00:01:15.000Judge Janine, Congressman Byron Donalds, Jack Pasebik, Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Waters, Benny Johnson, Pete Hegseth, Senator Rick Scott, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Senator Ted Cruz, Dan Bongino, Donald Trump Jr., and more.
00:02:50.000We 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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00:03:38.000What if I told you the Democrats decided to give a gift to America?
00:03:43.000What 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.
00:04:11.000You 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.
00:04:22.000For the Democrats in 2017, of course, they were already calling for Trump's impeachment minutes after he took the oath of office.
00:04:32.000They then went to the Mueller investigation and they made Russia and immigration, kids in cages, their number one issue.
00:04:41.000And these issues in election years, they tend to be somewhat forced or very reactionary.
00:04:48.000Political parties always have to try to find something to rally their activists and their donors and to try to win back the narrative.
00:04:58.000Now, let's go back six months ago or five months ago.
00:05:02.000Five months ago, on January 21st, Joe Biden had just took the oath of office.
00:05:09.000Five months ago, Joe Biden became president.
00:05:12.000Joe Biden was signing a series of executive orders, and it felt like we were going to be on defense for the foreseeable future.
00:05:20.000Also, an impeachment was looming against President Donald Trump for something he did not do and for an event that is becoming increasingly murky as to what actually happened on January the 6th.
00:05:35.000And we have a great guest, Darren Beattie, on our podcast that I encourage everyone to check out our podcast and hit subscribe.
00:05:43.000Five months ago, the conservative movement was not really sure how to proceed.
00:05:47.000There were fights amongst Liz Cheney and the Trump base of the party.
00:05:53.000But a dozen Republicans decided to impeach Donald Trump in the House in the quickest impeachment ever in American history.
00:06:00.000Democrats already controlled almost every single major cultural institution, and they still control many of these.
00:06:09.000Media, government, education, economy, family, religion, arts, and entertainment.
00:06:41.000But then the Democrats decided to give us a gift.
00:06:44.000In 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.
00:07:07.000This is what the brilliance of all this is.
00:07:09.000In 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.
00:07:22.000In 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.
00:07:35.000Critical race theory started to become the norm, especially after the death of George Floyd.
00:07:41.000Now, we've gone into a great deal about how George Floyd was a criminal, about how George Floyd likely overdosed.
00:07:49.000Derek 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.
00:07:58.000With that being said, that might be overturned because of Maxine Waters' public pressure, the non-sequestration of that jury.
00:08:06.000And also, the judge himself said this might actually be overturned on appeal.
00:08:11.000But 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.
00:08:23.000These three words, critical race theory, a year ago, was probably known by less than 1% of the American population.
00:08:30.000If I would have told you critical race theory, you'd say, what's that?
00:08:34.000And 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.
00:08:47.000And you'd say, yeah, okay, I sort of get that, but it's not really anywhere.
00:08:51.000Now, critical race theory, I believe, is known by well over 75% of the informed and engaged electorate in our country.
00:09:00.000You see, the Democrats and the left and the academics and the collectivists and the statists handed a wedge issue to us that favors conservatives.
00:09:13.000Now, it's a very dangerous track that we're on right now because we're not going to win everywhere.
00:09:20.000We're not going to be able to get this removed from every single public education system, every single institution.
00:09:27.000Certain areas, like the Chicago Teacher Union or the LA Unified School District, they are going to continue to have critical race theory implemented.
00:09:36.000And because of that, they're going to create the most racist generation since Jim Crow.
00:09:41.000However, we can win almost everywhere else.
00:09:44.000You 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.
00:09:59.000Ah, not that we should judge people based on skin color or their spirit.
00:10:04.000The leftists basically playing into their inner Hegelian dialectic, they say, I see.
00:10:14.000What we need is to judge people based on how they look, because that's progress.
00:10:19.000This sort of strategy has all of a sudden had an opposite reaction that is organic, authentic, robust, grassroots.
00:10:54.000And then I'm going to show you some of the polling.
00:10:56.000I'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.
00:11:08.000You see, the Democrats did exactly what we predicted they would do here on this program.
00:11:19.000And 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.
00:11:28.000What they didn't anticipate is the moms and dads fighting back.
00:11:34.000Did you ever read the fine print that appears when you start browsing in incognito mode?
00:11:37.000It says that your activity might still be visible to your employer, your school, or your internet service provider.
00:11:44.000To really stop these people from seeing the sites you visit, you need to do what I do and use ExpressVPN.
00:11:50.000Think about all the times you've used the Wi-Fi at a coffee shop, a hotel, or even at your parents' home.
00:11:54.000Without ExpressVPN, every single site you visit could be logged by the admin of that network.
00:12:00.000And that's still true when you're in incognito mode.
00:12:02.000What's more is your home internet provider, I'm talking about Comcast, ATT, or whatever, can also see and record your browsing data.
00:12:10.000ExpressVPN is an application, it's an app that encrypts all of your network data and reroutes it through a network of secure servers so that your private online activity says just that, private.
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00:12:40.000Where 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?
00:12:57.000You see, back in the 1970s and 80s, the conservative movement was a coalition.
00:13:02.000It was a coalition built on widespread agreement that the Soviet Union was evil and that communism was not the answer.
00:13:10.000You 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.
00:13:21.000Now, 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.
00:13:31.000We have now been given this incredible coalition builder.
00:13:37.000And that coalition builder is this fringe theory that all of a sudden people are asking more and more questions about.
00:13:44.000Now, on our program, we were one of the first programs to walk through methodically what is critical race theory.
00:13:51.000You can actually go back, you can go to charliekirk.com.
00:13:54.000We're going to try to repost this episode.
00:13:55.000We had Peter Bogosian and James Lindsay on our podcast in June of last year, before they were the cool kids on this topic.
00:14:05.000Before 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.
00:14:18.000We 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.
00:14:25.000And 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.
00:14:45.000So let's go through what critical race theory is.
00:14:48.000Critical race theory stems from critical theory.
00:14:51.000Critical theory is an idea from a man by the name of Herbert Makusa.
00:14:58.000He was kicked out because he was a Marxist and landed in America.
00:15:02.000In America, he came up with this idea of critical theory, which it literally is in the name.
00:15:07.000It criticizes pre-existing power structures and it's an extension of postmodernism.
00:15:13.000Now, 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.
00:15:28.000Postmodernism is a way of looking at the world.
00:15:32.000It'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.
00:15:42.000There's no correct way to view the world is one of the things that postmodernists believe.
00:15:49.000Frame theory is a belief that anything can be anything.
00:15:53.000This is a direct affront and at odds with Aristotle and his belief of the law of identity.
00:15:59.000Who's to say that that pencil is a pencil?
00:16:01.000Who's to say that that book is a book?
00:16:03.000In fact, I would make an argument, it is at war with who we are as human beings.
00:16:07.000You 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.
00:16:18.000That is called the common noun miracle.
00:16:20.000The 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.
00:16:30.000You 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.
00:16:39.000Frame 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.
00:16:52.000Frame theory and the idea of postmodern America is this, you have your own truth.
00:16:59.000Not all of that is necessarily total garbage.
00:17:03.000There is something to understanding someone's personal narrative.
00:17:06.000But 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.
00:17:20.000And 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.
00:17:38.000What if I told you that this is now the one thing America can agree on?
00:17:43.000America can't agree on Major League Baseball, NBA, can't agree on even whether or not we should fly flags on July 4th.
00:17:50.000But the one thing that we can agree on, it's a majority popular issue, is that what the Democrats believe is awful.
00:18:28.000Japan did not have to bomb Pearl Harbor.
00:18:31.000When empires or people with power push their boundaries a little bit too much, decent people are then given an opportunity to push back.
00:18:40.000So as we've been walking through what critical race theory is, I want to reinforce how unpopular it is.
00:18:47.000You can't get Americans to agree on anything right now.
00:18:51.000What if I told you a new economist, YouGovPoll, found opposition of critical race theory amongst just people in the middle, 58%.
00:19:03.00058% of Americans oppose critical race theory.
00:19:06.000Now, 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.
00:19:23.000And 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.
00:19:34.000For 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.
00:20:10.000And so, let's go through why it is so negative.
00:20:14.000Let's go through why the public approval is where it is.
00:20:20.000And 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.
00:20:26.000So, 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.
00:20:36.000Number 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.
00:20:51.000Now, 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.
00:21:04.000It's in our military, too, by the way.
00:21:06.000Our United States military, they are requiring our military members to read how to be an anti-racist.
00:21:14.000If 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.
00:21:21.000So, here are the eight things, and maybe you're driving and you need to pull over and write these down.
00:21:26.000This episode or this conversation will live in perpetuity on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast feed.
00:21:33.000Again, racism is present everywhere, every aspect of life, every relationship, and every interaction, and therefore its advocates have to look for it everywhere.
00:21:41.000You hear that, those of you in Fargo, North Dakota?
00:21:45.000Even though you might live very quiet and decent and peaceable lives, everything you do if you're a white person is inherently racist.
00:21:54.000Number two, critical race theory believes on interest convergence, otherwise known as intersectionality.
00:22:03.000Quote, white people only give black people opportunities and freedoms when it is also in their own interest.
00:22:10.000Therefore, don't trust any attempt to make racism better by white people.
00:22:16.000So, 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.
00:22:29.000The 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.
00:22:51.000The 360,222 people that died for the union cause in the American Civil War, they were only acting in their own interest.
00:23:05.000Therefore, don't trust any attempts to make racism better.
00:23:09.000Number 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.
00:23:22.000This is against free societies, free markets, private property, discourse, and dialogue.
00:23:58.000Not 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.
00:24:11.000See, critical race theory, which is being taught to so many children across the country, cares about things you cannot change.
00:24:18.000What has made America and the West different and exceptional is we have always focused on things you can change.
00:24:25.000A moral country tries to put a focus on things you can better and develop and improve, not on things you cannot improve.
00:24:34.000So number five, believe science, reason, and evidence are white.
00:24:41.000And they're only used as a way of knowing that storytelling and lived experiences are a black alternative, which hurt everyone, especially black people.
00:25:24.000And I have to say, we've all been sold a packet of lies.
00:25:29.000The fact that peanut butter and jelly is not part of our steady diet as humans.
00:25:33.000I'm telling you, it's a very serious thing.
00:25:36.000My wife Erica had to hear this whole speech about how much I think, I think we've just been deceived.
00:25:43.000Anyway, George Washington Carver, a black man who was a scientist.
00:25:49.000I'd love to have them figure that one out.
00:25:51.000But 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.
00:26:07.000Nothing is objective in the eyes of the critical race theorists.
00:26:12.000Critical race theorists also reject all possible alternatives like colorblindness as forms of racism, making itself the only allowable game in town.
00:26:24.000They will destroy you if you dare disagree with them.
00:26:28.000Critical 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.
00:26:39.000And finally, critical race theory cannot be satisfied.
00:26:43.000So it becomes a kind of activist black hole that threatens to destroy everything it is introduced to.
00:26:48.000That is the most important one that I want to segue into.
00:26:52.000Critical race theory cannot ever be satisfied.
00:26:58.000Critical race theory has an insatiable appetite, almost like a parasitic virus, to deconstruct.
00:27:07.000What if I told you that it is a sister, a partner, or a cousin to an academic theory called deconstructionism?
00:27:15.000Deconstructionism is a part of the academic canon of the secular university.
00:27:22.000Cannot be satisfied, so it becomes a kind of activist black hole.
00:27:27.000Well, critical race theory needs to poison your prior adoration of your country, history, and tradition.
00:28:13.000Okay, 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.
00:28:24.000He published, quote, how to grow the peanut and 105 ways of preparing it for human consumption.
00:29:09.000And 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.
00:29:26.000And 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.
00:29:40.000Now, we were definitely in, let's say, the minority opinion, but not anymore.
00:29:44.000I do have to say, if you look at just the Overton window and the Zeitgeist, all of a sudden people are speaking out.
00:29:50.000Now, I came out about Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday.
00:29:54.000Obviously, I support the essence of the original day of Juneteenth.
00:29:58.000That's nowhere near did I question it.
00:30:00.000Nowhere near, none of my commentary did I say that.
00:30:04.000That'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.
00:30:15.000And our concern actually ended up being true.
00:30:18.000Our concern is that certain cities will start canceling July 4th and embracing Juneteenth.
00:30:26.000For all my friends on AM560, the answer, we were proven to be correct.
00:30:31.000The 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.
00:30:50.000So Juneteenth now takes precedence over July 4th.
00:30:54.000That is precisely what we predicted on this program.
00:30:58.000We 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.
00:31:21.000And this is all part of the playbook of critical race theory.
00:31:24.000Remember what I said at the back, at the bottom of the list, number eight, is that critical race theorists cannot be satisfied.
00:31:33.000So it becomes an activist kind of black hole that threatens to destroy everything it's introduced to, including your traditions and July 4th.
00:31:41.000What 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?
00:31:46.000America needs a new flag that all of us can honor by Macy Gray.
00:32:51.000You see, the entire idea of the Hegelian dialectic is small, incremental steps of progress to an inevitable goal.
00:33:01.000One of those was creating a summertime competitor to July 4th.
00:33:05.000One 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.
00:33:17.000Critical 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.
00:33:28.000Critical race theory, the eight attributes of critical race theory we went through.
00:33:34.000They care about focusing on your skin color.
00:33:37.000They do not think you're an individual.
00:33:39.000They think you're a member of your tribe.
00:33:41.000They do not believe in science or reason or math.
00:33:43.000They 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.
00:33:58.000So how are the people in kind of the Democrat intelligentsia responding to this?
00:34:05.000Well, they're only about four months late.
00:34:07.000Now, 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.
00:34:28.000My 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.
00:34:47.000That'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.
00:34:56.000So 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.
00:35:07.000The polling shows this is a this is way deeper and more sophisticated than just a political reaction.
00:35:20.000NBC 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.
00:35:37.000You might think this is a grassroots movement.
00:35:39.000You might think that suddenly everyone's rising up against what they all know about critical race theory and are against critical race theory.
00:35:47.000However, it's not really actually like that.
00:35:49.000There are a bunch of dark money groups that are pushing new lines of thought.
00:35:55.000So he's trying to say, oh, this is an astroturf movement.
00:35:58.000So all these moms that are showing up, do we have the, actually, yeah, this one right here.
00:36:03.000So 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.
00:36:24.000BLM Incorporated is a dark money group.
00:36:27.000The teacher unions are a dark money group.
00:36:29.000How about the Center for Technology and Civic Life, Mark Zuckerberg's $400 million takeover of American elections?
00:37:50.000You have the hydroxychloroquine people.
00:37:52.000You have the mask people, the critical race theory people.
00:37:55.000The, you know, you cut me off when I was trying to exit the school by picking up my kid from swim practice people.
00:38:01.000But it's kind of this amazing kind of gathering point and organizing around citizens that want to retake their country.
00:38:09.000And 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.
00:38:19.000I'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.
00:38:50.000It 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.
00:39:00.000We all know changing the font or the color of posters does not change the meaning.
00:39:07.000I think that's in Minnesota, if it's Governor Waltz, if I'm not mistaken.
00:39:12.000That's a nine-year-old going to school board meetings and speaking out.
00:39:17.000And there are hundreds of parents that are doing this across the country.
00:39:21.000And 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.
00:39:32.000And what's amazing is the Democrats gave this to us.
00:39:38.000That they would decide to not just implement this, but defend it.
00:39:42.000Listen to some of their apparatchiks on television trying to defend critical race theory.
00:39:49.000Let's play cut one of Don Laman defending the new KKK, cut one.
00:39:55.000That'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.
00:40:07.000And so people think that it should be the way that it should be because they have been taught that in this country.
00:40:13.000Don't like to have your peace interrupted.
00:40:15.000Does 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?
00:40:31.000The cooking channel actually has more viewers than CNN.
00:40:35.000I don't know the cooking channel's ratings, but I bet they're competitive and far more entertaining.
00:40:40.000So Don Lamond says that, well, how would you, you don't want your peace interrupted when he's talking about critical race theory.
00:40:48.000But 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.
00:41:04.000And the Democrats don't really know how to react to this.
00:41:07.000They're saying, oh, this is an astroturf movement, or you guys are white fragile, as Robin D'Angelo would say.
00:41:14.000But this is a multi-racial backlash against this.
00:41:18.000In 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.
00:41:28.000I want you to see this cut 16, where white people are pledging themselves to be part of the woke mob.
00:41:36.000About racism, anti-blackness, or violence.
00:42:27.000The 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.
00:42:43.000Now, someone who I know, I actually spent time with her.
00:42:49.000She'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.
00:42:58.000This 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.
00:43:08.000But she says something completely and totally true.
00:43:11.000And she says that the push against critical race theory is a continuation of the America first agenda of Trump.
00:43:19.000Is that the Trump movement was at risk of not really knowing what to do with itself?
00:43:24.000Now, 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.
00:43:38.000It's now happening where the education of your children is taking place.
00:43:46.000Onerous FOIA requests, school board meetings being showing up en masse and yelling at school board members.
00:43:53.000All 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.
00:44:09.000Now, she meant that as an accusation, saying that this is overly politicized.
00:44:45.000All of a sudden, it has created, it strengthened the activist muscles of the conservative movement, unlike anything I've ever seen before.
00:44:54.000Because 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.
00:45:03.000You challenge a powerful person right to their face.
00:45:06.000You look at them in the eyes and you say, I will not have my child be taught this racist KKK ideology.
00:45:16.000Cut two, Harris Faulkner calls out a Democrat surrogate for saying that critical race theory is, quote, acknowledging our history.
00:45:22.000I'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.
00:45:38.000But this apparatchik, a very angry person, a craven person, quite honestly, gets absolutely called out by Harris Faulkner.
00:47:16.000Because 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.
00:47:23.000They don't know Thomas Jefferson from George Washington.
00:47:26.000They don't know John Jay from Roger Williams to hopefully not John C. Calhoun.
00:47:35.000Well, they actually probably are learning about John C. Calhoun in a way they might not understand.
00:47:39.000I'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.
00:47:52.000This 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?
00:48:03.000Nine of the American colonies had completely abolished slavery by the time the Constitution was ratified in 1787, in September of 1787.
00:48:13.000Vermont abolished slavery right after the Declaration of Independence.
00:48:17.000The first ever anti-slavery convention was hosted in 1775 in Philadelphia.
00:48:24.000The first in the world, by the way, with Benjamin Franklin overseeing it.
00:48:28.000In 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.
00:48:43.000In extensive private journals, Thomas Jefferson wrote extensively about how slavery is bad for the slave and the owner.
00:48:53.000Thomas Jefferson was advocating for the abolition of slavery in the Virginia House of Commons.
00:48:59.000Thomas 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.
00:49:13.000John Adams was an anti-slavery president.
00:49:16.000George Washington freed his slaves right before his death.
00:49:19.000The question should not be whether or not we had slaves.
00:49:25.000The question should be: did they realize it was wrong and why and what did they do about it?
00:49:31.000You see, decoupling and untangling oneself from a multi-thousand-year evil practice is not easy.
00:49:39.000By the way, slavery is still alive and well in our world right now.
00:49:42.000It's alive and well in the Horn of Africa.
00:49:45.000It's alive and well in many Muslim countries across the world.
00:49:50.000They contest that our nation was founded on white supremacy and oppression, and that these forces are still at the root of our society.
00:49:59.000If 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?
00:50:21.000The Ohio River became the boundary line between free and slave state.
00:50:26.000The Civil War was about a lot of things.
00:52:32.000If America was so oppressed, how did a black person become president?
00:52:37.000Those are still at the root of our society today.
00:52:41.000This 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.
00:53:00.000Christopher 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.
00:53:13.000They believe that racism is a constant, universal condition.
00:53:17.000There's no evidence for this, by the way.
00:53:19.000It simply becomes more subtle and sophisticated and insidious throughout the course of history.
00:53:25.000So they believe we are just as racist today through our systems and our laws as we were back in 1804.
00:53:34.000Only a college professor could believe something like this.
00:53:37.000In simple terms, critical race theory reformulates the old Marxist dichotomy of oppressor and oppressed, Christopher Rufo writes.
00:53:47.000Replacing the class core categories of bourgeoisie and proletariat with the identity categories of white and black.
00:53:55.000The 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.
00:54:06.000Christopher Ruffo continues by saying, the basic conclusion is the same.
00:54:10.000In order to liberate man, society must fundamentally transform through moral, economic, and political revolution.
00:54:17.000No private property, no speech, no nuclear families.
00:55:00.000Smart Democrats are really worried about critical race theory.
00:55:05.000Smart Democrats actually know that they way overplayed their hand here.
00:55:10.000And there's really no getting rid of it.
00:55:13.000The only way to get rid of it is when conservatives rise up and extract it.
00:55:18.000Democrats are in a no retreat position right now.
00:55:22.000Democrats politically, they have gone all in.
00:55:25.000Texas Holden, every single one of their chips is now in on critical race theory.
00:55:32.000And 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.
00:56:01.000So 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.
00:56:10.000Now, that privilege puts them at an advantage over others because of systemic racism.
00:56:15.000That is a cornerstone of critical race theory.
00:57:04.000And 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.
00:57:10.000Hey, does someone want to tell Richard Fowler that nine out of 13 of the countries that actually founded the Constitutional Convention were free states?
00:57:17.000Did you know that we were a majority free country at our founding?
00:57:41.000We had a failed war on drugs that impacted black people badly.
00:57:44.000I 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.
00:57:52.000Happy 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.
00:58:06.000But 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.
00:58:18.000And then you hear this college professor do the Richard Fowler thing.
00:58:22.000Well, look, this is not being taught anywhere.
00:58:27.000Richard Fowler and this Harvard person, guest Annette Gordon Reed, whoever this person is, says, oh, no, no, this is actually not being taught anywhere.
00:58:39.000You 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.
00:58:55.000Basically, using critical race theory is a brand name.
00:59:06.000Critical 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.
00:59:16.000Very often, they have a racial component to it.
00:59:18.000And yes, critical race theory is being taught in schools all across the country.
00:59:22.000I can go through a list of it, and I will.
00:59:23.000In fact, I'm going to give you an example in New York City of parents that are rising up against it.
00:59:27.000If your child is being taught to think about race, they're being taught by the new KKK, the Democrats, the critical race theorists.
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01:00:48.000What 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.
01:01:02.000Reading from zerohedge.com, who's been right about all the inflation stuff for a long time, by the way.
01:01:08.000What percentage of white women do you hate?
01:01:11.000And there is a right answer, the host said on the video.
01:01:15.000Remember when we talked about the professor at Yale University who says they dream about murdering and cutting the heads off of white people?
01:01:22.000That's where critical race theory leads.
01:01:26.000On the front page of The Atlantic, the difference between the first degree racism and third degree racism.
01:01:33.000If 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.
01:01:41.000And that's what the Democrats have given us.
01:01:43.000You see, they, in the midst and under the cover of the election, slowly and surely were implementing this critical race theory agenda.
01:01:53.000And then all of a sudden, people started asking questions.
01:01:56.000And do you know what one of the great errors of the Democrats was?
01:02:00.000They did this while all their kids were actually at home and not in the classroom.
01:02:07.000You 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.
01:02:26.000Did they just say whiteness is a cancer?
01:02:29.000You see, Democrats are stunned at the momentum, force equals mass times acceleration, how fast and how big this movement is.
01:02:40.000And they're stunned and they're shocked, but they shouldn't be.
01:02:44.000They 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.
01:02:58.000Families were spending more time together than ever before.
01:03:01.000And all of a sudden, moms and dads started saying, wait, hold on a second.
01:03:27.000It has a common ethos, which is we are not going to become a nation that judges people based on skin color.
01:03:35.000Every minute we are playing offense, it keeps their offense off the field.
01:03:41.000Every 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.
01:03:50.000This is one of the things that conservatives must always understand.
01:04:03.000A living embodied anti-racist culture does not exist among white people.
01:04:09.000White people have got to start getting together specifically around race.
01:04:12.000White 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.