Richard Dawkins has a new take on Eugenics, and the reaction to it has been interesting to say the least... not only did he get mocked and condemned, but so did the rest of the scientific community for its lack of reaction.
00:00:00.000Welcome to the show, everybody. I hope you had a better weekend than I did. I guess I spoke too
00:00:05.300soon on Friday because I said I'd been sick the day before, but then I was better. Well,
00:00:09.760shortly after shooting the show, I was in the hospital hooked up to an IV mask, you know,
00:00:14.940the whole nine yards. I had the flu, it turns out. It turns out I had the flu all the time.
00:00:18.280So I finally got to see what the buzz is about, the flu buzz, what all the flu hype is about. And
00:00:25.040I can report that it pretty much sucks as much as everybody says it does. I thought maybe I could,
00:00:33.420the one good thing about having the flu, I thought is I could come up with a contrarian take like I
00:00:37.920like to do. And maybe I could come and report that actually the flu is good, but I can't. It's not
00:00:46.000good. I just, I have to agree with the general consensus that it's not very good at all. And
00:00:52.800we have four kids at home. So I had to quarantine myself in our room upstairs for three days with
00:00:59.320the help of my, my wife who, you know, I, I was, I was like a, basically like the hunchback living in
00:01:05.040the bell tower. And my wife would come up, push a plate of gruel under the, under the door a couple
00:01:11.460times a day, then run away. If I tried to come downstairs, she'd turn the hose on me, get away
00:01:16.960unclean. Um, and that's pretty much what it was like. And, but now I'm, I'm relatively okay and,
00:01:23.480and ready to get down to business. So, all right. Um, a number of interesting things came up over
00:01:28.040the last few days. Maybe they just seemed interesting to me because I was in a feverish
00:01:33.240haze. I don't know, but let's start with a famed biologist and atheist, Richard Dawkins
00:01:39.420on Sunday sent out some tweets about eugenics. Now what he said, um, what he actually said is,
00:01:48.120is not so much the interesting part as the reaction to what he said. Uh, so let's start
00:01:53.740with that. This is what he wrote. He said, it's one thing to deplore eugenics on ideological,
00:01:58.560political, or moral grounds. It's quite another to conclude that it wouldn't work in practice.
00:02:02.980Of course it would. It works for cows, horses, pigs, dogs, and roses. Why on earth wouldn't it work
00:02:08.400for humans? Facts ignore ideology. Uh, for those determined to miss the point, I deplore the idea
00:02:15.100of a eugenic policy. I simply said deploring, it doesn't mean it wouldn't work. Just as we breed
00:02:19.620cows to yield more milk, we could breed humans to run faster or jump higher, but heaven forbid that
00:02:24.880we should do it. Now, I'm not exactly sure what prompted this or, or why, you know, it's necessary
00:02:31.500to make the point that, hey, eugenics is bad, but it would totally work if we did it. Hint, hint.
00:02:37.380It's bad, but we shouldn't. But if we did, it'd be great, but we shouldn't. Um, not sure the point
00:02:44.360in that, but nonetheless, Dawkins says eugenics would work in practice, even if there are some moral,
00:02:50.920some ethical and moral complications with it. What fascinated me is that, um, Dawkins was roundly
00:02:59.380mocked and condemned for what he said here across the board, from what I could tell. Liberal,
00:03:05.860conservative, religious, non-religious, everybody, everybody, uh, said was, was, was against it.
00:03:11.040I, I even, I read a post just, just, uh, before the show started in an atheist blog and they were
00:03:16.560confusing, they were, uh, rather criticizing it as well. And this to me just shows how confused we are,
00:03:24.640uh, as a people, as a culture. Most people don't have a coherent worldview or philosophy.
00:03:33.060It's like we're all just making it up as we go along and often deciding our, our views,
00:03:38.500our principles based on the mood of the social media mob. Whoever's getting ratioed on Twitter,
00:03:43.720we all just take the opposite view of whatever that guy said, even if we agree with it.
00:03:47.600Here's the point with eugenics. Yes, I believe that the practice is barbaric and in a very literal
00:03:56.300sense, dehumanizing. So I'm against it. And if you're a pro-life conservative, you're probably
00:04:02.440against it consistently. So, but if you're on the left, then you probably already support eugenics.
00:04:10.220It's happening right now. And it's, it's, it's not only do you support it, but it's a big part
00:04:14.920of your worldview of your philosophy. As I said, right now in our society, it's happening. And if
00:04:22.920you're on the left, then you support it. So you have no issue to, you have no reason to take issue
00:04:28.160with anything that Dawkins said. Planned Parenthood was, first of all, founded by one of the most vocal
00:04:34.800eugenic advocates of the 20th century, Margaret Sanger. And if you think that all of the eugenic
00:04:41.560stuff died with her back 50 years ago, you're wrong. In fact, it's, it's almost the opposite.
00:04:47.920Arguably, it didn't even start until she was dead. She was gone. It wasn't until five or six years
00:04:54.280after she died that Planned Parenthood even started killing babies, started performing abortions.
00:04:59.220Margaret Sanger was actually relatively opposed to abortion, in many cases anyway.
00:05:05.380So when you read the horrible things she said, and she said a lot of horrible stuff,
00:05:11.300but remember that she was more ethical, more moral than the people who run Planned Parenthood
00:05:17.880today. Even though she was a eugenicist and, and, and a very morally deranged person in many
00:05:26.800ways, she would probably be horrified by what Planned Parenthood, by what her own organization
00:05:31.220is doing now. Which tells you a lot about her organization. And what does Planned Parenthood
00:05:40.560do? Well, it eradicates the babies of predominantly poor mothers, often racial minority mothers.
00:05:48.340And it does so expressly, explicitly on the basis that these children are unwanted and would
00:05:54.960be a drain on society. That is one of the primary arguments advanced for abortion. And that is a
00:05:59.820eugenic argument. That is a eugenicist argument. They're unwanted, strains on society, so we got to
00:06:09.100get rid of them. Here's an even clearer example. Down syndrome. In Europe, over 90% of Down syndrome
00:06:16.300babies are aborted. 90%. In some European countries, that number is basically 100%.
00:06:22.320They've all but eradicated, quote unquote, the condition in many European countries by killing
00:06:29.020everybody with it. That's eugenics. What about this country? Here it's about 70 to 75% of Down syndrome
00:06:39.360babies that are killed. Again, that's eugenics. So if you've got a problem with eugenics, you should have
00:06:45.140a problem with this. If you don't have a problem with this, then at least admit that you're a supporter
00:06:49.580of eugenics. You see, we'll never, this is why I'm always going on about intellectual consistency and honesty
00:06:55.460because we're never going to be able to communicate with each other or understand each other or get
00:07:00.080anywhere in any of our arguments about things if we're not beginning from a place of honesty and intellectual
00:07:08.560consistency. We have to be honest about what we believe and what we want and what we value and prioritize because
00:07:15.500there's so much bad faith arguing, so much confusion, so much internal inconsistency where you have, just as
00:07:24.420one example, people who defend Planned Parenthood's eugenicist agenda and yet at the same time attack a guy
00:07:29.980who says that eugenics works, who's on their side because they're not being honest with themselves about
00:07:36.860what they believe. Because I guess when you're a little bit too honest about it and you admit to
00:07:41.940yourself that, yeah, you know, I, here's what I think, that one of the ways to solve the poverty problem is just to
00:07:48.000kill poor babies. When you say that to yourself, when you admit it out loud, when you put it like that, it sounds
00:07:55.080horrible and even you recoil from it. But that should tell you something. When you take your own views out of your
00:08:02.100head and you strip them of all the euphemism and you just look at them for what they are, or when you hear somebody else
00:08:11.220repeat them back to you in a way that is not as sanitary and you're horrified by it, well, that should tell you
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00:10:30.140himself qualified for the next democratic debate as he surges in the polls. Latest national poll
00:10:37.800hazmat that I saw was at 19%, which is pretty astounding. One thing I've learned over the last
00:10:44.280few years is that I really have no clue what's going on. Well, I learned that every day in life.
00:10:52.000Basically, but especially the last few years as it pertains to politics. Um, I, I just have no idea.
00:10:58.460I didn't see Bloomberg, the billionaire stop and frisk guy, finding any traction at all. I remember
00:11:03.960when he jumped into the race back in November and I was joking about how this is someone who seems
00:11:08.800tailor-made. Speaking of being tailor-made, he's tailor-made to, uh, not appeal to anybody.
00:11:15.460Like he doesn't check anybody's boxes. You would think white, old male billionaire, uh, stop. He's
00:11:23.320got the stop and frisk thing going on pro pro abortion, liberal nanny state. So who you would
00:11:30.240think, who is he appealing to? Yeah. The liberals might, might like the pro abortion part and some
00:11:35.800of the nanny state stuff, but he's, but you know, they're not going to be crazy about white,
00:11:39.240old billionaire male. Then you got the stop and frisk. I mean, and then on the other hand,
00:11:44.140yeah, conservatives, uh, successful businessmen, they might like that, but then all the ideological
00:11:49.220stuff, nanny state pro abortion. So you would think doesn't appeal to anybody, but, um, yet
00:11:54.760in the polls anyway, here we are. Now, in fairness, he hasn't actually won a democratic primary
00:12:00.340state yet and maybe he never will. Um, I mean, if he, it would be kind of depressing in many
00:12:09.280ways, if he were to actually start gaining real support in primaries and let's say win
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00:12:20.600you? You put, you put a bunch of ads out. Is it really that easy? People, because they
00:12:27.060see you on TV, they're going to think, actually, yeah, maybe that guy would be a good president.
00:12:30.880Is it as easy as that? I don't know. I'm still skeptical of Bloomberg's chances. Um,
00:12:36.680though again, what do I know? Nothing at all. But if he does become the nominee, I also think
00:12:42.400that, uh, he would present an interesting challenge for Trump because Bloomberg, you know, with
00:12:47.340Bloomberg, you have a much more successful businessman, let's face it, than Donald Trump. This is
00:12:52.040Bloomberg is worth what? 60 some million, billion, billion dollars with a, with a, uh, a company that
00:12:58.800he basically did build on his own. Um, and so, you know, he can do the, he can do the successful
00:13:06.380businessman deal maker thing that Trump does. Arguably he can play on that turf even more
00:13:11.540credibly than Trump can. So what's the line of attack? Yeah. Trump calls him short. I don't know
00:13:16.260if just calling him short is going to be enough with this guy. Uh, you could bring up all of the
00:13:20.200politically incorrect stuff that Bloomberg has said, but then of course, I mean, this is Donald
00:13:23.800Trump we're talking about. That'd be a little bit off brand for Donald Trump to try to win an election
00:13:27.760by pointing out the offensive things the other guy said. So, um, I'm not exactly sure what the line
00:13:33.500of attack is, but here's the one thing that, that you put everything else aside, put all the
00:13:40.880traditional thoughts aside. Seems to me this is the, this is the one thing that would, that, that
00:13:46.680would prevent Bloomberg from maybe becoming president in the year 2020. And that is that
00:13:53.300even if he can generate support, depressingly so with his money, just by buying a bunch of ads,
00:14:00.080because a lot of people are just sheep and they, they see the ads on TV and they say, oh yeah,
00:14:04.360okay, I'll vote for him. I saw, Hey, I saw him on TV. He must be good. But, um, I don't think
00:14:11.860that just by buying ads, you can generate a cult of personality around you. And I'm wondering
00:14:20.720if we have entered a point in American history where you just can't win the presidency without a
00:14:29.700cult of personality, without a savior cult following you around and worshiping you. Um,
00:14:36.120the last three elections, you know, have been decided that way. Obama, then Obama again, Trump,
00:14:42.900you know, they all had cults of personality, still do. Bernie Sanders right now leading the
00:14:48.440pack among Democrats. He's got a cult of personality. If Bernie Sanders is the nominee,
00:14:54.400that's going to, I think, pretty much seal it. And we're going to know that's, that's the reality
00:14:59.280of the world we're living in right now, politically, where if you want to have a chance to win the
00:15:03.480presidency, you have to have a cult. You have to have a, it's, it's, it's all going to come down
00:15:06.560to personality cults. And that's a very dangerous trend. Um, not unprecedented, certainly in the
00:15:16.480history of the world. Obviously it's not the first time that we've had people finding political
00:15:21.260success based on cults of personality, but it's also not, uh, it hasn't always been this,
00:15:28.000this way. You know, George Bush, I don't think really had a cult of personality. I'm not even sure
00:15:33.040that I wouldn't even say that, that Bill Clinton did. Um, but are we, are we entering a point in
00:15:41.560American history where that's the case? I hope not. You know, I really do. There's a lot of,
00:15:47.700there's a lot of great reasons not to vote for Bloomberg. And there's a lot of, there are a lot
00:15:51.080of good reasons for him, reasons for him to lose, but I hope that's not the reason he loses or that
00:15:55.240anyone loses. I hope that's not what decides the election. Um, okay. Let's talk about this. As much
00:16:02.780as I prefer not to, uh, report by Paul Blois in the Daily Wire says, disturbing video has reemerged
00:16:09.080featuring the famous 12 year old drag queen Desmond Nepal, Nepalese, I think is how you
00:16:14.380pronounce his last name, AKA Desmond is amazing, pretending to snort ketamine. Another video
00:16:20.740featured him being interviewed by convicted killer Michael Allig. According to Blair White of the
00:16:26.500Postmillennial, the clips featured Desmond, featuring Desmond were posted to YouTube in July,
00:16:30.8802018 and December, 2017, though various media outlets, including Red State and National Review
00:16:36.100reported on the videos in 2018. The recent report from transgender Blair White has further amplified
00:16:40.780the public's attention towards them. Blair's recent video on the subject has since garnered over half
00:16:45.380a million views. In the first video, Desmond is shown talking to the camera alongside drag queen
00:16:51.540Bella Noche while appearing to answer internet user comments during a live stream. At one point
00:16:56.700later on, Desmond mimics a snort when Bella Noche mentions the drug ketamine. Uh, let me go ahead
00:17:02.560and just play this, this video. This is from, as it said, a live stream and it looks like some stuff
00:17:08.340spliced together, but just watch this, see how this kid is acting. And, uh, you know, you tell me,
00:17:15.500does it seem like this kid is on drugs or not? Watch this.
00:17:18.360Anyone can do drag. Everyone can do drag. Everyone can do drag. Your mom can do drag.
00:17:24.220One, four, eight, eight. Oh, sorry. It was just an off track, okay? One, four, eight, eight. It was only $400 on. There's no genders. You can be male, female, any, or none. Only U.S. people can have a bunch of made-up genders. That's not true at all. No, no, no. Oh, my God. Hitler was right.
00:17:45.080What? See? Bella Noche, putting the P in LGBT P+. You should eat some foods, little nibba. But I'm getting, I'm getting hate comments. Does this mean I'm famous now? Is this what he wants? Lots of respect for you guys. Thank you. Press G to gas. G, G, G, G. One, two, three, four, G. What has this world come to? It's come to a world where drag kids actually exist.
00:18:17.960How old is your BF? Hello? Hitler was right. Helicopter rides. Yay!
00:18:24.040Now keep in mind, again, that video is from when this kid was about nine years old. So that's a nine-year-old you're seeing there? How does a nine, just to start with, how does a nine-year-old know what ketamine is? Much less how to imitate snorting it.
00:18:43.440And my kids, my twins, oldest kids are almost seven years old. So they're not that much younger than what Desmond is in that video. And I mean, it's unfathomable. It's unfathomable to think of my kids acting that way.
00:18:59.220Well, how does he know about ketamine? How does he know about snorting it? Well, I mean, look at him. Look at how he's acting. It's no mystery. The kid is very clearly on drugs.
00:19:10.600And this is something that, it's not just that the left is tolerating this. It's that they're celebrating it.
00:19:22.940The continued abuse and exploitation of this kid. It's not just merely, oh, we'll put up with it. It's that they are standing and literally applauding it.
00:19:33.740I mean, literally in person going and applauding it.
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00:20:50.080Okay, back to the Daily Wire report on the drugged and abused drag kid Desmond.
00:20:57.440A little bit more from the Daily Wire.
00:21:00.180It says, the second video, which occurred when Desmond was just 10 years old,
00:21:04.080featured him being interviewed by Michael Allig, A-L-I-G,
00:21:08.280who was convicted of first-degree manslaughter in 1997 for the killing of Angel Melendez.
00:21:16.300The New York Times provided more details of the case.
00:21:20.080I'll read a few of these details just so you understand who this guy is that this kid is hanging around with.
00:26:29.180But unless you're on that circuit and you're one of those crazy mothers forcing your daughter into these things, almost everybody else thinks that, at a minimum, thinks it's weird.
00:26:43.860That, yeah, a similar, though not nearly as bad thing does happen with girls.
00:26:49.460And the reason it's not nearly as bad is because, you know, I've never been to a beauty pageant.
00:26:57.180So maybe I don't know what I'm talking about.
00:27:00.060But as far as I know, okay, young girls at beauty pageants aren't walking across a stage where you've got adults hooting and hollering and throwing dollar bills at them.
00:27:10.660And these beauty pageants are not being held at nightclubs at 11 p.m. on a Saturday or whatever, right?
00:27:18.740That's what's happening with this kid.
00:27:21.480There is a blatant sexualization that's happening with this young boy that isn't nearly as blatant as it is with the beauty pageants with girls.
00:27:34.240And yet, and we're not even factoring in all the drugs and everything else, okay?
00:27:42.920And yet, most people would agree that this much tamer version of the same sort of thing with girls is wrong and we shouldn't be doing it.
00:27:53.720There's no reason why you need to take a six-year-old girl or a nine-year-old girl and dollar up like that and, you know, traips her across the stage.
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00:30:50.700Bernie Sanders loses his mic to topless vegans at a campaign rally.
00:30:54.340And Mike Bloomberg intends to win the presidency by telling Americans how stupid they are.
00:30:59.280Then, a Democratic Alabama legislator introduces a bill that would require men to get vasectomies.
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