The Charlie Kirk Show - Reparations, Aztec Chants, and the 'Miseducation' of America's Elites

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.

00:00:01.000 In a very interesting episode on the Charlie Kirk show, we get into the new proposed curriculum in California about how your children are going to be forced to worship the Aztec deity of human sacrifice and cannibalism.

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00:00:16.000 We also talk about Evanston pushing forward reparations, Chicago suburb becoming the first city to give black residents reparations.

00:00:23.000 And we also talk about at length Barry Weiss's article about the miseducation of America's elites, how America's ruling class is now freaking out that their children are learning critical race theory.

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00:01:23.000 Reparations, Aztec gods, and more.

00:01:26.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:01:27.000 Here we go.

00:01:28.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:01:30.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.

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00:01:40.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:01:41.000 His spirit, his love of this country.

00:01:43.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.

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00:01:49.000 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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00:02:01.000 I've been in Chicago the last week, and it's always fun seeing family and friends and catching up with what's happening in the once great state of Illinois.

00:02:13.000 But in some ways, when I visit Chicago and Illinois after spending two weeks in Florida and a week in Arizona, I feel as if I'm entering the Eastern block.

00:02:27.000 Things are just so different.

00:02:29.000 Downtown Chicago, department stores on Monroe Street, right near Michigan Avenue, boarded up completely.

00:02:38.000 And I asked one of my friends that was helping drive us around, I said, what was at this store?

00:02:45.000 Jewelry store?

00:02:46.000 Was it a department store?

00:02:48.000 They said, oh, no, that was a corner bakery.

00:02:50.000 I said, oh, I guess the rioters and the looters needed to go steal a couple croissants in downtown Chicago, and it has not been repaired since last June.

00:03:01.000 Another friend of mine witnessed in broad daylight, 3:30 in the afternoon on Oak Street in downtown Chicago, a mugging, wide open daylight, Oak Street.

00:03:15.000 If you know Chicago, you know that is a very nice area.

00:03:18.000 A mugging right there.

00:03:20.000 There are shootings on Michigan Avenue.

00:03:21.000 Now, none of this gets covered in the national activist media.

00:03:25.000 Chicago was a decent city, and there's still unbelievable people in the state of Illinois.

00:03:32.000 I always say that Illinois does not do a lot right, but it has the best people in the country, hardworking, Midwestern patriots.

00:03:42.000 So, how is Chicago handling the rise in crime?

00:03:47.000 How is Chicago handling the lawlessness?

00:03:52.000 Where, just so we understand The numbers we're dealing with here.

00:03:58.000 In 2021, there have been 102 people shot and killed in Chicago, 427 shot and wounded, 529 total shot with 107 total homicides.

00:04:12.000 A person is wounded in Chicago every three hours and eight minutes, and a person is murdered every 15 hours.

00:04:20.000 Just so we understand the year that Chicago had last year, in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus with Laurie Lightfoot riding around on a horse, Chicago experienced record homicides.

00:04:35.000 Record.

00:04:36.000 And yet, most of the activist media could not care less to what happens in Chicago.

00:04:41.000 It is a slaughter in our streets.

00:04:43.000 So in Chicago in 2020, a person was shot every two hours.

00:04:46.000 A person was murdered every 11 hours.

00:04:49.000 There were 719 people shot and killed in Chicago in 2020, and 792 total homicides, and 4,174 people total shot.

00:04:58.000 So where is Chicago focusing their attention?

00:05:02.000 So this story is somewhat deceiving.

00:05:05.000 It's from NBC News and somewhat being an understatement.

00:05:09.000 Where it says, Chicago suburb to become the first city to give black residents reparations as vote on housing assistance draws close.

00:05:18.000 First of all, Evanston is technically a suburb, but it is very much on the border of the city. 0.51

00:05:26.000 It's not your traditional Chicago suburb.

00:05:30.000 Nevertheless, Safiya Sami Ali writes: A suburb of Chicago is setting a precedent for racial equality.

00:05:39.000 I have to stop right there.

00:05:40.000 See how they're already framing reparations?

00:05:42.000 NBC, to their millions of readers, frames reparations as a precedent for racial equality as it moves forward in becoming the first city in the country to fund reparations for its black residents.

00:05:56.000 But some residents say it doesn't go far enough.

00:05:59.000 So the idea of reparations is rooted in a belief that black people were institutionally and systemically discriminated against to such a great degree that any decisions that they made over the last couple decades really never mattered.

00:06:18.000 And the only way to possibly right this wrong is through cash-based payments to the descendants of the people that were discriminated against, not the people themselves.

00:06:28.000 This idea of reparations has been made more popular by Tahanisi Coates, who is not a very smart person, very good at branding, but not very, he has no wisdom.

00:06:41.000 And I'd love to talk to him someday because he's made some such unbelievably broad generalizations on a lot of his work.

00:06:48.000 But Tahanitsi Coates floated out this idea of reparations years ago.

00:06:53.000 And of course, the New York Times and The Atlantic loved it.

00:06:57.000 And Tahanitsi Coates and Alexandria Acasio-Cortez have something in common.

00:07:04.000 They both dramatically moved the Overton window in the quickest amount of time I've ever seen in my life.

00:07:13.000 Now, what is the Overton window?

00:07:15.000 The Overton window is a theory that basically there's a spectrum of which all political ideas operate on.

00:07:24.000 And the spectrum goes from things that are unthinkable to public policy.

00:07:31.000 So it goes from unthinkable to basically something that is debatable to something that is proposed to policy.

00:07:38.000 Basically, the Overton window is the spectrum of which we move certain ideas into the zeitgeist, into the public sphere, into the narrative or into the conversation.

00:07:50.000 A great example of this would be the defund police.

00:07:53.000 Years ago, talking about defunding the police or abolishing the police, you would be laughed out of a room.

00:07:59.000 Now it is public policy in Minneapolis and it is widespread conversation all across the country.

00:08:07.000 Alexandria Casio Cotez did this with the Green New Deal. 0.99

00:08:11.000 She intentionally aimed for $127 trillion for the Green New Deal, was laughed and mocked, but moved the Overton window.

00:08:18.000 Where all of a sudden we're talking about a multi-trillion dollar stimulus bill because we grew desensitized to this idea of trillion-dollar spending packages because, well, $127 is insane, but $2 trillion sounds just enough.

00:08:32.000 Tahaniti Coates did something very similar with the conversation around reparations.

00:08:36.000 So instead of Chicago or Chicago suburbs, and Evanston, I guess, is technically a suburb, but it's very close to being in Chicago, focusing on the rise of rapes, assaults, violent crime, murder, or battery, and even kidnapping, Chicago and its adjacent suburbs are more focused on redistribution reparations.

00:09:02.000 And even black residents say that it doesn't go enough, go far enough. 0.70

00:09:07.000 Now, this doesn't count, by the way, housing and urban development, potential food stamp usage, social security benefits.

00:09:15.000 It doesn't count the massive multi-trillion dollar welfare state that already exists.

00:09:19.000 You see, this entire NBC news piece that is written by Safai Sami Ali makes it sound as if there is no social safety net at all whatsoever for anyone in this country.

00:09:30.000 And in Evanston, Illinois, it's not just terrible, it's we have abandoned these people.

00:09:35.000 And in fact, the opposite is true.

00:09:38.000 We have helped urban communities too much.

00:09:43.000 The heavy hand of government through the Great Society program, through subsidizing single motherhood, has resulted in permanently government-addicted communities all across the country.

00:09:56.000 You know, I was talking the other day as I was going around Chicago how amazing of a city it really was.

00:10:04.000 In the 1990s, it was a place that if you wanted to make something of yourself, you came to Chicago.

00:10:09.000 Six championships by Michael Jordan, some of the most booming businesses imaginable.

00:10:14.000 Entrepreneurs from all over the world came to Chicago.

00:10:18.000 It was a great place to grow up, and it's been a real tragedy to see what these people have done to it, the leftist activists.

00:10:28.000 Evanston, a place that used to be a wonderful city, home to Northwestern University, so it makes perfect sense that these ideas are incubated there, are now passing reparations for black people.

00:10:46.000 So I have a very simple question for the Evanston City Council.

00:10:51.000 Do they plan on passing reparations for Irish families that were descendants of racial discrimination, of the no Irish need apply signs?

00:11:02.000 Do they plan to pass reparations to the Jewish families in Skokie or even in Evanston itself that were not just victims of discrimination but fled the Holocaust and came here with nothing?

00:11:18.000 Probably not.

00:11:19.000 Robin Rue Simmons, an alderman, says, quote, reparations is the most appropriate legislative response to the historic practices and the contemporary conditions of the black community.

00:11:30.000 Let me stop there.

00:11:32.000 Do you see how that quickly went from what was to what is?

00:11:37.000 This is not a conversation about housing practices in the 1960s.

00:11:43.000 Instead, it's about what's happening currently.

00:11:50.000 And Robin Rue Simmons says, quote, contemporary conditions of the black community.

00:11:56.000 Why are blacks more likely to be in poverty in America?

00:12:02.000 Is it because of racism? 0.81

00:12:04.000 Is that the reason?

00:12:05.000 Because that is the conventional wisdom. 1.00

00:12:08.000 Black people in poverty must be racism.

00:12:14.000 Well, why is it then that Nigerian immigrants are the most, if not one of the most, wealthiest immigrant groups in America? 0.93

00:12:26.000 If America is so racist, how do Nigerian Americans succeed?

00:12:31.000 If America was so racist, why is it that more blacks have come to this country legally than ever came here as slaves? 0.70

00:12:40.000 So why is it that the black community is struggling so much?

00:12:43.000 Reason number one, fathers. 1.00

00:12:46.000 Fathers are not in black households.

00:12:50.000 According to the Washington Examiner, over 77% of black families do not have a stable father figure. 0.94

00:12:59.000 The single motherhood epidemic increased dramatically once the Great Society Act was passed by Lyndon Baines Johnson, a bitter, bigoted racist, might I add.

00:13:10.000 We have allowed the public sector teacher unions to run our cities.

00:13:13.000 The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers have run the inner cities of our country for years.

00:13:20.000 Black Americans are struggling not because of white racism.

00:13:25.000 Black Americans are struggling because fathers are not in the homes.

00:13:30.000 Police officers have been told to retreat and not actually do their job in the streets of the inner cities of America.

00:13:38.000 And the schools are not even teaching kids to read.

00:13:41.000 You have these factors play into people's lives over a couple decades.

00:13:47.000 You are going to see different results.

00:13:50.000 Do you know that a black child born to a mother and a father is more likely to succeed than a white child that is born to a single mother?

00:14:00.000 I believe that's the Brookings Institution that came out with that study.

00:14:04.000 We'll get the exact citation.

00:14:06.000 We just mentioned it the other week.

00:14:07.000 But if all of a sudden, if America was so racist, wouldn't a white kid raised by a single mother be more likely to succeed?

00:14:14.000 So this reparations bill is just the beginning of what's going to be happening in city, state, and soon to be federal governments.

00:14:24.000 So I have a question. 0.97

00:14:25.000 If you're half black and half white, how does that work? 0.98

00:14:28.000 Do you pay reparations to yourself? 0.66

00:14:30.000 Does Obama owe money to himself because he's half black, half white? 1.00

00:14:34.000 It's far too logical. 1.00

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00:16:07.000 We've actually done reparations before.

00:16:11.000 And the one test case of reparations that we have in our country is an absolute unmitigated, reprehensible disaster. 0.99

00:16:21.000 So, first of all, we did not do targeted reparations for black Americans that were descendants of slaves. 0.90

00:16:29.000 Instead, we expanded the Great Society Act and we declared war on poverty, and poverty won. 0.66

00:16:36.000 Two parent households always should have been the focus and said we subsidized single motherhood.

00:16:40.000 We took police off the streets and destroyed our inner cities or our schools.

00:16:44.000 But that's not even the example I'm going to focus on.

00:16:47.000 Instead, we have had a reparation push before in our country.

00:16:53.000 And I think everyone is missing it.

00:16:54.000 And every Republican out there, every conservative out there, listen carefully and closely because it's right in front of our eyes.

00:17:01.000 And that's Native Americans.

00:17:03.000 Our treatment of Native Americans was terrible. 0.61

00:17:09.000 So what did we do to try and fix our treatment of Native Americans?

00:17:14.000 We started the Bureau for Indian Affairs. 0.92

00:17:18.000 We started one of the most massive, overbearing, generous welfare programs in the history of the Western hemisphere. 1.00

00:17:29.000 Are Native Americans doing better now than before? 1.00

00:17:33.000 No, they're doing worse. 1.00

00:17:35.000 Highest suicide rates in the entire country are Native American reservations. 0.97

00:17:39.000 Highest drug usage. 1.00

00:17:41.000 Highest alcoholism rates.

00:17:43.000 Highest unemployment.

00:17:44.000 The most miserable, hopeless places in America.

00:17:48.000 I visited them myself.

00:17:50.000 And so instead of creating programs that were about literacy, education, empowerment, business creation, entrepreneurship, our entire public policy approach to Native Americans to try and give reparations was say, we're going to give a bunch of stuff.

00:18:08.000 And how's that worked? 0.94

00:18:10.000 Native Americans are in a state of perpetual government dependence.

00:18:17.000 We also know this from our work overseas.

00:18:19.000 Anyone who has worked in international missions knows that just giving money to impoverished people doesn't work.

00:18:25.000 It doesn't.

00:18:26.000 It breaks their spirit.

00:18:28.000 Instead, education, family formation, values, and morals.

00:18:33.000 That's the best way to help people.

00:18:34.000 Give them a set of ideas or guidelines or a framework of which they can live a successful life.

00:18:41.000 And we call these Western values.

00:18:42.000 You can call them Judeo-Christian, Greco-Roman values, which are the four words that founded Western civilization.

00:18:49.000 I'm actually going to give a speech on that in a couple of days.

00:18:51.000 You must know the significance of those four words, Judeo-Christian, Greco-Roman.

00:18:56.000 And so now Evanston is going out of their way to say what we need is more reparations.

00:19:02.000 Now, by the way, none of this counts, even factors in the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill.

00:19:08.000 None of this even factors in the multi-trillion dollars we spend on social welfare every single year.

00:19:14.000 It doesn't even factor in the Medicaid distribution on the state level.

00:19:19.000 It doesn't even factor in, by the way, all the church and charity work that happens locally in Evanston.

00:19:24.000 So what basically the argument is, and this is the racist and the bigotry of low expectations, to use a quote from the great Clarence Thomas.

00:19:35.000 Do you know what this really tells me now that Evanston is passing reparations? 0.99

00:19:40.000 They think black people are so stupid and so dumb and so unable to succeed absent more government help that they think the only way that blacks in Evanston can see a better tomorrow is through cash redistribution. 1.00

00:20:00.000 You see, I actually think much higher of the human potential than that. 1.00

00:20:07.000 I think with safer streets, stronger families, and better schools, all Americans can succeed.

00:20:14.000 We have a blueprint for that.

00:20:15.000 So where's the reparations, by the way, for all of the Chicago residents in Chinatown or in the Asian American community in the Japanese neighborhood?

00:20:26.000 Japanese Americans were put in internment camps, literal concentration camps by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Democrat.

00:20:34.000 Do they deserve reparations? 1.00

00:20:36.000 Irish need not apply.

00:20:39.000 Jews were widely discriminated against here in this country in the 40s and 50s.

00:20:45.000 Do they deserve reparations?

00:20:46.000 Of course not.

00:20:48.000 Instead, what Asian Americans, Jews, and Irish did because of cultural norms or assimilating to the American culture is they got married before they had kids, they found a work, they started businesses, they graduated high school, and they had tight-knit communities.

00:21:06.000 And you might say to yourself, well, why didn't blacks do that?

00:21:09.000 Isn't it racist to say they didn't?

00:21:11.000 They actually did for quite a while.

00:21:13.000 Do you know that black wage growth was outpacing white wage growth right after World War II in most cities in Chicago?

00:21:19.000 What happened was not racism.

00:21:22.000 It wasn't.

00:21:24.000 Instead, it was a massive public policy program targeted the inner cities of our country, which were predominantly black neighborhoods.

00:21:32.000 And some people say, but Charlie, the discrimination that blacks received was obviously much worse.

00:21:38.000 This is an email we got.

00:21:40.000 Didn't we break apart their families when they came to America on slave ships, albeit hundreds of years ago?

00:21:48.000 But to all of a sudden try and say that to be true, then why were black women married at such higher rates before the Great Society?

00:22:00.000 And so if you want to attribute some form of intergenerational systemic racism to marriage rates, the single motherhood rate was about 23% before the Great Society.

00:22:12.000 Then it went up to 77% where it is today, a 50% increase, 50-point increase. 0.63

00:22:17.000 As America got less racist, black America got more relatively poor. 0.52

00:22:23.000 How's that possible? 0.69

00:22:24.000 You see, so the leftist conspiracy theorists like Taha Nisi Coates and Robin DiAngelo, they say it's because the racism disguised itself all throughout society.

00:22:34.000 There's no evidence of this at all whatsoever.

00:22:36.000 Instead, there's evidence to the opposite, that America just became more pluralistic and multicultural and more willing to allow anyone to succeed regardless of skin color. 0.98

00:22:45.000 That's why Nigerian Americans do so well.

00:22:47.000 That's why Haitian Americans do so well.

00:22:48.000 That's why Dominicans do so well.

00:22:50.000 That's why Indian Americans do so well and Asian Americans do so well.

00:22:54.000 And so what Evanston is doing here is basically saying, we don't think black America can do it.

00:23:01.000 That is the Democrat position.

00:23:04.000 We've given up on you.

00:23:06.000 You see, the Republican and the conservative position needs to be, we think your best days are ahead.

00:23:11.000 We think with proper education, formed families, Judeo-Christian morals, access to work, and our trade deals played a big role in this too, by the way, as we deindustrialized the American economy, then we believe that you can succeed.

00:23:28.000 This entire argument around reparations, it's actually more sinister than that by the people that are pushing it.

00:23:36.000 They want to create another welfare program that can keep people voting for them and say the other side opposes it because they have racial resentment.

00:23:45.000 Let me be very clear.

00:23:46.000 I oppose reparations because reparations are bigoted.

00:23:50.000 That's why I oppose them.

00:23:52.000 I also oppose them because they will not make the targeted group any wealthier.

00:23:56.000 The only way to make people wealthier in America is to empower them.

00:24:01.000 And then you can fix other structural issues.

00:24:04.000 Police.

00:24:05.000 We need more police on the streets.

00:24:08.000 Families. 0.75

00:24:09.000 And manufacturing facilities.

00:24:11.000 That I agree with.

00:24:12.000 And also immigration policies.

00:24:14.000 You want to know why blacks in Evanston are having a difficult time finding work?

00:24:21.000 Well, maybe if Illinois was not a sanctuary city and Chicago was not a sanctuary county, or Cook County is not a sanctuary city, and Illinois is not a sanctuary state, and Chicago is not a sanctuary city, then maybe the blacks in Chicago wouldn't be disenfranchised from the labor force.

00:24:37.000 So the calculus is this: the Chamber of Commerce Republicans, Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, say, open the borders so we can have Nicaraguan, Honduran, and Mexican labor bring down the average wage so that we can maximize our profits. 0.59

00:24:52.000 Where the Democrats say, that's fine, because then we will be able to expand the welfare state for black Americans so they'll vote for us. 0.90

00:25:00.000 This is all part of a uniparty in our country. 0.92

00:25:03.000 A uniparty where Nancy Pelosi and Mitt Romney privately might disagree on social issues.

00:25:09.000 They might disagree on certain things, but they agree on the big stuff: endless war, open borders, and internationalist globalist trade.

00:25:18.000 And it's black Americans that have suffered under those policies.

00:25:21.000 And reparations will do nothing but actually worsen that problem.

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00:26:49.000 I have people commonly tell me, you know, Charlie, they don't teach that stuff in schools anymore.

00:26:54.000 Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, John Locke, George Washington, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, James Madison.

00:27:05.000 And I say, oh, you're right.

00:27:06.000 But guess what?

00:27:08.000 If your child goes to a California public school, they might not know what the U.S. Constitution is, the Declaration Abraham Lincoln, George S. Patton, Winston Churchill, or Ronald Reagan is, but they will know something.

00:27:24.000 According to a new California Department of Education ethic study, ethnic studies curriculum, students will be required to be involved in a series of indigenous songs,

00:27:45.000 chants, and affirmations from the Aztec tradition, as if the Aztec culture is one worth respecting or appreciating.

00:27:57.000 I suppose there's some things the Aztecs did right, including the INLAC-Ek affirmation, which appeals directly to the Aztec gods.

00:28:07.000 Students will be required to first clap and chant to the god Tez Calapoca, whom the Aztecs traditionally worshipped with human sacrifice and cannibalism, asking him for power to be warriors for social justice.

00:28:26.000 Next, the students chant to the gods, Ke Zalcotal, or Hutzil Opictil, or Jipi Potec, seeking Healy epistemologies and a revolutionary spirit.

00:28:42.000 Hutzil Poquitel, in particular, is the Aztec deity of war, inspired hundreds of thousands of human sacrifices during Aztec rule.

00:28:53.000 Now, if you think I'm making this up, I'm literally reading this word for word from Christopher Ruffo from City Journal, who, by the way, will be on our podcast.

00:29:01.000 Finally, the chant comes to a climax where students will request from the Aztec gods liberation, transformation, and decolonization.

00:29:12.000 After which students, moved by the pagan ceremony, will shout, Panche Be, Panche Be, in pursuit of ultimate critical consciousness.

00:29:24.000 This is just part of what is now going to be passed in the California Department of Education.

00:29:28.000 Now, of course, instead of worrying about Californians' literacy or mathematic skills, which by the way, only half of California students meet English standards, and only four in 10 are proficient in math.

00:29:45.000 Only 32% of fourth graders are reading proficiently.

00:29:50.000 These results put California well below the national average and behind 25 other states.

00:29:54.000 So where is the California Department of Education focusing their time, attention, resources?

00:29:57.000 They believe that California students, instead of learning math, they should pray and worship the pagan Aztec god of human sacrifice and cannibalism.

00:30:11.000 There is not enough time to go into this, but to put the American civilization on a moral equivalent of the Aztec civilization is reprehensible.

00:30:23.000 But according to the postmodernists, well, maybe human sacrifice and cannibalism, there is something worth learning there.

00:30:31.000 And the children in California funded by your tax dollars will soon be required to be involved in the INLA-Ek affirmation.

00:30:42.000 It's in the curriculum.

00:30:43.000 Read it for yourself.

00:30:45.000 Christopher Rufo says, this, in essence, is a revenge of the gods and a restoration of the indigenous gods to their rightful place in the social justice cosmology.

00:30:56.000 This is what happens when parents don't get involved in school boards or local elections.

00:31:01.000 Maperville School District 203 went through how children in the Chicago suburbs are learning similar but different views of critical race theory, Illinois School Board of Education.

00:31:11.000 And soon, the children in California, they won't be able to read the Constitution.

00:31:16.000 They won't be able to do two plus two equals four, but they will be able to pray to the God of child sacrifice.

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00:32:20.000 Got some really good pieces of feedback and people asking questions about what they can do at their local schools.

00:32:27.000 And of course, running for school board is a good step.

00:32:29.000 How about just knowing your school board members and sending them an email and saying, I'd like to get you on the record what you think about critical race theory.

00:32:36.000 And if you don't know what critical race theory is, it is a moral imperative that every parent across the country knows what critical race theory is.

00:32:44.000 It is a bigoted, racist school of thought that was mostly started by Jacques Derrida, Erbert Marcuse, Michelle Foucault, amongst others.

00:32:56.000 And to just put it in very simple terms, they believe skin color matters.

00:33:01.000 They believe racism is everywhere and that your decisions don't matter.

00:33:07.000 It is not a fringe theory.

00:33:09.000 It is widespread.

00:33:10.000 It is a pathogen.

00:33:11.000 It is a virus.

00:33:12.000 We've been warning against this for months and for years.

00:33:16.000 For anyone who will listen, we were called alarmists.

00:33:20.000 Some people call this fearmongers.

00:33:23.000 We saw the ever-so constant invasion of critical theory or what's otherwise known as wokeism into institutions that otherwise would be rather respectable.

00:33:40.000 This has taken many different forms.

00:33:42.000 It's in our movies.

00:33:43.000 It's in our music.

00:33:45.000 Growing up, these sort of ideas were dismissed immediately.

00:33:48.000 There was an idea of believing that America was a meritocracy, that who you are was not your skin color, but it was on your actions.

00:33:56.000 And it seems as if Democrats in the left realized that as long as the terms of the debate were around that of who is going to create an America better for rewarding good choices, the people that desired power above everything realized we're not going to win that permanently.

00:34:14.000 We could win every so often.

00:34:15.000 We can win with Obama, but eventually we will have political liabilities. 0.86

00:34:21.000 And so first they tried a class war, Occupy Wall Street, then a gender war, me too.

00:34:27.000 And then they realized that a racial, woke revolution is more possible than they ever thought. 0.50

00:34:36.000 The Chinese coronavirus is raging across the world.

00:34:41.000 It has been at least for a year.

00:34:43.000 But the woke virus is not slowing down.

00:34:47.000 People ask me, they say, how do I vaccinate myself against the woke virus?

00:34:52.000 I actually have an answer to that.

00:34:55.000 Barry Weiss, who's very talented, she used to be at the New York Times.

00:35:02.000 She wrote a scathing exit piece against the New York Times and what they have become.

00:35:10.000 As Cheryl Atkinson called it on our podcast, the new woke times.

00:35:15.000 She has a piece that has been sent to me, emailed to me, I kid you not, well over 30 times in the last couple days.

00:35:22.000 So around the 24th time, I said, all right, I'm going to read this thing.

00:35:25.000 From friends, from family, people that you would recognize on TV.

00:35:29.000 They said, Charlie, have you read this?

00:35:30.000 I said, okay.

00:35:31.000 Busy couple days running around Chicago.

00:35:34.000 And I sat down and I read this piece, and it is absolutely phenomenal.

00:35:39.000 I'd love to have Barry on the show.

00:35:40.000 I know she's very busy.

00:35:41.000 Not sure we'll be able to make that happen.

00:35:43.000 It's from the City Journal, which again, the City Journal is what I want to say the Wall Street Journal editorial page used to be, but they're fallen.

00:35:51.000 It's where all the important conversations are happening thoughtfully.

00:35:54.000 I think that's a fair way to say: Heather McDonald, Barry Weiss, Christopher Ruffo, who, of course, is coming on our podcast.

00:36:01.000 The miseducation of America's elites.

00:36:03.000 I'm going to say one thing: the title is not a good title.

00:36:07.000 That is not at all what the piece is about, in my opinion.

00:36:10.000 The title actually does the piece a disservice.

00:36:13.000 A better title would be The Secret Society Playing and Take Back Private Schools.

00:36:19.000 That's a much better title.

00:36:20.000 Why is that important?

00:36:22.000 Because I get sent 5,000 articles a day.

00:36:26.000 I already know America's elites are, you know, not educated.

00:36:29.000 But then I dove into it.

00:36:32.000 Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in children's private schools, organize in secret.

00:36:38.000 So here's what this piece is all about.

00:36:40.000 And I'm going to read from it parts of it.

00:36:44.000 In essence, Barry Weiss was invited to an underground meeting, similar to one that would happen in East Germany, one that would happen today in North Korea, where dissidents, rebel rousers, would meet and plot on how they would take back a little bit of terrain, how they would push back against the Stasi, how they would push back against the KGB.

00:37:14.000 And the National Socialist Worker Party, plenty of people did this against them.

00:37:20.000 Barry Weiss writes in City Journal: So, one recent weekend on a leafy street in West Los Angeles, these parents gathered in person and invited me to join.

00:37:31.000 They're usually coordinating soccer practice in carpools, but now they come together to strategize.

00:37:35.000 They say they could face profound repercussions if anyone knew they were talking.

00:37:40.000 In a backyard behind a four-bedroom home, 10 people sat in a circle of plastic Adirondack chairs eating bags of skinny pop.

00:37:49.000 It's well written.

00:37:50.000 Isn't that just well written?

00:37:51.000 These are the rebels, well-off Los Angeles parents who send their children to Harvard-Westlake, the most prestigious private school in the city.

00:38:01.000 By normal American standards, they're quite wealthy, but by the standards of Harvard-Westlake, they are average.

00:38:07.000 Continues by saying, The stories coming from Harvard-Westlake have grown since the summer, and they seem totally legitimate, says one of the fathers.

00:38:18.000 He says he doesn't have a problem with the school making greater efforts to redress past wrongs.

00:38:22.000 You see, this is where this father's wrong, including bringing more minority voices into the curriculum. 0.94

00:38:27.000 Never going to appease these people.

00:38:29.000 What he has a problem with, though, is telling his children that America is a bad country and they bear collective racial guilt.

00:38:36.000 This parent says, They're making my son feel like a racist because of the pigmentation of his skin, one mother says.

00:38:42.000 Well, where have you been the last decade?

00:38:45.000 Seriously, in Aspen?

00:38:47.000 All of us were getting spit at, things thrown at while we were fighting for your rights at UCLA down the street, and you were probably, oh, he's probably a racist.

00:38:57.000 Well, now your child's being called a racist.

00:38:59.000 And you say, Well, my kid's not a racist.

00:39:01.000 Yeah, well, neither are we.

00:39:04.000 The Harvard Westlake Parents Group is one of the many organizing quietly around the country to fight what is described as an ideological movement that has taken over their schools.

00:39:12.000 This story is based on interviews with more than two dozen of the dissenters, teachers, parents, and children at the elite prep school in one of the two bluest states in the country, New York and California.

00:39:23.000 The parents in the backyard say that for every one of them, there are many more, too afraid to speak up.

00:39:27.000 Quote, I've talked to at least five couples who say, I get it.

00:39:30.000 I think the way you do.

00:39:30.000 I just don't want to be the controversy right now.

00:39:33.000 I'm going to get into the real problem here in a second.

00:39:37.000 So I have to build this out.

00:39:38.000 So basically, here's what's happening.

00:39:40.000 You have parents that are earning four, five, six hundred thousand dollars a year.

00:39:44.000 They send their kids to $50,000 a year private school education at Harvard Westlake.

00:39:49.000 And this one woman says, They're making my son feel like a racist because the pigmentation of his skin.

00:39:55.000 That's what they've been doing to us the last six years.

00:39:58.000 But you in West LA have been either lazy or complicit in allowing this entire movement to gain strength.

00:40:08.000 The school can ask you to leave for any reason, said one mother at Brentwood, another Los Angeles prep school.

00:40:14.000 Then you'll be blacklisted from all the private schools and you'll be known as a racist, which is worse than being called a murderer.

00:40:20.000 I repeat myself.

00:40:22.000 This is not new.

00:40:23.000 And I hate to say that this is a good thing because it's not.

00:40:27.000 But good is actually going to come out of this because now the ruling class is going to have to live under the society that they themselves created.

00:40:36.000 The multi-millionaire families in West LA are now having their 14-year-old white kids being called racist.

00:40:42.000 Well, guess what?

00:40:44.000 Those are the rules of the engagement right now.

00:40:46.000 And while you guys sat idly by thinking this is going to pass like a hurricane, your children are now bearing that fruit.

00:40:54.000 And excuse my light-hearted chuckle through this whole story, because basically I'm kind of looking around.

00:41:02.000 I'm saying, Welcome to the party.

00:41:05.000 One of the students says, if you publish my name, it would ruin my life.

00:41:08.000 People would attack me for even questioning their ideology, social justice ideology.

00:41:12.000 I don't even want people to know I'm a capitalist, said a student at Fiddleston Fieldston School in New York City.

00:41:19.000 Very, very, very elite school.

00:41:21.000 In a comment echoed by other students I spoke with.

00:41:24.000 The kids are scared of other kids, says Harvard Westlake mother.

00:41:29.000 The atmosphere at Harvard Westlake is making their children anxious, paranoid, and insecure, and closed off to even their closest friends.

00:41:37.000 One Harvard Westlake mother says this, and I love these quotes: Barry Weiss has done such an unbelievable job because she has put together a narrative of this kind of underground, secret, confidential, you can tell me your secrets.

00:41:52.000 This is terrific.

00:41:54.000 So, this mother hits it perfectly.

00:41:57.000 This mother tells Barry Weiss why this is happening, and she doesn't even realize it.

00:42:03.000 She says, My son wants to go to a great university, and he told me that just one bad statement from me will ruin us.

00:42:13.000 The mother says, This is the United States of America.

00:42:17.000 Are you freaking kidding me?

00:42:20.000 No, this is the country that has existed for quite a while.

00:42:24.000 It just so happens that between the hedges, the gated communities, the chauffeured cars, and the private jets, you were immune to the virus for quite some time.

00:42:36.000 You see, the virus that was touching the working class of this country that was being pushed from the top-down, a top-down revolution, it didn't hit Harvard-Westlake until recently.

00:42:51.000 So now it's everywhere. 0.51

00:42:52.000 It's in the bloodstream.

00:42:55.000 Another quote from this piece, which is just terrific, and this is why it is happening, and this is why it's going to be unbelievably interesting to see how this plays out.

00:43:05.000 I've talked to at least five couples who say, I get it.

00:43:08.000 I think the way you do.

00:43:10.000 Essentially, saying that things have gone out of control at this school.

00:43:14.000 I just don't want the controversy right now, said one mother.

00:43:18.000 They're all eager for their story to be told, but not a single one would let me use their name.

00:43:22.000 They worry about losing their jobs or hurting their children in their opposition to this ideology were known.

00:43:28.000 George S. Patton famously said, the most necessary and absent characteristic in men is moral courage. 0.93

00:43:37.000 These baby boomer Gen X parents that have had some form of success in an American economy are cowards. 0.98

00:43:46.000 And the only way that this will be fixed is all of a sudden if they release themselves of their own ego, that maybe your child is not going to go to Yale, but you might be able to stand up for what's right. 0.99

00:43:59.000 And the children take after the parents.

00:44:01.000 This one quote: My son wants to go to a great university.

00:44:03.000 He told me that one bad statement will ruin us.

00:44:05.000 Yeah, you're probably right.

00:44:06.000 So what if your kid doesn't go to Brown?

00:44:09.000 So what if your kid doesn't go to Dartmouth?

00:44:12.000 Somehow that's going to be the thing that makes or breaks their entire trajectory.

00:44:15.000 For America's ruling class, it is.

00:44:18.000 And now there's a reckoning happening in America's ruling class because zero of the parents that Barry Weiss talked about have the moral courage to stand up and to defeat this, to stand up and call it out for the nonsense that it is, the hypocrisy and the doubled standard.

00:44:33.000 And we wonder why some of the great moral injustices were made possible over the last hundred years.

00:44:40.000 I am more convinced than ever that evil spreads easier than we ever believed.

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00:45:39.000 People ask all the time, Charlie, where can I find interesting pieces to read?

00:45:43.000 Well, cityjournal.org.

00:45:44.000 It's city-journal.org.

00:45:46.000 I don't know who funds them.

00:45:47.000 I don't know who's behind them.

00:45:49.000 All I know is that there's wisdom in this publication, of which there is none in the Washington Post or in the New York Times.

00:45:56.000 And so Barry Weiss was on assignment in this long piece.

00:45:59.000 It's an 11-page piece, which means this is at least a 9,000 to 10,000-word piece.

00:46:04.000 It's a serious, it's a serious investigation, where she talked to students, parents, faculty, and teachers at two different communities, one in New York, one in California, in Brentwood, talking about what's happening in America's schools.

00:46:20.000 And it's stunning to see how these parents are now complaining.

00:46:26.000 They've spotted the problem.

00:46:28.000 They say, and I quote, that I am tired of my child getting called a racist because of his skin color, which, of course, we know that is the new norm.

00:46:35.000 There's an entire American political party that is focused on that called the Democrat Party.

00:46:40.000 And I would just venture a guess.

00:46:41.000 A lot of the parents in these Adirondack chairs that are complaining about it, they had Joe Biden for president signs on their yard.

00:46:48.000 They had Black Lives Matter bumper stickers. 0.71

00:46:51.000 But just your white skin color is reason enough for these people to come after you.

00:46:57.000 I love this one part of the article. 0.87

00:47:00.000 Fluency in woke is an effective class marker and a key for these princelings to retain status in the university and beyond.

00:47:10.000 The parents know this.

00:47:11.000 And so woke is the now lingua franca of the nation's best prep schools.

00:47:19.000 As one mother in LA puts it, quote, this is what all the other colleges are doing, so we have to do it.

00:47:27.000 Ah, everyone else is doing it.

00:47:29.000 The thinking is Harvard does it, so it must be good.

00:47:34.000 The teacher, one of the teachers, who everyone in this piece is anonymous.

00:47:38.000 There's only like one name shared, and that's the author.

00:47:40.000 That's it.

00:47:40.000 Everyone's anonymous because they're all afraid.

00:47:42.000 There's no courage.

00:47:43.000 One of the teachers says, I'm in a cult.

00:47:46.000 Well, that's not exactly right.

00:47:47.000 It's that the cult is all around me, and I'm trying to save kids from becoming members.

00:47:51.000 He continues, quote, I studied critical theory.

00:47:54.000 I saw Jacques Derrida's speak when I was in college.

00:47:57.000 So when this ideology arrived at our school over the past few years, I recognized the language and I knew what it was, but it was in a mutated form.

00:48:06.000 The piece continues by talking about how science is being perverted.

00:48:10.000 And this is something that we've predicted for quite some time.

00:48:13.000 And if all of you listening, I hope that you record this and you write this down.

00:48:19.000 The woke movement is going after science and math very soon.

00:48:23.000 Your children will soon be taught that 2 plus 2 does not equal 4.

00:48:27.000 That is merely an opinion.

00:48:29.000 They will be taught that the quadratic equation is not able to be proven.

00:48:35.000 They'll be taught that physics, thermodynamics, do not have laws.

00:48:38.000 And how do I know this?

00:48:39.000 Because I know the left, but also look what they're being taught in Harvard Westlake.

00:48:44.000 Quote, we don't call them Newton's laws anymore.

00:48:47.000 We call them three fundamental laws of physics.

00:48:50.000 They say we need to decenter whiteness and we need to acknowledge that there's more than just Newton in physics. 0.52

00:48:57.000 Sir Isaac Newton, who is largely responsible for the beginning of the Enlightenment, who happened to be a white man and discovered, he did not invent the laws of physics.

00:49:07.000 They pre-existed Newton.

00:49:09.000 He merely discovered and articulated them and proved them.

00:49:13.000 One of the classmates say that fact, I try to take fact classes, not identity classes, quote, but I took U.S. history and I figured when you learn about U.S. history, maybe you structure it by time period where it happened under each presidency.

00:49:24.000 Instead, we trace different marginalized groups.

00:49:27.000 That's how it was structured.

00:49:28.000 I only heard about a handful of the president's names in class.

00:49:32.000 The piece continues with example after example.

00:49:37.000 A Fieldston student says, quote, if you're a white male, you are second in line to speak.

00:49:43.000 This is considered to be a normal and necessary redistribution of power.

00:49:48.000 At Harvard Westlake, the school recently administered a debunked implicit bias test to 10th graders and says, quote, mom, I just found out I'm a racist and I prefer white Europeans. 0.82

00:49:59.000 Her children is mixed race. 0.97

00:50:01.000 Quote, for my child to come home and be told this by the school, you're a racist. 0.98

00:50:05.000 I was aghast. 0.96

00:50:05.000 I was so, so angry. 0.96

00:50:06.000 Well, if you're so angry, parent, why didn't you put your name in this piece?

00:50:12.000 If you're so outraged, why do you hide behind your hedges in your chauffeured cars and complain about how the ruling class institution that you're funding for $50,000 a year, why are you not doing anything about it? 0.99

00:50:24.000 The answer is because we are ruled by a bunch of cowards. 0.98

00:50:28.000 It's that simple. 0.98

00:50:29.000 Courage is lacking all across the landscape.

00:50:32.000 People say, well, Charlie, how do I be courageous?

00:50:34.000 It's actually unbelievably simple, but very difficult.

00:50:38.000 You must choose to be courageous courageous.

00:50:40.000 You must choose to have it.

00:50:41.000 It's a conscious decision.

00:50:44.000 And for all of these parents and kids and families, first of all, they're all going to get discovered, just so we're clear.

00:50:51.000 I'm going to make a prediction right now.

00:50:53.000 Almost every single one of these parents that talked to Barry Weiss will be ratted out.

00:50:57.000 One person in those Adoradoc chairs is going to sing like a canary to the head of Harvard Westlake, and they will be found out and their children might be removed from the school.

00:51:06.000 I guarantee it.

00:51:07.000 I've seen this happen before.

00:51:09.000 We are already ruled by the woke left, and they wield all this soft power.

00:51:15.000 And now the parents who thought that they were going to be immune to this are living under that very same tyranny that they were endorsing.

00:51:22.000 And do you know what's so funny about all this? 0.79

00:51:25.000 I guarantee you that some of the parents that are complaining about this at Harvard Westlake, they work for the corporations that are funding these sorts of ideas all across the country that are supporting BLM Incorporated.

00:51:37.000 A Brentwood parent says she has tried in small ways to stand up to this.

00:51:40.000 Quote, they say I don't understand because my skin is white.

00:51:44.000 My child asking me obvious questions like, if I work really hard, shouldn't I get rewarded?

00:51:48.000 We know what this is.

00:51:49.000 This is an attack on meritocracy.

00:51:50.000 It's an attack on markets.

00:51:52.000 It's an attack on private property.

00:51:53.000 It's an attack on hard work.

00:51:55.000 We know this.

00:51:55.000 We've been warning against this.

00:51:57.000 But these parents have been asleep.

00:51:59.000 They've been complicit.

00:52:03.000 And if you're a parent out there and this is one of you, it's time to not just get into a little bit of action.

00:52:07.000 It's time for massive action.

00:52:09.000 But the real underlying problem of this is not the coward.

00:52:12.000 It's not just that they don't have courage. 0.98

00:52:14.000 It's that these parents are all egomaniacs. 0.98

00:52:17.000 All of them.

00:52:18.000 None of these parents would be okay with their kids working construction.

00:52:25.000 If you go to one of these Adirondack chair skinny pop popcorn meetings that Barry Weiss talks about and you ask them, 10 parents, how many of you would be okay if your child became a plumber?

00:52:38.000 They would laugh.

00:52:40.000 So these parents would much rather have their children be secular, angry, liberal wokesters than happy, fulfilled, loyally married, upper-middle-class plumbers, electricians, or carpenters.

00:52:57.000 So children, it says here in the piece, now learn how the new rules of woke work. 0.71

00:53:02.000 The idea of lying in order to please a teacher seems like a phenomenon from the Soviet Union.

00:53:07.000 But high schoolers I spoke with said they do versions of this, including parroting views.

00:53:10.000 They don't believe in assignments so that their grades don't suffer.

00:53:13.000 I mean, we've known about this for years.

00:53:15.000 The only way to get a good grade in college is to lie.

00:53:18.000 The only way.

00:53:19.000 15, 20 years ago, this was the case.

00:53:21.000 This is some sort of new phenomenon.

00:53:23.000 I'm telling you right now, the baby boomers, adults, what have you been doing on this landscape?

00:53:29.000 It's unbelievable.

00:53:31.000 Some teachers are rebelling, which in this case looks like becoming a Republican, but others go all in on the ideology, which has caused conflict with parents who don't.

00:53:43.000 Quote, the school has taken over as the moral guide, with me being the irritating person in the background who doesn't really get it.

00:53:49.000 Now, of course, all these parents, they're not going to take their kid out of Harvard Westlake because they want to be able to go to a cocktail party in 10 years in their second home in Malibu and say, yeah, my kid went to Stanford.

00:54:00.000 Not that, oh, yeah, my kid's a plumber in Irvine, employing 100 people, has no debt, loves his country, has a couple kids.

00:54:08.000 Instead, they need the social status.

00:54:12.000 All of this nonsense is because parents are living vicariously through the social status of their children, not caring if their children are becoming good people.

00:54:23.000 No.

00:54:23.000 In fact, do you have parents that are telling their kids, yeah, go lie on that assignment?

00:54:29.000 Not just lie, but institutionalize that lie.

00:54:32.000 Make it permanent.

00:54:34.000 Because you going to a place to get a piece of paper from a four-year school is far more important than your integrity.

00:54:40.000 This is a very good quote.

00:54:42.000 Sometimes the smartest people are the easiest ones to fool.

00:54:46.000 Phenomenal, says a father who recently moved his son from one school to the other.

00:54:51.000 No courage because he doesn't put his name.

00:54:53.000 Quote, if you made a decision to go on the board of Dalton, having espoused all these leftist views forever, and you want your kid to get into Harvard, do you notice how many times they mention getting their kids into Harvard?

00:55:02.000 That's all these parents care about.

00:55:03.000 It's as if they're a failure of existence if their child does not go to Harvard.

00:55:08.000 Not that they're a good person.

00:55:11.000 You're just not going to do it.

00:55:12.000 Most people want to be members of the club.

00:55:14.000 Yeah, yourself included.

00:55:16.000 You know why smart people are so easy to fool?

00:55:18.000 Because they have no wisdom.

00:55:21.000 Intelligence and wisdom are not the same thing.

00:55:25.000 This mother says, I don't mean to get emotional.

00:55:28.000 I just feel helpless as she fought back the tears.

00:55:30.000 I look at the public school and I'm equally mortified.

00:55:33.000 I can't believe what they're doing, everybody.

00:55:34.000 I'm too afraid.

00:55:35.000 I'm too afraid to speak too loudly.

00:55:37.000 I feel cowardly.

00:55:38.000 I just make little waves.

00:55:39.000 Another tells me, I fear of retribution.

00:55:40.000 Would it cause my daughter to be ostracized?

00:55:42.000 Guess what?

00:55:43.000 The fight for the country is difficult.

00:55:45.000 You might have to break out of your Yukon XL and sacrifice something.

00:55:49.000 As I've said, we are creating the most racist generation since slavery.

00:55:56.000 That is what our public schools are doing.

00:55:59.000 The most racist generation.

00:56:01.000 I will read this entire paragraph in its entirety.

00:56:04.000 I have a friend in New York who is a mother to a four-year-old.

00:56:08.000 She seems exactly the kind of parent these schools would want to attract.

00:56:12.000 A successful entrepreneur, a feminist, and a die-hard Manhattanite.

00:56:17.000 She's dreamed of sending her daughter to a school like Dalton.

00:56:21.000 One day at home, in the midst of the application process, she was drawing with her daughter.

00:56:27.000 Her daughter said offhandedly, quote, Mom, I need to draw in my own skin color.

00:56:34.000 Skin color, she told her mother, is, quote, really important.

00:56:39.000 She said that's what she learned in school. 0.64

00:56:43.000 And her mother of a four-year-old, those moms right now that have kids that are three, four, five years old, it's either going to have the courage to stand up to all of this, or you'll oversee the creation of the most racist, bigoted, backwards, and regressive generation since slavery.

00:57:02.000 On the front page of CharlieKirk.com, I encourage all of you guys to go right now to charliekirk.com.

00:57:07.000 It's a great website, if I might say so myself.

00:57:10.000 Posh New York City School wants students to stop using terms mom and dad to be more inclusive.

00:57:16.000 A private Manhattan school that charges $57,000 a year has issued a 12-page, quote, inclusive language guide to staff, students, and parents, which encouraged them to stop using the terms mom and dad.

00:57:28.000 Daily Mail reports, quote, Grace Church School in Noho has offered a 12-page guide to staff, students, and parents, encouraging them to stop using the terms mom and dad.

00:57:39.000 This is an Episcopal school, just so we're clear.

00:57:41.000 This is a Christian school.

00:57:44.000 Also offers schools and after courses for students that include single gender groups, the Roots of Empathy program, and a course called Allying Why, Who, How.

00:57:55.000 According to the guidelines, instead of using the words mom and dad, students should say grown-ups or folks or family.

00:58:01.000 And instead of husband, wife, or boyfriend, or girlfriend, they should be replaced with spouse, partner, or significant other. 0.78

00:58:06.000 Quote, while we recognize hateful language, hateful, saying mother and father is hateful in a Christian school.

00:58:15.000 Do you see kind of why we've been hesitant to say we should ban hate speech?

00:58:20.000 The terms husband, wife, boyfriend, and girlfriend are hateful.

00:58:25.000 I guess they won't be teaching the Ten Commandments.

00:58:28.000 Honor your mother and father.

00:58:31.000 I mean this as lovingly as I possibly can, and I can't wait for all the hate to come in.

00:58:36.000 I'm not surprised if this is an Episcopal school.

00:58:39.000 Just not.

00:58:40.000 I'm sure there's lots of good Episcopal institutions out there.

00:58:43.000 Most of them are like this.

00:58:45.000 He said the concept of the glossary stemmed from, quote, our desire to promote a sense of belonging for all of our students.

00:58:53.000 As part of our Episcopal identity, we realize the dignity and worth common to humanity.

00:59:00.000 Basically, Reverend Robert Pennoyer II, the assistant head of the school, said about the inclusion glossary that we must create welcoming and inclusive spaces, and we must fight against misogyny, homophobia, racism, and ban hateful language.

00:59:19.000 Well, I have a suggestion for Grace Church School.

00:59:23.000 You've probably already done this, but then under your own rules, have you banned the Bible?

00:59:29.000 God meet created man and woman, honor your mother and your father?

00:59:34.000 And that is a Christian school in New York City.

00:59:38.000 You see, the left is like a lidless eye.

00:59:40.000 It never blinks.

00:59:41.000 Imagine an eye that never blinks.

00:59:44.000 They're focused.

00:59:45.000 They're intense.

00:59:46.000 They take over everything they possibly can.

00:59:50.000 And the only way to push back against all of it, from the Barry Weiss story to the California mandatory Aztec worshiping for children or the Chicago reparations, is that decent people need to start being courageous.

01:00:11.000 They need to stop being so quiet. 1.00

01:00:13.000 The wokesters, they've been platformed, supported, and given confidence that they can destroy you. 1.00

01:00:26.000 It's now time for everyone to find a little courage within. 1.00

01:00:32.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:00:33.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

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01:00:45.000 Talk to you soon.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - March 12, 2021

Reparations, Aztec Chants, and the 'Miseducation' of America's Elites

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