The Charlie Kirk Show - Joe Biden Wants to Raise Your Kids—Here's Why That's a BAD Idea

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, welcome to this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:00:02.000 This is producer Andrew filling in for Charlie Kirk.

00:00:05.000 Honored to be doing so.

00:00:06.000 We forced him to take some time off.

00:00:08.000 We demanded it.

00:00:09.000 And he finally complied.

00:00:11.000 We hope he's enjoying himself in an undisclosed location.

00:00:14.000 Nevertheless, the show must go on.

00:00:16.000 And today we covered, is Joe Biden raising your kids?

00:00:20.000 Is he trying to divert your taxpayer money into creating more government bureaucracy and more indoctrination of the next generation?

00:00:27.000 Facts of the matter are, he is.

00:00:28.000 We talk about that.

00:00:29.000 What is anti-racism?

00:00:31.000 What's the real name of Ibram X. Kendi?

00:00:34.000 I think that one's kind of fun.

00:00:35.000 And we have a name on that professor at Cypress College in California that went off on police last week.

00:00:42.000 She's been revealed.

00:00:43.000 That and so much more.

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00:02:56.000 So, you know, this is us sending out some good energy, some prayers that he will enjoy himself and that he'll come back refreshed and ready to do this.

00:03:06.000 Anyways, we have, you know, we just had Jennifer Horne on the show.

00:03:09.000 It was great.

00:03:10.000 Jennifer Horn, host of the Morning Answer, AM870 in Los Angeles, talking about California, what's going on there, but also kind of in a larger sense, what this media landscape is like.

00:03:21.000 It's a very weird time we're all living through.

00:03:26.000 And it feels like to many of us that because the media was so fixated on hating Donald Trump, they were so fixated on demonizing him every step he made, whether he did good things or bad things, whether he cured cancer, he was going to be attacked.

00:03:42.000 We don't live in that era anymore where studies have showed that Trump received between 90 and 95% negative news coverage.

00:03:49.000 Biden is receiving probably about approximately 60% positive.

00:03:53.000 I think it's even higher than that.

00:03:56.000 Regardless, we are seeing a seismic shift in this nation just regarding the state of the government, the welfare state, the role of government.

00:04:09.000 We're also seeing a changing in the public's perception of what the role of government should be.

00:04:18.000 This is often taking the form and shape of massive spending plans from the Biden administration.

00:04:26.000 Roughly $6.5 trillion in new spending has been proposed.

00:04:31.000 They got $1.9 trillion of that through budget reconciliation.

00:04:37.000 And we are living through inflation, whether or not Joe Biden wants to admit it or not.

00:04:44.000 He's actually not admitting it.

00:04:45.000 He's saying that it's a lot of loose talk about an overheating economy.

00:04:50.000 But again, what we're seeing is a massive increase in spending.

00:04:57.000 This to me, I saw this come through this morning.

00:05:00.000 I think it's probably the most terrifying new proposal from the Biden administration.

00:05:07.000 And it's called the Department of National Child Care.

00:05:10.000 And the Wall Street Journal editorial board had a great read on this this morning.

00:05:15.000 Mr. Biden wants to subsidize childcare so families pay based on a sliding scale.

00:05:21.000 For the most hard-pressed working families, the White House says costs would be fully covered with payments coming out of a $225 billion pot that Mr. Biden is asking Congress to fill.

00:05:30.000 For the middle class, families earning 1.5 times their state medium income will pay no more than 7% of their income.

00:05:37.000 So this is actually Joe Biden creating an entirely new bureaucratic mess within the federal government called the Department of National Child Care.

00:05:49.000 And they want to subsidize not just the most needy families to get childcare.

00:05:54.000 They want to subsidize everybody's child care.

00:05:57.000 Now, this is interesting.

00:06:00.000 This is, on the one hand, this show has been loudly and proudly very pro-family.

00:06:09.000 We want to empower families to have more kids, to get married.

00:06:16.000 This is something Charlie and I talk a lot about: how does the conservative movement become so pro-family, so pro-marriage, so pro-the institution of family that we can actually see sizable increases in our birth rate, native-born birth rate?

00:06:33.000 Now, we're not talking about immigration.

00:06:34.000 We're not talking about importing low-wage, low-skilled workers.

00:06:38.000 We're not talking about keeping our poorest border open to drug traffickers and sex traffickers and human smugglers.

00:06:45.000 We're talking about Americans having babies.

00:06:48.000 Now, we saw 500,000 fewer babies born in 2020 than in the previous year.

00:06:54.000 All intents and purposes show that that is increasing.

00:06:57.000 That's below the replacement level of births.

00:07:01.000 So, on the one hand, so I think it's about 10 years ago, it was roughly at replacement level.

00:07:07.000 We have now slid to about 1.6%.

00:07:10.000 So, every couple, it's two people, is only having 1.6 babies.

00:07:14.000 That's not going to replace the current population.

00:07:18.000 Now, that is a very troubling trend for a number of reasons because it's an indication that your society is failing.

00:07:26.000 It's no longer either culturally acceptable or financially possible to recreate yourself, to pass on your values and your DNA and your culture to the next generation.

00:07:42.000 So, it's a fire alarm.

00:07:44.000 So, on the one hand, I support making it easier for families to have more children and to make it more cost-effective.

00:07:52.000 But what they're doing is essentially universal daycare.

00:07:56.000 And why this is so terrifying to me and why I want to pause on this story for a little while is because we have to think what's happening in our public schools.

00:08:05.000 Now, most of this audience knows, but it bears repeating, that the most radical unions in this country very well are, likely are, the teachers' unions.

00:08:16.000 There's something, whether you call it selection bias, that these people that tend to lean left, self-select into the teaching profession.

00:08:27.000 That might be one of it, one of one of the causes.

00:08:31.000 Whereas conservative-minded people tend to want to start businesses.

00:08:35.000 They want to go into more capitalistic pursuits where they're not bound by government income.

00:08:42.000 There's also the fact that these unions act like the mafia.

00:08:47.000 These are essentially modern organized crime units in a lot of ways.

00:08:50.000 Now, I know, listen, media matters, we rely on teachers.

00:08:54.000 Many of us do.

00:08:55.000 I get it.

00:08:56.000 Nevertheless, there is a function within these unions that forces far-left radical policies to take shape.

00:09:05.000 And a lot of these teachers' unions, we hear from them, a lot of you email the Charlie Kirk show at freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:09:12.000 Please send us your thoughts on this if you've experienced this type of bullying.

00:09:17.000 But in order to advance within your teaching profession, there is a pressure placed on teachers to toe the line, to embrace these far-left practices and policies like anti-racism, that America is based on systemic racist ideology.

00:09:35.000 We're colonialist, that test scores and standardized testing is somehow racist.

00:09:42.000 All of these ideas are being shoved through the teachers' unions right to your public schools through the mouthpieces of far-left radical teachers.

00:09:51.000 And even the good teachers that are more moderate are feeling the pressure to toe the line.

00:09:55.000 Now, there was a Supreme Court case called Janice, which made it illegal to force teachers to pay unionized dues, union dues.

00:10:06.000 But what we found is that a lot of them still end up paying it.

00:10:09.000 Well, they either believe in the union, that it's protecting them, that it's doing a good job, or they feel coerced into doing it because if they're caught out as not supporting the union and paying the dues, then that might jeopardize their career.

00:10:09.000 Why?

00:10:23.000 So what we see time and time again with the government, when it gets involved in raising your children, when it gets involved in, you know, basically involved in places where the family was preeminent, has always been the lead, it becomes a mechanism, a conduit for cultural indoctrination.

00:10:45.000 So when I see that Joe Biden wants to subsidize universal health care, then I instantly my eyes raise because guess what?

00:10:55.000 That means he's going to have one more conduit through a federally subsidized program to educate your children and to take your ability to raise your children out of your control.

00:11:08.000 So there's actually a very interesting study that was done in Canada that showed that when you had two parent households that were one would stay at home, most likely obviously the mother, but regardless, one parent was staying at home raising the children and the Canadian government subsidized child care and that child was then shipped off to a third party to help raise it,

00:11:37.000 those children experienced higher levels of aggression.

00:11:41.000 They became less social in actuality.

00:11:47.000 So these are the data points that we're all working with.

00:11:52.000 Now, this is what also is interesting, is that this incentive actually will Mr. Biden envisions, sorry, I'm reading from the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Biden envisions more subsidies and cost inflation.

00:12:08.000 His plan says providers, quote, will receive funding to cover the true cost of quality early childhood care.

00:12:15.000 So you're going to get $15 an hour minimum wage for sure.

00:12:19.000 And then caregivers who have a similar qualification as kindergarten teachers will receive comparable compensation.

00:12:25.000 The Wall Street Journal concludes, this is a formula for bureaucratized national child care and enforced by federal rules and no doubt unionized.

00:12:33.000 So we're going to get another union.

00:12:34.000 We're going to get another government bureaucracy.

00:12:36.000 And we're getting subsidized child care that will actually lower the level of child care for a lot of families, right?

00:12:44.000 So it's forced mediocrity.

00:12:45.000 So if you're a family that has means to send your child to child care that you prefer, you might choose to spend more.

00:12:53.000 Well, what this is going to do is it's going to force the same system upon all parents.

00:12:59.000 And the other problem is that it actually rewards parents that have their children closer together and it will not reward people that have children further spaced apart.

00:13:09.000 So it's just sort of, you know, it's kind of a side note, but it doesn't, it's not equally applied.

00:13:15.000 And that's problematic because anything with the government, when the government gets involved, we know it has unintended consequences.

00:13:21.000 But here's another problem with this Biden proposed bureaucracy.

00:13:29.000 It will have the same perverse incentive effect that we have seen in higher education.

00:13:34.000 So think about it.

00:13:35.000 If all of this is guaranteed funding for this network of childhood care facilities, preschools, they have no incentive to keep costs low because the federal government will be subsidizing it.

00:13:50.000 We've seen this with the university system.

00:13:52.000 The university system gets guaranteed government grants.

00:13:54.000 There's no incentive to compete on price because those loans are going to be backed up by the federal government.

00:14:04.000 There's no worry that the students will default because if they default, the federal government's will be left holding the bag.

00:14:12.000 And that really means you and me, the taxpayers.

00:14:15.000 So here we are.

00:14:16.000 We're about to take the same failed policy approach to universities.

00:14:20.000 We're going to take that same approach to childcare.

00:14:23.000 And we're going to see costs rise.

00:14:26.000 We're going to see the federal price tag rise substantially.

00:14:30.000 And we're going to see the quality of care go down.

00:14:34.000 Folks, I'm going to play a clip here, clip 24 of JD Vance talking about this child care issue, universal child care.

00:14:40.000 Clip 24.

00:14:42.000 Well, I think it tells you that they care much more about the preferences of our ruling class elites than they do about the preferences of middle class Americans.

00:14:50.000 If you look at poll after poll, it shows that the ruling class family model is just different from what middle class Americans want.

00:14:57.000 The ruling class is obsessed with their jobs, even though they hate a lot of their jobs.

00:15:00.000 They're obsessed with their credentials and they want strangers to raise their kids.

00:15:04.000 But middle class Americans, whatever their station in life, they want more time with their children.

00:15:09.000 Even if they're working, they want the opportunity to spend more time with their kids and not be forced to send them to daycare.

00:15:16.000 And so what this policy really represents is an effort to subsidize the preference of our ruling class over the preference of our middle and working classes.

00:15:25.000 It's really good analysis from JD.

00:15:27.000 Now, I remember JD Vance sent, so JD's a friend of the show.

00:15:30.000 He's come on, he's actually hosted the radio with us here for a few hours, not too long ago.

00:15:37.000 JD's really smart about this topic.

00:15:40.000 And I remember seeing this tweet where it went out.

00:15:44.000 He said universal child care is a massive subsidy to the lifestyle preferences of the affluent over the preferences of the middle and working class.

00:15:53.000 And he largely got dragged.

00:15:56.000 I mean, it was one of those tweets that he put out there, and people completely missed what he was actually getting at.

00:16:02.000 So he got, as they say in Twitter lingo, that he got ratioed.

00:16:07.000 So he had a bunch of people saying that he was tone deaf and out of touch because now he's well off because his book sold millions of copies or whatever.

00:16:17.000 So I was really glad that he went on with Tucker Carlson and explained his perspective on this because he's actually 100% right.

00:16:25.000 What this does when you have the federal government get involved with teaching your children and prescribing the way you should go and saying this is the way you should go, this is the right answer, that everybody should put their kids into childcare.

00:16:38.000 JD is 100% right.

00:16:40.000 What that is doing is it is enforcing a worldview and a policy prescription that our elites tell us we should just blindly accept.

00:16:50.000 Of course we should go to work and get our credentials and work 80 hours a week, not see our kids, not have hands-on time with our children, and let a stranger raise them.

00:17:03.000 What does that stranger believe?

00:17:04.000 What's that stranger's perspective on the way the world should work?

00:17:09.000 Who cares?

00:17:10.000 Stop asking questions.

00:17:12.000 This is what's best for you.

00:17:13.000 Now, the truth is that we need to be empowering parents.

00:17:17.000 We need to be empowering families.

00:17:20.000 We need to give the, if we're going to subsidize family formation, it should be in the form of tax incentives and credits for families to do what they see fit.

00:17:30.000 Now, a side story that a lot of people are missing as well is AOC wants to create something called the Civilian Corps to battle climate change.

00:17:39.000 It's a big, bold project.

00:17:41.000 1.5 million people she wants to enlist in this, inspired by an FDR program called the Civilian Conservation Corps to fight climate change.

00:17:51.000 Again, see what they're doing, folks.

00:17:54.000 These are big, bold ideas.

00:17:55.000 They are stretching the narrative.

00:17:57.000 They're expanding this so that we're all used to these ideas as if as if it's normal somehow to just spend trillions of dollars willy-nilly.

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00:18:59.000 Folks, I want to bring you back to a story actually.

00:19:01.000 Charlie highlighted last week.

00:19:03.000 This story just blew up.

00:19:04.000 It went everywhere.

00:19:06.000 There was a college, Cypress College in California, where the teacher was caught on a Zoom class video.

00:19:19.000 And it was featuring student Brayden Ellis, who'd just given a presentation on cancel culture.

00:19:25.000 And the two of them had this back and forth about the role of police.

00:19:31.000 And the professor obviously didn't like police so much.

00:19:35.000 And Brayden attempted, I think, very admirably to defend the role of police and the fact that they're heroes.

00:19:41.000 So let's go ahead and play clip that clip really quick right now, COP25, and we've got some news on this.

00:19:48.000 I think cops are heroes and they have to have a difficult job, but we have to have them.

00:19:54.000 I'd say a good majority of them.

00:19:57.000 I do support our police and we have bad people and the people that do bad things should be brought to justice.

00:20:02.000 I agree with that.

00:20:03.000 You're saying police officers should be revered, viewed as heroes.

00:20:06.000 And go on on TV shows with children.

00:20:10.000 I think they are heroes in a sense because they come to your need and they come and help you.

00:20:14.000 They're actually supposed to protect and serve the people.

00:20:16.000 They do protect us.

00:20:17.000 Who do we call when we're in trouble and someone has a knife or a gun?

00:20:21.000 I wouldn't call the police.

00:20:23.000 Why wouldn't you call the police?

00:20:24.000 I don't trust them.

00:20:26.000 My life's in more danger.

00:20:27.000 Who would you call?

00:20:28.000 And their presence.

00:20:29.000 Professor, who would you call?

00:20:30.000 I wouldn't call anybody.

00:20:33.000 Oh my gosh.

00:20:34.000 This is who's teaching your children, by the way.

00:20:38.000 Very exciting when they get exposed like this.

00:20:41.000 So now this teacher's been exposed.

00:20:44.000 And I can tell you that we were very curious about who the identity of this teacher was last week.

00:20:50.000 Turning Point USA runs something called Professor Watchlist, which, you know, is a living trigger warning for the left.

00:20:57.000 The professor watch list, I've never seen anything like it.

00:21:00.000 It's just, they hate it so much, but all it is, is a database of far-left radical professors and teachers that have been caught or revealed or proudly espouse their radical ideas to the world.

00:21:13.000 Using confirmed reporting, they compile a professor watch list database.

00:21:18.000 Again, this is all third-party confirmed.

00:21:20.000 So you get reported in this paper or that paper.

00:21:23.000 You proudly publish something.

00:21:25.000 It's all publicly available information.

00:21:26.000 It just makes it easily accessible for parents and teachers that might want to send their kids to a university or college, and they want to know who's teaching their children. 0.89

00:21:35.000 So we wanted to put this professor on the watch list because obviously she's a radical.

00:21:35.000 All right.

00:21:41.000 So the story has taken on a new wrinkle because the identity of the teacher has been exposed.

00:21:49.000 It is Fariaha Salim.

00:21:51.000 Okay.

00:21:51.000 Now, this faculty member has been put on leave, apparently, in order to protect her, I guess.

00:22:00.000 So I'm reading from insidehireed.com, leftist rag, whatever.

00:22:07.000 This is how it describes it.

00:22:09.000 The faculty members and some associations in North Orange County are very upset about the behavior of the university, which I think is laughable.

00:22:17.000 But let's just get into it.

00:22:18.000 Faculty members at Cypress College and across California's North Orange County Community College District are urging administrators to publicly support a Muslim professor targeted for how she interacted with a student.

00:22:30.000 So I'm not sure what her being a Muslim has to do with anything, but apparently that's worth noting.

00:22:35.000 The student, who is white, again, not sure what that has to do with anything, but they're bringing it up, said police officers are heroes and the professor appeared to disagree. 0.99

00:22:46.000 Their debate made national headlines after it was uploaded to the internet.

00:22:50.000 This is a quote from the, let's see, I think this is the union.

00:22:56.000 A university faculty stands, oh, this is for the faculty, stands in solidarity with all our faculty in protecting their academic freedom and the right to a safe work environment free of hostility and threats to their physical safety and emotional well-being.

00:23:09.000 The district's full-time faculty union said in a statement last week, we request a strong and clear public statement in support of all faculty and their right to a safe workplace and their ability to exercise their academic freedom.

00:23:22.000 So this is all coming down, and then you got the Latino Faculty and Staff Association coming out in solidarity.

00:23:29.000 Faria Salim, the professor, made her own statement on the matter and she said, the district has failed to protect me and allowed radicalized and gendered attacks against, again, not sure what happens.

00:23:41.000 What any of this has to do with her being Muslim or apparently a woman?

00:23:45.000 I'm assuming that's how she self-identifies.

00:23:47.000 You never know with this crowd. 0.99

00:23:48.000 Gendered attacks against me.

00:23:51.000 So, so anyway, so she, Cypress College, this is this is bananas.

00:23:55.000 Cypress College suspended all in-class learning as a result of this incident.

00:24:01.000 So they sent everybody back to Zoom class, which is, again, not sure what that has to do with anything.

00:24:08.000 But apparently, this is leftist logic at play.

00:24:15.000 Very weird.

00:24:16.000 So the whole debate, again, was about this police reform, and they're calling this the thin Zoom line.

00:24:21.000 And so they want to, they're now taking this to, because of everything that's happened with the pandemic, a lot of classes obviously have become Zoom classes.

00:24:32.000 And this incident is not unique.

00:24:34.000 A lot of students that have seen radicalized professors are now having a new avenue to expose them, i.e., recording the Zoom call and sharing it with people in the media or just posting it online or whatever.

00:24:46.000 And now, Faria Saleem is the newest professor that's been exposed.

00:24:50.000 And I'm glad she's been exposed.

00:24:52.000 Some of the things she was saying are terrible.

00:24:55.000 And the fact that she's a Muslim and a woman has nothing to do with any of this.

00:24:59.000 Or at least I think that's how she believes herself.

00:25:03.000 She identifies.

00:25:04.000 I don't want to assume her pronouns.

00:25:07.000 So they're saying that it's a failure of the school to be anti-racist.

00:25:12.000 Joe Biden wants to create a new bureaucratic mess where universal child care is now going to be offered.

00:25:23.000 And we talked about how this is a prescription for more ideological indoctrination of your students.

00:25:29.000 We've got AOC wanting to create something akin to the Civilian Conservation Corps with 1.5 million, probably recent grads for the civilian climate corps to battle climate change with federal projects.

00:25:45.000 And again, what do you think they're going to be learning if we have 1.5 young Americans, million young Americans going into civilian climate corps?

00:25:54.000 They're going to be indoctrinated.

00:25:56.000 They're going to be fed one prescription for the problems facing the world and that they're going to be told it's an existential threat.

00:26:05.000 That climate change must be dealt with and that all of our modern world should be deconstructed and revolutionized in order to confront the threat.

00:26:14.000 And you've got teachers like this teaching your students.

00:26:17.000 She was obviously aggressive, saying that the cops are basically terrible, that she wouldn't even call the police if she was getting attacked with a gun or a knife.

00:26:26.000 That she would feel less safe with a police officer nearby than she would if there was an attacker assailing her with a gun or a knife, which is obviously crazy in Looney Tunes.

00:26:35.000 And yet now she has the gall to attack the university for saying that it's been, it's at a failure to be anti-racist.

00:26:43.000 Now, this is something that we have talked about a lot on this show, and I want to delve deeper into it.

00:26:48.000 I want to get exactly into the core of what anti-racism is.

00:26:52.000 And I want you, everybody in this audience, to be equipped and understand that when people tell you to be anti-racist, they are actually the racist.

00:27:00.000 They are actually saying you need to be more racially motivated.

00:27:03.000 You need to see everything through the lens of color and of skin tone. 1.00

00:27:08.000 And I have proof that I'm right.

00:27:11.000 Anti-racism is the most racist ideology that is percolating through our institutions, and it's dangerous to this nation and this republic.

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00:28:25.000 We have been talking a lot about our schools.

00:28:27.000 We've been talking a lot about different vectors by which the left is attempting to indoctrinate our children.

00:28:35.000 And there is new news today that's putting some further definition around the Department of National Childcare, this new bureaucratic boondoggle that Biden is proposing, which is another government agency that wants to take care of your children, that wants to force you and actually subsidize your family to accept mediocre childcare.

00:28:59.000 And as JD Vance said, this is our ruling class elites attempting to tell middle-class Americans the way that they should raise their children.

00:29:09.000 Then you've got AOC suggesting that we need a 1.5 million person strong climate, federally paid for climate army that fights climate change.

00:29:23.000 Very disturbing.

00:29:25.000 And then we have the tale out of Cypress College in California with the professor who now has a name that we know.

00:29:34.000 The professor is Faria Saleem, who is now claiming that Cypress College has failed to be sufficiently anti-racist in its defense of her.

00:29:48.000 Well, that begs the question: what is anti-racism?

00:29:52.000 How can you be anti-racism, racist?

00:29:56.000 And what happens if you're not?

00:29:58.000 So, again, this was a simple interaction between Braden Ellis and this professor, Faria Saleem.

00:30:08.000 She's an adjunct instructor of communications. 0.99

00:30:11.000 This article that we were just reading went out of its way to explain that she's Muslim and that she's receiving gendered attacks. 0.84

00:30:18.000 Now, I don't know what gender they're attacking her for.

00:30:22.000 It doesn't say, because it would probably be rude of this article to assume she was cisgendered.

00:30:30.000 Which is just, I'm not even going to say that again because I don't want to.

00:30:33.000 I don't accept the premise.

00:30:34.000 There are men and there are women.

00:30:36.000 There are boys and girls. 0.97

00:30:37.000 Everything else is just silly leftist propaganda. 0.95

00:30:41.000 Okay. 0.90

00:30:41.000 Ibram X. Kendi is a name that you guys have to get through your heads. 0.90

00:30:46.000 It is a name that's important.

00:30:47.000 Why? 0.94

00:30:48.000 Because this is the single largest purveyor of racism, perhaps with Patrice Khan Colors in our nation today. 0.69

00:30:57.000 He was not born Ibram X, by the way. 0.55

00:30:59.000 He was born Ibram Henry Rogers.

00:31:04.000 His philosophy of anti-racism is a Manetchian concept.

00:31:09.000 Basically, that means it's an either-or.

00:31:11.000 It's a binary choice in which the world is bifurcated into racists and anti-racists.

00:31:16.000 So, what are you guys probably listening to this show? 0.56

00:31:18.000 You guys are probably the racist, according to Ibram X. Kendi.

00:31:22.000 He thinks that racists should be treated as a plain descriptive term for policies and ideas that create or justify racial inequalities, not a personal attack. 0.71

00:31:32.000 Someone is being racist when he or she endorses a racist idea or policy.

00:31:38.000 So he doesn't even think that not racist is a category.

00:31:42.000 This is how the Washington Post summarizes his view like this.

00:31:46.000 All policies, even the most trivial, are either racist or anti-racist.

00:31:50.000 They support equity, equity.

00:31:54.000 That's that word that you always need to be on the lookout.

00:31:57.000 You see equity instead of equality, you know it's cultural Marxism, okay?

00:32:00.000 Quick, quick cheat sheet there. 0.58

00:32:03.000 A do-nothing approach to climate change is racist because climate change overwhelmingly affects people of color.

00:32:10.000 Forgiving student debt and offering universal health care would be anti-racist.

00:32:15.000 Why?

00:32:15.000 Not because it's communist, but because people of color are more likely to have student debt or lack health care.

00:32:21.000 So those policies would lessen, if not erase those inequalities.

00:32:24.000 Yeah, they wouldn't, by the way.

00:32:27.000 So here's some other things that X-Kendy deems racist.

00:32:31.000 Standardized tests.

00:32:33.000 Yeah. 0.97

00:32:34.000 Which he calls the most effective racist weapon ever devised to objectively degrade black minds and legally exclude their bodies.

00:32:41.000 I'm not even sure what he's talking about with their bodies, what a standardized test has to do with that.

00:32:45.000 But the point is, this is now the prevalent ideology that's pervading our nation's schools.

00:32:53.000 And this goes all the way down to elementary school.

00:32:56.000 And yes, definitely preschool. 0.93

00:32:59.000 And we will see that if Biden gets his way with this Department of National Childcare, which is just ridiculous.

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00:34:07.000 So we've been talking about how Joe Biden wants to raise your kids.

00:34:10.000 It's a very troubling, troubling thing.

00:34:13.000 Now, we're missing sort of two really big aspects of this story.

00:34:17.000 One is that they already are awful at this.

00:34:21.000 And this is what's genuinely perplexing about this whole moment that we're living in: the left and Democrats, blue states in particular, have been so awful at educating our children that there are still many people that are still not going to school.

00:34:37.000 There was a report in the LA Times that just came out that said only 7% of students are going back to school.

00:34:44.000 Why?

00:34:44.000 Because there's only three hours of in-person education.

00:34:47.000 And guess what?

00:34:48.000 Most of those teachers are still teaching via Zoom.

00:34:50.000 So you're just going into a physical space where you have to be socially distanced, wear masks, being comfortable, and there's still only going to be a teacher on a Zoom lesson, right?

00:35:03.000 This thin Zoom line that we're talking about at Cypress College.

00:35:06.000 It's happening all over the school districts, right?

00:35:09.000 So at various school districts, they have various rules.

00:35:11.000 It's hard to keep track of all of them, but they are absolutely awful at this.

00:35:16.000 And it's having an impact on our economy.

00:35:18.000 And we're missing that.

00:35:19.000 So they're terrible at this already.

00:35:21.000 And yet they want to double down, take more of our taxpayer money and double and triple down on it, spend even more, force even more of us into government-controlled educational systems where they already have, in many places, a monopoly, which is part of the problem.

00:35:38.000 But listen to this.

00:35:40.000 Let's go to clip seven. 0.98

00:35:41.000 ABC reports that school closures has actually caused 165,000 women to leave the workforce.

00:35:49.000 Clip seven.

00:35:50.000 Problem is that as women decide that they need to stay home either to take care of family members, particularly children who aren't in school, they're not going to be looking for jobs and they won't be reflected in the unemployment statistics. 0.99

00:36:06.000 Now, more than 2 million women have dropped out of the workforce. 0.93

00:36:10.000 Another 165,000 left just last month. 0.64

00:36:14.000 An untold number still struggling with the balance.

00:36:18.000 So I can't tell if this is a bad thing or a good thing.

00:36:21.000 Like on the one hand, I look at this report and I go, you know what?

00:36:25.000 That's terrible. 1.00

00:36:26.000 If these women want to work, hey, we're pro families make their own decisions, right? 1.00

00:36:30.000 If you're a family and you got children and you want to work as a mom, we're cool with that. 1.00

00:36:35.000 If you don't want to work as a mom, we're cool at that too. 0.92

00:36:38.000 And so what we're seeing is that democratic policies are actually having an adverse effect on women that want to work because their schools still aren't open. 0.91

00:36:46.000 And if your schools aren't open, the parents are forced to remain at home and be the primary child caregiver. 0.67

00:36:54.000 And so I can't tell because I think that maybe is a good thing. 1.00

00:36:58.000 So more women at home, according to this report, is actually probably going to have some adverse or some positive unexpected consequences. 1.00

00:37:12.000 Now, everybody, I hope you guys are aware of this, that we missed our jobs report number by three quarters of a million jobs.

00:37:18.000 On Friday, that came out.

00:37:20.000 Big story, big swing and a miss, massively terrible jobs report.

00:37:25.000 And now let's get into it.

00:37:27.000 Biden's own commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo, admits that it's the failure to open schools that's having a big impact on the jobs report.

00:37:34.000 Go ahead.

00:37:34.000 Clip eight.

00:37:35.000 Is there a particular friction to women getting back into the workforce that you've seen that makes this recovery particularly difficult for women?

00:37:46.000 Yes, absolutely.

00:37:48.000 So first of all, women are clustered in the industries that were hit the most.

00:37:53.000 But the reality is, as you say, you know, women are more likely to be the caretakers.

00:38:00.000 So lack of affordable child care hits women the hardest.

00:38:04.000 The fact that schools were closed and many still remain closed hits women harder.

00:38:11.000 That's right. 0.97

00:38:11.000 So the fact that schools remain closed hits women harder. 0.97

00:38:17.000 And yet we are going to be entrusting the same bureaucrats, the same policymakers that have kept the schools closed, even when it runs against science.

00:38:27.000 And it has, by the way, for months, months and months and months, we've known that kids can safely return back to school. 0.54

00:38:32.000 And yet these teachers' unions have held your children hostage, forcing a lot of women to stay out of the workforce.

00:38:40.000 And yet the Democrats' prescription moving forward is to take even more of your money, force even more of your children into mandated state programs so that they can taught to be anti-racist, which, as we have just covered, is probably the most racist thing you can be. 0.97

00:38:58.000 And I do want to finish this with Ibrahim X. Kendi and some of this garbage that he's spewing. 0.94

00:39:05.000 And this is what's so infuriating. 0.97

00:39:08.000 They're bad at this.

00:39:09.000 They always have been bad at this.

00:39:11.000 Their ideas don't work, and yet they want to double and triple down on them and force more of us into this government subjugation. 1.00

00:39:18.000 I cannot stand idiots that think that they get to have more power. 1.00

00:39:22.000 Listen to this idiot. 1.00

00:39:24.000 Capitalism, according to Ibram X. Kendi, who gave himself that name. 0.99

00:39:28.000 By the way, listen, if any of you are people of faith and you've read the Bible, you understand that God used to give people names when they had a conversion experience.

00:39:37.000 Saul became Paul.

00:39:39.000 Abram became Abraham.

00:39:42.000 There is a bestowing of a new righteousness on people in biblical terms.

00:39:47.000 And yet what we're seeing in this is almost a sort of this perverse reversal where somebody like Ibram Henry Rogers gives himself a name Ibram X. Kendi.

00:39:57.000 Frankly, you see that with Bruce Jenner to Caitlin Jenner too, but that's for another podcast.

00:40:02.000 It's for another episode.

00:40:03.000 So listen, what he thinks here is capitalism, which Kendi refers to as a conjoined twin of racism.

00:40:09.000 Kendi states that the origin of capitalism cannot be separated from the origins of racism, citing colonialism and slavery.

00:40:17.000 I wonder if he ever mentions the fact that actually slavery existed in Africa.

00:40:21.000 And actually, some of the slave trading that happened in a transatlantic sense, which we all abhor and think is terrible, was actually empowered in a lot of ways because of slavery that happened in Africa.

00:40:35.000 But I digress.

00:40:36.000 He suggests that capitalism is a racist by dubiously questioning if markets were over-level, were ever-level playing fields between the races and whether blacks could ever compete equally with whites in the marketplace.

00:40:46.000 So you see what he's doing here.

00:40:48.000 Ibram X. Kendi's anti-racism is actually the bigotry of low expectations.

00:40:53.000 He's saying that blacks could never compete on this playing field, which is not true, by the way.

00:40:57.000 Plenty of black business owners are doing phenomenally well.

00:41:01.000 And actually, under the Trump economy, the black unemployment level was at record lows.

00:41:09.000 Here's one of my favorites. 1.00

00:41:11.000 The broad American desire for a race-neutral country, Kendi describes as the most threatening racist movement and one more dangerous than the alt-rights unlikely drive for a white ethnostate.

00:41:23.000 Okay, so if I see you as just a person, I am now a racist. 0.94

00:41:27.000 If I don't see you as a black American or a Latino American, Latinx, whatever the heck that is, then I'm the racist. 0.50

00:41:37.000 So assimilation, you see, is now a terribly white concept that you should assimilate to this culture because you're American and because all Americans share one culture, more broadly speaking, that's now a racist idea.

00:41:55.000 And so what they're doing is actually forcing a form of tribalism on all Americans that is incredibly disruptive.

00:42:03.000 Out of many, one is being replaced with anti-racism.

00:42:07.000 Do you see what they're doing there?

00:42:09.000 It sounds fun.

00:42:11.000 Sounds nice.

00:42:12.000 Be an anti-racist.

00:42:13.000 Well, of course, I don't want to be racist.

00:42:16.000 And no American does want to be racist.

00:42:18.000 Actually, the fact that they are using racism as a cudgel, as the worst thing that you can call somebody in America is actually a compliment to the progress that we have made as this country.

00:42:35.000 And what they're doing is saying, well, we know that you're sensitive to that.

00:42:41.000 We know that that's the worst thing we can call.

00:42:42.000 He said, we should call all of you that all the time, even if it's true, even if it's not true.

00:42:48.000 So do you see that point that I'm making?

00:42:50.000 Is that America fought a bloody civil war?

00:42:53.000 We have struggled through the civil rights era.

00:42:56.000 We've passed historic legislation.

00:43:01.000 There is more freedom here than anywhere else in the world.

00:43:05.000 I genuinely affirm and believe, and will do so time and again, as long as we have this show to do it, that America is the most generous, accepting, benevolent nation that has ever lived.

00:43:16.000 That is why the caravans come up one way and they don't go the other way.

00:43:20.000 That's why the boats from Cuba come this way and not the other way.

00:43:24.000 That's why over close to 3 million African immigrants have come to the United States in the last three decades.

00:43:32.000 And by the way, the Nigerians are performing exceptionally well.

00:43:36.000 Nigerian immigrants actually make per capita more than white Americans.

00:43:41.000 Asians, most of the subgroups of Asian immigrants, the same is true there.

00:43:46.000 Indians as well.

00:43:47.000 Well, I guess it's a subgroup of Asian, but it often is often placed as a subcategory.

00:43:53.000 The point I'm making here, folks, is that assimilation has long been looked at as a good thing, the melting pot, that all of these ingredients come from all over the world.

00:44:04.000 They blend together.

00:44:05.000 They create the fabric of the American culture based upon the rule of law, based upon a justice system that treats everybody equally.

00:44:15.000 There is no class, no race.

00:44:17.000 Dr. Larry Arn from Hillsdale College put it brilliantly on one of his lectures that the first settlers of the United States from Europe, they brought with them all of these Western ideas about rule of law from the Magna Carta onwards, brought with them some of the most powerful ideas ever to be exposed to the human race.

00:44:40.000 But one thing they didn't bring with them, and that was the aristocracy.

00:44:45.000 And so for 150 years, upon the first boats landing on the eastern seaboard to the Declaration of Independence, the first Americans of European descent, sure, of the Westerners that came in, had this experiment to wrestle with what did it mean to start fresh, to start new.

00:45:08.000 How do you bring all of these different people that were landing here?

00:45:11.000 How do you bring them together under one system of government, under one national identity, especially when they had, when the states carried so much of the identity back then?

00:45:20.000 People were much more likely to connect with their state as opposed to the nation. 0.54

00:45:25.000 And as it was forming, as it was wrestling, the one thing they didn't have to contend with that the Europeans did was the aristocracy.

00:45:33.000 There was this level playing field for all.

00:45:37.000 And we have seen this inheritance.

00:45:40.000 At least it was imperfect.

00:45:41.000 I understand it was imperfect.

00:45:42.000 Nothing was perfect on this planet.

00:45:44.000 It wasn't completely level playing field.

00:45:46.000 But it was in as much as it could be true, it was true here.

00:45:49.000 And we saw that beautiful heritage extended to all peoples.

00:45:53.000 This imperfect nation, as we've struggled to be more perfect, has allowed more and more different peoples to enjoy those same blessings.

00:46:03.000 And you have people like Ibram X. Kendi and this professor at Cypress College reversing that, that beautiful gift we've all been given.

00:46:13.000 We've been talking about how Biden wants to teach your children why that's a bad thing.

00:46:16.000 Of course it's a bad thing.

00:46:17.000 These people want to indoctrinate your children.

00:46:19.000 It's a long history of tyrants and despots separating parents from their children so that we can't give our values to the next generation.

00:46:26.000 We can't replicate our values in the next generation, which is perhaps the biggest deal of all the deals.

00:46:32.000 It's the, you know, you hear the left talk about climate change as an existential threat.

00:46:36.000 You hear them talk about systemic racism as an existential threat.

00:46:39.000 Well, here's the good news.

00:46:43.000 It's not working.

00:46:44.000 It's failing with voters.

00:46:46.000 And this is an article from Zaid Jalani this morning.

00:46:50.000 I saw it and I was like, thank God.

00:46:52.000 Thank God there's some actual evidence to support what we all intuitively kind of assume is that how could anybody fall for this?

00:47:00.000 So you're hearing people like Representative Jamal Bauman from New York.

00:47:05.000 He's one of these radical representatives.

00:47:07.000 He's basically a part of the squad, but he's got elected in this last election, and so he's newer.

00:47:14.000 Anyways, he says, just like Ibram X. Kendi.

00:47:18.000 You know, I think I start, I want to start calling him by his given name just to like frustrate him.

00:47:24.000 I think we should just do that.

00:47:25.000 What was it again?

00:47:26.000 It was Ibram Henry Rogers, the fraud, basically spewing that same stuff.

00:47:34.000 He says standardized testing is a pillar of systemic racism and that student debt relief is racial justice.

00:47:42.000 So they're framing everything in these terms now, folks.

00:47:44.000 So just be very aware anytime you hear a leftist use the word justice because it's probably anything but.

00:47:50.000 So Yale University researchers Josh Calla and Micah English recently explored in a working paper that tested various types of messaging to promote progressive policies.

00:48:00.000 So they've been doing this for years, but they figured, what the heck, we're going to do it again because, you know, the country has shifted dramatically.

00:48:06.000 They took six different policies, progressive policies, $15 minimum wage for giving $50,000 in student loan debt, the Green New Deal, Medicare for all, upzoning housing, and decriminalizing marijuana and erasing prior convictions.

00:48:20.000 And then they asked people if they supported it.

00:48:22.000 And what they did is they approached it in three ways.

00:48:24.000 One based on class, one based on race, and one based on race and class.

00:48:31.000 And what they found was surprising.

00:48:34.000 They found that the class frame was generally more effective than either the race framing or the race plus class frame.

00:48:42.000 So this is very counterintuitive if you're a liberal elitist on the left.

00:48:47.000 You would think, oh, well, listen, all my friends pat me on the back when I talk about systemic racism.

00:48:53.000 Of course, it's very provocative and compelling, and everybody's just awed by it and convinced instantly.

00:48:59.000 Well, it turns out that's not even true.

00:49:00.000 And guess what? 0.99

00:49:01.000 It's not even true for black Americans.

00:49:04.000 Something really important that we found is that the race appeal and the class appeal are about just as effective for black voters, English said, speculating that these voters tend to be more pragmatic in their political approach.

00:49:17.000 This is the kicker.

00:49:19.000 Interestingly, English and Calla found one group that was slightly receptive to the race framing.

00:49:26.000 And I bet all of you listening can guess who.

00:49:29.000 It was white Democrats.

00:49:33.000 White Democrats were the only group that were more compelled when you talked about racial issues.

00:49:40.000 Everybody else preferred about class.

00:49:42.000 What does it mean for me?

00:49:43.000 How does this policy affect the bottom line?

00:49:46.000 But guess who wasn't? 0.77

00:49:47.000 White liberals. 0.52

00:49:48.000 That's right. 0.99

00:49:49.000 White liberals have become the most racist people on planet Earth along with Ibram X. Kendi or Ibram Henry Rogers. 0.99

00:49:57.000 Folks, it's all a ruse. 0.97

00:49:59.000 They just want to be patted on the back at the cocktail parties and impress their cohort, their liberal elite cohort that's trying to tell you how to raise your kids.

00:50:08.000 Don't fall for it.

00:50:12.000 Thanks, everybody, for tuning in.

00:50:13.000 We hope you got a lot out of that episode.

00:50:14.000 I know I certainly did.

00:50:16.000 I learned a lot studying for it.

00:50:18.000 So please don't let your children fall victim to the indoctrination of the left.

00:50:22.000 Let's empower parents, not the bureaucracy, okay?

00:50:26.000 Support and defend the family.

00:50:28.000 That is the mission of this show.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - May 10, 2021

Joe Biden Wants to Raise Your Kids—Here's Why That's a BAD Idea

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