Ep. 1442 - Robin DiAngelo Freaks Out Over 'Am I Racist？' And It's Glorious
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Summary
Today on the Matt Wall Show, my new film, Racist, premieres in theaters this weekend, and some of my co-stars in the film are not happy about it. They have come out to denounce it as Nazi propaganda. Also, Donald Trump unveils a new tax plan, and the left s hysteria about the reports of Haitians eating cats has reached a fever pitch.
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You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people.
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Growing up in the 90s, I never thought much about race.
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seemed to matter that much, at least not to me.
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If I want to be an ally, I need to look like one.
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Martin Luther King said not to judge people by the...
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And I'm not going to even use save this country.
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Where are you guys in your anti-racist journeys?
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So I'll look around the room and point to who we believe is the most racist person in the room.
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We want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.
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What do you think about this issue of heteronormativity and how it intersects with the broader structures of racism in society?
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What are you doing to de-center your whiteness?
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What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
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I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, my new film, MI Racist, premieres in theaters this weekend.
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But shockingly, some of my co-stars in the film, the DEI grifters we expose, are not happy
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They have come out to denounce it as Nazi propaganda, quote unquote, among other things.
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Also, Donald Trump unveils a new tax plan as Kamala still refuses to unveil any plans
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And the left's hysteria about the reports of Haitians eating cats has reached a fever
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Today is the day that my new film, Am I Racist, releases in theaters nationwide.
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This is the most significant moment in my own career, personally,
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and a seminal achievement for all of the incredible people who worked on our film,
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starting with our director, Justin Folk, our producers, Sean Hampton, Brian Hoffman, Benyon Capel, Dallas Sonier,
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and of course, The Daily Wire and the executive team, Jeremy Boring, Caleb Robinson, John Lewis,
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along with Ben Shapiro, who's an executive producer on the film,
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one of the first people to see the original cut and give us notes on it.
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This film would not be what it is now without every person that I listed and many others that I haven't listed.
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You'll have to watch the movie and stick around for the credits to see the entire list.
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And by the way, you should stick around for the credits because, you know, this isn't a Marvel movie,
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but we do have our own little post-credits scene that you don't want to miss.
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Anyway, the point is that this film was incredibly ambitious from the start.
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We knew what we wanted to do and what sort of movie we wanted to make,
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but we had no idea if we could pull it off, especially given my, you know,
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increased profile and notoriety from the success of What is a Woman?
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And going out in that environment to try to do the same kind of film,
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We were always a little bit unsure about how it would work.
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And someday I can tell the whole story on how exactly we managed to navigate all of the landmines
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and create the film that you can now watch in a theater near you.
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I will say that it took significantly longer than I thought it would take to make
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and was even more difficult than I imagined it would be.
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When we finished filming, finally, about a year after we shot our first scene,
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the Odyssey had only really just begun because now came the time to take this unwieldy mammoth of a thing
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with all of its dozens of hours of raw footage and shape it into a cinematic narrative.
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Unfortunately, we have a brilliant artist for an editor in Marshall Lee,
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who made this painful process much easier than it had any right to be.
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We also have Justin Folk, our director, who knows how to comb through footage and find the story.
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We also spent many cumulative hours in the edit bay and in screening rooms with Jeremy,
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discussing and debating every last detail of this thing.
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It was a painstaking and sometimes necessarily painful creative collaboration,
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but that's what's required to make something great.
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And none of us were going to settle for anything less than what we consider to be great,
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something that we could all be proud of and something that lives up to our previous film.
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Sadly, though, not everyone involved in this film is proud of it, apparently.
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Some of my co-stars, the people that I share the screen with, have demonstrated, if you can believe it,
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some embarrassment about their role in the movie.
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In fact, quite tragically, four of the DEI experts that I interviewed or featured in the film
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have, in recent weeks, deleted their Twitter accounts.
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A number of them have also denounced the movie in recent days.
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now infamous for discussing the racial implications of Disney princesses with me in the movie.
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She posted on Instagram this week that the movie is a piece of shit
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and she's going off the radar to avoid criticism from the angry white men
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who might come and criticize her after the movie.
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Saira Rao, who's featured in one of the pivotal scenes of the film,
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according to a report in the Post Millennial today,
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condemned the movie during a Race to Dinner digital book club event recently.
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She called it a fascist Nazi white supremacy film.
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And she claimed that she was conned into being in the film.
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As a con artist, of course, herself, she knows a lot about, you know, being conned.
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Though apparently not enough to avoid it happening to her.
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If we did con her, which of course we did not for the record,
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we simply gave her an opportunity to appear in our documentary about anti-racism.
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And that's an opportunity that she was eager to take advantage of.
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And we did, in fact, make a documentary about anti-racism.
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I mean, how could Saira Rao accuse me of being a con artist?
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Finally, just yesterday, Robin DiAngelo issued a statement.
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It is also everything that you'd want from Robin DiAngelo, from a Robin DiAngelo statement.
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Posted to her website on Thursday, her statement is titled,
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Back in 2023, I was contacted by a group who claimed to be making a documentary film
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called Shades of Justice, about efforts to address racism in the United States.
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They plan to interview anti-racist activists, authors, and thought leaders
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in service of supporting the cause of racial equity.
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They offered me between $10,000 and $20,000 for an interview.
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I have since donated that sum to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
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Now, side note here, Shades of Justice is, in fact, one of the organizational names that we used, you know,
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It doesn't really mean anything, but we figured it's the kind of meaningless name that would resonate with the woke crowd.
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I also say that I appreciate Robin's generosity in meeting in the middle with just $15,000.
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We talked to her for about two hours, 15 grand, about, you know, a little over $7,000 an hour.
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She's very generous of her to only charge us that much.
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She continues, quote, when I arrived for the interview, a few things fell off.
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And the interviewer, who was introduced as Matt, appeared to be wearing an ill-fitting wig.
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I harvested the hair myself from a homeless guy in exchange for a Snickers bar and a bottle of Jack Daniels.
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Second, more to the point, you claim that you noticed I was wearing a wig the moment you sat down, and yet you still did the interview?
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In your version of events, okay, the crew was nervous and shifty, which they weren't, but this is what you're saying.
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And you come in, you see that, you sit down, there's some guy sitting there with an ill-fitting wig.
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Yet, Robin, you still sat there and talked to me on camera for two hours.
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If what you say is true, then we can only conclude that you were willing to do anything just for the money.
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Which is basically the whole point of the movie.
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Reading on quote, Matt presented himself as someone new to anti-racist work and seemed earnest, and his questions did not come across as adversarial.
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Matt asked what I thought about reparations for black Americans.
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I said that I agreed with reparations, but that it was not my area of expertise.
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He then pulled up a chair and invited a black crew member who went by Ben to sit down with us, took out his wallet, and handed Ben some cash.
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He said that if I believed in reparations, I should also give Ben cash.
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While some black people have asked white people to engage in reparations by giving directly to individuals, reparations are generally understood as a systemic approach to past and current injustice.
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The way Matt set this up felt intended to put Ben and I on the spot.
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Because Matt was pushing this on us, I expressed my discomfort and checked in with Ben to be sure that he was okay with receiving cash in this way.
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Ben reassured me that he was, so I went to my wallet and handed him my cash, and the interview ended.
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Okay, so let's back up here and review again your version of events, Robin.
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Robin, you walked into the room to do an interview with an organization that you knew very little about.
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Things felt off, you say. The interviewer was wearing a strange wig.
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Then the interviewer in this wig forces a black man to sit down and receive cash reparations.
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You felt like the whole thing was a setup and intended to put you on the spot, but you still paid the reparations.
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Even in spite of all that, you still paid. That's your defense. That's what you're saying.
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Now, as for me, I don't want to give spoilers away for the film.
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I don't care how many times some of these spoilers have been reported by the media.
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I refuse on principle to officially confirm the legitimacy of any of the spoilers.
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Everybody will have to go to the theater this weekend to watch Am I a Racist for themselves and see what exactly happens.
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But if what you say is true, if it is true, then it would seem to make you not only a fool, but a money-grubbing grifter.
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Which again is sort of the whole point of the film.
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I will say that your assumption that my black friend, Ben, was manipulated into taking part in this alleged reparations exercise is quite demeaning and infantilizing to him.
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No great shock coming from the woman who demeans and infantilizes black people for a living.
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If this reparations thing actually did happen, as you claim, how do you know Ben was not a willing participant?
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In fact, how do you know that he wasn't forcing me to do it?
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Maybe I'm the innocent victim in all this. Have you thought about that, Robin?
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Continuing on, she says, after reviewing the sequence of events and discussing it with colleagues, I realized that they had lied about their agenda and I had been played.
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I spread the word on my networks. Unfortunately, last month I started receiving hateful and misogynistic emails.
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Some reference the Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro's website, which announced that the film is indeed being released.
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It's not titled Shades of Justice, nor is it meant to support the anti-racist cause.
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It is a Borat-style mockumentary titled Am I Racist and designed to humiliate and discredit anti-racist educators and activists.
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Their deception was carefully planned and well-funded. The interviewer was in fact Matt Walsh, a far-right provocateur,
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backed by Shapiro and Daily Wire Plus, and yes, wearing a wig.
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Am I Racist is not only about me, and I was not the only one who fell for their deception.
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Sadly, many of those being mocked are women of color.
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I've not seen the film, nor do I plan to watch it, so I don't know how they have used any of my interview or how they've edited it.
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But if you see clips of the full film, consider the source, Matt Walsh.
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So, who is Matt Walsh and what is his and his backer's agenda?
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Luckily for us, he has clearly answered that question without shame time and time again.
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She then goes on to quote and provide a link to Southern Poverty Law Center's hit piece on me.
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They say that I'm a white supremacist shock jock, etc.
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All in all, much of what she says about me and the Daily Wire and our film is not true,
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especially when she claims that our film was well-funded.
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In fact, this was a very low-budget operation, at least by Hollywood standards.
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Borat, which she compares our film to, had a budget of around $18 million 20 years ago.
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Now, from a quality perspective, the film does look much more expensive than it is, credit to our crew and production team,
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which is maybe what Robin DiAngelo was picking up on.
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And, you know, I appreciate, once again, the compliment.
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She is, though, completely correct about one thing.
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She says that our intentions are to humiliate and discredit anti-racist educators and activists.
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And on that point, she could not be more right.
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We want to prove that conservatives can successfully make a film like this.
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The kind of film that, until now, only liberals like Sacha Baron Cohen have pulled off or even attempted.
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We have many things we wish to achieve with this movie.
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But most of all, yes, we want to expose the so-called anti-racist movement.
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We want to humiliate and discredit these grifters.
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Or I should say, really, we want to give them an opportunity to humiliate and discredit themselves.
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And that is an opportunity that Robin DiAngelo took full advantage of, quite eagerly.
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And you can see it for yourself, and you really need to see this for yourself.
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If you've read the descriptions, I can tell you it is so much worse for her than it even sounds in the descriptions.
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And you can see that all for yourself right now in theaters.
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Before we move on, I just have to say, to emphasize here, the double standard.
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You know, we've been criticized a lot by the left, including, as we heard, some of the people in the film.
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Some of my co-stars, who, by the way, I, you know, I thought they'd be really proud of our film that we made together.
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Um, I thought it was a thrill working with, with all of my co-stars, Robin D'Angelo, Cyra Rao, Kate Slater.
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I thought we had, uh, I thought that we, we shared, you know, that time together.
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And we were, I thought, I thought we were best friends forever.
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That's what I, that's what I've been going around telling everybody.
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I've been telling everyone that Robin D'Angelo is my friend.
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And then to have her coming out and denouncing the film.
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Uh, so these, uh, these people have been, and many others on the left have criticized the film.
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Uh, for, you know, for a lot of reasons, but primarily for the methods we use to make the film.
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And, and also the methods we use for, uh, to make our last film.
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They say that it's deceptive and it's unethical and it's wrong and all of that.
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But you notice that all the people on the left saying that about me and my movies, none of them say it about Sacha Baron Cohen.
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But Sacha Baron Cohen with Borat and his other characters uses the same kinds of methods.
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And the difference is that he is usually trying to embarrass normal working class Americans.
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But he completely humiliates a bunch of working class people who haven't done anything wrong.
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In fact, often these are nice people trying to be polite and accommodating to someone who they see as this kind of this hapless foreigner.
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And, uh, and for that, they, they've been just like eternally embarrassed in this, uh, what's now become this sort of iconic film.
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Now, again, I think Nathan Fielder is hilarious and brilliant.
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It will not surprise you to learn that his style of humor is right up my alley.
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And, uh, I'm sure he probably hates my guts because I'm assuming he's extremely liberal.
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I think he's funny, but with his shows, who is he targeting again?
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Average Americans, his show, Nathan for you, hysterically funny.
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But the truth is that he's making a mockery out of small business owners who are just trying to make a living.
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I mean, in some cases, doing things with these business owners, like misleading them in a direction that would destroy their business.
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These probably really harm them and, and even ruin their lives in some cases.
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And virtually nobody, especially on the left, raises any ethical concerns about it whatsoever.
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And then in our case, we're doing a similar kind of thing.
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With this film and the last, we're going after academics, so-called experts, DEI grifters, con artists, and in general, upper class liberals.
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Um, there are a few scenes in our film, in this, in the latest film, Am I Racist?
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We do go into some low income areas, uh, to talk to people who are, um, uh, working class or even lower than that on the income, uh, ladder.
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But in those scenes, as you'll see when you watch the movie, I'm the butt of the joke.
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I said this many times all throughout shooting.
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This was like a, a mantra as we were shooting it.
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That, that I said that if we do any scenes with normal, good, nice people, uh, I need to be the butt of the joke in those scenes.
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I'm not trying to embarrass normal people or just trying to live their lives.
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I'm not, I don't want to trap them into saying anything that's going to make them look bad.
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Uh, because I'm, we actually do have ethical sensibilities when we're making a movie like this.
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So if anyone is going to be the butt of the joke in my films, it's either going to be me for the comedic effect, or it's going to be these people who are, again, so-called experts.
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Getting, you know, many of them worth millions of dollars, getting paid thousands of dollars just for, you know, to do seminars and whatever.
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And, and the kinds of people, the kinds of people who can charge thousands of dollars to be interviewed.
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Or, or again, upper class liberal types, uh, who, who are not, who are never skewered in, in, in films like this.
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I'm not even, I'm a podcaster with no college education.
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And I'm going into rooms with people with PhDs.
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So if that's not punching up, I don't know what is.
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And based on what the left would say about me, they'd expect that like, I would be easily humiliated by these people.
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I'm, I'm just, uh, I, I, that's what they would say.
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I mean, I, I should, how could I possibly, how could I possibly embarrass these people?
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So it's interesting that that's so, you know, a, a, a Hollywood multimillionaire celebrity making a movie where he's tricking and embarrassing, you know, working class people who make $30,000 a year.
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But a, but a community college dropout podcaster may be embarrassing millionaires and PhD level people.
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Trump announced a new tax plan, um, or a new plan, uh, related to taxes, uh, that, that, uh, I think is interesting. Watch this.
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I'm also announcing that as part of our additional tax cuts, we will end all taxes on overtime.
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That gives people more of an incentive to work.
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And, you know, I went to some economists, great ones.
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You'll get a whole new workforce by doing that.
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The people who work overtime are among the hardest working citizens in our country.
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And for too long, no one in Washington has been looking out for them.
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They're police officers, nurses, factory workers, construction workers, truck drivers,
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It's time for the working man and woman to finally catch a break.
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And that's what we're doing because this is a good one.
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And I think it's going to be great for the country.
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So that's why we will be saying that if you're an overtime worker when you're past 40 hours a week,
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think of that, your overtime hours will be tax free.
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Anything, you know, that involves people paying fewer taxes, I'm generally in favor of.
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You know, in this case, anyone working overtime hours doesn't have to pay taxes on it.
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That's a benefit being granted across the board to anyone who works these hours.
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And it's a plan that will directly and immediately benefit millions of people.
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And benefit them by giving them more access to their own money.
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It's just we're going to let you keep your own money.
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I think the number one way you help them, help us, is by letting us keep our own money.
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You're not helping me by saying, oh, that's your own money.
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That's more, you are refraining from sabotaging me.
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It's like if somebody was going to run up and rob you on the street corner and decides not
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All he did was not rob you, which he shouldn't have done to begin with.
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So, but then notice how it works with, if you have a plan, plans from Democrats where
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Well, it's always like, okay, well, we'll start with this program and we'll put a bunch
00:29:52.240
And then the program will have these initiatives and the initiatives will lead to proposals
00:29:59.240
And if they're approved, the proposals will be adopted by committees and blah, blah, blah,
00:30:09.240
And if anyone does experience the benefit, it's always, again, going to be other people's
00:30:15.240
It's always, so you're just, all they're really doing is kind of spreading the problem
00:30:23.240
Get rid of the taxes on overtime, work overtime, you keep a lot more of your own money.
00:30:27.240
And if you pass that law and millions of Americans, millions of Americans will feel the impact
00:30:34.240
And you could contrast this with Kamala, who actually hasn't even told us any of her policies.
00:30:46.240
So Trump is out every, you know, three days it feels like with a new policy proposal that
00:30:53.240
Meanwhile, Kamala is, has not even given us the vague outlines of what kind of policies
00:31:10.240
American gymnast Jordan Childs couldn't hold back tears in her first interview about the
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The 23-year-old Olympian, nicknamed Chick, was embroiled in one of the biggest scandals
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of the Paris games when she won bronze in the women's floor exercises after American
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Romania's Anna Barbasou initially finished with a higher score than Childs.
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Once the American finished her routine and judges reviewed the footage, changed the score
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and bumped Childs up to third place, sparking the initial controversy and fierce backlash
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Then on the last day of the Olympics, the Court of Arbitration for Sports ruled that the Childs'
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appeal was submitted past the one minute deadline and changed her score to drop her back into
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The next day on August 11th, the International Olympic Committee determined that Childs must
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Childs gave her first sit-down interview about the incident this week during a panel at the
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She said, quote, to me, everything that has gone on is not about the medal.
00:32:08.240
Childs previously claimed that she was facing racially driven attacks from social media users
00:32:16.240
When Childs won the bronze medal, it resulted in the first gymnastics podium in Olympic history
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Quote, it's about the fact that there were things that have led up to this position of
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being an athlete and I felt like everything has been stripped.
00:32:32.240
They're taking the medal away because the mistake was made and that's racism.
00:32:36.240
Remember, there were actually two Romanian gymnasts that were robbed initially.
00:32:40.240
Childs actually needs to return her medal twice because there are two other gymnasts who rightfully
00:32:48.240
There's the one mentioned in the article and then there's another one that was penalized
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for stepping out of bounds even though she didn't.
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A replay clearly, absolutely, incontrovertibly shows that she did not step out of bounds
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And if she had not gotten that penalty, then she would have been in third place.
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Which means, again, that Childs did not win the bronze.
00:33:20.240
But she refuses to give it back because she made history with the all black podium.
00:33:28.240
So yeah, that's the irony, of course, is that she says that the criticism is about her skin color.
00:33:36.240
The only person talking about her skin color is her.
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So she says that they're saying she should give it back because she's black,
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but really she's saying she shouldn't give it back because she's black.
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This is something that I've talked about a lot while doing interviews for the movie Am I Racist,
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coming out today, amiracist.com, to get tickets.
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Your ideology, your belief system, your principles, your faith, that's your framework.
00:34:10.240
Or maybe it's an even better metaphor, really, is to say that all that stuff is your lens.
00:34:15.240
So that's the lens that you look out at the world with.
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And however that lens is tinted, that's how the world is going to be tinted.
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Nobody sees the world in a truly objective way.
00:34:31.240
Nobody's looking out at the world and actually seeing the world exactly as it is.
00:34:36.240
Which isn't to say that the world isn't exactly one way or another.
00:34:39.240
It isn't to say that we all have our own truth.
00:34:45.240
There is an objective reality that we all are a part of.
00:34:49.240
But our ability to see and understand the objective reality is not perfect
00:34:56.240
We are apt to get confused about things, to be mistaken, to think that things are true when they aren't,
00:35:03.240
to be biased, to engage in wishful thinking, and all that sort of stuff.
00:35:07.240
And everybody's lens can get a little scuffed, a little bit dirty and blurry,
00:35:12.240
and it makes it harder for you to see what's actually happening in the world.
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God sees everything all the time exactly as it is.
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She is actually incapable of separating it from anything that happens to her.
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Any misfortune she suffers is understood automatically through this lens.
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Those of us who don't have that lens, it's what makes it so hard for us to understand how she can see the world that way.
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And what's really hard for us to understand is this.
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It never even occurred to Jordan Childs that she lost the bronze medal for reasons other than her race.
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I can tell you right now, she has not even paused for a second to think,
00:36:12.240
huh, I wonder if maybe this is just happening because it's an unfortunate thing and it's got nothing to do with the fact that I'm black.
00:36:22.240
The moment she got word that she had to give the medal back, immediately, first thought, first and only thought is,
00:36:32.240
It has to be the fundamental reason why this bad thing happened to her because it's the fundamental reason why any bad thing happens to her because that is the lens.
00:36:46.240
This is a funny moment on CNN where the anchor Erin Burnett learns about Kamala's positions in real time.
00:36:53.240
And, well, you just got to look at her reaction.
00:36:56.240
So in 2019, in what K-File found, she said she would cut funding to ICE.
00:37:03.240
Our immigrant detention system is out of control and I believe we must end the unfair incarceration of thousands of individuals, families and children.
00:37:10.240
I was one of the first senators after President Trump was elected to advocate for a decrease in funding to ICE.
00:37:17.240
Well, now, of course, she's touting the Biden administration's executive order to crack down on the border.
00:37:24.240
Andrew, that's pretty incredible on its own when you're talking about what you found here on ICE.
00:37:31.240
And this was a questionnaire that she filled out for the ACLU.
00:37:34.240
And this questionnaire is really an interesting snapshot in time of that 2019 Democratic primary.
00:37:40.240
Kamala Harris was trying to get to the left of Bernie Sanders.
00:37:43.240
She was trying to get to the left of Elizabeth Warren.
00:37:46.240
And you really see that in a lot of these answers.
00:37:48.240
And I want to walk our viewers through a little bit of what she said.
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Let's just take immigration and look at what she said here.
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She said on immigration she made this open ended pledge to end immigrant detention.
00:37:59.240
She said she supported taxpayer funded gender transition surgeries for detained migrants.
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She also said taxpayer funded gender transition surgeries for detained migrants.
00:38:10.240
She wrote both wrote and answered in the affirmative when she was asked this.
00:38:15.240
And she said she also supported it for federal prisoners.
00:38:18.240
Now, she also pledged to slash immigration detention by 50 percent, close all family and private facilities,
00:38:24.240
and decrease funding for ICE and then end ICE detainers with local law enforcement.
00:38:31.240
I mean, these are things that, you know, it would be hard to think that you would come up with taxpayer funding,
00:38:39.240
And yet this, as you say, written and verbally.
00:38:50.240
She said that she wants to give sex change operations to, you know, illegal migrants.
00:39:06.240
And, you know, the thing is that leftists for a very long time have.
00:39:25.240
We're seeing a similar thing play out right now with their with the eating dogs and cats thing.
00:39:38.240
That and and oftentimes the results of their ideas, the results of their policies also so crazy.
00:39:50.240
And this is the game that they play all the time.
00:39:53.240
And they're doing this now with Kamala Harris, especially with things that she said, you know, not all that long ago, things that she said four or five years ago.
00:40:06.240
Where if we say, well, you know, Kamala Harris, she wants to give sex change operations to illegal immigrants.
00:40:48.240
We point to it and say, oh, geez, that's look at that crazy thing over there.
00:40:55.240
And then suddenly we're the it's we're the crazy ones as if we are the ones who are responsible for it.
00:41:06.240
Because the people who are not politically in attuned or who are not paying attention that closely, which is which is most people.
00:41:20.240
It's again, it's so crazy that they just assume that we're making it up.
00:41:29.240
Same thing with the so-called so-called quote unquote book bans in places like Florida.
00:41:38.240
They're they're trying to put gay pornographic material in elementary schools.
00:41:43.240
And some states have said, no, you can't do that.
00:41:50.240
No, we schools are not places where we just provide every book that's ever been written.
00:41:56.240
Right. We only a relative few books are going to be available in an elementary school or assigned in the curriculum.
00:42:05.240
Right. Millions of books have been written in the history of human civilization.
00:42:09.240
Almost none of them are going to be in the school, but they can't all be there.
00:42:21.240
And we're not going to choose to put gay pornography in the schools.
00:42:25.240
The most normal position a person could possibly have on something is that no gay pornography schools.
00:42:32.240
But the left takes advantage of the ignorance of the average voter.
00:42:37.240
So that when we say no gay pornography in the schools.
00:42:42.240
They said, what is gay pornography in the schools?
00:42:50.240
You literally you are advocating for putting it.
00:42:53.240
We this is gay pornographic material that you are putting in the schools.
00:42:58.240
But the average the average voter sees it and they just don't believe it.
00:43:03.240
No one's putting pornographic material in elementary schools.
00:43:16.240
Because their agenda is so deranged, so corrupt, so evil, so far beyond the bounds of normalcy and decency that it just sounds unbelievable.
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And as we just saw in that clip there, it sounds unbelievable even to some people on the left.
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You know, there are a lot of well-known chants from political rallies throughout history.
00:45:52.400
There was Hell No, We Won't Go for the many protests during the Vietnam War.
00:45:56.400
More recently, there was Build the Wall and Lock Her Up during the Trump campaign back in 2016.
00:46:00.540
These kinds of chants are historic artifacts in a way.
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Historians study them to get a sense of what things were like in the past.
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Yesterday, another chant was added to this storied list.
00:46:09.560
It happened at a Tim Walz rally, of all places.
00:46:12.340
We're talking about an instant classic here, one that future historians will study for a long time.
00:46:16.640
And then, after studying it, they'll look at each other and say, what the hell was going on back then?
00:46:26.560
I don't have the answer to all those questions, but I can confirm, if any future historians are watching this podcast many years down the line,
00:46:32.720
that this is a very real chant from a Tim Walz rally that took place in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
00:46:44.180
Yes, they're chanting, we're not eating cats over and over.
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They're chanting that they don't eat cats at their rallies.
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First of all, unless that rally was full of Haitians, which it isn't, then this chant doesn't even make sense.
00:47:19.360
Nobody is saying that Democrats in general are eating cats.
00:47:25.100
The claim that people are making is that Haitian nationals specifically are eating cats.
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So already we're in very confusing territory with this chant.
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It's not even clear what they're trying to say.
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But if nothing else, we can determine from this chant that Republicans' claims about illegal aliens eating household pets,
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made most recently by Donald Trump at the debate the other day, have struck a chord with Democrats.
00:47:44.360
And they're very, very upset that anyone's making the claim.
00:47:46.180
In fact, they're upset to a degree that borders on comical at this point.
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That's certainly the case for Democrat Congressman Eric Swalwell,
00:47:53.260
who had a meltdown in Congress earlier this week in response to a cat meme that was tweeted out by one of his colleagues.
00:48:03.720
The chairman tweets, protect our ducks and kittens in Ohio because he goes down some crazy rabbit hole,
00:48:12.800
completely debunked that aliens are eating pets?
00:48:23.240
Now, it's safe to say this is the first documented panic attack that a member of Congress has suffered in response to a meme.
00:48:35.320
The Democrats have been having a lot of panic attacks about memes.
00:48:38.120
Certainly the first one, the first one in response to a cat and duck meme.
00:48:44.240
Put aside the specific facts of the cat-eating allegation for a second.
00:48:47.460
This was a joke image that he was responding to, an image that is clearly intended to be humorous
00:48:52.520
and which millions of people have understood as humorous.
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And that might be one of the greatest images to come out of Congress this decade.
00:49:08.760
In complaining about a meme, Eric Swalwell has turned himself into a meme.
00:49:14.280
But most people are not like Eric Swalwell, thankfully.
00:49:17.980
They're able to laugh a little bit, which is why the whole cat-dog-eating allegation from the debate
00:49:22.480
has prompted the creation of an entire genre of videos on TikTok.
00:49:25.700
In fact, this was by far the most viral moment of the debate on TikTok, other than Trump's closing argument.
00:49:56.540
Suffice it to say, at this point, everything has, you know, gotten a little bit out of hand.
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The facts of the situation in Springfield are now secondary to the memes.
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So to correct the record, in order to prevent future mental breakdowns by sitting congressmen,
00:50:07.960
it's important to clarify what we know and don't know about animals getting eaten in Springfield.
00:50:12.260
As far as I can tell, the allegation that people's cats are being eaten first gained popularity after this recent body cam footage from Canton, Ohio,
00:50:45.900
No, we pulled up and she was just laying there with you.
00:50:52.940
Can you call the Humane Society to see if they'll come pick this cat up?
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Wait, why is the Humane Society picking up a dead cat?
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I think it's a little late to call the Humane Society.
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Hey, get an animal shelter out here for this cat.
00:51:08.520
They could take the half of it that still remains.
00:51:15.520
Anyway, so a woman with dark skin allegedly ate a cat.
00:51:18.780
It's not clear if she was high or mentally disturbed or just really hungry and the cat looked delicious.
00:51:25.300
But what is clear at this point is that the woman is not a Haitian migrant, legal or otherwise.
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At the same time, the fact that this one incident did not involve a Haitian migrant does not mean that people's pets are necessarily safe in Springfield.
00:51:37.380
The Federalists obtained the audio of a Springfield resident's phone call to police from about August 26th.
00:51:42.400
This is before Springfield attracted national attention, so there's no chance that the caller was just trying to play into a current narrative.
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And in the call, the resident reports a group of Haitian migrants carrying four geese.
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Okay, I'm sitting here, I'm riding on the trail, going to my orientation for my job today.
00:52:12.780
And I see a group of Haitian people, there was about four of them, they all had geese in their hand.
00:52:23.280
They got away, I couldn't make out the first three of the license plate, but I got the numbers.
00:52:29.160
The last numbers was, and it was a gray Toyota Tacoma they took off on.
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So, this is obviously pretty strong contemporaneous evidence that Haitians may indeed be killing geese and other animals that they find on the street.
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Which, I mean, I will say geese are incredibly annoying.
00:52:59.620
So, you know, if people want to kill any geese in my neighborhood, I'm fine with it.
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But, then again, stray cats can also be kind of annoying, but I'm not endorsing eating them.
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Anyway, there's also these images from Springfield obtained by the Daily Wire's Spencer Lindquist, showing that, quote,
00:53:20.080
the heads and carcasses of slaughtered pigs are being left out in public.
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Additionally, you might have seen this viral image of a dark-skinned man in Ohio carrying an animal on the street.
00:53:32.880
This was apparently posted to Reddit a few months ago.
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There was no indication that the guy is actually from Haiti, and it doesn't appear that this was photographed in Springfield.
00:53:38.940
And so, a lot of people are using this photograph to say, well, aha, there you go.
00:53:42.720
The right-wingers are lying about Haitians eating animals.
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But to believe that, you'd have to overlook the firsthand accounts of people actually living in Springfield.
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I'm not just talking about the 911 call or the Facebook images that a Spencer obtained.
00:53:53.080
I'm talking about the testimony from Springfield City Council meetings, some of which I played before.
00:54:01.900
They're in the park grabbing up ducks by their neck and cutting their head off and walking off with them and eating them.
00:54:12.260
Opening containers in our grocery stores, helping themselves to what's inside and throwing the rest onto the shelves and floors.
00:54:18.920
Pulling off of the highway to publicly clean and gut the roadkill.
00:54:25.780
Stealing animals from farmers and leaving their severed heads at the site of an old school where children play.
00:54:33.960
Making some barbaric stew out of the birds that live in our park.
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So at this point, in order to refute all the evidence, you pretty much have to say that Springfield residents are all wrong.
00:54:48.820
Maybe the 911 caller was mistaken about what he saw.
00:54:53.380
They're engaged in some kind of anti-Haitian conspiracy.
00:54:57.760
But in order to believe that, as implausible as it is, you'd also have to ignore Haitian culture itself.
00:55:04.440
And it's simply a verifiable fact that Haitians eat cats.
00:55:08.180
Here's an image that Shia Raichik found from 12 years ago.
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It's an image of a tourist in Haiti being served a stewed cat.
00:55:14.700
And it's not from some right-wing propaganda site.
00:55:18.120
And there are plenty more images and posts like this.
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You'll find Haitians posting video tutorials about how to properly peel a cat so you can eat it for lunch.
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I'm not going to go into any more detail than that.
00:55:33.700
So if you import tens of thousands of Haitians into a small town in Ohio,
00:55:38.380
it stands to reason that they might bring that culture with them.
00:55:40.840
So that's far more likely than the claim that all of these residents are lying.
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No, the Haitians may not have eaten other people's cats yet, or maybe they have,
00:55:49.600
but it certainly seems like they're eating other animals that can be found on the street.
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The only important point to make here is that Haitian culture is not our culture.
00:56:01.900
And there's really nothing good about making our country more like Haiti.
00:56:13.840
There's not a single person who lives in America
00:56:15.580
who would benefit from having our country more closely reflect Haiti or Haitian culture.
00:56:24.740
And that is ultimately why Democrats who are having meltdowns over cat memes
00:56:37.200
That'll do it for the show today and this week.
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a weekend that I certainly hope includes you going to watch our new film,
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So get off your ass at this moment and go get yourself a ticket to the movie and enjoy.
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you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people.
00:57:28.100
What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
00:57:35.340
I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.
00:57:55.520
I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.