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Debut episode of Stu Does America with Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin. Glenn and Sarah give their thoughts on the Democratic Debates, Elizabeth Warren's comments on Michael Bloomberg, and Sarah takes a shot at him for calling a woman a "fat broad" and a "horse faced lesbian."
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Hello America. Great show. Great podcast for you today. We're going to give you the recap of the debate. Lots of fun. Lots of fun. And it couldn't be at the expense of a better group of people.
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So we'll tell you what happened in the Democratic debate. Also, Bloomberg was accused of calling somebody a horse faced lesbian and a fat. What was it? A fat winch or something like that. Well, I looked up where that came from. Oh, she should have quoted the whole thing. Wait until you hear the actual quote and where it came from.
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Also, we try to look at what good has ever come out of a communist country. And the 1776 project, which is the answer to the 1619 project from the New York Times. Why this is so critical that people understand.
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And a couple of things to make sure you check out the Wednesday special from Glenn Beck on the TV show. A new format where you're going to deep dive into all of this. It's available now for subscribers at blazetv.com.
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If you use the promo code Glenn, you can save 10 bucks and watch all of it and all the back episodes as well. And check out Stu Does America if you're on YouTube or actually if you're on podcast right now, you're on this app already.
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Click on over, subscribe to Stu Does America, review the podcast with it's great, whatever, what everyone seems to be doing.
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And we're going to have a lot on the disaster that is upcoming in Nevada this weekend with the Democrats. It is not pretty.
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It's all on Stu Does America tonight. Here's the podcast.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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So Bloomberg makes his first appearance and everybody is so desperate.
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So the guns, even from sweet little grandma, Elizabeth Warren, who just doesn't like to say a bad word about anybody.
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She had some words saved up for him last night.
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I'm a New Yorker. I know how to take on an arrogant con man like Donald Trump that comes from New York.
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I know how to run a complicated city, the biggest, most diverse city in this country.
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I'm a manager. I knew what to do after 9-11 and brought the city back stronger than ever.
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And I'm a philanthropist who didn't inherit his money, but made his money.
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And I'm spending that money to get rid of Donald Trump, the worst president we have ever had.
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And if I can get that done, it will be a great contribution to America and to my kids.
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You know, it's funny because he doesn't strike me as America's neighbor.
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I thought that was Rudy Giuliani that really brought the city together.
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He's the one that everybody looks at, not Michael Bloomberg.
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It was Bloomberg's night last night to be taken apart.
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I'd like to talk about who we're running against.
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A billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians.
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Democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns,
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of harassing women, and of supporting racist policies like redlining and stop and frisk.
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Look, I'll support whoever the Democratic nominee is.
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Democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another.
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One is actually kind of charming, and the other one is just an ass.
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But it kills me that they keep saying, I'll support whoever the nominee is.
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I mean, it's one thing if you're like, look, you know, it's Mitt Romney, it's George Bush,
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If it's Ronald Reagan, Mussolini, I'll vote for whoever the people want.
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Isn't the lesson here, though, that the Democrats, I mean, they're all pretty much the same?
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So here's, this is, let me give you just the, just the feeling of what really, if you didn't
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I mean, that's, that is the chaos of the Democratic Party.
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Meanwhile, you had Donald Trump at a rally out in, I think it was California, wasn't it?
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And he, the people carried a World War II veteran on their shoulders into the arena.
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Which do you think Americans are going to vote for?
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I mean, Ronald, he has become, Donald Trump, because the Democrats are so nasty and angry
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and, and fighting and the, the, the, the, what is it?
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The Bernie boys, which I think is just really a bad name for these guys.
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It makes it sound like they're just, you know, ah, they're crazy boys, you know, boys
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You've got with, with what's happening on the, the left and with the Democrats, it makes
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Donald Trump look more optimistic, more like Ronald Reagan, more of the happy warrior than
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They are just a group of nasty, angry, unhappy people.
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And I don't know why Buttigieg is not doing better than he, than he is, other than he's
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Um, and the, and the voting base, you know, you want to talk about homophobes.
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Did you hear anybody, did you hear anybody on the right have a problem with Donald Trump
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Peter Thiel speak at the Republican convention or the fact, I, I, I've heard a lot of problems
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with Donald Trump naming the first gay cabinet level position, uh, member in American history,
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which is happening right now with Grinnell, uh, and they seem pissed off about that.
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Who even really knows that nobody's paying attention.
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Nobody's up in arms about that except the left left.
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Nobody is up in arms about that, but wait a minute.
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You've got a gay presidential candidate in, in Buttigieg.
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If they've got to choose between a socialist who thinks that capitalism is the root of
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all evil and a billionaire who thinks that money ought to be the root of all power.
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Let's put forward somebody who actually lives and works in a middle-class neighborhood in
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Let's put forward somebody who's actually a Democrat.
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You're running Bloomberg, who's whatever it is on a windy day.
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If the wind's blowing this direction, he's that.
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If he's on that way, he was a Republican just a few years ago.
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And Bernie Sanders, and I got to stop calling him a socialist.
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He has never met a communist regime that he didn't like.
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He went on about whether, you know, we've tried this before.
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Like, we're not going to get rid of capitalism.
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The next question, he goes, by the way, you said he's called me a communist.
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You're a socialist and you think communism is a low blow.
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Let's put them all in a larger category called Marxism.
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Is it shows that they are just playing on people's naivety.
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People don't understand that communism has actually never been done.
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The Soviet Union and China, they claim to be communists.
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If you understand Marx, Marx says socialism is the road to communism.
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You don't get to communism until everybody's like, oh, you know what?
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We're all here and we're all just going to share the wealth.
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Nor will it ever happen until Jesus comes and everybody says, you know what?
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Communism gets this name of this bad name because you got to take it by force.
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Because the only way to do it is to kill all the people that like, no, you're not taking my stuff.
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Once you get rid of them, well, then you're fine.
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By the way, I'm a little more outspoken on Bernie today because we have a meeting after we finish our Wednesday night special and we are already now a week into what's coming next Wednesday.
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And last night I had a meeting and again this morning and I went over all of the audio and all of the video that we have for next week's Wednesday night special, which is on Bernie Sanders.
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And his communist radical ties and the people in his campaign.
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And I am so sick and tired of having people tell me when when Jeremiah Wright's pupil was sitting in the in the White House.
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And I said, the guy's a Marxist, the guy's a socialist.
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When I in 2004, when I warned the Democrats, don't put Michael Moore in the presidential box because he is a socialist Marxist and you think you're using him.
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But I'm telling you right now, they're going to come back.
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You are going to be so surprised you're using them.
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They're using you, buddy, and they're going to eat you.
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I'm so sick and tired of being told, oh, that's just nonsense.
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Listen, because this may be the last warning you get.
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Bernie Sanders has surrounded himself with very dangerous people.
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And you're going to meet all of them next Wednesday.
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There is a chance that Bernie Sanders actually gets the nomination.
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Now, I don't see that happening and it will be a colossal disaster if he does for the Democrats, but it couldn't happen to a better group of people.
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However, if Bernie Sanders, if they try to engineer this, or even if somebody like Bloomberg gets that nomination, legitimately, Bernie Sanders and his Bernie bros will burn Milwaukee to the ground.
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These people are serious, Marxist, communist, radical anarchists.
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You're about to put one of these guys in office.
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I mean, Buttigieg, can I go to audio cut number 22, please?
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Buttigieg has been lecturing people on Christianity for a while.
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And this one, I don't know how people in South Carolina took this.
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Then, I just can't imagine that that requires of you that you be anywhere near this president.
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Do you think it is impossible to be a Christian and support President Trump?
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Well, I'm not going to tell other Christians how to be Christians.
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But I will say I cannot find any compatibility between the way this president conducts himself and anything that I find in Scripture.
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Now, I guess that's my interpretation, but I think that's a lot of people's interpretation, and that interpretation deserves a voice.
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Except the fact that a lot of people would find your lifestyle antithetical to what's found in the Bible.
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I mean, you just, Pete, you can't make this claim.
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You know, I just don't know how you would vote for him, because the way he lives his life, I mean, you know, you can't find that in the Bible.
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Well, you also can't find anything but stoning of homosexuality and stoning of homosexuals in the Bible, too.
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Nowhere in the Bible is there an endorsement of that.
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I mean, at best, you can say, well, Jesus never talked about it.
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Well, Jesus never talked about tweeting, either.
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I think he thinks that he's showing a friendliness to faith, his version of it, and because so many on stage show a seeming almost aggression against faith, this will make him appeal to people in the middle who are like maybe conservative Democrats or maybe even, you know, liberal Republicans who might be faith-based and see, well, you know, everyone else seems to almost like...
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But I think it's almost the opposite because he seems like he's preaching to everybody else.
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You can't pick and choose if you're going to use the Bible.
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You're going to say, well, I'm a Bible-believing person.
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It drove me nuts when he was like, yeah, you know, I love the two Corinthians.
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But if you just want to say, look, I mean, you know, I try to live my life based on, you know, basic principles, many of them were found in the Bible, and I don't know how to square his behavior.
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Yeah, and it just, and look, talk about principles of being a good person.
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It's just hard to take preaching about faith and religion from a person who's also talking about nine-month abortions.
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No, no, I don't think you'll find that in the Bible.
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You just, and see, it's not even the whites that are at issue here on this.
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It would be the Bible-believing blacks in the black churches of South Carolina.
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They don't, one of the big things there is anti-homosexual.
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You're referring to the polls that show, what is it, 41% of African-American voters would not be comfortable with a gay president.
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You've got to tone down the radical anti-homosexual attitude there in some of your voters.
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You're not going to win, Pete, by preaching Bible to them.
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It's like there's a, there's a, there's a spirit in your walk.
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I just, I just watched the greatest debate in human history.
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I mean, I, it's so painful to watch these debates, but when they went after each other
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with a lot of the things that we'd say about them, isn't that amazing?
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Do you remember the t-shirt we made at Fox that said, what if Glenn Beck is right?
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Uh, I think we should need, we need a new t-shirt that just says Glenn Beck was right.
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Uh, because they're now finally saying that the mask has come off.
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They're now, I mean, you had a Democrat, if you can call him that call the quote socialist,
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what he really is a communist on stage from the democratic party.
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And how much did he hate being called out for his three homes?
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The wonderful Marxist in the room has a summer home.
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A lot of people, a lot of people in, in Maine or New Hampshire, wherever, Vermont, like
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Mayor Bloomberg, would you like the question was not socialism?
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The best known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses.
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And like thousands of other Vermonters, I do have a summer camp.
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Is that where he sends capitalists to be re-educated?
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It sounds like it's a little cabin, a little tiny cabin.
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Of course, we've seen the home, and it's a nice home.
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That was, I mean, because people, I think rightly so, said Bloomberg did pretty poor in this debate.
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He did great if it was a presidential general election.
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He's going after all the socialist Marxists in the Democratic Party.
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They're the only ones going out for these things.
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He seems to be the only one not embarrassed by capitalism.
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And, look, there are a lot of Democratic voters who are not Bernie Sanders.
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You know, those people are going to, I think, look at some, the voters, not the candidates.
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The voters are going to look at that and say, well, at least somebody's saying, you know, like, maybe we should be able to keep our own health care.
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Well, do you remember when they asked, anybody here, you know, like socialism or, you know, want to stick up for capitalism?
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Boy, there seemed to be a lot of talk about socialism and capitalism.
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The audience last night, they weren't capitalists.
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So you would think rank and file Democrats, right?
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Could we play, play the cut 10, the weak applause for capitalism?
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I believe in capitalism, but I think our, the goal of someone in government and a president of the United States should be a check.
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Wow, Amy, it's a good thing you brought your husband and Bloomberg was there.
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Bloomberg says throwing out capitalism would get Trump reelected because communism doesn't work.
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I can't think of a ways that would make it easier for Donald Trump to get reelected than listening to this conversation.
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It was called communism and it just didn't work.
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You should have seen the chandeliers in the subways there in Russia.
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Again, I thought that was another pretty good moment for Bloomberg.
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I think, again, he's not trying to get Bernie voters.
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He's trying to get people who are like Klobuchar or Buttigieg, whatever this moderate lane supposedly is.
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And I think there's a good chunk of Democratic voters who want the big programs, who want gay marriage and all those sorts of things, but don't want capitalism destroyed.
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There is a contingency of Democratic voters who do that.
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None of them were there last night, but there is a contingency.
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I mean, you still hope that people in Middle America, right, Democrats in Nebraska, still believe in the capitalist system.
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They did that whole test of what would you feel comfortable voting for.
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And, you know, there was gay president, Muslim president.
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The least popular one in the entire thing was socialist.
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I mean, you know, again, I think it's still a very negative connotation.
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But with Democrats, 74% were okay with it, right?
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It was 47% overall, but I believe 74% of Democrats would vote for a socialist.
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So 26% are not comfortable voting for them at all.
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That's enough to lead the pack in the field right now if you get those people.
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Now, look, you still have to get some of the other people, too, to win the nomination at the end of the day.
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But with a divided field like that, he's the only one who seems brave enough to step out.
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But brave enough to stand up and just say, look, yeah, capitalism.
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But even he has to apologize for his wealth by saying he's giving it all away.
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And, I mean, one thing he's bad at is giving it away, apparently.
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And, by the way, he gives it away every time he buys a new house.
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He is, I mean, look, he's giving it a fortune to largely hardcore left-wing causes,
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including anti-gun causes that are far to the left of even where Bernie Sanders is.
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He just has the ability to actually say, hey, the entire economic system of this country shouldn't be torn down tomorrow.
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He, the Overton window, is in the Soviet Union to where Bloomberg looks like he's a moderate.
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He's an absolute extremist on the Second Amendment and on climate change.
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And have you noticed, has anybody noticed how everyone is now starting to talk about everything in the Constitution?
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I mean, you know, maybe we should have term limits on the Supreme Court.
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You know, and we should get rid of the Electoral College and the Second Amendment doesn't work.
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And maybe we should look at the First Amendment.
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This is the longest-running Constitution in the history of all mankind, and it has produced the greatest period of freedom and wealth and health the world has ever seen.
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And suddenly everybody's talking about, eh, maybe we should crack that thing open.
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What do you say we start using it from time to time?
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You know, we used to make fun of, and I apologize, we used to make fun of those people that carried the pocket Constitution around with them.
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We're like, oh, he's got the pocket Constitution.
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Thank you for carrying the pocket Constitution around.
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Sorry, I've just got so much processing in my head right now, and I'm so...
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How do you get people to buy into Nazism, communism?
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Hitler said, you've got to create the biggest lies.
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How many Americans right now, especially the youth, where it always comes from, especially
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the youth, will say, yes, a man can have a baby.
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If you're bleeding downstairs, go see a doctor, okay?
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If you're a dude, and every month you got blood shooting out of you, see a frickin' doctor.
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If they can get you to say something that you know absolutely, positively cannot ever happen,
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You could put a baby in a man, but he ain't pushing it through his pee-pee.
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And if you think so, you need to see a doctor as well.
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But how many of us have already accepted that lie?
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If they can get you to say that, or to be afraid to say, excuse me, dummy, no, if you
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are afraid to say that, they just got you to deny something you know absolutely, positively,
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scientifically, no questions asked, you are now either staying silent, or you are agreeing
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And that's without putting the rat cage on your head.
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What lies will you tell in your life if you're willing to go there first?
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Let me go right to Dr. Wilford Riley, professor at Kentucky State University, author of the
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book Taboo, and a guy who started the 1776 project.
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Now, normally, you would give me the professional courtesy of calling me doctor as well, seeing
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that I worked hard, just as hard as you, for my doctorate.
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I'm a doctor of humanities, which means I can operate on people's feet, I think.
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Well, I mean, I don't think we have to have this professional squabble about it now.
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So, doctor, I want to thank you for coming on the show.
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And tell me why you got involved in trying to set the record straight from the 1619 project.
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I will say I'm one of the founders of the 1776 project.
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But there are a large number of pretty elite people involved.
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Bob Woodson, really, at the Woodson Center is the guy that brought our group together.
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I mean, you've got Glenn Lowry, legendary economist, Tlaib Starks, the organizer, Carol Swain,
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John Sibley Butler, pretty impressive lineup, Coleman Hughes, the editor at Quillette.
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But the idea of the 1776 project, I mean, it is a nonpartisan, I'd say for most of us,
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center-right at least, black-led response to the New York Times 1619 project.
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And the 1619 project, your intro on this is pretty much dead on point.
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This is a series of editorials that became a business initiative that the USA began in slavery,
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and that really the thing that defines the country the most or the thing that makes the country unique
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is the fact that we had historical slavery here.
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I mean, we point out – and an initiative on its own.
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First of all, almost all societies had slavery until the 18th century.
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If everyone was guilty of evil and the USA today is unique, it was not the evil that made us unique.
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So we point out some of the flaws in the 1619 narrative, and there are many,
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like the claim that the Revolutionary War was fought so that America could keep slaves.
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Yeah, that's – one of the – Gordon Wood, who's the country's probably leading Revolutionary War historian,
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has really taken that apart where he points out that that ignores everything that actually led to the war,
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taxation without representation, French and Indian war debt, I mean, armed battles in the streets,
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Right, and it also dismisses the first original draft of the Declaration of Independence
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in Jefferson's own handwriting, where one of the – the last usurptation is a paragraph
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Yeah, I mean, I think – so a one-sided narrative is a bad narrative.
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I mean, an obvious point is that for literally as long as we had slavery in the USA,
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there was a powerful anti-slavery movement led by white and black people of goodwill,
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from Frederick Douglass to John Brown, that, one, we don't have slaves in the USA.
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I've never had a slave or been one, and neither has anyone else who's currently alive
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So these are the sort of things that we point out.
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And in contrast to the narrative of 1619, which is that racism still defines –
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the racism of 300 years ago still defines exactly what America is today.
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We have a pretty simple thesis, which is that the United States of America is a flawed
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It's simply not that difficult to make it here, and almost anyone can,
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People regularly come to the USA from countries where cars are a bit of a luxury item,
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like Ethiopia and Vietnam, and go on to outperform both black and white native-born Americans.
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So there's absolutely no reason we should expect less of middle-class black people
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or Appalachian white ones, for that matter, than we do of recent immigrants from Botswana
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1619, although it presents as purely academic, is to some extent a business initiative.
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I mean, they have a curriculum designed with the Pulitzer Center and so on.
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So many of us, including me, have fairly elite business backgrounds,
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and we're responding across a range of avenues, I mean, curricula, media like this,
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I mean, the narrative can't go unchallenged, that the USA is not the world's best country,
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Well, they are already – it's already creeping into our schools,
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I heard an ad for the podcast from the New York Times, and they said, you know,
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and there are some disagreements, but that's what we do best is try to get people to talk
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No, you have taken a theory that is flawed from the beginning,
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and you've merchandised it, marketed it, and now it's being taught in some schools
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It is – it's really dangerous to teach this kind of nonsense,
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and I can't thank you enough for actually following through and not just talking about it,
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but getting the curricula changed in schools to make sure we're teaching the truth.
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Yeah, and in the book you mentioned, Taboo, the 10 Facts You Can't Talk About,
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This is something that I talk about, and it's kind of the invasion at a level below
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what most people recognize of certain ideas into the American mainstream.
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So I frankly don't think most people know what their kids are learning in school.
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I would actually – a statement for the parents out there, look at it.
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There are specific things like what sex education is being taught,
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what American history is being taught, that any thinking father or mother
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should ask their child's school district about.
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Yeah, I'm in – yeah, I recently observed this with some of my own younger relatives,
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At any rate, so the response to 1619 – I mean, thank you for the compliment.
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One thing I would emphasize is that nobody – obviously not you, obviously not me –
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What we're saying – yeah, it's ridiculous that it even needed to be said.
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But what we're saying is a series of empirical points.
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One, American slavery was not historically unique.
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Every other country, including the many civilized black nations of Africa,
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had a form of slavery that was as bad or worse until quite recently.
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Two, we don't think that slavery was the defining feature of the USA.
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With no disrespect for that southern culture, the south was a bit of a backwater
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before the Civil War, and that's why they lost.
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And a big reason for that was the reliance on this sort of feudal surf agriculture.
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And third, finally, we do not believe – we do not believe that after 155 years of abolition
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and, by the way, 53 years of affirmative action, Asians or middle-class blacks or Jewish Americans,
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Cubans, members of any other minority are still oppressed.
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So it's important that this be responded to with a real curriculum that says,
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yes, the USA is not perfect because only God is perfect,
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but these are the advantages that we have over other societies,
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and to some extent these are the advantages where they exist that they have over us.
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And this is why we exist as the country we are today,
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and that doesn't trace back to racial quarrels 300 years ago most of the time.
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Do you address the fact that more slaves went to Brazil
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or that Mexico is given the status of beating the United States to abolishing slavery,
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but, you know, they could declare anything they want,
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I mean, one point I want to make, and I don't mean to be glib here,
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If you're talking about Irishmen, Japanese Americans,
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So, yes, absolutely, slavery existed in almost all societies.
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I'm not attempting to apologize for the white slave trade of blacks.
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But it's worth noting that there was also a black slave trade of whites,
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and inspired the verse Shores of Tripoli and the Marine Corps hymn.
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when they fought the white states of southern Europe,
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would take everyone they captured, quote-unquote,
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surgically modify them and make them into slaves and serfs.
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Serfdom itself, that idea that you're a peasant,
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just pushing a sulky plow for most of your life,
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that existed in Russia and most of Europe, southern France, until 1866.
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So if you're going to say that people were unfree in America,
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you have to say also in context that people were unfree almost everywhere in the world.
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The West did not begin the institution of slavery,
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but I will say that though it took too long and it took hard fights,
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it is modern Western culture that eliminated slavery globally.
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No other culture, including the proud black and Moorish states many of my ancestors came from,
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even thought about doing this, until the modern abolitionist movement began in England and the USA.
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So we have our sins, but we also have our virtues,
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and it's silly to focus only on our sins, especially given that we live here.
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So here's the thing that I think most Americans just want.
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I think we need to know about the, all of the bad things that America did,
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So we have to learn about those things, but perspective, man, perspective,
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and look at it in context of the day, look at what everyone else was doing,
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and understand that, you know, it's an ebb and flow.
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I mean, at the time that we're fighting against communism and Nazism in the 1940s,
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we're also throwing Japanese Americans into concentration camps.
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Just like humans, we're both good and bad as individuals,
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and it's that constant battle between those two forces inside of us
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or were you somebody that was fighting for evil the whole time?
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When you're looking at the presentation of a man, or of a human being, of course,
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which is a very famous description of an actual picture.
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But what I think you very often get from the activist left in the USA
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and a warts-free view of other rival societies.
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fulminating about the fact that the USA, at one point, had slavery,
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or the civilized nations of Africa, or the Arab world.
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There's more slaves today than there was during the entire Western slave trade,
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So, doctor, tell me how the average person can access this information
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or can, you know, play a role at all in helping you with this battle.
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You've mentioned Hate Crime, Hoax, and Taboo, the books I've written.
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Bob Woodson is the original initiator of the project.
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If you Google Woodson Center, they'll be more than glad to accept donations
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And, of course, we have a professional website that just went live,
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although we're still uploading headshots and so on.
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I believe that would be .com because we are equipped to receive donations.
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But if you Google 1776 Unites, it'll be the first hit.
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And, yeah, we're more than glad to accept outreach.
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Again, Wilfred Riley, we've got Glenn Lowry on the project,
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I mean, many of these are names you will have heard.
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Coleman Hughes over at Quillette is handling a lot of media and social media.
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So we thought this is a fairly impressive group of people.
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Some of us had met for lunches before, just as black people in the business community.
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And the idea was, well, we really need to respond to this because this is nonsense.
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And it's going to increase racial tensions in a way that's not good for black people
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or, just as importantly, for our white countrymen.