UNIVERSITY FACULTIES ARE MARXIST RADICALS
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Cornell Law Professor William Jacobson is a witness to the ugliness of hate on our campuses. He has spoken out loudly on campus and courageously against hate. And now he s been threatened with the murder of a fellow Jew.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to The Great America Show. Thank you for being
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with us. The big news of the day is the vast corrupt conspiracy between the Biden regime
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and the deep state collaborating with private institutions to censor the free speech rights
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of American citizens. The Cyber Infrastructure and Security Agency, CISA, is apparently behind
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this vast conspiracy, most assuredly at the direction of the Biden White House. Judiciary
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and Weaponization Chairman Jim Jordan says the DHS, disinformation experts at universities,
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big tech and others work through a consortium, the Election Integrity Partnership. Remember that name,
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the Election Integrity Partnership. It's exactly the opposite of what the name would imply.
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To monitor and to censor American speech, particularly conservative Americans' free speech,
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Chairman Jordan calls it the bombshell report on the censorship industrial complex.
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And for more about this important story, go to x.com at GOP Oversight or at Judiciary GOP.
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Your federal government weaponized against all of us, but especially you and me.
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The Israel-Hamas war is raging, of course, still in Gaza. And anti-Israel, anti-Semitic protests have
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broken out around the world. Especially alarming to me have been the demonstrations in the nation's
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capital, in big cities across the country, and of course, the anti-Semitic protests on campuses of
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colleges and universities in particular. It is particularly sickening. But given the Marxist
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influence and indoctrination of our students over the past few decades, none of us should be
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surprised. American academia has become a fortress. A fortress to protect Marxist thought,
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to protect Marxist ideology, and orthodoxy from all values American. American history,
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our American heritage, and our American national values. Instead, our colleges are bastions of
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ignorance and hate. A recent Daily Mail poll shows Americans now, by a huge margin, believe that
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our top universities are not doing enough to crack down on anti-Semitism and support for Hamas
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terrorists. Imagine that. Our students supporting terrorism. Our guest today is Cornell Law Professor
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William Jacobson. He is a witness to the ugliness of hate on our campuses. Cornell is one of many
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universities racked by threats, protests, and unrest, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and pro-Palestinian
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and Hamas. And Professor Jacobson has spoken out loudly on campus and courageously against hate,
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against anti-Semitism. And Professor, I want to say welcome to The Great America Show. It's great to
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have you with us, and I have to say how proud I am of you and how much I respect your courage.
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You've written on the issue. You've been speaking out strongly about the surge of anti-Semitism on
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the country's universities and college campuses. I think the university, Cornell University, is very
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lucky to have you there speaking out, and if you will, being a conscience of the university. I commend
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you for that, and I don't want you blushing too much. You've watched the students at Cornell
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actually threaten Jewish students' protest in favor and support of anti-Semitic faculty members,
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and now there's been one particular student who threatened to slit the throats of his fellow
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Jewish students. I have to say, too, that the university's leaders were hardly quick to condemn
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anti-Semitism, in my opinion, and to condemn pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
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Your thoughts on what is happening now on too many of our college and university campuses?
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Well, yes, it's pretty shocking to everybody. I think kind of stepping back to October 7th,
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October 7th was when Hamas invaded southern Israel, butchered 1,400 people, you know, sexually
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mutilated them, tortured them, kidnapped babies and toddlers and took them to Gaza. So that's kind of
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the backdrop. You would think there would be universal condemnation of that. Forget where you are on the
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That sort of thing is really ISIS-like. Frankly, it's Nazi-like. That sort of
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torture and humiliation of people. But on our campus, believe it or not, there were students
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who were advocating it. They weren't necessarily advocating the torture by name, but they were
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happy about the invasion. They felt Israel had it coming to them. And so you had this conflict
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developing on campus with the majority of people expressing, you know, horror at this and holding
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vigils about it. But you also had student groups on campus who were, you know, we need to liberate
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Israel by any means necessary. That's the phrase of the day, by any means necessary, from the river to
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the sea, which means you exterminate the Jewish people in Israel. And so that was the tension on
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campus. And it was just ratcheted up through the roof when one particular professor on campus,
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somebody who's probably the most prominent anti-Israel professor on campus. His name's out
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there, Russell Rickford, so it's not like I'm disclosing something. In a rally, an anti-Israel rally
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in face of all this in downtown Ithaca, attended by a lot of students, a fairly large rally,
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gave a roaring speech against Israel, a roaring speech celebrating the attack. And the words that
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became infamous on TV and the internet were that he felt exhilarated when he heard about it.
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And that word exhilarated, he's now trying to explain away, well, it really wasn't exhilarated
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about the torture and the kidnapping. It was more the invasion. But everybody in the crowd knew what
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he meant, because as soon as he said that, they broke into a chant of, from the river to the sea,
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Palestine will be free. That put Cornell on the map. That went everywhere. And that's the tension
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that continued on campus. There were graffiti, anti-Israel graffiti spray painted around campus.
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But the most recent was this weekend on a chat board. Now, I don't frequent chat boards,
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but apparently it's a thing that students do. And somebody, they didn't know who it was at the time,
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repeated a lot of that verbiage. And also, as you indicated, threatened to slit the throats of Jewish
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students. So it was all directed to Jewish students, threatened to take some sort of revenge on the
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kosher dining hall, and repeated a lot of that verbiage that you heard at the pro, the anti-Israel
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rallies and from that professor about, you know, by any means necessary, called the Jewish students
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who lived at the building next to the dining hall, the kosher dining hall, settlers, that we need to
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cleanse the campus of these settlers. So it was very, very ugly. Maybe the worst that's happened
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anywhere. I shouldn't say the worst, but clearly really bad. And it exposed an extremely dark underside
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of the campus culture at Cornell. It turned out that that person posting the threats was just
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was arrested and has been announced by the U.S. Attorney's Office. He's a junior at Cornell. He's
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a student on campus. And I think the question that we need to answer, and the school does,
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and I'm happy to talk about it, is how does a student like that, based on his LinkedIn profile,
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you know, top grades in high school, basically a math genius, science genius, works for all sorts
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of clubs. How does somebody like that get so radicalized when they come to Cornell that they're
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making threats to slit the throats of Jewish students on campus? And so Cornell's got a very,
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very deep problem that was brought to the surface. The Hamas attack didn't create the problem,
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but it brought it to the surface. Well, it's to me stunning, this junior. Do you know much about
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him? Do you know, is he an international student? Is he a... No, he is a student of Asian descent from
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upstate New York, Pittsburgh, New York, I think was what he was listed as. And so as far as I know,
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I've asked around, nobody seemed to know him. So it's not like he was a prominent activist on campus.
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Maybe more information will come out, but from what I am gathering, he did have mental illness
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problems. You know, a lot of people do who end up shooting up places, okay? So, but why did he turn
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that mental illness towards Jews? And I think it's the campus culture. That's an interesting thought,
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and that culture seems to be well established. I frankly am surprised that the president of the
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university who spoke to this in response, in large measure, I'm sure, because of your essay on the
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issue, it doesn't sound to me like he's been particularly active, as he suggested. I'm not
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in any way judging on this. I basically am looking at the surface of the matter. But it doesn't seem to
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me that the university has taken a very aggressive approach to either human rights or hate and bigotry
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on the campus. It's a bizarre sort of aspect as you look at the context of where this student came
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Yeah, she doesn't get it. The president, I don't think, gets it. I don't think the senior
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administration gets it. I think they are putting band-aids on things. They don't realize that they
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have contributed dramatically to the problem on campus. Now, certainly, I'm not accusing the
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administration of being anti-Semitic at all, but I'm saying they have forced onto the campus. They
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have racialized the campus. They have forced onto the campus three years ago after George Floyd died
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a quote-unquote anti-racism agenda, diversity, equity, and inclusion. The race is now the hyper focus
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of almost everything that happens on campus. Students are forced to view themselves through
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a racial lens. And when you do that, you start to see, and we've seen it on Cornell even before that
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initiative, but worse since, students start to separate themselves by race. They start to separate
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themselves by ethnic identities and they form coalitions, and this is how they describe it,
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coalitions of students of color against Israel. So they form, they turn what is a religious
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dispute between Jews and Muslims in Israel, a national dispute between Jews and Arabs in Israel,
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and they turn it into a racial issue, which it's not. And that's what the President and the
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senior administration has done. They've taken a religious dispute and turned it into a racial dispute,
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and now you see people on campus talking about, you know, the white Israelis, the white settler
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colonial nation. And so that has taken things to a very, and that leaves Jewish students, almost all
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of whom support Israel, really in a difficult position because they're forced to either reject
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part of their Jewish identity or agree with people who demonize Israel in the extreme. So they, the
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administration has worsened the problem. They probably don't even realize it. I've been speaking out
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against this for several years, really, you know, shouting into the darkness at Cornell. I think
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there are a lot of people who agree with me, but they're all afraid to speak out.
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So many people are afraid to discuss race, bigotry, the honest view of what is happening in this
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country. And amongst those views, obviously, is what is Marxist radicalism that is now visited upon nearly
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every campus, college and university campus in this country in one form or another, some negligible
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and others overwhelming in their power over the university. We're talking with Professor William
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Jacobson. We're talking about anti-Semitism. We're talking about what in the world is going on on our
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university campuses in this country. And how is it related to the body politic and the
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confrontation between two ideologies right now in this country? We'll be right back. Stay with us.
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We're back. We're talking with Cornell Law Professor William Jacobson. Professor, it's great of you to be
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here. And thanks for doing so. This is a critically important issue because it's manifesting itself.
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As I said, it's showing up everywhere on college campuses in the country. And you brought up the
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issue of the safety of these students. I can't imagine being in one of the most elite universities
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in this country and having to worry about physical safety of students from other students. That is
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just mind-boggling. And the anti-Semitism that's being voiced and acted upon is deeply troubling,
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I think, to every American, every American who's concerned about this country. It's not just about,
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quote-unquote, a hate crime. It's specificity and it's venomous nature, destructive nature,
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is what gives pause, I think, to nearly everyone who would certainly not expect this to happen
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anywhere and on any campus in this country, let alone one of our most elite universities.
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That's true. But that's where we are on particularly elite schools. The faculty at most elite schools,
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at least in the humanities, to a lesser extent the social sciences, is completely radicalized.
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They view activism as their profession. And they say that openly. So they agitate against Israel.
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You know, there's something called the International Holocaust Remembrance Association working definition
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of anti-Semitism. Because the people on campus, oh, we're not anti-Semitic, we're not against Jews,
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we're just against Israel. And what that working definition says is that criticizing Israel like you
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would any other country is not anti-Semitic. I mean, they're entitled to be criticized just like our
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government is entitled to be criticized. But when you go to such extremes, when you make Israel essentially
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the the universal pariah in the world, much like Jews historically were made the universal pariah,
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when you go that far to that extreme, and you treat Israel differently than you would treat other
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countries, that is anti-Semitic. And that's what I think you're seeing playing out on college campuses,
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is that for at least 10 years, probably more like 20 years, you have seen the gross demonization and
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dehumanization of Israelis. That's, you know, no, there's no two sides to things. There's no
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acknowledgement of the Jewish history in the land of Israel. There's no acknowledgement that the people
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who now identify as Palestinian actually are the descendants of the conquerors of the Muslim conquest
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of the West of the area. They're not indigenous to there. If you the all the archaeological digs show
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that Jews were there long before that, there's been a continuous presence. There's none of that is
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discussed. Nothing is discussed how in 1947, the UN proposed a partition of the land, the Jews accepted
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it, the Arabs did not. There's no discussion of how the people who now identify as Palestinian didn't do
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so really until the 1960s. And they didn't claim the West Bank in Gaza as their homeland until after 1967.
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You know, people don't learn this. The Palestinian National Covenant from 1964, before Israel captured
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the West Bank in Gaza, disclaimed any claim by the Palestinian people to those areas. So when the West
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bank was occupied by Jordan, nobody said make that a homeland for the Palestinians. It was only when the
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Jewish state captured it in response to Jordan attacking. So nobody learns this. It's never taught.
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All they are taught at campuses like Cornell is evil white colonial Israel versus victim oppressed
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non-white Palestinians. And that's where this whole racial narrative feeds in. So that's how we get here,
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is that the faculty is radicalized, at least in the humanities, and they don't teach both sides.
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They don't teach balance. All they do is agitate against Israel. And you get to this place in time
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when that's been going on for a decade. And that radicalization, that indoctrination is coming from,
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frankly, Marxist pro-dem professors who are there for a very specific purpose. They are radicalized.
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They mean to fundamentally transform this country, and they're doing so. You talk about the history
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of Israel and the region, the Middle East. You're lucky to get a decent education in American history
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in this country right now at K-12. All of the group and identity politics driving 1877 as the starting
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year for American history, that is, Reconstruction, through to the present, and leaving out huge swaths
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of foundational knowledge about who we are, where we came from, our heritage, and our history,
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our values. And then you take it to, and the law schools themselves are now being swept up with
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Marxist ideology by the dozens, where there are strong influences now on the faculties of law schools.
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Yeah, you are. I mean, it goes under the rubric of critical race theory, which is a critical theory
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which seeks to deconstruct our country, seeks to demonize our country, views everything through a
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racial lens, that all of our systems, there is no truth, there's just, you know, systems of power,
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that, you know, all of the protections for the individual that we have protected in our Bill of
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Rights, and protected in many other ways, are just ways of keeping, you know, racial power. That's how
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they view it. And so, yeah, it's a very negative. Not all professors subscribe to this by any means,
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but it is the ideological fad that has overtaken academia, particularly law school academia, and
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there's no pushback, because for 20 years they only hire their own. For 30 years they only hire their own.
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So you get to a point where, you know, faculties at most universities look nothing ideologically
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like America. And in law schools, I think it's probably even worse that you can't be hired unless
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you have proven your commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Very hard. I won't say it's
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impossible, but that's what they're looking for. They're looking for people who not only share their
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beliefs about these racial hierarchies and systemic racism, they're also looking for people who are
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activists, who have acted on it. And, you know, up until recently, Cornell required for new hires,
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diversity, equity, and inclusion statements. Now it's voluntary, but everybody knows they still want it.
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And what you needed to do, it's right on Cornell's website, how they evaluate those DEI statements.
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They evaluate them based not only that you say you are committed to it, but what have you done in
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your career to advance DEI. And therefore everybody knows you need to not only say the things, you also
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need to tailor your profession to it. So who actually ends up getting hired? It's people who think like
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them because there's no way you can be hired if you disagree. Very difficult. And so it's really been
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a corrupting factor. And, you know, a lot of people think I was alarmist when for years I've been saying
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this, but now we're seeing it. Now we're seeing it. And I think at every level of our society, we need to
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think about, you know, how can we protect society from what has happened in academia? Because so many of
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the crazy things that are now, you know, corrupting corporations, HR departments and corporations
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started on campus. All of this stuff, you know, people used to say, oh, those are just a few crazy
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professors. We don't need to worry about them. Well, yeah, now you do because they've created two
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generations of students who've been indoctrinated to believe this is the right approach.
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You know, I was talking on this podcast with Mike Gonzalez from the Heritage Foundation,
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and I asked him a question. How in the world is it that we have seen this mad Marxist ideology
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subsume corporate America? I can't find an explanation for it. And Mike said that he is a scholar and
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an absolute expert on all of us. He studied it for years. He said, I don't, I can't explain it,
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because it is fundamentally anti-capitalist. It is fundamentally anti-profit, the Marxist ideology.
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And yet here they are signing up, signing on and moving out, just like any one of the radicalized
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professors on a college campus. Yeah, I mean, the left understood something the rest of us didn't.
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If you want to change the society, you do do it through the education system. It is no mistake
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that Bill Ayers, Obama's mentor, the former Weather Underground guy who got away with his crimes on a
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legal technicality. Where did, what did he make his career? Education. So they understood,
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take over education, get your kids to listen to them, and what you think doesn't matter.
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Unfortunately, that's the absolute truth. We're talking with William Jacobson, who is a man speaking
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truth at Cornell at a time when the institution desperately needs his voice and many more like
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his. We'll be right back with Cornell Law Professor William Jacobson. Stay with us.
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We're back with Cornell University Law Professor William Jacobson. We're talking about one of the
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most serious, if not the most serious issues right now on college campuses around the country,
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and that is the anti-Semitism that's being exhibited by students, by professors, the faculty,
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and the institutions themselves. Perhaps not consciously, but certainly subconsciously.
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But we'll see in time what the response is by these institutions to what is
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a hateful environment right now in just too many of our colleges and universities.
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Professor, I want to turn to a couple of things that are happening with lawfare in this country.
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Project 65, the attempts to bankrupt lawyers attempting to bankrupt fellow lawyers who,
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by the way, are different only in which side they're on. Are they left or are they right?
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But it's become a vicious, and I think probably one of the most dangerous moments we've seen in this
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country when law professors take sides and literally try to kill the other lawyers,
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financially, socially, professionally. Your thoughts?
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Yeah, well, this is something another corrupting influence. I mean, one of the things I've written
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a lot about and spoken a lot about is the hollowing out of our institutions in this country and the
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politicization of those institutions. I'm so old, I remember when being a lawyer who is willing to take
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an unpopular cause and being a lawyer who is willing to take an unpopular cause and advance novel legal
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theories such as segregation is unconstitutional. That was a novel legal theory at the time it was
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advanced before Brown versus Board of Education. You take that now and you have lawyers who
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are advancing legal theories which, at least that I've seen, are not outlandish. They may be wrong,
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the judges may not agree with them, but you know what? For decades and decades, judges disagreed with
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desegregation. And so what you've done is any lawyer on the right who wants to take an unpopular client
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is going to see his business come under attack. He's going to see now through Project 65 his bar
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membership under attack, his career come under attack or her career under attack. And you can see
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this developing. I mean, one of the instances I remember is the law firm of King & Spalding. So there was
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something which most of your listeners may remember, but certainly 20-somethings don't remember,
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called the Defense of Marriage Act. And the Defense of Marriage Act was congressional legislation that
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essentially said no state can be forced to recognize a same-sex marriage if that marriage was not legal in
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the state itself. And that was controversial. Fine, it's controversial. The Department of Justice,
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there was litigation challenging it. The Department of Justice was defending it because the Congress has
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no law firm, no in-house law firm. So the Department of Justice traditionally defends legislation.
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Obama administration defended it for a year or two and then one day announced,
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we are no longer going to defend it, the Department of Justice. Congress, you've got to go out and get your
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own lawyers. I don't know if it's unprecedented, but almost unprecedented. Congress went out and they
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hired a law firm. And they hired King & Spalding, based in Atlanta, but a big national firm. And there
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was a very well-known conservative lawyer there. And what did people do? People started to attack
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the lawyers, King & Spalding. Paul Clement was the lawyer. And they started to organize boycotts at
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law schools that King & Spalding would not be allowed to interview at the law schools because of
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who they were representing. They organized... Let me interject this, excuse me for interrupting,
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but Paul Clement is recognized as, if not the, personally, I think the
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the best known and best regarded, highest regarded Supreme Court attorney in the country. Do you
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think that's a fair statement? Yeah, I think that is fair. I'd love to meet him one day. But yeah,
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so what they did, they not only, so they started to boycott, they started attacking and protesting at
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the law firm, but then they went a step further. They started saying, okay, law firm, we're now going
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to start protesting outside your other clients. So clients who had nothing to do with this
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representation. And Coca-Cola was and is King & Spalding's largest client. They started to protest
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to Coca-Cola. And King & Spalding said, you know what, we can't take the pressure anymore.
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We're going to drop the representation. Paul Clement left the firm and kept the representation
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at a new firm he set up. But that's what has happened. The concept that lawyers are there to
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advance novel claims to represent clients. Okay, the lawyer is not the client. The lawyer is the
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lawyer. And so that has been thrown out. That has been completely thrown out. It's that was probably
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10 years ago, maybe more than 10 years ago. And now you have groups like Project 65 saying,
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aha, lawyer, you know, you advanced legal theories regarding the 2020 election that were rejected by
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the courts. Now we're going to try to get you disbarred. That is not how it used to work. And
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what they are doing is they are trying to instill such fear in any lawyer who would represent a
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Republican that Republicans are going to have a lot of trouble even finding lawyers because you know
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what's going to happen. You represent a Republican on an unpopular cause, your law firm is going to be
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attacked. Your bar membership is going to be attacked. You represent an unpopular lawyer on the left
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side. You're a hero. You're an upholder of civil rights. There we are in very dangerous times.
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And people need to understand that all of many, if not close to all of the protections that preserve
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our individual rights in this country are slowly but surely being ripped down by the by the left in this
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country. Torn asunder. And to your point earlier, talking about the anti Semitism, which can be expressed as
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a hate of Israel, condemnation of Israel, looking upon it, treating it, considering Israel differently
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than you would any other any other nation in like circumstances. And I don't think anybody can really
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appreciate. I know I can't what it is like to live, to be born Israeli to live as part of a community of
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about 6 million, you can argue the numbers, but 6 million Jews living in the midst of what are
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90 million Iranians surrounded by Palestinian terrorists in point of fact, withdrawing in 2005 from the Gaza
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Strip, uprooting settlers and turning over the land so that you have an entire population of Hamas
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and Palestinians who hate you to the gates of hell. And I just can't imagine what it's like to know that
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your neighbors mean for you to die and for the country you live in to be wiped off the face of the earth.
00:33:16.140
Yeah, I mean, there's no positives to what Hamas did, but one thing that is eye-opening and should be eye-opening
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is we know exactly now what they mean when they say free Palestine. We know exactly what they mean when they say
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from the river to the sea. Hamas showed us what they mean and what they mean is mass murder, torture, rape, mutilation.
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That's what Palestinian liberation now means if anybody had any doubt. That's not to say they
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shouldn't have a nation someplace or they shouldn't divide the land somehow, but the concept that the
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Jews of Israel, and I think you're more or less right on the number, I think it's 6 or 7 million
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plus another million or two Arab Israelis who are citizens of Israel. I think that's ballpark, right?
00:34:09.820
But that the notion that 6 to 7 million Jews should live under the thumb of Hamas and similar Islamist
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groups run by Iran and that somehow it's going to turn out any differently than it did in southern
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Israel near the Gaza border with the butchery that took place. Anybody who's advocating that is advocating
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genocide of the Jewish people in Israel. And we should be just clear about that. No more of this,
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oh, I'm just against Israel. I'm not against Jews. Sorry. If what you want is liberation from the
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river to the sea, you are pro-genocide and we need to be honest about that.
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And I think honesty is something that we need. I'm a product of the 60s. I'm on the college campus
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in the midst of civil rights and the Vietnam War and the sexual revolution and the world turned upside
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down. But I don't remember a time, an instance in which there was hate. There was absolutely concerted
00:35:15.820
arguments and fierce and passionate arguments over all of it. But with open minds, because we were,
00:35:23.980
after all, still debating whether it be in the mess halls or the common rooms or whatever it might be
00:35:32.620
on campus, there were big, big talks and big, big debates, bringing in the best of people to talk to
00:35:40.540
young people who really need to understand what is truth. I don't see that happening. I don't hear
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about it happening in universities right now, taking up these big issues with strong, knowledgeable,
00:35:54.300
bright advocates for either side and really coming to terms with what the reality is.
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By the way, I don't hear that happening with the other issues in our society that are so critically
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important, whether it's gender identification and transfer transgender issues, whether it is
00:36:15.660
what the future will look like in terms of our economy, which way will we go, and what is the right
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thing for this country to do. So I just want to salute you for speaking out and speaking truth and
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speaking virtue. Thank you. Thank you for having me on. Thanks, everybody, for being here today. Our
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