The Charlie Kirk Show - DeSantis Breaks Disney and Biden's Crypto Surveillance State with Ben Weingarten

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00:02:04.000 I find myself leading again with Disney.

00:02:07.000 What on earth is happening at the Disney company?

00:02:09.000 It's getting worse.

00:02:10.000 It's not exactly a habit I want to get into to just keep on covering what is the inner politics of Disney, but it's worth it.

00:02:17.000 It's necessary.

00:02:18.000 We're going to spend some time on it.

00:02:19.000 Disney is one of the most valuable companies on the planet, $250 billion company.

00:02:24.000 They control, run, and operate the most influential amusement park where people come from all over the world and the country in a time they'll never forget to be able to ride roller coasters and go through amusement park and all that stuff.

00:02:40.000 And families love it.

00:02:41.000 And Disney World is an objectively well-run operation.

00:02:45.000 But now Disney is making some serious changes.

00:02:49.000 And it's all because of Ron DeSantis in a good way, by the way.

00:02:52.000 Ron DeSantis signed this bill in Florida, which was a parental rights bill, an anti-grooming bill that many of the activist groups are super concerned about that five-year-olds won't be able to learn about this stuff.

00:03:06.000 And Disney is over the top compensating for this.

00:03:11.000 I mean, it's so shockingly and stunningly.

00:03:14.000 It should be a last and final warning for every family out there and every parent out there.

00:03:21.000 You better stop your Disney Plus subscription.

00:03:24.000 You better stop your Hulu subscription.

00:03:26.000 This is not okay, what Disney is doing.

00:03:29.000 What exactly is Disney doing, you might ask?

00:03:33.000 Let's go through some examples, and then I'm going to play some tape here that came out, which is just so extraordinary.

00:03:38.000 So when you go to one of Disney's parks, Disneyland or Disney World, they will no longer use boys and girls at any park greetings to promote inclusivity because not everyone is a boy or girl and they don't want to alienate the trans people.

00:03:55.000 Disney, as a matter of policy, will now say they will no longer use boys and girls.

00:04:00.000 Quote, Disney parks are axing gendered language, such as boys and girls and ladies and gentlemen in their park greetings to promote gender inclusivity.

00:04:10.000 Disney's diversity and inclusion manager, Vivian Ware, was heard speaking about the changes in a video conference call recorded by Christopher Ruffo.

00:04:18.000 We'll get to that in a second.

00:04:19.000 We've provided training for all of our cast members in relation to that.

00:04:23.000 So now they know to say hello, everyone.

00:04:24.000 Or hello, friends, instead of hello, boys and girls.

00:04:28.000 You see, gender is tyrannical, according to Disney. 0.97

00:04:33.000 Breaking today, also, Disney has made an announcement, and they said by the end of this year, half of all of the characters in Disney movies will be lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or queer.

00:04:47.000 Half.

00:04:48.000 Now, of course, Disney is not an adult-driven company.

00:04:55.000 They do some adult programming, but the main profit center for Disney is content for three-year-olds to 13-year-olds.

00:05:07.000 And yet, Disney finds it appropriate that they want half of all their characters to be gay, bisexual, trans, half by the end of this year.

00:05:20.000 So there is a video obtained that shows how Disney really feels about you and feels about this situation.

00:05:28.000 Cut 48, Disney corporate president Carrie Burke says, quote, as the mother of one transgender child and one pansexual child, she supports many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories and wants them to be in leading roles.

00:05:44.000 Play cut 48.

00:05:46.000 I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually, one transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a leader.

00:06:00.000 And that was the thing that really got me because I have heard so much from so many of my colleagues over the course of the last couple of weeks.

00:06:08.000 We have many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories, and yet we don't have enough leads.

00:06:19.000 These people are so brainwashed.

00:06:20.000 How do these parents sleep at night, actually?

00:06:24.000 I don't even know if I live in the same civilization as these people.

00:06:27.000 Corporate president Carrie Burke, we need more leading roles of trans and LGBTQ characters.

00:06:35.000 Isn't it interesting how we went from gay marriage being the law of the land, which we thought would end this discussion?

00:06:43.000 Then we went to gender, which we thought would end the discussion, to now we're talking more about lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans issues than we even were during the time when gay marriage was not even legal.

00:06:56.000 Isn't that interesting how it works?

00:06:58.000 The more legislative wins the trans lobby gets, the more we actually end up talking about it.

00:07:04.000 Maybe it's because it's not about liberty or equality, but maybe it's about conformity.

00:07:10.000 Maybe it's about making you submit to their way of life.

00:07:15.000 Cut 49, this tape is circulating virally.

00:07:18.000 Christopher Ruffo obtained video from Inside Disney's all-hands meeting about the Florida parental rights bill, in which executive Latoya Raveno says her team has implemented a, quote, not at all secret gay agenda and is regularly adding queerness to children's programming.

00:07:35.000 Final warning, parents, if your child or grandchild is consuming Disney content, they will be the recipient of a not-at-all secret gay agenda. 0.81

00:07:45.000 Play Cut 49.

00:07:47.000 The showrunners are super welcoming.

00:07:48.000 Meredith Roberts and like the our leadership over there has been so welcoming to like my like not at all secret gay agenda.

00:07:57.000 And so all that like momentum that I felt like that sense of I don't have to be afraid to like let's have these two characters kiss.

00:08:06.000 Let's in the background this like I was just wherever I could just basically adding queerness to like the if you see anything queer the show brought them but like I just was like no one would stop me and no one was trying to stop me.

00:08:19.000 They called us bigots if we dared to say that there was a slippery slope that would accompany legalization.

00:08:27.000 But now this woman on this, she's an executive producer, I believe, within the Disney leadership is chuckling, saying, we need more queerness.

00:08:42.000 It's not a secret gay agenda. 0.85

00:08:44.000 We need children to be exposed to two dudes kissing each other at a very young age.

00:08:50.000 And what's so interesting is that it is tied to this entire conversation.

00:08:56.000 And it's this, it's Christopher Caldwell.

00:08:59.000 I mean, it's, I know I keep resorting back to it, but Christopher Caldwell really depicted the danger of having out of control liberation movements that are not anchored in legitimate grievance.

00:09:12.000 Christopher Caldwell in the book Age of Entitlement warned us that the trajectory that we are on is the very groups that allegedly want liberation will soon become the tyrants themselves.

00:09:24.000 In fact, it will happen almost immediately, almost overnight.

00:09:28.000 That once the groups are formed, it's not like all of a sudden the ACLU and the LGBT groups like disassemble, like, oh, we got gay marriage done.

00:09:37.000 Now we can just put our paperwork away.

00:09:39.000 No, it's an entire cottage industry of outrage and hysteria.

00:09:41.000 It gave them meaning and purpose.

00:09:43.000 And so now it's just, that's not about making gay marriage illegal.

00:09:46.000 It's legal in every single state.

00:09:48.000 That was always their big fight. 0.99

00:09:50.000 No, now it's about making your kids gay. 0.92

00:09:54.000 Why else would you want to have two dudes or two women kissing in a Disney film? 1.00

00:09:58.000 What is the agenda?

00:09:59.000 To expose them to it or to increase the ranks of the LGBTQ community? 0.74

00:10:04.000 What is the process? 0.91

00:10:06.000 People were gay before this sort of nonsense was happening. 0.99

00:10:11.000 So why exactly are you doing this? 0.90

00:10:14.000 They're like, well, we want to have four-year-olds that have homosexual attractions to know that they're not alone when they're watching movies.

00:10:23.000 Like, really?

00:10:24.000 A four-year-old?

00:10:26.000 Like, four-year-olds are eating dirt.

00:10:27.000 Like, I don't think they're exactly making very deep arguments about what they're sexually attracted to, but they want to do what every tyrant wants to do and every autocrat wants to do.

00:10:40.000 They want to obliterate the innocence of children.

00:10:42.000 And what is so scary about removing the innocence of children is that you can't get it back.

00:10:50.000 That's the moral claim of protecting children.

00:10:54.000 Is because once that line is crossed, there's no undoing it.

00:10:59.000 And the damage is done for the rest of the life for the child.

00:11:04.000 It's hard to believe that this is Disney.

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00:12:30.000 I don't think the Florida bill goes far enough.

00:12:32.000 I'm glad Ron DeSantis signed it into law.

00:12:34.000 I think it's terrific.

00:12:36.000 I don't think it went far enough.

00:12:38.000 I think it should go all the way up to high school.

00:12:39.000 I don't think children in public schools paid for by taxpayer dollars should be experiencing any of these topics.

00:12:46.000 I certainly didn't when I was in first, second, third, fourth, fifth grade.

00:12:50.000 And that's 10 years ago.

00:12:51.000 Well, it was like 15 years ago when I was in those grades.

00:12:54.000 I mean, this is a recent phenomenon.

00:12:57.000 I mean, you're in sixth grade and seventh grade still.

00:13:00.000 You know what the parents?

00:13:00.000 I mean, the teachers were so careful in a good way.

00:13:04.000 They said, just talk to your parents about that.

00:13:06.000 Talk to your parents about that.

00:13:07.000 Talk to your parents about that.

00:13:09.000 There were like really clear lines that were drawn where teachers have didn't cross them.

00:13:16.000 And they said, yeah, you know, I'm not comfortable talking about that.

00:13:19.000 Teachers would say that all the time because kids ask questions.

00:13:21.000 They're really inquisitive.

00:13:23.000 Now it's the opposite.

00:13:24.000 Now it's, no, no, no, don't talk to your parents about that.

00:13:26.000 Come to me, third grader.

00:13:30.000 And they want to create this kind of cultural echo chamber, if you will, where you see the two dudes kissing on Disney Plus. 0.81

00:13:40.000 Your teacher is talking about gay stuff all the time.

00:13:43.000 And by the time you're in fourth grade, all you're thinking about is like hypersexual activity and not even sexual activity that would be in kind of the quote-unquote heteronormative way, but in kind of a way that fourth graders wouldn't otherwise really be thinking about it.

00:14:01.000 And it goes even deeper.

00:14:02.000 These are like kindergarten kids they're going to.

00:14:05.000 Ron Perlman, whoever he is, I think he's Hellboy, right?

00:14:08.000 Is that right?

00:14:09.000 Some actor.

00:14:10.000 He's really into himself.

00:14:12.000 He attacked Ron DeSantis via Twitter, PlayCut 53.

00:14:15.000 Good morning, Governor DeSantis.

00:14:18.000 Ron here. 0.90

00:14:19.000 Don't say gay.

00:14:22.000 Don't say as the first two words in a sentence spoken by a political leader of a state in the United States of America.

00:14:34.000 Don't say. 1.00

00:14:36.000 Don't say, you Nazi pig. 1.00

00:14:40.000 Say First Amendment. 0.99

00:14:45.000 Read about it.

00:14:48.000 Then run for office. 1.00

00:14:50.000 You piece of shit. 1.00

00:14:52.000 Yeah, super sophisticated. 1.00

00:14:54.000 First Amendment.

00:14:55.000 That's an interesting argument that the left uses because they hate speech.

00:14:59.000 They obviously hate freedom of speech.

00:15:00.000 I'm banned from Twitter.

00:15:02.000 That's your example.

00:15:04.000 But what does he mean?

00:15:05.000 So should teachers be able to talk about whatever they want to talk about to kindergarteners?

00:15:10.000 Of course not.

00:15:10.000 That's what education is.

00:15:13.000 Education is not a public forum.

00:15:15.000 Education, and this is a very difficult thing for some people to grasp.

00:15:20.000 Education, primarily education of children under the age of 15, is the use of force.

00:15:27.000 I want to think about that.

00:15:29.000 Education is the use of force.

00:15:31.000 By definition, if you are an adult teaching a nine-year-old, you're in a position of power over that nine-year-old.

00:15:40.000 So, when you have a use of force, by definition, education should be rooted in things that are virtuous.

00:15:48.000 It is compelled speech.

00:15:51.000 By definition, you are not allowing anyone to express their opinion on any sort of thing they want to talk about at any time.

00:15:59.000 Free speech is a willing listener and a willing speaker.

00:16:03.000 Education is not.

00:16:04.000 You have a captive audience.

00:16:05.000 Now, we believe eight-year-olds should be a captive audience to learn how to spell, to learn how to do math, to learn the basics of science and biology.

00:16:13.000 Very basic things.

00:16:15.000 That kind of captive audience is ramped into this idea that kids are compelled to listen to their teachers.

00:16:22.000 This is why we have truancy laws.

00:16:23.000 We believe that compulsory attendance to school is generally a good thing.

00:16:28.000 But Ron Perlman's like, what about free speech?

00:16:30.000 Well, what about it?

00:16:32.000 Teachers have curriculum.

00:16:33.000 You just can't talk to five-year-olds about anything you want to talk about.

00:16:38.000 By the way, it would really be bad for them.

00:16:40.000 It would destroy the innocence of the children. 0.55

00:16:42.000 So, according to Ron Perlman and the kind of very sloppy ACLU style argument where all of a sudden they become the ambassadors of free speech, even though they hate free speech, the argument would quickly become: well, you don't want to restrict the gay teacher from telling a six-year-old all about the orgy that they went to while doing cocaine till 4 a.m.

00:17:07.000 Like, is that appropriate, Ron Perlman?

00:17:08.000 Yeah, it's free speech. 1.00

00:17:09.000 Actually, you're an idiot. 1.00

00:17:11.000 You have six-year-olds, they shouldn't be exposed to any of that stuff. 1.00

00:17:15.000 Teachers are engaging in the use of government power, not their own private speech.

00:17:20.000 They can tell you whatever they want when they get home.

00:17:21.000 You can go march in gay pride flag parades.

00:17:24.000 You can do whatever you want.

00:17:24.000 You can dance on your rooftop, but when you've got five or six or seven-year-olds and you're being paid by the state, actually, no, you don't have the ability to say whatever you want to say.

00:17:32.000 You're there to teach, which means to lead forth.

00:17:36.000 Education comes from the Latin word to lead forth.

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00:18:28.000 With us right now is Ben Whitgarten, who is a fellow at the Claremont Institute and also from Real Clear Investigations with a phenomenal news story about how the federal government via the Biden regime is putting together this crypto executive order.

00:18:43.000 This might be a little wonky for some people, but I want you to listen carefully because we know that there is a currency reset looming by the great reset crowd, and this all ties together with the erosion of our liberty.

00:18:53.000 Ben, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:18:55.000 Charlie, thanks so much for having me.

00:18:56.000 Really appreciate it.

00:18:57.000 All right.

00:18:58.000 Walk us through what is this executive order and how does this apply to most Americans, whether they own cryptocurrency or not?

00:19:05.000 This executive order holds the potential to create the linchpin of a social credit system with American characteristics.

00:19:16.000 What this order calls for, and it's important to note that the Biden administration writes in the text of the order: my administration places the highest urgency on research and development efforts into the potential design and deployment options of a United States CBDC, central bank digital currency.

00:19:36.000 That's one plank of the order.

00:19:38.000 Another plank of the order is that the Biden administration seeks to build a regulatory regime around all manner of digital assets, including cryptocurrencies.

00:19:47.000 So two things, regulating cryptocurrencies, which of course compete with the US dollar, and then creating a digital version of the US dollar.

00:19:57.000 And it mobilizes a whole slew of federal agencies to create a CBDC.

00:20:02.000 So we know what regulations of cryptocurrencies will do.

00:20:07.000 Obviously, it will make it more costly to transact in them.

00:20:11.000 It could potentially kill them.

00:20:13.000 And of course, the basis of cryptocurrencies at the outset was in large part to create a hedge against or an alternative to central bank created dollars because central banks, of course, do all sorts of things to manipulate their currencies, erode the value of the dollar in your pocket, monetize their debt.

00:20:34.000 Paper currencies, of course, allow governments to act like drunken sailors.

00:20:39.000 The CBDC is the antithesis basically of a cryptocurrency because it is the ultimate centralized central bank controlled currency, except because it's digital, it also creates the potential for one of the greatest surveillance tools possible in the history of mankind.

00:20:59.000 In addition to being able to digitally, with the snap of a finger, devalue the currency in your pocket, set it, program it so that it can expire at a certain point in time, and therefore, of course, manipulate economic behavior, and then potentially freeze or seize the assets in one's account, potentially on the basis of political ideology.

00:21:22.000 And this isn't just speculation.

00:21:24.000 China, communist China, is the largest world power to issue a CBDC, the electronic yuan.

00:21:32.000 And China has experimented with making dollars expire after a certain amount of months.

00:21:39.000 And of course, will integrate this into its social credit system where if you act in ways that fail to comply with whatever the regime is mandating, if you don't cross the street in the crosswalk, they can automatically fine you, take those funds out of your account.

00:21:54.000 That's like the most mundane example of the kind of tyranny that a CBDC could unleash.

00:22:00.000 So tell us how this plays into the world reserve currency situation and where does that stand in your opinion?

00:22:07.000 There's a lot of chatter that America might lose its status as the world reserve currency.

00:22:11.000 Where do you think that entire situation plays into right now?

00:22:16.000 And what you're talking about, by the way, just happened in Canada with empowering Trudeau and his tyrants to be able to seize cryptocurrency assets.

00:22:26.000 Walk us through both of those things.

00:22:28.000 Yeah, so let's start with the second one, which is one of the reasons why we should be more than skeptical of what's coming down the pike.

00:22:36.000 We've seen the Biden administration in league with other world leaders, of course, and the U.S. leading this effort, given its outsized influence over the global financial system, in no small part because we hold the world's reserve currency, essentially try to cancel Russia from the global financial and economic architecture, of course, with certain carve-outs, as we all know.

00:22:56.000 We saw, to your point, the Trudeau regime debank convoy participants, wrongthinkers there.

00:23:04.000 And the Biden administration, just weeks before they did so, urged the Trudeau regime to use all of its powers to counteract, to counter and fight those truckers.

00:23:15.000 And then if you look back to January 6th, as Tucker Carlson reported, the Biden administration, the Biden DOJ, went to Bank of America and asked to collect financial transaction information on several hundred, I guess, presumed guilty wrongthinkers who happened to be in or around Washington, D.C. on January 6th, hoovered that information up.

00:23:36.000 And of course, the bank gladly handed it over.

00:23:39.000 And last but not least, as I've been hammering home for since it came out last June, the Biden administration issued a national strategy for countering domestic terrorism, which codifies a war on wrongthink and calls for using the banking system to further pursue what it would call terrorists, but which, of course, obviously can classify conservatives writ large as being a terrorist threat.

00:24:02.000 All of the dangers are there in terms of the weaponization of a system like this.

00:24:07.000 And that's one of the reasons why this is such a pressing matter.

00:24:10.000 Now, on the issue of the reserve currency more broadly, the story, the history of the U.S. dollar is of a currency that was backed by gold and then a pseudo-gold backed currency.

00:24:24.000 And then as a result of reckless spending, debt and deficits, the paper dollar, which we've had since 1971.

00:24:31.000 The next step in the long slide from the most sound currency in the world to a currency just as potentially weak as any other, as the Zimbabwe currency was before it went belly up, is this next step to a digital currency that can, of course, be digitally printed out of thin air and manipulated at warp speed.

00:24:55.000 And in terms of the question of...

00:24:56.000 So no, I just want to interject really quick.

00:24:58.000 Sorry, finish that point really quick, Ben.

00:25:00.000 And just I want to ask you a specific follow-up.

00:25:02.000 So please go ahead.

00:25:03.000 Yeah.

00:25:03.000 So in terms of will we maintain the reserve currency, the U.S. dollar still dominates in terms of all currency out there.

00:25:11.000 A majority of it are U.S. dollars.

00:25:14.000 The oil is mainly traded in the U.S. dollar.

00:25:17.000 But adversarial regimes, particularly those who are faced with sanctions or otherwise cut off from the global financial architecture, of course, are trying to create alternatives.

00:25:26.000 They already transact in cryptocurrencies.

00:25:29.000 They would love to have an alternative currency of the U.S. dollar on which major natural resources might be traded, because ultimately it undermines our power because the dominance of the dollar is maybe the central pillar of the U.S. being the dominant world power.

00:25:45.000 So dollars still dominate in terms of what transactions are transacted in.

00:25:51.000 Our markets continue to be the most liquid and deepest in the world, but the dollar is only as strong at the end of the day as people believe the U.S. government is faithful to its principles and as strong as they believe our productive assets are.

00:26:08.000 That is ultimately what the dollar is backed by.

00:26:10.000 You know, full faith and credit of the U.S. government is one definition of it.

00:26:14.000 But in reality, it's confidence in our system and our ability to be a productive people.

00:26:20.000 And all of that is called into question, obviously, with the kinds of policies we're seeing right now.

00:26:24.000 Yeah, I mean, it's our entire currency is built on the fact that we have aircraft carriers and most countries don't actually, when it comes down to it, we have brute force and the faith and just kind of whether or not we're able to defend ourselves.

00:26:35.000 So really quickly, Ben, one thing I don't quite understand, though, and I understand enough about cryptocurrency to be dangerous more than kind of, I would say, a regular person, but by far from an expert, is how can the government actually get into the technology of crypto?

00:26:48.000 By definition, it's decentralized.

00:26:51.000 It's very hard to track.

00:26:53.000 But at the same time, it's transparent while also being anonymous.

00:26:56.000 Transparent because there's an open ledger, but anonymous because you don't actually know who's actually owning all the crypto in real time.

00:27:02.000 What is the government's plan to be able to actually seize it from a technological perspective?

00:27:08.000 Well, it would seem, and the Federal Reserve has put out a primer on this earlier in the year.

00:27:14.000 And it seems as if it's sort of been a choreographed effort leading up to this call for then all these various agencies to take six months and draft up a report on how we would go about executing this sort of CBDC.

00:27:26.000 So, the devil will be in those details, but I think it's clear that they see a technology that allows for at the speed of light all manner of transactions.

00:27:36.000 They view this as the natural off-ramp to a paper dollar that they have devalued.

00:27:41.000 And so, they can use the technologies in terms of electronic payment processing and potentially making the Federal Reserve the bank of all banks that we might have accounts with, or the big banks probably will not like that.

00:27:53.000 So, maybe the big banks will serve as a middleman between the Federal Reserve and us.

00:27:58.000 But it's a totally open question why we would expect there to be all of those benefits that exist when it comes to cryptocurrencies of the anonymity, the digital ledger, the decentralized nature of it.

00:28:10.000 This is the ultimate centralization, just leveraging the technology in terms of the electronic platforms that might be used and the surveillance of it.

00:28:20.000 Very important topic here, everybody.

00:28:23.000 All your money is going to be going digitally very soon.

00:28:26.000 And Ben Weitgarten has been on this.

00:28:28.000 Biden's crypto executive order portends dollar destruction, liberty erosion by Ben Weitgarten from newsweek.com.

00:28:34.000 Check it out, Ben.

00:28:35.000 Thank you so much.

00:28:36.000 Charlie, thanks for having me.

00:28:37.000 Really appreciate it.

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00:30:10.000 I'm going to get Douglas Murray back on the program.

00:30:13.000 Douglas Murray has one of the great lines to describe the American racial situation that I could think of.

00:30:19.000 He says, We have a supply and demand problem when it comes to racism in America.

00:30:24.000 An incredibly low supply, but a high demand to find racism because we have a media and legal apparatus that is willing.

00:30:31.000 In fact, they are, they have an appetite to jump on them at every corner.

00:30:35.000 Now, I've become very cynical when it comes to this topic, unfortunately, because every time I see a news headline about a racist threat or some sort of hate crime in the making, I immediately say, Are we sure that's not a hoax?

00:30:53.000 I'm not saying that hate crimes don't happen.

00:30:55.000 I'm not saying they're not real.

00:30:57.000 But I certainly go into kind of a default setting of like, are we sure this isn't Jesse Smellett 2.0?

00:31:04.000 Well, a story that was circulating online, if you kind of watch the BLM channels, which we try to kind of keep our eyes on, was something out of Sacramento, Sacramento County Sheriff's Office.

00:31:16.000 News release: Rosemont High School racist graffiti investigation update.

00:31:21.000 On Tuesday, the 22nd of March, at approximately 5:14, school officials at Rosemont High School, Sacramento City Unified School District in the county of Sacramento, reported racist graffiti that has been written in pencil on the wall of a hallway inside a campus building.

00:31:33.000 Two Rosemont High School students were observed writing a racial obscenity.

00:31:38.000 So it was released.

00:31:39.000 It was referred to detectives who worked closely with the school district and administrators. 0.98

00:31:43.000 And it turns out that the people that wrote the all N-word should die, terrible thing to write, was two black girls. 0.97

00:31:52.000 Two black girls who wanted attention to try to make themselves feel more important. 1.00

00:31:58.000 I don't know.

00:31:58.000 Unfortunately, this is a growing pattern and theme that we see across the country.

00:32:06.000 There's this website like fakehatecrimes.com, where it's just like this long list of how many.

00:32:11.000 And why is that?

00:32:12.000 If you have Jussie Smollett and you have the situation that we had at White Bear Lake High School, Minnesota, where I think her name was Severin, a phenomenal turning point USA chapter leader of ours, who was smeared and slandered for allegedly being a racist and sending these Instagram messages, even though she didn't send them, and it was black students who sent them, and the administration wouldn't even come out and say it because they said it was racist to say that the black kids were sending the messages, even though the white girl was the one that was a victim of the black people saying the message against the black people.

00:32:36.000 Same thing at this Sacramento school as well.

00:32:39.000 What does that say?

00:32:39.000 It's fakehatecrimes.org.

00:32:41.000 Thank you.

00:32:43.000 Who actually runs this website?

00:32:46.000 Fakehatecrimes.org.

00:32:47.000 Yeah.

00:32:48.000 Avery Severn.

00:32:49.000 That's right.

00:32:49.000 White Bear Lake High School in Minnesota.

00:32:52.000 I want to know who runs this website.

00:32:54.000 Fakehatecrimes.org.

00:32:56.000 You guys could check it out.

00:32:57.000 And this one's the first one.

00:32:58.000 It's number 460 in just the last couple of years.

00:33:01.000 How about this one right here?

00:33:02.000 A student at Wright State University who said who's a victim of a racist act no longer wants to be, wants this to be looked into, admits they did it themselves.

00:33:11.000 One after the other after the other.

00:33:12.000 What does that say for your society?

00:33:15.000 Well, it says that the incentive structure is completely upside down.

00:33:20.000 That there is more upside in being a victim of a race hoax than downside of trying to create a race hoax.

00:33:28.000 What's the downside?

00:33:29.000 You just say, oh, I was joking or I was just trying to show people what we experience on a day-to-day basis.

00:33:35.000 Oh, okay, that's fine.

00:33:37.000 That's good.

00:33:38.000 Instead of actually trying to live a virtuous and authentic life, what does it say for young black girls in Sacramento that feel as if they have to go right on the side of a wall, something so heinous and so terrible?

00:33:53.000 Here's a news flash for you.

00:33:55.000 If America was so racist, we wouldn't have 460 fake hate hoaxes in just the last couple of years.

00:34:01.000 You guys could check it out right now.

00:34:03.000 Fakehatecrimes.org. 0.56

00:34:05.000 If America was so racist, why on earth do we need if America is so racist?

00:34:12.000 Why are people faking their own hate crimes?

00:34:15.000 Do you think like during the KKK, people were like, you know what?

00:34:19.000 What I really need to do is go fake my own hate crime.

00:34:23.000 Nope, there was ample opportunity there for hate crimes to happen. 0.96

00:34:28.000 Black people didn't have to fake their own hate crimes. 0.98

00:34:31.000 They were real. 0.98

00:34:33.000 But no, America is so decent.

00:34:35.000 We're so unracist.

00:34:36.000 There's kind of a new cottage industry of just making up your own hate crime.

00:34:40.000 And you get away with it.

00:34:42.000 I've said this for a long time, and I get backlash when I say it.

00:34:45.000 I don't care.

00:34:46.000 The penalty for faking a hate crime should be the same for the hate crime itself.

00:34:52.000 These girls should have to go to jail. 1.00

00:34:54.000 You get the whole sheriffs involved and everyone, and everyone's up in arms and they're walking up.

00:34:58.000 How dare anyone do this?

00:35:00.000 Serve some time.

00:35:03.000 But oh no, I can't do that.

00:35:06.000 It's a hate crime to fake a hate crime.

00:35:09.000 Prove me wrong.

00:35:12.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:14.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:16.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:35:17.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - March 31, 2022

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