Ep. 1336 - NYC Locks Good Samaritans In Prison, Then Wonders Where All The Good Samaritans Have Gone
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Summary
Amanda Farias wants to know why women are getting sucker punched all over New York City, and no men are stepping up to protect them. Also, Glenn Youngkin vetoes a bill that would have allowed the retail sale of marijuana in Virginia. This was the right call, and I ll explain why. Also, one of the hosts on The View calls a black guest a charlatan for saying that society should be colorblind. And in our daily cancellation, Governor Greg Abbott signs an executive order calling for punishment of anti-Semitic rhetoric on college campuses.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, women are being randomly assaulted by scumbags in New York City.
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Now city leaders are wondering why Good Samaritans aren't stepping up to defend these victims.
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Well, that's probably because those same leaders had the Good Samaritans thrown in prison.
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Also, Glenn Youngkin vetoes a bill that would have allowed the retail sale of marijuana in Virginia.
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Also, one of the hens on The View calls a black guest a charlatan for saying that society should be colorblind.
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And in our daily cancellation, Governor Greg Abbott signs an executive order calling for punishment of anti-Semitic rhetoric on college campuses.
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Because I'll explain why that is a horrible, not to mention un-American idea.
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All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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One of the big milestones in a child's development is when he learns the principle of cause and effect.
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And if you're a parent, you probably know that this typically happens at around eight months.
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So, for example, a child might splash his hands in water and realize that as a result of that decision, he now has water all over his face.
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And then based on that result, he might decide to continue splashing water or to stop doing it, depending on how entertaining he finds the idea of splashing water everywhere.
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Now, this is not exactly higher order thinking.
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You know, you don't get to put a gifted and talented bumper sticker on your car when this happens.
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It comes naturally to all of us at a very young age.
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And all that makes the curious case of Amanda Farias both fascinating and highly confusing at the same time.
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Amanda Farias is a majority leader of the New York City Council.
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She's a relatively powerful person in the largest city in the United States.
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She's an adult woman whose brain stopped growing a long time ago.
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And that means to all outward appearances, Amanda should have no problem understanding the idea that actions have consequences.
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But yesterday, Amanda made it clear that, in fact, she struggles very mightily with this basic concept.
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In response to the news that many women are now getting attacked in broad daylight in New York City, Amanda posted this on social media.
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Amanda Farias wants to know that women are getting sucker punched all over New York and no men are standing up to protect them.
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Why aren't there any men chasing down these deranged attackers and, oh, I don't know, subduing them by pinning them to the ground?
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Where have all the good Samaritans gone to apprehend these dangerous and unhinged vagrants with extensive criminal records?
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Now, that might not be a totally unreasonable question, except that less than one year ago, Amanda publicly called for the criminal prosecution of one such good Samaritan.
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A man who defended an entire subway car against a dangerous and unhinged vagrant with an extensive criminal record.
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And that good Samaritan's name, you probably recall, was Daniel Penny.
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And here's what Amanda Farias said about that case at the time.
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I continue to be heartbroken and outraged by the death of Jordan Neely and the lack of justice.
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The NYC Black, Latino, and Asian caucus stands together to demand justice for Jordan and to pay attention to the systems that failed him
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so we do not lose any more black New Yorkers to senseless violence.
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Now, of course, Amanda got her wish after that statement.
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In fact, precisely one day after she called for Daniel Penny to face justice for defending that subway car,
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he was arrested on charges of manslaughter and negligent homicide.
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If you wanted to discourage all men in the city of New York from ever standing up to a violent thug ever again,
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And so now, because of the principle of cause and effect,
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there are apparently very few men in New York City who are standing up for women who are getting punched in the face.
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Now, Amanda can't see the connection, but it's pretty clear, I think, to those of us with functioning brain cells.
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And just for good measure, it's worth noting that Amanda has also called for defunding the police.
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So she wants a much smaller police force that prioritizes arresting people who exercise the right of self-defense, basically.
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Well, here's a snapshot of what's happening right now in New York as a result of this.
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You guys, I was literally just walking and a man came up and punched me in the face.
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And now this gigantic seg is forming, and I'm like, I just got punched in the face walking home.
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I turned the corner, and I was looking down, and I was looking at my phone and, like, texting.
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And then, out of nowhere, this man just came up and hit me in the face.
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I literally just got punched by some man on the sidewalk.
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He goes, sorry, and then punches me in the head.
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As I was crossing the street, a man looked at me, and within a split second, pointed two fingers at me and a gun symbol, and then slammed a bag, plastic bag, full of God knows what, down on my face from about a foot away, and I fell onto the ground.
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Now, one of the women that you just saw was allegedly attacked in Manhattan around 10 a.m. by a 40-year-old man who goes by the name Skiboki Stora, who has since been arrested.
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According to NYPD, this is the third time that Stora's been arrested in just the past six months.
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And all of those times, he was released on the streets almost immediately.
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Now, that's not because Stora was a Marine and an upstanding member of the community, like Daniel Penny.
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Instead, for years, Stora has been posting videos complaining about white people and harassing everybody he sees.
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And mostly, he seems to go after women in public.
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So here's just a handful of Stora's recent videos, which somehow didn't result in his permanent incarceration, even though he posted all of them publicly.
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This is the only type of black people that the white people don't like to hang with.
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That's the only way that these white people speak to them.
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That's the only way they deal with them when they don't do their hair.
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I pushed the camera out of my face and that's when you thought he did me.
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And by the way, not only was he not arrested and taken off the streets completely, but apparently he wasn't even banned from social media, despite posting video after video of him harassing people.
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Now, as you can see, Stora has a lot in common with Jordan Neely.
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He has a long and well-documented history of disregarding social norms and harassing people in public.
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And nobody did anything about it, even after he committed several crimes.
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But Stora isn't the only person attacking women with impunity, of course.
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I mean, getting punched in the face by random vagrants is now part of the New York experience, basically.
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It is a random, unprovoked, vicious attack on a 57-year-old woman in Brooklyn.
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Watch as the suspect ignores another man walking nearby, then punches the woman in her face, causing her to stumble backwards.
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Dulce Picharda was on the receiving end of that punch.
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Her mouth now wired shut, her face fractured in several places, drinking food out of a straw for six weeks, permanent damage to her lower lip.
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Three teeth knocked out, and she might need surgery.
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In this Eyewitness News exclusive, Pichardo says he didn't say a word, just stared at her, then broke her jaw.
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He hit me very, very strong over here, and he break everything here, every day's break.
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It happened yesterday around 5 p.m. on Grand Avenue near Dean Street.
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Pichardo is a school bus aide and was returning from work, just steps away from home, when she was slugged.
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Her brother owns a restaurant across the street from where she lives.
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When they confronted him, he denied attacking Pichardo, cold and emotionless.
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They followed him for several blocks and stopped him from fleeing until police arrived.
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The suspect was charged with misdemeanor assault, meaning he's not bail eligible.
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So, in this case, a man did step up to help the woman because he was related to her.
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Otherwise, presumably, this guy would have never been caught.
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By the way, in case you missed it, there was a Black Lives Matter mural in the background of that report,
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This is a movement that led to these so-called bail reforms that let this attacker out of jail seven times so he could assault this woman and then get right back out of jail.
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Because somehow that's a misdemeanor to break a woman's jaw.
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So, this is a movement that's caused a lot of death and destruction in this country, particularly in Black communities.
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And so, it's fitting that BLM was right, you know, in the shot there.
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In any event, once again, it's a heinous crime that only an animal would commit.
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But the Democratic Party, with the help of George Soros, has no problem putting these animals back on the streets so they can commit more heinous crimes.
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And sometimes these crimes are more serious than assault, as serious as assault is.
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Guy Rivera, the ex-con who allegedly gunned down an NYPD officer this week, was also a repeat offender.
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According to the New York Post, he had 21 prior arrests and was found to have a shiv stored in his rectum during the shooting in an apparent anticipation of being sent to jail again.
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But instead of being thrown in prison for the rest of his life a long time ago, Guy Rivera was released and released and released and released until he killed a police officer.
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So, getting back to the cause and effect, the solution here is actually pretty simple.
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There aren't that many people committing these crimes.
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It's a small number of criminals who are constantly committing crimes because they are incapable of living anywhere outside of a prison.
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They are incapable of being functioning members of society.
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They have communicated that message to society over and over and over again.
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This week, the NYPD's chief of transit put the numbers in context.
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In calendar year 2023, NYPD cops made over 13,600 arrests in the subway system.
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Of these 13,600 arrests, 124 people were arrested five or more times in the subway system in 2023 alone.
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When looking further, these 124 people have been arrested over 7,500 times in their lifetimes.
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So, in case you're curious what your cops are doing, well, they've arrested these people over 7,500 times.
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So, to restate, of the 13,600 arrests on the NYC subway last year,
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124 of the people arrested have been arrested 7,500 other times.
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So, you could drastically cut down on the crime in New York City if you just sentenced those 124 people to life imprisonment.
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The subway would become much faster overnight, that's for sure.
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And by the way, these statistics hold up outside of the subway, too.
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According to the NYPD police commissioner, as reported by Outkick,
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nearly one-third of the city's shoplifting arrests last year involved just 327 people.
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Collectively, these same 327 people were arrested, released, and re-arrested more than 6,000 times.
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That is more than 18 arrests per person in a single year.
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Now, in a city where the leaders understood cause and effect, the solution is clear.
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All you have to do is punish these people, these habitual lawmakers.
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You put them in prison, and you don't let them out.
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That was the point of the three strikes laws, before everybody pretended that they were some grave human rights abuse.
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Oh, no, we get three strikes, it's a terrible thing.
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You know, to put someone away in prison, we got, you know, only allowing people to commit crimes three times,
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We have to let them commit 15 crimes before we put them in jail, and even then we shouldn't.
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By the way, that was conservatives, so-called conservatives, have made that same argument as well.
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What Soros DAs are doing is giving criminals unlimited strikes.
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They're free to re-offend and terrorize the population as much as they want.
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Instead of putting these career criminals in prison, the leaders of the city of New York
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have decided instead to turn their entire city into a prison.
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Because, you know, you could put the criminals in prison, or you could make the city itself a prison,
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and they've decided to go with the latter here.
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So they've opted to treat all 8 million residents of New York City as felons.
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And to that end, the mayor has just announced that body scanners are coming to the subway.
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He has cell phones, wallet, and electronics in there.
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Vlad has two cell phones, and he also has a loaded gun, which is a bright gun.
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That's a real gun, but it doesn't have the firing pin in it.
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And we're showing, just showing where the gun is.
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So, he had a gun on his right, on his right side.
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So, this is what happens when you can't admit that a small number of people are committing
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You have to pretend that an old white office worker from Midtown has the same likelihood
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of pushing a woman in front of the subway tracks, or sucker punching a grandmother, or opening
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These attacks against women, as they're being called, that are taking place in Manhattan
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and Brooklyn, are not being carried out simply by men, right?
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That's what the councilwoman, the media, men are attacking women, is the way that they put
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it, which is true, but you could be more specific than that, because they're actually being carried
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Nearly nine out of every ten assaults in New York City are committed by a black or Hispanic
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perpetrator, according to I.O., which is an account on Twitter that studies crime statistics.
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Black men have a per capita homicide rate that's more than 15 times the rate for white women,
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for white men, rather, even more than that for white women, according to statistics pulled
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And these are statistics that, outside of Twitter, mainstream publications don't report
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on, and that's why I'm citing social media accounts.
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But really, you don't need these citations, because anyone looking at these videos can
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Black men are committing a wildly disproportionate amount of these violent crimes.
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And in particular, it's the same black men over and over and over again who are not
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And because this is one group you're not allowed to criticize, New Yorkers are supposed to pretend
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that everyone in the entire city is equally guilty.
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That anybody at all walking down the street might assault you.
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There's no way to tell who's more likely than anybody else.
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And as they walk through the body scanners and women get punched in the face on the sidewalk,
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they're supposed to pretend that their real problem is that, quote unquote, good men are
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But Daniel Penny proves why good men are reluctant to step up.
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The powers that be are doing everything they can to demoralize and punish the good men.
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And then they wonder why there aren't any around anymore.
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And it reminds me of the C.S. Lewis line, we make men without chess and expect of them
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We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
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Well, politicians like Amanda Farias have spent the last year not only laughing at honor,
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And now, predictably, the traitors are in our midst.
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Okay, so the Daily Wire has to support Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin
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vetoed two bills on Thursday that were largely backed by Democrats in the state.
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Youngkin released a statement explaining his decision to veto a bill that would allow the
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retail sale of cannabis, along with a bill that would gradually raise the state's minimum
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The Republican governor cited danger to Virginians' health and safety, especially for children,
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as the main reason for vetoing the marijuana bill.
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Proposed legislation of retail marijuana in the Commonwealth endangers Virginians' health
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States following this path have seen adverse effects on children's and adolescents' health
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and safety, increased gang activity and violent crime, significant deterioration in mental
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health, decreased road safety, and significant costs associated with retail marijuana that
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He spoke with a local news station further explaining his reasoning, and let's watch a little
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Today, I have vetoed the bill to create a commercial retail market for cannabis.
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And in all the other states that have had an extensive retail market, what you see is, first,
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it's terrible for children and adolescents' health and safety.
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Massive increases in child poisonings, massive increases in adolescent usage.
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And of course, when you combine that with the fact that the potency of cannabis today is
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dangerous, it drives mental health challenges and mental health sickness to the point of psychosis.
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There's also been a systematic increase in these states in violent crime.
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I mean, in California, the legal retail market only accounts for 10% of the entire cannabis
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market, and therefore, gang activity escalates and violent crime increases.
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And that's on top of the fact that you see traffic accidents and fatalities increase over
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And then finally, you couple this with the reality that the overall costs through the system in
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order to address the social requirements of this retail market far outweigh the tax receipts.
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So the governor is exactly correct, even if he is standing in front of an oddly fake-looking
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green screen, I don't know what the thought process was there.
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It's bad for every state that's legalized or decriminalized it.
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And the pothead activists who've gone around shouting for years that pot doesn't have any
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Or they were just high and they didn't realize that what they were saying wasn't true.
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Maybe it's some combination of the two, but it's a lie.
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And the research in particular about its link with psychosis is especially interesting and
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And that's the kind of thing that potheads used to scoff at.
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I mean, they still do, but nobody takes it seriously anymore.
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But you used to be laughed off the stage if you were to say anything about the link between
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people smoking marijuana and like actually losing their minds.
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Like the link between weed and schizophrenia is especially well established.
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We know about the dangers of people being under the influence.
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But mostly we now know from experience what happens in society, in a community, when weed
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becomes legal, acceptable, and accessible everywhere.
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And what happens, first of all, is that a whole lot more people start smoking it.
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So there's always been this claim that, well, even if you make it illegal, everyone who wants
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Which, by the way, if that was true, then why do you care so much about making it legal?
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Like, if the law has no effect on people's behavior, if you cannot stop people at all
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from smoking weed by making it illegal, then why were you so desperate to make it legal?
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But no, it turns out that, of course, when you make something legal and therefore at the
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same time more accessible and you take away the penalties, of course more people are going
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I mean, you're always going to have a certain portion of people who will do something anyway,
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regardless of the consequences, who are especially motivated to go out and,
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you know, even if it's less accessible, they'll find a way to access it.
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But the more accessible you make it, the more people do it.
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And the more you take away legal consequences, the more people do it, obviously, obviously.
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And we know that as people do it more often and they do it more openly, this precipitates
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a rise in crime rates, a decline in the quality of life for everybody in the community.
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We don't have to talk about what we think will happen.
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This is why I always go back to the question, has the legalization of weed in any city made
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And I know you might ask, well, what do you mean by better?
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That's a that's kind of a subjective, more livable, like a better place to live for anybody.
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Give me a show me a city where they've legalized weed and something about that city, something
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Show me that you can't because it hasn't it has not made anywhere a better place to live.
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And because it always works the other way, it works the opposite way.
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Like having everybody walk around stoned all the time has made everything worse.
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If you're going to do something that is guaranteed to make nothing better, better while making
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a lot of things worse, then you shouldn't do it.
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And this, by the way, is why I changed my mind on it personally.
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I was debating this yesterday on Twitter, as you know, where all the, uh, all the very
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And somebody pulled the, you know, one of my favorite moves where they go and they dig
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through and say, let me see, this is what you're saying on this topic now, but let me
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And someone went and they, uh, scandalously discovered that back in 2018, uh, I sent a tweet
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out where I was advocating for legalizing marijuana.
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Um, and the thing is, you didn't have to go search through my tweet.
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Uh, I used to be in favor of legalizing marijuana.
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You know, just because you don't have to, if you say something now, you don't have to
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say exactly that same thing forever until you die.
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You're, if not only are you allowed to process new information and change your opinion, but
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you should, you should be open to new information and your opinion should be open to change depending
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And so that's what happened with legalizing marijuana.
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I was kind of, you know, I was never like militant about it.
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Um, and it's not something that I personally want to engage in, but I, I was generally persuaded
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by, you know, the arguments people made in favor of it.
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Well, it was really no argument that anybody made on the other side.
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So I heard all the arguments from the weed advocates saying, oh, you know, we can legalize
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And then I look and say, oh, well, none of that happened.
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In fact, all the, everything that the, that the, uh, the prohibitionists said would happen
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And none of the positive results that the advocates promised panned out.
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Anyone, you, everybody should like, it's just, it's not even a valid position anymore to
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be in favor of weed legalization because we've all seen it in front of our faces, what happens.
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Um, and, and there's really nothing else to say about it, which is why you'll then get
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a bunch of cliched slogans shouted at you by the potheads.
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Um, and just using this as an example, you know, mentioning the debate, uh, I was having
00:27:18.520
I mean, this, I'm just using this again because this is, this is like, this is, it's like
00:27:22.040
running down all of the most cliched arguments.
00:27:33.980
Joe Biden is against it and thinks it's a gateway drug.
00:27:39.380
Now I'm using this as an example because this is the classic rundown of pro weed arguments
00:27:44.960
And it's pretty much always like every tweet that anyone puts out or a post or anything,
00:27:53.600
They might mix it around a little bit, but it's always just that.
00:27:56.880
And what are the problems with these arguments?
00:27:58.380
Well, first of all, there are many substances, um, that exist in the natural world that you're
00:28:08.820
Even back when I found the pro weed argument, legalization argument persuasive, I was never
00:28:18.640
So therefore it's automatically a good idea to light it on fire and inhale it.
00:28:25.260
There are a whole lot of things God has created that you should not light on fire and inhale.
00:28:28.820
There are a lot of things God has created that you should not consume in any form.
00:28:33.640
If you're lost in the woods one day and you're starving, okay.
00:28:38.020
It would not be a good idea to just stumble without any prior knowledge, to stumble across
00:28:43.400
some kind of a bush with berries and say, well, God created these berries, so they must
00:28:52.720
You know, that's an assumption that if you make that assumption enough times, you will
00:28:55.880
definitely die because God has created a lot of poison berries.
00:28:58.780
He's created a lot of poisonous things in the world that you're not supposed to consume.
00:29:07.100
Like God did create, well, I mean, he created the plant, right?
00:29:11.800
That is, that is used to create this drug, but that doesn't mean that it's okay to consume.
00:29:18.400
As for alcohol and cigarettes, even if alcohol and cigarettes are worse, that still doesn't
00:29:22.540
mean that weed should be legal because all you've done by that logic is add to the problem.
00:29:27.260
Um, and saying that it hasn't killed anyone is just false.
00:29:30.600
It ignores, for one thing, the deaths caused by people under the influence.
00:29:35.600
Um, it again ignores all the volumes of research about all the negative health side effects
00:29:41.060
Um, and there's one other point that I want to make that came up last night and on this
00:29:46.600
Again, even if I agree that alcohol and tobacco products are just as bad or worse, that's not
00:29:52.080
an argument for legalizing yet another bad thing.
00:29:55.120
It's sort of like, you know, if I was morbidly obese, but I didn't drink alcohol.
00:30:06.600
That only makes sense in a kind of defeatist suicidal sense.
00:30:11.020
So that's, that's, that's a, that's a, I mean, quite literally a suicidal argument when
00:30:15.760
you're saying, well, these other bad things are happening.
00:30:21.740
Um, that doesn't make sense, but also alcohol and tobacco are part of American culture.
00:30:27.880
Going back to the beginning of this country, that's one of the reasons why any effort to
00:30:31.640
totally ban them has not been successful because it's just, it's an ingrained part of American
00:30:38.260
Tobacco in particular has helped to build this country from the very beginning.
00:30:46.660
Now I'm not saying that this is a, a definitive reason to not ban them, but, but it is a reason
00:31:03.820
Now somebody brought up that, uh, Native Americans, you know, Native Americans smoked and,
00:31:07.800
and, um, and so it is part of American heritage.
00:31:11.340
Um, and, you know, I think it's true that, that Indian tribes had marijuana.
00:31:16.580
Now, as far as I could be wrong, I haven't done a lot of research on this cause I don't
00:31:18.920
care that much, but I think that it was introduced.
00:31:22.140
I don't think that they had it, uh, you know, prior to, uh, contact with, with the new world.
00:31:27.680
As far as I'm aware, marijuana was introduced to the Native tribes in the 15th or 16th centuries.
00:31:34.220
Um, but even if it wasn't marijuana, you know, the Native tribes, they smoked peyote.
00:31:38.720
They, they had other kinds of, uh, drugs with hallucinogenic properties.
00:31:42.300
Um, the shamans, the witch doctors, they were always tripping on something, right?
00:31:46.480
So it is probably true that the, even if it wasn't exactly marijuana, it's probably true
00:31:52.480
that the drug habits of Native American tribes are closer to the drug habits of Americans today.
00:32:01.160
Like there's, there's a similarity, but, but think about that for a second because Native
00:32:08.020
tribes were 5,000 years behind the civilized world.
00:32:12.440
These people were stuck in the stone age, literally, literally in the stone age, many
00:32:19.160
Many of them were nomad, not all of them, but many of them were nomadic tribes, hunter
00:32:23.420
They were extremely primitive, even by 16th century standards.
00:32:26.860
So the fact that they were also high all the time, perhaps should tell us something.
00:32:32.640
You know, I mean, here's the fact we know, we know that a society where people smoke tobacco
00:32:38.160
constantly and drink whiskey from morning to night can also be a highly functional, highly
00:32:49.040
That was our society in the 20th century when we, when we, when we accomplished all of the
00:32:53.120
things that we accomplished, we were landing on the moon and winning world wars and doing
00:32:55.880
everything else, um, and going from like horse and buggy to, to, to the moon landing and
00:33:00.100
beyond, uh, well, not beyond, unfortunately, but at least to the moon landing.
00:33:03.120
Um, so, so we know that the greatest civilizations on earth in the, the history of the earth have
00:33:14.260
at least had booze and lots of it and the greatest civilization in the history of the world
00:33:21.220
had, had booze and people were drunk constantly.
00:33:24.740
Our own civilization, when it was great, again, had, had tobacco and booze and lots, lots of
00:33:30.300
both. Now I'm not saying that tobacco and booze made us great exactly. Uh, but it did,
00:33:37.600
it did not prevent our greatness. Like there is no evidence on a societal scale that having
00:33:44.220
easy access to legal tobacco and booze will precipitate a societal collapse. There's no
00:33:48.780
evidence of that because we've seen a society that is, that is like drowning in both of those
00:33:54.040
things. And also caffeine like nicotine, caffeine, and booze that that's America has run on those
00:34:00.160
things even more than a run on Duncan's, but also the booze and the, and the, uh, and, uh, the,
00:34:07.160
the tobacco. So we've seen that, but so we know, we know that what about a society full of stoners
00:34:16.340
and druggies. Can that kind of society thrive? There's no evidence of that. There has never been
00:34:24.240
a society of people who are drugged out of their mind, stoned. There's never been a society like
00:34:29.340
that, that has thrived. There are plenty of societies that have engaged, uh, you know, uh,
00:34:37.360
in large part in those sorts of activities and, and they, they live in mud huts. Okay.
00:34:43.000
It's like they struggle to invent, they don't invent the wheel. Okay. That's what that kind
00:34:46.860
of society looks like. And if we want to end up back there, if we want to just decline all the way
00:34:52.740
and take this thing full circle, then, then that's what's going to happen. All right. Daily Wire has
00:34:58.020
this report. A prominent independent writer was accused on ABC's The View this week of being a
00:35:01.500
pawn for the political right because of his views on race in America. Coleman Hughes, an author and
00:35:05.500
podcast host, joined the Left Wing Show on Wednesday to discuss his book, The End of Race Politics,
00:35:09.800
Arguments for a Colorblind America. Uh, co-host Sonny Hostin said that Hughes' belief that everyone
00:35:16.340
should treat people without, uh, regard to race was fundamentally flawed. All right. So Coleman Hughes
00:35:23.340
was arguing with the hens of The View. And as mentioned, his position is basically that we
00:35:26.680
should have laws and policies that exist and are enforced without reference to race, which is
00:35:30.980
correct. You know, it's not that we individuals can be colorblind, quote unquote. Uh, we notice race.
00:35:36.820
Race is a real thing. It exists. We aren't going to pretend it doesn't exist. We shouldn't. Why
00:35:41.080
should, it's real. Like, it's a thing. Why should we pretend we don't see it? But legally, we're all
00:35:46.060
supposed to be equal under the law. And that's the way it's supposed to work. No special protections,
00:35:50.180
no special punishments to anyone based on their race. That's the way it's supposed to work. But,
00:35:53.480
uh, Sonny of The View didn't like that. And here's what she said, uh, to Coleman Hughes.
00:35:59.540
Your argument for colorblindness, I think, is something that the right has co-opted. And so
00:36:06.440
many in the black community, if I'm being honest with you, because I want to be, believe that you
00:36:13.280
are being used as a pawn by the right and that you're a charlatan of sorts. He's not a Republican.
00:36:17.600
He's never voted as a Republican. You've said that you're a conservative. No, no. No, you did. You
00:36:23.320
actually said that, uh, in a podcast that you did two weeks ago. I said I was a conservative. He's not.
00:36:28.100
Yes, he's not. Yes, he did. So, but my question to you, my question to you is, how do you respond
00:36:33.980
to those critics? Okay, let's give it a, let them answer. Okay, so first thing I want to, I think it's
00:36:40.240
very important. The quote that you just pointed out about doing something special for the Negro,
00:36:45.880
that's from the book, Why We Can't Wait, that I just mentioned. Yes. A couple paragraphs later,
00:36:50.620
he lays out exactly what that something special was. Yes. And it was the Bill of Rights for the
00:36:55.120
disadvantaged, a broad class-based policy. But he also says you must include race. No, he didn't.
00:37:01.680
He says it's a... Yes, he does. Okay, well, everyone can go, everyone should go read the book,
00:37:05.120
Why We Can't Wait. Let's not get sidetracked by that. Yeah. Give me a note. Um, I'm, I don't think I've
00:37:09.300
been co-opted by anyone. I've only voted twice, both for Democrats, although I'm an independent. I would vote for
00:37:14.140
a Republican, probably a non-Trump Republican, if they were compelling. Um, I don't think there's
00:37:18.940
any evidence I've been co-opted by anyone. And I think that that's, that's an ad hominem tactic
00:37:24.160
people use to not address really the important conversations we're having here. And I think
00:37:29.000
it's better and it would be better for everyone if we stuck to the topics rather than make it about
00:37:33.940
me with no evidence that I've been co-opted. I just, I want to give you the opportunity to
00:37:37.920
respond to the... Yeah, I appreciate it. Okay, great. There you pause it. Um, that's very nice of
00:37:41.980
her. I was just giving you the opportunity. You know, a lot of people say that you're a fraud and
00:37:47.440
a charlatan. What do you say to that? I'm just giving the opportunity. I thought you'd love the
00:37:50.460
opportunity to respond to that charge. Now, Coleman Hughes, uh, very, uh, gracious, uh, responded,
00:37:56.540
I think quite intelligently. Um, now if that were me, my response would be, oh yeah, well,
00:38:03.380
a lot of people say that you're a dumb bimbo. How do you respond to that charge? I want to give
00:38:06.100
you, I want to give it, Sonny, I want to give you the opportunity. I'm a gracious person. I want
00:38:09.560
to give you the opportunity to respond to the charge that you are a dumb bimbo with, with a
00:38:13.500
single digit IQ. That's what people are saying. And I've heard people say it. Uh, so what do you say
00:38:18.360
to that? That would have been my response. Probably, uh, Coleman handled it better, but before we get
00:38:25.980
into the point about race, I just want to say that I find this style of argument, this strategy to be
00:38:31.220
incredibly lame and frustrating where someone doesn't engage, does not engage with your ideas,
00:38:38.720
as he points out at the end there, but instead dismisses your ideas on the basis that according
00:38:44.800
to them, you're only saying it because you've been paid off or you're a charlatan or you're a grifter.
00:38:50.460
This is the laziest kind of argument. It's not an argument at all. It is, it is the avoidance of an
00:38:55.600
argument. Um, and I find this more annoying and even lamer really than dismissing someone,
00:39:03.160
you know, by calling them a bigot or a racist or whatever. Uh, and that's very lame and stupid.
00:39:08.740
You know how I feel about that, but, but I, I think I prefer that over this, right? Because,
00:39:14.120
um, and maybe this is because it's because it's become so, so common these days that I find it
00:39:19.400
particularly frustrating. Um, she uses the term charlatan. Usually it's grifter that people
00:39:25.920
throw around and there are plenty of grifters out there, but it's just everything now is, is a grift.
00:39:34.260
You know, the moment you, you say anything that somebody disagrees with, you're automatically a
00:39:41.220
grifter. Grifter just means that someone disagrees with you. Any opinion you have, well, that's a grift.
00:39:46.300
It's like people are living in a world where not only do they, it's something that they disagree
00:39:51.640
with you. They deny that it's even possible that anyone could have an opinion other than their own.
00:39:57.680
So therefore, if you have an opinion other than their own, then it must be that you actually agree
00:40:02.940
with them, but you won't say it because you're, you're on some sort of, you're a grift. You're,
00:40:06.760
you're, you're, uh, on the take in some way. Um, you know, of course I get this all the time.
00:40:12.400
I'm accused of being a grifter, no matter what my opinion is about anything,
00:40:15.040
like whatever the issue, whatever I say about any issue, I'm automatically a grifter for saying
00:40:19.500
it. Even if the opinion is about something totally obscure and unimportant, unimportant to most people,
00:40:25.820
but important to me. Of course, everything I say is important, but, um, like, I mean, I've,
00:40:30.360
I've tweeted the most random sorts of opinions about things and people will accuse me of, I could say,
00:40:38.040
you know, uh, as I've said before, uh, my wife has too many throw pillows. She buys too many throw
00:40:44.180
pillows for the house and somebody will go, Oh, here you go again with your grift. There you're
00:40:49.140
on the grift again. Who paid you to say this? How much are they paying you over there to say that
00:40:55.460
Walsh? No matter what the opinion is, it doesn't matter. So this is a really stupid approach because
00:41:02.300
it's lazy and just dumb, but also because it's totally irrelevant. It's beside the point.
00:41:07.100
Like anytime you respond to an argument by impugning the motivations and character of the
00:41:11.740
person making the argument, rather than by refuting the argument itself, you've already lost.
00:41:16.460
Anytime somebody makes a point and your response begins with the words, Oh, you're only saying that
00:41:22.360
because you lost because it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter why they're saying it. What matters
00:41:28.740
is what they're saying. Okay. Even if the person is a total charlatan fraud, that doesn't make them
00:41:35.380
wrong. That doesn't make the argument incorrect. And if the argument is incorrect, then just say
00:41:41.300
that instead. So back to Coleman Hughes, let's say that he's on the take. Let's say that he's a
00:41:46.880
charlatan grifter. Let's say that, uh, the evil white people all get together for their evil white
00:41:52.540
people meeting and they call Coleman in and they throw a bag of money at his feet and they tell
00:41:58.740
him that, uh, well, here's your opinion that you're going to have today. Here it is. This is
00:42:01.640
your opinion. Take your bag and get out of here. Okay. Well, let's say that's happening.
00:42:08.660
So what is he wrong? Are the opinions wrong? Are they right or wrong? That's all that matters.
00:42:16.420
The weatherman only tells me that it's raining because he's paid to tell me that. Does that mean
00:42:21.040
that it isn't raining? I mean, he could be wrong. Weathermen are wrong all the time, but is he,
00:42:26.020
is he necessarily wrong because he was paid to tell me that? And in this case, Coleman Hughes,
00:42:32.320
uh, is not wrong, obviously. Um, and there's a reason why Sonny can't explain why he's wrong.
00:42:38.800
She can't explain her point because she doesn't have one. Um, you know, he's only saying that we
00:42:45.520
shouldn't give preferential treatment to people based on race. She's flailing around for a reason
00:42:51.320
to disagree, but it's like, are you saying that we should give preferential treatment to people
00:42:55.540
based on race? Is that what, are you saying that we should be doing that? Are you saying that we
00:43:00.880
should be intentionally creating disadvantages in the system for people of certain races?
00:43:08.380
Well, yes, that is what she's saying. We know that's what she's saying,
00:43:10.960
but she doesn't want to say that exactly. So she dances around as usual.
00:43:17.460
And the point that Hughes is making in this interview, um, is that, you know, when it comes
00:43:22.980
to sort of, uh, to, to, to helping disadvantaged groups, which we should do, we should help people,
00:43:28.680
but nobody's against helping people. Um, now we shouldn't do it by giving them preferential
00:43:33.080
treatment. We shouldn't do it by making them more than equal in the eyes of the law. We shouldn't do it
00:43:37.780
with affirmative action and those sorts of things. But, but, you know, we should help people by helping
00:43:41.320
them. Helping people is good. But the key factor in determining, um, like who needs the help the most
00:43:49.420
is socioeconomic. Uh, that's, that's all you really need for, for, for that conversation.
00:43:56.900
A poor white person is just as disadvantaged as a poor black person. In fact, he's more disadvantaged
00:44:02.560
these days because there are no programs specifically and specially for the poor white guy.
00:44:07.780
Um, and so you're taking disadvantage and you're creating more of it. In fact,
00:44:14.240
which we should not be doing. That's his only point. It's a point that is so obviously correct
00:44:20.640
that in another world at another time, um, you know, he, he, he, you'd write a book about this
00:44:28.440
and it would sell zero copies because everyone's like, well, of course. Now in this case, it's an
00:44:35.180
argument that needs to be made. Books need to be written about it. But, um, you know, it's like so
00:44:38.800
many other things. I mean, I did, I did a whole documentary on a subject that in a, in a different
00:44:43.800
time, in a different day and age, it's like nobody should have to even watch it because it's so obvious
00:44:48.520
what we're talking about and the reality of what we're talking about. But, uh, this is the world we
00:44:53.580
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Today, we must cancel Governor Greg Abbott of Texas. Abbott has been impressive recently in his
00:46:33.080
mission to defend the southern border, despite the Biden administration's efforts to prevent him
00:46:36.440
from doing so. And so I am loathe to cancel him in the midst of that fight. But he has left me no
00:46:42.620
choice. Here's the report from the ABC affiliate in Austin. Watch. The Israel-Hamas war has sparked
00:46:49.480
protests around the world and in Austin. It's chants like these.
00:46:57.280
And other incidents at public universities that led Governor Greg Abbott to issue an executive
00:47:04.420
order to fight anti-Semitism on college campuses. It requires universities to review and update
00:47:11.100
free speech policies, include the definition of anti-Semitism in those policies, and enforce those
00:47:17.080
policies, which could include expulsion. A move members of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas
00:47:23.060
say could set off a wave of problems. When the government starts to infringe on protected speech
00:47:29.940
and when the government starts to practice viewpoint discrimination, that has a trickle-down
00:47:34.720
effect to all sorts of populations. The governor pointed to a rise in anti-Semitic acts and took aim
00:47:41.200
at two student organizations, including UT's Palestine Solidarity Committee, which has led several
00:47:47.760
protests. So the governor naming two specific student-founded organizations as organizations that
00:47:56.140
are practicing hate speech or that are in violation of his order is viewpoint discrimination in a really
00:48:01.980
explicit way. So Governor Greg Abbott here has committed the ultimate sin. He has forced me to
00:48:07.100
agree with a woman from the ACLU with pronouns next to her name. The ACLU is rarely correct about anything
00:48:12.600
these days, and people with pronouns next to their name are correct even less often than that. But in this
00:48:17.240
case, they happen to have stumbled on the truth as Abbott signs an executive order to fight
00:48:20.840
anti-Semitism on college campuses. And what does fighting anti-Semitism mean? Well, here's the
00:48:25.980
statement that the governor's office put out this week. Quote, Governor Greg Abbott today issued an
00:48:30.420
executive order to fight the increase in access to anti-Semitism at colleges and universities in Texas
00:48:34.060
and ensure a safe learning environment for Jewish students and all Texans. Quote, anti-Semitism is never
00:48:39.120
acceptable in Texas, and we will do everything we can to fight it, said Greg, Governor Abbott. The state of
00:48:44.100
Texas stands with Israel and the Jewish community, and we must escalate our efforts to protect against
00:48:48.360
anti-Semitism at Texas colleges and universities and across our state. Across the country, acts of
00:48:52.420
anti-Semitism have grown in number, size, and danger to the Jewish community since Hamas' deadly attack
00:48:56.660
on October 7th. Texas took immediate action to protect Jewish schools, synagogues, and other key
00:49:01.100
locations. Many Texas colleges and universities have also acted quickly to condemn anti-Semitism,
00:49:06.740
but some radical organizations on our campuses engage in acts that have no place in Texas.
00:49:10.940
Now we must work to ensure that our college campuses are safe spaces for members of the Jewish
00:49:14.840
community. The governor's executive order requires that all higher education institutions
00:49:18.340
in Texas review their free speech policies to establish appropriate punishments
00:49:21.860
for anti-Semitic rhetoric on college and university campuses, ensure that policies that address the
00:49:26.920
sharp rise of anti-Semitic acts are enforced, and include the definition of anti-Semitism in free
00:49:32.520
speech policies. So this is an executive order targeting what he describes as anti-Semitic acts
00:49:38.200
and rhetoric. In fact, he is ordering colleges in a state to establish appropriate punishments
00:49:44.700
for this rhetoric, which he deems anti-Semitic. And he says explicitly that these offensive statements
00:49:50.040
must be shut down so that college campuses are safe spaces for Jewish people. Now, I seem to remember
00:49:57.680
Republicans spending the past, I don't know, 10 years complaining about the safe space mentality
00:50:03.500
on college campuses. And now here we have the Republican governor of Texas issuing an executive order
00:50:08.480
commanding college campuses to be safe spaces. So we seem to have lost the plot here somewhere along
00:50:15.500
the line. There are a lot of reasons why governors should not be issuing executive orders to combat
00:50:21.160
anti-Semitism or any other form of bigotry. But I'll focus on just three of those reasons.
00:50:28.080
First of all, violence, vandalism threats, and deliberate incitement are already illegal. Now, some have
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defended this executive order by arguing that its real intent is to crack down on these sorts of crimes
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that are committed against Jewish people. But again, these are crimes. They're already illegal.
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If they're happening anywhere in Texas, whether on a college campus or not, the state already has all
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of the authority it needs to arrest and prosecute the culprits. You don't need to make an illegal thing
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even more illegal. You don't need an executive order making it extra illegal. Just enforce the laws that
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are already on the books. So if, say, somebody is vandalizing a synagogue or assaulting a Jewish
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person or explicitly calling for violence against Jews, they can already be arrested. This order will
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do nothing to stop or punish those crimes because they already have the laws in place to stop or
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punish those crimes. And if somehow they didn't have the laws in place, if, let's say, Texas had
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forgotten to make vandalism or assault illegal, well, the solution would be to pass a law making those
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violent acts illegal. But even then, this executive order would be the wrong way to do it. One, because
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it's an executive order, not a law. And two, because it seeks to protect one particular group instead of
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all groups. So vandalism, assault, et cetera, they are wrong no matter who they target. They are equally
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wrong no matter who they target. They should be prosecuted with equal vigor regardless of the demographics
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of the victim. We do not need laws protecting Jewish people. We need laws protecting people to include
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Jews, obviously, and everybody else. And if we already have those laws, which we do, then we don't
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need a second law or order making these crimes extra specially illegal if you commit them against a
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certain group. But the real point here has nothing to do with physical crimes. The real point is the bit
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about anti-Semitic rhetoric, which brings us to the second problem related to the issue that I just
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raised in the first. Let's pretend for a moment that we all agreed that so-called hate speech should
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be banned from universities. Let's pretend that hateful rhetoric really had no place in Texas or
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anywhere else, as the governor would say. Now, I don't agree with this idea, as I'll explain in a
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moment, but let's grant it for the sake of argument. Well then, why wouldn't the executive order
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establish appropriate punishments, quote-unquote, for hateful rhetoric against anyone of any group?
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And if, for whatever reason, it was decided that we needed to actually specifically outline every
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single group that you cannot say hateful things about, then why are certain groups conspicuously
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left off the list? It is rather hard to imagine Greg Abbott ever issuing an executive order calling for
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punishments for anti-white rhetoric on college campuses, in spite of the fact that anti-whiteism is not only
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incredibly pervasive on every major university campus in a country, but it's also part of the
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curriculum. Students are forced to listen to anti-white screeds in the classroom, from their
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professors. Every hateful thing imaginable has been said on college campuses about white people, by staff,
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by administrators, by professors, let alone also, of course, the students. Yet, to my knowledge,
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Greg Abbott has never issued an executive order addressing that. Why is that? You could, again,
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easily kill all these birds with one stone if you just banned all hateful statements against all
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people, but he doesn't do that. That doesn't happen anywhere. Instead, certain groups are singled out
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for protections, while certain groups are given no special protections at all. Third, I make that last
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point, as I said, for the sake of argument. My actual position is that there should not be any hate speech
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laws or policies at all. I reject hate speech as a concept, as a category. Hate speech, if it's
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anything, is simply speech that expresses hate, and some speech does express hate. But what I reject
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is the idea that any governmental authority should ever be in the business of trying to read the mind of
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a speaker and determine whether there was hatred behind it, and then punish the statement based on their
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own interpretation of the emotional state of the person who made the statement. I reject that
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completely. I also reject the idea that any form of rhetoric at all should be banned or punished on
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college campuses. Threats and incitements are already illegal, as we've established. So putting those
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aside, we are left with opinions, claims, ideas, exhortations, declarations. And as for those,
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even if they're wrong, even if they're baseless, even if they're offensive, even if they are, yes,
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hateful, they should not be banned or punished, and they certainly should not be the subject of an
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executive order from the governor's office. We cannot pretend to care in the slightest bit about
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free speech if we are banning speech on the basis that it's hateful towards protected groups.
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This is not just an infringement on free speech. It is the total eradication of free speech.
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Because after all, the only kind of speech that really needs legal protection in the first place
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is the speech that is deemed hateful and inappropriate by the powers that be.
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Speech that is pleasant and uncontroversial and friendly and gentle. That doesn't need to be
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protected. I mean, you could live in a country with no free speech. You could live in North Korea.
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You could be locked up in a communist prison camp, and you'd still be able to say all those sorts of
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things. So when a person in power says, you have free speech, unless it's speech that I find to be
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really inappropriate personally, that's another way of saying that you don't have free speech.
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And this point, I would think, is obvious. Now, I don't know exactly what sort of speech the
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governor considers anti-Semitic. That's a big part of the problem here. Because what we know is that
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any popularly used label for any particular form of bigotry is in a constant state of expansion.
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So bigotry labels, they're like the universe. Their boundaries expand and expand and expand
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until they become as broad and all-encompassing as the universe itself.
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That's reason enough why you can't ban speech on this basis.
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Any speech at all could be included in the label, because the labels are so broad and so subjective.
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But let's narrow the scope here just for a moment. Because in reality, to be anti-Semitic
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is to hate Jewish people because they are Jews. That's what anti-Semitism is.
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Everything that is not that is not anti-Semitism. You could say a lot of other things about Jewish
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people that you can make a lot of other statements that are incorrect. You can even say things that
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are offensive. But unless they express that you hate Jewish people for being Jews, they're not
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anti-Semitic. Just like being racist against a particular race means that you hate the members
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of that race because they are members of that race. And again, you could say a lot of other
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things about people of a certain race that maybe are incorrect. You could even engage in stereotypes.
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You could have misapprehensions. You could have misunderstandings. You could say a lot of things.
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But unless you're expressing that you hate these people because they're members of that race,
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it is not racist. Now, I realize this is the narrowest, most limited definition of these terms,
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and it's also the only coherent and clearly delineated definition. If you expand it beyond
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these boundaries, you will quickly find that now there are no real boundaries and anything can be
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included. So what if somebody says something that is really clearly anti-Semitic? What if they stand up
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and they say, this will be the clearest version of all, I hate Jews? What if they said that? Well,
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there's no denying that such a statement is anti-Semitic. There's no denying that likely
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statements like that have been made on college campuses. Should there be an executive order or
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law prescribing punishments for such expressions? No, of course not. If a person hates Jews,
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they should be allowed to say so without any legal repercussions. If they hate black people,
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if they hate Asians, if they hate gay people, if they hate Christians, if they hate white people,
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if they hate me, if they hate you, if they hate anyone for any reason, they should be allowed to
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say it. And they are allowed to say it about some of those groups. They should be allowed to say it
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about any of them. Because you know what? People can feel how they feel and they can say how they feel.
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And if free speech doesn't mean that at least, then it doesn't mean anything.
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So how should we respond to somebody who says such things? How should we answer a true expression of
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hate? Well, through speech. Fight speech with speech. Why is that such a difficult concept?
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On a college campus, we should be teaching students how to communicate their disagreement
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and disgust and revulsion through speech of their own. They shouldn't need a quote unquote
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safe space to retreat to. They shouldn't need the governor to come save them. If they don't like
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something that somebody has said, they can say so and they can explain why. Now that's not going to
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stop the other person from saying it, but that's the way it works in life or how it should work.
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You don't get to control what other people think. And you don't get to control what other people say.
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Unless you're Greg Abbott, apparently, which is why he is today cancelled.
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That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a blessed
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good Friday and a very happy Easter. And I'll talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.
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am 2015. Yes, I will have a great visit. Godspeed.