The Ben Shapiro Show - Why They're Cancelling Dr. Seuss | Ep. 1206

00:00:00.000 Chris Cuomo finally realizes that covering his brother Andrew for CNN is a bad idea.

00:00:04.000 Dr. Seuss is canceled in Virginia, and Joe Biden pursues reparations.

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00:01:32.000 Okay, so Andrew Cuomo continues to be under fire for basically being really creepy and a weirdo.

00:01:40.000 And if he did any of this stuff in the private sector, he would be fired tomorrow.

00:01:43.000 So the latest story to break about Andrew Cuomo, frankly, this is the least disturbing of the story.

00:01:48.000 So we had a couple of stories already.

00:01:49.000 One was from a person named Lindsay Boylan, who worked with Cuomo.

00:01:52.000 She suggests that basically he called her up to his office for the express purpose of trying to kiss her.

00:01:57.000 And then he gave her an unwanted kiss.

00:01:58.000 We've had People suggest that he has harassed them in the past, made lewd comments to them.

00:02:04.000 A 25-year-old woman came forward and said that while she was working for him, he asked questions about whether she had sex with older men and whether she had a tramp stamp and this kind of stuff.

00:02:10.000 Okay, well, this particular story is the third in a line.

00:02:12.000 This is from the New York Times.

00:02:14.000 Anna Ruch had never met Governor Andrew Cuomo before encountering him at a crowded New York City wedding reception in September 2019.

00:02:20.000 Her first impression was positive enough.

00:02:22.000 The governor was working the room after toasting the newlyweds, and when he came upon Ms. 0.88

00:02:25.000 Rooch, now 33, she thanked him for his kind words about her friends.

00:02:29.000 But what happened next instantly unsettled her.

00:02:30.000 Mr. Cuomo put his hand on Ms.

00:02:32.000 Rooch's bare lower back, she said in an interview on Monday.

00:02:35.000 When she removed his hand with her own, Ms. 0.61

00:02:36.000 Rooch recalled, the governor remarked that she seemed aggressive and placed his hands on her cheeks.

00:02:40.000 He asked if he could kiss her, loudly enough for a friend standing nearby to hear.

00:02:44.000 Ms.

00:02:44.000 Rooch was bewildered by the entreaty, she said, and pulled away as the governor drew closer.

00:02:47.000 She said I was so confused and shocked and embarrassed.

00:02:50.000 I turned my head away and I didn't have words in the moment.

00:02:53.000 This account comes after two former aides accused Cuomo of sexual harassment in the workplace, plunging his third term into turmoil as the governor's defenders and Cuomo himself strained to explain his behavior.

00:03:03.000 He put out a statement suggesting that this was misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation.

00:03:08.000 He said, to the extent anyone felt that way, I am truly sorry about that.

00:03:11.000 Now, here's the weird thing.

00:03:12.000 All of this is caught on picture.

00:03:15.000 And first of all, for Andrew Cuomo, not a great picture.

00:03:20.000 So being lit directly like Satan is a little bit on the nose, I feel like, here.

00:03:25.000 He looks like he's completely red.

00:03:27.000 Like whatever the lighting here is, it's a problem for him.

00:03:30.000 And this woman has on her face the same exact expression as Peloton Lady, right? 0.96

00:03:36.000 It looks as though Andrew Cuomo is about to perform the scene from The Dark Knight in which the Joker asks Maggie Gallagher if she wants to know how he got that smile.

00:03:44.000 It's very weird, like very, very weird.

00:03:46.000 Now, there are gradations of behavior that are, you know, the end of your career.

00:03:53.000 The gradations of the behavior range from, you know, Harvey Weinstein, like he actually raped people, to an unwanted kiss, to he asked her and she said no, and then he let go of her head.

00:04:04.000 Now, number one, as the practicing Orthodox Jew in your life, let me tell you, you shouldn't be touching people without their permission.

00:04:10.000 Like, ever.

00:04:11.000 Okay?

00:04:11.000 That is also the moral thing to do.

00:04:13.000 I am not somebody who does this.

00:04:14.000 In fact, I've been mocked in the past for doing the Keanu Reeves hover hand in pictures, right?

00:04:19.000 I don't want to touch people without their permission.

00:04:21.000 And so in long rope lines of people where I'm taking pictures with people, you'll very often see my hand kind of above their shoulder because I don't really want to touch people, right?

00:04:28.000 It's not really a thing.

00:04:30.000 And I think, frankly, that politicians and public figures should engage in the Keanu Reeves hover hand.

00:04:33.000 He's sort of famous for this.

00:04:35.000 Andrew Cuomo is not just a hugger.

00:04:37.000 He's a kisser, apparently.

00:04:39.000 And he goes directly in for grabbing this lady by the head, which is a very aggressive and weird move. 0.97

00:04:44.000 Now, is that the kind of thing that a governor should lose his gubernatorial seat over?

00:04:48.000 Should he be impeached over that?

00:04:49.000 I mean, typically speaking, I would say no.

00:04:51.000 I would say that this is bad behavior.

00:04:54.000 Bad behavior.

00:04:54.000 There are gradations of bad behavior.

00:04:56.000 And him making weird comments to women about eating the whole sausage, making like lewd suggestions or weird jokes.

00:05:04.000 That does not seem to me this kind of behavior that you lose your gubernatorial seat over.

00:05:08.000 However, Andrew Cuomo has set a standard.

00:05:11.000 And Andrew Cuomo's standard is that there is no due process.

00:05:14.000 Andrew Cuomo's standard is the Me Too, Believe All Women standard.

00:05:17.000 And if you set yourself up as a backer of that standard, you deserve everything you get when that movement comes for you.

00:05:22.000 Because the revolutionaries have no friends.

00:05:25.000 They have only obstacles.

00:05:26.000 And when Andrew Cuomo became an obstacle, Andrew Cuomo is in serious trouble right now because there's every major politician in New York, all of them have their long knives out for this guy.

00:05:33.000 They hate him.

00:05:34.000 Okay, here's the reality.

00:05:35.000 They hate Andrew Cuomo. 1.00

00:05:36.000 He's a jackass. 1.00

00:05:37.000 Everybody in New York knows this. 1.00

00:05:38.000 If you're a New York Democrat, you know that Andrew Cuomo is a jackass. 0.99

00:05:41.000 And any opportunity to get rid of him is the opportunity to get rid of him right now. 0.99

00:05:45.000 A year ago, all this stuff would have come out.

00:05:46.000 Everybody would have ignored it.

00:05:48.000 A year ago, he was very useful as a tool against Donald Trump.

00:05:50.000 But now Donald Trump is no longer president.

00:05:52.000 And that means that Andrew Cuomo, he gotta go. 1.00

00:05:55.000 Right, it's perfectly convenient to get rid of Andrew Cuomo, because at the same time, you're getting rid of a guy that nobody really likes very much, because he's very aggressive and very nasty, and he's a jerk to everybody. 0.97

00:06:03.000 And also, you're clearing the way for the Letitia Jameses of the world, and the AOCs of the world, and that's something that the Democratic Party would like to do, frankly. 0.93

00:06:10.000 Not only that, you also get to, quote-unquote, re-establish the standard that you care about Me Too, because one of the things you may have noticed about the Me Too moment is that it has wavered in its strength and consistency.

00:06:20.000 At the very beginning, it was like, well, you know, Harvey Weinstein is real bad, and if he's a Democrat, so be it, he's still gotta go.

00:06:26.000 And then it started to waver just a little bit, right?

00:06:29.000 If it was Tara Reade accusing Joe Biden of something, well, then we just sort of black out those accusations.

00:06:32.000 They don't matter very much.

00:06:34.000 In other words, Me Too is a standard that is subjected to the importance of politics.

00:06:39.000 You'll notice, for example, that the Democratic Party tossed Al Franken off the back of the bus and then backed the bus up over him.

00:06:45.000 Why did they do that?

00:06:46.000 They did that because they were in the middle of a race in Alabama in which Roy Moore was running.

00:06:50.000 Roy Moore was the Senate candidate in Alabama who had been accused of trolling the food court for 14-year-old girls like 30 years ago.

00:06:56.000 And so the Democratic Party wanted to set a standard.

00:06:59.000 And the standard the Democratic Party wanted to set was, at least we're not those guys.

00:07:02.000 And that was when all of the Al Franken stuff came out.

00:07:04.000 You know, the pictures of him hovering over the breasts of a sleeping woman and making some sort of weird, funny pose over it.

00:07:11.000 Until Al Franken lost his job in the Senate over that, and five minutes later, they were like, oh, that was a mistake, because they thought Roy Moore was going to win in Alabama, and then they would be able to hang that around the neck of the Republicans like an albatross for the rest of time.

00:07:22.000 It turns out Roy Moore lost, and then they're like, oh, we shouldn't have got rid of Al Franken.

00:07:25.000 So here's the thing.

00:07:26.000 Politics is always the name of the game here.

00:07:27.000 Andrew Cuomo is going down right now, not because of any of this.

00:07:30.000 He's going down because of the nursing home scandal, but they can't say it's because of the nursing home scandal, because then that would be to admit that they should have known all along.

00:07:38.000 It would be to admit that they blew this story from the very beginning.

00:07:41.000 They would have to admit that their approach to COVID has been dead wrong the entire time, because if it turns out that Andrew Cuomo's real sin here is not his behavior with women, yes, that's sinful, and yes, it's gross, and it's yucky, but that, in and of itself, would not get him canceled.

00:07:53.000 Right, the only thing that would really, truly, justifiably get Andrew Cuomo kicked out of office would be him covering up the fact that his policies led directly to the deaths of elderly people in nursing homes.

00:08:03.000 They can't, but they can't admit that.

00:08:04.000 Because then that would be to admit that they, because we all knew that.

00:08:07.000 See, here's the thing.

00:08:08.000 We all knew in the middle of last year that Andrew Cuomo had been participating in cover-ups in New York. 0.99

00:08:15.000 We knew that his nursing home policy was garbage. 0.80

00:08:18.000 And we knew, more than anything else, that his nursing home policy stood in direct contrast to the nursing home policy of the person that the left hated most in terms of governors, Ron DeSantis in Florida. 0.96

00:08:27.000 DeSantis had protected the nursing homes and then told everybody else, you know what, you got to live like free Americans, make your own decisions.

00:08:33.000 And guess what?

00:08:34.000 Right now, New York is ranked number two in deaths per million and is seeing an uptick in cases, by the way.

00:08:38.000 And Florida, we're doing just fine.

00:08:40.000 Florida is ranking number 27 with the second oldest population in America after Maine, which really means the oldest population in America because Maine has seven people in a moose.

00:08:49.000 So the reality here is that the media have decided to cover the Andrew Cuomo sex stuff because they don't want to cover the Andrew Cuomo nursing home stuff.

00:08:57.000 The actual scandal.

00:08:58.000 So instead, they will make it about, look at how honest we are.

00:09:01.000 We're so honest and now we're covering this stuff.

00:09:03.000 I mean, we couldn't have covered it last year.

00:09:05.000 This is what Chris Chaliza of CNN said.

00:09:06.000 We couldn't have covered this last year.

00:09:07.000 We didn't know about this stuff last year.

00:09:09.000 How would we have known that he was sexually harassing the help?

00:09:13.000 By the way, there are a bunch of great tweets over the course of the last couple of years about the LoveGov that are coming back to haunt people now.

00:09:18.000 Remember that for the last year or so, the establishment media decided that Andrew Cuomo was a sex symbol.

00:09:24.000 That he was the one that all the ladies wanted to be with.

00:09:27.000 I mean, my personal favorite tweet in all of this was Katie Hill, the disgraced California congresswoman who was shtipping half her staff. 1.00

00:09:35.000 She had the whole thing about like how she was attracted to Andrew Cuomo.

00:09:37.000 It's like, well, yeah, you could see that one coming, couldn't you?

00:09:39.000 But again, there is a reason that the media have decided to cover this right now.

00:09:43.000 And what you're seeing is that when conservatives complain about media coverage of Cuomo, The media will say two things.

00:09:48.000 One, we didn't know about any of this sex stuff a year ago, and now we do know about it.

00:09:51.000 So we're honest, guys.

00:09:52.000 We're objective, don't you see?

00:09:54.000 We're doing the journalism-ing that you guys should... How could you criticize our journalism-ing when we're the ones covering the story?

00:09:59.000 Because this story is not actually the super important story.

00:10:03.000 The sex stuff.

00:10:04.000 Okay?

00:10:04.000 Like, it's important, and there should be an investigation, and it's bad.

00:10:08.000 The behavior of Andrew Cuomo in, again, there are gradations to each of these incidents.

00:10:13.000 Like calling a woman up to your office works for you so you can kiss her is bad behavior and may be fireable behavior.

00:10:18.000 Going up to a woman at a wedding and asking if you can kiss her is not actually fireable behavior.

00:10:22.000 Grabbing her head is a different story.

00:10:23.000 There are gradations to all this stuff, but there is one thing.

00:10:25.000 That not only should Andrew Cuomo have been tossed out of office for, he should have been tossed out of office last year for it, because we all knew about it back in May, which is that he was lying about his nursing home stats and that his policies in nursing homes had gotten a lot of people killed.

00:10:36.000 And by the way, it is amazing that the media ever chose Andrew Cuomo as their guy.

00:10:40.000 Why?

00:10:41.000 Because very early on in the pandemic, you will remember, Andrew Cuomo shut down the state very late, very late.

00:10:47.000 If you go back to his comments in early March, they sound exactly like Trump's comments in early March.

00:10:51.000 It was only later in March that Andrew Cuomo started to be like, look at the lockdown, Gov.

00:10:56.000 So again, everything being about politics and nothing being about truth is a very simple rule to watch in action.

00:11:03.000 And you can see it most of all when it comes to the media coverage from his bro. 0.86

00:11:08.000 I will never say he's Fredo because I've heard from Chris Cuomo that it is somehow racist to call him Fredo, like the dumber brother from The Godfather. 0.93

00:11:16.000 I don't know how.

00:11:17.000 He said it was like using the N-word, which is a weird take.

00:11:21.000 But in any case, not Fredo over here.

00:11:24.000 Chris Cuomo, he was doing for a year, for a long year, a comedy Smothers Brothers routine with his bro.

00:11:32.000 He was doing this routine where he'd bring him on and he'd have a giant Q-tip.

00:11:35.000 My brother is the greatest governor in America.

00:11:38.000 I'm so proud of him.

00:11:38.000 He's just amazing.

00:11:40.000 Chris Cuomo was doing this for a year.

00:11:42.000 And CNN not only let them cover it this way, they promoted it.

00:11:45.000 It was, look at Chris Cuomo interview his own brother.

00:11:47.000 Now, there were those of us who said, isn't it a conflict of interest that you're covering your own brother?

00:11:52.000 Like, isn't that just a little bit of a conflict?

00:11:54.000 I mean, this is a time when news is kind of important and we want to know what the best policies are.

00:11:57.000 And we want to know about his actual performance as governor.

00:12:00.000 And instead we're getting mom liked you best routines from Chris and Andrew.

00:12:06.000 Hey, well now, now is Chris Cuomo going to cover the fact that his brother is enmeshed in the sexual harassment scandal? 0.99

00:12:13.000 No, don't be silly! 0.98

00:12:14.000 That would be a conflict of interest, you see. 0.99

00:12:16.000 See, here's the thing.

00:12:18.000 It's not a conflict of interest when you're praising your brother.

00:12:19.000 It's a conflict of interest when you would have to criticize your brother.

00:12:22.000 So here is Chris Cuomo last night saying, I can't cover any of this.

00:12:25.000 It's a conflict of interest!

00:12:27.000 His journalism-ing comes out again.

00:12:31.000 Obviously, I'm aware of what's going on with my brother.

00:12:34.000 And obviously, I cannot cover it because he is my brother.

00:12:39.000 Now, of course, CNN has to cover it.

00:12:43.000 They have covered it extensively, and they will continue to do so.

00:12:49.000 I have always cared very deeply about these issues and profoundly so.

00:12:56.000 I just wanted to tell you that.

00:12:58.000 There's a lot of news going on that matters also.

00:13:01.000 So let's get after that.

00:13:04.000 Oh my God.

00:13:06.000 Like the fact that CNN thinks they can get away with this.

00:13:08.000 I mean, I'm going to repeat the words very slowly for those of you who continue to think Andrew Cuomo is a good governor and vote for Democrats thinking that they actually care about you.

00:13:17.000 I'm gonna repeat this very slowly for you guys, okay?

00:13:21.000 Quote.

00:13:23.000 Direct quote from Chris Cuomo about his brother Andrew in Mesh in a Sex Scandal.

00:13:30.000 So, question.

00:13:32.000 Were they brothers last year?

00:13:34.000 I seem to remember them being brothers last year.

00:13:36.000 In fact, I believe that they were brothers since their youth.

00:13:40.000 I don't think they recently became brothers, like in the last couple weeks or so.

00:13:44.000 And was Andrew Cuomo kind of relevant to the political conversation at any point in here?

00:13:48.000 I feel like probably he was.

00:13:49.000 Was he not?

00:13:50.000 I mean, they were literally talking about replacing Joe Biden on the ticket with Andrew Cuomo if Biden should falter.

00:13:54.000 So I feel like it was kind of relevant.

00:13:56.000 But here's the thing about our media.

00:13:58.000 They don't give two damns about the truth.

00:14:00.000 They don't care.

00:14:02.000 Okay, they don't.

00:14:03.000 All it is about for them is the narrative.

00:14:04.000 The narrative last year is that Andrew Cuomo was good, and Donald Trump was bad.

00:14:07.000 And now the narrative is that Andrew Cuomo is bad, and therefore, we have to, as a matter of journalistic objectivity, not allow Chris to cover his brother.

00:14:16.000 Amazing, amazing stuff.

00:14:18.000 And let me just say this.

00:14:19.000 When it comes to the rest of the CNN crew over there, They are all Chris Cuomo when it comes to the Democratic Party.

00:14:26.000 As Chris Cuomo is to Andrew Cuomo, so CNN is to the Democratic Party.

00:14:30.000 They're brothers in arms, they agree with the agenda, they're sycophants, and they're covering the people that they love.

00:14:36.000 That is the reality of the situation, which is why you shouldn't trust their takes on a lot of these particular issues.

00:14:41.000 Okay, in just a second, We're gonna get to the continuation of the fragmentation of our culture, and I wanna talk a little bit about what's gonna go down over the next week or so, because next week, the trial of Derek Chauvin in the alleged murder of George Floyd is going to begin, so we'll get to what is going on in Minnesota.

00:14:56.000 It's getting spicy over there.

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00:16:03.000 Okay, so, Over in Minneapolis, all hell is about to break loose over the next couple of weeks.

00:16:09.000 According to the Daily Wire, Ash Scow reporting, the Minneapolis courthouse that will feature the trial connected to George Floyd, who died while in police custody on May 25th, 2020, has been, quote, turned into a veritable fortress, according to the New York Post.

00:16:21.000 Jury selection begins on March 8th for the trial.

00:16:23.000 That is where Derek Chauvin is charged with murdering Floyd.

00:16:26.000 The Post reports that Hennepin County District Court has, quote, been ringed with concrete barriers, security fencing, and barbed wire.

00:16:32.000 This is in addition to increased security in the area, including Minneapolis Police, Hennepin County Sheriff's Deputies, Minneapolis State Troopers, Minnesota State Troopers, and the National Guard.

00:16:41.000 Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington said we're not going to be caught flat-footed.

00:16:45.000 Apparently, the Post reported that Minneapolis authorities have, quote, been hatching security plans for the trial since July, when outrage over Floyd's death on May 25th while in police custody sparked massive protests worldwide.

00:16:55.000 Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, sought to assure residents, saying, quote, there's going to be very high emotion on all sides of this, and we will be prepared.

00:17:01.000 Apparently, according to the mayor of Minneapolis, as many as 3,000 law enforcement personnel could be deployed before the case goes to a jury.

00:17:11.000 It's not just the courthouse that's being prepared for unrest.

00:17:12.000 The city jail, city hall, also being reinforced with fencing, barbed wire, and barriers.

00:17:18.000 Also, the city of Minneapolis, they just backed off of a plan, they had an actual plan, to hire social media influencers to combat misinformation during the Derek Chauvin trial.

00:17:27.000 The reason for this, of course, is because we have seen many instances over the past year in which there will be rumors that go around about a particular incident involving police that are just not true, and people then riot based on those rumors.

00:17:37.000 So we have seen that.

00:17:38.000 Many times over the course of the last year where there will be a text that goes out that somebody was shot unarmed and it turns out not only were they not unarmed they were threatening the police but a riot starts anyway because the facts do not matter in these particular cases.

00:17:49.000 Now the reason I bring this up is because it is a very bad situation.

00:17:53.000 We are in a very bad situation in our country when only a verdict that a particular side of the political aisle likes Results in peace, right?

00:18:02.000 In other words, if Derek Chauvin gets convicted of second-degree murder, which I think is an overcharge, legally speaking, this looks more like third-degree murder to me, if that at all, right?

00:18:10.000 Like, there's a better case for excessive force than either of those two.

00:18:12.000 Frankly, I think that Chauvin has a fairly strong defense here.

00:18:16.000 I mean, just on a legal level, put aside the morality of what Derek Chauvin did.

00:18:19.000 Chauvin, on a legal level, is going to have a fairly strong defense here.

00:18:22.000 And I'm just warning people about this right now.

00:18:24.000 Because the way the media are going to portray this is if Derek Chauvin gets off, then it's going to be because the system failed and your eyes are... You can trust your eyes when you watch that tape, but you can't trust the system.

00:18:35.000 Derek Chauvin's defense is pretty straightforward here.

00:18:38.000 His defense is going to be that George Floyd had enough fentanyl in him to kill a horse.

00:18:42.000 Okay, that is gonna be his claim.

00:18:43.000 And there's gonna be fairly good evidence for that.

00:18:45.000 There was a medical autopsy done after George Floyd died.

00:18:47.000 The medical examiner said explicitly that if George Floyd had been found dead in his house with that level of fentanyl in his blood, then he would have immediately declared it a drug overdose.

00:18:57.000 The medical examiner in that particular case struggled to find evidence that the knee on the neck of George Floyd is what actually caused his death.

00:19:08.000 There's good video evidence from before, the actual 8-minute clip that everybody has seen, that George Floyd was acting in extraordinarily erratic ways, that he was resisting arrest, that he appeared to be suffering from a condition that is known in the police community as excited delirium, where people are high on drugs, and then their heart rate starts to rise extremely fast, they start to act very, very erratic.

00:19:29.000 And then if they have underlying health conditions in any way, then in certain instances they die of that underlying health condition.

00:19:37.000 The Minneapolis statutes with regard to police use of force do allow the kind of hold that Chauvin was using on George Floyd.

00:19:45.000 George Floyd explicitly asked not to be put in the car.

00:19:47.000 They tried to push George Floyd into the car.

00:19:50.000 He said he wanted the windows open.

00:19:51.000 They opened the windows for him.

00:19:52.000 He then pushed his way out of the car.

00:19:54.000 And then he said he wanted to be outside the car, at which point they held him down.

00:19:59.000 And again, just medically speaking, if somebody says that they cannot breathe, if you can say that you can't breathe, that typically means that you can actually breathe.

00:20:08.000 What that means, medically speaking, is that you're having a heart condition.

00:20:12.000 Very often when someone says they can't breathe, that is not because you are having a closure of the trachea.

00:20:16.000 It's not about Your neck being in some way pressured, right?

00:20:21.000 There's no damage that was actually done to George Floyd's neck in the autopsy.

00:20:26.000 So again, all of this is gonna be what the defense is for Derek Chauvin.

00:20:29.000 And they have to prove some level of intent by Chauvin, which is gonna be super difficult.

00:20:33.000 The notion that you can say that this police officer came to kill that day, which is kind of what you have to say in a second degree murder trial.

00:20:39.000 First degree, like he fully intended to kill him, he wanted to do it.

00:20:42.000 Second degree is reckless disregard that he did it knowing that George Floyd might die.

00:20:47.000 That's going to be hard to prove.

00:20:49.000 Again, if they really wanted to get Chauvin, the best they could have done here, I think, is probably an excessive force charge.

00:20:53.000 Now, maybe because of all the hubbub surrounding the trial, the jury decides to convict anyway, because they don't want to be the people who are known as letting Derek Chauvin off the hook for what is the most celebrated case of alleged police brutality in our lifetime, at least since Rodney King.

00:21:06.000 But still, the defense here is going to be pretty strong.

00:21:09.000 And I'm giving that warning right now, because what you're going to see for the next several weeks is that There will be justifications for riots put forth on all sides.

00:21:15.000 That it was a foregone conclusion Derek Chauvin should be convicted of second-degree murder, no matter the evidence.

00:21:20.000 If the jury does not vote to convict Chauvin, then the call will go forth that the American justice system is incredibly unjust and that George Floyd did not receive the due process of the law in terms of his victimization and in terms of the treatment of the supposed perpetrator.

00:21:37.000 And then there will be riots.

00:21:38.000 And that is why they are putting up the fencing right now.

00:21:40.000 Right?

00:21:41.000 It was used as an indicator of the ill will of many on the right when we had to fence off the Capitol building in the aftermath of January 6th.

00:21:47.000 It should be used as an indicator that people are not going to care about the facts.

00:21:50.000 They're not going to care about the process here if you're putting up the fences preliminarily in a trial.

00:21:55.000 That is not a good sign for the country.

00:21:57.000 But that is the country that we now reside in.

00:22:00.000 And this is sort of the point.

00:22:01.000 We now live in a fragmented reality in which the facts don't matter.

00:22:04.000 I'm perfectly willing to evaluate the facts on Derek Chauvin as they come out in the Derek Chauvin trial.

00:22:09.000 We're gonna know more about that.

00:22:10.000 In the same way, I'm perfectly willing to look at the facts of each individual case because I think that the facts matter.

00:22:16.000 And when it's Ahmaud Arbery, that looks a lot like a racist killing.

00:22:19.000 When it comes to George Floyd, that looks a lot less like a racist killing to me just on the facts of the matter.

00:22:23.000 When it came to Jacob Blake, that didn't look like an act of police brutality at all.

00:22:26.000 That looked like Jacob Blake resisting arrest with a knife in his hand.

00:22:28.000 Every situation is different because the facts matter in every situation.

00:22:32.000 If you are talking about Philando Castile, which is an unjustified police killing, that is a very, very different story than the story of Eric Garner, or even the story of Trayvon Martin.

00:22:44.000 All of these stories have different fact patterns.

00:22:46.000 There are differential levels of guilt.

00:22:48.000 And we, as human beings, are called upon to evaluate the fact patterns in each of these circumstances.

00:22:53.000 But I fear that as a culture, we have moved beyond fact.

00:22:56.000 I fear that as a culture, we have decided that facts no longer matter.

00:22:59.000 All that matters is people's self-definition and their personal feelings.

00:23:03.000 There's a sentence from a story in the New York Times that I talked about at length last week that I think really sums up where we are as a country.

00:23:08.000 The sentence was in the story about Smith College where it turns out that there was a black woman who alleged that a janitor and a college administrator and a cafeteria worker who was utterly uninvolved had combined in order to perpetrate a racist act against her.

00:23:21.000 She was eating in a dormitory and they came and they told her to leave.

00:23:24.000 And she said that this was racism.

00:23:25.000 There was a full investigation.

00:23:26.000 None of that was true.

00:23:27.000 And the New York Times had this unbelievable statement.

00:23:31.000 The New York Times had this incredible sentence.

00:23:34.000 And I think it sums up pretty much everything you need to know about the country right now.

00:23:38.000 The story highlights the tensions between a student's deeply felt sense of personal truth and the facts that are at odds with it.

00:23:44.000 Now normally, in real life, we would say that there are facts, and then there's opinion.

00:23:48.000 There are facts, and then there are lies.

00:23:50.000 There are facts, and then there's the spin.

00:23:52.000 But, in the world that we now inhabit, there are two competing versions of reality.

00:23:57.000 There is the reality that is your deeply felt sense of personal truth.

00:24:00.000 Your identification of the truth as it appears to you.

00:24:03.000 And then there are the objective facts.

00:24:04.000 And it is not that facts should outweigh your deeply felt sense of personal truth.

00:24:09.000 That's the two are in conflict.

00:24:11.000 And we ought to give both sides a look.

00:24:13.000 Well, here's the thing.

00:24:15.000 Once you even do that as a society, once you decide that the facts are at the very best, only on par with a deeply felt sense of personal truth, namely your opinion or your feelings or what lies you tell yourself so you can sleep at night, once you do that, you cannot have A republic.

00:24:30.000 A republic literally is rooted in the idea that you and I can have a conversation about a common set of facts.

00:24:36.000 Facts that exist outside of us.

00:24:38.000 And that we have the capacity as human beings to sympathize with one another and even understand each other's emotional states on a basic level.

00:24:45.000 Not fully, because you can never fully understand somebody else's emotional state because you're not them.

00:24:50.000 What you can do is at least understand where they are coming from, right?

00:24:54.000 All of discussion, all of conversation, all of a republic, all of a republic is based on these basic notions.

00:25:00.000 We have now cut against all of those basic notions.

00:25:02.000 Because if I appeal to facts in a given situation, that in and of itself is considered discriminatory.

00:25:08.000 It is considered as though I am doing something bad to you.

00:25:11.000 I see this most clearly in the realm of the transgenderism debate, in which somebody declares that they are a member of the opposite sex.

00:25:17.000 And I say, well, the facts are against that because you are not, in fact, a member of the opposite sex. 0.76

00:25:20.000 And they say, you are infringing on my liberty.

00:25:23.000 By citing facts.

00:25:24.000 Stop your citation of facts.

00:25:25.000 You're not allowed to cite facts.

00:25:27.000 In fact, you should be banned for citing those facts.

00:25:30.000 That is a perfect example of a society in which your identification, your notion of self, is deeply tied into rejecting facts that are objectively verifiable about the world.

00:25:41.000 And once that happens, you can't have a conversation.

00:25:43.000 Because we have now become the Tower of Babel. 0.96

00:25:46.000 Right?

00:25:46.000 The Tower of Babel.

00:25:48.000 That story where God basically says to the people who are building a tower together, he says, okay, now you speak a variety of different languages.

00:25:54.000 What does it mean to speak a variety of different languages?

00:25:56.000 It means we can't understand one another.

00:25:58.000 There's an active movement in this country to make it so we can't understand one another and that any appeal to a common language, a common basis in facts or stats or data, that that is bad and wrong and infringing on my liberty of self-identification.

00:26:13.000 This is the sort of deconstructionist movement at its root.

00:26:17.000 The deconstructionist movement of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, right?

00:26:21.000 That deconstructionist movement basically said that there are these things called facts, but the priority that your society places on facts is different, right?

00:26:29.000 There are different societies and they treat facts in different ways.

00:26:31.000 And there's nothing inherently better about the way that your society treats facts, right?

00:26:36.000 An Enlightenment society that treats facts as paramount, there's nothing better about that than a non-Enlightenment society that doesn't treat facts as paramount, that treats instead myths as paramount, right?

00:26:45.000 Perhaps that's better.

00:26:47.000 And once you get to the point where we can no longer assume that we, as a people, care about facts more than we care about opinion, then you literally cannot have a society anymore.

00:26:56.000 And that's what we're seeing right now.

00:26:58.000 Every trial turns into a battle of narrative, not a battle over the facts on the ground.

00:27:01.000 This is what happened in, for example, Ferguson, Missouri.

00:27:05.000 Where the fact of that situation with Michael Brown became completely irrelevant.

00:27:08.000 It did not matter that hands up, don't shoot never happened.

00:27:10.000 Millions of people around the country marched, holding up their hands and saying, hands up, don't shoot, because it was symbolically true, even if it was factually false, right?

00:27:17.000 There's something AOC said, right?

00:27:19.000 Does it even matter if my facts are wrong so long as my morality is right?

00:27:24.000 And the answer is, yeah, it matters an awful lot.

00:27:26.000 It matters an awful, awful lot, because we can't have a conversation otherwise.

00:27:30.000 If facts are merely a reflection of how your society sees truth, Then facts really have no claim that is superior to any other claim, right?

00:27:39.000 This is why the left, instead of appealing to facts, the left very often appeals to structures of power, right?

00:27:46.000 So how do you determine who wins in a conversation?

00:27:48.000 If we can't appeal to facts and decide who is bringing facts to support their case and then decide the argument on that basis, then how do you determine who ought to win and who ought to lose?

00:27:57.000 Well, according to the left, the answer is the person who ought to win is the person who has been victimized systematically.

00:28:03.000 The person who is the victim of hierarchies of power is the person who ought to have more credibility.

00:28:08.000 This is why, for example, in that Smith College case, you saw Nikole Hannah-Jones ask, what is the social class of the black student that this entire piece centers on?

00:28:15.000 What is the actual power dynamic at play here?

00:28:17.000 As though her lying about a janitor is somehow justified if she was poorer than the janitor.

00:28:22.000 Or if she had a different skin color than the janitor. 0.96

00:28:25.000 Because then her deeply felt sense of personal truth would be rooted in class or race hierarchies.

00:28:30.000 And that means that she ought to be given additional credibility even when the facts cut directly against her.

00:28:34.000 The reason I'm talking about all of this is because I believe that this sense of facts not mattering, this sense that we ought to instead look into our own hearts, not in anybody else's heart, because you can't, right?

00:28:44.000 Look into your own heart for a definition of the world, and then everybody else is just supposed to go around acknowledging your definition of the world.

00:28:50.000 This ends republics, and it lies at the center of everything that is happening in our culture right now.

00:28:55.000 Every single thing, from math to literature, from journalism to criminal law, it's underlying a sense of everything.

00:29:02.000 Facts are no longer of import.

00:29:05.000 I've long had this tagline, facts don't care about your feelings.

00:29:08.000 The reality is that at this point, we are now in a completely reverse situation in the United States where feelings don't care about your facts.

00:29:13.000 Facts are irrelevant.

00:29:15.000 Facts are of secondary concern.

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00:30:46.000 It is difficult to respond to these arguments because the standards are constantly shifting.

00:30:49.000 Trying to argue with people on the left very often feels like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.

00:30:53.000 And honestly, the only thing you can do is create a solid argument of your own that is based in fact and based in research and based in the data.

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00:31:53.000 All righty, so let's talk about some examples where the facts don't matter.

00:32:01.000 So the perfect example of an area where facts do matter and where there are correct answers is math, right?

00:32:06.000 Math is a very easy one.

00:32:07.000 We should all be able to agree literally that 2 plus 2 equals 4.

00:32:09.000 It should be something very, very easy.

00:32:11.000 Well, John McWhorter, who is a black professor of linguistics, very famous in his field, he has a piece over at Substack titled, Is it racist to expect black kids to do math for real?

00:32:23.000 Says there's a document getting around called Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction, a guide put together by a group of educators.

00:32:29.000 It has a black boy on the cover.

00:32:30.000 The idea is to show us how our racial reckoning of late ought to change how we expose black kids to math.

00:32:36.000 I suppose the council is also intended for kids of other types of melanin, but this is, in essence, a document that could be called Math for Black Kids.

00:32:42.000 The latest is that state-level policymakers in Oregon are especially intrigued by this document.

00:32:47.000 There is all reason to suppose that its influence will spread more widely.

00:32:50.000 This is to be resisted, as this lovely pamphlet is teaching us that it is racist to expect black kids to master the precision of math to wit.

00:32:56.000 Its message, penned by people who consider themselves as some of the most morally advanced souls in the history of the human species, is one that Strom Thurmond would happily have taken a swig of whiskey to.

00:33:05.000 Of course, the authors have it that, quote, Okay, well, that is a lot of jargon.

00:33:08.000 Whenever the left talks about deconstructionism and why facts don't matter, they use all this jargon, right?

00:33:12.000 They're talking about hierarchies of power and anti-racism.

00:33:14.000 white supremacy in math classrooms by visualizing the toxic characteristics of white supremacy culture.

00:33:19.000 Okay, well, that is a lot of jargon. Whenever the left talks about deconstructionism and why facts don't matter, they use all this jargon, right? They're talking about hierarchies of power and anti-racism. By anti-racism, they mean disrupting those quote-unquote hierarchies of power.

00:33:33.000 Dismantling white supremacy is code for we don't like things and therefore we're just going to say that they're white supremacists.

00:33:39.000 Translated, says John McWhorter, this means that math as we have known it is racism.

00:33:43.000 That's a rich claim.

00:33:45.000 If correct, it is of earth-shattering urgency.

00:33:46.000 But is it correct?

00:33:47.000 Let's see how it holds up.

00:33:48.000 Now, part of anti-racist math teaching, writes John McWhorter, is to teach about black mathematicians, or to air facts such as that the traditional Yoruba approach to numbers use base 20.

00:33:59.000 No one would object to these things, nor to the idea that, quote, we teach students of color about the career and financial opportunities in math and STEM fields.

00:34:05.000 But 96% of people reading this kind of thing will be thinking, yeah, but what about the math?

00:34:09.000 And there's nothing white supremacist in that question.

00:34:11.000 The substance of a serious proposal about teaching math will be, well, teaching how to do math itself, not its history and sociology.

00:34:17.000 For example, one idea in this fashicle is that the black students learn how math has hurt people. 0.96

00:34:24.000 But it's no slam-dunk little kids need to be taught this.

00:34:26.000 Wouldn't this affect a child's attitude toward mastering the skills?

00:34:30.000 More to the point is that this entire document is focused on an idea that making black kids be precise is immoral.

00:34:36.000 The document pays lip service otherwise, claiming at one point to seek to teach rich, thoughtful, complex mathematics.

00:34:40.000 And rather often, the word praxis is used.

00:34:43.000 But the thrust of the pamphlet is that one, a focus on getting the right answer is perfectionism and either-or thinking.

00:34:49.000 Two, the idea that teachers are teachers and students are learners is wrong.

00:34:53.000 Three, to think of it as a problem that the expectations you have of students are not met is racist.

00:34:58.000 Four, to teach math in a linear fashion with skills taught in sequence is racist.

00:35:01.000 Five, to value procedural fluency, i.e.

00:35:04.000 knowing how to do fractions and long division over quote-unquote conceptual knowledge, is racist.

00:35:09.000 That is, black kids are brilliant to know what math is trying to do, to know what it's all about, rather than actually trying to do the math.

00:35:15.000 Just as many of us read about what physics or astrophysics accomplishes without ever intending to master the math that led to the conclusions.

00:35:20.000 Six, to require students to show their work is racist.

00:35:23.000 And seven, requiring students to raise their hand before speaking can quote, reinforce paternalism and power hoarding.

00:35:30.000 You may wonder if this is a cartoon, says John McWhorter, but no, this is real.

00:35:33.000 This is actually what this document tells us again and again.

00:35:36.000 To distrust this document is not to be against social justice, but against racism.

00:35:41.000 Now, the point that McWhorter is making is a very real one.

00:35:45.000 We have seen that this polarized, atomistic thinking about ourselves as individuals, that our self-definition matters a lot more, our feelings matter a lot more than learning objective skills, or looking at the data, or trying to figure out true answers, that that has deep ramifications for every area of our society.

00:36:02.000 And it's just sort of glossed over.

00:36:04.000 Because here's the thing, most people don't look at the deep substratum of thought here, the deep substrata of thought when it comes to All the stuff that we are hearing about.

00:36:12.000 The vocabulary, as I call it.

00:36:14.000 The vocabulary is just a bunch of words that we are taught to mimic so we can be part of the upper class, right?

00:36:19.000 I mean, that's really what it is.

00:36:20.000 That's what college is all about these days.

00:36:22.000 It's why you see people put their pronouns in their Twitter profiles.

00:36:25.000 Like, I know you're a dude.

00:36:25.000 You don't need to put he, him.

00:36:27.000 I know you're a chick. 0.66

00:36:28.000 You don't need to put she, her. 0.92

00:36:29.000 If you're transgender, then maybe you will have a preferred pronoun.

00:36:32.000 But the fact that you have a bunch of people who are cisgender putting pronouns in their profiles is just a way of coding that you are a member of this new upper-crust elite who speak the vocabulary.

00:36:41.000 And that's all that matters.

00:36:43.000 And Americans want to be part of that upper-crust elite because Americans have always wanted to be part of the new upper-crust elite.

00:36:48.000 They've wanted to be part of the new ruling class.

00:36:50.000 It used to be that if you wanted to be a member of the new ruling class in the United States, what you would do is you would work super hard and you'd dress really well, like above your station.

00:36:57.000 You'd wear a suit to the office.

00:36:59.000 And you would try and get a nice wristwatch, and you would learn the word of the day, and you would try to get a good education.

00:37:05.000 All right, that was the way that you demonstrated that you were a member of the New Ruling class.

00:37:10.000 And more has changed, more has changed, and so you see now that to be a member of the new ruling class means to actually dress down, right?

00:37:16.000 If you're Mark Cuban, then you wear jeans and a t-shirt, or if you're Mark Zuckerberg, you wear a hoodie, right?

00:37:19.000 There are certain things that change, but the best way to become a part of the new ruling class these days is to speak the vocabulary.

00:37:25.000 It is just the shave and a haircut two bits of entry into the secret society, as I've said before, right?

00:37:29.000 When it comes to the use of these terms, it is not about understanding the terms.

00:37:34.000 Most of the terminology does have a deep academic background that is complete BS, but people don't have to know that and they don't have to buy into it.

00:37:41.000 This is why if you ask Americans, do you believe America is systemically racist?

00:37:44.000 Nobody understands what the term systemically racist means because that is a term that originated in the centers of academia.

00:37:50.000 It has actual content, but it has been robbed of its content for purposes of polling.

00:37:54.000 All you know is that if you don't say that America is systemically racist, then you will be labeled a racist and you can never be part of the New Orleans class.

00:38:02.000 That is why this sort of vocabulary is used.

00:38:05.000 This is why it is now de rigueur for prominent people to talk about how they are embarrassed to be a member, to be a white person, for example.

00:38:12.000 So John Brennan, who seriously ought to be in jail.

00:38:15.000 I mean, he lied to the Senate, openly lied to the Senate, but John Brennan is still considered a person worth listening to.

00:38:20.000 He was on MSNBC, and he just throws out a comment like this, right?

00:38:23.000 He says he's embarrassed to be a white male.

00:38:25.000 Why?

00:38:26.000 I mean, seriously, why?

00:38:27.000 I don't understand.

00:38:28.000 Why should you be embarrassed of your skin color?

00:38:31.000 I don't think whatever your skin color, you should be embarrassed of your skin color.

00:38:33.000 It's bizarre.

00:38:34.000 Okay, but this is now considered a way into... By saying that you're embarrassed to be a white male, you can actually be super proud of yourself being a white male who says he's embarrassed to be a white male. 0.71

00:38:42.000 So here is John Brennan, former CIA director, saying this nonsense, speaking the vocabulary. 0.88

00:38:48.000 I'm increasingly embarrassed to be a white male these days.

00:38:50.000 I don't know what I see in my other white male saying, but it just shows that with very few exceptions like Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, there are so few Republicans in Congress who value truth, honesty, and integrity.

00:39:06.000 Okay, all the rest of his take on the Republican Party doesn't matter at all.

00:39:09.000 The fact that Nicole Wallace, who's a white lady, is laughing when he says he's embarrassed to be a white male, question, why?

00:39:17.000 Why? 0.99

00:39:19.000 That's ridiculous. 1.00

00:39:20.000 Even if a white person did something bad, why exactly would that embarrass you to be a white male? 1.00

00:39:24.000 I mean, that's like saying that every black person should be embarrassed because there are some black criminals. 1.00

00:39:28.000 That's ridiculous. 1.00

00:39:29.000 Why would you—why? 0.98

00:39:30.000 That has nothing to do with you.

00:39:31.000 You're an individual.

00:39:33.000 But again, it's about speaking the vocabulary.

00:39:35.000 And if you don't speak the vocabulary, then you can lose your job.

00:39:38.000 You could have been a member of the new ruling class one second ago.

00:39:41.000 But if you don't speak the vocabulary, then you're out.

00:39:43.000 Which is what happened to Donald McNeil over at the New York Times.

00:39:46.000 He has now released this long, four-part essay explaining why he was fired from the New York Times.

00:39:51.000 You'll remember, Donald McNeil was the lead COVID reporter at the New York Times.

00:39:54.000 He was nominated for a Pulitzer this year.

00:39:56.000 And he was ousted from the New York Times for the great crime of having, several years ago, gone on a trip to Peru, where somebody asked him, about the use of the n-word by a 12-year-old girl.

00:40:06.000 And he says, well, in what context was she using that?

00:40:08.000 And he said the word.

00:40:10.000 And he lost his job over that.

00:40:12.000 He was forced out by the editors at the New York Times because he had, quote-unquote, lost the newsroom.

00:40:12.000 Well, he was forced out.

00:40:17.000 First of all, I don't even know how you lose the newsroom. 0.99

00:40:19.000 Who gives a crap what the newsroom thinks? 0.99

00:40:21.000 Seriously, you're the New York Times. 0.99

00:40:23.000 You're the leading newspaper in America. 0.99

00:40:25.000 You give a crap what the, quote-unquote, newsroom thinks about your lead reporter on COVID in the middle of a pandemic? 0.98

00:40:31.000 But according to the Washington Free Beacon, Dean Paquette, the public, the executive editor of the paper, said, I know you're not a racist, but encouraged him to resign anyway because he had, quote unquote, lost the newsroom. 0.99

00:40:41.000 Paquette said, we're not firing you.

00:40:42.000 We're asking you to consider resigning.

00:40:45.000 Although McNeil technically resigned of his own volition, he was under intense pressure to do so.

00:40:50.000 When the Star Science reporter asked for details about the allegations, Paquette was silent.

00:40:54.000 McNeil said, it felt like an attempt to intimidate me.

00:40:57.000 Apparently, the New York Times union was unwilling to defend McNeil.

00:41:00.000 The union was, quote, deeply split over my case.

00:41:02.000 He decided he needed his own lawyer.

00:41:05.000 The reason for all of this, of course, is because he didn't speak the vocabulary.

00:41:09.000 He said some things that were impolitic, and if you say things that are impolitic, meaning they violate the precepts of the woke, they violate the precept that facts matter and the data matters, then, like, that entire incident was not about him using the N-word.

00:41:21.000 The entire incident was about him asking for specifics.

00:41:24.000 You're not allowed to ask for specifics, because specifics provide clarity.

00:41:29.000 Generalities provide confusion and room to wiggle.

00:41:32.000 Right now, all of politics is about this.

00:41:34.000 If you ask for specifics, you are seen as bad.

00:41:37.000 You are seen as wrong.

00:41:38.000 You are seen as racist.

00:41:39.000 If you ask for specifics, you are seen as rebutting somebody's deeply felt sense of personal truth.

00:41:45.000 And this is, it's confusing stuff.

00:41:48.000 It can violate the strictures of the moment at any point.

00:41:52.000 Twitch hilariously found this out yesterday.

00:41:53.000 So Twitch, the streaming service, They received backlash from both liberals and conservatives after referring to Women's History Month as Wimx History Month.

00:42:02.000 W-O-M-X-N History Month. 0.91

00:42:05.000 And now nobody with a brain has ever referred to women as W-O-M-X-N, but they were trying to make it so that women were different than wo-men. 0.99

00:42:14.000 It's like, so I married an axe-murderer. 0.99

00:42:17.000 Women? 1.00

00:42:17.000 Wo-man. 1.00

00:42:20.000 Basically, then the trans community came out and said this is terrible because some women are men.

00:42:24.000 Said it was transphobic.

00:42:27.000 It's just, it's hilarious.

00:42:29.000 It's hilarious.

00:42:31.000 It's pretty spectacular that the woke can't even get it straight, but that's the whole point.

00:42:37.000 In the end, that's the entire point.

00:42:38.000 And everybody, everybody is on the cancellation block.

00:42:41.000 And if you don't cancel, the best path to joining the woke, by the way, is to cancel yourself preemptively.

00:42:48.000 And this is precisely what is happening to Dr. Seuss.

00:42:51.000 Dr. Seuss's books are classics of children's literature.

00:42:54.000 He's the greatest children's author for kids who are under the age of seven of all time.

00:42:58.000 It is not close.

00:42:58.000 I read Dr. Seuss's books to my kids pretty much every day.

00:43:02.000 Okay, but according to a Virginia school district, Dr. Seuss's birthday can no longer be touted on Read Across America Day because a study said the author's work is, quote, filled with Orientalism, anti-blackness, and white supremacy.

00:43:15.000 Now, I grew up reading Dr. Seuss books.

00:43:17.000 You grew up reading Dr. Seuss books.

00:43:18.000 Everybody grew up reading Dr. Seuss books.

00:43:20.000 Did it make you more racist to read a Dr. Seuss book?

00:43:22.000 Did it ever even occur to you that race was an element of Dr. Seuss books until I just said this one second ago?

00:43:27.000 Of course not!

00:43:28.000 Because no one is actually outraged about this.

00:43:30.000 There are no human beings who read Dr. Seuss books and are actually angry at them.

00:43:35.000 All of this is just about signaling.

00:43:37.000 It is about setting new standards, hoops for people to jump through.

00:43:40.000 And if you ask for any sort of context that provides whether the book is racist, whether it is racist to read If I Ran the Zoo, because there are people of Asiatic appearance in the book If I Ran the Zoo, If you even ask that, even the question is racist.

00:44:00.000 If you say, okay, well, you know, he drew that in 1940, and let's just say that it was insensitive in 1940.

00:44:07.000 Has any child read this in the last 20, 30, 40 years and come away with a bad impression of people from Japan because they read a Dr. Seuss book?

00:44:15.000 To ask that question is to be the problem because now you are asking for evidence of a claim that is by nature a claim that is rooted solely in feelings.

00:44:25.000 So how did the Dr. Seuss Foundation respond to this?

00:44:27.000 Not by defending their guy.

00:44:28.000 Of course not.

00:44:29.000 Instead, the...

00:44:32.000 Official organization that controls the legacy of Dr. Seuss said it will no longer sell six of the author's children's books of racist and insensitive depictions, including his very first major book, and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street.

00:44:44.000 I can't even remember what is supposed to be racist and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street.

00:44:48.000 If I ran the zoo and McGillicudts Pool, by the way, I own all of them.

00:44:52.000 You should buy them today.

00:44:53.000 They're great for your kids.

00:44:54.000 The notion that this is, that he perpetuated Jewish stereotypes as financially stingy, And that all of this appears in his books.

00:45:04.000 The study published in 2019 examined 50 books by doctors who's found 43 out of the 45 characters of color have quote, characteristics aligning with the definition of Orientalism.

00:45:14.000 Unbelievable.

00:45:16.000 Unbelievable.

00:45:17.000 It's just, it's all insanity.

00:45:19.000 But again, to call for an end to the insanity is to excise yourself from the community of the new ruling class.

00:45:27.000 And that is what all of this is about in the end.

00:45:30.000 There's only one way to fight back against people who have declared themselves to be at the top of the ruling class, and that's to say, you don't get to rule us.

00:45:36.000 End of story. 1.00

00:45:36.000 We ignore you, you're stupid, and we're not paying attention to any of this nonsense ever, ever again. 1.00

00:45:42.000 But, here's the thing. 1.00

00:45:43.000 The Biden administration has bought into this stuff hook, line, and sinker.

00:45:45.000 So here's the thing. 0.95

00:45:46.000 The Biden administration, being members of the new ruling class, and Joe Biden being an old, white, corrupt politician, has decided that he speaks the vocabulary too. 0.93

00:45:56.000 And it's very important that he speak the vocabulary.

00:45:58.000 Because what the left has basically done is they've decided that by banding together identity politics and socialistic thinking, they can craft enough of a working majority to cram through their actual political agenda.

00:46:13.000 To go back to the original thesis of today's show, it's all about politics.

00:46:16.000 It is all about power and getting things done.

00:46:19.000 It's about the authoritarian cram down of certain policies.

00:46:22.000 Basically, there are a bunch of people who don't really buy into the vocabulary, who have decided they're gonna make common cause with people who do buy into the vocabulary, and a bunch of people who actually believe in the inequity is inequality argument, who have decided that they will make common cause with the socialistic wing of the Democratic Party in order to cobble together a new coalition of the ascendant.

00:46:43.000 You can see this actually pretty well in Bernie Sanders.

00:46:45.000 If you look back at Bernie Sanders' original presidential campaign in 2016, he didn't speak about race nearly at all.

00:46:51.000 It was all about how all the problems in our society can be laid at the root of the capitalistic system, and if you just get more socialists, it solves everything.

00:46:57.000 Then, over the course of the next few years, something interesting happened to the Bernie Sanders campaign.

00:47:01.000 He was told that it was not racially sensitive to speak only in terms of class.

00:47:06.000 Now, Bernie Sanders is basically a commie, right?

00:47:08.000 I mean, his perspective on life is rooted in Marxist fundamental lies about class conflict and how all of human life is driven by this class conflict.

00:47:17.000 Everything he says is driven by that.

00:47:19.000 And so, if you believe that everything at root is about class conflict, it's not at root about racial conflict, right?

00:47:23.000 The black working man and the white working man have more in common than the white working man and the white rich man, or the black working man and the black rich man. 0.68

00:47:30.000 If it's about class, it's not about race, but Bernie Sanders was told that this was racially insensitive.

00:47:35.000 And so, he decided to make common cause with the woke and start pushing as many woke policies as he could get his hands on.

00:47:41.000 And this was, writ small, what has happened with the Democratic Party, writ large.

00:47:45.000 This was the magic of Barack Obama, right?

00:47:47.000 This is what Obama did as president.

00:47:48.000 I know that we have this picture of Barack Obama as though Barack Obama was this wonderful unifying figure.

00:47:52.000 That is a figure put forth by the media.

00:47:54.000 It is a lie.

00:47:55.000 Barack Obama of 2004 was not the same as Barack Obama circa 2010.

00:47:58.000 In 2004, Barack Obama was saying, there are no black Americans.

00:48:01.000 There are no white Americans.

00:48:02.000 We're all just Americans.

00:48:03.000 There's no red America, no blue America.

00:48:05.000 Just America.

00:48:06.000 By 2010, Barack Obama was breaking down Americans into their identity groups so that he could specifically appeal to members of those identity groups to create a coalition.

00:48:15.000 This is the reason why he actually shrank his number of votes between 2008 and 2012, but it was enough to get him by Mitt Romney.

00:48:23.000 So the merger between identity politics and typical sort of Democratic Party politics has been ongoing, and Joe Biden is the culmination of that, which is how you end up with a machine politician like Joe Biden, and that's what he is.

00:48:35.000 A sort of machine, typical, corrupt old white politician who has suddenly become the face and voice of the racial reparations movement.

00:48:43.000 According to one of Joe Biden's top advisors, he is going to start acting now to address reparations to Black Americans. 0.78

00:48:50.000 Speaking to Axios on HBO in an interview set to air on Monday, White House senior advisor Cedric Richmond discussed efforts targeted to helping minority communities.

00:48:57.000 Richmond said they're not waiting on Congress.

00:48:59.000 He said, we don't want to wait on a study.

00:49:00.000 We're going to start acting now.

00:49:01.000 We have to start breaking down systemic racism and barriers that have held people of color back, and especially African-Americans.

00:49:06.000 We have to do that stuff now, right?

00:49:08.000 That's the vocabulary.

00:49:10.000 And we're going to specifically appeal on the basis of race and suggest that all inequality is inequity.

00:49:14.000 And Joe Biden has decided that equity is the byword of his administration.

00:49:19.000 So, for example, he says that we are going to start talking about free college tuition to historically black colleges and universities.

00:49:27.000 If you start talking about free community college in Title I and all these things, I think you're well on your way.

00:49:31.000 Now, let's be real about this.

00:49:32.000 If you're talking about free college, the reality is that the great imbalance in our society is the number of people going to college between people who are black and white.

00:49:41.000 The number of people who are white going to college by percentage is significantly higher than the number of people going to college who are black.

00:49:46.000 That's not because of lack of affirmative action programs or benefits programs or scholarship programs.

00:49:51.000 All of those exist in plenty.

00:49:53.000 The real problem is the failure of lower education.

00:49:56.000 The failure of the public school system.

00:49:59.000 So what is this?

00:49:59.000 It's a typical democratic policy smuggled in under the guise of the vocabulary.

00:50:03.000 It's a typical democratic policy position that is now being smuggled in under the guise of doing racial justice.

00:50:09.000 You call it reparations, and then you can push forward the idea that you are speaking the vocabulary, and you can build your coalition on the back of all of this.

00:50:17.000 And so this is the new pitch.

00:50:19.000 This is the Biden administration pitch.

00:50:20.000 Use the word equity to cram down all of the typical democratic policy proposals and claim that anybody who disagrees with you is a racist.

00:50:26.000 Because here's the thing, Joe Biden can't claim that anybody who disagrees with him is a racist.

00:50:30.000 It's bizarre.

00:50:31.000 That dude is whiter than the back of this piece of paper I'm holding up right now.

00:50:34.000 I mean, in a whiteness competition, I come in a distant second to Joe Biden.

00:50:38.000 It is not close. 0.57

00:50:39.000 Joe Biden is a super white dude.

00:50:42.000 And yet, because he's using the language of quote-unquote equity, And the language of anti-racism to push forward typical policy proposals.

00:50:49.000 The idea becomes now that it is white supremacy to oppose Joe Biden's policy positions.

00:50:54.000 An old white politician.

00:50:55.000 One of the whitest people in America. 1.00

00:50:58.000 And so that gives him enormous ability to push forward these positions while calling all of his opponents racist, which is, again, bizarre.

00:51:05.000 Barack Obama could do it because he could just say, people who hate me are racist.

00:51:08.000 And while it was a lie, he could at least pretend it was true because, obviously, at least the factual basis of him being a black person was right. 0.97

00:51:15.000 Joe Biden, not a black person, still making the same exact claims.

00:51:19.000 So when you merge the Democratic coalitional ideal, with the racial ideal, and all of it becomes about those systems of power, right?

00:51:26.000 Not about facts, not about the success of the policies, about the systems of power.

00:51:30.000 You can get away with nearly anything, and Joe Biden knows this.

00:51:32.000 So, what is he doing?

00:51:33.000 He's pushing all of his typical policies, but all of it's gonna be based on racial politics.

00:51:37.000 According to the Daily Wire, the Biden administration is reportedly considering scheduling a controversial vote on a gun control bill in the next couple of weeks.

00:51:46.000 Well, I mean, of course he is, because he's always wanted a gun control bill.

00:51:50.000 A report by Punchbowl News, which was founded by former political reporters, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrats were focused on turning their attention to other issues the Biden administration has on its agenda, including gun control, after passing this giant quote-unquote COVID relief package, which is really not a COVID relief package at all.

00:52:07.000 Some of these controversial votes would require universal background checks on gun sales, which of course would create a giant gun registry.

00:52:13.000 Another bill would close the so-called Charleston loophole, which allows gun purchases to proceed.

00:52:17.000 If the background check isn't completed in three business days, you can hold these things up interminably, of course.

00:52:24.000 And essentially, he is calling for a ban on semi-automatic firearms.

00:52:27.000 I mean, that is what, when he says banning assault weapons, there's no definition to all of this.

00:52:32.000 So this is, you know, typical Democratic policy being pushed under the guise of equity.

00:52:36.000 Other typical Democratic policy being pushed under the guise of equity is immigration policy.

00:52:41.000 So Joe Biden has basically decided to open the borders wide.

00:52:43.000 And we all know this.

00:52:45.000 Joe Biden has decided he's not going to enforce immigration law.

00:52:47.000 He's going to go right back to not enforcing immigration law.

00:52:50.000 He's attempting to kill agreements whereby people have to wait in Mexico in order to see if they ought to be granted asylum in the United States.

00:52:57.000 Instead, Biden just wants to release them into the interior of the United States.

00:53:00.000 And meanwhile, he's trotting out his own members of the government to just lie about it.

00:53:03.000 So he's got the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas saying there is no crisis at the border.

00:53:08.000 This is just a lie.

00:53:10.000 There are about 8,000 unaccompanied minors at the border.

00:53:12.000 That is the highest number that we've had in many, many years.

00:53:16.000 We're at 97% capacity at the borders, which is why we're now reopening all the bad old Trump facilities, right?

00:53:22.000 But it's not a crisis.

00:53:23.000 It's not a crisis because Joe Biden says it's not a crisis.

00:53:25.000 Here's Alejandro Mayorkas.

00:53:27.000 Do you believe that right now there is a crisis at the border?

00:53:31.000 I think that the answer is no.

00:53:34.000 I think there is a challenge at the border that we are managing, and we have our resources dedicated to managing it.

00:53:41.000 One of your predecessors, Jay Johnson, he said that 1,000 illegal border crossings a day constitutes a crisis, that it overwhelms the system.

00:53:49.000 We're at between 3,000 and 4,000 now, according to CDP officials.

00:53:53.000 So how is this not a crisis?

00:53:56.000 Um, I have explained that quite clearly.

00:53:58.000 I, um, uh, we are challenged at the border.

00:54:02.000 Oh, well, if you say it's a challenge and not a crisis, it's totally fine.

00:54:04.000 And if you say it's a challenge and not a crisis, see, a crisis would require you to actually do something to stem the tide of illegal immigration.

00:54:11.000 But here's the thing.

00:54:12.000 For purposes of equity, the Biden administration has no interest in stemming the tide of illegal immigration.

00:54:17.000 In fact, they are now openly saying, well, you know, it's kind of awkward for us right now, so if you could just like hold off on the illegal immigration for seven minutes, that'd be awesome.

00:54:23.000 But, you know, in the end, we're kind of okay with it.

00:54:25.000 Here's the director of Homeland Security, the secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, saying, we're not saying don't come to illegal immigrants, we're just saying don't come right now, guys.

00:54:34.000 We're a little overwhelmed.

00:54:37.000 I don't have a particular timeline, but all I can do is communicate both to the American public and to the individuals seeking protection that we are working around the clock seven days a week to make that time frame as short as possible, but they need to wait.

00:54:53.000 But they need to wait with a particular goal in mind.

00:54:55.000 We are not saying don't come.

00:54:58.000 We are saying don't come now.

00:55:00.000 Because we will be able to deliver a safe and orderly process to them as quickly as possible.

00:55:08.000 I mean, I'm sorry.

00:55:08.000 That's crazy.

00:55:09.000 That's crazy.

00:55:10.000 We know that the vast majority of people who are arriving on America's southern border are not legally claiming asylum.

00:55:14.000 Okay?

00:55:14.000 We know this.

00:55:15.000 That is just a reality.

00:55:16.000 The vast majority of people who arrive on the border are not claiming political asylum in its typical definition.

00:55:21.000 And economic asylum is not a thing.

00:55:23.000 Because economic asylum just means everybody gets in because America has a really strong economy.

00:55:27.000 And when he says, we just don't come right now, what he's really saying is, just come on.

00:55:31.000 You know, it's fine.

00:55:32.000 Just come.

00:55:33.000 Everybody knows this, including Democratic representatives.

00:55:36.000 One Democratic representative named Vincente Gonzalez, Democrat of Texas.

00:55:38.000 He says, this immigration policy is absolutely catastrophic.

00:55:41.000 Again, this is a Democrat from Texas saying that the current administration policy makes no sense.

00:55:47.000 My concern in the recent weeks in my district, migrants who made it across the border, who even passed the line of MPPs who are 5,000 folks that have been waiting for two years across the border, made it across the Rio Grande Valley, were processed and released.

00:56:04.000 If that is the message that we send to Central America and around the world, I can assure you it won't be long before we have tens of thousands of people showing up to our border and it'll be catastrophic for our party, for our country, for my region, for my district.

00:56:19.000 In the middle of a pandemic in an area where we've lost over 3,000 people in my small congressional district.

00:56:25.000 Okay, I mean, that is just the reality.

00:56:27.000 That is just the reality.

00:56:28.000 But it all ties into the vocabulary again.

00:56:31.000 It all ties into the idea that if you can tie everything into race, if you object to this, it must be because you object to America getting more brown or something, which is absurd.

00:56:40.000 I've said 1,000 times, I do not care about the race of Americans. 0.98

00:56:43.000 All I care about is the ideology, philosophy, and decency of Americans.

00:56:47.000 That's all I care about.

00:56:48.000 But not so on the left, because again, it's not about the facts, it's about the narrative.

00:56:54.000 And when it comes to the narrative, facts very often stand in the way of good narrative.

00:56:58.000 All righty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon.

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Why They're Cancelling Dr. Seuss | Ep. 1206

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