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00:00:00.000Prominent 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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00:01:32.000Alrighty, so I hope you had a wonderful Independence Day weekend.
00:01:35.000Obviously, it is worthwhile to celebrate the greatest country that has ever existed in the history of the world.
00:01:41.000Unfortunately, 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.
00:01:48.000And in fact, that America is the font of all evil, the root of all evil.
00:01:51.000In terms of foreign policy, we're an imperialist, colonialist power.
00:01:55.000In terms of domestic policy, we're an evil, racist, discriminatory, sexist, heteronormative, cisgender place.
00:02:02.000And this is reflected in the polling data.
00:02:04.000According 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.
00:02:11.000So that means that 64% are not proud of being American.
00:02:17.000No country can survive when 64% of its public believes that the country is not good or worthwhile.
00:02:24.000They're not proud of being a member of that country.
00:02:25.000And we're not talking about proud of being a German in 1946.
00:02:30.000We'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.
00:02:40.000This 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.
00:03:09.000The 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.
00:03:20.000Young adults, according to this poll, aged 18 to 24, were the group least likely to say they are proud to be American.
00:03:25.000Of 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.
00:03:35.000So in other words, you can very clearly see the impact of a crappy educational system on Americans.
00:03:41.000Adults who are over the age of 65, 86% of them say they're proud.
00:04:18.000Now, 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.
00:04:27.000You see this with Democrats all the time.
00:04:28.000When Barack Obama is president, a solid majority of Democrats will say they are proud to be American.
00:04:32.000And then when Trump is president, a solid minority of Americans will say they are proud to be American.
00:04:37.000They'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.
00:04:43.000Because 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.
00:04:50.000And 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.
00:04:56.000Men are 18% more likely than women to say they're proud of being American.
00:05:00.000The poll found 77% of men, 59% of women were proud.
00:05:04.00073% of white Americans, 56% of black and Hispanic Americans said they were proud of being American as well.
00:05:10.000Only 44% of respondents said they were extremely proud to be American.
00:05:22.000The 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.
00:05:35.000And this is ingrained every day by our institutions.
00:06:07.000She 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.
00:06:14.000This land is stolen land and black people still aren't free.
00:06:16.000Okay, no, that's not what people say the 4th of July is about.
00:06:21.000The 4th of July is about separation from Great Britain and then the fulfillment of the promises of the Declaration of Independence over time.
00:06:28.000They are not referring to freedom only for white people.
00:06:31.000Which is, by the way, exactly what thinkers ranging from Martin Luther King to Frederick Douglass have said.
00:06:36.000That the promises of the Declaration of Independence were a promissory note that had to be fulfilled.
00:06:40.000By the way, the last sentence there is so insane coming from a sitting member of Congress.
00:06:47.000It seems to me Cori Bush is pretty damned free in the United States of America.
00:06:51.000I've noticed some rather large distinctions between how black Americans were treated circa 1830 or even 1776 and, you know, 2021.
00:06:59.000I've noticed some fairly large distinctions right there.
00:07:02.000And 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.
00:07:13.000And if Cori Bush wants to give up her house in St.
00:07:15.000Louis to whatever native tribe originally occupied that area, She is more than she is more than capable of doing so.
00:07:22.000I don't see her making many moves along those lines.
00:07:26.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:07:33.000And meanwhile, decrying every area of law and order indecency in American life.
00:07:38.000Maxine Waters, truly one of the most corrupt and horrible members of the American Congress.
00:08:12.000They weren't thinking about black Americans when they wrote the Declaration.
00:08:14.000There was a specific provision of the Declaration of Independence in the original draft that discussed slavery.
00:08:19.000It was removed at the behest of southern states.
00:08:22.000You know, recognizing the hypocrisy of Thomas Jefferson does not mean that the principles he espoused were not universal.
00:08:27.000In fact, he's only a hypocrite because the principles were universal.
00:08:31.000If the principles were not universal, he wouldn't be a hypocrite.
00:08:33.000If 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.
00:08:44.000An 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.
00:08:58.000Because if the Declaration was a lie, then he didn't do anything wrong.
00:09:01.000But the Declaration is the truth, and we all know it.
00:09:04.000And we know it because we were handed those principles by people like Thomas Jefferson.
00:09:08.000Yes, people who sinned like all human beings.
00:09:10.000Yes, people who lived in a context of a different history.
00:09:13.000Like all human beings have lived over the course of history.
00:09:18.000But 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.
00:09:28.000And 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.
00:09:52.000You can't actively suppress the vote in the United States.
00:09:53.000And 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.
00:10:03.000Supreme Court gutted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
00:10:47.000Okay, and we have taxpayer-funded entities like NPR who are pushing this same nonsense.
00:10:52.000So NPR is funded through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
00:10:54.000The Corporation for Public Broadcasting does receive money from the taxpayers.
00:10:58.000They tweeted out on July 4th, quote, 245 years ago today, leaders representing 13 British colonies signed a document to declare independence.
00:11:06.000It says that all men are created equal, but women, enslaved people, indigenous people, and many others were not held as equal at the time.
00:11:19.000Like, there are lots of people who openly said that all of these groups were not equal.
00:11:23.000None of those things are enshrined in America's monuments.
00:11:27.000None 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.
00:11:35.000None of that's at the Jefferson Monument or Jefferson Memorial.
00:11:39.000What 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.
00:11:49.000NPR says the document also includes a racist slur against indigenous Americans.
00:11:55.000Author 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.
00:12:05.000I'm sorry, this is what you choose to focus in on July 4th?
00:12:33.000On 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.
00:12:45.000And 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.
00:12:55.000He speaks in sort of old-style patriotic terms, and then talks about how America is systemically racist and equity i.e.
00:13:01.000racial discrimination needs to be enshrined in American law at every level of his administration.
00:13:06.000We'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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00:14:44.000The American flag is representative of American repression.
00:14:48.000Motherhood is, of course, sexist because not all women are mothers, and not all mothers are women.
00:14:53.000And apple pie is bad because I'm sure it's not fair trade sourced or something.
00:14:57.000In 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.
00:15:45.000They're running on the fumes of the Declaration while attempting to burn the Declaration.
00:15:50.000Those two messages are in direct conflict with one another.
00:15:53.000But this has been pushed directly into American education.
00:15:56.000It's been crammed down in nearly every area of American life.
00:16:01.000We're supposed to believe that America is a truly bad place.
00:16:04.000And then we lie, by the way, about what people have said about America in the past.
00:16:08.000So, 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.
00:16:18.000She writes, Frederick Douglass had nothing but scorn for July 4th.
00:17:05.000We have laws in place that racially discriminate on behalf of Black Americans today.
00:17:10.000The 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.
00:17:34.000The idea that Frederick Douglass stood for something as anti-American as people stand for today is wrong.
00:17:40.000He 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.
00:17:49.000The idea instead is that they need to be expanded.
00:17:53.000But we're going to pretend that they weren't expanded.
00:17:56.000It's all maddening and it's being taught in our nation's largest school district.
00:18:00.000It is being taught at the behest of leftists who run teachers unions.
00:18:04.000This is what the debate over critical race theory is really about.
00:18:07.000Critical race theory is a theory that says that all of the principles of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution are a lie.
00:18:13.000America was really founded in like 1619.
00:18:15.000America's institutions are thoroughly racist and not only thoroughly racist, they are just a guise for power dynamics.
00:18:22.000That 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.
00:18:30.000And 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.
00:18:37.000And the NEA is pushing this stuff openly at this point.
00:18:40.000In 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.
00:18:54.000Their 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.
00:19:07.000Have 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.
00:19:16.000Provide 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.
00:19:32.000And that we oppose attempts to ban critical race theory and or the 1619 Project.
00:19:37.000Publicly, again, this is the biggest teachers union in America.
00:19:44.000Only 36% of Americans aged 18-24 are proud of being American.
00:19:49.000Publicly, 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.
00:20:06.000It's this last part where they start to edge over into the radical leftism to which they're so accustomed.
00:20:13.000Of course, no one is saying that American history shouldn't be taught with all of its warts.
00:20:17.000I have an entire chapter in my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, about American history and how it should be taught.
00:20:21.000And there are plenty of warts to talk about.
00:20:24.000But the notion that every injustice of today is attributable to an injustice of the past is a lie.
00:20:30.000And 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.
00:20:43.000The 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.
00:20:58.000USA's economy and social order is built on interactions between different races and cultures.
00:21:02.000To deny opportunities to teach truth about black, brown, and other marginalized races minimizes the necessity for students to build efficacy.
00:21:09.000The ancient African proverb says, know thyself.
00:21:13.000I'm sorry, this is unbelievable crap that they are now pushing.
00:21:17.000The Zinn Education Project, Howard Zinn, is a pathological liar.
00:21:21.000His book, A People's History of the United States, is an egregiously horrific book.
00:21:25.000It is a complete misread of American history.
00:21:27.000I 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.
00:21:32.000took the wrong side in the Cold War, essentially.
00:21:36.000But they want to leverage in the 1619 Project and Howard Zinn into all their education.
00:21:44.000And 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.
00:21:57.000So the radical leftism of our teachers' unions are out of control.
00:22:02.000And again, designed to indoctrinate your kids.
00:22:05.000And what we are watching is a transformation.
00:22:07.000From an America that shares certain fundamental respect for principles and history, to an America that is post-American in nature.
00:22:15.000I'll explain what I mean by post-American in nature in just one second.
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00:23:48.000And therefore, Israel had to surrender to all of its enemies.
00:23:50.000Israel had to completely remake itself.
00:23:52.000And frankly, there was no reason for Israel's existence.
00:23:55.000America is now entering the post-American moment.
00:23:57.000Is ushered in by Barack Obama, who suggested, of course, that American exceptionalism was just like Greek exceptionalism or any other exceptionalism.
00:24:03.000But really, truly, America was founded on oppression and is still as oppressive as it was originally.
00:24:09.000The post-American movement is extremely dangerous.
00:24:11.000It 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.
00:24:19.000And that we also deem our entire past awful and terrible and egregious and bad.
00:24:27.000And that has consequences for how we teach our kids today.
00:24:29.000Because, of course, CRT essentially suggests that whiteness is the problem.
00:24:34.000Whiteness studies is an offshoot of CRT.
00:24:37.000Critical 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.
00:24:55.000This is likely to result in some of the worst crap we've seen in American politics in decades.
00:25:00.000It turns out that racial polarization is a horrible thing in American politics.
00:25:04.000Right before Barack Obama was president, there was a reason that America's optimism about race was at an all-time high.
00:25:09.000There's a reason why it's now been sliced in half.
00:25:11.000And that is because of an attempt to racially polarize for political gain, particularly by the Democratic Party.
00:25:16.000So the question arises, what is the best way to fight back against this sort of stuff?
00:25:21.000So there is a piece today in the New York Times by Kamel Foster, David French, Jason Stanley, and Thomas Chatterton Williams.
00:25:27.000I'm friends with many of these people.
00:25:51.000KKK curricula, not taught to students in public schools, nor should it be.
00:25:55.000Nazi curricula, not taught in America's public schools, nor should it be.
00:25:59.000CRT should not be taught in America's public schools.
00:26:01.000We 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.
00:26:11.000Now, I don't think that any of these authors, Kamala Foster, David French, Jason Stanley, or Thomas Chatterton Williams, are advocates of CRT.
00:26:18.000What 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.
00:26:29.000There is no competition of ideas in the public schools.
00:26:32.000The NEA makes the bed, and you just lie in it.
00:26:36.000The 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.
00:26:47.000Here's what these authors, however, write at the New York Times.
00:26:50.000And 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.
00:26:58.000In 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.
00:27:10.000Let's say these authors, what is the purpose of a liberal education?
00:27:12.000That is the question at the heart of a bitter debate that has been roiling the nation for months.
00:27:16.000Schools, particularly at the kindergarten through 12th grade level, are responsible for helping turn students into well-informed and discerning citizens.
00:27:22.000At their best, our nation's schools equip young minds to grapple with complexity and navigate our differences.
00:27:26.000At their worst, they resemble indoctrination factories.
00:27:30.000In 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.
00:27:51.000Because when you're seven, complexity ain't a thing.
00:27:53.000You're going to teach reading and writing.
00:27:55.000When you teach American history, you can only teach in very broad strokes because kids are seven.
00:27:59.000And then when they're 10th or 12th grade, then you can start teaching more realistically about all of the warts.
00:28:04.000But the question is, what is the fundamental principle that you lay down?
00:28:07.000What is the bedrock that you lay down when a kid is seven?
00:28:10.000And is that going to be an anti-American principle or a pro-American principle is very much live.
00:28:15.000Treating 8-year-olds like 18-year-olds is very silly when it comes to education, and no one does it.
00:28:20.000And 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.
00:28:28.000But that is, of course, what the NEA is trying to do.
00:28:30.000There is a reason that they're coming after the kids, guys.
00:28:32.000There's a reason Ibram Kendi has a children's book.
00:28:58.000There's the scratches on the veneer that is America, for sure.
00:29:02.000But what exactly are you gonna teach them as the root of American education?
00:29:07.000So 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.
00:29:20.000If you go read House Bill SB0623, it does not say that anything that could lead someone to feel discomfort is banned.
00:29:26.000It 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.
00:29:38.000Saying 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.
00:29:47.000In 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.
00:29:57.000Texas 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.
00:30:11.000Last I checked, that's exactly what Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass were saying.
00:30:15.000That these are betrayals of founding principles.
00:30:19.000Are we attempting to teach students anything else in our schools?
00:30:22.000Because that'd be fundamentally un-American.
00:30:24.000That America is, in fact, about racism and slavery, and those are embedded in our founding principles.
00:30:29.000It also bars any classroom from requiring, quote, an understanding of the 1619 Project, and prohibits assigning any part of it as required.
00:31:00.000Now again, I'm not accusing these authors of saying that, because I don't think that's quite what they're saying.
00:31:06.000They say we, the authors of this essay, have wide ideological divergences on the explicit targets of this legislation.
00:31:12.000Some of us are deeply influenced by the academic discipline of critical race theory and its critique of racist structures and admire the 1619 Project.
00:31:17.000Some of us are skeptical of structural racist explanations and racial identity itself and disagree with the mission and methodology of the 1619 Project.
00:31:24.000We span the ideological spectrum of progressive, moderate, libertarian, and conservative.
00:31:27.000It'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.
00:31:34.000The danger to liberal education is the indoctrination of your kids in anti-American bullcrap.
00:31:39.000That is the danger to liberal education.
00:31:43.000To pretend anything else is not to see what is real on the ground.
00:31:48.000The 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.
00:31:56.000They 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.
00:32:03.000Again, this is a deliberate misreading of these laws.
00:32:08.000Critical race theory teaches you should feel bad because of your race.
00:32:12.000It is implicit in the premises laid out by Richard Delgado and Gene Stefanchik.
00:32:18.000They said these laws are dangerously imprecise.
00:32:21.000They say that other laws appear to potentially ban even expression as benign as support for affirmative action, but it's far from clear.
00:32:27.000In 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.
00:32:37.000The list included terms such as social justice, colonialism, and identity.
00:32:41.000Okay, well, that doesn't mean that you can ban those terms, obviously.
00:32:44.000They're saying that if you're trying to find elements that are being taught, it's like this.
00:32:48.000They seek to change public education by banning the expression of ideas.
00:32:51.000Again, 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.
00:32:58.000But, this entire article is why these critical race theory, anti-critical race theory laws are bad.
00:33:14.000Because 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.
00:33:21.000The Biden administration came in, overthrew it.
00:33:22.000The NEA wants kids to learn the 1619 Project, but not the 1776 Project.
00:33:28.000Also, they say Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act both prohibit discrimination on the basis of race.
00:33:34.000In 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.
00:33:42.000Okay, 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.
00:33:54.000Or you could just stop them from indoctrinating your kids at the start.
00:33:59.000Hey, there seems to be this assumption that we are coming to this issue fresh.
00:34:29.000The 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.
00:34:37.000They think it's trendy to be anti-American.
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00:36:05.000He's featured on The Daily Wire's new podcast, America's Forgotten Heroes.
00:36:09.000Saturday's episode was all about John Paul Jones, the father of the U.S.
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00:36:18.000They ran into a far more powerful one.
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00:37:00.000You're listening to the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.
00:37:03.000Meanwhile 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.
00:37:18.000Like, literally nothing is ever enough.
00:37:22.000So, 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.
00:37:42.000Remember, 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.
00:37:51.000Then, the board of trustees is like, well, maybe we should think about that for a second.
00:37:54.000What if we just offered her a non-tenure track position?
00:38:00.000Okay, and then, they came back and they voted 9-4 to give her tenure.
00:38:05.000Well, 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.
00:38:16.000Instead, she's going to head on over to historically black college Howard University, which is also hiring Ta-Nehisi Coates.
00:38:21.000According 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.
00:38:33.000The UNC alumna will take on the role as inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism, and will begin her faculty role this summer.
00:38:40.000Hannah-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.
00:38:48.000Because nothing says investigative and foundational journalism skills like lying about American history, ignoring historians who are actually qualified, and disparaging them as white.
00:38:58.000The Center will seek to work with other journalism programs at historically black colleges and universities across the country.
00:39:03.000Hannah 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.
00:39:14.000Okay, Hannah Jones saying that there's a fundamental attack on free speech while she runs around the country being handed awards, money, tenured positions.
00:39:27.000Ta-Nehisi Coates will also join the faculty at HBCU.
00:39:30.000The 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.
00:39:37.000Because, again, the institutions of the United States are geared toward radicalism.
00:39:51.000Members 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.
00:40:02.000The appalling treatment of one of our nation's most decorated journalists by her own alma mater was humiliating, inappropriate, and unjust.
00:41:09.000They will hand you the editorship of the New York Times and fire anybody who crosses you.
00:41:14.000And then you'll be offered a tenured university position at a major publicly funded university and turn it down.
00:41:17.000I 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.
00:41:40.000spa where a naked man walked into the women's section of the spa, junk hanging out in front of a six-year-old girl.
00:41:49.000The 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.
00:41:57.000She 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.
00:42:04.000Okay, and then there were protests outside WeSpa with people saying, you know what?
00:42:07.000If I'm going to be... If I'm a biological woman, I don't need to see junk.
00:42:12.000Okay, Antifa showed up and beat the living hell out of people on the street for this.
00:43:00.000According 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.
00:43:08.000Okay, let me just read that sentence again because that's not in English.
00:43:11.000A transgender woman who allegedly exposed their penis.
00:43:16.000Many words don't make sense in that particular sentence.
00:43:20.000That is a bunch of words strung together in what seems to be a somewhat grammatically correct phrase, but is in fact nonsensical.
00:43:26.000Hordes of people showed up outside of WeSpot to support the woman.
00:43:29.000They were met by Antifa counter-protesters supporting transgender rights.
00:43:33.000Protesters were seen assaulting an independent journalist who was hit in the head with what appears to be a pipe.
00:43:37.000Video of protests posted to Twitter shows.
00:43:52.000It's so wonderful to be a member of the Intersectional Coalition that everybody wants in.
00:43:56.000And so we're now just going to make up things so that you too can be a member of the Intersectional Coalition.
00:44:00.000Which brings me to my favorite story of the day.
00:44:03.000Michaela Kennedy Cuomo, 23, is Governor Andrew Cuomo's daughter.
00:44:07.000She came out in an Instagram post last month as queer.
00:44:10.000Now, 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?
00:44:21.000It used to mean gay, bisexual, lesbian, right?
00:44:26.000It used to mean something along those lines.
00:44:27.000Now, Michaela Kennedy Cuomo came out as demisexual.
00:44:32.000According to WebMD, demisexual people only feel sexually attracted to someone when they have an emotional bond.
00:44:38.000She says, when I was in elementary school, I feared that I was a lesbian.
00:44:42.000When I was in middle school, I came out to my family and close friends as bisexual.
00:44:45.000When I was in high school, I discovered pansexuality and thought that's the flag for me.
00:44:49.000I recently learned more about demisexuality and have believed that that identity resonates with me the most.
00:44:57.000And 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.
00:45:03.000But in a world that force-feeds cisgender heterosexuality, coming out of the closet is a lifelong process of unpacking internalized social constructions and stigmas.
00:45:15.000She 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.
00:45:52.000A 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.
00:46:05.000But now this is considered some sort of minority sexuality demisexuality?
00:46:10.000Everybody 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.
00:46:22.000They've weaponized our institutions in favor of this sort of nonsense.
00:46:26.000And it has a pretty predictable effect.
00:46:27.000The 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.
00:46:39.000The country does not have a future with this kind of stuff.
00:46:42.000And 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.
00:47:02.000And we can see that each and every day.
00:47:03.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
00:47:07.000In the meantime, go check out The Michael Knowles Show.