The Charlie Kirk Show - August 18, 2022


Critical Theory, White Guilt, and the Racism of Wokeness


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In this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, Charlie talks about the fallout from the FBI raid on Mar-A-Largo, and the impact it has on the political landscape, including the mid-term elections.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody. 0.78
00:00:00.000 Today in the Charlie Kirk show, white teachers being fired and black teachers being promoted. 0.78
00:00:05.000 What is critical theory? 0.77
00:00:06.000 We do a little bit of a refresher on critical race theory.
00:00:09.000 And then we talk about how this applies to today via Sam Harris.
00:00:14.000 The high priest or the archbishop of atheism has something remarkable to say.
00:00:19.000 I know some atheists that are nice people, but if we go to atheists for moral guidance, this is what you're going to get.
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00:00:53.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:54.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:56.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
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00:01:03.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:01:04.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:01:05.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:14.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:01:37.000 I'm going to start here together just kind of talking about the fallout politically from the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
00:01:45.000 And then I'm going to go into some cultural stories that are very important.
00:01:48.000 We've been very focused on politics the last couple weeks.
00:01:51.000 We can't keep our eye off the philosophy, the ideology, and the idea pathogens that continue to infect our entire society, including how these ideas manifest themselves into policy.
00:02:05.000 They're not just bad ideas if you were to discuss them in a classroom, but they are now being implemented as actual policy decisions.
00:02:14.000 They flow downstream from college campuses.
00:02:16.000 One of the reasons why I wrote my book, The College Scam, where I talk about how these ideas on these universities don't just stay there.
00:02:25.000 It's as if saying that, well, you know, gain of function research only stays at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:02:31.000 That is nonsense.
00:02:32.000 Sometimes those viruses can be released across the entire world and change your planet.
00:02:37.000 But first, a new YouGov poll is demonstrating the following.
00:02:42.000 And I saw this at our turning point action event this last Sunday with Carrie Lake, Blake Masters, and Governor DeSantis.
00:02:49.000 Republican enthusiasm has increased by five points after the FBI raid.
00:02:57.000 Compared to 2018, the question is, are you more enthusiastic or less enthusiastic about voting in this year's election?
00:03:04.000 More enthusiastic, Republicans, plus 10 in 2018.
00:03:09.000 I'm sorry, this is back in August 7th.
00:03:12.000 Now August 16th, a plus 15 enthusiasm gap, and I think it's only going to increase from there.
00:03:18.000 So we would like to thank the Federal Bureau of Investigation for giving a little bit of a stimulus to Republican enthusiasm.
00:03:26.000 And there's a reason for this.
00:03:28.000 I talk to a lot of people.
00:03:29.000 I get a lot of emails from you.
00:03:30.000 And we have a very sizable audience.
00:03:32.000 Praise God.
00:03:33.000 We're very blessed by that.
00:03:34.000 And a lot of emails we receive here, freedom at charliekirk.com, go like this.
00:03:38.000 Charlie, I do not like Donald Trump.
00:03:41.000 However, I'm 100% behind him now, and I'm going to support Republicans in the midterms up and down the ballots because of the raid at Mar-a-Lago.
00:03:51.000 It has been a massive shot in the arm for Republicans.
00:03:55.000 And will Republicans realize why?
00:03:57.000 Or will the establishment Republicans just kind of chokehold, you could say, or thwart or stunt this political improvement of political conditions that we're now seeing?
00:04:12.000 The answer is probably yes.
00:04:13.000 Why is this happening?
00:04:15.000 Because at the moment, right now, many normal everyday Americans feel as if not just their own freedoms and liberties are coming out of grass.
00:04:27.000 They see the IRS adding 87,000 new IRS agents.
00:04:31.000 They see what's happening at the top levels of our government.
00:04:34.000 But when they see someone who is as relentlessly attacked as Donald Trump, similarly as other political figures on the right, like Bannon and many others, in contrast with Liz Cheney, they say, I want to support the person that is being persecuted by the government.
00:04:49.000 You see, conservatives right now are actually seeing a rallying cry of a corrupt government that is attacking our entire movement.
00:04:59.000 This is something that the ruling class does not understand.
00:05:03.000 The ruling class thinks that they are able to demoralize us when in reality the opposite happens.
00:05:09.000 We talked about this all the way back in January of 2021, right after Biden was inaugurated.
00:05:14.000 You can go look at my speech with the great Jack Hibbs.
00:05:16.000 I said, my prediction is that we grow stronger the more they throw at us, that we remain anti-fragile despite the winds of opposition.
00:05:25.000 And the polling shows this with a 15-point enthusiasm advantage.
00:05:29.000 However, we're still being outspent, we're being outraged, and we have some terrible candidates potentially that are going to be slated.
00:05:34.000 We have some great candidates like JD Vance and Blake Masters, Kerry Lake, and others.
00:05:38.000 But the work still has to happen.
00:05:39.000 But understand this: the more they throw at us, the stronger our movement becomes.
00:05:45.000 We've been so focused on politics the last couple of weeks.
00:05:48.000 It's helpful to understand the philosophy, the ideology, and the idea pathogens that are infecting our entire society.
00:05:56.000 Where do they come from?
00:05:57.000 What are we really fighting here?
00:06:00.000 And we do this every so often, where we kind of take a step back and we take a piece of information in a news story and then we broaden it and we extrapolate it and we apply it to your life.
00:06:11.000 There's one story I've been wanting to hit for the last couple days, but there's just been so much breaking news, but it's a perfect time right now.
00:06:17.000 And this is not an isolated story.
00:06:21.000 This is spreading all across the country.
00:06:22.000 Now, when I say this, the media, they lose their mind when I say the following.
00:06:28.000 But every single person in the audience, you need to listen carefully about this.
00:06:32.000 Because if you so happen to have white kids or grandkids, they are entering a country where the policies and the rules very well could be rigged against them.
00:06:44.000 Minneapolis public schools defends policy to prioritize retaining educators of color when determining layoffs. 0.98
00:06:52.000 Now, that is the nice wording. 0.76
00:06:53.000 This is the puff piece way of describing what this is.
00:06:57.000 This is ABC News.
00:06:58.000 So I'm starting with the nicest possible wording, how they try to brand it.
00:07:03.000 What is this really?
00:07:06.000 How about this one? 0.75
00:07:08.000 Minneapolis Teacher Union Plan will fire white teachers ahead of people of color.
00:07:17.000 There is a new policy that has been put in place for the Minneapolis School District.
00:07:17.000 That's right.
00:07:23.000 It is an agreement between the Minneapolis Teacher Union and the Minneapolis School District that says they will lay off teachers based on their skin color.
00:07:35.000 They'll do so to lay people off, to give priority to people of color, because they say it will remedy the effects of past discrimination.
00:07:44.000 Now, let me take a pause for a second here.
00:07:46.000 For many years, I spoke at Lincoln Reagan Day dinner events and tea party rallies and MAGA groups, and I would talk about how dangerous college campuses have become.
00:07:57.000 Not physically dangerous.
00:07:59.000 In fact, they're not.
00:08:00.000 That's always the argument they make is they say, oh, it's rape culture on college campuses. 1.00
00:08:04.000 No, they're dangerous because of the ideas they're producing and they're infecting them into a very gullible and naive generation and what that looks like when it starts to infect the rest of civil society.
00:08:18.000 Now, some people took me very seriously.
00:08:20.000 We're so thankful Turning Point USA has grown significantly and tremendously because of our warnings and because of our work and because of our impact, because of our educational focus.
00:08:30.000 However, I will say, a vast majority of people, when I tried to warn them what was coming next, did not believe me.
00:08:39.000 I remember I was once doing a small dinner in Aspen, Colorado, kind of where the ruling class of America go to wine and dine.
00:08:48.000 And I said that soon there will be an anti-white crusade that is infecting every major portion of American life, rooted in this ideology called critical race theory.
00:08:58.000 This was three, four years ago before CRT was well known.
00:09:01.000 And I remember a, let's just say a moderate Republican, a nice enough man, big Jeb Bush guy, said to me, Charlie, that is a conspiracy theory.
00:09:11.000 Stop watching Alex Jones.
00:09:14.000 That was his response.
00:09:15.000 And I told him about Michelle Foucault and Jacques Derrida and Derek Bell.
00:09:20.000 And I told him about Robin DiAngelo and white fragility and Iberam X. Kendi and the quote from Ibram X. Kendi where he says clearly that we need discrimination today to try and remedy discrimination of yesterday.
00:09:34.000 And he said, quote, that will never happen in America.
00:09:38.000 The smugness and the arrogance.
00:09:40.000 And again, I was four years younger and didn't quite have the patience for it.
00:09:46.000 So I got really heated and I got angry and I said, you do not realize that these people want to destroy everything.
00:09:54.000 They are a parasitic force on decent and civil society.
00:09:58.000 Their ideology is built on consuming the West.
00:10:05.000 That is what critical theory is.
00:10:07.000 And the conversation kind of ended and he said, okay, thanks for dinner or whatever, or thanks for the meal and kind of walked away.
00:10:13.000 Didn't want to hear it.
00:10:14.000 It was what we call a limiting belief.
00:10:18.000 A limiting belief is something where you just put the wall up and you say, well, if that's true, other things I believe could also not be true.
00:10:26.000 There's a lot of limiting beliefs happening right now.
00:10:28.000 People all of a sudden, with the gene-altering therapy that they call the vaccine, the money to Ukraine, the sinister nature of Joe Biden, the Hunter Biden story, the government being weaponized against Donald Trump.
00:10:43.000 There are all sorts of limiting beliefs where people all of a sudden go, what we call get red-pilled, but some people, they enjoy the comfort of their own self-told deception.
00:10:56.000 So what is critical race theory?
00:10:58.000 It is a framework of deconstructing the entire world.
00:11:02.000 It comes from critical theory, birthed by, of course, the you could call him the kind of pioneer of Western critical theory, Herbert Marcuse, who came from the Frankfurt School.
00:11:17.000 He had disciples such as Angela Davis and colleagues and counterparts like Foucault and Derrida, who believed clearly that we must get to the essence that there is no truth, there is no beauty, there is no meaning.
00:11:32.000 It is simply what you make of it.
00:11:34.000 It is the subjectivist's paradise.
00:11:38.000 All there is is power.
00:11:42.000 Oppressor versus oppressed.
00:11:44.000 Strong versus weak. 0.99
00:11:46.000 White versus black. 1.00
00:11:48.000 Now, these ideas seemed so stupid to many of you watching right now, you did not take them seriously. 0.99
00:11:54.000 I'm not trying to make you feel bad, but many people did not take them seriously. 0.97
00:11:57.000 Now, on the other side, many of you did take them seriously, and you deserve thanks for that.
00:12:01.000 But I'll be honest, I felt as if I, alongside James Lindsay and many others, were screaming in the wilderness trying to warn people.
00:12:09.000 And it wasn't taken nearly with the same sort of consideration that Vladimir Putin invading Ukraine.
00:12:16.000 Let me tell you right now, critical race theory is a much greater threat to America than Vladimir Putin.
00:12:21.000 Period.
00:12:21.000 Critical theory is a much greater threat to America than the Kremlin.
00:12:25.000 I'm not saying the Kremlin's not a threat.
00:12:27.000 Critical theory will destroy everything you love.
00:12:29.000 It'll destroy your church.
00:12:31.000 It'll destroy your school.
00:12:32.000 It'll destroy your local community.
00:12:33.000 It'll destroy your kid. 0.90
00:12:36.000 This is now policy.
00:12:37.000 This is not some sort of paper where I'm saying, wow, look at the stuff they're publishing at the University of Minnesota.
00:12:43.000 Or, wow, look at this tweet by a professor.
00:12:45.000 It has now gone from the abstraction, from the ideas of the clouds, into something that is now applied in everyday life.
00:12:55.000 The Minneapolis School District has now defended its upcoming contract that promotes laying off white teachers over teachers of color.
00:13:05.000 Regardless of seniority, regardless of skill, regardless of how good of a teacher they are, regardless of their educational background, we will simply now lay off teachers based on the melanin content in their skin.
00:13:22.000 That is the policy now with the Minneapolis public schools, which is remarkable to me, and because it can only be explained in one way.
00:13:31.000 And again, the media hates it when I say this.
00:13:33.000 Oh, I'm going to get written up everywhere. 0.60
00:13:35.000 White guilt. 0.99
00:13:37.000 White guilt is one of the most perverse, self-hating, insidious ideologies or belief systems. 0.97
00:13:46.000 Because Minneapolis, Minnesota is a predominantly white state, and they're doing this to themselves. 0.96
00:13:53.000 This is what happens when people don't have religion or spirituality. 0.99
00:13:56.000 I start doing all sorts of weird things to themselves.
00:13:59.000 They have no way to atone.
00:14:01.000 They have no way to repent.
00:14:02.000 They have no relationship with the Creator. 0.59
00:14:04.000 So the way that they go atone for their sins is they start beating themselves in the back and they say, well, my skin color must be something wrong.
00:14:12.000 Go ahead, black person, have the job and I won't, as some sort of strange, quasi-career suicidal sacrifice that kind of has religious undertones.
00:14:26.000 The new contract says that they must, if they're going to lay teachers off, they must prioritize teachers who are a member of a population underrepresented. 0.89
00:14:40.000 The media doesn't like when I say this, but how on earth is this story right here not a deliberate anti-white campaign?
00:14:50.000 Is that too much to say? 0.61
00:14:52.000 If you have white kids or white grandkids, you better get into action here. 0.98
00:14:58.000 This is wrong. 0.93
00:14:58.000 It would be wrong if it was anti-black or anti-Hispanic. 0.93
00:15:01.000 We do not want the emphasis on color.
00:15:04.000 It does not matter to us.
00:15:05.000 But Minneapolis School District is saying that color matters more than character, matters more than expertise, matters more than all of it.
00:15:14.000 Minneapolis School District.
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00:16:27.000 Just to remind ourselves, what is critical theory?
00:16:29.000 And this is why sending your kids to college, you must be very careful.
00:16:34.000 I know a lot of parents right now watching this are probably getting their kid all packed up or they might be listening to this program driving to school.
00:16:40.000 Be very careful.
00:16:41.000 These ideas, I believe, some of them I say outrightly, they are demonic.
00:16:48.000 They are incredibly persuasive.
00:16:52.000 They're compelling to a naive young person, to student, and they fester and they germinate against everything that has made Western civilization beautiful and worthy of appreciation.
00:17:06.000 So critical theory believes in the following.
00:17:08.000 James Lindsay's done a phenomenal job with this on his website, newdiscourses.com.
00:17:13.000 Critical race theory believes racism is present in every aspect of life, every relationship, and every interaction.
00:17:20.000 They believe in interest convergence, which means white people only give black people opportunities and freedoms when it is also in their interests.
00:17:29.000 Critical race theory is against free societies.
00:17:33.000 Now, we could go into Marxism and what Karl Marx believed, but there is a very important takeaway here.
00:17:41.000 CRT and this idea of hiring black teachers over white teachers and laying off white teachers, it is a deliberate and focused attempt to destroy civil and free society.
00:17:56.000 Critical race theory only treats race issues as socially constructed groups.
00:18:01.000 There are no individuals in critical race theory.
00:18:04.000 This is very important.
00:18:07.000 It's not that Susie, who is a white person, might be a good teacher and Sally, who's a black person, might be a good teacher.
00:18:14.000 No, it's what is their skin color is their defining characteristic. 0.84
00:18:18.000 There's no individuality.
00:18:20.000 It is what commune do you have a card that you are a member of.
00:18:20.000 It is group.
00:18:26.000 Critical race theory believes science, reason, and evidence are a white way of knowing, and that storytelling and lived experience are a black alternative. 0.58
00:18:39.000 Delgado and Stefanik, who wrote intro to critical race theory, said that normal science is part of the everyday ordinary racism of our societies.
00:18:51.000 Now, you might say, oh, Charlie, come on, that's a bridge too far.
00:18:55.000 That's not really what's happening here.
00:18:57.000 Let me give you an example here.
00:19:02.000 And this is an extraordinary thing.
00:19:04.000 I'm just pulling up this story here.
00:19:07.000 Also, in the Minneapolis public schools, a lot of this happening in Minneapolis because of white guilt.
00:19:12.000 When you have a non-religious majority population that is told to hate themselves, all sorts of wacky stuff starts to happen.
00:19:22.000 Minneapolis School District pours millions into woke math, even as student scores plummet.
00:19:28.000 Minneapolis School District is spending millions of dollars to racially diversify elementary school math lessons as student proficiency scores plummet.
00:19:38.000 Minneapolis public schools will be spending more than $2 million to incorporate ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity in the K through 5 math curriculum.
00:19:48.000 The new curriculum, which will be implemented in the fall, reflects the lived experiences of our Minneapolis students, develops positive math identity.
00:19:59.000 Minneapolis is not the first school district to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives over academics, the Free Beacon rights.
00:20:06.000 Public schools in Montgomery, Maryland in July amended their fourth and fifth grade social studies curriculum to include social justice standards.
00:20:15.000 Seattle has spent $5 million on DEI initiatives.
00:20:20.000 This is only going to accelerate, everybody.
00:20:23.000 It's going to get into every school district across the country.
00:20:25.000 If we don't take our kids out of these schools, take over these school boards, it's going to accelerate at a rapid pace.
00:20:34.000 They don't believe in math.
00:20:36.000 They think math is racist.
00:20:41.000 Critical race theory rejects all potential alternatives like colorblindness, and they say they are forms of racism.
00:20:50.000 Delgado wrote that, quote, colorblindness or formal conceptions of equality expressed in rules that insist only on treatment that in the same across the board can thus remedy as the most blatant forms of discrimination.
00:21:03.000 So if you are colorblind, you're actually racist.
00:21:07.000 Critical race theory acts like anyone who disagrees with it must do so for racist and white supremacist reasons, even if the people disagreeing are black.
00:21:18.000 And finally, this is the most important point that James Lindsay writes on News Discourses.
00:21:23.000 Critical race theory will never be satisfied.
00:21:28.000 In this ABC News article where they're covering what's happening in Minneapolis, one of the lawyers who says what's happening of trying to fire white teachers and hire black ones is unconstitutionally said, well, it's a good goal to try to get the teacher body more diverse.
00:21:43.000 No, there's no satisfying it.
00:21:45.000 There is no middle ground.
00:21:46.000 They want to take over everything.
00:21:48.000 You cannot negotiate with the virus.
00:21:51.000 You can't say, well, virus, please stop infecting it.
00:21:54.000 You must destroy it.
00:21:55.000 You must inoculate yourself to it.
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00:24:02.000 Something I tell people is that you must be open.
00:24:05.000 You must be open to learning and understanding that some of your limiting beliefs need to be challenged.
00:24:12.000 I know that was certainly the case for me.
00:24:14.000 At times you have these beliefs, say, oh, there's no way that could be true.
00:24:17.000 There's no way that could be true.
00:24:19.000 Is that a creation of your own comfort?
00:24:21.000 Or do you really have a willingness to learn and to challenge and to explore truth?
00:24:27.000 Truth can be very discomforting at times.
00:24:30.000 It could be very uneasy at the beginning.
00:24:33.000 Eventually, truth is liberating.
00:24:35.000 It is freeing.
00:24:36.000 It brings you joy.
00:24:37.000 But I know a lot of people that would much rather live in the misery of their own discomfort, of their own lies that are created by discomfort.
00:24:47.000 They say, I don't know if I want to hear that.
00:24:49.000 They just kind of tune out.
00:24:51.000 And look, whether we're talking about 87,000 new IRS agents, we're talking about critical race theory.
00:24:57.000 We're talking about the Minneapolis public schools that are saying that white teachers get laid off and black teachers get to keep their jobs, inflation, they all have something in common. 0.59
00:25:08.000 They are existential threats to our normal Western American way of life.
00:25:16.000 It's an existential threat to the Constitution, an existential threat to civilization.
00:25:21.000 All of them.
00:25:22.000 And that is the attempt of them to encroach and to invade and to deteriorate.
00:25:29.000 Pedro Gonzalez, a frequent guest on our program, joined Tucker Carlson last evening.
00:25:34.000 Play Cut 87.
00:25:36.000 The Minneapolis Public Schools and Local Teachers Union have recently instituted a new policy in which when it comes to downsizing and layoffs, the rule is white teachers must be laid off before any teacher of color.
00:25:51.000 In other words, they've codified racial discrimination against whites in real life, not in fiction.
00:25:57.000 In an age we talk a whole lot about discrimination and hate speech, we've actually formally instituted it in the United States against the group who we blame for this stuff, and that is obviously white people.
00:26:12.000 These ideas must be confronted.
00:26:15.000 They must be debunked.
00:26:17.000 They must be taken seriously.
00:26:19.000 It's very easy to say, oh, that's just some academic theory.
00:26:23.000 I've said this for a while, but of course it does not happen because Republicans don't have the backbone or the spine.
00:26:30.000 Why is it that North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky doesn't have a Republican governor, but these other states, why are they still funding via taxpayer dollars the humanities at these universities?
00:26:46.000 Universities.
00:26:46.000 What is the explanation, Republican state legislatures or governor?
00:26:50.000 You could fund the engineering. 0.97
00:26:52.000 Why are you still funding these very ideas that then manifest into we can lay off white teachers and hire black teachers? 0.98
00:27:02.000 Now, as we talk about the existential threats to our civilization, our republic, I want to focus in on a piece of tape that has just emerged from a man that if you have your child in high school or in college, 0.96
00:27:18.000 or if you allow your child to be unattended, this person will have more metaphysical, philosophical, and religious contribution to give to your child than a pastor probably will.
00:27:34.000 This person is an atheist.
00:27:36.000 He is not just a normal atheist.
00:27:38.000 You could call him the high priest of smug atheism.
00:27:42.000 He wrote a book called The Moral Landscape.
00:27:46.000 He's supposed to be very well respected in atheist circles.
00:27:49.000 He did entire speeches and debates with Jordan Peterson.
00:27:53.000 He's a very, very smart person.
00:27:55.000 He is well respected as kind of the person that charts the way forward for how to be moral and still be an atheist.
00:28:03.000 He defines morality as the following: morality, in his view, are the principles of behavior that allow people to flourish.
00:28:13.000 That is so wrong.
00:28:16.000 That is so wrong.
00:28:18.000 The idea of morality being behavior that allows people to flourish as if flourishing is the only goal of humanity, not love, not grace, not mercy, not atonement, not glory to the creator, not reflection, not reflection, not peace, not contribution or agape love.
00:28:39.000 No, simply just flourishing.
00:28:42.000 You see, Sam Harris, who is very well respected on the left, when he talks, you must realize and recognize what you're dealing with here.
00:28:49.000 This is the left.
00:28:50.000 When people say, well, we're dealing with good people on the left.
00:28:53.000 No, we're not. 0.95
00:28:54.000 We're dealing with amoral, a-religious people that have demented and twisted morality. 1.00
00:29:02.000 Now, I'm not saying all atheists have that. 1.00
00:29:04.000 I'm saying that if an atheist has good morality, they didn't get it from atheism.
00:29:08.000 They got it from some Judeo-Christian baseline.
00:29:13.000 So Sam Harris comes out and he starts talking about the Hunter Biden laptop story.
00:29:19.000 Now, Sam Harris, again, used to be this very interesting guy.
00:29:22.000 I used to watch him.
00:29:23.000 I used to find him compelling.
00:29:24.000 There was a great debate with him and William Lane Craig, and Sam Harris got completely and totally defeated.
00:29:30.000 But I find him to be of a high intellect.
00:29:34.000 And I used to think he actually had a good moral character.
00:29:37.000 Boy, was I wrong.
00:29:39.000 Sam Harris, who, again, drives forward a lot of the moral teaching of the a religious left, has decided to come out and start talking about the Hunter Biden laptop story.
00:29:51.000 We are dealing with a group of people that are bragging that they lied and they stole and they cheated away the 2020 election.
00:30:00.000 This is Sam Harris talking about why he supported censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story because it was a conspiracy to help Biden win.
00:30:11.000 This is consequentialism at its very worst.
00:30:15.000 You could call it Machiavellianism, ends justify the means.
00:30:19.000 No, this is just the left.
00:30:21.000 Play cut 79.
00:30:23.000 Now, that doesn't answer the people who say it's still completely unfair to not have looked at the laptop in a timely way and to have shut down the New York Post's Twitter account.
00:30:35.000 That's just a conspiracy.
00:30:36.000 That's a left-wing conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump.
00:30:41.000 Absolutely, it was.
00:30:42.000 Absolutely.
00:30:43.000 Right.
00:30:44.000 But I think it was warranted.
00:30:45.000 He thinks it was warranted.
00:30:47.000 That you don't have a voice, that people don't get to know about Hunter Biden.
00:30:50.000 But he continues.
00:30:51.000 Now, I want to re-emphasize this.
00:30:53.000 Sam Harris, if you have a child under the age of 30 and they spend any time on YouTube and they start talking about atheism or agnosticism, chances are they were intercepted by the snares of Sam Harris.
00:31:06.000 Now, look, deep down, Sam Harris is probably a very miserable person because he doesn't believe that there is any objective beauty or goodness or truth or any sort of metaphysical promise.
00:31:15.000 There is no heaven.
00:31:16.000 There's no eternity.
00:31:17.000 There's no creator.
00:31:18.000 This is all just a combination of a mistake.
00:31:21.000 To believe this is all a mistake.
00:31:22.000 I would be very angry too.
00:31:24.000 So, therefore, he has to try to find ways to connect to meaning and to purpose.
00:31:31.000 How does he do that?
00:31:33.000 Well, he continues by saying, again, this is the archbishop of the American left.
00:31:38.000 If you were to say, wow, who is he the high priest of?
00:31:41.000 Who is he the cardinal of?
00:31:42.000 Who is he kind of the ecclesiastical leader of?
00:31:46.000 A smug Washington Post reporter that thinks they know what they're talking about has been influenced by him.
00:31:53.000 He is the most influential atheist under the age of 50.
00:31:58.000 Is that fair to say, Connor?
00:31:59.000 Very influential because he has a very soft and calming demeanor and phenomenal vocabulary.
00:32:07.000 Cut 78.
00:32:09.000 This is how most people on the left view our fight.
00:32:14.000 Play Cut 78.
00:32:16.000 Hunter Biden, at that point, Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement.
00:32:22.000 I would not have cared.
00:32:23.000 Whatever the scope of Joe Biden's corruption is, like if we could just go down that rabbit hole endlessly and understand that he's getting kickbacks from Hunter Biden's deals in Ukraine or wherever else, right?
00:32:35.000 Or China.
00:32:37.000 It is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in.
00:32:44.000 Right?
00:32:44.000 Trump University as a story is worse than anything that could be in Hunter Biden's laptop.
00:32:51.000 Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement, and I would not have cared.
00:32:58.000 Again, this is not important about what is being said.
00:33:01.000 We know a lot of the left believes this.
00:33:03.000 It's important of who is saying this.
00:33:05.000 This guy is supposed to be this fair and decent moral referee.
00:33:10.000 That's what many young people believe, by the way, when you send them to a university campus.
00:33:15.000 That is the production.
00:33:17.000 That is the output of most secular universities.
00:33:20.000 When there is no God, then morality is nothing more than an opinion.
00:33:26.000 How do you know a line is crooked if you do not have a straight line to compare it to?
00:33:34.000 Someone just emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:33:38.000 Charlie is Sam Harris the Billy Graham of the godless.
00:33:41.000 That's a great way to put it. 1.00
00:33:44.000 He's an evangelistic type voice for the atheists.
00:33:49.000 And what does he believe?
00:33:50.000 It doesn't matter what the truth is.
00:33:52.000 We must do whatever it takes to defeat Donald Trump and the conservatives on the right.
00:33:59.000 Now, some of you might be saying, Charlie, why am I, I don't care about Sam Harris and all this?
00:34:03.000 This is why the people at the FBI think precisely with how Sam Harris just said: I know what I am doing is wrong, and I don't care because Donald Trump is awful.
00:34:19.000 I know I should not be doing this, but the end justified the means because I've been told that Trump University, where did that come from?
00:34:30.000 Trump University?
00:34:33.000 We're dealing with a group of people that are now openly admitting that they will do whatever necessary, lie, steal, cheat, cover for criminals, cut in line, create mass disinformation campaigns, which is what he was defending, Sam Harris was defending, all to make sure that you don't have a voice.
00:34:53.000 That's what's so sinister about what Sam Harris said.
00:34:55.000 He wasn't even just saying it was about defeating Donald Trump.
00:34:57.000 It was about lying to the public so that you could not make an informed decision.
00:35:04.000 That Donald Trump was so evil that we must make sure people do not have the proper information.
00:35:11.000 This is how dictators talk. 0.88
00:35:15.000 Not a shock when all of a sudden America starts getting all their moral advice from atheists. 0.94
00:35:20.000 Joni says, Charlie, I listen to Sam Harris once in a while.
00:35:23.000 They're interesting, but help me understand, please.
00:35:25.000 What corruption are they referring to with Donald Trump?
00:35:27.000 What has he really done?
00:35:28.000 None of it.
00:35:29.000 It's all smokescreen.
00:35:30.000 Sam Harris can't defend it.
00:35:32.000 Sam Harris is just a gut reaction: Trump University.
00:35:35.000 Really?
00:35:36.000 Trump University.
00:35:38.000 Right.
00:35:39.000 Chuck emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:42.000 Sam and his cult are forward-pushing without value, God's nature and the nature of God.
00:35:48.000 You must understand, though, that if you want to see why the left acts the way they do, go look at their influencers.
00:35:54.000 Sam Harris is an influencer of influencers.
00:35:57.000 He's very, very influential.
00:35:59.000 Sam Harris is linked to progressivism and linked to all these ideas of trying to usher in a man-made equivalent of heaven on earth that we could perfect man.
00:36:12.000 If you do not have the humility under the belief in a divine, then you yourself try to become that very thing that we call God.
00:36:23.000 And boy, did the 20th century teach us that's a very bad idea.
00:36:29.000 There's a lot of anxiety and unease right now around the new IRS agents.
00:36:34.000 And we still get some emails here and there.
00:36:36.000 Charlie, stop.
00:36:36.000 We just got one recently.
00:36:38.000 Larry that says, stop complaining about the IRS.
00:36:43.000 Just pay your taxes and be a good citizen.
00:36:47.000 I was struck by this piece of tape here: Cut 80, Texas cattle ranchers on being audited by the IRS.
00:36:54.000 If they want to get to you, they will come with an audit and they will nitpick your entire life apart.
00:37:00.000 By the way, every one of you watching this program, if you own a business, if you've given political contributions, they will come for you.
00:37:06.000 Don't be naive, everybody. 1.00
00:37:07.000 You think this government won't try to punish the non-believers? 1.00
00:37:12.000 Play cut 80. 1.00
00:37:13.000 It was very invasive.
00:37:15.000 It was very, you feel very attacked because that guy wanted to go back and say, I got her.
00:37:22.000 And they want to get you.
00:37:24.000 If they're coming after you for an audit, they don't want to see your receipt and go, oh, okay, you're good.
00:37:29.000 No, they're going to nitpick your life apart.
00:37:31.000 And that's not what the American dream is for self-employment, small business.
00:37:39.000 I mean, that's just a kick in the teeth to do that to people living the American dream.
00:37:45.000 We received thousands of emails from you, thousands of heartbreaking stories.
00:37:52.000 Some of you lost everything.
00:37:53.000 Some of you had to sue the IRS and you won and you got none of your damages repaid.
00:37:59.000 You see, when you have to defend yourself in an audit, who pays for your legal fees?
00:38:02.000 Who pays for the accountant? 0.99
00:38:04.000 And especially those of you that are running small businesses on tight margins, they're going to come after you, especially.
00:38:10.000 What is a deduction?
00:38:12.000 It depends.
00:38:13.000 It depends on your politics.
00:38:15.000 It depends on your likelihood to be obedient to the regime.
00:38:22.000 Governor DeSantis says hiring 87,000 new IRS agents is a middle finger to Americans.
00:38:27.000 Play cut 77.
00:38:30.000 And I think it was basically just a middle finger to the American public that this is what they think of you.
00:38:36.000 All these problems we have to deal with.
00:38:38.000 And they think the way is to do 87,000 IRS agents.
00:38:42.000 There's going to be more people in the IRS than like a lot of these other agencies combined now.
00:38:48.000 You know, they're not putting very much might down at the border.
00:38:51.000 I can tell you that right now.
00:38:52.000 But they want to be able to do it and unleash them on American taxpayers. 0.86
00:38:58.000 The priority of this regime, and it will not change, is to terrorize, punish, and bully us, the citizens, while giving illegal aliens luxury hotels in downtown New York City. 0.92
00:39:13.000 They are prioritizing the foreigner over the citizen.
00:39:16.000 Aristotle warned against this. 0.96
00:39:19.000 They're prioritizing the cheater or the looter over the taxpayer.
00:39:26.000 If you go smash and grab in downtown San Francisco $500, you're not going to have the law or the book thrown at you.
00:39:35.000 Basically, it's unenforceable.
00:39:37.000 But if you run a small business and you take a $500 deduction that you shouldn't take, you might be facing an IRS audit of $20,000, $30,000, $40,000.
00:39:50.000 You have to defend yourself.
00:39:52.000 But this is all intentional.
00:39:53.000 This is not a mistake.
00:39:54.000 Listen to Sam Harris.
00:39:56.000 Read their ideology.
00:39:57.000 Read their books.
00:39:58.000 Read the literature.
00:40:00.000 If you follow the law, you guys are the problem.
00:40:07.000 If you follow the rules, you are the problem.
00:40:10.000 Why would that be the case?
00:40:12.000 Why would it be that rule followers and law followers are the problem?
00:40:18.000 It's because they don't want the law as it is.
00:40:24.000 You see, this idea of the law being blind as being the equal scales of justice, that makes it harder for a tyrant to come in and to run your life.
00:40:36.000 Now, I know a lot of you have asked us, and you've emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com, what do these people want?
00:40:42.000 What do these people want?
00:40:43.000 That's why I loved the Sam Harris clip.
00:40:45.000 Sam Harris does not believe in heaven or eternity.
00:40:48.000 He doesn't believe in a creator.
00:40:50.000 He doesn't believe in a spiritual dimension.
00:40:53.000 All he has is this short gasp of power.
00:40:58.000 All he has is to try to hold on to being in control.
00:41:02.000 So that's where he says, yeah, I don't care if Hunter Biden had corpses of children in his basement.
00:41:07.000 For him, he doesn't care because he doesn't have to answer to a creator.
00:41:10.000 He doesn't have to answer to a transcendent moral order.
00:41:14.000 The people running our country think exactly like that.
00:41:17.000 They want to be in control.
00:41:19.000 They want to be the philosopher kings because they don't think anything happens after this.
00:41:27.000 There's no rhythm.
00:41:28.000 There's no harmony.
00:41:29.000 There is no creation. 0.99
00:41:32.000 Smug, arrogant, and self-righteous. 0.98
00:41:37.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody. 0.99
00:41:38.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:41:41.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:41:42.000 God bless.
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