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00:03:02.000You're able to see the level of service.
00:03:06.000You're able to see the quality of food.
00:03:08.000And almost everything from that point forward is compared to that.
00:03:12.000Every vacation you take, you say, yeah, that was a nice vacation, but it wasn't as nice as the four seasons in Philadelphia.
00:03:19.000And the same can be said for politics.
00:03:22.000And it also makes you ask the question: why aren't other hotels at that level?
00:03:27.000Now, of course, that metaphor might seem somewhat unrelated to politics, but the more I see Governor Ron DeSantis, I ask myself the question, first of all, how incredible his leadership is right now.
00:03:43.000But also, I ask the obvious question, why is he the only Republican governor in the country saying these things?
00:03:50.000Why is he the only Republican governor that has an open state, that does not have a mask mandate, that has open schools?
00:03:59.000Now, other states have opened their schools, but he was on top of the Chinese coronavirus and against lockdowns in May of last year.
00:04:11.000In fact, passing a piece of legislation that allows the citizens of the great state of Florida to challenge big tech in the courts and possibly even fine them.
00:04:21.000He is an anti-rioting piece of legislation.
00:04:23.000He has the most secure elections in the country.
00:04:25.000They had all of their election results in by 9:30 Eastern, despite being the third most populated state in the country, the second oldest state in the country, yet some of the lowest hospitalization rates, the lowest virus rates in the entire country.
00:04:42.000And we've been warning for some time here on this program the virus of critical race theory.
00:04:48.000Critical race theory comes from critical theory, which is an extension of post-modernism, a theory that is built on complete garbage from Jacques Derrida, Michelle Foucault, and others around the basic idea that the only thing that matters in the world is the power dynamic of oppressor versus oppressed.
00:05:14.000Critical race theory brings that viewpoint, and I'm oversimplifying it.
00:05:19.000I could do a five-hour podcast on this.
00:05:21.000And most of what I have learned, by the way, is from my friend's book, James Lindsay, Cynical Theories, who he wrote with Helen Pluckrose.
00:05:31.000And they bring that view of power struggle, of class struggle to race, that all white people are in charge, all black people are being oppressed.
00:05:46.000And it's not just a fringe viewpoint in the academy, it is in our military, it's in our civil service, it's in our corporations, it's in most schools.
00:05:57.000Now, what an amazing opportunity for Governor Brian Kemp to come out in front of something that is a big concern for the conservative base.
00:06:08.000Brian Kemp in Georgia could be coming out and saying, I think critical race theory is wrong and has no place in Georgia, or even Governor Greg Abbott.
00:06:18.000Instead, it's all quiet on the Western Front.
00:06:22.000And it seems as if there's only two governors in the entire country that are worthy of recognition.
00:06:27.000And it's either that the other Republican governors are confused, they don't have courage.
00:06:37.000Either that or Governor Ron DeSantis has the unique combination of a high IQ and lots of courage, something that is missing in far too many people in the Republican Party.
00:06:49.000Listen to Governor Ron DeSantis go head on with the threat of critical race theory.
00:06:55.000Florida civics curriculum will incorporate foundational concepts with the best materials, and it will expressly exclude unsanctioned narratives like critical race theory and other unsubstantiated theories.
00:07:11.000Let me be clear: there's no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory.
00:07:18.000Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money.
00:07:28.000Standing ovation is what he deserves for that.
00:07:31.000And for every moment that we dedicate on this program, applauding and supporting and encouraging Governor Ron DeSantis, I can't help but think: where is Governor Ducey doing this?
00:07:44.000You know that it's the curriculum in the Arizona State Board of Education to teach teachers that babies are racist, that white supremacy is something that every white child has within them from the moment that they are born.
00:07:57.000That we should judge people based on their skin color.
00:08:00.000And yet Florida, which is supposed to be a battleground state, is courageously leading on this issue.
00:08:05.000Governor Brian Kemp, who is completely worthless.
00:08:09.000He is not smart and he has no courage.
00:08:12.000He's nowhere to be found on this issue, on voter integrity, on the lockdowns, nothing.
00:08:18.000How about Governor Lee from Tennessee?
00:08:45.000This is the instruction of your children, if they happen to be white, when they're 12, 13, or 14 years old, or even younger, that they are racist merely because they exist.
00:08:57.000Theroot.com, which is a website full of very angry writers.
00:09:02.000It is the angriest website on the planet.
00:09:05.000And in fact, it is the most bigoted website.
00:09:08.000It is, the KKK would have found a wonderful home at theroot.com.
00:09:12.000The only difference is that the root is mostly black writers, so it's the black equivalent of the KKK.
00:09:17.000The headline of their article yesterday that they wrote is, Whiteness is a pandemic.
00:10:06.000He said, white people and people who are not white, my mom included, there will be people who die in 2050 because of white supremacy-induced decisions from 1850.
00:10:16.000Now, mind you, there is no evidence to support this whatsoever.
00:10:20.000There is no empirical research to show that the legacy of slavery has any sort of significant impact on blacks in America right now.
00:10:34.000But here is what, this is what Ron DeSantis is fighting against.
00:10:37.000And if every Republican was smart and if every Republican had courage, which is a very rare combination, because either they're very smart and they have no courage and they're bought by the big corporations, which are part of the woke industrial complex, or they have tons of courage and they have really very little wisdom.
00:10:53.000And so they're just all over the place.
00:10:55.000And God bless those people because we need them to.
00:10:58.000But Ron DeSantis is articulate, he's focused, and he has phenomenal courage.
00:11:05.000And the article continues, and we are going to keep on going through this by Damon Young.
00:11:35.000But this guy is allegedly within the mainstream of the zeitgeist of our country, the zeitgeist, which means the spirit of our times.
00:11:43.000It's that which is acceptable within discourse.
00:11:47.000I'm going to read a direct quote from this piece.
00:11:51.000And all under this idea that why isn't every Republican governor in the country speaking out against critical race theory like Ron DeSantis?
00:12:01.000Why does Ron DeSantis have to lead on the tech issue, lead on the rioting issue, lead on the voter integrity issue, lead on the lockdown issue, lead on the school issue?
00:12:11.000And it really actually goes to show that you only get a couple courageous people per generation.
00:12:17.000It really goes to show that you have these other Republicans that quite honestly, they want to be a very mediocre governor and get a highway named after them and retire.
00:12:26.000That's basically what their idea of success is.
00:12:29.000Where Ron DeSantis actually believes in the Constitution.
00:12:33.000Ron DeSantis understands the ideas behind it.
00:12:36.000Ron DeSantis has Churchillian courage.
00:12:51.000So I'm going to read, quote, white supremacy is a virus that, like other viruses, will not die until there are no bodies left for it to infect, which means that the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it.
00:13:08.000I guess a vaccine could work too, but we've had over 400 years to develop one.
00:13:16.000He is a contributing opinion editor for the New York Times.
00:13:22.000Now, I want to just reply, I want to read this sentence again.
00:13:25.000And imagine if it didn't say white supremacy, but if it said blackness.
00:13:30.000Blackness is a virus that, like other viruses, will not die until there are no bodies left, which means the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it.
00:13:40.000If that were to be said, Damon Young would rightly be called a bigot and a racist.
00:13:46.000But the way that they view racism is not that racism is a mindset, which it is, and an evil mindset, but they view racism as a description of a power structure.
00:14:01.000Remember, this comes from postmodernism, critical race theory.
00:14:07.000And the name of this article is Whiteness is a pandemic.
00:14:11.000Understand that a majority of school children right now, as I am doing this broadcast, are learning this.
00:14:20.000This is not some sort of fringe theory.
00:14:25.000And while you catch your breath or pull your car over to the side of the road as I share this with you, understand if you teach a generation that whiteness is a pandemic, where do you think that is actually going to lead?
00:15:13.000He said, not one red penny or one red cent of Florida taxpayer dollars will go to subsidize something that makes Florida children hate their country and hate each other.
00:15:27.000What a great summary of critical race theory.
00:15:30.000And that is precisely the type of curriculum and the type of ideology that is prevailing in our country.
00:15:38.000And what's so funny is that the liberals and the leftists that have their BLM incorporated yard signs, they think as if they're going to be immune to this sort of mob eventually coming for them.
00:15:49.000For them, everything when it comes to politics is the politics of identity, not the politics of ideas, not the politics of dialogue and discourse, dialogue coming from the Greek word through reason.
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00:17:42.000The truth of the matter is that in the 1990s and early 2000s, when I grew up in America, most people were thinking about their own personal conduct, their character, their future, how their decisions will impact their ultimate goal, their aim, their purpose.
00:17:57.000And that sort of a society was a very decent place to grow up in.
00:18:00.000There is a small snapshot in American history that will be written from 1988 to 2008, right up until the election of Barack Obama, where racial tensions were going down, violent crime was going down, where young children were being taught that character matters a lot more than skin color, that bigots and racists only care about the melanin content in your skin.
00:18:25.000And then Barack Obama became president and the critical race theorists started to get a platform.
00:18:30.000And this has grown steadily over the last 12 to 13 years.
00:18:35.000And I remember in 2017, one of our turning point USA groups at Texas State University and also producer Connor, who helps us out tremendously here on the Charlie Kirk show, was fighting this at Texas State.
00:19:14.000It says, and this is from a couple years ago.
00:19:16.000Whiteness will be over because we want it to be.
00:19:19.000And when it dies, there will be millions of cultural zombies aimlessly wandering across a vastly changed landscape.
00:19:26.000And I quote, white death will be the liberation for all.
00:19:31.000And that whiteness, quote, is a construct used to perpetuate a system of racist power.
00:19:36.000And then the academic paper continues to say, until then, remember this, I hate you, white people, because you shouldn't exist.
00:19:45.000This was published in a school newspaper at Texas State University.
00:19:50.000You are both the dominant apparatus on the planet, not true, and the void in which all other cultures upon meeting you die.
00:19:59.000So that's what young people are learning when they go to college.
00:20:03.000And then they get to read the New York Times from Damon Young, who reads, quote, which means the only way to stop it is to locate it, white people, isolate it, extract it, and kill it, calling for the murder and massacre of a large portion of the American population.
00:20:20.000But that's considered scholarship in the American Academy.
00:20:25.000So all this ties together with the only Republican who seems to understand the threat of the lockdowns, of school closures, the mental health issue, rioting, voter integrity, Ron DeSantis.
00:20:37.000I feel as if maybe the other Republican governors across the country, there's almost this disinformation loop that they're not seeing the same information Ron DeSantis is seeing.
00:20:50.000And so for every Republican governor out there, why are you not like DeSantis?
00:20:55.000He's not doing anything that difficult for, I don't know, the governor of Kansas.
00:21:02.000Oh, she's a Democrat, actually, I think.
00:22:29.000He gave us another shot to come back into connection with him through ultimate redemption.
00:22:33.000And if we accept that gift through the sacrifice that we cannot earn, we do not deserve, but it's a free gift, then you're able to be back in connection with your creator in eternal life.
00:22:43.000That is the short summary of the biblical narrative.
00:23:03.000The point is that they would deconstruct the text, right?
00:23:06.000They would not take the actual reading of what the intent of the text is or what it says.
00:23:10.000They would find ways to try and delegitimize it.
00:23:13.000And so this is one of the claims in this article that says that whiteness is a pandemic and that we must kill white people by Damon Young.
00:23:22.000It says, quote, whiteness extends back 400 years and has tentacles clawing everywhere.
00:23:30.000White supremacy exists here in America, which is everywhere.
00:23:34.000Thomas Sowell has some phenomenal scholarship on all of this.
00:23:38.000And if every college student and high school student was required to read Thomas Sowell, our country would be a more decent, logical, and reasonable place.
00:23:46.000And I encourage every single person watching and listening to this to go seriously read Thomas Sowell and understand his ideas.
00:23:56.000He grew up in Harlem, studied under Milton Friedman, and his scholarship on race in particular is among the best.
00:24:05.000And so Thomas Sowell makes the argument that the legacy of slavery, which is the core point of argument for the critical race theorists and the bigots that write for the New York Times, is that black people are suffering today because of the legacy of slavery.
00:24:23.000And Thomas Sowell makes the argument, which I completely agree with because the data is there, is that black people were getting richer at a higher rate than white people before the Great Society Act passed, before Lyndon Baines Johnson passed the Great Society program.
00:24:40.000In fact, black poverty was plummeting far before the welfare state was ever implemented.
00:24:46.000In fact, blacks were more likely to be married in two-parent households before the Great Society Act in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, more so than white families.
00:24:55.000This idea of the legacy of slavery, the question is, why is it then that once slavery was ended, black life or the black quality of life was improving dramatically.
00:25:08.000And then we passed the Great Society Act, and the farther away we get, the further we are from slavery, the worse off blacks get.
00:25:16.000Doesn't that sort of delegitimize the argument?
00:25:19.000Why is it that blacks that were closer to the actual action of slavery were doing far better in relation to the times that they were in than the blacks of today?
00:25:29.000Thomas Sowell makes the argument that racism is an attitude in people's minds.
00:26:17.000It's just very vague, and it's intentionally vague.
00:26:20.000It's intentionally vague because once they start to be more specific, well, then we'll be able to either agree or cross-examine or delegitimize their argument.
00:26:29.000So the less specific they're able to be, the more power they're able to assume under that narrative.
00:27:20.000And the obvious question that we get emailed us all the time at freedom at charliekirk.com is why?
00:27:26.000It's because once people start organizing themselves based on tribal group, they become a lot easier to command and control, more likely to obey.
00:27:35.000You see, multicultural pluralism, which for a brief moment in American history we actually enjoyed, made us the least racist country in the history of the world and the most decent country.
00:27:46.000I still think we're there, but we're losing it because of our intentional actions and intentional steps that we are taking.
00:27:55.000And you look at this Texas student newspaper column from a couple of years ago.
00:28:00.000Where were the parents in Texas doing anything about this?
00:28:04.000They just shrugged it off and they laughed at it, where it said, white death will mean the liberation for all.
00:28:10.000It says, until this, remember, I hate you because you shouldn't exist, white people.
00:28:15.000This was an article written in the Texas State School newspaper a couple of years ago.
00:28:21.000And this is one of hundreds of examples that we have.
00:28:24.000And so this racial reckoning that we're supposed to be told because of George Floyd's death, which more and more looks like a drug overdose, not a police officer that murdered him, but the jury will decide that.
00:28:37.000We have a video completely on that topic.
00:28:41.000And there's so much misinformation around that.
00:28:44.000Because of that one specific incident, we're supposed to unravel all the ties that bind us together.
00:28:50.000This is the most important fight that's happening that most Republicans are afraid of.
00:28:55.000The reason why the Democrats and liberals have been able to assume so much power so quickly is because most decent people are afraid of being called the R-word.
00:29:07.000Because most decent people, whether you realize it or not, the biggest fear that is over your head is that one day someone might post on your Facebook feed and say, you're a racist.
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00:30:46.000All of this critical race theory, the hyperracialization of America, caring about people's skin color, not character, is now right in the news cycle around the tragic killing of eight people in Georgia.
00:31:01.000Now, this story was very slow to surface to the top of news.
00:31:06.000Usually when there's a mass shooting, immediately it gets politicized for gun control.
00:31:12.000However, the Democrats and the activist media, including the New York Times, have realized that there's a better way to get power.
00:31:22.000You see, I remember growing up that whenever there was a mass shooting, Democrats immediately went to gun control arguments instantaneously.
00:31:31.000Now they realize there's something that sells papers better and is able to get public support, and that is the race war that they want to see happen in America.
00:31:40.000Remember, the critical race theorist Damon Young, who says whiteness is a pandemic, and all the education of our children, they are focused on making America more racist, caring more about people's skin.
00:31:58.000And so the front page of the New York Times says rampage in Georgia deepens fears of rising anti-Asian hatred in the United States.
00:32:07.000So Trevor Noah, who's a very irresponsible person, and he's just not funny.
00:32:49.000He was profiled for his Asian American race by a black man.
00:32:55.000Do you know that most of the anti-Asian American hatred in the country has been black on Asian American, almost all of it?
00:33:02.000So this is the latest in the narrative that they're trying to push.
00:33:06.000But the vast majority of all these conflicts, according to The Guardian, according to the BBC, according to The Washington Post, has been black on Asian American.
00:33:14.000But Trevor Noah, that doesn't fit your narrative, does it?
00:33:17.000And by the way, there is no evidence, and there might be evidence that presents itself, but there is no evidence to show that this was racially motivated.
00:33:26.000One more tape of Trevor Noah making a fool of himself, Cut 80.
00:33:29.000Why are people so invested in solving the symptoms instead of the cause?
00:33:35.000America does this time and time again.
00:33:38.000A country that wants to fight the symptoms and not the underlying conditions that cause those symptoms to take effect.
00:34:16.000The suspect did take responsibility for the shootings.
00:34:20.000He stood that early on once we began the interviews with him.
00:34:25.000He claims that these, and as the chief said, this is still early, but he does claim that it was not racially motivated.
00:34:32.000He apparently has an issue, what he considers a sex eviction, and sees these locations as something that allows him to go to these places.
00:34:43.000And it's a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate.
00:34:46.000So the activist media is quick to hyper-racialize all of this, yet they were silent when a 75-year-old Asian man, part of this trend of anti-Asian violence, was murdered in Oakland's Chinatown by a black man.
00:35:01.000Now, the activist media didn't hyperly racialize that, but they're quick to racialize this.
00:35:09.000This Asian man was killed by Keonti Bailey.
00:35:15.000And yet there was complete and total silence.
00:35:25.000Murder must be met with the full force of the American legal system.
00:35:30.000But the moment that the people that are tasked with communicating to you about what is happening start to act as if this is simply and solely an act of white supremacy, like Trevor Noah does or the New York Times does, they are lying to you.
00:35:47.000And it will only further bring us into the race war that they so desire.
00:35:53.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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