Henry Rogers was an assistant professor at a small New York state university named SUNY New York. He was a brilliant history professor, a brilliant writer, and a brilliant con artist. And now, things are falling apart for the man now known as Ibram X Kendi. Is the anti-racist scam falling apart?
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00:02:06.520A decade ago, a man in his 30s by the name of Henry Rogers was one of 32,000 faculty members working in the State University System of New York.
00:02:13.920Henry was an assistant professor making a modest salary as he taught history classes to undergraduates.
00:02:19.560And he wasn't exactly lighting the academic world on fire, but he was doing pretty well, all things considered.
00:02:23.920Henry had graduated from high school with a GPA below 3.0, SAT scores hovering around 1,000.
00:02:30.300And with numbers like that, many students decide to pass on college entirely for good reason.
00:02:34.100But here was Henry Rogers teaching college students.
00:02:40.700So he was something of an unexpected success story.
00:02:44.380Now, nevertheless, despite the many blessings that were bestowed on him by affirmative action, Henry Rogers dreamed bigger.
00:02:51.740You know, he didn't want to be stuck at SUNY forever.
00:02:54.060He knew that if he wanted to make a lot of money and advance in academia, he needed a rebrand.
00:02:59.460You could only go so far with a white-sounding name like Henry Rogers in the American university system these days, especially in a state like New York.
00:03:06.580So in 2013, Henry Rogers changed his name overnight.
00:03:10.500He became Ibram Zolani Kendi, or Ibram X. Kendi for short.
00:03:15.580And from that point forward, anyone looking at the CV of this assistant professor at a middling state school wouldn't immediately think of someone boring and generic and pasty.
00:03:24.900Instead, they think of black revolutionaries like Malcolm X.
00:03:28.160Now, looking back, Henry Rogers' name change may go down as the single most effective rebrand in the history of this country.
00:03:36.840I mean, his timing couldn't have been better.
00:03:38.280At the moment, Henry Rogers transitioned into Ibram X. Kendi, corporate media in the U.S., it just so happened, was looking for something to cover besides wealth inequality and Occupy Wall Street.
00:03:49.300They decided, apparently in concert, to craft a narrative that innocent young black people were being hunted down by deranged white supremacists.
00:03:58.320To advance that narrative, the media lied about the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown and eventually George Floyd and so on.
00:04:04.920And during this period, they needed talking heads with names like Ibram X. Kendi to tell Americans that their real problem wasn't Citibank or J.P. Morgan.
00:04:16.200One thing led to another, and before you knew it, Henry Rogers was on the move.
00:04:19.760He was hired by American University in Washington, D.C. in 2017, which at the time was struggling with the news that bananas had been spotted hanging from trees on campus.
00:04:29.000This was presumed to be a racist incident, because why else would there be bananas?
00:04:38.080Specifically, Rogers promised to develop a racial reporting guidebook and to conduct a symposium on racial reporting.
00:04:46.440Now, none of that ever materialized, and this is a theme with Henry Rogers that promises things and they don't actually happen.
00:04:52.460But even so, Rogers received tens of thousands of dollars in grant money from places like the Ford Foundation and elsewhere to make it happen.
00:05:00.700But Rogers was not completely idle during this period.
00:05:03.940Right after two years at American University, Henry produced a now infamous book called How to Be an Anti-Racist, which offered a novel theory.
00:05:11.840Henry argued that the solution to racism is more racism.
00:05:16.400Quote, the only remedy to racist discrimination is anti-racist discrimination.
00:05:21.280The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.
00:05:25.240The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.
00:05:29.400Now, if your IQ is higher than Henry Rogers, and unless you're a house cat, it almost certainly is, that might seem counterintuitive.
00:05:38.160In fact, it might seem like the single dumbest idea ever committed to paper.
00:05:42.800But in 2019, this theory, this explicit endorsement of racism, of discrimination, lit the academic world on fire.
00:05:52.300That same year, Henry Rogers was invited to speak at the Aspen Ideas Festival, where he had the opportunity to expound on his ingenious thesis before an audience of adoring, mostly white sycophants.
00:06:04.640And yet, despite the friendly audience, things didn't go well.
00:06:08.260And not to oversell, but this may be the single most amusing clip to come out of the entire DEI anti-racism craze.
00:06:14.980And in case you missed it at the time, you're in for a treat.
00:06:17.600Here is Henry Rogers, a.k.a. Ibram X. Kendi, explaining his definition of racism, or lack thereof.
00:06:26.580I'm wondering, I just finished reading Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility, and I think she did, like, an excellent job of defining racism as, like, a system of oppression as opposed to, like, a personal choice.
00:06:37.860It's like, it's there, you benefit from it, or you don't.
00:06:42.140You talked about the importance of defining racism, but I, but I, unless I missed it, which is possible, I didn't, I didn't hear your personal definition.
00:06:50.840Is there, is there one that you would offer us?
00:10:29.000The Washington Free Beacon looked into this, and they found that Kendi's anti-racist center established something called the Racial Data Lab,
00:10:59.900Now, we did reach out to Boston University to see if there was something we were missing, but they didn't reply.
00:11:05.340So it's clear that the sum total of BU's big anti-racism data initiative, the one they touted with articles and a lot of marketing materials, was this.
00:12:15.120Now, for his part, Kendi had some bright ideas that he occasionally shared with media outlets in this country.
00:12:19.520For example, he told Political, quote, to fix the original sin of racism, Americans should pass an anti-racist amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
00:12:27.480The amendment would make unconstitutional racial inequity over a certain threshold, as well as racist ideas by public officials.
00:12:34.920It would establish and permanently fund the Department of Anti-Racism, DOA, comprised of formally trained experts on racism and no political employees.
00:12:44.640The DOA would be responsible for pre-clearing all local, state, and federal public policies to ensure that they won't yield racial inequity.
00:12:53.660So imagine spending millions of dollars investing in a research center written by someone who sincerely believes something like that is a good idea.
00:13:03.380I mean, it's so unbelievably degrading, so stupid that it defies analysis, really.
00:13:08.420What would you tell your shareholders?
00:13:11.280What would you tell yourself when you look at yourself in the mirror?
00:13:14.640Is there literally anyone on the planet who thinks a Department of Anti-Racism, literally the acronym is DOA, Debt on Arrival, would be a good idea?
00:13:24.820Well, maybe if you were one of Rogers' investors, you'd hold out hope that sooner or later the scholars in this prestigious anti-racism center are eventually going to buckle down and get to work and produce something that's actually useful.
00:13:36.200But if you thought that, you would be wrong.
00:13:40.380This week we learned that Kendi's Anti-Racist Center has just fired more than half of its staff.
00:13:45.480They've apparently managed to burn through much of the $40 million they've raised.
00:13:52.040And to be clear, this is an operation that does not involve particle colliders or expensive equipment.
00:13:59.140Okay, this is a bunch of anti-racist experts sitting around telling white people that they're terrible.
00:14:05.960And whatever else you want to say about work like that, you would think at least it would be cheap.
00:14:10.640But they managed to blow through $40 million in three years doing that.
00:14:15.460And now at long last, Boston University says that it's opened an inquiry into where all this money went exactly.
00:14:22.640If we're being honest, federal prosecutors should also be doing an inquiry about that same subject.
00:14:28.080But of course, we know that they won't because Henry Rogers is doing their bidding.
00:14:32.180Now, at this point, it would be easy to gloat, you know, gloating over the aftermath of the complete and total implosion of this whole project.
00:14:39.980And we should gloat a little bit because it's hilarious and everyone who got screwed out of their money deserved it.
00:14:46.400There's the fact that one of Rogers' former staffers called these layoffs an example of employment violence and systemic racism, which is pretty funny.
00:14:55.040Many observers have made the point that the woke inevitably eat their own.
00:17:10.420Okay, like the Protestant Reformation took a lot longer to get going,
00:17:13.620if only because people were communicating by horse or ship-borne letters or whatever.
00:17:18.020The woke social credit equity biosurveillance state, that Reformation, took hold much faster.
00:17:26.500And they can elevate con artists like Henry Rogers so quickly that we don't know what's happening until they've got $40 million in control of major institutions.
00:17:34.700They can scam the most sophisticated investors on the planet, allegedly, from tech executives to big pharma.
00:17:41.340Henry Rogers and his team, they haven't done much in their tenure as highly paid anti-racist activists.
00:17:47.680But they have demonstrated one thing, albeit inadvertently.
00:17:51.680And that's the fact that there isn't any substance to so-called anti-racist ideology.
00:17:56.620It's just mega corporations looking to give big payouts to the first guy they find with an exotic name.
00:18:02.400If it's not fraud, it's something very close to it.
00:18:05.220If the right can finally admit that, instead of playing along with these charlatans and funding the universities that promote this garbage,
00:20:19.600Fetterman became emotional after presenting a transcription app that allows him to fully participate in the meeting and communicate with his family members.
00:20:45.440And this is a transcription service that allows me to fully participate in this meeting and conversations with my children and interacting with my staff.
00:21:00.200I had a stroke about 18 months ago, you know, and I have lost my ability to fully process language.
00:21:09.060And I like to think I was an empathetic person, truly.
00:21:14.820But until that happened, I've raised to a whole different kind of level as well.
00:21:21.720And it's profound to know, though, that I never really considered that without this kind of technology, I couldn't watch television.
00:21:30.100And I can't imagine if I didn't have this kind of a bridge to allow me to communicate with other people effectively.
00:21:38.120And, you know, because I live in a political environment, I was ridiculed and made fun of because I wasn't able to process things sometimes or say things, things.
00:21:48.840So I'm so sorry that I'm sure many of you had to go through this kind of thing.
00:21:54.720You know, I was lucky that I was I was lucky to go through my life, the vast majority of that, without this kind of disability that I have.
00:22:08.120It doesn't matter to me if you think that.
00:22:11.620But first of all, I firmly believe that any United States senator who cries about bullying should be immediately removed from office and deported.
00:23:46.100Now, a lot of people blame, put a lot of blame on his wife for clearly pushing him a lot.
00:23:50.060And his wife is clearly an awful person, so she deserves much of the blame.
00:23:54.740But that's also a decision that he made and decided to do.
00:23:58.140Now, if he was just, and he says there, you may remember also, we were told, even before he was elected, that, well, he can't speak.
00:24:10.400But that's not a problem, because that doesn't mean that he can't, he can understand what's being said to him.
00:24:15.760He just can't, he can't convey his own thoughts.
00:24:18.000Well, you would think that being in the legislative branch of government, not being able to convey your thoughts is a pretty big hindrance.
00:24:27.040But it turns out that, no, it's not just that he can't convey his thoughts, it's that he can't understand what's being said to him.
00:24:49.700Now, if he was just some guy, some random guy, you know, working at a hardware store or something, and he had trouble processing language, I would feel sorry for him.
00:24:59.680I certainly wouldn't criticize him for it.
00:27:06.940Someone who's visually impaired, you wouldn't say anything about it.
00:27:08.800You wouldn't make fun of them, hopefully.
00:27:09.700But if that person is flying the plane that you're on, suddenly his disability is a problem.
00:27:17.600And he deserves to be criticized, not for being visually impaired, but for knowing that he's visually impaired and flying the plane anyway.
00:27:28.340And if, as the plane plunges into the side of a mountain, people are very upset and they say unkind things about that pilot and his visual problems,
00:27:40.160if they do start yelling at him and mocking him even,
00:27:44.000you dumb four-eyes, look what you've done, that sort of thing.
00:27:47.080Normally, I would say, don't talk to people with glasses that way.
00:33:27.660Men incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary filed a class action lawsuit on Saturday contending that they have been forced to work in the prison's fields for little or no pay, even when temperatures soar past 100 degrees.
00:33:39.660They describe the conditions as cruel, degrading, and often dangerous.
00:33:42.660The men, most of whom are black, work on the farm of the 18,000-acre maximum-security prison known as Angola, the site of a former slave plantation, hoeing, weeding, and picking crops by hand, often surrounded by armed guards, the suit said.
00:33:54.660If they refuse to work or fail to meet quotas, they can be sent to solitary confinement or otherwise punished, according to disciplinary guidelines.
00:34:00.660The suit said, quote, this labor serves no legitimate penological or institutional purpose.
00:34:05.660It's purely punitive, designed to break incarcerated men and ensure their submission.
00:34:09.660It names its defendants, Angola's warden, Timothy Hooper, and officials with Louisiana's Department of Corrections and its money-making arm, Prison Enterprises.
00:34:17.660Ken Pastorek, a spokesman for the State Department of Public Safety and Corrections, said the department hadn't officially been served with the suit.
00:34:23.660The plaintiffs include four men who formerly or are currently working in the fields, along with Voice of the Experienced, an organization made up of current and formerly incarcerated people, around 150 of whom are still at Angola.
00:34:36.660The site said the work is especially dangerous to those with disabilities or health conditions in the summer months, with temperatures reaching up to 102 degrees in June, with heat indexes of up to 145.
00:34:46.660Some of the plaintiffs have not been given the accommodations and services they're entitled to under the Americans with Disability Act.
00:34:52.660These men are forced to work, notwithstanding their increased risk of illness or injury.
00:34:56.660Okay, so the inmates are forced to work for little or no pay.
00:38:17.660And you know, the other thing, too, is this is the only path to rehabilitation.
00:38:22.660So there's always this argument about should punish should prison be primarily punitive or should it be, you know, should it should it rehabilitate?
00:38:31.660The answer is that, in fact, the first focus of prison should be punitive.
00:38:35.660That should be the primary point of prison is to punish.
00:38:49.660Another big purpose of prison is segregation.
00:38:51.660Segregate that segregate dangerous people from society.
00:38:54.660Rehabilitation is farther down the line.
00:38:58.660But, yeah, if you are going to be not everyone who goes to prison is going to be there for life.
00:39:04.660I think I think many more people should be there for life.
00:39:07.660We should be giving out a lot more life sentences than we do.
00:39:09.660We should be giving out a lot more death sentences than we do.
00:39:12.660But, you know, inevitably, even by even in my ideal scenario, if I was if I was handing out the punishments, there would still be a few people who are not there forever.
00:39:21.660And and for those people, you do want them to be rehabilitated.
00:39:28.660You're rehabilitated through work, through being forced to do things, you know, you don't want to do the constructive things that you don't want to do.
00:40:06.660But you're probably not going to repent of what you've done to be sorry for it unless you are forced to confront, you know, the full reality of what you've done.
00:40:20.660So if you went out, you know, and you whatever, went on a crime, crime spree and you carjack someone, you deal these awful things.
00:40:31.660Eventually, maybe you'll be left back down and decided we want you to be rehabilitated.
00:40:35.660But you have to be forced to confront how terrible that thing was that you did.
00:40:40.660And this kind of forced labor thing, I mean, that one thing that it does is it communicates to the prisoner that, yes, what you did was so bad that you deserve this, that this is the treatment you deserve.
00:40:56.660Only hope of rehabilitation is when they when they connect those dots and they say, you know what I do.
00:41:01.660You know what I deserve this rather than complaining about it.
00:41:05.660Until the prisoner, if the prisoner doesn't say that, I deserve all the treatment I'm getting doesn't say that that he's not rehabilitated.
00:42:03.660So Lizzo, the singer Lizzo, up until a few months ago, was considered the champion of positivity and optimism and hope and love and rainbows.
00:42:10.660And recently, her reputation has taken a major hit with various former employees and backup dancers accusing her of being abusive, you know, in various different ways behind the scenes.
00:42:21.660And what we see is that once those floodgates are open, there's no stopping it.
00:42:27.660And then, you know, once we start hearing that some famous person is there, oh, they're actually a jerk behind the scenes.
00:43:37.660In this lawsuit, there are some troubling allegations against Lizzo, but more specifically against her wardrobe manager, Amanda Nomura.
00:43:44.660Daniels alleges Nomura forced dancers to change out in the open, did stereotypical impressions of black women, called performers dumb, mocked their weight.
00:43:54.660And the suit even alleges Nomura used a slur and threatened to kill anyone who put her job at risk.
00:44:00.660Daniels goes on to claim she was forced to work seven days a week for 20 hours a day and was told to continue working even after injuring her ankle.
00:44:27.660It, you know, when you first get the claims from someone saying, this person's abusive behind the scenes, it might be true, it might not be true.
00:44:34.660But then, you know, the claims that come after, the people that come out of the woodwork after that are like almost always full of it.
00:44:42.660This is the same with Me Too, the Me Too stuff.
00:44:45.660It's like you have the initial claims, might be true, might not be true.
00:44:50.660Varying degrees of credibility with those.
00:46:10.660For the Forsaken says, thank you, Matt.
00:46:15.660I don't think you intended to, but you have made a lot of men feel slightly less crazy for daydreaming about armed intruders attacking them at the grocery store and plotting their unrealistic retaliations.
00:46:38.660But but if you really want to be surprised, ask them, how often do you think about being attacked by a whole bunch of bad guys?
00:46:45.660And how and how and how you'll respond in any given situation, like how often do you enter a new environment and start looking around at what kind of weapons you would use if a whole bunch of bad guys attacked you?
00:46:58.660And you will probably be be shocked by how frequent those thoughts enter a man's head.
00:47:05.660Now, part of it is, you know, part of it is just kind of it is just daydreaming.
00:47:11.660It's the kind of masculine desire for the heroic, you know, but some of it's practical.
00:47:20.660We just we always, you know, situational awareness.
00:47:22.660You got to you got to know where the exits are.
00:47:23.660You got to know where the potential weapons are.
00:47:25.660You got to know where the threats are coming from.
00:47:26.660You know, it just in case something ever happens.
00:47:29.660David says, I work in an auto body repair shop and we have a dress code.
00:47:35.660We take pride in looking presentable, even though we get dirty because it encourages standards and decorums as business professionals.
00:47:40.660Why are there standards for dress in my industry higher than the standards for those that are supposed to represent people like me on a national stage?
00:48:27.660It's why you're why you should dress up at a wet like to show up at a wedding in jeans and a T-shirt or a hoodie and shorts like I guess John Fetterman would.
00:48:52.660It's not important enough to me to bother like taking out my suit and ironing the pants and putting on the nicer shoes and all that can be bothered to do it.
00:49:55.660And I do want to say on that note here, finally, I'm glad that you brought that up.
00:50:00.660I do want to refute some rumors that have been circulating and maybe you've seen some media reports claiming, claiming that Matt Walsh, that being myself, has dropped out of Dancing with the Stars in solidarity with the Hollywood writers because of the writer's strike.
00:50:17.660And so these reports have been circulating.
00:50:20.660And I want to say unequivocally that that is totally false.
00:50:25.660I don't care about the Hollywood writers at all.
00:50:28.660I think that most of them should be unemployed and homeless anyway.
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00:52:31.660Just never in the way that anyone involved in the show intended.
00:52:35.660Funny in a sort of pathetic and embarrassing way.
00:52:38.660And this week, one of those moments from the show has gone viral.
00:52:41.660For whatever reason, a Daily Show clip from 2022 has been making the rounds online this week.
00:52:48.660And in the clip, a quote-unquote trans woman, otherwise known as a male, named Veronica Ivy, is brought on the show to explain why men should be able to compete against women in sports.
00:52:58.660And Ivy himself is a world track cycling champion, quote-unquote, who won his accolades in the sport by competing against women.
00:53:08.660What makes the conversation between Ivy and Noah so interesting is that, first of all, everything Ivy says is utterly fallacious and tremendously stupid.
00:53:17.660And on second thought, there's nothing very interesting or surprising about that, I suppose.
00:53:21.660But the more fascinating thing is to observe Noah, who clearly recognizes how ridiculous Ivy's assertions are and obviously disagrees with them, but is terrified to push back.
00:53:35.660So let's go through this clip from the beginning.
00:54:50.660Because this has had history of racism built into it over the years.
00:54:55.660It's not an accident that the intersex athletes who get singled out are women of color from the global south.
00:55:02.660Because who gets singled out for scrutiny is based on white women's conceptions of femininity.
00:55:09.660And that's being weaponized against trans people, too.
00:55:11.660So it's a fear of protecting the fragile, weak, cis white woman from the rest of us.
00:55:19.660So yes, applaud, applaud that absolute nonsense.
00:55:26.660Now, first of all, you notice how this man is, as always, too afraid to stand on his own feet and defend his own alleged identity.
00:55:34.660And that's why he shoehorns intersex people and black people into the conversation, aligning himself with them as if these two demographics have anything to do with him.
00:55:43.660Intersex people have genital deformities.
00:55:45.660They are not in any way related to transgenderism.
01:00:11.660So the range of body types within the female category is way, way bigger than anything that could be attributed to trans women.
01:00:21.660So if there's an advantage and I'm not saying that there is for trans women in women's sport, it's not an unfair advantage.
01:00:30.660So we hear two arguments here and they are the only two arguments that trans activists have in favor of allowing men to compete against women.
01:00:38.660And they're both fantastically stupid.
01:00:40.660So first he claims that we don't know if trans women, quote unquote, have an advantage over real women.
01:00:45.660And we don't know that because there aren't any studies about it.
01:00:49.660But of course, this is a classic red herring.
01:00:52.660There may not be very much research about, quote unquote, trans women competing against women only because this is a uniquely recent and modern form of madness.
01:01:00.660But there's a ton of research conclusively documenting the advantages that men have over women in sports and trans women are men.
01:01:09.660We don't need special research to find out if men who believe they're women also share the same inherent biological advantages as other men.
01:01:17.660We don't need this for the same reason that we don't need to find out if men who like the color red or men who prefer Olive Garden over Applebee's also have an advantage.
01:01:25.660We don't need it because these factors are completely irrelevant.
01:01:30.660The inner thoughts and preferences and experiences of the men have no bearing on their innate biological advantages.
01:01:38.660They have those advantages regardless of what's going on in their heads, obviously.
01:01:45.660Second, he points out that some women, actual women, are taller and faster and stronger than other women.
01:01:51.660And this means that we might as well open up the floodgates and bring in everybody, bring in the men.
01:01:56.660But this is this is exactly like saying that some four year olds are bigger and stronger than other four year olds.
01:02:04.660So we might as well allow 17 year olds to play on their t-ball teams.
01:02:08.660Obviously, there's going to be variations within categories, but the categories still exist and are knowable and definable and important.
01:02:19.660Sports are broken down along these kinds of categories.
01:02:24.660It is fair that the best and most athletic four year olds have the most success on their t-ball teams, even though they don't keep score in t-ball.
01:02:34.660So no one really can succeed. But I mean, you get the point.
01:02:37.660And it is fair that the best and most athletic female basketball players have the most success on their female basketball teams.
01:02:46.660So the people who are the best within the category are going to be the most successful.
01:02:53.660It is not fair if someone who does not belong to the category at all is allowed to compete and exploit the advantages that come from being not in that category.
01:03:04.660So this is all very obvious. Trevor Noah, Trevor Noah understands it.
01:03:10.660He could say it. But instead, he comes back with this.
01:03:14.660It's interesting to say that because I think if I were to push back or, you know, even not even playing devil's advocates, there are a few things that could be argued.
01:03:24.660Number one, you could argue that although the trans woman who competes in the Olympics didn't dominate, she did beat a field of women who might have qualified for that position.
01:03:33.660Right. Secondly, when you talk about the height differences, I agree with this completely, but there are many who would argue that we exist in a state where a lot of the surgeries are new.
01:03:46.660A lot of the technology, just the technology is new. Transgenderism is not new. We know it throughout time.
01:03:50.660We've seen it throughout history. But there are many who would say, how do we ensure that we are creating some sort of standard?
01:03:56.660And the reason we talk about this is the reason they have to regulate performance-enhancing drugs.
01:04:02.660For instance, what is fair? What can you drink? What can you not drink? What can you consume? What can you not consume?
01:04:08.660Some would say, if you are born that way, that's how sport has determined who goes where.
01:04:15.660And then some would say, no, regardless of who you are, you should be able to compete.
01:04:19.660My question then comes in from a really, honestly, a different place.
01:04:24.660I look at somebody like Oscar Pistorius from South Africa, right? He was the double amputee.
01:04:29.660And Oscar Pistorius actually went, well, I want to compete in the able-bodied race, right?
01:04:35.660And people were like, well, do you have an advantage? Do you not? Et cetera, et cetera, because of the prosthetics.
01:04:38.660But then could there not be an argument if there is no advantage in that, that then trans women should be able to compete, but in the men's races then?
01:04:48.660Because they'd still be able to compete in the sport.
01:04:51.660But they're women, and they're female. So, like I said, this boils down to, are trans women really women? Are they really female?
01:05:02.660And no, they really aren't, is the answer to your question.
01:05:06.660Once again, Noah's point is basically correct. The stuff about transgenderism always existing is not correct, but the basic point is correct.
01:05:15.660And yet, from the perspective of the average half-conscious audience member, the trans person is winning this exchange.
01:05:21.660That's why, if you watch the full clip, he gets all the applause from Noah's own audience.
01:05:26.660This should hopefully help you to see why I approach this issue the way that I do.
01:05:31.660The only thing that works, the only approach that's effective, the only response that these people deserve is absolute, blunt rejection of their entire premise.
01:05:41.660The moment you pretend to take any of this seriously, the moment you show any respect for this point of view, for the vacuous, asinine nonsense that these people spew, it is the moment you lose.
01:05:55.660Almost everyone in the country immediately recognizes that everything the trans person said in that conversation was astonishingly stupid and utterly without merit.
01:06:04.660And yet, we have allowed these ideas to take hold.
01:06:06.660We have allowed this agenda to spread, largely because people who know better are too afraid to simply call a spade a spade and a man a man.
01:06:14.660And also too afraid to disagree fundamentally with the premise.
01:06:18.660Okay, what you just saw there, the reason why that conversation went on and on and on, is because Trevor Noah was unwilling to say to this person, you are not a woman.
01:06:31.660So Trevor Noah was trying to find a way to stay sort of on team sanity, where we reject the idea that men can compete against women without refuting or disagreeing with the underlying premise of trans ideology.
01:06:47.660Trans ideology, which is that trans women are women.
01:06:50.660So he's trying to find a way to allow that premise to stand, because he can't imagine, he can't imagine actually saying to this person, well, you're not a woman.
01:07:00.660And if you won't say it, then nothing else you say about this will matter.
01:07:06.660Because everything else, all of our other points of view, every other point that we would make about any of this stuff, whether it's sports or gender transition surgeries, whatever, and everything, every point we make follows from the fundamental point that men are men and women are women.
01:07:29.360And when a man says he's a woman, he still is not a woman.
01:07:33.360You cannot abandon that fundamental point or try to ignore it while still trying to take issue further down the line.