Black Lives Matter protesters form their own autonomous zone in Seattle, white liberals begin to embrace radical chic, and everything from the Washington Monument to Paw Patrol is on the chopping block. Ben Shapiro explains it all on today s episode of The Ben Shapiro Show. (00:00) What is the Seattle Autonomous Zone? (01:00:30) (02:00): What is a "progressive" autonomous zone? What does it entail? What are the rules for it? Is it a place where progressives can indulge in some of the most humiliating stereotype of left-wing protest subculture (03:00-05:30)? (05:40-07:30): What are we to do with it? (07:20-08:00). (08:30-11:00.) (11:05) Is this a good or bad thing? (12:05-16:00), (16:10) Is there a warlord on the loose? or is it a coup d ? (17:00 - 18:00, 19:00 ) (19:30, 20:00 ) Can we trust the police? (21:30 - 22:30), 22:10 Do the cops even have a chance to do anything at all here? ? (23:00 , and 26:30 27:30). 28: Is this really what we're fighting for? ?? 29:00 s 32:00s 35:00 is a new nation 36: 37:00 a new country 39:00 Is it possible that we're going to have a Black Lives Matter country ? 40:00 What s up with this? 41:00 Does it really matter? 42:00 do we have a country of Chaz? 45:00 Do we really have a problem with Black people in Seattle? 47:00 | What s going to happen here in the United States? Theme song by Jeffree Theme Song by Ian Dorsch Theme by Skynet Theme Music by Ian Somer? Music by Glasels by The Weakerthans by Fountains of Sleep by Cairo Braga by Jeff McElroy Download MP3 by Slush Media
00:00:00.000Black Lives Matter protesters form their own autonomous zone in Seattle, white liberals begin to embrace radical chic, and everything from the Washington Monument to Paw Patrol is on the chopping block.
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00:00:24.000So, I have to admit, I am now turning from bemusement to amusement as an autonomous zone.
00:00:30.000They are calling it the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, has been set up in Seattle.
00:00:33.000Protesters have taken over apparently a six or seven block radius in Seattle and have declared their own state.
00:00:39.000They've actually put up a sign that says, you are now leaving the USA.
00:00:42.000Not kidding, the Capitol Hill Free Zone, they call it the Autonomous Zone, is a protester-occupied zone.
00:00:47.000Okay, sort of like the Occupy Wall Street routine that we saw a few years back, back in about 2010.
00:00:52.000And it is going to end up exactly the same way.
00:00:54.000It happened because the police were told by Mayor Jenny Durkan to essentially withdraw from the area and to cede the area to the cops.
00:01:00.000And it's turned into a raucous comedy almost immediately.
00:01:05.000Now, I think that a lot of people across the United States are feeling that things have grown out of control just a little bit.
00:01:12.000That no matter how much you believe that police brutality is wrong, and everyone who is good believes this, and no matter how much you believe racism is wrong, and you don't have to protest to believe that racism is wrong, it's kind of weird that we are now talking openly about a complete takeover of a major part of a major city by protesters against the police, where apparently, according to the cops, some extortion is going on, The protesters have built walls.
00:01:41.000They actually built a wall to keep people out.
00:01:44.000They took over the east precinct of the Seattle Police Department.
00:01:46.000They called it the Seattle People's Department, which is... I'm really enjoying this live showing on continuous loop of The Dark Knight Rises.
00:02:03.000They're stopping and frisking people who are entering.
00:02:05.000And this was to get rid of the cops, guys.
00:02:07.000This was to get rid of the evil, horrible Seattle Police Department.
00:02:11.000And immediately upon that happening, people in there were like, oh, you mean now there's power that's up for grabs.
00:02:16.000It turns out that anarchy is usually a pretext for tyranny.
00:02:19.000Chaos is usually a pretext for terrible people taking over.
00:02:23.000And so, according to multiple reports, essentially a warlord is taking over.
00:02:29.000We're going to get escape from New York, except it's escape from Seattle.
00:02:31.000We're going to send in Snake Plissken.
00:02:34.000I mean, all that has to happen here is for Air Force One to be downed inside the Seattle Autonomous Free Zone for things to get really wild.
00:02:41.000So here is exactly what went down, according to Alipundit over at Hot Air.
00:02:47.000Apparently, Seattle PD cracked down hard on protesters on Sunday night, despite the mayor having given a speech earlier that day calling for de-escalation.
00:02:53.000In order to lower the temperature, the week-long blockade by the police of their East Precinct was lifted, and demonstrators were allowed to march past.
00:03:19.000A place where progressives can indulge in some of the most humiliating stereotype of left-wing protest subculture, according to reports.
00:03:26.000By early Tuesday, demonstrators had established a perimeter with improvised barriers and deputized scouts.
00:03:31.000In the afternoon, the no-cop co-op popped up, slinging kebabs, snacks, and free water to passersby.
00:03:37.000A teach-in square was established at the intersection of 12th and Pine.
00:03:40.000We're getting like a full malice regime here.
00:03:42.000Tents were pitched near the precinct, where people were encouraged to stay throughout the night, or even just for two or three hours to hold the space.
00:03:48.000By nightfall, they'd built their own outdoor cinema.
00:03:50.000The crowd was energized to build connections.
00:03:52.000People spoke about investing in black-owned banks, divesting from corporations, and prison reform.
00:03:56.000One speaker issued a warning about the American Legislative Exchange Council, quote, a group of usually white men from major corporations who don't know our issues and make laws.
00:04:04.000Protesters hung a banner on the East Precinct that read, Property of the People, according to KOMO, which is one of the local stations.
00:04:11.000And there are plenty of photos available.
00:04:14.000There's even a map replete with labels like, Regime Occupied Safeway.
00:05:07.000Again, my bemusement, so my outrage at the destruction of law and order turned to bemusement as I watched the mayor of Seattle cave to all of this, and now it has turned to full-scale amusement as the thing turns into a predictable debacle.
00:05:21.000According to one of the anarchists over there, We need more food to keep the area operational.
00:05:27.000Please, if possible, bring— You ready for this?
00:05:45.000This 18-year-old activist appears to be a transgender woman and self-described lesbian anarchist, according to her now private Twitter account.
00:06:04.000Mayor Jenny Durkan, who watched her office is taken over the other day by protesters at the behest of socialist councilwoman Shama Sawant, who's a full-scale idiot.
00:06:13.000I mean, Shama Sawant is a person who occupied Boeing and asked that Boeing stop making military materials so that they could create buses for the homeless or something like that.
00:06:25.000So, Mayor Jenny Durkin tweeted out, in an effort, this is June 8th, so three days ago, in an effort to proactively de-escalate interactions between protesters and law enforcement outside the East Precinct, Chief Best and Seattle PD officers have removed barricades surrounding the East Precinct while safely securing the facility.
00:06:40.000In addition, Seattle Fire has several vehicles stationed near the precinct to ensure emerging medical needs and fires are addressed if necessary.
00:06:49.000There are approximately 500 residential homes in this block.
00:06:53.000As the chief takes this operational step, we'll continue to remain focused on what we can and must do to address the systemic inequities that continue to disproportionately impact our black residents.
00:07:01.000Ah, so you're gonna just let people take over a seven block radius in your city in order to fight inequity.
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00:08:30.000Okay, so Fox News had a reporter on the scene yesterday explaining what was going on inside this brand new country, Chaz.
00:08:34.000Again, these are great because they have a variety of fits also.
00:08:59.000You see, Here's the reporter from Fox News on Tucker Carlson's show last night.
00:09:05.000A local station got video of several guards armed with assault rifles.
00:09:09.000They are asking for identification before letting people in, and police have received reports of the armed guards demanding money from some businesses inside their area.
00:09:19.000We also saw people passing out food in what they call a no-cop co-op.
00:10:42.000A guy called WizardOfTheFuture over at Reddit.
00:10:44.000Raz's crew is self-appointed, heavily armed, has indicated their intention to police the area, and has engaged in the use of force.
00:10:50.000I am unaware of any rival street force of their stature expressing the desire to hold authority in the area.
00:10:55.000The power vacuum has apparently been filled.
00:11:00.000And then, apparently, one of the other comments would say, I only knew him from three years ago when he gave my staff his mixtape when he came into our work.
00:11:07.000And apparently, people are tweeting out things like, Raz is becoming the very thing people didn't want to begin with.
00:11:12.000There's a video that is out of the people working with Raz Simone in which they are confronting people who are graffitying.
00:11:22.000Now apparently they only want certain places graffitied because they're certain allies and they don't want their businesses graffitied.
00:11:26.000So weird, they want to protect the property of people who they are allied with.
00:11:30.000But I thought that private property is bad, guys.
00:11:33.000So they walk up to some people who are graffitying.
00:11:35.000This is people who apparently work for Rasmun, allegedly work for Rasmun.
00:11:42.000Because remember, this whole thing started about the evils of police brutality and authoritarianism.
00:11:47.000And literally, you now have an armed force of people in this Seattle communist area telling people, we are the police now, and I will blow your brains out if you resist.
00:11:59.000So police brutality went away for like that long, apparently.
00:12:03.000And by the way, Seattle cops aren't doing that.
00:12:13.000Any woke white liberals who are working for mainstream media outlets, if you wish to relocate to CHAZ, to the Capitol Hill autonomous zone, I will help pay your way.
00:12:22.000If you pledge that you will stay there, if you can show evidence that you are willing to stay there for the entire duration of CHAZ's Of Chaz's existence, and you are willing to subject all of your bank accounts to the tender mercies of Chaz, I am more than willing to subsidize your immigration to this area outside the United States.
00:12:41.000Here's a little bit of the video that was released.
00:12:43.000It's about an hour long, so it's been cut down, obviously.
00:14:07.000On June 8th, in a live video, he advised that unfamiliar faces should be stopped, questioned, and checked to see if they are armed, which is literally the definition of stop and frisk, which is racist, right?
00:14:19.000So according to Como News, it was unusual sights.
00:14:22.000Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins working with people occupying streets in Seattle's Capitol Hills neighborhood to close two large rolling metal gates that lead into the garage of the East Precinct.
00:14:32.000The Seattle Police Department had abandoned the East Precinct two days earlier.
00:14:35.000After receiving threats, there would be attempts to burn it down.
00:14:53.000I thought it was unusual a fire chief was trying to secure a police precinct by himself while being surrounded by hundreds of people occupying the streets who have shown a disdain for police.
00:15:03.000I don't want to compromise that trust.
00:15:05.000Raz Simone, who some have told me is one of the leaders in what many have said is a leaderless group of protesters, said, look, you look around, it's peaceful.
00:15:16.000And that lack of an organized leadership is hampering efforts to bring some normalcy to the area and have officers return to the precinct, according to Assistant Police Chief Deanna Nolette.
00:15:23.000Nolette said her department and other city departments are trying to find the leaders of the CHAZ to negotiate a roadmap for the area's immediate future.
00:15:33.000By the way, they are damned lucky that Janet Reno isn't Attorney General right now.
00:15:37.000If this were a bunch of white branch Davidians in Texas, their compound would be burned out by now, right?
00:15:42.000But now, because this is the woke initiates, we're just going to allow a six block radius in the center of the biggest city in Washington state to be taken over.
00:15:52.000Nolet said, while Washington is an open carry state, there's no legal right for those to be used, those arms to be used to intimidate community members, because apparently they are trying to intimidate people trying to enter.
00:16:01.000She said operating a citizen checkpoint on a public street is illegal.
00:16:05.000She said we've heard anecdotally of citizens and businesses being asked to pay a fee to operate within this area.
00:16:10.000So, there are reports of an actual shakedown happening inside the area.
00:16:15.000Why, it seems as though the communist-slash-anarchist takeover is not all it's cracked up to be.
00:16:21.000I don't feel like injustice is being cured, guys.
00:16:29.000They've granted all the protesters porta-potties.
00:16:31.000They've put garbage cans and portable toilets in the vicinity for use by demonstrators.
00:16:35.000The demonstrators, by the way, are also showing, they put up a big movie screen, and they're showing Eva Duvernay's 13th documentary from Netflix about how the prison system is evil.
00:16:46.000And then Eva Duvernay, not having to live here of course, she puts up a message, blessings and bravery to all the good people at CHAZ tonight, onward.
00:16:55.000Anytime Ava DuVernay wants to relocate from, I'm sure, her posh estate down to the Capitol Hill autonomous zone with no police protection, and if she wants to bring her bank account with her, then she is absolutely free to do so.
00:17:06.000And I very much look forward to her doing that.
00:17:19.000Semantic overload is when there's a term that is deliberately vague so it means more than one thing.
00:17:24.000Black Lives Matter is a perfect example of this.
00:17:26.000As my friend Eric Weinstein has pointed out, Black Lives Matter means something that is perfectly obvious and that we all agree with, Black Lives Matter, but it also means something more, which is you're supposed to agree with the group, Black Lives Matter, or their demands.
00:17:36.000And that's ridiculous because the Black Lives Matter group is very distinct from the message of Black Lives Matter.
00:17:41.000In fact, the Black Lives Matter group is incredibly radical.
00:17:43.000They call for things that nobody in America wants, including Democrats.
00:17:46.000They're extraordinarily anti-Semitic in their leadership team.
00:17:49.000And so the semantic overload for Black Lives Matter Has become perfectly obvious.
00:17:55.000So what are the demands of the people living and ruling now in this particular area of Seattle?
00:18:01.000Wait until you hear these demands because they are spectacular.
00:18:19.000When the commune's food is being eaten by all the homeless and you have to ship in vegan meat to all the protesters.
00:18:24.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:19:34.000Okay, so what are the demands of the protesters?
00:19:37.000So Free Capitol Hill has put up a piece over at Medium.com.
00:19:41.000They say, In credit to the people who freed Capitol Hill, this list of demands is neither brief nor simplistic.
00:19:46.000There is no simple request to end police brutality.
00:19:48.000We demand that the City Council and the Mayor, whoever that may be, implement these policy changes for the cultural and historic advancement of the City of Seattle and to ease the struggles of its people.
00:19:57.000This document is to represent the black voices who spoke in victory at the top of 12th and Pine after nine days of peaceful protest while under constant nightly attack from the Seattle Police Department.
00:20:06.000Well, actually, it wasn't constant nightly attack from the Seattle Police Department.
00:20:09.000Some of these protesters were getting very violent with police.
00:20:24.000We demand the defunding and abolition of the Seattle Police Department and the attached criminal justice apparatus.
00:20:29.000That means 100% of funding, including existing pensions for Seattle Police.
00:20:34.000Also, we want to disallow the operations of ICE in the city of Seattle.
00:20:38.000We demand that the use of armed force be banned entirely.
00:20:41.000No guns, no batons, no riot shields, no chemical weapons.
00:20:45.000We demand an end to the school-to-prison pipeline and the abolition of youth jails.
00:20:50.000Get kids out of prison and get cops out of schools.
00:20:52.000We demand that the new youth prison being built in Seattle currently be repurposed.
00:20:55.000We demand that not the city government, nor the state government, but that the federal government launch a full-scale investigation into past and current cases of police brutality in Seattle and Washington, as well as the reopening of all closed cases reported to the Office of Police Accountability.
00:21:09.000We demand reparations for victims of police brutality in a form to be determined.
00:21:13.000So they're not actually going to explain what they mean by that.
00:21:15.000We demand that the city of Seattle make the names of officers involved in police brutality a matter of public record.
00:21:20.000We demand a retrial of all people of color currently serving a prison sentence for violent crime by a jury of their peers in the community.
00:21:28.000So presumably this means that if you are a black person who committed a crime and now you're in jail, they want you retried, but only if you're black and only by a black jury.
00:21:36.000We demand decriminalization of the acts of protest and amnesty for protesters generally, but specifically those involved in what has been termed the George Floyd Rebellion against the terrorist cell that previously occupied this area known as the Seattle Police Department.
00:21:48.000This includes the immediate release of all protesters currently being held in prison after the arrest made at 11th and Pine on Sunday night.
00:21:56.000We demand that the city of Seattle and state government release any prisoner currently serving time for a marijuana-related offense.
00:22:01.000We demand that they release any prisoner serving time just for resisting arrest.
00:22:06.000We demand that prisoners serving time be given full and unrestricted right to vote.
00:22:10.000We demand an end to prosecutorial immunity for police officers.
00:22:13.000We demand abolition of all imprisonment.
00:22:16.000Not just, so they start with youth imprisonment, then they're like, you know what?
00:22:38.000They also would like de-gentrification of Seattle, starting with rent control.
00:22:43.000They want free college for everybody in the state of Washington.
00:22:46.000They want hospitals and care facilities in Seattle to employ black doctors and nurses specifically to help care for black patients.
00:22:53.000Because I know that if I were having a heart attack, first thing I would think is, I need a Jewish doctor right now.
00:22:58.000So they want resegregation of hospitals, which is a fascinating demand.
00:23:03.000We demand the people of Seattle seek out and proudly support black-owned businesses.
00:23:07.000So we have to subsidize specifically black-owned businesses.
00:23:11.000And we demand that the City of Seattle and the State of Washington remove any and all monuments dedicated to historical figures of the Confederacy, etc, etc.
00:23:34.000You know, there may come a point here where Americans are out, where it turns out that the semantic overload that is associated with the phrase Black Lives Matter, if it includes nonsense like this, people are gonna be like, you know what?
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00:25:14.000Okay, so the supposedly benevolent white liberal Who's willing to overlook the nonsense that is happening right now is not in fact helping black people.
00:25:23.000It turns out that if you want to lower crime rates in black communities, you need police officers there.
00:25:28.000There are some 7,500 black Americans who are shot and killed every year in the United States, and nine of them are shot and killed unarmed by the police.
00:25:36.000And if you actually want to talk about how many Americans are in danger.
00:25:40.000You have to talk about who actually is being shot and killed and who is being protected and all the rest.
00:25:45.000Instead, we're going to see white politicians demonstrating their awareness of their own white privilege by basically suggesting that any behavior is tolerable so long as it comes from people who are members of a historically oppressed minority group.
00:25:59.000This is why you see the governor of Washington, Jay Inslee.
00:26:01.000He was asked about the fact that there is now a new state in Seattle, Chaz, the state of Chaz.
00:26:11.000Yes, I am sure he did not know about that.
00:26:13.000Do you remember that situation a few years back where the Bundy family got in a standoff with the federal government because they had been allowing their cattle to graze on land that they had historically been allowing their cattle to graze on, and it was endangering like a wild turtle or something?
00:26:26.000And so the EPA came down on them, and the Bureau of the Interior came down on them, and there was this armed standoff.
00:26:32.000It was a national news story, and it was demonstrative of these crazy people who were standing people off on their own ranch.
00:26:41.000You have Seattle being taken over by Black Lives Matter activists and turned into a quasi-armed police state, and the governor of the state's like, really?
00:27:32.000Okay, so what that really is, is a bunch of people who wish to turn a blind eye Too bad behavior.
00:27:38.000There's a great article by Greg Jaffe over at the Washington Post about this particular phenomenon.
00:27:42.000And it basically is just radical chic.
00:27:43.000So back in the 1960s, there's a piece written by Tom Wolfe, the late Tom Wolfe, great piece called Radical Chic.
00:27:50.000And the entire piece was about Black Panthers being ushered up to this posh penthouse owned by Leonard Bernstein.
00:27:55.000And these Black Panthers were being shown off as almost totems of wokeness.
00:27:59.000They would walk around and they would literally say to the white people at these parties, yeah, we want to off the pigs.
00:28:03.000And the white people like, oh my God, that's so charming and it's so refreshing and it's so down to earth.
00:28:07.000And it was these upper class white liberals being protected by the cops who were out there like, look at these amazing Black Panthers and their authenticity.
00:28:17.000This is what you are getting right now from a wider segment of the population.
00:28:21.000Because if you do not bow to the narrative that America is systemically evil and racist, then obviously you're part of the problem.
00:28:27.000So you can buy your way out of woke jail by simply acknowledging your privilege.
00:28:31.000But only for the moment, because the moment you acknowledge your privilege, then they just resurface old stuff you've said, and then they hold that over your head forever.
00:28:37.000So, there's this piece over at the Washington Post, it is called, Now, here's the question.
00:28:45.000Do you really think they're embracing these ideas?
00:28:47.000Or do you think they are posturing for the love of their social media groups?
00:28:51.000And that when they are actually bedding down at night, they're thinking to themselves as the gunshots go off around the corner, man, I'm so glad that I've gotten woke.
00:29:01.000Do you think that many Americans are thinking that right now?
00:29:04.000Because again, what we're talking about here is not white support for the Black Lives Matter notion.
00:29:08.000What we're talking about is white support specifically in this Washington Post piece for violence and looting.
00:29:13.000Quote, three days after a police officer knelt on George Floyd's neck killing him, and only a few hours after enraged looters ransacked a Target and torched an AutoZone, Meredith Webb woke to an early morning message from a close friend across the street.
00:29:23.000Beloved city, so much pain, the text from her neighbor Michelle Garvey read.
00:29:27.000Exploding pain, replied Webb, who had seen the news and cried.
00:29:29.000Can we talk outside in a little while?
00:29:32.000Theirs was a block of mostly white liberal families tucked inside cute bungalows with carefully tended gardens and century-old shade trades.
00:29:38.000The two women met on the sidewalk where their sons, ages 5 and 7, had spent much of the last few weeks racing back and forth on their bikes and scooters.
00:29:44.000On this morning, their conversation turned to the looting and fires that had unfolded just a few miles from their homes.
00:29:48.000To Garvey, 39, the destruction of the Target and surrounding stores was sad, but understandable, quote, a perfectly warranted and justified response, an expression of righteous rage.
00:30:26.000No, you have to suggest that it is justified response, a perfectly warranted and justified response in order to be initiated into the woke crew.
00:30:34.000Has it occurred to anybody what a soft bigotry of law expectations this is?
00:30:39.000That when you're angry you get to burn down a target, but only if you're a member of a particular racial group pushing a particular racial narrative?
00:30:44.000That if Asians were angry over affirmative action policies at colleges that ban their kids from schools, and they went and burned down some local stores, do you think there would be any level of sympathy for that at all?
00:30:55.000It is soft bigotry of law expectations not to say to people you're not allowed to burn crap down and take over large swaths of cities.
00:31:03.000But according to the Washington Post, there is a change in white liberal attitudes.
00:31:06.000One liberal journalist has described it a great awokening.
00:31:10.000It seems to mirror what has happened in recent weeks in Minneapolis, where throngs of white protesters like Webb and Garvey have taken to the streets to cheer on black speakers as they blast the city's police force, attack its largely left-leaning leadership, and decry systemic racism.
00:31:22.000Webb said she turned to Garvey for solace in the wake of that first wave of looting and fires because she was sad, scared, and needed to talk with someone in person.
00:31:31.000But she also knew her friend would be a gut check.
00:31:33.000I didn't want to let myself default to the simplistic reaction of wanting this all to go away.
00:31:38.000So, I guess you're not supposed to worry about the fact that there were people who are, you know, you're worried about burning down your house.
00:31:45.000I mean, I think the best part of this article, by the way, is there is part of the article where they talk about police officers.
00:31:54.000OK, so Ilhan Omar showed up at a rally.
00:31:56.000She said that people were using taxpayer dollars to quote police and brutalize our young children in our schools, which is just absurd.
00:32:03.000To every single person who has remained silent and been complicit, this is the time we step up and show the world what we're made of, the congresswoman shouted.
00:32:11.000About a dozen black high school students shifted uneasily and waited for their time to talk.
00:32:15.000When it was their turn, they spoke about Charles Adams Jr., the African-American police officer who kept their school safe and coached their high school football team.
00:32:21.000Now they worried he was going to be forced from their school.
00:32:24.000To me, I have my dad first and second to that is Officer Adams, said one student.
00:32:27.000Officer Adams is like the father I didn't have, added another.
00:33:26.000Instead, what we are going to do is demand things.
00:33:29.000We're going to demand that you bow before the narrative.
00:33:33.000And the narrative, of course, is that systemic racism is endemic to the United States.
00:33:38.000If you acknowledge that, then you're no longer part of the systemic racism.
00:33:40.000But you sort of are, you know, because you're white and all of that.
00:33:43.000But if you deny it, you're for sure part of the systemic racism.
00:33:45.000Don Lemon, the very objective news anchor over at CNN, incredibly objective Don Lemon, real expert on racial issues, Don Lemon, he says it's white entitlement to deny systemic racism.
00:34:02.000But, if you suggest that it is not, then obviously this is white entitlement.
00:34:05.000So when Thomas Sowell says not systemic racism, when Walter Williams says not systemic racism, when Larry Elder says not systemic racism, this is because they are white-splaining, obviously.
00:34:15.000Now, by the way, there is no—the lowest refuge of the illogical, of the illogical grifter, is suggesting they don't have to actually debunk your argument because of who you are.
00:34:26.000That they don't actually have to come to terms with your argument because they don't like the color of your skin.
00:34:30.000In any other guise, you'd recognize just how racist this is.
00:34:33.000But here is Don Lemon suggesting that he doesn't have to provide evidence for his claim because after all, he's a black man in America who's experienced bad things and that means that anybody who says differently on a systemic level, he's not, again, people are not trying to debunk claims that you on an anecdotal level have had bad experiences with the cops.
00:34:47.000People are pointing out that overall, there is no evidence that the police are disproportionately shooting black people in proportion to criminal activity.
00:34:55.000Or that the police are systemically racist.
00:34:57.000The evidence for this is extraordinarily scanty.
00:35:00.000But if you say that, then apparently that's white-splaining according to Don Lemon.
00:35:31.000How can you solve this problem, the systemic racism that is killing people of color, if you won't even admit there is a problem?
00:35:41.000Well, how do you solve a problem when you won't even define the problem?
00:35:44.000Because when you say systemic racism is killing people of color, that is the most vague statement I could possibly imagine.
00:35:48.000How about you name the policy that's killing people of color, or you name the person who's killing people of color, and then we can talk about it.
00:35:53.000I mean, you could literally fill in the phrase systemic racism there with, blah, blah, is killing people of color.
00:36:49.000Those should be done through democratic means.
00:36:51.000But the notion that, first of all, protesters get to go and just take down statues of those, this is post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, and you're tearing down statues of Saddam.
00:37:00.000Like, again, the regime that exists is a democratic regime.
00:37:03.000In a lot of these cities, there are democratic mayors.
00:37:10.000But the notion that we are supposed to watch idly as protesters tear down statues, by the way, is kind of a dangerous thing as we found out yesterday.
00:37:16.000We're going to get to, I mean, physically dangerous.
00:37:18.000We're going to get to this in just one second.
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00:38:30.000Well, you might need some actual objective truth and some conservative perspective, because the fact is the media are lying to you openly.
00:38:37.000They're rewriting history and the present as it goes on.
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00:39:21.000Also, as I've been mentioning, I have a brand new book.
00:39:22.000It is coming out July 21st, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.
00:39:25.000We are watching the left do this in real time.
00:39:28.000The book isn't just about how the left and many who are not even politically affiliated.
00:39:33.000Are seeking to disintegrate the country.
00:39:34.000I mean, we are watching the disintegration of the country in real time as a huge group of Americans decide that we no longer have a shared philosophy, that the philosophy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution is evil.
00:40:04.000The book isn't just an indictment of that, of those ideas.
00:40:08.000It is a rebuttal to those ideas and a very useful tool for you to understand exactly what's going on in the country and how to rebut the lies that you're seeing in the media every single day.
00:40:17.000You can go to dailywire.com slash Ben to pre-order the book today, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.
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00:40:35.000I think, again, it is a deeply important book.
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00:40:47.000You're listening to the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.
00:40:51.000So we are we are watching the Orwellian redefinition of terms and history in real time.
00:41:04.000Because instead of just making an argument with, you know, the language that we have constantly shared, and arguing in terms that we all understand, instead we're just going to redefine the terms.
00:41:12.000Which is a very old and very ugly trick.
00:41:16.000If you redefine terms in order to make it so that you say, well, the dictionary definition of this thing now reflects what I want it to.
00:41:22.000Yeah, you changed the dictionary five seconds ago.
00:41:24.000So Merriam-Webster had a definition of racism.
00:41:27.000Their definition of racism was a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities, and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
00:41:38.000That seems like a fairly good definition to me.
00:41:41.000So white supremacy is an aspect of racism.
00:41:45.000And then, Merriam-Webster, at the behest of a 22-year-old wokester, decided to email them his recent graduate of Drake University, Kennedy Mitchum.
00:41:57.000She said, should get into arguments with people who pointed to that definition of racism to support their position.
00:42:01.000In other words, probably what people were saying is, if you are, what I'm saying isn't racist, racism is about superiority of one race over another.
00:42:09.000Or, when you say bad things about white people, that's also racist.
00:42:12.000So, this person emailed Miriam Webster, She said, I basically told them they need to include that there is some systematic oppression on people.
00:42:21.000It's a system of oppression for a certain group of people.
00:42:22.000OK, notice this has been a long time left-wing trope.
00:42:25.000The left-wing trope is that racism is not just you discriminating against a person.
00:42:30.000It is a racist feeling combined with power.
00:42:32.000And this alleviates any need to look at the racism that comes from, quote unquote, dispossessed groups.
00:42:38.000So if there is a black American who says something racist about white Americans, like all white Americans are bad and racist and part of a supremacist system.
00:42:44.000If you say that and a white person says, that sounds kind of racist to me.
00:42:46.000You're judging me on the basis of my skin.
00:42:47.000They say, right, but I'm not part of the system of power.
00:42:57.000I mean, this is literal Orwellian redefining of words in order to achieve a political result.
00:43:04.000The revision would not have been made without your persistence in contacting us about this problem, said Alex Chamber, the editor of Merriam-Webster.
00:43:11.000We sincerely thank you for repeatedly writing in and apologize for the harm and offense we have caused in failing to address the issue sooner.
00:43:16.000I will cede to it that the entry for racism is given the attention it sorely needs.
00:43:20.000Peter Sokolowski, an editor-at-large at Merriam-Webster, said in a statement, the second definition of racism expressed, first, explicit institutional bias against people because of their race, and second, a broader implicit bias that can result in an asymmetrical power structure.
00:43:33.000So now they're going to redefine racism to mean there is asymmetry in power or in outcome.
00:44:27.000This all goes back to the rewriting of American history, pushed forward by Howard Zinn.
00:44:32.000So Howard Zinn really, like, he begins his crappy book, A People's History of the United States, with Columbus, in which Columbus is a brutal warlord victimizing peaceful narratives.
00:44:42.000And then he says, and this is a direct quote from Howard Zinn, he says, So America was all about privilege in the first place?
00:44:47.000called the United States, was formed, designed to, quote, create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new privileged leadership.
00:44:52.000So America was all about privilege in the first place.
00:44:55.000He suggests that Columbus was just Western brutality writ small.
00:44:59.000He says Columbus and his successors were not coming into an empty wilderness, but into a world where human relations were more egalitarian than in Europe, where the relations among men, women, and children in nature were more beautifully worked out than perhaps any place in the world.
00:45:12.000So the New World was really not unoccupied, which of course is true, but it was occupied.
00:45:31.000Mostly the people working for Columbus did some real bad stuff.
00:45:34.000Columbus was more tolerant than the people who worked for him, for sure, by all available documentation.
00:45:38.000But you don't have to excuse Columbus's behavior to point out that the history of humanity has been conquest and imperialism, and that existed far before Columbus ever hit the shores of the United States, or hit the shores of the Western Hemisphere.
00:45:52.000The only reason to single out Columbus as particularly bad and imperialist and terrible and colonialist is because you don't like Western civilization very much.
00:45:59.000That's the real reason that people are angry at Columbus these days.
00:46:03.000And this rests on, again, the idea that you can take Columbus out of history and treat him in isolation as opposed to the fact that human history is replete with oppression and evil and brutality.
00:46:11.000And Columbus was involved in some of those things.
00:46:13.000But it is a very good thing on net that Western civilization arrived in the New World.
00:46:18.000And by the way, the entire Howard's End narrative that everything was peaceful and wonderful in the New World before Columbus got there is obviously just tripe.
00:46:24.000I mean, Steven Pinker writes, Contra leftist anthropologists who celebrate the noble savage, quantitative body counts such as proportion of prehistoric skeletons with ax marks and embedded arrowheads or the proportion of men in a contemporary foraging tribe who die at the hands of other men suggest that pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.
00:46:42.000Now this doesn't mean the Arawaks weren't peaceful.
00:47:02.000The depopulation of Natives after contact with Europeans was basically the result of disease to which Natives had no immunity in the same way that one of the reasons that Africa was originally protected in the early days from colonialism was specifically because Europeans had no immunity to many of the diseases that ran rampant in Africa.
00:47:16.000Okay, so in any case, that's just some backdrop.
00:47:18.000So, there's been this effort to tear down statues of Columbus.
00:47:21.000And this is much worse, by the way, than tearing down statues of Confederate generals and soldiers.
00:47:26.000Like, I actually have some sympathy for the position that Confederate statues should be removed.
00:47:31.000Because, while I don't like statues being removed generally, I don't, I at least get the argument.
00:47:36.000I don't like statues being removed generally because I think that monuments to the stupidity of man are good.
00:47:40.000I think it is good that people see those statues.
00:47:41.000This is Condoleezza Rice's argument, I think it's correct.
00:47:43.000It is good that people see those statues and point to it and say there was a time in this country where people like this, slaveholder, were glorified.
00:47:49.000And thank God we've moved beyond that, but we should always remember the dark history of this country so that we can move beyond that.
00:47:55.000That seems like a reasonable argument to me.
00:47:57.000But if you are going to remove the statues, you should at least do so through law.
00:48:01.000Instead, police are just letting mobs tear down these statues.
00:48:05.000And by the way, it's damned dangerous.
00:48:07.000In Richmond, Virginia, there are some people who are attempting to pull down a statue of a Confederate soldier.
00:48:12.000I guess it's an unknown Confederate soldier.
00:48:14.000And they literally pulled it down onto the head of a protester who may die.
00:48:17.000I mean, the protester came down and cracked the guy directly on the skull.
00:48:31.000How about you do so by, like, just going to your legislators?
00:48:34.000There are open discussions right now in Mississippi, by the way, between Democrats and Republicans about changing the state flag.
00:48:39.000Doing stuff through Democratic means is a good thing.
00:48:42.000Going and tearing down statues by yourself, not a good thing.
00:48:44.000And you know what else is not a good thing?
00:48:45.000Allowing a statue in Minneapolis that was crafted by an Italian immigrant who helped build Grand Central Station and his son, who was given during the Great Depression as a symbol of the acceptance of Italian immigrants in Minnesota, according to Ben Dominic at The Federalist, Protesters, this isn't a protest by the way, this is an act of vandalism, yanked down a Christopher Columbus statue outside the Minneapolis State Capitol in St.
00:49:23.000Even if you think that Christopher Columbus's statue ought to be removed, which I do not.
00:49:26.000Even if you think that that's the case, Allowing protesters to just run up and tear down monuments they don't like, that's not law and order.
00:49:33.000That is not living in a civilized society.
00:49:36.000By the way, if you think it's going to stop here, it ain't.
00:49:37.000There are certain black leaders who are calling for the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial to be removed.
00:49:43.000Because after all, we have to talk about the fact that they were slaveholders.
00:49:46.000And we can't put them into historical context and point out that slavery was the common lot of man throughout the 18th century.
00:49:52.000We cannot point out that the actual monuments that were built to Washington and Jefferson do not honor slavery.
00:49:57.000They honor their contributions to human freedom that have come to full fruition in the United States.
00:50:02.000Instead, we got to talk about removing statues of the founding fathers.
00:50:05.000Removing America's history is the key because American history is bad and wrong and evil, and that's the agenda here.
00:50:12.000It is excoriating American history and suggesting we have nothing in common but the revolution.
00:50:17.000Here are Angela Rye and other commentators suggesting that it's time for the takedown of Jefferson statues in the Washington Memorial.
00:50:26.000American history is not all glorious, and even though I love John to death, I couldn't disagree more about George Washington.
00:50:33.000George Washington was a slave owner, and we need to call slave owners out for what they are.
00:50:37.000Whether we think they were protecting American freedom or not, he wasn't protecting my freedom.
00:50:42.000I wasn't someone who my ancestors weren't deemed human beings to him.
00:50:45.000And so to me, I don't care if it's a George Washington statue, or a Thomas Jefferson statue, or a Robert E. Lee statue, they all need to come down.
00:51:16.000When people signed up for the, we care about black lives and don't want to see black people killed, that was not signing up for America is systemically evil and racist and horrible in every possible way and tear down the Washington monument.
00:52:26.000Coming for McGruff the crime dog here.
00:52:28.000Paw Patrol is a children's cartoon, according to the New York Times, about a squad of canine helpers.
00:52:32.000It's basically a pretense for placing household pets in a variety of cool trucks.
00:52:36.000The team includes Marshall, a firefighting Dalmatian, Rubble, a bulldog construction worker, and Chase, a German shepherd who's also a cop.
00:52:43.000In the world of Paw Patrol, Chase is drawn to be a very good boy who barks stuff like, Chase is on the case, and all in a police pup's day as he rescues kittens in his tricked out SUV.
00:52:51.000But last week, when the show's official Twitter account put out a bland call for black voices to be heard, commentators came after Chase.
00:53:01.000All dogs go to heaven except the class traitors in the Paw Patrol.
00:53:04.000It's a joke, but it's also not, says the New York Times.
00:53:06.000As the protests against racist police violence entered their third week, the changes are mounting against fictional cops, too.
00:53:11.000Even big-hearted cartoon police dogs, or maybe especially big-hearted cartoon police dogs, are on notice.
00:53:17.000The effort to publicize police brutality also means banishing the good cop archetype, which relies on both TV and in viral videos of the protests themselves, which reigns on both TV and in viral videos.
00:53:26.000Paw Patrol seems harmless enough, and that's the point.
00:53:29.000The movement rests on understanding that cops do plenty of harm.
00:53:32.000What we actually need is we need a more accurate depiction of Paw Patrol, apparently.
00:53:35.000What we need is for Chase, the good German shepherd, to apparently be chasing down, like, only puppies of color.
00:53:42.000Like, that's what we actually need in order to reflect the evils of America's policing system.
00:54:13.000Did you know that that song came originally from a 1946 film called Song of the South that is considered to be racist because it relies on stereotypes of black people and a nostalgic view of the antebellum South?
00:54:38.000Did any of the millions of people who visited Splash Mountain, were they going through Splash Mountain and thinking to themselves, oh man, man, is this ride about a fox and a bear and an alligator and everything?
00:54:48.000Every time I go down that giant drop, I think to myself, God, systemic racism in America.
00:55:17.000Also, A&E is canceling Live PD, which makes perfect sense, because Live PD also has a segment near the end of the show about missing children.
00:55:23.000So it's good to take shows off TV that actually try to help missing children at the end, because we can never have any depictions of cops that are good.
00:55:48.000All of us associated with the show are as committed to it as ever.
00:55:50.000We are still discussing some specifics, but I want to assure you, you Live PD nation, that we are not abandoning you.
00:55:55.000But the network and production company came to the conclusion there's no path forward for the show in its current form, as protesters and politicians are calling for a police reform following the death of Floyd.
00:57:20.000But the idea is that you have to be okay with people kneeling for the flag if you believe that Black Lives Matter, which is an asinine contention.
00:57:28.000It's getting so stupid that the American Statistical Association, everyone is forced to comply.
00:57:33.000I've gotten so many notes from people who are working at major corporations and companies who are now being force-fed propaganda about how America is systemically racist.
00:57:42.000And if you do not acquiesce to that idea, then your job may be on the chopping block.
00:58:03.000Because there are a bunch of staffers inside who will then go on the interwebs and whine about how their company is not taking a strong enough position.
00:58:10.000Because I needed to know that TJ Maxx wasn't interested in white supremacy.
00:58:25.000It's trying to retrain all of their employees in a particular political viewpoint.
00:58:30.000Is any of this really going to foster unity or is it going to foster a backlash that is going to be bad?
00:58:34.000When we could all agree on some stuff.
00:58:36.000The American Statistical Association, which promotes the practice and profession of statistics, put out a statement.
00:58:41.000We, the three elected presidents of the American Statistical Association, are deeply moved by the tragedies and social upheaval that have unfolded in the past few weeks.
00:58:48.000As felt by many of you, we too are angered, anguished, and wearied as new names are added to the dreadful roll call of black individuals slain, harmed, or threatened by law enforcement or by vigilantes.
00:58:57.000As allies, we stand with African Americans and other communities of color as we work to overcome systemic racism in America.
00:59:22.000Because supposedly science is racist too.
00:59:26.000We are living through an extraordinarily chaotic moment.
00:59:30.000We are living through a moment when unity has been transformed into disunity because the narrative that people are attempting to draw is not in consonant with facts.
00:59:37.000And if you mention this fact, then you're immediately declared to be whitesplaining.
00:59:41.000Well, how about rebut the arguments instead of just judging anybody on the color of their skin?
00:59:45.000Seems to me that that should be the modicum of respect that every individual citizen in the United States deserves.
00:59:50.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
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