The Charlie Kirk Show - The Surprising Way Critical Race Theory May Actually Save America

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00:03:38.000 What if I told you the Democrats decided to give a gift to America?

00:03:43.000 What if I told you that the Democrats, while they controlled almost everything, they decided to do something that was handing up to Republicans and conservatives a gift politically that would allow us to organize, that would allow us to have unified messaging, that would bring together the different components of our movement and our party.

00:04:11.000 You see, issues in off-election years, such as 2017 and 2021, especially for the party that does not occupy the White House, they are historically very difficult.

00:04:22.000 For the Democrats in 2017, of course, they were already calling for Trump's impeachment minutes after he took the oath of office.

00:04:32.000 They then went to the Mueller investigation and they made Russia and immigration, kids in cages, their number one issue.

00:04:41.000 And these issues in election years, they tend to be somewhat forced or very reactionary.

00:04:48.000 Political parties always have to try to find something to rally their activists and their donors and to try to win back the narrative.

00:04:58.000 Now, let's go back six months ago or five months ago.

00:05:02.000 Five months ago, on January 21st, Joe Biden had just took the oath of office.

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00:05:43.000 Five months ago, the conservative movement was not really sure how to proceed. 0.91

00:05:47.000 There were fights amongst Liz Cheney and the Trump base of the party.

00:05:53.000 But a dozen Republicans decided to impeach Donald Trump in the House in the quickest impeachment ever in American history.

00:06:00.000 Democrats already controlled almost every single major cultural institution, and they still control many of these.

00:06:09.000 Media, government, education, economy, family, religion, arts, and entertainment.

00:06:14.000 They monopolized almost everything.

00:06:17.000 We had Major League Baseball moving the All-Star game from Georgia to Denver. 0.84

00:06:22.000 We had massive corporations such as Coca-Cola teaching all of their employees that why all white people are racist.

00:06:30.000 We had churches that were aligning with the Biden agenda.

00:06:34.000 It seemed as if we couldn't get any form of momentum.

00:06:39.000 We couldn't get out of our own way.

00:06:41.000 But then the Democrats decided to give us a gift.

00:06:44.000 In what could only be described as a risky or dicing, dicey strategy, Democrats decided to go all in and double and triple down on their implementation of a extremely radical, unproven, once obscure and fringe academic theory.

00:07:07.000 This is what the brilliance of all this is.

00:07:09.000 In reaction to how much they hated Donald Trump, the fringe part of the leftist, collectivist, let's just say, aspect of the Democrat Party started to be given a bigger and bigger platform.

00:07:22.000 In schools and colleges across the country, we started to see these three words start to pop up more, and we've experienced this a lot at Turning Point USA, critical race theory.

00:07:35.000 Critical race theory started to become the norm, especially after the death of George Floyd.

00:07:41.000 Now, we've gone into a great deal about how George Floyd was a criminal, about how George Floyd likely overdosed.

00:07:49.000 Derek Chauvin was convicted by a jury of his peers, and I tend to trust a system that allows a jury of one peers to make a decision.

00:07:58.000 With that being said, that might be overturned because of Maxine Waters' public pressure, the non-sequestration of that jury.

00:08:06.000 And also, the judge himself said this might actually be overturned on appeal.

00:08:11.000 But after George Floyd, it seemed as if anything that dealt with race, especially that was anti-white, was given an unprecedented platform in our country.

00:08:23.000 These three words, critical race theory, a year ago, was probably known by less than 1% of the American population.

00:08:30.000 If I would have told you critical race theory, you'd say, what's that?

00:08:34.000 And I would have to go into some sort of academic, meandering explanation about how critical race theory, its latest manifestation, is privilege walks, white privilege, the overemphasis on race.

00:08:47.000 And you'd say, yeah, okay, I sort of get that, but it's not really anywhere.

00:08:51.000 Now, critical race theory, I believe, is known by well over 75% of the informed and engaged electorate in our country.

00:09:00.000 You see, the Democrats and the left and the academics and the collectivists and the statists handed a wedge issue to us that favors conservatives.

00:09:13.000 Now, it's a very dangerous track that we're on right now because we're not going to win everywhere.

00:09:20.000 We're not going to be able to get this removed from every single public education system, every single institution.

00:09:27.000 Certain areas, like the Chicago Teacher Union or the LA Unified School District, they are going to continue to have critical race theory implemented.

00:09:36.000 And because of that, they're going to create the most racist generation since Jim Crow.

00:09:41.000 However, we can win almost everywhere else.

00:09:44.000 You see, the Democrats, because they think they control everything, which is partially true, they say we now need the latest, most radical, postmodern idea imaginable.

00:09:59.000 Ah, not that we should judge people based on skin color or their spirit.

00:10:04.000 The leftists basically playing into their inner Hegelian dialectic, they say, I see.

00:10:14.000 What we need is to judge people based on how they look, because that's progress.

00:10:19.000 This sort of strategy has all of a sudden had an opposite reaction that is organic, authentic, robust, grassroots.

00:10:30.000 It is not coordinated in some ways.

00:10:33.000 It's bigger and more powerful than the Tea Party movement back in 2010.

00:10:40.000 And the Democrats gave this gift to America because they decided to double and triple down on something they don't really understand.

00:10:49.000 We're going to go through again as a recap: what is critical race theory?

00:10:52.000 Where did it come from?

00:10:54.000 And then I'm going to show you some of the polling.

00:10:56.000 I'm going to show you how this has now become a top-tier issue for voters on how the Virginia governor's race is a tie thanks to critical race theory being implemented in Loudoun public schools.

00:11:08.000 You see, the Democrats did exactly what we predicted they would do here on this program.

00:11:13.000 They overshot their target.

00:11:14.000 They went too big.

00:11:16.000 They decided not to be disciplined.

00:11:18.000 They got greedy.

00:11:19.000 And with it, they elevated pseudo-academics who are real racists, like Nicole Hannah Jones and Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo to teach your children.

00:11:28.000 What they didn't anticipate is the moms and dads fighting back.

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00:12:40.000 Where would we be if the Democrats were not power-hungry, greedy, undisciplined activists that try to push forward ideas that are very unpopular and then double and tripling them down on them and then calling you a racist if you dare oppose them?

00:12:54.000 I think we'd be in a tough spot.

00:12:57.000 You see, back in the 1970s and 80s, the conservative movement was a coalition.

00:13:02.000 It was a coalition built on widespread agreement that the Soviet Union was evil and that communism was not the answer.

00:13:10.000 You had libertarians playing nicely with neoconservatives, playing nicely with movement conservatives, and a lot of their differences were not always clear because everyone hated the Soviet Union.

00:13:21.000 Now, in a year where a lot of this robust disagreement was supposed to be taking place, I actually would enjoy it just from a personal entertainment level, but it's actually not that good for the movement.

00:13:31.000 We have now been given this incredible coalition builder.

00:13:37.000 And that coalition builder is this fringe theory that all of a sudden people are asking more and more questions about.

00:13:44.000 Now, on our program, we were one of the first programs to walk through methodically what is critical race theory.

00:13:51.000 You can actually go back, you can go to charliekirk.com.

00:13:54.000 We're going to try to repost this episode.

00:13:55.000 We had Peter Bogosian and James Lindsay on our podcast in June of last year, before they were the cool kids on this topic.

00:14:05.000 Before his book, Cynical Theories, which I encourage all of you to check out, How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity, sold well over 100,000 copies in just the last year.

00:14:18.000 We saw where this was headed because we've been fighting against critical race theory for quite some time on our university campuses and in our high schools.

00:14:25.000 And the Democrats already controlling every major cultural institution, they weren't able to resist the temptation to then implement the next wrinkle, the next variation in their attempted remaking or revolution of the American Republic.

00:14:45.000 So let's go through what critical race theory is.

00:14:48.000 Critical race theory stems from critical theory.

00:14:51.000 Critical theory is an idea from a man by the name of Herbert Makusa.

00:14:56.000 He came from the Frankfurt School.

00:14:58.000 He was kicked out because he was a Marxist and landed in America.

00:15:02.000 In America, he came up with this idea of critical theory, which it literally is in the name.

00:15:07.000 It criticizes pre-existing power structures and it's an extension of postmodernism.

00:15:13.000 Now, not everything in postmodernism is necessarily untrue, but after you get through the 5% of things that they say that are true, the 95% of garbage ends up leads you to a place of repulsion and hopefully vehement opposition.

00:15:28.000 Postmodernism is a way of looking at the world.

00:15:32.000 It's this idea that once we were in antiquity, then we were in modernity, and now we will enter postmodern America or the postmodern world.

00:15:42.000 There's no correct way to view the world is one of the things that postmodernists believe.

00:15:47.000 They believe in frame theory.

00:15:49.000 Frame theory is a belief that anything can be anything.

00:15:53.000 This is a direct affront and at odds with Aristotle and his belief of the law of identity.

00:15:59.000 Who's to say that that pencil is a pencil?

00:16:01.000 Who's to say that that book is a book?

00:16:03.000 In fact, I would make an argument, it is at war with who we are as human beings.

00:16:07.000 You see, if you tell a person to go into a room and you say, hey, go grab me a pencil, they might have never seen that pencil before, but they'd be easily able to identify it.

00:16:17.000 Why?

00:16:18.000 That is called the common noun miracle.

00:16:20.000 The common noun miracle is how we're able to categorize and organize things into groups or into pre-existing descriptions despite never seeing those things before.

00:16:30.000 You might walk into a restaurant and might have a certain type of a coffee cup you've never seen before, but you know it's a coffee cup.

00:16:36.000 That is a unique human attribute.

00:16:39.000 Frame theory is at direct odds with this very simple revelation that the Greeks and the classics gave us, which is known as the common noun miracle, hat tip to Larry Arne, who taught me that from the Great Hillsdale College.

00:16:52.000 Frame theory and the idea of postmodern America is this, you have your own truth.

00:16:57.000 I want to speak my own truth now.

00:16:59.000 Not all of that is necessarily total garbage.

00:17:03.000 There is something to understanding someone's personal narrative.

00:17:06.000 But when you take it to its furthest logical extension of criticizing everything that came before you, progress for progress sake, then you get the latest variation of German historicism known as progressivism.

00:17:20.000 And the danger of postmodernism, which is what we're dealing with right now in its latest kind of very evil spawn, is that critical race theory is at direct war with the positive attributes of the West and of America.

00:17:38.000 What if I told you that this is now the one thing America can agree on?

00:17:43.000 America can't agree on Major League Baseball, NBA, can't agree on even whether or not we should fly flags on July 4th.

00:17:50.000 But the one thing that we can agree on, it's a majority popular issue, is that what the Democrats believe is awful.

00:17:58.000 Thank you, Democrats.

00:18:00.000 So the Democrats have given us a gift.

00:18:03.000 They've given us a gift where they've decided to go all in at a moment where they seem to be winning.

00:18:12.000 But this is a common pattern of totalitarian tyrants.

00:18:16.000 Napoleon didn't have to try to go get Russia.

00:18:19.000 When conquerors go too far, like Alexander the Great to India, things tend to fall apart.

00:18:26.000 The same is happening here.

00:18:28.000 Japan did not have to bomb Pearl Harbor.

00:18:31.000 When empires or people with power push their boundaries a little bit too much, decent people are then given an opportunity to push back.

00:18:40.000 So as we've been walking through what critical race theory is, I want to reinforce how unpopular it is.

00:18:47.000 You can't get Americans to agree on anything right now.

00:18:51.000 What if I told you a new economist, YouGovPoll, found opposition of critical race theory amongst just people in the middle, 58%.

00:19:03.000 58% of Americans oppose critical race theory.

00:19:06.000 Now, I'm not going to take credit for anything, but I will say that this program, we played a role in getting the word out against critical race theory early and often.

00:19:17.000 Credit to Christopher Ruffo.

00:19:18.000 Credit to James Lindsay.

00:19:20.000 Credit to Helen Pluckrose.

00:19:21.000 Credit to Candace Owens.

00:19:23.000 And credit to our amazing team here on the Charlie Kirk Show in Turning Point USA, because we have dedicated dozens of hours of programming to opposing critical race theory.

00:19:32.000 Then, credit to you.

00:19:34.000 For all of you right now, maybe you're driving in beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona, where it's 122 degrees already at 9:37 in the morning, and maybe you just told your friends about how evil critical race theory is.

00:19:44.000 Good for you.

00:19:46.000 Because the polling is showing this is a winning issue, not just a little bit, but a lot.

00:19:52.000 In fact, only 25% of the country has a very favorable view of critical race theory.

00:20:06.000 25%.

00:20:10.000 And so, let's go through why it is so negative.

00:20:14.000 Let's go through why the public approval is where it is.

00:20:20.000 And I also want to play you some of the reaction from some of the pundits that think that critical race theory is just the greatest thing ever.

00:20:26.000 So, here are eight characteristics of critical race theory, written by my friend James Lindsay, who's a frequent guest on this program and our podcast.

00:20:36.000 Number one, critical race theory believes that racism is present in every aspect of life, every relationship, and every interaction, and therefore has its advocates look for it everywhere.

00:20:51.000 Now, before I go any further, for those of you that think this is a fringe idea that has still not hit your hometown, it probably has.

00:21:02.000 You have to just look for it.

00:21:04.000 It's in our military, too, by the way.

00:21:06.000 Our United States military, they are requiring our military members to read how to be an anti-racist.

00:21:14.000 If you want to become a general in the United States military, you have to read How to Become an Anti-Racist by Robin D'Angelo.

00:21:21.000 So, here are the eight things, and maybe you're driving and you need to pull over and write these down.

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00:21:33.000 Again, racism is present everywhere, every aspect of life, every relationship, and every interaction, and therefore its advocates have to look for it everywhere.

00:21:41.000 You hear that, those of you in Fargo, North Dakota?

00:21:45.000 Even though you might live very quiet and decent and peaceable lives, everything you do if you're a white person is inherently racist.

00:21:54.000 Number two, critical race theory believes on interest convergence, otherwise known as intersectionality.

00:22:03.000 Quote, white people only give black people opportunities and freedoms when it is also in their own interest.

00:22:10.000 Therefore, don't trust any attempt to make racism better by white people.

00:22:16.000 So, for example, the critical race theorists think that the 400,000, find the exact number, 300,000 white people that died in the American Civil War to free the slaves, that was them being very selfish. 0.60

00:22:29.000 The critical race theorists think that the white people that fought for the union cause, that died for something greater than themselves, they were, quote, in interest convergence because critical 360,222, that's not too bad that I pulled it from my hat right there.

00:22:51.000 The 360,222 people that died for the union cause in the American Civil War, they were only acting in their own interest.

00:23:05.000 Therefore, don't trust any attempts to make racism better.

00:23:09.000 Number three, critical race theory believes, and they are firm about this, that any free society is the problem and they want to dismantle them and replace them with something its advocates control.

00:23:22.000 This is against free societies, free markets, private property, discourse, and dialogue.

00:23:30.000 I'll get to that in a second.

00:23:31.000 Critical race theory only treats race issues as socially constructed groups.

00:23:36.000 So there are no individuals.

00:23:39.000 You are not made in the image of God.

00:23:40.000 You're a member of your tribe.

00:23:43.000 You are not your own person with your own consciousness, dreams, ambition.

00:23:47.000 Be held accountable with your own development of your character.

00:23:49.000 No, you are a member of how you look.

00:23:52.000 The jersey that you wear in the game of critical race theory is your skin color.

00:23:57.000 And that's what matters.

00:23:58.000 Not whether or not you have a developed soul, a spirit that needs to be saved by our Lord and Savior, or a character that needs to be improved upon.

00:24:08.000 No, what matters is how you look.

00:24:11.000 See, critical race theory, which is being taught to so many children across the country, cares about things you cannot change.

00:24:18.000 What has made America and the West different and exceptional is we have always focused on things you can change.

00:24:25.000 A moral country tries to put a focus on things you can better and develop and improve, not on things you cannot improve.

00:24:34.000 So number five, believe science, reason, and evidence are white. 0.95

00:24:41.000 And they're only used as a way of knowing that storytelling and lived experiences are a black alternative, which hurt everyone, especially black people. 0.98

00:24:50.000 You hear that? 0.93

00:24:51.000 Science, reason, and evidence.

00:24:57.000 Science and the scientific method is not any sort of skin color or any sort of racial identity.

00:25:06.000 We know this.

00:25:07.000 I would love the critical race theorists to explain George Washington Carver.

00:25:14.000 That's right, George Washington Carver, a black scientist, one of the greatest men ever to live.

00:25:19.000 I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich the other day, and it was really good.

00:25:22.000 I have not had one in so long.

00:25:24.000 And I have to say, we've all been sold a packet of lies.

00:25:29.000 The fact that peanut butter and jelly is not part of our steady diet as humans.

00:25:33.000 I'm telling you, it's a very serious thing.

00:25:36.000 My wife Erica had to hear this whole speech about how much I think, I think we've just been deceived.

00:25:43.000 Anyway, George Washington Carver, a black man who was a scientist.

00:25:49.000 I'd love to have them figure that one out. 0.70

00:25:51.000 But no, they think that science and reason are white, and they want to abolish science and reason, which is exactly why the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, they are funding organizations that teach black kids that two plus two equals five.

00:26:07.000 Nothing is objective in the eyes of the critical race theorists.

00:26:12.000 Critical race theorists also reject all possible alternatives like colorblindness as forms of racism, making itself the only allowable game in town.

00:26:22.000 This is totalitarian in nature.

00:26:24.000 They will destroy you if you dare disagree with them. 0.91

00:26:28.000 Critical race theory also believes that anyone who disagree with them must do for racist and white supremacist reasons, even if those people are black, which is also totalitarian. 0.52

00:26:39.000 And finally, critical race theory cannot be satisfied.

00:26:43.000 So it becomes a kind of activist black hole that threatens to destroy everything it is introduced to.

00:26:48.000 That is the most important one that I want to segue into.

00:26:52.000 Critical race theory cannot ever be satisfied.

00:26:58.000 Critical race theory has an insatiable appetite, almost like a parasitic virus, to deconstruct.

00:27:07.000 What if I told you that it is a sister, a partner, or a cousin to an academic theory called deconstructionism?

00:27:15.000 Deconstructionism is a part of the academic canon of the secular university.

00:27:22.000 Cannot be satisfied, so it becomes a kind of activist black hole.

00:27:27.000 Well, critical race theory needs to poison your prior adoration of your country, history, and tradition.

00:27:36.000 Let me say that again.

00:27:37.000 Critical race theory needs to poison your previous love of your nation.

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00:28:13.000 Okay, George Washington Carver, according to the national peanut board.org, seems to be an authority figure on peanuts, was known as the peanut innovator and entrepreneur.

00:28:24.000 He published, quote, how to grow the peanut and 105 ways of preparing it for human consumption.

00:28:30.000 So he didn't invent the peanut.

00:28:32.000 I just want to make sure I'm very clear.

00:28:34.000 But he was basically the Leonardo da Vinci of the peanut, okay?

00:28:37.000 The Leonardo da Vinci to the helicopter is George Washington Carver to the peanut.

00:28:42.000 The Wright brothers to aerial flight is George Washington Carver to the peanut.

00:28:45.000 Do I have to keep on going?

00:28:46.000 Henry Ford to the assembly line is George Washington Carver to the peanut.

00:28:50.000 Okay, but they don't teach about George Washington Carver anymore in schools.

00:28:53.000 Instead, they teach you about Nicole Hanna-Jones and whatever.

00:28:57.000 And so I know how the critical race theorists and the arsonists who call themselves leftists, I know how they operate.

00:29:06.000 And so I'm onto them.

00:29:09.000 And I know that one of the things I have to do is to try to delegitimize history and try to undercut the positive, the positive tradition of loving one's country or one's home.

00:29:26.000 And so last week, we came out, I would say out of a 10, out of 10, we were at 10 on this idea of Juneteenth.

00:29:33.000 We did so rationally and factually.

00:29:36.000 And Candace Owens did as well.

00:29:40.000 Now, we were definitely in, let's say, the minority opinion, but not anymore.

00:29:44.000 I do have to say, if you look at just the Overton window and the Zeitgeist, all of a sudden people are speaking out.

00:29:50.000 Now, I came out about Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday.

00:29:54.000 Obviously, I support the essence of the original day of Juneteenth.

00:29:58.000 That's nowhere near did I question it.

00:30:00.000 Nowhere near, none of my commentary did I say that.

00:30:04.000 That's a sloppy and quite honestly, intentionally misleading tactic by people that do not want to actually take us at the merits of our concern.

00:30:15.000 And our concern actually ended up being true.

00:30:18.000 Our concern is that certain cities will start canceling July 4th and embracing Juneteenth. 0.56

00:30:25.000 Oh, what do you know? 1.00

00:30:26.000 For all my friends on AM560, the answer, we were proven to be correct. 0.63

00:30:31.000 The city of Evanston, Illinois, located just north of Chicago, joined committees, communities across the United States by celebrating in-person Juneteenth parade, but have canceled July 4th and the nation's Independence Day parade. 0.98

00:30:50.000 So Juneteenth now takes precedence over July 4th.

00:30:54.000 That is precisely what we predicted on this program. 0.91

00:30:58.000 We said that if you give the activists and you give them a competitor July 4th, celebrities and corporations will start to turn a back on the moral, colorless, transcendent celebration of July 4th and will start focus on a black-centered racial political day like June 19th. 0.79

00:31:21.000 And this is all part of the playbook of critical race theory. 0.61

00:31:24.000 Remember what I said at the back, at the bottom of the list, number eight, is that critical race theorists cannot be satisfied.

00:31:33.000 So it becomes an activist kind of black hole that threatens to destroy everything it's introduced to, including your traditions and July 4th.

00:31:41.000 What if I told you an op-ed written over the weekend, as we predicted they're going to try to go after the American flag?

00:31:46.000 America needs a new flag that all of us can honor by Macy Gray.

00:31:50.000 No idea who that is. 0.97

00:31:51.000 She's allegedly some sort of singer, big enough where it's a Grammy award-winning R ⁇ B soul singer, singer, songwriter.

00:32:00.000 Her song, I try, was a number one single.

00:32:03.000 So I guess she's a one-hit wonder.

00:32:04.000 Is that what she's known for?

00:32:06.000 And she said the American flag is old glory, which is akin to the Confederate battle flag.

00:32:14.000 And we need a new flag because she said it's a symbol of white supremacy, as we predicted.

00:32:22.000 Corporation after corporation tweeted and sent out emails saying that our history is broken.

00:32:29.000 In fact, hashtag Juneteenth was the Marxist clenched fist with the Pan-African flag symbol within it.

00:32:38.000 Elon Omar tweeted out, proud Juneteenth is now a federal holiday.

00:32:42.000 As we reflect on the significance of what this day symbolizes, let's keep fighting to address the lasting consequences of slavery.

00:32:48.000 Next step, reparations.

00:32:51.000 You see, the entire idea of the Hegelian dialectic is small, incremental steps of progress to an inevitable goal.

00:33:01.000 One of those was creating a summertime competitor to July 4th.

00:33:05.000 One of those was trying to institutionalize via a federal holiday where we all talk about race all day long, not talk about transcendent and eternal and divine truths like we used to do on July 4th.

00:33:17.000 Critical race theory is a gift from the Democrats to those of us that want to actually build a robust counterpolitical movement to the statism and the tyranny that we are living under right now.

00:33:28.000 Critical race theory, the eight attributes of critical race theory we went through.

00:33:32.000 The basic is this.

00:33:34.000 They care about focusing on your skin color.

00:33:37.000 They do not think you're an individual.

00:33:39.000 They think you're a member of your tribe.

00:33:41.000 They do not believe in science or reason or math.

00:33:43.000 They are generally authoritarian in nature because if you do not hold their views, then they will call you a racist, which is their new tactic that they do right now.

00:33:58.000 So how are the people in kind of the Democrat intelligentsia responding to this?

00:34:05.000 Well, they're only about four months late.

00:34:07.000 Now, before I get to this, I have to say there are dozens and dozens and dozens of videos we get sent every single week at freedom at charliekirk.com of parents that are showing up to school board meetings across the country to recall members of the school board because of their embrace of critical race theory.

00:34:28.000 My buddy Scott Hennan, who runs the Flag Network, texted me, FYI, a well-organized group of Fargo moms who are wary of the COVID rules, are gathering signatures to recall four Fargo school members, school board members, including one who is a mass crazy pediatrician and one who's a supporter of critical race theory.

00:34:47.000 That's a good lesson for everyone out there, by the way, is that if you see this implemented in your school, you must show up and do something about it.

00:34:56.000 So now this has all of a sudden been being met with a massive deluge of op-eds, of cable news segments saying that this is somehow a far right-wing movement.

00:35:07.000 The polling shows this is a this is way deeper and more sophisticated than just a political reaction.

00:35:15.000 This is a cultural reaction.

00:35:18.000 Let's go to cut number six.

00:35:20.000 NBC reporter Ben Collins baselessly and without any sort of evidence says that this might seem like a grassroots movement, but it's really being funded by large dark money organizations to push new lines of thought.

00:35:34.000 Pure gaslighting.

00:35:36.000 Play six.

00:35:37.000 You might think this is a grassroots movement.

00:35:39.000 You might think that suddenly everyone's rising up against what they all know about critical race theory and are against critical race theory.

00:35:47.000 However, it's not really actually like that.

00:35:49.000 There are a bunch of dark money groups that are pushing new lines of thought.

00:35:55.000 So he's trying to say, oh, this is an astroturf movement.

00:35:58.000 So all these moms that are showing up, do we have the, actually, yeah, this one right here.

00:36:03.000 So according to Ben Collins, cut seven, this nine-year-old student who calls out, quote, no politics or BLM in schools, hypocrisy at a PTA meeting, according to Ben Collins, the NBC reporter, this nine-year-old speaking out against critical race theory is being paid by some sort of dark money group when in reality, they're the dark money groups.

00:36:24.000 BLM Incorporated is a dark money group.

00:36:27.000 The teacher unions are a dark money group.

00:36:29.000 How about the Center for Technology and Civic Life, Mark Zuckerberg's $400 million takeover of American elections?

00:36:36.000 Those are dark money groups.

00:36:37.000 According to NBC, this nine-year-old who stuns everyone with public comment is a paid actor.

00:36:46.000 Cut seven.

00:36:47.000 I was told two weeks ago at this very meeting spot, no politics in school.

00:36:52.000 I believed what you said at this meeting.

00:36:54.000 So at lunch, I went up to my principal to tell him about the BLM poster and that I wanted it down.

00:37:00.000 He said it's not coming down.

00:37:02.000 I was like, yeah, it is because the school board said on May 25th, no BLM or politics in school.

00:37:09.000 He said, that's weird.

00:37:15.000 When I was here two weeks ago, you told us to report any BLM in our schools.

00:37:19.000 Apparently, you know, they're in our schools because you made the signs.

00:37:24.000 Calling out the school board members to their face.

00:37:27.000 Does this seem like a political movement that anyone has ever experienced before?

00:37:31.000 I haven't.

00:37:33.000 This is something that is non-orchestrated.

00:37:35.000 It is robust.

00:37:36.000 It is spontaneous.

00:37:38.000 It's exciting.

00:37:38.000 And at times, it could be a little messy.

00:37:40.000 Producer Connor and I went to the Chandler Unified School District and I spoke there two weeks ago.

00:37:46.000 And everyone kind of has their own thing.

00:37:48.000 You have the anti-vaccine people.

00:37:50.000 You have the hydroxychloroquine people.

00:37:52.000 You have the mask people, the critical race theory people.

00:37:55.000 The, you know, you cut me off when I was trying to exit the school by picking up my kid from swim practice people.

00:38:01.000 But it's kind of this amazing kind of gathering point and organizing around citizens that want to retake their country. 0.89

00:38:09.000 And in the 1970s and 80s, conservatives and people on the center and the center right of America were able to agree the Soviet Union was garbage.

00:38:19.000 I'm telling you right now, critical race theory and its almost religious implementation in America is the new metaphorical Soviet Union that is being pushed into school boards across the country. 0.77

00:38:35.000 This is not going away anytime soon.

00:38:37.000 Let's play part two of this nine-year-old speaking.

00:38:40.000 Play cut two. 0.97

00:38:41.000 I said there should be no BLM in schools, period. 0.86

00:38:44.000 Does not matter the color you make the posters and the font you use. 0.93

00:38:48.000 We all understand the meaning.

00:38:50.000 It is a political message about getting rid of police officers, rioting, burning buildings down while King Governor Walch just sits on his throne and watches.

00:39:00.000 We all know changing the font or the color of posters does not change the meaning.

00:39:05.000 I am nine years old and I know that.

00:39:07.000 I think that's in Minnesota, if it's Governor Waltz, if I'm not mistaken.

00:39:12.000 That's a nine-year-old going to school board meetings and speaking out.

00:39:17.000 And there are hundreds of parents that are doing this across the country.

00:39:21.000 And if you are listening to this, you should show up to a school board meeting near you as well, because they're probably putting forth this racist ideology of critical race theory.

00:39:32.000 And what's amazing is the Democrats gave this to us.

00:39:36.000 It's awfully perplexing, isn't it?

00:39:38.000 That they would decide to not just implement this, but defend it.

00:39:42.000 Listen to some of their apparatchiks on television trying to defend critical race theory.

00:39:49.000 Let's play cut one of Don Laman defending the new KKK, cut one.

00:39:55.000 That's your idea of, that's the whole thing about what privilege is, is that people don't like to have their pleasure interrupted, their peace interrupted.

00:40:07.000 And so people think that it should be the way that it should be because they have been taught that in this country.

00:40:13.000 Huh.

00:40:13.000 Don't like to have your peace interrupted.

00:40:15.000 Does Don Lamond ever tell his audience that he has a multi-million dollar SAG harbor home while he gets to have his peace interrupted when he gets to lecture the rest of the country at his show that has less viewers than the cooking channel?

00:40:31.000 The cooking channel actually has more viewers than CNN.

00:40:33.000 I'm half kidding.

00:40:35.000 I don't know the cooking channel's ratings, but I bet they're competitive and far more entertaining.

00:40:40.000 So Don Lamond says that, well, how would you, you don't want your peace interrupted when he's talking about critical race theory.

00:40:48.000 But this has now got to a point where the reaction is something that is now manifesting itself in what Aristotle called the highest form of community, which combines morality and sociability, politics.

00:41:04.000 And the Democrats don't really know how to react to this.

00:41:07.000 They're saying, oh, this is an astroturf movement, or you guys are white fragile, as Robin D'Angelo would say.

00:41:14.000 But this is a multi-racial backlash against this.

00:41:18.000 In fact, it is critical race theory is at direct odds with the small L-liberal tradition of so many of these institutions across the country.

00:41:28.000 I want you to see this cut 16, where white people are pledging themselves to be part of the woke mob.

00:41:36.000 About racism, anti-blackness, or violence. 0.98

00:41:39.000 About racism and black violence. 0.98

00:41:43.000 I will use my voice in the most uplifting way possible. 1.00

00:41:47.000 I will raise my voice and do everything in my power to educate my community.

00:41:54.000 And to reverse my power to educate my community.

00:41:58.000 That's creepy.

00:41:59.000 And it's a religion.

00:42:02.000 Cornell Belcher, whoever that is, says that critical race theory is not grassroots.

00:42:06.000 It's organized and it's being paid for.

00:42:09.000 It's manufactured.

00:42:10.000 And then sort of the fire was lit, Chuck Todd said.

00:42:14.000 You know what?

00:42:14.000 Chuck Todd is not actually wrong.

00:42:17.000 It is manufactured.

00:42:19.000 It was manufactured by academics who couldn't sit still when they controlled everything.

00:42:24.000 And they went too far.

00:42:25.000 And the reaction is robust.

00:42:27.000 The Trump political movement or the conservative movement was at risk, was at risk of becoming adrift, aimless, directionless, not able to really find something to focus on.

00:42:43.000 Now, someone who I know, I actually spent time with her.

00:42:47.000 She's a reporter for NBC.

00:42:49.000 She's doing a story on Candace, and Candace and her got in a very heated discussion that was at Stanford University at one of our Turning Point USA tours.

00:42:57.000 That was like three years ago.

00:42:58.000 This woman by the name of Brandy Zadrozny, she, on the surface, says something that she thinks is a criticism to try to get all the MSNBC people fired up.

00:43:08.000 But she says something completely and totally true.

00:43:11.000 And she says that the push against critical race theory is a continuation of the America first agenda of Trump.

00:43:17.000 She's exactly right.

00:43:19.000 Is that the Trump movement was at risk of not really knowing what to do with itself?

00:43:24.000 Now, all of a sudden, you have people that even might have voted for Joe Biden, but that energy of citizens peacefully retaking their government and retaking terrain from a rotten and entrenched and uninterested ruling class, it's now happening in school boards.

00:43:38.000 It's now happening where the education of your children is taking place.

00:43:42.000 Play cut five of Brandy Zadrozny.

00:43:46.000 Onerous FOIA requests, school board meetings being showing up en masse and yelling at school board members.

00:43:53.000 All of this is sort of a tactic and it's being left up on by national organizations from the Heritage Foundation to ALEC to other groups that have popped up after the Trump presidency to sort of push this American first agenda.

00:44:09.000 Now, she meant that as an accusation, saying that this is overly politicized.

00:44:14.000 But she is right.

00:44:15.000 She's right that this political movement really wouldn't know what to do with itself.

00:44:19.000 And remember, five months ago, after January 6th, after the impeachment, Joe Biden becomes president.

00:44:25.000 There was kind of this idea of what do we do next?

00:44:28.000 Well, the what we do next was a gift given, transferred to us by the Democrats, where all of a sudden we have action items.

00:44:34.000 We got bullet points.

00:44:35.000 We got stuff to do.

00:44:36.000 And that stuff to do is replace that school board member.

00:44:39.000 What's my child learning?

00:44:40.000 Where are my tax dollars going?

00:44:41.000 What textbook is that?

00:44:42.000 Why are they wearing a mask?

00:44:44.000 No to vaccine mandates.

00:44:45.000 All of a sudden, it has created, it strengthened the activist muscles of the conservative movement, unlike anything I've ever seen before.

00:44:54.000 Because for the first time in a long time, it's more than just, hey, go make a sign and let's wave it on the street corner at Saturday at 10 a.m.

00:45:01.000 Now it's no.

00:45:02.000 You show up to this meeting.

00:45:03.000 You challenge a powerful person right to their face.

00:45:06.000 You look at them in the eyes and you say, I will not have my child be taught this racist KKK ideology.

00:45:16.000 Cut two, Harris Faulkner calls out a Democrat surrogate for saying that critical race theory is, quote, acknowledging our history.

00:45:22.000 I'm going to go through this to just so happen to love American history and spend many, many hours of my day trying to better understand it by some of the great teachers of the world from Hillsdale College and Dr. Larry Arn.

00:45:38.000 But this apparatchik, a very angry person, a craven person, quite honestly, gets absolutely called out by Harris Faulkner.

00:45:45.000 Play tape.

00:45:47.000 And what is critical race theory?

00:45:48.000 It's acknowledging our history, not just slavery, which, of course, we're acknowledging today.

00:45:53.000 Aren't we already doing that in our schools, though?

00:45:55.000 Do you think black kids don't know the history and they think? 1.00

00:45:58.000 I think we've got to teach redlining. 0.96

00:46:00.000 We've got to teach about the Tulsa race massacre. 0.58

00:46:03.000 We've got to teach about how our health systems have different impacts.

00:46:07.000 And Harris Faulkner was basically saying, don't you think my black kids know their history?

00:46:13.000 And this Democrat surrogate, this is something you hear a lot, is, oh, well, we have to go teach our history correctly.

00:46:20.000 Well, first of all, you can't actually, you have to decide how you want to teach history.

00:46:25.000 You should obviously teach it fairly and you should teach it truthfully.

00:46:30.000 But also, you have to come to the you have to come to the moment where you say, what kind of country do we want to be?

00:46:38.000 Why are we here?

00:46:40.000 Are we here to just pick apart everything we've ever done wrong and reinforce that and make that the super narrative?

00:46:49.000 Or maybe we in context say the things that went wrong.

00:46:52.000 We judge people based on the generation of that which they were in, which I will use a quote from the Bible about Noah.

00:46:59.000 Those of you that have listened to a lot of our podcasts, you've heard that before, but I think it's very important.

00:47:03.000 And is there an arc?

00:47:05.000 Is there an arc of heroism of the American story, improving oneself and going towards the good?

00:47:15.000 That should be taught.

00:47:16.000 Because I can tell you right now that most young people that I encounter on college campuses, they don't know Alexander Hamilton from James Madison.

00:47:23.000 They don't know Thomas Jefferson from George Washington.

00:47:26.000 They don't know John Jay from Roger Williams to hopefully not John C. Calhoun.

00:47:35.000 Well, they actually probably are learning about John C. Calhoun in a way they might not understand.

00:47:39.000 I'm going to read from Christopher Ruffo's website: Critical Race Theories and Academic Discipline that holds the United States as a nation founded on white supremacy and oppression, and that these are still at the root of our society.

00:47:50.000 Okay, let's stop there.

00:47:52.000 This is something that you're going to hear repeated time and time again, where they say, well, don't we want to teach our children that we were founded on white supremacy and oppression?

00:48:01.000 Well, we weren't.

00:48:03.000 Nine of the American colonies had completely abolished slavery by the time the Constitution was ratified in 1787, in September of 1787.

00:48:13.000 Vermont abolished slavery right after the Declaration of Independence.

00:48:17.000 The first ever anti-slavery convention was hosted in 1775 in Philadelphia.

00:48:24.000 The first in the world, by the way, with Benjamin Franklin overseeing it.

00:48:28.000 In the Declaration of Independence, the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, in his own handwriting, blames King George for bringing slaves to the United States, for bringing the sin of slaves to the United States.

00:48:43.000 In extensive private journals, Thomas Jefferson wrote extensively about how slavery is bad for the slave and the owner.

00:48:53.000 Thomas Jefferson was advocating for the abolition of slavery in the Virginia House of Commons.

00:48:59.000 Thomas Jefferson, in 1807, as one of his first acts of president in March 2nd, I want to say, 1807, signed into law the abolition of the importation of new slaves into the United States.

00:49:13.000 John Adams was an anti-slavery president.

00:49:16.000 George Washington freed his slaves right before his death.

00:49:19.000 The question should not be whether or not we had slaves.

00:49:25.000 The question should be: did they realize it was wrong and why and what did they do about it?

00:49:31.000 You see, decoupling and untangling oneself from a multi-thousand-year evil practice is not easy.

00:49:39.000 By the way, slavery is still alive and well in our world right now. 0.96

00:49:42.000 It's alive and well in the Horn of Africa. 1.00

00:49:45.000 It's alive and well in many Muslim countries across the world.

00:49:50.000 They contest that our nation was founded on white supremacy and oppression, and that these forces are still at the root of our society.

00:49:59.000 If America was systemically racist and we were founded on oppression, why is it that the Northwest Territories, which was larger than the nine of the U.S. colonies combined, in Article 6 of the Northwest Ordinance, which I encourage all of you in your free time to go check out the Northwest Ordinance, why was that free territory?

00:50:21.000 The Ohio River became the boundary line between free and slave state.

00:50:26.000 The Civil War was about a lot of things. 0.52

00:50:28.000 It was around tariffs, economics.

00:50:31.000 It was around slavery as well.

00:50:33.000 If America was such a racist country, why did 366,000 white people die for the freedom of blacks?

00:50:40.000 Now, that is considered a thought crime, Charlie.

00:50:42.000 You can't say that.

00:50:43.000 Well, it's true.

00:50:44.000 And I'm going to say it again. 0.83

00:50:46.000 Why did 366,000 white people die for the freedoms of blacks?

00:50:50.000 Would a racist country do something like that?

00:50:53.000 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, I believe, in 1863 or one.

00:51:00.000 I get my ears mixed up.

00:51:01.000 I think it was November 22nd, if I'm not mistaken.

00:51:07.000 Saying the slaves are free.

00:51:09.000 John Quincy Adams, the son of John Adams, was one of the most outspoken abolitionists in American history. 0.56

00:51:17.000 In fact, so much so, the House adopted the Adams rule, saying that you were not allowed to introduce a bill into Congress more than once.

00:51:25.000 September 22nd, 1862.

00:51:27.000 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

00:51:29.000 That was off a little bit, but I was in the general season.

00:51:33.000 John Quincy Adams was such a fierce abolitionist.

00:51:36.000 He was our sixth president, either six or seven.

00:51:40.000 It was Quincy Adams and Jackson and Van Buren, if not mistaken.

00:51:42.000 Quincy Adams served one term and then became a member of Congress just to try to abolish slavery.

00:51:47.000 Inspired Thaddeus Stevens and inspired the abolitionist movement that led to the surprise election of Abraham Lincoln.

00:51:56.000 And guess what?

00:51:58.000 Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election on an anti-slavery campaign.

00:52:02.000 Do you know what party he ran for?

00:52:04.000 He ran as a Republican.

00:52:07.000 A Republican meant back then, abolitionist slavery.

00:52:12.000 We're going to abolish slavery and then we'll figure out the rest.

00:52:15.000 And dare I say the obvious, which people mock you when you say this, but it is a rather good argument.

00:52:22.000 So I'm going to say it loudly and clearly.

00:52:26.000 Twice we elected a black president.

00:52:29.000 That's a big deal. 1.00

00:52:31.000 So don't give me this.

00:52:32.000 If America was so oppressed, how did a black person become president?

00:52:37.000 Those are still at the root of our society today.

00:52:41.000 This is a massive psychological campaign to try to have people think of themselves in a system of victimhood, not in one where they can make better choices and climb the ladder to flourishing and success.

00:53:00.000 Christopher Ruffo continues by saying, critical race theorists believe that American institutions, such as the Constitution and legal system, preach freedom and equality, but are mere camouflages for naked racial domination.

00:53:13.000 They believe that racism is a constant, universal condition.

00:53:17.000 There's no evidence for this, by the way.

00:53:19.000 It simply becomes more subtle and sophisticated and insidious throughout the course of history.

00:53:25.000 So they believe we are just as racist today through our systems and our laws as we were back in 1804.

00:53:34.000 Only a college professor could believe something like this.

00:53:37.000 In simple terms, critical race theory reformulates the old Marxist dichotomy of oppressor and oppressed, Christopher Rufo writes.

00:53:46.000 He's exactly right. 0.99

00:53:47.000 Replacing the class core categories of bourgeoisie and proletariat with the identity categories of white and black. 0.96

00:53:55.000 The emphasis on race, which is what the new Juneteenth holiday is all about, is exactly what is going to break the ties that bind us together. 0.81

00:54:06.000 Christopher Ruffo continues by saying, the basic conclusion is the same.

00:54:10.000 In order to liberate man, society must fundamentally transform through moral, economic, and political revolution.

00:54:17.000 No private property, no speech, no nuclear families.

00:54:20.000 It's raised by the child. 0.74

00:54:22.000 No morals that say that you can and cannot, you should not, should or should or should not do something.

00:54:28.000 Instead, it is a relativistic moral paradigm that we should engage in.

00:54:34.000 And so you're going to start hearing this.

00:54:36.000 I want to play Jason Rance, who is on a show with Richard Fowler.

00:54:41.000 Richard Fowler challenged Jason to name one classroom where this is being taught.

00:54:45.000 And Jason responds.

00:54:47.000 And then I'm going to play Richard's clip after that.

00:54:50.000 And then it's cut three and then four.

00:54:53.000 And then I'm going to debunk what Richard says.

00:54:55.000 And then I want to play this new talking point they have about critical race theory.

00:54:59.000 And guess what? 0.72

00:55:00.000 Smart Democrats are really worried about critical race theory.

00:55:05.000 Smart Democrats actually know that they way overplayed their hand here.

00:55:10.000 And there's really no getting rid of it.

00:55:13.000 The only way to get rid of it is when conservatives rise up and extract it.

00:55:18.000 Democrats are in a no retreat position right now.

00:55:22.000 Democrats politically, they have gone all in.

00:55:25.000 Texas Holden, every single one of their chips is now in on critical race theory.

00:55:32.000 And when they very well could have had us talking about some other sort of fringe issue and the lullaby presidency was lulling America to sleep, the overemphasis on critical race theory has just created a political revolution that Democrats don't know how to handle.

00:55:49.000 Play cut three.

00:55:50.000 Name a classroom where they're teaching about critical race theory right now.

00:55:53.000 Name one classroom where the teachers are...

00:55:55.000 All across Washington State.

00:55:56.000 Every single person across Washington states.

00:55:58.000 Give me one classroom or one lesson. 0.62

00:56:01.000 So right now, there are classrooms, including in the Seattle area, in which students are being shown a video saying that because they are white, they have privilege.

00:56:10.000 Now, that privilege puts them at an advantage over others because of systemic racism.

00:56:15.000 That is a cornerstone of critical race theory.

00:56:18.000 That has nothing to do with history.

00:56:19.000 That has nothing to do with slavery.

00:56:21.000 If this was purely about showing our history, this would not be controversial. 0.54

00:56:26.000 This is about shaming people and calling people out on the basis of their skin color.

00:56:30.000 Yeah, but that's racist.

00:56:31.000 That's wrong.

00:56:32.000 Do you see that, Richard Fowler?

00:56:35.000 He's not built for defense.

00:56:38.000 The left doesn't know how to play defense.

00:56:40.000 They play defense very poorly.

00:56:42.000 This is something Donald Trump taught us.

00:56:43.000 We must always play offense.

00:56:45.000 And critical race theory has now put us in this position where conservative grassroots activists say, we get to play offense now.

00:56:52.000 You saw that Richard Fowler's face was perplexed.

00:56:55.000 He didn't know how to play defense.

00:56:58.000 This is one of Solinsky's rules.

00:57:01.000 Keep the pressure on.

00:57:04.000 And listen to how Richard Fowler responds, not even talking about this, saying, well, basically, we had slaves in this country and we treated them terribly.

00:57:10.000 Hey, does someone want to tell Richard Fowler that nine out of 13 of the countries that actually founded the Constitutional Convention were free states?

00:57:17.000 Did you know that we were a majority free country at our founding?

00:57:19.000 Not just a majority, nine out of 13.

00:57:21.000 What's that percentage?

00:57:22.000 Like 74%?

00:57:24.000 Yeah, like 68% off the top of my head.

00:57:26.000 Play cut four, and then we're going to check my head math, cut four. 0.93

00:57:30.000 Basically, we had slaves in this country. 0.90

00:57:32.000 We treated them pretty terribly.

00:57:34.000 There was a thing called Jim Crow.

00:57:35.000 During Jim Crow, African Americans were lynched.

00:57:38.000 They weren't allowed to vote.

00:57:39.000 They weren't given their rights.

00:57:41.000 We had a failed war on drugs that impacted black people badly.

00:57:44.000 I don't understand what's wrong with teaching the truths about American history and what's so wrong about that when it's what actually happened in this country.

00:57:52.000 Happy to talk about the truths, Richard, about how the black birth rate, I'm sorry, the black father rate got significantly worse after Lyndon Baines Johnson, about how the black community was the richest community in the 1940s and 1950s when America was considerably more racist.

00:58:06.000 But as soon as the white Democrat came and interceded and decided to subsidize single motherhood and have black women marry the state, things started to change.

00:58:18.000 And then you hear this college professor do the Richard Fowler thing.

00:58:22.000 Well, look, this is not being taught anywhere.

00:58:24.000 Do you know what they're doing?

00:58:26.000 They're admitting it's wrong.

00:58:27.000 Richard Fowler and this Harvard person, guest Annette Gordon Reed, whoever this person is, says, oh, no, no, this is actually not being taught anywhere.

00:58:36.000 They know this is a sinking ship.

00:58:39.000 You see, the Democrats were on the Titanic, singing and laughing and dancing, and an unexpected piece of ice hit the side, and that ship of the Democrat Party is going down at the hands of the cultural Marxists, and they're on defense, cut 11.

00:58:55.000 Basically, using critical race theory is a brand name.

00:58:57.000 Oh, absolutely.

00:58:58.000 It's a distraction.

00:58:59.000 You're right.

00:59:00.000 No one is teaching critical race theory K through 12.

00:59:03.000 Just to be clear, can you just repeat it?

00:59:04.000 It is a law school technology.

00:59:05.000 What is critical race theory?

00:59:06.000 Critical race theory talks about the influence of race in American laws, even things that don't have to do specifically with the they're not talking about race.

00:59:16.000 Very often, they have a racial component to it.

00:59:18.000 And yes, critical race theory is being taught in schools all across the country.

00:59:22.000 I can go through a list of it, and I will.

00:59:23.000 In fact, I'm going to give you an example in New York City of parents that are rising up against it.

00:59:27.000 If your child is being taught to think about race, they're being taught by the new KKK, the Democrats, the critical race theorists.

00:59:34.000 We're going to win.

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00:59:40.000 When good people get scheduled for cancellation for no reason, that's what's happening to Mike Lindell.

00:59:45.000 I was just with Mike Lindell with 15,000 of my closest friends in Wisconsin.

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01:00:48.000 What if I told you for $57,000 a year at the Spence School in New York City, you can have your white children, all girls' school, see videos that show white women entitled and annoying. 0.62

01:01:02.000 Reading from zerohedge.com, who's been right about all the inflation stuff for a long time, by the way. 1.00

01:01:08.000 What percentage of white women do you hate? 0.98

01:01:11.000 And there is a right answer, the host said on the video. 1.00

01:01:15.000 Remember when we talked about the professor at Yale University who says they dream about murdering and cutting the heads off of white people? 0.99

01:01:22.000 That's where critical race theory leads. 0.99

01:01:26.000 On the front page of The Atlantic, the difference between the first degree racism and third degree racism.

01:01:33.000 If you're like me, I am exhausted and fatigued talking about the color of people's skin, and I'm ready to play offense again.

01:01:41.000 And that's what the Democrats have given us.

01:01:43.000 You see, they, in the midst and under the cover of the election, slowly and surely were implementing this critical race theory agenda.

01:01:53.000 And then all of a sudden, people started asking questions.

01:01:56.000 And do you know what one of the great errors of the Democrats was?

01:02:00.000 They did this while all their kids were actually at home and not in the classroom.

01:02:07.000 You see, one of the great errors of the critical race theorists and the Democrats is that they decided to implement this theory while their parents could be doing laundry in the room next to their kid learning on their laptop and they walk in and they say, wait, hold on a second.

01:02:25.000 Wait, what did they just say?

01:02:26.000 Did they just say whiteness is a cancer? 0.77

01:02:29.000 You see, Democrats are stunned at the momentum, force equals mass times acceleration, how fast and how big this movement is.

01:02:40.000 And they're stunned and they're shocked, but they shouldn't be.

01:02:44.000 They sent every child home for about a year, gave them awful ideas, removed any sort of confidentiality or secrecy of the teachers then putting forward those ideas.

01:02:58.000 Families were spending more time together than ever before.

01:03:01.000 And all of a sudden, moms and dads started saying, wait, hold on a second.

01:03:04.000 Is this what you've been learning?

01:03:06.000 This is what I'm paying for.

01:03:09.000 And almost fed up on a silver platter, served up on a silver platter, I should say.

01:03:16.000 Democrats presented a gift that is now an organizing.

01:03:25.000 It has a union of organizing.

01:03:27.000 It has a common ethos, which is we are not going to become a nation that judges people based on skin color.

01:03:35.000 Every minute we are playing offense, it keeps their offense off the field.

01:03:41.000 Every minute we make them have to do breaking new segments talking about how critical race theory is not being taught is a minute the Democrats don't know how to play defense.

01:03:50.000 This is one of the things that conservatives must always understand.

01:03:52.000 We must perpetually play offense.

01:03:56.000 Listen to the Washington Post encouraging white people to join white accountability groups to combat racism.

01:04:02.000 Cut 17.

01:04:03.000 A living embodied anti-racist culture does not exist among white people. 0.65

01:04:09.000 White people have got to start getting together specifically around race. 0.55

01:04:12.000 White accountability groups are really helpful in terms of having a place to process, having a group of people whose responsibility it is to call me on things or to challenge me. 0.86

01:04:24.000 White accountability groups. 0.96

01:04:26.000 You hear that? 0.90

01:04:27.000 It's almost like the new Alcoholics Anonymous.

01:04:30.000 Are you a white person or do you know a white person near you?

01:04:33.000 Do you want to go through the 12-step process to become an anti-racist?

01:04:38.000 You too can cleanse your soul of your addiction to whiteness.

01:04:41.000 The Washington Post.

01:04:44.000 This is where this leads.

01:04:47.000 For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.

01:04:50.000 Critical race theory is decreasing in popularity.

01:04:55.000 The reaction to it is increasing in momentum.

01:04:58.000 It is in schools.

01:04:59.000 Your children are being taught that skin color matters.

01:05:03.000 The curriculum has been implemented.

01:05:06.000 Therefore, the opportunity is there for all of you listening right now from Sarasota to Atlanta to Dallas to North Dakota to Minnesota.

01:05:16.000 Do something about it.

01:05:18.000 You show up to that school board meeting and you ask questions.

01:05:20.000 You FOIA your local school board.

01:05:23.000 This is a bottom-up constitutional reset.

01:05:26.000 Forget the international reset.

01:05:28.000 This is a constitutional reset.

01:05:30.000 The people come first, then they voluntarily associate.

01:05:33.000 You're in charge.

01:05:34.000 You're in charge of your children's education.

01:05:37.000 You're in charge of the values that they learn and the things that are passed down upon them.

01:05:43.000 And deep down, you can see the unspoken truth of the Democrats.

01:05:47.000 Oh boy, we messed up.

01:05:50.000 They don't know how to deal with this.

01:05:52.000 They don't know how to reconcile with it.

01:05:53.000 They do not know what to do next.

01:05:56.000 And if you're like me, I'm tired of waiting for the next move.

01:06:00.000 Play offense, take the hill, remove that school board member.

01:06:04.000 Critical race theory is a gift to us.

01:06:06.000 It's time we seize it, and then we're going to win.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - June 22, 2021

The Surprising Way Critical Race Theory May Actually Save America

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