The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 39: Should I Apologize for Being White? Are Democrats Going to War? Which Party Platform is Right for Christians and MORE!

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00:03:34.000 The first question is, Isaac Jay from Iowa.

00:03:37.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:03:38.000 I had a question about my pastor's statement, and which I believe is partly true. 0.74

00:03:42.000 He said, and I might be paraphrasing a little bit, there are many ways the Democratic platform seems Christian, but are absolutely not.

00:03:48.000 And there are many ways the Republican platform seems Christian, but are absolutely not.

00:03:51.000 I've listened to the top 11 reasons why Christians should vote for Trump.

00:03:55.000 However, could you please help me debunk that statement and expand more on both of the platforms?

00:04:00.000 Isaac Jay from Iowa.

00:04:02.000 I don't really know what your pastor is getting at here.

00:04:05.000 I can best guess that the pastor is inferring that some of the wishes and wants and desires the Democrat Party might align with a compassionate Christian worldview.

00:04:16.000 However, when you look into what government helping people actually does, it hurts people.

00:04:22.000 Government helping people has not actually made people wealthier or richer.

00:04:26.000 The more people that have gone on government assistance over the last couple decades, the more likely they are to stay in poverty.

00:04:34.000 So if you want to help people, you should want them to get off of government assistance.

00:04:38.000 You should want them to not receive government welfare or a check from the taxpayer.

00:04:44.000 And so the idea is intentions versus results.

00:04:48.000 It is tempting to want to support a Democrat nominee or a Democrat platform that would say, we're going to give health care for everybody.

00:04:55.000 But is that really going to help them?

00:04:57.000 It might help them in the short term get some sort of delivery of health care.

00:05:00.000 However, giving somebody a government benefit does not make them more likely to be self-sustainable, to be self-reliant, and quite honestly, has not helped communities that have had high increases of Medicaid, welfare, or government assistance or taxpayer assistance be able to break out of the spell of poverty.

00:05:17.000 For example, since Lyndon Baines Johnson passed the Great Society Act in the mid-1960s, the more money we have spent to try and abolish poverty, poverty is one.

00:05:27.000 The greatest poverty elimination program is a job, is not locking down your country, and is also having entrepreneurs employ people in communities across the country to be able to lift people out of the current socioeconomic circumstance they're in.

00:05:42.000 That best aligns with the Christian worldview of a man shall not work, he shall not eat.

00:05:48.000 And secondly, any person out there that tries to make a biblical or theological or Christian defense of abortion, I do not hold that view at all whatsoever.

00:05:57.000 We have had 61 million abortions since Roe versus Wade, and I do not hold the view that you can possibly hold a theological belief and also be pro-abortion.

00:06:07.000 So thank you, Isaac, for the question.

00:06:08.000 Check out the podcast we did over the weekend where we touch on some of these topics as well.

00:06:12.000 Thanks so much, Isaac.

00:06:13.000 Thank you.

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00:06:17.000 Next question here.

00:06:18.000 Charlie, they just released the topics for the debate next Thursday in Nashville: Fighting the Chinese coronavirus, American families, race in America, climate change, national security, and leadership.

00:06:29.000 What are your thoughts on these topics?

00:06:31.000 Where is the economy or China?

00:06:32.000 Does this advantage or disadvantage Trump, and how can he best respond to these topics?

00:06:37.000 Wayne from St. Petersburg.

00:06:38.000 Well, first of all, he should not answer the questions that are asked of him.

00:06:41.000 I mean, all these topics are so incredibly slanted from an activist media perspective.

00:06:48.000 Race in America, is that really a top-tier issue in our country?

00:06:50.000 Of course not.

00:06:51.000 It's not a top 100 issue in our country.

00:06:54.000 It is manufactured from upper-middle-class white liberals that have a lot of money and are very bored.

00:07:00.000 And that's basically where this entire conversation is coming from in our country.

00:07:04.000 People are contemplating suicide.

00:07:06.000 One out of four of young people in our country have contemplated suicide in the last 90 days.

00:07:10.000 Alcoholism, depression, joblessness, 100,000 small businesses have gone under in the last six months.

00:07:16.000 There is a real human cost to the draconian lockdowns.

00:07:20.000 So it is a massive issue that is not being talked about.

00:07:23.000 So if under these kind of topics that have been presented, though, to the president, the one in particular that I think the president needs to zero in on is national security.

00:07:33.000 The president has had an incredible record of success negotiating foreign peace deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

00:07:40.000 Looks like he's going to bring Saudi Arabia to the table to sign the peace deal. 0.88

00:07:44.000 He's holding Iran in check.

00:07:46.000 The embassy has been moved to Jerusalem, the recognition of the Golan Heights, not to mention holding the Chinese Communist Party accountable.

00:07:54.000 In more ways than one, he has been a phenomenally successful president abroad.

00:07:59.000 So I think that the president needs to zero in on how he has kept our country safer.

00:08:03.000 He has not declared endless misadventure wars overseas.

00:08:07.000 And the president has been firm in his commitment to defending the American worker, defending forgotten America, and also ending the endless wars.

00:08:17.000 I cannot reinforce that enough.

00:08:19.000 Joe Biden started wars overseas.

00:08:22.000 Endlessly and frequently, it is Donald Trump that has been ending those wars.

00:08:26.000 Climate change, really?

00:08:28.000 That's really going to be a topic of the next debate.

00:08:30.000 We have talked about climate change in every single one of these debates.

00:08:33.000 It just goes to show how slanted the Commission on Presidential Debates is.

00:08:37.000 How about this?

00:08:38.000 Can we have a debate topic on the opioid crisis in our country that kills over 50,000 Americans every single year?

00:08:46.000 Can we have a debate topic on suicide and depression?

00:08:49.000 Can we have a debate topic on how churches are being closed, but cannabis dispensaries have remained wide open?

00:08:56.000 Can we have a debate topic on the human cost of lockdowns?

00:09:01.000 Can we have a debate topic on how young people are going to be the first generation to inherit a less free, less prosperous, and less, let's say, equal under-the-law country than the generations before it.

00:09:14.000 But instead, they're hyper-focusing on climate change and race in America.

00:09:19.000 President Donald Trump has to focus on every one of the major issues that is pertinent to him convincing persuadable voters.

00:09:26.000 President Donald Trump, in his debate, has to say that the Harris administration will shut down your churches.

00:09:32.000 The Harris administration will lock down the country again.

00:09:35.000 This will have a two-fold impact.

00:09:39.000 Number one, Joe Biden will take great offense at this.

00:09:42.000 Make him make the argument that he'll be in charge, not Kamala Harris.

00:09:46.000 Number two, we all know Kamala Harris will actually be in charge. 1.00

00:09:49.000 Kamala Harris is the most liberal senator in the United States Senate. 1.00

00:09:53.000 Kamala Harris is disliked amongst persuadable and moderate voters. 0.77

00:09:57.000 And Kamala Harris must become the primary focus of most of the messaging that is going to be brought to the forefront of this American political conversation. 0.96

00:10:08.000 So when Kamala Harris takes over the White House, when Kamala Harris becomes president of the United States, which was what will happen if Joe Biden wins, how do you think she's going to be on the economy? 0.83

00:10:20.000 How do you think she's going to be on China? 0.98

00:10:22.000 She will be a transactional machine politician that will not hold our adversaries accountable and will kowtow to the corporatist interests of the Democrat Party.

00:10:31.000 So Wayne from St. Petersburg, congratulations, you win a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine.

00:10:36.000 I have to tell you that I do not think this helps Donald Trump with the current selection of questions, but how he responds to it will be the real trick.

00:10:44.000 How he responds to that sequence of questions will matter most to how he actually is able to win the debate.

00:10:53.000 I think if the president performs like he did in the town hall, he will win the election.

00:10:58.000 I believe this debate will be the most important debate in presidential history.

00:11:02.000 I'm going to share something with you that no one else in the mainstream press has said that is a good sign for Donald Trump.

00:11:09.000 Any persuadable voters that are still out there, I give very little to any chance that they're going to vote for Joe Biden.

00:11:17.000 Typically, the late-breaking voters go against the incumbent.

00:11:22.000 That is typically the laws of politics.

00:11:25.000 I think it is the exact opposite in this election.

00:11:28.000 I think that there are many people that have not yet made up their mind, and those people are waiting for a reason to vote for Donald Trump.

00:11:34.000 If you're against Donald Trump, you're against Donald Trump.

00:11:37.000 There's no way that another 18 days of Donald Trump is going to make you be like, you know what?

00:11:41.000 Now I'm against Donald Trump.

00:11:44.000 After the impeachment, almost going to war with Iran, allegedly, the Mueller investigation, the tax returns, the $2 billion in negative ads, is something in the next 18 days really going to turn you against Donald Trump?

00:11:56.000 Of course not.

00:11:57.000 But something in the next 18 days can absolutely turn you against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

00:12:02.000 Absolutely.

00:12:03.000 So President Donald Trump has to embrace the late-breaking strategy that we are in the last moments of this presidential campaign.

00:12:11.000 And President Trump has to give a clarion call and a ask to bring swing and persuadable voters into his category and motivate his base and get center-right voters to vote for him.

00:12:24.000 He can do it.

00:12:25.000 President Trump can absolutely win this election.

00:12:28.000 President Trump should win this election.

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00:13:37.000 Hey, Charlie, my pastor says that we do not get involved in politics.

00:13:41.000 He says that my church should remain outside of politics.

00:13:43.000 What do you have to make of this?

00:13:44.000 I know that you're very politically involved and also an outspoken Christian.

00:13:47.000 Thanks so much, Terry from Colorado.

00:13:50.000 Well, thank you, Terry, from Colorado.

00:13:51.000 Your pastor is wrong.

00:13:53.000 Your pastor is wrong biblically and morally.

00:13:56.000 Number one, I believe in comprehensive Christianity, not compartmentalized Christianity.

00:14:01.000 I don't think there is anything where we should not get actively involved as Christians, whether it be music, arts, entertainment, and yes, government.

00:14:11.000 But secondly, I also believe that this is an anti-biblical and anti-theological view.

00:14:17.000 Tyndale, when he was translating the Bible, and he came under great condemnation and great accusations of heresy from the institutionalized Catholic hierarchy when he did this.

00:14:30.000 And I'm not against Catholics.

00:14:31.000 There are so many amazing Catholics that listen to our podcast, but it's just a historical fact.

00:14:36.000 And when Tyndale was translating the Bible away from Latin into English, he believed that biblical literacy was a major problem.

00:14:45.000 And when Tyndale went back to the Koigne Greek, the words that were originally written in the New Testament, Jesus Christ clearly said to his followers, his disciples, he said, on this rock build my, and most people say church.

00:15:00.000 That's actually not correct.

00:15:02.000 It's on this rock build my ecclesia.

00:15:06.000 That's right.

00:15:07.000 On this rock, build my ecclesia.

00:15:10.000 Now, if you actually look at the original definition of what a ecclesia is or was, an ecclesia was a secular term.

00:15:18.000 It was a Greek secular term.

00:15:20.000 Jesus did not use synagogue, he did not use temple.

00:15:24.000 Instead, he used the term ecclesia.

00:15:27.000 So what exactly was a ecclesia?

00:15:30.000 Well, unfortunately, many English translators originally said, I will build my church.

00:15:34.000 But however, it's a mistake to substitute an institutional vision of a church centered on just religion for what Jesus wanted us to do in the public square, which was to transform the whole agenda of life, not just creating a walled-off spiritual realm.

00:15:52.000 And so, for example, an ecclesia was actually a gathering, that's right, a physical gathering of a Greek city-state.

00:15:59.000 An ecclesia was a whole body of citizens in a free city-state.

00:16:04.000 called out by the herald for discussion on decision of public business.

00:16:08.000 So why would Jesus tell us to get involved in the public business, to not just be compartmentalized or walled off, but tell us to get directly into the public square? 0.57

00:16:17.000 And I encourage all of you Christians out there to use this against your pastors because they're theologically wrong and they are misleading you if they tell you not to get involved in politics.

00:16:26.000 We are commanded by Jesus Christ to get involved in politics.

00:16:29.000 In fact, the two words that unified the Greek ecclesia, the secular ecclesia, was the Greek term isonomia and the Greek term ella uutheria.

00:16:40.000 Those two words, isonomia, meant equality, ella eutheria, freedom.

00:16:45.000 What two countries are founded on the ideas of equality and freedom?

00:16:50.000 America.

00:16:51.000 America was founded on the ideas that built ecclesia, that Jesus Christ told us that you should build on this rock that which the Greek city-state embodied.

00:17:01.000 And so any pastor that tells you or is afraid of engaging in politics, in my theological interpretation, I'm not the only one that holds this view, I'm just articulating it, is not biblical.

00:17:14.000 That's right.

00:17:15.000 They are not following the Bible.

00:17:17.000 In fact, they are cowering to fear. 0.51

00:17:19.000 And if you look what Tyndale and Martin Luther did in the early stage of the Protestant church, it is very interesting how Tyndale was actually arrested, tried, condemned, and murdered for translating the Bible correctly. 0.77

00:17:36.000 And for any Christian out there that says, it really doesn't matter if we get involved in politics or not, well, two words for you, Nero and Diocletian.

00:17:46.000 Nero and Diocletian were Roman emperors that were absolute martyrs against Christians.

00:17:53.000 Do you care about Christians being persecuted? 0.98

00:17:56.000 You should. 0.99

00:17:58.000 The Bible tells us to do that.

00:18:00.000 Why is your pastor not speaking out against Christians being persecuted, against pastors being arrested?

00:18:05.000 If your pastor has remained silent, remained closed, or was closed throughout the summer, they were in direct defiance to the theological mandate to, as the Bible says, do not fear.

00:18:18.000 More times than not, God tells his followers in the Old Testament, be not afraid.

00:18:23.000 And so too many pastors in America have cowered to the secular line of thinking that the church should not be involved in politics.

00:18:37.000 And just another thought on Tyndale and Luther.

00:18:40.000 I'm reading a whole book on Tyndale and Luther, and they completely transformed Europe and helped create Western civilization.

00:18:48.000 And through the Gutenberg printing press, they brought the Bible to the language of the peasants.

00:18:53.000 The language of the peasants was English.

00:18:55.000 Latin was the language of the priests and of Rome.

00:19:00.000 As soon as the Bible was translated to English, you saw the greatest democratization of thinking and the greatest democratization of people rising up and wanting to be involved in the civic process.

00:19:17.000 And some other pastors will say, well, we're not allowed to defy authority.

00:19:21.000 Well, then how do they square Daniel 6, 10?

00:19:24.000 It says clearly, now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened towards Jerusalem.

00:19:31.000 Now, as a pretext, if you go through Daniel 6 through 9, it says very clearly that King Darius basically put a hit out on anyone that followed the rabbinical or Jewish laws. 0.98

00:19:43.000 Daniel did it anyway. 0.91

00:19:44.000 Daniel leaned in and he opened up his window.

00:19:47.000 And three times a day, he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to God just that he has done before.

00:19:52.000 Then these men went as a group, found Daniel praying, asking God for help, went to the king, got him arrested, eventually threw him in the lion's den.

00:20:00.000 Daniel knew what was being asked of him was tyrannical, and he opened up the window and he said, I'm going to do it anyway.

00:20:08.000 Where were the pastors that were like Daniel during this lockdown? 0.91

00:20:12.000 These pastors were cowards that didn't open up their church.

00:20:16.000 And the pastors like Ken Graves and James Cadiz and Rob McCoy and Jack Hibbs, the list goes on. 0.95

00:20:21.000 Mike McClure, God bless them.

00:20:24.000 But we need to have pastors that have the spirit of Daniel, not the fear of the secular left.

00:20:31.000 And so many of these pastors I've interfaced with they'd much rather collect their tithes and their offerings through live stream than stand clearly for the reopening of the church.

00:20:39.000 The church was originally told to us by Jesus Christ to be political.

00:20:45.000 He used the term intentionally.

00:20:47.000 Jesus Christ said, on this rock, get involved in all things.

00:20:51.000 And that includes civic government.

00:20:54.000 I encourage you to just take this podcast, send it to your pastor.

00:20:58.000 They can contact me directly.

00:21:00.000 And if they have any sort of disagreement, I'd love to know what biblical translation they're using and what sort of contorted justification they have to try and justify a non-political and closed church during these very important times.

00:21:17.000 Hey, Charlie, can you talk more about what's going on in college campuses?

00:21:20.000 I am convinced that I should not send my kids to college.

00:21:23.000 They are in high school right now.

00:21:24.000 Can you just really tell me how bad things actually are?

00:21:28.000 This is Brad from Alabama.

00:21:29.000 Thank you, Brad, from Alabama.

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00:22:35.000 So The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianov says there are three great untruths that have begun to coalesce into a cult of safetyism in the United States.

00:22:46.000 These untruths fly in the face of ancient wisdom and modern research and have proven harmful to the individuals and groups who have imbibed them.

00:22:55.000 Greg Lukianov and Jonathan Haidt team up to illuminate these untruths and their deterious effects, as well as suggest some remedies.

00:23:03.000 So number one, more than just resilient, children are anti-fragile.

00:23:06.000 Malcolm Gladwell wrote an entire book on anti-fragility.

00:23:10.000 Also, they talk about the belief that what doesn't kill them makes us weaker, has fostered the rise in paranoid safetyism.

00:23:17.000 This is probably the most important book if you want to realize why our country handled this pandemic so poorly and why we retreated to safetyism and we did not embrace courage, bravery, or wisdom, but instead retreated to fear.

00:23:30.000 Also, the book talks about making warnings about unreliable emotions are as old as humanity itself.

00:23:37.000 So perhaps it's not a good idea to make them a basis for dialogue in universities.

00:23:42.000 Universities have completely damaged our country.

00:23:45.000 We deal with this quite often at Turning Point USA and professorwatchlist.org.

00:23:49.000 You guys should check it out, professorwatchlist.org.

00:23:51.000 And at Turning Point USA, you guys are able to get engaged, get involved, and we play offense with a sense of urgency to win America's culture war.

00:23:59.000 But I can tell you that the left hates the idea that there are other ideas.

00:24:03.000 It's not that they disagree with us, it's that they don't want our ideas to exist at all.

00:24:08.000 They want to use whatever power at their disposal to squelch opposition opinion and to go after anyone that might disagree with them even slightly.

00:24:20.000 And what happens at the university is they have emotion-based tribunals where they do not have logical thinking.

00:24:28.000 If I were to say the most qualified people and applicants that we have that come work for us at Turning Point USA dropped out of college or they didn't go to college at all whatsoever, or they completely rejected everything that they learned in college.

00:24:41.000 Anyone that comes to work for me and they say that college is a meaningful experience, they usually don't last very long.

00:24:46.000 In fact, here on the Charlie Kirk show, our best workers are people that are like, yeah, college was a complete waste of time.

00:24:53.000 And that kind of should tell you that maybe college isn't preparing our young people to be able to succeed in our country.

00:25:01.000 It continues by saying the untruth that the world is comprised of good people and evil people is a natural but polarizing tendency.

00:25:08.000 Also, the great untruths of fragility, emotional reasoning, and us versus them have flourished in the soil of helicopter parenting, social media, and the decline of a child's play.

00:25:19.000 Raising kids with wisdom means responsibly encouraging independence in action and thought.

00:25:25.000 And finally, universities can encourage wisdom by putting the pursuit of truth before social justice and by upholding free speech and inquiry as quintessential to the life of the university.

00:25:35.000 That is the coddling of the American mind, how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation of failure.

00:25:40.000 Our book of the week, at thinker.org/slash Charlie, T-H-I-N-K-R dot org/slash Charlie.

00:25:46.000 Lauren asks a great question here.

00:25:48.000 Congratulations, Lauren.

00:25:49.000 You went assigned a copy of the MAGA Doctrine.

00:25:51.000 I was recently in a group of leftists who claimed that you, quote, can't be racist towards a white person because they were not oppressed.

00:25:59.000 I would like to know how you would have responded to that question and if you have any advice on how to maturely handle the situation without starting a fight.

00:26:06.000 Thank you so much, Lauren.

00:26:07.000 Congratulations, Lauren.

00:26:08.000 You went assigned a copy of the MAGA doctrine.

00:26:09.000 This is a phenomenal question.

00:26:12.000 What is racism?

00:26:15.000 What is racism?

00:26:17.000 Racism is one person of any race hating or judging another person of another race.

00:26:25.000 The left doesn't view that as racism.

00:26:27.000 The left views racism as a power struggle.

00:26:30.000 The left views certain people immune to racism and some people automatically racist.

00:26:37.000 You understand that's a racist idea to believe in that.

00:26:40.000 So my advice to you, Lauren, is first just get the term straight.

00:26:44.000 Ask your friends, what is racism?

00:26:46.000 They will say that racism is a power struggle, and you say, no, it's not.

00:26:49.000 You're talking about something completely different.

00:26:52.000 You're talking about tribal warfare.

00:26:53.000 I'm talking about individuals being prejudiced against another group of individuals just based on the color of their skin.

00:26:59.000 Where do you get your definition from?

00:27:01.000 Where do you derive that definition from?

00:27:04.000 And they'll quote some literature and all that and say, that's just not true.

00:27:06.000 Look at the Webster definition right there.

00:27:09.000 A belief that race is fundamental detriment of human traits and capacities and racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.

00:27:18.000 So, for example, when black people tell white people to take a knee because they did something wrong, that's racist.

00:27:27.000 When you tell young people that are eight and nine years old that you have privilege based on the color of your skin, white privilege, that's racist. 0.78

00:27:37.000 Categorizing people based on skin color and judging them based on that skin color is racist.

00:27:43.000 Where the left believes, and this is rooted in critical race theory, that it is actually a struggle between groups.

00:27:50.000 They believe that it is actually all black people are oppressed and all white people are not.

00:27:55.000 And therefore, anything that is racist is the proliferation of that society.

00:28:00.000 And that's kind of where you get to the second definition here of the Merrien-Webster dictionary definition: the systemic oppression of a racial group to the social, economic, and political advantage of another.

00:28:11.000 Well, that's not what's happened in America.

00:28:14.000 It's not.

00:28:15.000 Black people have every opportunity to succeed in this country.

00:28:18.000 And any black person or any white person that doesn't, it's on them.

00:28:21.000 It is. 0.53

00:28:23.000 If you don't make good choices, I'm sorry.

00:28:26.000 And we should do some things to try to make the circumstance better for you.

00:28:29.000 We should try to fix schools and all those sorts of things.

00:28:31.000 We're still individuals.

00:28:32.000 We are not tribal groups.

00:28:34.000 So what is racism?

00:28:36.000 Is it hating another person based on the color of their skin?

00:28:39.000 Or is it a power struggle?

00:28:41.000 If you believe it's a power struggle, then yes, white people cannot be racist, but only if you believe the power struggle is inherently racial.

00:28:49.000 I don't believe in a power struggle.

00:28:50.000 The only power struggle I believe is maybe a very small set of leftist elitists that are running our country.

00:28:58.000 Maybe that's the only power struggle I could possibly believe in. 0.70

00:29:01.000 But generally, and most specifically, this idea of a broad-based power struggle in our country is completely baseless, especially based on skin color.

00:29:11.000 So thank you, Lauren, for your question. 0.52

00:29:13.000 You win a signed copy of the MAGA doctrine.

00:29:14.000 Just understand when someone from the left is talking about racism, they are not talking to you about the type of racism that you and I grew up believing, which is any person of any skin color hating another person of another skin color.

00:29:27.000 That is the true definition of racism.

00:29:31.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:29:32.000 On Mondays, I know you answer your listeners' questions, and I thought I'd send you some this week instead of just being a passive listener.

00:29:32.000 Love the show.

00:29:37.000 Well, great, Rachel.

00:29:38.000 You win a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine because you emailed us freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:29:43.000 In the past year alone, I have been asked in three of my graduate-level classes to give introductions stating my name, gender pronouns, and cultural identity.

00:29:50.000 I'm not afraid to share who I am, she, her, hers, and a Christian, but I've seen classmates apologize for being white, and teachers have discussed that being a woman makes you a victim of trauma.

00:30:02.000 I'm deeply saddened that these conversations is becoming common.

00:30:06.000 I would like advice or talking points on how to address this concern in the college institution.

00:30:10.000 Thank you, Rachel. 0.97

00:30:11.000 Man, if parents are listening to this, what are you doing sending your kids to school learning from this garbage that you're a woman, that you have trauma because you're a woman, and that you have to say your gender pronouns? 0.99

00:30:23.000 I just don't even, I just, it's so destructive. 0.99

00:30:26.000 This is how the country is going to fall apart.

00:30:29.000 So, what advice can I give you?

00:30:31.000 I'm deeply saddened that this conversation is becoming common and would like advice. 0.64

00:30:35.000 No one should apologize for being white. 0.52

00:30:37.000 How clearly do I have to say this? 0.92

00:30:39.000 You do not have to apologize for something you did not do.

00:30:43.000 You do not have to apologize for something that a relative did.

00:30:47.000 You don't have to apologize for something that someone of your same skin color did.

00:30:51.000 Nor do you get an award for someone of the same skin color did for you.

00:30:56.000 For example, if your grandfather got the Congressional Medal of Honor, you do not also get that Congressional Medal of Honor.

00:31:03.000 It's not how it works.

00:31:05.000 If your grandfather stormed the beaches of Normandy and liberated the European continent, if you sit in your basement all day and act like Hunter Biden, you do not get a Congressional Medal of Honor.

00:31:18.000 Therefore, if your skin color is white, you do not have to apologize unless you've actually been a racist. 0.59

00:31:26.000 And it's also a lot more nuanced than that. 0.86

00:31:30.000 What about the white people that died to free the slaves in the Civil War?

00:31:34.000 What about my relatives, my ancestors, that fought in the American Civil War?

00:31:40.000 Isaiah Kirk.

00:31:42.000 I have a picture of him hanging in my home, fought in the American Civil War.

00:31:47.000 Guess what?

00:31:48.000 It doesn't make me a good person.

00:31:49.000 I don't get any sort of points for that.

00:31:51.000 And I have nothing to apologize for.

00:31:53.000 Neither do you.

00:31:54.000 There have been racist white people in our country's history. 0.98

00:31:57.000 There have been racist black people, too. 0.99

00:31:59.000 There have been racist Mexicans and racist Hispanics. 0.99

00:32:03.000 Anyone who apologizes for their race needs a lot of help. 0.98

00:32:09.000 And I don't know the best advice I can give you, Rachel, but anyone who's doing that is not going to be successful in this country because you will, you're immediately starting from a position that you have something to apologize for just based on your existence.

00:32:24.000 I had somebody the other day email me.

00:32:25.000 They'd say, are you going to apologize for being a fascist?

00:32:29.000 And I said, first of all, I'm not a fascist, so I'm not going to apologize for that.

00:32:34.000 Second of all, you asking me to apologize for being something I'm not is incredibly fascist.

00:32:40.000 Third of all, the fascist dilemma in America is a supply and demand problem.

00:32:45.000 The great Douglas Murray mentioned this once, and I want Douglas Murray in our podcast.

00:32:49.000 He's amazing.

00:32:50.000 In fact, I think he's in America right now doing a tour, so we should try and reach out to him to come to Phoenix.

00:32:54.000 He's one of the brightest minds I've had an opportunity to listen from.

00:32:57.000 Douglas Murray said it best.

00:32:58.000 He said, there's a supply and demand problem with fascists in America.

00:33:02.000 He said there's an incredible demand from the left to try to convince themselves that there are fascists and racists on every corner.

00:33:09.000 And there's a very limited supply.

00:33:11.000 Therefore, any person who pops their head out as a racist fascist gets the equivalent of the price getting raised.

00:33:18.000 They become incredibly popular instantaneously because there's so few of them.

00:33:22.000 And there's such an incredible thirst and a desire to try and satisfy this theory that there's a racist and that there are fascists on every single corner.

00:33:32.000 It's rather tragic, actually.

00:33:36.000 And so there's a lot of things to unpack here, but anyone who believes that we're a racist country doesn't know our history.

00:33:46.000 Anyone who apologizes for something they did not do or something they're not responsible for is indulging in postmodern critical race theory, perpetual atonement.

00:33:58.000 What an awful existence that is to be a slave to something you didn't even do. 0.51

00:34:04.000 This is a new concept, actually, because those of us that believe in the Christian tradition, we believe that you could be a slave to your sin.

00:34:16.000 It's kind of new for me to think that you're going to be a slave to something you didn't do.

00:34:20.000 Like you're going to be held hostage by how you look?

00:34:25.000 Like, really?

00:34:27.000 Like, not by a lie you told or a thing you stole, but you're going to have to feel bad for who you are.

00:34:33.000 Isn't that the whole idea, that post-bullying culture that we are supposed to create in high school?

00:34:39.000 That you don't have to feel bad because you're overweight.

00:34:42.000 You don't have to feel bad because you're dyslexic.

00:34:45.000 And I think there's some validity to all that, by the way.

00:34:48.000 But now we're kind of reversing it.

00:34:49.000 Like, you must apologize and you must feel guilt because of how God made you.

00:34:58.000 Well, they don't believe in God, so that would kind of explain why they feel that way.

00:35:03.000 So thank you, Rachel, for your question.

00:35:05.000 It just brings me such incredible just disgust is one word and just frustration towards what has happened to higher education in this country.

00:35:16.000 It is truly the death of the academy.

00:35:18.000 Charlie, you talk often about a Democrat Civil War brewing.

00:35:20.000 My question is, what does that end up looking like?

00:35:23.000 Will we see something like Teddy Roosevelt breaking away from the Republican Party and founding the Bull Moose Party?

00:35:28.000 Or will Democrats break into a legitimate faction that would be sustainable in the way TR's party wasn't?

00:35:34.000 Thanks.

00:35:34.000 Love the radio show, by the way.

00:35:36.000 Tanya from Harding, Minnesota.

00:35:37.000 Thank you, Tanya.

00:35:38.000 I just want to reiterate my thanks to those of you that support us at charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:35:43.000 At charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:35:45.000 You guys really help keep this engine going, and you allow us to do two episodes a day, two hours of radio a day, two hours of live streaming a day, as well as speaking all across the country.

00:35:56.000 God bless you.

00:35:57.000 You guys are totally amazing.

00:35:58.000 I think that the Democrat Civil War is going to happen internally at first.

00:36:02.000 I'm very optimistic about Republicans' chances moving forward.

00:36:05.000 The Democrats have entertained and platformed such malevolent and insidious, baseless, and dangerous ideas that once Donald Trump is gone, which is the only glue that is keeping the Democrat Party together, their entire party will disintegrate.

00:36:19.000 Their party will turn into the Bolsheviks versus the Mensheviks.

00:36:21.000 Their party will turn into the post-Tito Yugoslavia, where the Bosnians were fighting the Croatians, who were fighting the Serbians, who were fighting the Albanians, who are all together fighting to reclaim the unified Yugoslavia. 0.56

00:36:35.000 What happens when a patriarch or a dictator falls?

00:36:40.000 There is always bedlam.

00:36:42.000 And by no means am I calling Trump a dictator, but I am saying that the pathological possession that the Democrat Party has towards Donald Trump is the only thing that keeps them unified.

00:36:53.000 As soon as Donald Trump gets removed from the equation, either in victory or in defeat, there will be an immense power struggle.

00:37:00.000 And AOC and Talib and Bernie Sanders, they are going to want more power than they have currently because they are going to feel like they were gypped and they will be angry if they lose and they will be motivated if they win.

00:37:14.000 And Justice Democrats have just run this ridiculous ad.

00:37:16.000 Let's play this ad, by the way, and bleep out the swearing. 0.61

00:37:19.000 This is Justice Democrats' advertisement to try to get Donald Trump defeated. 0.99

00:37:23.000 It's pretty pathetic. 0.99

00:37:24.000 Play tape. 0.99

00:37:25.000 For six months, everything is COVID this and COVID that.

00:37:28.000 I lost my job because we're all trying to stay at home to get this under control.

00:37:32.000 And our president does what?

00:37:34.000 Are you fing kidding me?

00:37:36.000 Look, maybe you don't like the other guy running for president.

00:37:39.000 I get it.

00:37:41.000 I don't like anyone right now.

00:37:42.000 But could you do me a favor?

00:37:44.000 Take 10 minutes this November and fing vote.

00:37:48.000 Can you do that?

00:37:50.000 Can you do that for me, please?

00:37:52.000 Oh, that is it.

00:37:53.000 Wait till your father gets home.

00:37:56.000 And so the Justice Democrats are just kind of half cashing it in.

00:37:59.000 They don't even believe in Joe Biden.

00:38:01.000 They do hate Donald Trump, but they believe in a much more fundamental, broad, magnanimous, and motivated revolution that is based in a complete and total fundamental transformation of our country.

00:38:15.000 So I don't know what it will look like.

00:38:17.000 I do think that if AOC and Bernie Sanders get motivated enough and they get betrayed enough by the Democrat Party, it could splinter.

00:38:24.000 The splinter becomes more likely if Donald Trump wins.

00:38:27.000 If Donald Trump wins, the splintering of different parties becomes almost inevitable, where they break into their own factions and their own subset groups.

00:38:36.000 And this is one thing I've always encouraged Republicans to do.

00:38:39.000 I've encouraged Republicans not to break into micro parties because the first party to do that will give the other party a hull pass towards political victory in the future.

00:38:50.000 So thanks so much, Tanya.

00:38:51.000 Deeply appreciate the question.

00:38:53.000 And thank you guys for all emailing your questions at freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:38:56.000 Listen to our sister episode with Kimberly Kleisick, who is in person here at the Charlie Kirk Show.

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00:39:19.000 Thank you guys so much for listening.

00:39:21.000 Another big week in store.

00:39:22.000 We're going to be working our tail off to save our country and get our president re-elected.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - October 19, 2020

Ask Charlie Anything 39: Should I Apologize for Being White? Are Democrats Going to War? Which Party Platform is Right for Christians and MORE!

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