On this episode of The Glenn Beck Program, host Glenn Beck discusses the latest in the anti-police brutality and anti-racist protests taking place on social media platforms, including the latest on the Stop Hate For Profit campaign. Also, Patriot Mobile is giving you a chance to get a free month of service if you switch to their service.
00:05:34.420If you actually think, while you're there running the Anti-Defamation League, that the people of Black Lives Matter are your friends, you are insane.
00:05:50.060So the ADL, the NAACP, Sleeping Giants, Color of Change, Free Press, and Common Sense have launched the Stop Hate for Profit campaign last week, calling on companies to pull their advertising dollars from Facebook for the month of July.
00:06:08.560There's been a lot of misinformation, says James Steyer, founder and CEO of Common Sense.
00:06:15.760He said, after Floyd's death, there's been a ton of hate and white supremacist content on the platform, and they just ignore it.
00:06:36.460The groups behind the current boycott are calling for Facebook to, among other things, create a threshold for harm, where users facing harassment can speak directly with an employee, an internal mechanism for removing ads labeled as misinformation, and system for flagging content in private groups.
00:06:59.520By the way, we have been flagged over and over again.
00:07:02.820This is how they are limiting our voices, because if you get enough people to let Facebook know that you think that that's misinformation, and if you get USA Today, ABC News, NBC, to say what you're saying is misinformation, you're banned.
00:07:25.520Although the campaign was just launched last week, they're already received more than a dozen corporate sponsors.
00:07:32.940Outerwear companies, including Eddie Bauer, were some of the first to join, pledging to stop buying advertisements on Facebook and Instagram for July.
00:07:41.100The web browsing company Mozilla, shipping company Local Postal, the film distributor Magnolia Pictures, and global freelancing platform Upwork have also joined the campaign.
00:07:55.380As the world's largest on-demand remote talent platform, we're committed to building a safe and inclusive space for companies and professionals, says the CEO of Upwork.
00:08:02.940We cannot stand by and be complicit or complacent about the spread of hate, racism, and misinformation.
00:08:10.720Greenblatt suggested more companies are likely to add their names to the list.
00:08:13.960We've had a lot of incoming advertising agencies and other big brands who are thinking about it, and I think you'll see that more will come online in the days ahead.
00:08:22.720360i, a digital advertising firm with clients like Spicemaker, McCormick and Company, consumer giant Unilever, and Discover Financial Services, sent an email to clients last week advising them to join the ad boycott.
00:08:38.500David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect and founder of Techomedy, called the potential of the boycott campaign historic.
00:08:49.760I think there's a small number of really global, influential advertisers that would gain the attention of Facebook in a way that nothing else ever has.
00:08:57.700So, they're going to start cracking down.
00:09:13.760I literally would like you to thank God for the blaze.
00:09:18.620Because it is only because of him that I started it.
00:09:23.340It is only because of him that we said, we're going to build a platform that does not rely on advertising.
00:09:31.220We're going to build a platform that will be open to all voices that are coming under attack.
00:09:37.460If you believe in the Constitution of the United States, you have a home here.
00:09:42.860I don't know how long this is going to last.
00:09:49.360I don't know how long, but the blaze is one of the platforms now, and others are not built the same as ours.
00:09:58.460We have been talking to other platforms for a while, and I think with coronavirus, they kind of woke up, and hopefully they are changing some of the things that they do.
00:10:11.520I am open to talking to any other platform about what makes us different and what makes us a little more stable.
00:10:19.940But I also am open to talking to any talent that is on the ropes right now.
00:10:28.920There must be some place that is preserved and is a defender and is a voice of America.
00:10:37.660I also put out a call today, please, and I have asked people who are like-minded, and I think they thought I was crazy when I said it,
00:10:50.220but I am putting a call out right now to people who are in Silicon Valley who see what's going on
00:10:57.320and know that the only voices that are important at times like these are the ones of dissent.
00:11:04.600But you cannot have lockstep thinking.
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01:44:55.520These are these are many of them black scholars that have seen the 1619 project and know that it is an absolute lie and are countering it.
01:45:05.180Now, this is being taught in many of our schools and it is poison to our republic.
01:45:11.800Bob Woodson, welcome back to the program.
01:45:14.700So here, Glenn, I have so much to talk to you.
01:45:19.760I I just we're just reaching out to your scheduler now to see if you could come on at the same time tomorrow, because I have so many questions for you.
01:45:28.780But I want to talk to you quickly about two things as we have about 10 minutes.
01:45:33.500I want to talk to you about the 1619 project.
01:45:36.360And I also want to talk to you about how do how do we talk to our kids?
01:45:41.980How do white people talk to their kids who are who are looking at this opportunity and thinking that they're following a Martin Luther King with Black Lives Matter and think that they're doing the right thing and they want to do the right thing.
01:45:58.920But you talk to our kids and they're like, well, that's that's just because you're white, dad.
01:46:03.360We don't really understand oppression and systematic racism and all this.
01:46:13.800Well, I just think that your kids and my kids, well, my grandkids now are influenced by cultural forces outside of us.
01:46:23.560And so, therefore, yes, we must use that same mechanism.
01:46:26.820There are thousands of silent black voices within that are of dissent all over.
01:46:37.960But they are not the ones that have the microphone.
01:46:40.920In other words, white kids, the reason that rap music is is sells and goes platinum isn't because they sell to to to to to to blacks because white kids listen.
01:46:54.320So what we are trying to do in 1776 is we need a ground game to support these values.
01:47:01.420So we are really going to the black community.
01:47:05.000And since since since since the left is using race as a battering ram to tear this country apart, we must use the black community as a counter offensive.
01:47:17.320And so we are we are we are we are we are developing a ground game that we can begin to to to to say to black kids.
01:47:32.560The only voices are hearing from men, but they need to hear from blacks in these communities who have a counter message to that.
01:47:41.560So so so and that's what's going to influence.
01:47:44.540And when they know that that that the people they're hearing is is not a monolithic, monolithic voice in the black community.
01:47:51.560The black community is never defined by these people who are popular.
01:47:56.380I know it's a David and Goliath situation, but I remember who won that fight.
01:48:24.360Yes. I wrote in my book, Joseph, remember, Egypt was saved by a 31 year old inmate called Joseph, uneducated Hebrew and the powerful good pharaoh on the time recognized.
01:48:40.480And he reached across racial and ethnic lines to empower this 31 year old Hebrew servant.
01:48:50.660Well, the Pharaoh Joseph, there are thousands of blacks in these communities who are who defend the values of this nation, but their voices are not heard.
01:49:01.500And so, therefore, what we're trying to do in 1776 is to provide the resources so we can give voice to that silent majority in the black community only when, see, the left purports to be their moral authority comes by being the only legitimate protectors of blacks.
01:49:25.820Well, when you arm people to speak for themselves, it undermines the moral authority that the left has, and therefore it gets dissolved.
01:49:38.820That's why we need investments so that we can launch.
01:49:42.580When we brought our we didn't just bring scholars together, but conservatives rely upon intellectual arguments.
01:49:48.760Again, they don't have a ground game, and I've been criticized by conservatives because I say this.
01:49:55.000That's why we have invited activists, because, Glenn, people want to know what what how does the embrace of these values have the consequence of improving the quality of my life?
01:50:08.960You know, and so what we've done is we we're highlighting activists who were drug addicts who, through God's grace, have been transformed and redeemed.
01:50:21.480Their ex-gang members have been redeemed.
01:50:24.080It was an embrace of the values of this nation that has a powerful effect of transforming, redeeming lives and communities.
01:50:42.520And I will tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, Bob, the that is why I think the the black community is going to have such an impact and they're going to lead the way because the the black community is still connected to God and redemption.
01:51:01.400I mean, the one thing that you cannot deny about Christianity is it's about starting over and being forgiven and having a new chance.
01:51:11.540And this entire BLM movement right now, this Marxist movement is the and I don't mean it as the actual it's just an anti-Christ message.
01:51:23.740And I just don't think that flies with people when you get down to it, especially in the African-American community.
01:51:31.940Forgiveness is a fundamental principle.
01:51:35.800Without forgiveness, there is no Jesus Christ.
01:52:24.260They are actually providing the money for the bricks for these anarchists to throw through the windows of businesses that they believe are capitalists.
01:52:36.440And most of those businesses are Black businesses.
01:52:39.660In my own neighborhood of West Philadelphia, where I grew up, they wrecked a medical center, a grocery chain that hired ex-offenders from the community.
01:52:50.960All of that is gone now in the name of social justice.
01:53:26.960All of the sacrifices was the Tuskegee Airmen, the Black Panthers with our tank corps, the Triple Nickel, who was our paratroopers, the Monmark Marines, Black Marines.