professor of African American Studies, has a piece of the New York Times called, Call It What It Is, Anti-Blackness.
00:22:09.000She says the right term is anti-blackness.
00:22:11.000She says, to be clear, racism isn't a meaningless term, but it's a catch-all that can encapsulate anything, from black people being denied fair access to mortgage loans to Asian students being burned, burdened with a model minority label.
00:22:30.000It's a theoretical framework that illuminates society's inability to recognize our humanity, the disdain, disregard, and disgust for our existence.
00:22:38.000Disdain, disregard, and disgust for our existence.
00:22:40.000We have active affirmative action programs at every major American university.
00:22:43.000Because there is not disdain, disregard, and disgust for the existence of black people.
00:22:47.000There's a desperate attempt to help black people in bad circumstances move up the ladder of success.
00:22:55.000But the basic notion in America that anti-blackness is the defining feature, that again allows you to lay everything at the feet of an unspecified enemy.
00:23:04.000And then we get in this column the usual trick, we're going to go back 150 years to slavery and then we're just going to fast forward as though nothing has changed in the interim.
00:23:11.000Anti-Blackness describes the inability to recognize Black humanity.
00:23:14.000It captures the reality that the kind of violence that saturates Black life is not based on any specific thing a Black person, better described as a person who has been racialized Black, did.
00:23:29.000Anti-Blackness covers the fact that society's hatred of Blackness, and also its gratuitous violence against Black people, is complicated by its need for our existence.
00:23:37.000For example, for white people, again, better described as those who have been racialized white.
00:23:41.000This is an easy way, by the way, of dismissing black conservatives and treating white liberals as though they are woke.
00:23:45.000The abject inhumanity of the black reinforces their whiteness, their humanness, their power, their privilege, whether they're aware of it or not.
00:23:57.000I can't explain why you're a racist, but I know you are.
00:23:59.000Because whether you're aware of it or not, I know that out there, there's a bunch of people who are just anti-black.
00:24:05.000And the fact that you exist is evidence, as a white person, that anti-blackness exists.
00:24:09.000Like, the vagary is the enemy of unity.
00:24:12.000If you want people to come together, you have to make a specific proposal.
00:24:15.000If you want people to actually move beyond a problem, you have to make a specific proposal for a solution.
00:24:20.000That's what's so irritating about this.
00:24:22.000Because the only specific proposals I've seen, things like limiting qualified immunity, or stopping police unions from negotiating bad contracts, I agree with those!
00:24:31.000Okay, but nobody wants to actually acknowledge that the right agrees on a lot of those points, so instead it's, well, if you don't agree on the broader point that America is, broadly speaking, racist, then you're part of the problem.
00:24:41.000Now it seems to me that A big part of the problem here is the deliberate attempt to paint a vague picture of what the problem is in the first place such that the goalposts can move ad nauseum.
00:24:52.000Everything becomes racist so long as people on the left suggest that it is racist and the goalposts consistently recede.
00:24:57.000It doesn't, like, perfect example, college campuses.
00:25:01.000The reality is that on college campuses, no place in America has more accusations of racism than college campuses.
00:25:08.000These are also the most woke places on the planet.
00:25:10.000So if you think that acknowledging white privilege, which is like the de rigueur move on campuses, that if acknowledging white privilege on America's college campuses has somehow alleviated the problem of accusations of racism or alleviated racism itself, I beg to differ.
00:25:25.000There is no evidence of this whatsoever.
00:25:27.000Because again, the problem is being used as a club.
00:25:30.000And again, the problem is not even being specifically explained.
00:25:41.000And the question is why they happen and how we alleviate the problem.
00:25:45.000If you can't specify exactly where the problem is coming from, better than racism We're anti-blackness that nobody knows about, and I can't name a policy, and I can't name a person, I can't name who did the bad thing.
00:25:55.000If somebody came to your house, and if you called the police...
00:25:59.000And let's assume a world in which the police are good, okay?
00:26:03.000You call the police, and somebody, and they come to your door, and they say, okay, what's the problem?
00:26:08.000And you say, the problem is a bad thing just happened to me.
00:26:11.000And they say, okay, what's the bad thing that happened to you?
00:26:13.000And you can't really specify the bad thing that happened to you, and you can't specify who did it, and you can't specify what exactly happened.
00:27:40.000What's hilarious is that Democrats made the pitch that America is systemically racist, that they can't name who's doing the racism or what the policy is.
00:27:55.000Okay, meanwhile, the performative woke crowd has taken over major American institutions.
00:28:00.000The culture wars are ongoing and the culture wars are bloody.
00:28:04.000There are people like me who have been speaking on college campuses for a long time and pointing out the problems that exist on America's college campuses for a long time, particularly the problems of safe spaces and microaggressions.
00:28:15.000And if you say something I don't like, you're hurting me and you're creating a danger.
00:28:19.000And there's a general attempt by many in the media and by many on the left, cancel culture doesn't exist.
00:28:26.000Well, it turns out that it actually is.
00:28:28.000And not only that, there are a bunch of people on the right like, well, is it really a problem that it's happening on campuses?
00:28:32.000After all, these kids will one day enter the real world.
00:28:34.000And in the real world, they won't be able to get away with this bullcrap.
00:28:38.000In the real world, they will actually have to undertake to understand opposing points of view.
00:28:43.000Well, some of us have been warning you that what starts in academia doesn't stay in academia, and that the ridiculous social justice warrior, censorious culture was not just going to stay in the academy, it was going to leave and take over the institutions.
00:28:55.000And that the Maoist cultural revolution that you are seeing at America's major institutions is ongoing.
00:29:01.000Half of the Vox writing team is now realizing the cancel culture exists.
00:29:04.000They spent like years denying that it exists.
00:29:05.000Now I've seen in the last day, half of the writers over at Vox, a very left-wing publication, say, oh, by the way, this cancel culture thing, it's not great.
00:29:13.000Well, because of what just happened over at the New York Times.
00:29:15.000So I'm gonna explain what happened over at the New York Times.
00:29:17.000And it is a perfect and ridiculous example of how when you start with the premise that America is systemically evil, And that America is systemically racist, and then you suggest that America's rights, rights to free speech, rights to freedom of expression, that those rights fall unequally on people because of the innate inequality in American life, then all you have to do is curb those rights and make the rights available only to people who have been historically victimized.
00:29:40.000That's the injustice that has to be done today to correct for the injustices of the past.
00:29:44.000This is a case first made by Herbert Marcuse, the radical Marxist professor from the 1960s, when he suggested that what you really needed, what you really needed was repression of opposing viewpoints.
00:29:59.000You need a situation in which tolerance of the left-wing viewpoint is exacerbated and intolerance of right-wing viewpoints is put down because that has to be silenced because freedom of speech is actually bad because if the right people, if people who are bad use freedom of speech, those people could actually win.
00:30:15.000So we have to silence those people such that marginalized voices can speak.
00:30:18.000That perspective and allowing the non-marginalized voices to speak, allowing right-wingers to Is a threat to your life.
00:30:24.000That perspective has taken over the New York Times.
00:30:28.000We're going to get to that in just one second.
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00:32:03.000The woke staff at the New York Times, and this is happening at a lot of major companies.
00:32:07.000If you've been noticing a lot of the major corporations issuing statements, that's because they have a lot of woke interns who are basically telling them that if they don't, then they're gonna be very, very angry at them.
00:32:15.000And the silence is violence movement is gaining speed.
00:32:19.000I actually have, so I go to a gym out here when we're in non-pandemic times.
00:32:23.000The head of the gym emailed me yesterday and said he had received a cancellation from somebody, not because he had said anything bad, but because he did not put out a corporate statement about Black Lives Matter in the middle of this.
00:32:33.000So the person, like, he found the one person who's apparently sitting at home going, I need corporate virtue signaling or I will not patronize your business.
00:32:40.000Okay, we're gonna get to this in just one second.
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00:34:59.000Alrighty, so the move toward America is evil, systemically racist, and therefore the only way to fix that systemic racism is to shut down all the voices we don't like.
00:35:17.000That move is being made by the New York Times staff, by the woke staff at the New York Times.
00:35:22.000And understand, they don't actually think.
00:35:24.000That right-wing perspectives are quote-unquote violent.
00:35:28.000I think there are some of them who do.
00:35:29.000Some of them are so delusional that they believe that if they print an editorial from Tom Cotton that that is actual violence to people.
00:35:35.000I think most of them just don't like the viewpoint and they are using the excuse of Your viewpoint is inherently unjust.
00:35:41.000An unjust viewpoint means that you are exacerbating the systemic inequalities of the United States.
00:35:46.000Therefore, we have every right to ban what you are saying.
00:35:49.000And every obligation, not just right, every obligation to ban what you are saying.
00:35:53.000So it is not really a threat of violence.
00:35:55.000It is the belief that the only way to make a better America is to repress voices that you don't like.
00:36:00.000And listen, every publication has editorial standards.
00:36:02.000But if you are saying that you cannot print an op-ed from a sitting United States Senator, Tom Cotton, A Harvard Law graduate who is writing a piece, served in the military, writing a piece about the use of the military against rioting and looting.
00:36:16.000A viewpoint, by the way, agreed to by polling data, by six in 10 Americans, that you cannot run that piece, and that it's bad to run that piece, you are not, only not in the mainstream.
00:36:27.000Okay, but that is the way that a lot of these organizations are being run.
00:36:30.000We saw the same thing with The Atlantic.
00:36:32.000That organization, run by the execrable Jeffrey Goldberg, hired Kevin Williamson from National Review to write, and then after some woke staffers decided that Kevin Williamson was bad, bad, they fired him.
00:36:42.000Well, now you're seeing this over at The New York Times.
00:36:44.000So yesterday, There is a big brouhaha because Tom Cotton wrote this op-ed suggesting that it was time to send in the troops to restore order during rioting and looting.
00:36:53.000He did make a distinction between protesters and rioters and looters, but people at the New York Times don't make that distinction because they think that the rioters and looters are justified in tearing down the institutions of America.
00:37:03.000So a bunch of members of the New York Times woke staff tweeted out the same thing.
00:37:07.000As I mentioned yesterday, they all did the college, this is all college bullcrap.
00:37:19.000These campuses are replete with this kind of woke nonsense.
00:37:22.000And one of the things that they do, as I mentioned yesterday, is the, if you agree with somebody, you can't clap because it might trigger somebody's post-traumatic stress disorder.
00:37:32.000And you're supposed to repeat slogans.
00:37:33.000So if somebody says something, then you're supposed to—just like you saw at that de Blasio rally, somebody from the microphone says, respect, and you don't just give respect.
00:37:40.000You're supposed to shout back, respect!
00:37:42.000Or at the Bethesda, Maryland thing, you're supposed to repeat sentence by sentence what somebody is telling you, which is a religious woke incantation.
00:37:48.000Okay, so the entire New York Times staff apparently decides to tweet out the same thing.
00:37:52.000Running this puts black New York Times staff in danger.
00:37:56.000If you're a black writer for the New York Times, Tom Cotton saying that using American military to put down riots is putting black staff at the New York Times in danger.
00:38:23.000This review made clear that a rushed editorial process led to publication of an op-ed that did not meet our standards.
00:38:29.000As a result, we're planning to examine both short-term and long-term changes to include expanding our fact-checking operation and reducing the number of op-eds we publish.
00:38:37.000So they're actually printing fewer op-eds because some woke staffers who were not willing to quit, by the way, If it was such a danger, they should have quit.
00:38:45.000I've quit publications where I think that the publication is doing something deeply and terribly wrong.
00:38:50.000None of these woke staffers were willing to quit the New York Times over apparently running a piece so dangerous it was putting their own staff's lives in danger.
00:38:58.000They're just willing to bitch about it to upper management so that the pusillanimous, cowardly upper management would apologize for running a piece that 58% of Americans agree with.
00:39:42.000First of all, I thought that generally speaking, you don't want your staffers leaking to outside publications.
00:39:47.000That's just not something that is done.
00:39:48.000If I found the staffers of the Daily Wire leaking to outside publications about internal business at the Daily Wire, they're fired like this.
00:40:11.000Well, if 200 people did a thing, that means that probably the 1 million New York Times subscribers, by the way, I think that's an underestimate.
00:40:18.000It may be 2 million New York Times subscribers.
00:40:19.000Clearly they're all canceling en masse.
00:40:22.000The amount of cowardice in corporate America, even including in our press and especially in our press, it's stunning.
00:40:28.000You want to know why Peloton is sending out little notices about woke culture?
00:40:31.000Because they're afraid they might receive 10 tweets.
00:41:46.000The new guard has a different worldview, one articulated best by John Haidt and Greg Lukianoff.
00:41:50.000They call it safetyism, in which the right of people to feel emotionally and psychologically safe trumps what were previously considered core liberal values, like free speech.
00:41:59.000I'm in no way surprised by what has now exploded into public view.
00:42:30.000Oh, it's an editorial conversation that ends with you restricting your op-ed page, not pulling down a piece that supposedly is chock full of errors.
00:42:36.000By the way, for the New York Times to say that their fact-checking is bad on the Tom Cotton piece, this is the same newspaper that printed the 1619 Project that made the suggestion that virtually everything in the American Revolution was designed to preserve slavery, which is insane.
00:43:23.000He says, I believe in the principle of openness to a range of opinions, even those you may disagree with.
00:43:27.000This piece was published in that spirit, but it's essential we listen and reflect on the concerns we're hearing, as we would with any piece that is the subject of significant criticism.
00:43:51.000She has a piece titled, So the police are so bad that we should all stop watching Law & Order, because the police are evil.
00:44:01.000We should all stop watching any show or movie that portrays the police as good, because we all know the police are actually brutal and racist.
00:44:07.000Now, first of all, if you think there has not been a TV show or movie made about police brutality and racism, let me recommend every single police show ever made except for Law & Order and maybe Dragnet.
00:44:17.000Every show made since NYPD Blue has taken on these issues.
00:44:24.000But Alyssa Rosenberg suggested we have a generalized view of the police as good, and that's bad, and that needs to stop.
00:44:30.000She says, for a century, Hollywood has been collaborating with police departments, telling stories that whitewash police shootings and valorizing an action hero's style of policing over the harder, less dramatic work of building relationships with the communities cops are meant to serve and protect.
00:44:43.000Purely from a dramatic perspective, crime makes a story seem consequential.
00:44:48.000Solving crime provides for a morally and emotionally satisfying conclusion.
00:44:51.000The result is an addiction to stories that portray police departments as more effective than they actually are, crime as more prevalent than it actually is, and police use of force as consistently justified.
00:45:01.000And then she says we should cancel Dick Wolf's Chicago franchise of shows.
00:45:41.000So, for a long time, there was this idea, and it came from some elements of the right and some elements of the left, that rap music was causing people to be violent.
00:45:47.000Video games, also causing people to be violent.
00:45:49.000Then there was a bevy of social science, and it showed not so much.
00:45:52.000Okay, so now we have a piece in the Washington Post suggesting we stop all police movies and TV shows.
00:45:57.000There's a piece today in the New York Times talking about how we don't need any more novels or TV shows about cops who do the wrong things for the right reason.
00:46:23.000It is designed to destroy your freedoms.
00:46:25.000Your freedoms to consume what you would like.
00:46:27.000Your freedom to say what you would like.
00:46:28.000Your freedom to read and watch what you would like.
00:46:31.000In order so that all messages must mirror the same message.
00:46:35.000Even if that message is factually untrue, such as that America was founded on slavery, not on freedom, or that America is systemically racist, rotten to the core.
00:46:44.000Every message must be made to match this message.
00:46:47.000It's not even enough for Drew Brees to apologize for saying that all he said was, I won't kneel for the American flag because I had grandfathers who fought in the military and the American flag stands for freedom.
00:46:57.000He was forced to apologize, and then he was forced to apologize again.
00:47:13.000Once you apologize for saying something as anodyne as the American flag is not worth kneeling for, the American flag is worth much more than that.
00:47:22.000Shannon Sharpe, the former tight end for the Denver Broncos, he says he's never going to respect Drew Brees now for having said that kneeling for the American flag is bad.
00:48:12.000Because I'm not getting that impression.
00:48:14.000Once you bow to the performative woke crowd, once you bow to the social justice warriors, they're joffrey.
00:48:20.000Okay, kneeling, bending the knee does not amount to an act of unity in front of social justice warriors who suggest that America is systemically racist.