8⧸7⧸17 - Who do liberals trust in the media? (Mat Staver & Dr. Everett Piper join Glenn)
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Summary
A 10-page memo written by a conservative software engineer at Google has gone viral, and the company is under fire for its handling of it. Also, the latest on Amy Fabrini's tragic loss of her children in Oregon.
Transcript
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There's a couple of really important things we have in store for you today.
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First of all, the latest on the Amy Fabrini story,
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We really, I mean, we crossed all the T's and dotted all the I's this weekend.
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Had a meeting with my staff on Friday and said,
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look, I gotta know what the real story is on this.
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We have to make sure we're completely buttoned up.
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We were, I mean, we pushed ourselves real hard.
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In fact, we got several people, one wrote to Jeffy this weekend and said,
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And then he said, you gotta ask this, this, this, this.
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It's funny because last night I received that email.
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And those are exactly the questions we did ask.
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We'll give you that coming up in about an hour from now.
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Also, the latest on Fox News, there is more trouble there.
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We better be careful on the society that we're building right now because everything is being redesigned.
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And there is a disturbing, a disturbing story coming out of Google about a, an employee that, that wrote a memo and said,
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If you read that story, you most likely think, well, let me ask, Jeffy, did you read that story?
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Um, you know, when I saw the headline, it's only just like one guy, right?
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So it's just not a problem because it's only one guy.
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And that's the way most people are reading the story.
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They're just doing what Jeffy did and reads the headlines.
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When you hear the case he's making, I'm going to try to summarize it for you and show you what Google's response is
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America, I want you to know that Common Sense has left the building.
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It was the Director of Diversity, Integrity, and Governance that took Common Sense and escorted it to the door.
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It has been in the process of leaving America for a very long time.
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If you walk by Common Sense's desk today, you might notice no one is sitting in that desk anymore, around that desk.
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Lots of things that weren't on its desk when it first started working here.
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Those things have been taken off the desk of Common Sense for a long time.
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As a society, we have now reached a place that is dangerous and absurd.
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There is Common Sense left in many corners of the country.
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And that's why I need to start the program today with the Google Memo drama.
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And I'm going to try to just summarize the highlights.
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Late last week, a male senior software engineer.
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He wrote a lengthy memo that he shared with colleagues.
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And it was titled, Google's Ideological Echo Chamber.
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In it, he basically criticized the company's diversity policies.
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That he says actually result in reverse discrimination.
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Now, this kind of progressive insanity has become the default norm in many of these places.
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But we all have biases that are invisible to us.
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Only an open and honest discussion with those who disagree will highlight our blind spots and help us grow.
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Which is why I felt the need to write this document.
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And only honest discussion about these biases will help.
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And yet it's being silenced by the dominant ideology.
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Google's left bias has created a politically correct monoculture that maintains its hold by shaming dissenters into silence.
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This silence removes any checks against encroaching extremist and authoritarian policies.
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Later in the memo, this guy actually has the audacity to point out that, brace yourself, men and women are biologically different.
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And that men and women also have personality differences.
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Like, men are from Mars and women are from Mars too.
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When common sense leaves the building, you have to find yourself getting back to the basics of the birds and bees or Mars and Venus.
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He says, we have to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism.
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We need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism.
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Well, he points out some, quote, non-discriminatory ways to reduce the gender gap, which is a section that many of his critics apparently miss.
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Like, unfortunately, quoting, as long as tech and leadership remains high status and lucrative careers, men may disproportionately want to be in them.
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Allowing and truly endorsing as part of our culture part time work, though, can keep more women in tech.
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What he does is he says, he makes a really good case.
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Men are much more likely to be allured by the status and the high lucrative jobs.
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Women, for the most part, are not attracted to those things.
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They're more attracted to changing the world for the better.
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They're more attracted to family, to flexible work hours, etc., etc.
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He lists some of the harms of Google's biases like, quote, programs, mentoring and classes only for people with a certain gender or race
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and a high priority queue and special treatment for diversity candidates.
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Did you know that you could go to this wonderfully equal place?
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And if you are a white male, you can't take some of the mentoring or some of the classes for jobs at Google because you're a white male?
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Well, he goes on, in highly progressive environments, conservatives are a minority that feel like they need to stay in the closet to avoid open hostility.
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We should empower those with different ideologies to be able to express themselves.
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I can't believe we're actually, for the people who say that they are for fairness, they're for diversity, that they have been shoved in a closet for forever.
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I can't believe we have to tell them, don't shove other people into the closet that you hated.
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Microaggression training incorrectly and dangerously equates speech with violence.
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Quote, once we acknowledge that all not all differences are socially constructed or due to discrimination,
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we open our eyes to a more accurate view of the human condition, which is necessary if we actually want to solve problems.
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Standing up, even though he didn't put his name on it and writing this,
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you don't think Google can find out who's writing what on their computer?
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He describes himself the way I like to describe myself, but nobody understands it, and so I don't say it very often.
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Now, if you read this 10-page memo, it is inspiring.
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It is finally somebody saying, with evidence to back it up, this is killing us, guys.
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So, what is Google's reaction to this classic liberal, one of their own, who dared speak his mind in this very diverse culture of Google?
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Despite what the public response seems to have been, I've gotten many personal messages from fellow Googlers
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expressing their gratitude for bringing up these important issues, which they agree,
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but would never have the courage to say or defend because of the shaming culture at Google
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So, after reading the memo, one livid female co-worker tweeted,
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If HR does not do something about this case, I will consider leaving this company for real for the first time in five years.
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Any resistance to ideas like this protectionist diversity stuff at Google
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is read clearly as nothing more than hate speech and worthy of firing.
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Sunday evening, Google finally released an official response to the viral memo.
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Danielle Brown, she is their new VP of Diversity, Integrity, and Governance.
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Many of you have read an internal document shared by someone in our engineering organization
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expressing views on natural abilities and characteristics of different genders,
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as well as whether one can speak freely of these things at Google.
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I found that it advanced incorrect assumptions about gender.
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would be perceived as endorsing, promoting, or encouraging.
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This company does not allow any reasoned argument
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culture of universities and university campuses
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because of a homily on love that made him feel bad for not showing love
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in his mind the speaker was wrong for making him and his peers feel
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our culture has actually taught our kids to be this self-absorbed and
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there are victims anyone who dares challenge them and thus make them feel
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bad about themselves is a hater a bigot an oppressor a victimizer
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i have a message for this young man and all others who care to listen
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that feeling of discomfort you have after listening to a sermon is called a
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conscience an altar call is supposed to make you feel bad it's supposed to make
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you feel guilty the goal of many a good sermon is to make you confess your sins
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not coddle you in your selfishness the primary objective of the church and the
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christian faith is your confession not your self-actualization so here's my
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advice if you want the chaplain to tell you you're a victim rather than tell you
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you need virtue this may not be the university you're
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looking for and he goes on uh his name is dr everett piper he is the
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president of oklahoma wesleyan university and our guest how are you sir
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i'm doing well thank you for having me what happened when you published that
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well first of all i need to remind you and those listening uh that i owe you a
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note of thanks thank you for posting that article
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it was thanksgiving morning two years ago somebody gave that to you i don't know
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who to this day wonder who and it caught your attention and you posted it yeah as
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the result of that three and a half million people viewed it within the
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course of about a week or two the response was interesting 97 of the
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comments were positive three percent were negative when we did our internal
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statistical analysis of that analysis of that was it was interesting the
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secular world was more interested and complementary than the christian world the
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church here's a poster child for example i received a hard copied letter from a
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fulbright scholar of a university in the south and he essentially said i read your
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daycare piece i went to your website and read more about you i'm an atheist and i
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disagree with your religion and i disagree with your politics but on this
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issue thank you kudos to you carry on it needed to be said
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signed fulbright scholar university of xyz so the reaction has been quite
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interesting and i do believe what this says is that the secularist
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the humanist if you will the average college and university faculty member out
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there is recognizing that this monster he's created
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is turning around to bite him oh my gosh frightened yes
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they are um by the way the name of the book is not a date not a daycare uh the
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the the uh original uh op-ed pretty much uh relentlessly pounded that this
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university is not a daycare you're here for a reason um i was just out in la i was
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with um people who do not have my political bent at by any stretch of the
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imagination we had great conversations several of them told me they were
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concerned about what was happening in universities uh and the way dissent is
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being shut down they said that is absolutely anti-everything you know the
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left is supposed to stand for they said um two of them in this meeting openly said
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they are more concerned about what's happening on the left than they are that's
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happening on the right because they don't think the people on the left
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have really woken up to the monster that they woke that that they're sleeping with
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and they should be frightened um i would call it ideological fascism
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is this intellectual freedom or is this ideological fascism do we believe in a
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the idea of the classical liberal arts academy if you want to go back a thousand
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years to oxford the founding of the liberal arts institution what was it
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established to do it was established to educate a free man a free
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people a free culture to educate people and what it meant meant to be liberated it
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was an education in liberty and thus the classical definition of liberal
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ironically today it's the conservative such as myself who is more
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classically liberal than my left of center counterpart because i believe in a
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debate i believe in a robust exchange of ideas because i can trust the truth to
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judge the debate not politics and power not people not the pundit but the
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principles of truth gk chesterton told us when you get rid of the big laws of god
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you don't get liberty but rather thousands upon thousands of little laws that
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rush in to fill the vacuum we have a vacuous situation today where we actually
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have been teaching students for decades that it doesn't matter what you believe as
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long as it works for you and that vacuum is being filled by fascism
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ideological fascism rather than intellectual freedom so you are writing
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this the devastating consequences of abandoning the truth the book is not a
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daycare what are the consequences the consequences are ultimately the loss of
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human dignity human identity and human freedom if you can't even define the
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human being any longer if we don't know the definition of simple words such as
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male and female if we can't define what it means to be human the imago dei we're
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going to dumb down the definition of the human being to the imago dog now what do i
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mean by that i am more than the animal i'm the imago dei i'm created in the image
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of god and so are you i have moral culpability moral understanding i can engage in a
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debate i care about the answer when you drive through the cattle ranches in texas or
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me in oklahoma you don't see the cows arguing with one another right there's a
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reason for that they don't care they're not the imago dei they're the imago
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dog if you will they follow their base inclinations and appetites and instincts
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and that's how they're defined today in post-minerity we've dumbed down the human
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being to nothing but the sum total of his or her inclinations that's our identity
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and therefore we have insulted the imago dei by suggesting he's the imago dog the
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result of that is the total collapse of freedom and liberty within a culture because
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there's no longer any boundaries as chesterton said in which we can live freely so i read have
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you read the 10 page memo from uh the google uh software guy i'm trying to remember what he
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what his job was he wrote he he he this was just released last week he won't put his name
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on it but it was about the lies of google diversity and he's like you're you're telling
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us that there there is no difference between a man and a woman and you want to get more women into
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you know software design etc etc but that is a job that mainly men are interested in because of x y and z
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has nothing to do with sexism and he goes through 10 pages he just takes apart everything that they're
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talking about google finally responded to this unnamed uh memo uh with their head of i can't even
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remember what it is it's not the head of diversity it's some ridiculous clown title um and she writes
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i won't even dignify that uh what what was being said by re-quoting it here because it has nothing to
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do with reality and who we are as google while at the same time saying that we have to have a vigorous
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debate on the google campus they're shutting all debate down how does a society in the old world it
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doesn't survive but in a society where google is working on ai and teaching computers the the you know
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artificial intelligence the difference between right and wrong when we can't define it what happens
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to that society your question goes back to what's going on in the academy right now what's taught
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today in the classroom is going to be practiced tomorrow in our culture in our courtrooms in our
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living rooms what's taught today in the classroom will be practiced tomorrow ideas have consequences if
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you go back to richard weaver 1948 his seminal work title ideas have consequences what was his point
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ideas have consequences you hardly even need to read the book to understand his point bad ideas
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will breed bad culture bad people bad community bad government and good ideas will bring the opposite
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good culture good community good kids good behavior and good government ideas have consequences what
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why is the timing of his book 1948 important because he was writing it as a response to world war ii
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and he was looking backward just a few short years to hitler who said let me control the textbooks and
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i will control the state and at the same time we've got orwell and huxley writing of dystopias that use
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education as a means of total power and total control ideas have consequences and we have to attend to what
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we're teaching our students today because it will bear itself out tomorrow and when you teach narcissism
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and self-absorption you shouldn't be surprised to find narcissists and self-absorbed students
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protesting in the campus green so how do we you know tanya and i have this um this conversation a lot
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my kids are 11 and 13 my older kids are already out of college and i keep saying i i don't want to send
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them to college hunting first of all i don't know if college is going to be all that because uh you know
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show me the show me the teacher that is uh as smart as google on the facts i can just look up the facts i
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want to find somebody who is more of a guide that will help me apply these things that i can find
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and um and i said i you know but even if even if we're not even at that place yet i don't want my kids
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going and being indoctrinated what is going to happen to the university what is going to happen in the
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next five years as 10 years as these things are getting worse and worse and people know it i think
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you should let your pocketbook speak okay if moms and dads if parents will actually start recognizing
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that they're paying the bill you're going to drop 30 grand 35 grand 40 grand on the barrelhead and send
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your kid off to an institution you spend 18 years of your life training up your child in the way he
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should go and then in the first 18 minutes as you drop them off at the university and you drive away
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they take pride and start and start to to start taking his soul and his mind and ridiculing
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everything you've tried to instill in him and in it why would you want to pay for that ask yourself
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is education about integrity or is it about about information is education just to learn how to make
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more money or is it about how to learn to be a moral person is education about character or is it about
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just getting a career there was a day when education was about the big ideas the first things not the
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small ideas and the second things i'm a student of chuck colson and he was fond of telling us over and
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over again that if you get the big ideas the first ideas the first question wrong everything thereafter
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will suffer you've got to provide an education to your kids that focuses on the big ideas how so what's
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the pushback on you from academia you must not be very popular well it depends on who you're talking
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to um it's interesting this is the right answer i've had lots of people my peers other presidents
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and whatnot pull me aside privately and say i agree with you i agree with what you're saying i just can't
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say it publicly for fear of losing my job that's the reaction and that's sad that's sad but that is true
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let's out them let's out them now who are these you know it's funny um ever because uh i think there's
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a lot of that and not just in universities there's a lot and we're dealing with a situation now in
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oregon uh where the cps i think is has gone way over the edge and out of control because of one
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particular person i think this is what's happening um and uh we have people now starting to come out
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and saying okay if you guys think you can actually expose it and win i have some information for you
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but i'm not in unless you can win i mean it's it's valkyrie it's really amazing uh we you don't win
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you know a society doesn't survive if people stand on the sidelines well i know you're a fan
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of bonhoeffer as am i and one of his famous quotes that we all know in this room and that is not to
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speak is to speak and not to act just to act silence in the face of evil is evil itself god will not hold
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us guiltless that's worth the price of admission not to speak is to speak and not to act is to act
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silence in the face of evil is evil itself god will not hold us guiltless do we believe in our
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truths do we believe that teaching those things that are right and just and real and permanent
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and enduring those self-evident truths endowed to us by our creator do we believe in them enough to
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speak and to act because if we don't we're actually acting and speaking for the opposite we have to have
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courage and some conviction the academy presidents and professors need to get a spine and start teaching
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truth rather than just opinions is it hard i've got to i've got to take a quick break but uh is it hard
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to find those professors and teachers that still will yes but you can there are a handful and if
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parents who are paying the money do the research necessary you can find those institutions that
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actually say we believe that truth is a revelation okay as opposed to a construction that's the answer
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you need to hear is truth self-evident is it given by somebody bigger and better than you and me
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or is it just constructed by the populace if it's constructed by the populace it's dangerous
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if it's given by god if it's given by revelation then it's enduring immutable and true dr evert piper i think
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you're joining me for the think tank uh today um the name of the book is not a daycare the devastating
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consequences of abandoning the truth well worth your time and read and we'll have more conversation
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