The Ben Shapiro Show - Yes, They Hate The Country | Ep. 1290

00:00:00.000 Prominent leftists in politics, media, and culture protest America on Independence Day, the National Education Association pushes critical race theory, and everyone wants to be a member of the intersectional coalition.

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00:01:32.000 Alrighty, so I hope you had a wonderful Independence Day weekend.

00:01:35.000 Obviously, it is worthwhile to celebrate the greatest country that has ever existed in the history of the world.

00:01:41.000 Unfortunately, Over the course of generations, we have now instructed more and more Americans that they should not be proud of living in the United States.

00:01:48.000 And in fact, that America is the font of all evil, the root of all evil.

00:01:51.000 In terms of foreign policy, we're an imperialist, colonialist power. 1.00

00:01:55.000 In terms of domestic policy, we're an evil, racist, discriminatory, sexist, heteronormative, cisgender place. 0.98

00:02:02.000 And this is reflected in the polling data. 0.67

00:02:04.000 According to the Daily Caller, a poll published Monday from Issues and Insights and Tip Insights found only 36% of young adults are proud of being American.

00:02:10.000 36%.

00:02:11.000 So that means that 64% are not proud of being American.

00:02:17.000 No country can survive when 64% of its public believes that the country is not good or worthwhile.

00:02:24.000 They're not proud of being a member of that country.

00:02:25.000 And we're not talking about proud of being a German in 1946.

00:02:30.000 We're talking about proud of being an American in 2021 in the most racially tolerant, prosperous, and free society in the history of the world.

00:02:40.000 This is young people, of course, it's not all people in the United States, but this problem is getting progressively worse over time and is getting progressively worse because our educational institutions and our entertainment institutions and every other institution in American society have been taken over by a radical left that is hell-bent on the notion that America must be remade on a fundamental level.

00:02:58.000 Changed, ground up.

00:02:59.000 All of the institutions ripped out and replaced.

00:03:02.000 I talk about this in my new book at the end of this month, The Authoritarian Moment.

00:03:06.000 You can pick it up on Amazon pre-order right now.

00:03:08.000 It's really important.

00:03:09.000 The institutions of our society have been weaponized by a radical left that has entered these institutions, a small percentage of people renormalizing the institutions to their principles, and an apathetic center basically throwing up their hands and doing nothing.

00:03:20.000 Young adults, according to this poll, aged 18 to 24, were the group least likely to say they are proud to be American.

00:03:25.000 Of those polled, 59% of Americans aged 25 to 44 said they were proud, along with 75% of adults aged 45 to 64 and 86% of adults over the age of 65.

00:03:35.000 So in other words, you can very clearly see the impact of a crappy educational system on Americans.

00:03:41.000 Adults who are over the age of 65, 86% of them say they're proud.

00:03:45.000 Even adults between 45 and 64, right?

00:03:48.000 Middle-aged adults.

00:03:48.000 75% say they're proud.

00:03:51.000 And even a solid majority of Americans aged 25 to 44 say they are proud.

00:03:54.000 But people who are in college or of the college generation overwhelmingly say they are not proud of being American.

00:04:00.000 Also, this is pretty amazing.

00:04:01.000 Conservatives say they're much more proud to be American than moderates or liberals.

00:04:05.000 81% of conservatives said they were proud compared to 66% of moderates and 55% of liberals.

00:04:09.000 The divided cross-party affiliation?

00:04:11.000 Somewhat similar.

00:04:12.000 85% of Republicans say they are proud to be an American.

00:04:14.000 64% of Democrats.

00:04:16.000 59% of Independents said the same.

00:04:18.000 Now, what's kind of amazing about that is that you would think that conservatives would be less proud to be American today than they were when, for example, Trump was president.

00:04:27.000 You see this with Democrats all the time.

00:04:28.000 When Barack Obama is president, a solid majority of Democrats will say they are proud to be American.

00:04:32.000 And then when Trump is president, a solid minority of Americans will say they are proud to be American.

00:04:36.000 Conservatives are very consistent.

00:04:37.000 They're always proud to be American, regardless of who is the President of the United States, which, by the way, is how it should be.

00:04:43.000 Because I'm still proud to be American, even though Joe Biden, a man I disagree with nearly all the time, is President of the United States.

00:04:50.000 And even though Congress is controlled by a party I disagree with, I'm still proud to be American because American principles are still the best principles.

00:04:56.000 Men are 18% more likely than women to say they're proud of being American.

00:05:00.000 The poll found 77% of men, 59% of women were proud.

00:05:04.000 73% of white Americans, 56% of black and Hispanic Americans said they were proud of being American as well.

00:05:10.000 Only 44% of respondents said they were extremely proud to be American.

00:05:13.000 Another 23% very proud.

00:05:14.000 15% moderately proud.

00:05:15.000 Only 6% say not proud at all.

00:05:20.000 But here is the bottom line.

00:05:22.000 The bottom line is that when you look at young adults, the quote-unquote future of the country, these are people who are much more likely to be antipathetic toward the United States, to believe that the United States is a bad place, that America is a terrible, terrible place.

00:05:35.000 And this is ingrained every day by our institutions.

00:05:38.000 America is systemically racist. 0.98

00:05:40.000 Post a black square on your page on Facebook if you agree. 0.99

00:05:43.000 America is heteronormative.

00:05:45.000 Fly a progress pride flag if you agree.

00:05:49.000 There's a feeling that America has to be overthrown, that its constitutions are bad.

00:05:52.000 And you saw this come out really in enormous measure on the 4th of July, of course.

00:05:58.000 Cori Bush.

00:05:59.000 who is a member of the squad, Cori Bush.

00:06:03.000 She is sort of an adjunct member.

00:06:05.000 She's Black Lives Matter. 1.00

00:06:06.000 She recently joined Congress.

00:06:07.000 She tweeted out, when they say that the 4th of July is about American freedom, remember this, the freedom that they're referring to is for white people. 0.95

00:06:14.000 This land is stolen land and black people still aren't free. 1.00

00:06:16.000 Okay, no, that's not what people say the 4th of July is about. 0.64

00:06:21.000 The 4th of July is about separation from Great Britain and then the fulfillment of the promises of the Declaration of Independence over time.

00:06:28.000 They are not referring to freedom only for white people.

00:06:31.000 Which is, by the way, exactly what thinkers ranging from Martin Luther King to Frederick Douglass have said.

00:06:36.000 That the promises of the Declaration of Independence were a promissory note that had to be fulfilled.

00:06:40.000 By the way, the last sentence there is so insane coming from a sitting member of Congress.

00:06:43.000 This land is stolen? 0.98

00:06:45.000 And black people are still not free? 1.00

00:06:47.000 It seems to me Cori Bush is pretty damned free in the United States of America. 0.99

00:06:51.000 I've noticed some rather large distinctions between how black Americans were treated circa 1830 or even 1776 and, you know, 2021. 0.93

00:06:59.000 I've noticed some fairly large distinctions right there.

00:07:02.000 And as far as the argument that the quote-unquote land was stolen, if you mean that every single country that has ever been founded involved population transfers and violence, that is true. 0.99

00:07:13.000 And if Cori Bush wants to give up her house in St. 1.00

00:07:15.000 Louis to whatever native tribe originally occupied that area, She is more than she is more than capable of doing so.

00:07:22.000 I don't see her making many moves along those lines.

00:07:25.000 Do you?

00:07:26.000 Meanwhile, Representative Maxine Waters, another beneficiary of living in the United States, has been able to grift off the American public in Los Angeles for the last 30 years.

00:07:33.000 And meanwhile, decrying every area of law and order indecency in American life. 0.83

00:07:38.000 Maxine Waters, truly one of the most corrupt and horrible members of the American Congress. 0.65

00:07:41.000 She tweeted July 4th.

00:07:43.000 And so the Declaration of Independence says all men are created equal.

00:07:46.000 Equal to what?

00:07:47.000 What men?

00:07:48.000 Only white men? 0.83

00:07:49.000 Isn't it something that they wrote this in 1776 when African Americans were enslaved?

00:07:53.000 They weren't thinking about us then, but we're thinking about us now.

00:07:55.000 Okay, this is so historically inaccurate because Maxine Waters, she does not have two brain cells to rub together. 0.99

00:08:00.000 There are not any synapses firing up there.

00:08:03.000 Equal to what?

00:08:04.000 Okay, what?

00:08:06.000 All men are created equal means created equal before God in rights.

00:08:10.000 Equal to each other in rights.

00:08:12.000 They weren't thinking about black Americans when they wrote the Declaration.

00:08:14.000 There was a specific provision of the Declaration of Independence in the original draft that discussed slavery.

00:08:19.000 It was removed at the behest of southern states.

00:08:22.000 You know, recognizing the hypocrisy of Thomas Jefferson does not mean that the principles he espoused were not universal. 0.95

00:08:27.000 In fact, he's only a hypocrite because the principles were universal. 0.98

00:08:31.000 If the principles were not universal, he wouldn't be a hypocrite. 0.98

00:08:33.000 If Thomas Jefferson had written in the Declaration of Independence, all white men are created equal, it would be very difficult to call him a hypocrite. 0.95

00:08:40.000 He didn't.

00:08:41.000 He said all men are created equal.

00:08:42.000 This is the great irony.

00:08:44.000 An entire country that has decided that Thomas Jefferson is a through-and-through villain, a terrible person, and that the Declaration of Independence was a lie, has to, on a fundamental level, acknowledge that the Declaration of Independence is the truth in order to condemn Thomas Jefferson.

00:08:58.000 Because if the Declaration was a lie, then he didn't do anything wrong.

00:09:01.000 But the Declaration is the truth, and we all know it.

00:09:04.000 And we know it because we were handed those principles by people like Thomas Jefferson.

00:09:08.000 Yes, people who sinned like all human beings.

00:09:10.000 Yes, people who lived in a context of a different history.

00:09:13.000 Like all human beings have lived over the course of history.

00:09:18.000 But to throw away the Declaration of Independence because it was written by people who don't live in 2021 in a context in which slavery was legal the world over is pretty insane.

00:09:28.000 And to pretend that what made Jefferson a unique human being was his slaveholding as opposed to the Declaration is to ignore all of human history and every culture on earth at the time in 1776.

00:09:39.000 Maxine Waters didn't stop there. 0.91

00:09:40.000 She then continued further.

00:09:41.000 The Declaration of Independence says we hold these truths to be self-evident.

00:09:44.000 Yet, 17 states have enacted voter suppression laws.

00:09:47.000 This is a lie!

00:09:48.000 There are no voter suppression laws in the United States.

00:09:50.000 That's illegal!

00:09:52.000 You can't actively suppress the vote in the United States.

00:09:53.000 And the lie that Black Americans are being prevented from voting, again, is a ginned-up lie designed to apparently boost voter turnout for Democrats, but also to divide the country.

00:10:03.000 Supreme Court gutted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

00:10:06.000 No, they didn't.

00:10:07.000 George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice.

00:10:11.000 Need I say more?

00:10:12.000 Hashtag July 4th. 0.72

00:10:13.000 It's just disgusting.

00:10:14.000 Okay, first of all, to even lump together Breonna Taylor and Michael Brown is an absurdity.

00:10:19.000 Each one of these cases, as I've pointed out before, has its own particular gradations.

00:10:22.000 But whenever Michael Brown gets listed in the sort of lexicon of black American victimology, Michael Brown attacked a police officer.

00:10:31.000 The Obama DOJ didn't prosecute the officer in that case.

00:10:35.000 The evidence showed that Michael Brown was the aggressor in that particular scenario.

00:10:39.000 Again, it's not a matter of truth.

00:10:41.000 It's a matter of a fundamental outlook about the United States that the United States is a bad place.

00:10:46.000 It's a bad place.

00:10:47.000 Okay, and we have taxpayer-funded entities like NPR who are pushing this same nonsense.

00:10:52.000 So NPR is funded through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

00:10:54.000 The Corporation for Public Broadcasting does receive money from the taxpayers.

00:10:58.000 They tweeted out on July 4th, quote, 245 years ago today, leaders representing 13 British colonies signed a document to declare independence.

00:11:06.000 It says that all men are created equal, but women, enslaved people, indigenous people, and many others were not held as equal at the time.

00:11:12.000 I just have a question.

00:11:15.000 Is that what made the Declaration of Independence important?

00:11:18.000 Really?

00:11:19.000 Like, there are lots of people who openly said that all of these groups were not equal.

00:11:23.000 None of those things are enshrined in America's monuments.

00:11:27.000 None of the writings of John C. Calhoun enshrined in America's monuments or even the writings of Thomas Jefferson with regard to superiority or inferiority of particular races.

00:11:35.000 None of that's at the Jefferson Monument or Jefferson Memorial.

00:11:39.000 What American history chooses to focus in on is the fundamental principle that allowed for the growth of the United States and the adaptation of the United States to more and more human beings.

00:11:49.000 NPR says the document also includes a racist slur against indigenous Americans.

00:11:55.000 Author David Troyer, who is Ojibwe, says there's a lot of diversity of opinion and thought among Native Americans, a community of more than 5 million people, about the document's words.

00:12:05.000 I'm sorry, this is what you choose to focus in on July 4th?

00:12:07.000 With taxpayer dollars, no less?

00:12:09.000 In this thread of the Declaration of Independence as NPR, you can see a document with flaws and deeply ingrained hypocrisies.

00:12:15.000 It also laid the foundation for the country's collective aspirations, the hopes for what America could be.

00:12:19.000 Okay, what?

00:12:20.000 And you didn't lead with that?

00:12:22.000 You know, because here's the point.

00:12:23.000 The notion is always and forever that the founding principles were insanely corrupt at the beginning and remain corrupt today.

00:12:30.000 So you can't have it both ways.

00:12:32.000 The left wants it both ways.

00:12:33.000 On the one hand, they want us to inherit the values that the founders espoused, and at the same time, condemn those values as inherently corrupt, written by brutal and dictatorial men.

00:12:42.000 This is what they would like.

00:12:44.000 Those two things cannot hold.

00:12:45.000 And you're seeing them fall apart in the guise of the Biden administration, where Biden talks like an old-school Democrat in terms of patriotism and the unique American idea and the American creed.

00:12:55.000 He speaks in sort of old-style patriotic terms, and then talks about how America is systemically racist and equity i.e.

00:13:01.000 racial discrimination needs to be enshrined in American law at every level of his administration.

00:13:06.000 We'll get into more of this in just one second because the anti- the sort of post-American moment is really dangerous for the country.

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00:14:30.000 Okay, meanwhile, you have actress Alyssa Milano ripping on Independence Day as well.

00:14:34.000 And this is becoming a more and more mainstream phenomenon.

00:14:37.000 It used to be that there were certain things in American life that we all sort of agreed upon.

00:14:41.000 Like the American flag, apple pie, and motherhood.

00:14:43.000 All are now bad.

00:14:44.000 The American flag is representative of American repression.

00:14:48.000 Motherhood is, of course, sexist because not all women are mothers, and not all mothers are women. 0.93

00:14:53.000 And apple pie is bad because I'm sure it's not fair trade sourced or something.

00:14:57.000 In any case, Alyssa Milano put out a little video of herself saying, reminder, the United States was founded on the unjust treatment of Native Americans, Africans, and, and other people of color. 0.98

00:15:07.000 Not just and, two ands.

00:15:09.000 And then it's just her kind of staring into camera.

00:15:15.000 Patriotism is wanting the country you love to live up to its potential.

00:15:30.000 See, this is the idea.

00:15:31.000 The idea is that America does not live up to its potential, does not try to live up to its potential.

00:15:36.000 Now, again, it's a conflicting message.

00:15:38.000 If America is rooted in racism, bigotry, and evil, then what is its potential and how do you define it?

00:15:44.000 Left doesn't have an answer for this.

00:15:45.000 They're running on the fumes of the Declaration while attempting to burn the Declaration.

00:15:50.000 Those two messages are in direct conflict with one another.

00:15:53.000 But this has been pushed directly into American education.

00:15:56.000 It's been crammed down in nearly every area of American life.

00:16:01.000 We're supposed to believe that America is a truly bad place.

00:16:04.000 And then we lie, by the way, about what people have said about America in the past.

00:16:08.000 So, for example, there's a piece by Gillian Brockell in the Washington Post, very, very long piece about Frederick Douglass, staff writer for the Washington Post history blog, Retropolis.

00:16:18.000 She writes, Frederick Douglass had nothing but scorn for July 4th.

00:16:18.000 Okay.

00:16:22.000 The black abolitionists spoke for the enslaved.

00:16:25.000 Okay, that's not true.

00:16:27.000 What he said is that the 4th of July to the enslaved was hypocrisy because it talked about freedom and independence.

00:16:34.000 But people were still being held in bondage.

00:16:36.000 But he called the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution glorious liberty documents.

00:16:40.000 The entire point of his oration on July 4th is not that America is irredeemably horrific.

00:16:45.000 It is that the founding principles laid out in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are eternally good.

00:16:50.000 That's the actual point.

00:16:52.000 And that slavery was giving the lie to those principles.

00:16:55.000 And so slavery had to be overthrown in order to ensure that July 4th meant something to Black Americans.

00:17:00.000 But that's the thing.

00:17:01.000 Slavery was overthrown.

00:17:03.000 Jim Crow was ended.

00:17:05.000 We have laws in place that racially discriminate on behalf of Black Americans today.

00:17:10.000 The notion that Black Americans today, like Cori Bush, should be saying they are not free, or that America is a wildly discriminatory country, It's historically ignorant, and it is a slap in the face, not only to the founding fathers who actually enshrined these principles in our founding documents, but to all of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have fought and died, both civilian and military, in order to preserve the dream of the Declaration of Independence.

00:17:34.000 The idea that Frederick Douglass stood for something as anti-American as people stand for today is wrong.

00:17:40.000 He was attempting to hold true to the founding principles, not to undermine those founding principles, or to say that those founding principles are a lie.

00:17:49.000 The idea instead is that they need to be expanded.

00:17:52.000 And they were expanded.

00:17:53.000 But we're going to pretend that they weren't expanded.

00:17:56.000 It's all maddening and it's being taught in our nation's largest school district.

00:18:00.000 It is being taught at the behest of leftists who run teachers unions.

00:18:04.000 This is what the debate over critical race theory is really about.

00:18:07.000 Critical race theory is a theory that says that all of the principles of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution are a lie.

00:18:13.000 America was really founded in like 1619.

00:18:15.000 America's institutions are thoroughly racist and not only thoroughly racist, they are just a guise for power dynamics.

00:18:22.000 That the reason that neutral laws are not good enough is because those neutral laws were really designed in order to keep people of minority persuasion down. 1.00

00:18:30.000 And the only way to create a fairer world is to have a coalition of the dispossessed that runs up against those institutions and then overwhelms them.

00:18:37.000 And the NEA is pushing this stuff openly at this point.

00:18:40.000 In fact, as Chris Ruffo has been doing yeoman's work on this stuff over at Manhattan Institute, as he reports, the nation's largest teachers union has approved a plan to promote critical race theory in all 50 states and 14,000 local school districts.

00:18:54.000 Their new business item, adopted as modified, quote, the NEA will, with guidance on implementation from the NEA president and chairs of the Ethnic Minority Affairs Caucuses, share and publicize through existing channels information already available on Critical Race Theory.

00:19:06.000 What is and what it is not.

00:19:07.000 Have a team of staffers for members who want to learn more and fight back against anti-CRT rhetoric and share information with other NEA members as well as their community members.

00:19:16.000 Provide an already created in-depth study that critiques empire, white supremacy, anti-blackness, anti-indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cis-heteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression as the intersections of our identity.

00:19:32.000 And that we oppose attempts to ban critical race theory and or the 1619 Project.

00:19:37.000 Publicly, again, this is the biggest teachers union in America.

00:19:40.000 K-12. 0.99

00:19:41.000 Attempting to cram this garbage down on your kids. 0.99

00:19:43.000 And by the way, they're succeeding. 0.99

00:19:44.000 Only 36% of Americans aged 18-24 are proud of being American.

00:19:49.000 Publicly, they say, says the NEA, they want to, through existing media, convey its support for the accurate and honest teaching of social studies topics, particularly truthful and age-appropriate accountings of unpleasant aspects of American history, such as slavery, and the oppression and discrimination of indigenous black, brown, and other peoples of color, as well as the continued impact this history has on our current society.

00:20:06.000 It's this last part where they start to edge over into the radical leftism to which they're so accustomed.

00:20:13.000 Of course, no one is saying that American history shouldn't be taught with all of its warts.

00:20:17.000 I have an entire chapter in my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, about American history and how it should be taught.

00:20:21.000 And there are plenty of warts to talk about.

00:20:24.000 But the notion that every injustice of today is attributable to an injustice of the past is a lie.

00:20:30.000 And then they say they want to join with Black Lives Matter at school and the Zin Education Project called for a rally this year on October 14th, George Floyd's birthday, as a national day of action to teach lessons about structural racism and oppression.

00:20:43.000 The NEA shall publicize these National Days of Action to all of its members, including in NEA Today, and conduct a virtual listening tour that will educate members on the tools and resources needed to defend honesty in education, including but not limited to tools like CRT.

00:20:57.000 The rationale and background?

00:20:58.000 USA's economy and social order is built on interactions between different races and cultures.

00:21:02.000 To deny opportunities to teach truth about black, brown, and other marginalized races minimizes the necessity for students to build efficacy.

00:21:09.000 The ancient African proverb says, know thyself. 0.98

00:21:13.000 I'm sorry, this is unbelievable crap that they are now pushing. 1.00

00:21:17.000 The Zinn Education Project, Howard Zinn, is a pathological liar. 0.99

00:21:21.000 His book, A People's History of the United States, is an egregiously horrific book. 0.70

00:21:25.000 It is a complete misread of American history.

00:21:27.000 I mean, Howard Zinn makes the case that the United States became fascist after World War II, after defeating the Nazis, and that the U.S.

00:21:32.000 took the wrong side in the Cold War, essentially.

00:21:36.000 But they want to leverage in the 1619 Project and Howard Zinn into all their education.

00:21:41.000 This is to your kids.

00:21:44.000 And by the way, not a particular shock, but the NEA also passed a resolution that was aimed at recognizing Palestine as a state and shooting down, barely shooting down a resolution aimed at publicly boycotting Israel.

00:21:57.000 So the radical leftism of our teachers' unions are out of control.

00:22:02.000 And again, designed to indoctrinate your kids.

00:22:05.000 And what we are watching is a transformation.

00:22:07.000 From an America that shares certain fundamental respect for principles and history, to an America that is post-American in nature.

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00:23:31.000 Okay, so we've got America's biggest teachers unions pushing anti-American nonsense.

00:23:38.000 In Israel, during the 1990s, particularly in the aftermath of Oslo, there was this move inside Israel.

00:23:43.000 It was called the post-Zionist movement.

00:23:44.000 And the idea was that Israel had been founded on terrible auspices.

00:23:47.000 It was the radical left pushing this.

00:23:48.000 And therefore, Israel had to surrender to all of its enemies. 0.51

00:23:50.000 Israel had to completely remake itself. 0.93

00:23:52.000 And frankly, there was no reason for Israel's existence. 0.99

00:23:55.000 America is now entering the post-American moment. 0.64

00:23:57.000 Is ushered in by Barack Obama, who suggested, of course, that American exceptionalism was just like Greek exceptionalism or any other exceptionalism.

00:24:03.000 But really, truly, America was founded on oppression and is still as oppressive as it was originally.

00:24:09.000 The post-American movement is extremely dangerous. 0.76

00:24:11.000 It means that we focus on tearing down the institutions of a society that has created more prosperity and racial tolerance than any society in human history. 0.96

00:24:19.000 And that we also deem our entire past awful and terrible and egregious and bad.

00:24:27.000 And that has consequences for how we teach our kids today.

00:24:29.000 Because, of course, CRT essentially suggests that whiteness is the problem.

00:24:34.000 Whiteness studies is an offshoot of CRT.

00:24:37.000 Critical race theory suggests that because all of the structures of our society are laden with racism and built via racism, That all of our societies are imbued with whiteness, and because everyone who is white benefits from this whiteness, they bear a certain stain of racial guilt. 0.93

00:24:55.000 This is likely to result in some of the worst crap we've seen in American politics in decades. 0.85

00:25:00.000 It turns out that racial polarization is a horrible thing in American politics. 0.96

00:25:04.000 Right before Barack Obama was president, there was a reason that America's optimism about race was at an all-time high.

00:25:09.000 There's a reason why it's now been sliced in half.

00:25:11.000 And that is because of an attempt to racially polarize for political gain, particularly by the Democratic Party.

00:25:16.000 So the question arises, what is the best way to fight back against this sort of stuff?

00:25:21.000 So there is a piece today in the New York Times by Kamel Foster, David French, Jason Stanley, and Thomas Chatterton Williams.

00:25:27.000 I'm friends with many of these people.

00:25:28.000 I respect them as thinkers.

00:25:30.000 I think the piece is dead wrong.

00:25:31.000 It says the anti-critical race theory laws are un-American.

00:25:35.000 No, they're not.

00:25:36.000 They're not.

00:25:37.000 Okay, every state passes its educational standards.

00:25:40.000 Every locality has its own educational standards.

00:25:43.000 Public schools are not a place where every single arena of thought is taught to students.

00:25:49.000 It's just not.

00:25:51.000 KKK curricula, not taught to students in public schools, nor should it be.

00:25:55.000 Nazi curricula, not taught in America's public schools, nor should it be.

00:25:59.000 CRT should not be taught in America's public schools.

00:26:01.000 We have an obligation, as parents and as community members, to ensure that what's being taught to our kids is number one, factual, and number two, does not undermine the fundamental bases of the United States.

00:26:11.000 Now, I don't think that any of these authors, Kamala Foster, David French, Jason Stanley, or Thomas Chatterton Williams, are advocates of CRT.

00:26:17.000 They are not.

00:26:18.000 What they are suggesting is that the best way to fight against CRT As with lawsuits under the Civil Rights Act, they're suggesting that we need to have a competition of ideas in the public schools.

00:26:28.000 But here's the reality.

00:26:29.000 There is no competition of ideas in the public schools.

00:26:32.000 The NEA makes the bed, and you just lie in it. 0.86

00:26:36.000 The school boards that we've been neglecting for far too long on the conservative side, while focusing in on national politics, those school boards have been taken over by radicals who then use their power to leverage garbage into your kid's head.

00:26:47.000 Here's what these authors, however, write at the New York Times.

00:26:50.000 And again, it's worthy of examining their case because it is my firm belief that there is nothing wrong with passing laws on a state level.

00:26:58.000 In fact, not only nothing wrong, it is quite useful for states to pass laws banning the teaching of racism in our public schools under the guise of critical race theory.

00:27:10.000 Let's say these authors, what is the purpose of a liberal education?

00:27:12.000 That is the question at the heart of a bitter debate that has been roiling the nation for months.

00:27:16.000 Schools, particularly at the kindergarten through 12th grade level, are responsible for helping turn students into well-informed and discerning citizens.

00:27:22.000 At their best, our nation's schools equip young minds to grapple with complexity and navigate our differences.

00:27:26.000 At their worst, they resemble indoctrination factories.

00:27:30.000 In recent weeks, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Iowa, Idaho, and Texas have all passed legislation that places significant restrictions on what can be taught in public school classrooms, and in some cases, public universities, too.

00:27:38.000 Okay, so, couple of quick notes here.

00:27:41.000 The purpose of an education changes over time.

00:27:44.000 When you are seven, as my daughter is, the purpose of an education is to teach fundamental principles.

00:27:49.000 And then later, complexity comes in.

00:27:51.000 Because when you're seven, complexity ain't a thing.

00:27:53.000 You're going to teach reading and writing.

00:27:55.000 When you teach American history, you can only teach in very broad strokes because kids are seven.

00:27:59.000 And then when they're 10th or 12th grade, then you can start teaching more realistically about all of the warts.

00:28:04.000 But the question is, what is the fundamental principle that you lay down?

00:28:07.000 What is the bedrock that you lay down when a kid is seven?

00:28:10.000 And is that going to be an anti-American principle or a pro-American principle is very much live.

00:28:15.000 Treating 8-year-olds like 18-year-olds is very silly when it comes to education, and no one does it. 0.99

00:28:20.000 And suggesting that we ought to be teaching critical race theory principles as part of a way of just examining the universe to 7-year-olds is, of course, extraordinarily stupid. 0.99

00:28:28.000 But that is, of course, what the NEA is trying to do. 0.98

00:28:30.000 There is a reason that they're coming after the kids, guys.

00:28:32.000 There's a reason Ibram Kendi has a children's book. 0.99

00:28:36.000 By the way, it's garbage.

00:28:36.000 I had an entire video on YouTube about it.

00:28:38.000 It's kind of hilarious.

00:28:39.000 There's a reason that Robin DiAngelo would love for kids to learn this stuff from the youngest available ages.

00:28:46.000 When we talk about indoctrination, this is indoctrination.

00:28:49.000 The question is, what are the fundamental principles you want your kids to know when they're seven?

00:28:53.000 That's really what we're talking about here.

00:28:55.000 Because then there's play within those principles.

00:28:56.000 There's flexibility.

00:28:58.000 There's the scratches on the veneer that is America, for sure.

00:29:02.000 But what exactly are you gonna teach them as the root of American education?

00:29:07.000 So these authors say, Tennessee House Bill SB0623, for example, bans any teaching that could lead an individual to quote, feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or another form of psychological distress solely because of the individual's race or sex.

00:29:17.000 Okay, first of all, that isn't true.

00:29:19.000 That's actually not true.

00:29:20.000 If you go read House Bill SB0623, it does not say that anything that could lead someone to feel discomfort is banned.

00:29:26.000 It says, any education that tells students they should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other psychological distress because of their sex or race is banned.

00:29:35.000 Right, that's a very different thing.

00:29:38.000 Saying that you're going to ban teaching that could make somebody feel bad is not the same thing as saying you're going to ban teaching that says a kid should feel bad because they are white, black, or green.

00:29:47.000 In addition to this vague prescription, it restricts teaching that leads to division between or resentment of a race, sex, religion, creed, nonviolent political affiliation, social class, or class of people.

00:29:57.000 Texas House Bill 3979 goes further, forbidding teaching that quote, slavery and racism are anything other than deviations from, betrayals of, and failures to live up to the authentic founding principles of the United States.

00:30:07.000 Okay, why is that bad?

00:30:09.000 Really, why is that bad?

00:30:11.000 Last I checked, that's exactly what Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass were saying.

00:30:15.000 That these are betrayals of founding principles.

00:30:19.000 Are we attempting to teach students anything else in our schools?

00:30:22.000 Because that'd be fundamentally un-American. 0.63

00:30:24.000 That America is, in fact, about racism and slavery, and those are embedded in our founding principles.

00:30:29.000 It also bars any classroom from requiring, quote, an understanding of the 1619 Project, and prohibits assigning any part of it as required. 0.99

00:30:34.000 Well, that's because it's crap. 0.98

00:30:36.000 Like, seriously. 0.99

00:30:37.000 The notion that we are supposed to simply leave it up to... Like, I send my kids to a parochial school.

00:30:43.000 The reason I send my kids to a private Jewish day school is because I want my kids to learn certain values as a parent.

00:30:48.000 And as an American citizen, if I were sending my kid to public school, I'd want my kid to learn certain values about America.

00:30:54.000 And to pretend that we are supposed to be completely neutral between the values that we teach our children is insane.

00:30:59.000 It's crazy.

00:31:00.000 Now again, I'm not accusing these authors of saying that, because I don't think that's quite what they're saying.

00:31:06.000 They say we, the authors of this essay, have wide ideological divergences on the explicit targets of this legislation.

00:31:12.000 Some of us are deeply influenced by the academic discipline of critical race theory and its critique of racist structures and admire the 1619 Project.

00:31:17.000 Some of us are skeptical of structural racist explanations and racial identity itself and disagree with the mission and methodology of the 1619 Project.

00:31:24.000 We span the ideological spectrum of progressive, moderate, libertarian, and conservative.

00:31:27.000 It's because of these differences we here join together as we are united in one overarching concern, the danger posed by these laws to liberal education.

00:31:34.000 The danger to liberal education is the indoctrination of your kids in anti-American bullcrap.

00:31:39.000 That is the danger to liberal education.

00:31:42.000 It is.

00:31:43.000 To pretend anything else is not to see what is real on the ground.

00:31:48.000 The laws differ in some respects, say these authors, but generally agree on blocking any teaching that would lead students to feel discomfort, guilt, or anguish because of one's race or ancestry.

00:31:56.000 They create various carve-outs for the impartial teaching of the history of oppression of groups, but it's hard to see how these attempts are at all consistent with demands to avoid discomfort.

00:32:03.000 Again, this is a deliberate misreading of these laws.

00:32:06.000 That is not what the laws say.

00:32:08.000 Critical race theory teaches you should feel bad because of your race.

00:32:12.000 It is implicit in the premises laid out by Richard Delgado and Gene Stefanchik.

00:32:18.000 They said these laws are dangerously imprecise.

00:32:21.000 They say that other laws appear to potentially ban even expression as benign as support for affirmative action, but it's far from clear.

00:32:27.000 In fact, shortly after Texas passed its purported ban on critical race theory, the Techless Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank, published a list of words and concepts that help identify critical race theory in the classroom.

00:32:37.000 The list included terms such as social justice, colonialism, and identity.

00:32:41.000 Okay, well, that doesn't mean that you can ban those terms, obviously.

00:32:44.000 They're saying that if you're trying to find elements that are being taught, it's like this.

00:32:47.000 They say, these are speech codes.

00:32:48.000 They seek to change public education by banning the expression of ideas.

00:32:51.000 Again, there's a difference between doing this at a lower education level and doing this in public universities, which are sort of a different story.

00:32:58.000 But, this entire article is why these critical race theory, anti-critical race theory laws are bad.

00:33:05.000 What exactly is their solution?

00:33:07.000 Their solution is propose better curricula and enforce existing civil rights law.

00:33:10.000 Okay, so what would a better curriculum look like?

00:33:12.000 Seriously.

00:33:14.000 Because it turns out that the Trump administration tried to come up with something called the 1776 Project, which was designed to counter the 1619 Project.

00:33:21.000 The Biden administration came in, overthrew it.

00:33:22.000 The NEA wants kids to learn the 1619 Project, but not the 1776 Project.

00:33:28.000 Also, they say Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act both prohibit discrimination on the basis of race.

00:33:34.000 In fact, there's already an Education Department Office of Civil Rights complaint and federal lawsuit aimed at programs that allegedly attempt to place students or teachers into racial affinity groups.

00:33:42.000 Okay, but this is purely responsive, meaning that you see something that violates Title VI or Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and now you have to come up with a lawyer and you have to sue the school district into submission.

00:33:54.000 Or you could just stop them from indoctrinating your kids at the start.

00:33:59.000 Hey, there seems to be this assumption that we are coming to this issue fresh.

00:34:03.000 We are not.

00:34:04.000 We are coming after generations of indoctrination of our children into anti-American nonsense and it is now coming to its culmination.

00:34:09.000 And if you don't fight back with the tools at your disposal, you're doing it wrong.

00:34:13.000 coming up speaking of the attempts to sort of pit Americans against Americans.

00:34:20.000 It is amazing to see how radical the coalition of the dispossessed has become. 0.84

00:34:26.000 And also how many people just want to join it because it is the cool thing to do.

00:34:28.000 It is the trendy thing to do.

00:34:29.000 The real reason only 36% of young Americans say they're proud of America is they think it's trendy to think that it's not, that America's a bad place.

00:34:37.000 They think it's trendy to be anti-American.

00:34:39.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:35:55.000 First, If you're an American, you most likely just celebrated our great nation's Independence Day.

00:36:00.000 So, to follow that amazing holiday, I want to celebrate one of the men who fought for our independence.

00:36:04.000 His name is John Paul Jones.

00:36:05.000 He's featured on The Daily Wire's new podcast, America's Forgotten Heroes.

00:36:09.000 Saturday's episode was all about John Paul Jones, the father of the U.S.

00:36:12.000 Navy and an incredibly brave human being.

00:36:14.000 During the Revolutionary War, he and his crew were en route to attack a British warship.

00:36:18.000 They ran into a far more powerful one.

00:36:19.000 A classic underdog story, the commander of the enemy ship told his men to surrender, to which Jones responded, I have not yet begun to fight, before engaging in a three-hour relentless gunfire battle and forcing his opponent to surrender instead.

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00:36:32.000 It's time we celebrate the bravery that led to America's freedom today.

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00:36:39.000 The sixth episode is out today, Tuesday, July 6th.

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00:37:00.000 You're listening to the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.

00:37:03.000 Meanwhile in breaking news, this is the beautiful thing about the the crew that believes that America is such a terrible place, that is replete with racism and bigotry, is nothing is ever enough.

00:37:18.000 Like, literally nothing is ever enough.

00:37:19.000 Perfect story on this today.

00:37:20.000 And I do say, I have to love it.

00:37:22.000 So, University of North Carolina, you'll recall, offered the professional liar and prevaricator, Nicole Hannah-Jones, who has suggested that America is endemically and institutionally racist on every level, promoted riots during 2020, has suggested that the destruction of property does not amount to violence, Has lied about America's police.

00:37:41.000 They offered her tenure.

00:37:42.000 Remember, they offered her a tenured position at University of North Carolina based on her vast academic qualifications, which include, and also... Okay, so they offered her that.

00:37:51.000 Then, the board of trustees is like, well, maybe we should think about that for a second.

00:37:54.000 What if we just offered her a non-tenure track position? 1.00

00:37:57.000 And everyone went nuts.

00:37:58.000 How dare they?

00:37:59.000 No, it's cancellation!

00:38:00.000 Cancel!

00:38:00.000 Okay, and then, they came back and they voted 9-4 to give her tenure.

00:38:05.000 Well, now, After having forced the entire University of North Carolina into submission, Nicole Hannon-Jones has now humiliated them by saying she's not going to take the tenured position. 1.00

00:38:16.000 Instead, she's going to head on over to historically black college Howard University, which is also hiring Ta-Nehisi Coates.

00:38:21.000 According to the Huffington Post, Hannah Jones will become a tenured member of the faculty at the historically black university's Kathy Hughes School of Communications, made the announcement Tuesday during an interview with Gayle King on CBS This Morning.

00:38:33.000 The UNC alumna will take on the role as inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism, and will begin her faculty role this summer.

00:38:40.000 Hannah-Jones will also lead the university's newly created Center for Journalism and Democracy, which will train the next generation of black journalists in investigative and foundational journalism skills.

00:38:48.000 Because nothing says investigative and foundational journalism skills like lying about American history, ignoring historians who are actually qualified, and disparaging them as white.

00:38:58.000 The Center will seek to work with other journalism programs at historically black colleges and universities across the country.

00:39:03.000 Hannah Jones said, quote, We are at a critical juncture in our democracy, and yet our press does not reflect the nation it serves, and too often struggles to grasp the danger for our country as we see growing attacks on free speech and the fundamental right to vote.

00:39:14.000 Okay, Hannah Jones saying that there's a fundamental attack on free speech while she runs around the country being handed awards, money, tenured positions. 1.00

00:39:25.000 It's hysterically funny.

00:39:27.000 Ta-Nehisi Coates will also join the faculty at HBCU.

00:39:30.000 The roles are funded thanks to more than $20 million in financial contributions from the Knight Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and an anonymous owner.

00:39:37.000 Because, again, the institutions of the United States are geared toward radicalism.

00:39:41.000 They are geared toward radicalism.

00:39:43.000 And the institutions of the United States have been mobilized on behalf of the radical left.

00:39:47.000 It's why my book, The Authoritarian Moment, is really important.

00:39:49.000 Go pre-order a copy right now.

00:39:51.000 Members of the faculty at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media said in a statement they were, quote, disappointed but not surprised at Hannah-Jones's decision to turn down the school's offer.

00:40:00.000 They said, we support Ms. 0.93

00:40:01.000 Hannah-Jones's choice. 0.98

00:40:02.000 The appalling treatment of one of our nation's most decorated journalists by her own alma mater was humiliating, inappropriate, and unjust.

00:40:08.000 We will be frank.

00:40:09.000 It was racist.

00:40:10.000 You see, it was racist not to immediately offer her a tenured position, but to consider it and then offer her the tenured position.

00:40:16.000 It was so racist that now she's slam dunking and she's just dunking on them. 1.00

00:40:19.000 Love it.

00:40:20.000 You know what?

00:40:21.000 Love it.

00:40:22.000 Hats off.

00:40:22.000 Respect.

00:40:23.000 Respect, man.

00:40:25.000 Spectacular.

00:40:26.000 But this goes to a broader issue.

00:40:29.000 And the broader issue in American life right now is that it is great to be a member of the intersectional coalition.

00:40:34.000 If you're a member of the intersectional coalition, you have endless power in American life.

00:40:39.000 You're able to skew any narrative in your own favor.

00:40:42.000 You're able to take advantage of every opportunity and slam dunk on people who even offer you opportunities.

00:40:48.000 You get to pretend to be the height of virtue while ruining all your enemies.

00:40:52.000 Being a member of the intersectional coalition has all privilege and no fallout.

00:40:56.000 You can be Gwen Berry, an obscure hammer thrower for the Olympics.

00:40:59.000 And as soon as you make a face into a camera during the national anthem, you're going to get a contract with Nike, I'm sure. 0.99

00:41:06.000 If you are Nicole Hannah-Jones, you can be absolute garbage at your job. 1.00

00:41:09.000 And it doesn't matter. 0.99

00:41:09.000 They will hand you the editorship of the New York Times and fire anybody who crosses you. 0.99

00:41:14.000 And then you'll be offered a tenured university position at a major publicly funded university and turn it down.

00:41:17.000 I mean, man, for a country that is so all fired racist and sexist, it is unbelievable to be a member of the intersectional coalition taking advantage of this on an intellectual level.

00:41:28.000 It really is. 0.99

00:41:30.000 All the way down to men walking into ladies' spas with their junk hanging out. 0.93

00:41:35.000 Over the weekend, this story blew up nationally. 0.98

00:41:39.000 We talked about it last week.

00:41:40.000 There was an L.A. 0.59

00:41:40.000 spa where a naked man walked into the women's section of the spa, junk hanging out in front of a six-year-old girl. 0.59

00:41:49.000 The woman said a person with a beard and a penis got into a hot tub naked with her six-year-old daughter at Wee Spa on Wilshire Boulevard in January 2020. 0.97

00:41:57.000 She claims she and her six-year-old daughter had gone to the outing to the spa together when a transgender woman sat on the edge of the hot tub where they were soaking. 0.92

00:42:04.000 Okay, and then there were protests outside WeSpa with people saying, you know what?

00:42:07.000 If I'm going to be... If I'm a biological woman, I don't need to see junk. 0.95

00:42:12.000 Okay, Antifa showed up and beat the living hell out of people on the street for this. 0.97

00:42:16.000 Okay, here is some video of that.

00:42:18.000 It's insane. 0.85

00:42:19.000 Antifa shows up wearing gay pride flags and transgender flags. 0.94

00:42:28.000 They start stealing people's signs, ripping up people's signs. 0.99

00:42:31.000 They're communicating on people for no f***ing reason.

00:42:33.000 No reason. 0.97

00:42:34.000 Are you being a violent citizen?

00:42:36.000 No, he's a lady of five years.

00:42:39.000 They are trying to intimidate these women. 1.00

00:42:40.000 They're trying to push her with a skateboard. 1.00

00:42:43.000 And they're stealing her hat.

00:42:45.000 They're physically assaulting this woman. 0.75

00:42:50.000 So much tolerance.

00:42:51.000 So much diversity.

00:42:54.000 So much diversity.

00:42:55.000 And by the way, this was treated as though this is, like, somewhat legitimate.

00:42:59.000 It's insane. 0.98

00:43:00.000 According to the Daily Mail, the violence had broken out on Saturday outside WeSpy after a viral video showed a customer complaining about a transgender woman who allegedly exposed their penis. 0.93

00:43:08.000 Okay, let me just read that sentence again because that's not in English. 0.98

00:43:11.000 A transgender woman who allegedly exposed their penis. 0.96

00:43:16.000 Many words don't make sense in that particular sentence. 0.98

00:43:20.000 That is a bunch of words strung together in what seems to be a somewhat grammatically correct phrase, but is in fact nonsensical.

00:43:26.000 Hordes of people showed up outside of WeSpot to support the woman.

00:43:29.000 They were met by Antifa counter-protesters supporting transgender rights.

00:43:33.000 Protesters were seen assaulting an independent journalist who was hit in the head with what appears to be a pipe.

00:43:37.000 Video of protests posted to Twitter shows.

00:43:41.000 How delightful.

00:43:42.000 It's really, really solid stuff.

00:43:44.000 And people showing up with signs that say, Stop Trans Hate, and with gay pride flags, and just delight.

00:43:50.000 What a wonderful world we live in.

00:43:51.000 What a wonderful world we have.

00:43:52.000 It's so wonderful to be a member of the Intersectional Coalition that everybody wants in.

00:43:56.000 And so we're now just going to make up things so that you too can be a member of the Intersectional Coalition.

00:44:00.000 Which brings me to my favorite story of the day.

00:44:03.000 Michaela Kennedy Cuomo, 23, is Governor Andrew Cuomo's daughter.

00:44:07.000 She came out in an Instagram post last month as queer. 0.94

00:44:10.000 Now, we used to believe that queer, you know, now having been hijacked from a term of derogation, as a derogatory, is now used by members of the gay community as sort of a championing term, right?

00:44:21.000 It used to mean gay, bisexual, lesbian, right?

00:44:26.000 It used to mean something along those lines.

00:44:27.000 Now, Michaela Kennedy Cuomo came out as demisexual. 0.93

00:44:32.000 According to WebMD, demisexual people only feel sexually attracted to someone when they have an emotional bond.

00:44:38.000 She says, when I was in elementary school, I feared that I was a lesbian.

00:44:42.000 When I was in middle school, I came out to my family and close friends as bisexual.

00:44:45.000 When I was in high school, I discovered pansexuality and thought that's the flag for me.

00:44:49.000 I recently learned more about demisexuality and have believed that that identity resonates with me the most.

00:44:57.000 And then she said, she has always dreamed of a world in which nobody will have to come out because everybody's sexuality will be assumed fluid.

00:45:03.000 But in a world that force-feeds cisgender heterosexuality, coming out of the closet is a lifelong process of unpacking internalized social constructions and stigmas.

00:45:12.000 And she is, she is demisexual. 1.00

00:45:15.000 She added that when she first came out as queer, she feared she would be perceived as attention-seeking since it's, quote, hip or cool to not be hetero in my liberal bubble.

00:45:22.000 And therein lies the issue.

00:45:23.000 Okay, so what the hell is a demisexual, you ask yourself?

00:45:26.000 So, again, WebMD now lists demisexual as, quote, only feel sexually attracted to someone when they have an emotional bond.

00:45:33.000 Okay, now, demisexual started off as a fanfiction roleplay forum in 2004 on a made-up identity in a middle schooler's character.

00:45:40.000 Okay, and now it's on WebMD.

00:45:43.000 Okay, so demisexual is described as a person who only feels sexual attraction when there's an emotional bond.

00:45:50.000 AKA a woman. 1.00

00:45:52.000 A woman, what studies demonstrate, repeated social science and hard science studies suggest that women tend to have higher sexual satisfaction by leaps and bounds when they have an emotional connection to the person with whom they are having sex.

00:46:05.000 But now this is considered some sort of minority sexuality demisexuality? 0.82

00:46:10.000 Everybody is so interested in jumping on the intersectional bandwagon because, again, if you're part of the coalition, then you're not part of the evil maw of the United States, the evil blob that is the United States.

00:46:21.000 The left is banking on this. 0.74

00:46:22.000 They've weaponized our institutions in favor of this sort of nonsense.

00:46:26.000 And it has a pretty predictable effect.

00:46:27.000 The demonization of people across the other side of the aisle and the attempt to subjugate the institutions of the country and destroy them as somehow not benefiting you.

00:46:39.000 The country does not have a future with this kind of stuff.

00:46:40.000 It just does not.

00:46:42.000 And the more young people who feel that it is popular to join the quote-unquote coalition of the oppressed because you're either the oppressor or the oppressed in the binary Ibram X. Kendi nonsense construct, The more people who buy into that construct and then decide they're going to be a member of the oppressed group because there's only victims and victimizers in American society, the more the United States is going to be in serious, serious trouble.

00:47:02.000 And we can see that each and every day.

00:47:03.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - July 06, 2021

Yes, They Hate The Country | Ep. 1290

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