Ep. 1470 - Conservatives Shut Down In NatCon DISASTER
Summary
A meeting of the most mainstream conservatives in Europe was broken up by the Belgian police, who attempted to shut down the event on the grounds that it might cause a public disorder. Now, to be clear, the European officials did not contend that the conservatives themselves caused the public disorder, no, no. That group included a prime minister, members of parliament, intellectuals, journalists, and a bishop.
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A meeting of the most mainstream conservatives in Europe yesterday was broken up by the Belgian
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police, who attempted to shut down the event on the grounds that it might have caused a public
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disorder. Now, to be clear, the European officials did not contend that the NatCon conservatives
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themselves would cause the public disorder. No, no. That group included a prime minister,
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members of parliament, intellectuals, journalists, and a bishop, among others. No, no, no. The
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European officials feared that the mere presence of the mainstream conservatives would cause leftists
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to become violent. So the conference had to be shut down. The incident was obviously an outrageous
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injustice, but there was something hilarious about it because it took place in Brussels. This is the
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de facto seat of the European Union. This is the heart of NATO. This is arguably the center of the
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Western empire, which now is openly hostile to Western values. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the
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to 98-98-98. During the show yesterday, I was receiving texts from a friend of mine who was at
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NatCon. I've spoken at NatCon before. NatCon was put together by Yoram Hazoni, the Israeli philosopher
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who wrote that excellent book on nationalism, The Case for Nationalism, and a lot of other things.
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There have been marvelous people who have spoken at NatCon, not just yours truly, you know,
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top one over there, but also people like J.D. Vance. Senator Cruz, I believe, has spoken there.
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Lots of really influential intellectuals, writers, as I mentioned, priests, bishops. So a friend of
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mine who's over there, a priest, texts me, says, Michael, are you following what's going on with
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NatCon? I said, I'll have to look it up. Hold on here. And then I saw that the police were cracking
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down, shutting down this event. Now, why do I mention all the people that were speaking there?
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I mentioned them to point out, this is not some fringe group of people. This is not bloggers or
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people on some unknown social media platform, you know, trafficking in all sorts of extremist ideas.
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These are the most mainstream people who could even plausibly be called conservative. We're talking
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about prime ministers. We're talking about members of the European royal family, okay, people who largely go
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to like ribbon cuttings at shopping malls. We're talking about journalists. What happened to
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protection for the fourth estate? We're talking about priests, for goodness sakes. You're talking
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about bishops, okay? Cardinal Mueller, a very prominent, very important bishop and cardinal from
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Germany, said it was like the Nazis, according to a report. Said it was like the SA coming in saying,
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nope, sorry, no, no speaking in here. Nigel Farage, speaking of mainstream figures, he was over there.
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This obviously was not the American NatCon, which I've been happy to go to. This was over in Europe,
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so focused a little bit more on European leaders. And here is the leader of Brexit, the man who got
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Britain to pull away from the EU, probably feeling better than he's ever felt in his whole life,
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describing the scene as it went down. That meeting, over the next two days, you've got
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the prime minister of Hungary, you've got a bishop, you've got members of the European royal families
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coming, well-known international businessmen and women, politicians, leaders of parties that will win
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European elections in countries this year in June. And yet, because they're questioning ever close to
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the Soviet Union, because they're questioning globalism. They're literally being shut down.
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This is like the old Soviet Union. No alternative view allowed. I'll tell you what, I might have had
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my reservations about the way the conservative government have carried out Brexit. If anything
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convinced me we did the right thing, it was what happened in that place this morning.
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And I'm sure this is going to convince a lot of other people of that. A big miscalculation,
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I think, by the globalists yesterday at NatCon. They're going to try to pretend that the national
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conservatives are Nazis. I think this is a very difficult point to argue. When national
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conservatism is led by an Israeli philosopher, that's going to be a really hard argument for
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them to make. They're going to say it's this fringe extreme group. It's going to be really hard when
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there are multiple prime ministers and heads of state there. It's going to be really difficult to do.
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They're going to say that this is some, I don't know, nefarious, immoral gathering. It's going to be
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very difficult when some of the most admired and important prelates and clergy in the world are
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there. Total, total joke. And this is really going to be helpful for the Euroskeptic point of view.
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The people who in Europe are skeptical of the European Union, of all these technocrats in
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Brussels running their lives for them. The people in the United Kingdom who maybe were on the fence
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about the Brexit. Looking at this, they're going to say, you know, I'm glad that I get to run my own
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life and these lunatics in Belgium are not running it for me. And it's going to have ripple effects over
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here in America because there has been a big movement against liberal globalism in recent years.
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And I think this is just affirmation that this was the right call. President Trump probably, as the
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leader of the Republican Party, is probably going to lean into his anti-globalist bona fides. And he's
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going to have every good reason to do that. Speaking of hostility to our values, some Democrats were
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just asked whether or not they condemned flag burning and death to America chants that have
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cropped up in the US over the past couple of days. Now, when I say Democrats were asked this, I'm not
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talking about just random libs on the street. I'm talking about Democrat members of Congress. I'm
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talking about the squad, some of the most prominent members, Ayanna Pressley, AOC. Here's what they had
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to say. Anti-Israel protesters blocking the Brooklyn Bridge were burning the American flag and chanting
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death to America. Do you support that type of protest? Do you support burning the American flag
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and chanting death to America? Does it sound like this is pro-Palestinian or anti-American if they're
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burning American flags and chanting death to America? I'm not privy to. I haven't seen these
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reports. I'd have to check for them myself. Anti-Israel protesters blocking the Brooklyn Bridge
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burned the American flag and chanting death to America. Do you condemn this type of rhetoric?
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We've got to get her on to her next event. Are you OK with people burning the American flag?
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If you'd like to follow up with that stuff. Are you OK with people chanting death to America?
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Sorry, we've got to head into that. Congresswoman Porter, are you OK with people chanting death to
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America? Is it OK? Do you not have a problem with it? Happy to reach out here. The only person I feel
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bad for is this poor Hill staffer who it opens up with Ayanna Pressley, then it moves on to AOC. And
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then you have this other huge lib, Katie Porter, Democrat member of Congress. And this poor guy who's
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either her chief of staff or the communications director. So, uh, um, can you, you, uh, please stop
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asking her questions. He's sort of, I don't mean to be mean to him. He's sort of like Greg from
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Succession. You know, uh, what do I do with my hands? Like, I don't, oh man, there's, we have to
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get her into her next event. Into her next event. What are you talking about? You're, you're walking
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through a gigantic open area. Unless you're going to teleport into the building, you're going to keep
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walking. You're going to have a chance to answer the question, hey, do you think it's right to burn the
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American flag? Hey, do you think it might be, uh, not the best thing to chant death to America?
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Oh, we, uh, we don't, can you please, please email me? Please don't. Why are you, please put the
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microphone away. Katie Porter won't answer it. Ayanna Pressley won't answer it. Seems like a
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simple question. I think burning the American flag is bad. I think chanting death to America is bad.
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AOC, who's a smarter politician than those two, decided to play dumb. So I hadn't, I hadn't heard about
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that. I'm going to have to look into that. Okay. Well, what about in principle? Do you think it's
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bad to burn the flag? Do you think it's bad to chant death to America? But they can't condemn it.
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None of these leftist Democrats can condemn it. Why? Because they would be alienating their base.
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That's it for the AOCs. I'm not saying for the Chuck Schumers of the world. I'm not saying for the
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Joe Manchins of the world. I'm not saying it's crazy that I even would consider Chuck Schumer to be a
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slightly more moderate Democrat. But compared to AOC, he certainly is. Compared to Ayanna Pressley,
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he certainly is. He doesn't want to abolish all the prisons. For these guys, the squad,
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their base is the pro-Palestine, purple-haired, you know, death to America, burn the American flag
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kind of base. Now, the way the libs are going to try to spin this is say, well, you know,
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you're just coming out against the pro-Palestine protesters. No, I don't. If someone wants to
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protest for a new state for Palestine, okay, fine, whatever. People protest for all sorts of
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things. If someone wanted to come out and protest against the state of Israel, that's fine. You can
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protest against the state of Israel. If someone wanted to burn the Palestinian flag or the Israeli
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flag, I might have personal views on the prudence of that, but it doesn't really bother me. You can go
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burn your own property if you want, I guess. But the American flag, the symbol of our country,
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that's quite another thing. I don't really understand the justification for burning the
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American flag. If you want to chant death to Palestinian statehood or death to Israel or death
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to, I don't know, death to Azerbaijan or death to Tibet, I don't, I'm going to have some personal
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opinions over the wisdom of that, but very different thing than being an American in America,
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chanting death to America. And the American politician can't condemn that? Excuse me?
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Well, why is that? It's because what Republicans accused the Democrats of for decades and decades
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is now manifestly true, which is that the party hates America. They don't like America. They think
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it's a bad country. They think it was unjustly founded. They think its history is marred by evil
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and injustice. They think that America should be weaker today, that that would be better for the
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whole wide world. And the real reason these guys don't want to answer the question is probably
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deep down, if they had their druthers, they'd be out burning the flag with them. Deep, deep down.
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They burn the flag in a different way. They burn the flag rhetorically. They burn the flag from their
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lecterns at the U.S. Congress. But the principle is basically the same. Very difficult to see a strong
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burning order of patriotism in these sorts of people who blanch at the mere prospect of even meekly
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Speaking of our democracy, our sacred democracy, Arizona is requiring an ID to go vote. This is really
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great news, but it reveals some really bad news. So, Secretary of State of Arizona has this on the
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website. Important information regarding proof of citizenship. A person is not required to submit
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proof of citizenship with the voter registration form, but failure to do so means the person will
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only be eligible to vote in federal elections. Wait, what? Hold on, it goes on. Maybe there's more
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context. You'll be known as being a federal-only voter. A federal-only voter will become eligible
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to vote a full ballot in all federal, state, county, and local elections if he or she later provides
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valid proof of citizenship to the appropriate county recorder's office. Okay, so you have a voter
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registration form. You can fill out the voter registration form. You can successfully register
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to vote without an ID, but only in the federal elections. So, if you're voting for, you know,
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county commissioner of Palookaville, if you're voting for dog catcher in Maricopa County, you need
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an ID. Your vote will not be counted if you cannot prove that you are who you say you are and that you
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are an eligible voter. But if you want to vote for president of the United States, oh, you don't need
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an ID. Who cares? You want to vote for a United States Senate or Congress even? Oh, you don't need an ID.
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That's fine. Excuse me? Isn't the vote for president a little bit more important than the
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vote for dog catcher? So, why is there a more stringent voter ID requirement for the latter than
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for the former? Why is that? Why is Arizona implementing these voter ID measures at all? I
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thought there was no such thing as voter fraud. I thought that the Democrats never tried to steal
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elections. I thought this is not a problem. This is a made-up problem by the boogeyman Republicans.
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So, hold on. What's the advantage here? Is it that Democrats obviously know that it is, that there is
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such a thing as voter fraud? There is such a thing as voter registration fraud, and they want to make
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sure they lock down their voters in their state? But maybe, you know, at the federal level,
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not so big a deal. Why is there one rule for the local and not for the federal?
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What do Democrats have planned for the federal election? I shudder to think. Speaking of the
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election, Katie Couric, the longtime host of the Today Show on NBC, just sat down with Bill Maher.
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Katie Couric has a theory on what motivates the Trump voters. We've always heard it's the racism,
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it's the hatred, they're evil, they're insurrectionists, they're this, they're that.
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But one charge that we have not heard in a little while is that they're big, dumb, fat idiots.
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According to Katie Couric, one of the main drivers behind the Trump movement is anti-intellectualism.
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When I'm talking about overall income inequality and even taking race out of it, the huge chasm between
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the uber, uber, uber wealthy and people who don't have $400 in an emergency.
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And I feel like, to your point, Bill, the socioeconomic disparities are a lot, and class resentment
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is a lot what, and anti-intellectualism and elitism is what is driving many of these anti-establishment,
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which are Trump voters, are anti-establishment voters.
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So, I think that is a huge problem that we have to address.
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I mean, globalization and, you know, the transition from an industrial to a technological society.
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I mean, I, and I don't know if you've ever been jealous of some, what someone else has
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or resentful, it is such a corroding and bitter, almost bile feeling.
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And I think that when people who are really struggling see people who have everything and
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are on top of that looking down on them, it is just a recipe for such anger and resentment
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Those Trump voters, they're just so envious, you know, they're just, they're so greedy,
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Well, in recent decades, there, there have been socialists in the Democratic Party, but
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They will be card carrying members of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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And, and the Democrats now want to lecture us about envy.
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There are initiatives underway by Democrat politicians to take money from white people
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and give it to black people as reparations for slavery because people are demanding money
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for something their great, great, great, great, great, great grandfathers probably didn't
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even do in the case of like recent black immigrants, but, but may have done 400 years ago.
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You want to lecture us about resentment for what other people have?
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We are, we are, we are hearing from prominent Democrat politicians that America is stolen
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land, that we stole it from the indigenous and we need to give it back.
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But you want to lecture us about, give me a break.
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The envy, when you talk to the average Republican conservative voter, what do they say?
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I just kind of want to have my job and do my thing and have my family.
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And you guys just keep coming in and taking more of my money and taking more of my rights
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away and taking and, and messing up my way of life.
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But, but then to the charge of anti-intellectualism.
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This is the part that Katie Couric said that I think is fair.
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I do think there is a strain of anti-intellectualism, not anti-intelligence, not anti-truth, not anti-education,
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Because our intellectuals don't know the difference between a boy and a girl anymore.
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That's why we're a little skeptical of the intellectuals.
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Because the intellectuals for decades, but especially in recent years, have demonstrated
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themselves to be complete idiots who don't know anything about anything, who don't know
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That's what that's, remember that Matt's whole movie?
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These are people who don't know what a border is.
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These are people who don't know what a baby is.
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If the intellectuals in our society, the leading public intellectuals, if they were really smart
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and really effective and efficient, we wouldn't be so skeptical of them.
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Our problem with the intellectuals right now is that they don't appear to be very intelligent.
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There are some intellectuals who are not quite as prominent because they're not members of
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There are plenty of conservative intellectuals.
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There are way more serious think tanks on the right than there are on the left.
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There are way more serious meetings and conventions.
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There's much more engagement with real intellectual history, real threads of philosophy on the right
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When a conservative tries to give a speech on a college campus, what do they do?
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I've been at the center of this a number of times.
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When a group of mainstream conservatives, including many intellectuals, all organized
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by a philosopher, decide to hold a conference in Europe, what happens?
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That's what's leading to the intellectual, anti-intellectual sentiment right now on the
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Katie Couric says there's an anti-elite sentiment.
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Because our elites are incompetent and they're stupid and they're leading us off a cliff.
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That's why we, it's not that we hate elites in general.
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We just want our elites to care for the common good, to have proper function of their intellect
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Speaking of education, there's a white student, I'm sorry, there's a group of white students
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at a high school in New Jersey who have formed a white student union.
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And this is causing lots of consternation among the administration.
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Collingswood school district officials and police are investigating incidents of racial
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bias, including the creation of a so-called white student union at Collingswood High School.
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Action News Race and Culture reporter Taronda Thomas is live at Collingswood High School
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And Taronda students say kids in that club often racially harass other students.
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And high school administrators also informed the district that the students allegedly engaged
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It was part of an unsanctioned club that students say called itself the white student union.
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It's been crazy in school, like, since probably like last year.
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But ninth grader Kimani Washington says racial incidents at Collingswood High School reached
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a new level recently when several students created what they call the white student union.
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I saw like a lot of different things in school, like it was like racial slurs.
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Members of the white student union calling others the N-word.
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That's just one of the allegations now at the center of the investigation.
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The Camden County Prosecutor's Office confirms both they and the police department are in
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the midst of an active and ongoing investigation into the alleged racial incidents.
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Okay, so a handful of students form a fake club.
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It's called the white student union and everything melts down.
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Because, according to reports, we have no idea if this is true or not, the white students
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To me, the more interesting news story, well, it's not a news story, it's never covered because
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it's just taken as a matter of course, is that this happens every day in the other direction
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with far more powerful people doing the harassing.
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The story to me is not three white students reportedly harass non-white students.
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The story to me is faculty and media and the governing powers regularly harass white students
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because this was a non-sanctioned white student union.
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But there are very much sanctioned black student unions at most schools around the country.
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Every university, at least, has a black student union.
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I wouldn't be surprised if many high schools have them now, too.
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And an Asian student group, and a this student group, and a that student group.
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What is shocking to me here is not that these kids seem to be just like playing a joke.
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And maybe they did harass students, and that would be bad.
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And maybe they did say nasty language, and that would be bad.
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This is all just a little sideshow that has absolutely no institutional support.
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What about the AFAM organizations, the black student unions at every school,
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that regularly promote absolute bile against white students,
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that say that whiteness is evil, that whiteness needs to be abolished?
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That it's a call for genocide against white people.
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That regularly stoke resentment and envy, that say that white people need to pay black people
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If I didn't know any better, I would view this little stunt as, well,
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either kids being just sort of edgy and even somewhat idiotic as kids want to be.
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But at a basic level, I'd probably view this stunt as a natural reaction to the racial animus
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that is constantly thrown in their direction from every single power center.
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And it raises an important question, raises an important question over the kind of language
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that we ought to use in public life, cutting in all sorts of directions.
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What kind of languages are, obviously we don't, no one wants to normalize the N-word in public
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But you know what else I think we should also probably kick out of public life?
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I think all of these attacks and insults against white people and against men and against Christians,
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And maybe a question over the black student union.
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I had a friend in college, freshman year, nice, normal guy.
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Totally kind of suburban, normal guy, black guy.
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And then he got involved with the black student union or whatever the group was called in college.
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And I tell you, man, by the end of college, this guy was Malcolm X.
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He wasn't really Malcolm X, but he was talking like Malcolm X.
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He had been indoctrinated into this very resentful kind of worldview.
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It reminded me of the New York radical feminists of the 1970s, where they would hold these meetings
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and they would take perfectly happy housewives and then they would convince them that they're
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all miserable and then the housewives would leave and they'd be just angry, screeching,
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So, okay, how come we can have a black student union and an Asian student union and a Hispanic
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student union, but you can't have a white student union?
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I probably wouldn't join any of the student unions.
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And as long as you keep pushing the stuff against white people, you're going to get more
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of these little reactions, these very modest little reactions.
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What does that tell you about your own double standards?
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Now, speaking of high school students, there is a 16-year-old high school student in North
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We have to thank our friends over at Lives of TikTok for this story.
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A 16-year-old high school student who is being punished for using the phrase illegal alien.
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If you're watching the show rather than listening to it, you can see a picture of him.
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He was suspended for three days after using the term illegal alien in an English assignment
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because the term is supposedly offensive and disrespectful.
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This is the term that until very, very recently was used by our federal government.
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So illegal alien refers to people who are foreigners, who are citizens or subjects of
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a foreign state, who come into our country illegally.
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What term would you like me to use other than illegal alien?
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Probably what the libs want him to use is a term like an undocumented American.
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And I'm sure he's got some, he's got documents in his own country.
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We're not, we're talking about a kind of a different thing here.
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Well, we want you to use the phrase future, future citizen, future Democrat voter is actually
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You've, so the kid for his English assignment is using clear, descriptive language rather than
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The kid is being punished by his English teacher for writing well.
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Highly recommended if you're a teenage English student or, well, really, if you're of any
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Called Politics in the English Language by George Orwell, in which Orwell describes how
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We want to use evocative words, not mealy-mouthed words.
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We want good old Anglo-Saxon words, you know, not these kind of squishy Latin words.
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And we want to say what we mean, and we want to mean what we say, and we want an economy
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of language, and we want to be concise, and we want to be clear.
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Our schools go in, and in sex ed, you're taught that boys are girls and girls are boys.
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That's not sex education, that's sex maleducation.
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You go in, and you learn that America is an evil, rotten, terrible country that was founded
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You go in, you learn common core math, which is usually not math, it's kind of an anti-math.
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You go in, and you learn that there's no such thing as truth, and we can never know anything
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And now, you go into your English class, you write well, and you get points taken off.
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That's not English language, that's not writing, that's anti-writing, that's anti-rhetoric,
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And the kid is being punished for trying to learn, and to write, and to speak well.
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I hope the kid gets off the hook, obviously, if there's any way to support him, I don't
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know how to support him, other than calling some attention to the story, after Libs of
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You got to pay attention to where your kid's in school.
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Because even if he squeaks by in this sort of thing, he's obviously at a terrible school.
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Whatever school district this is, the CD8 High School Spartans, I don't even know what
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That's obviously a terrible high school, and the teachers who push this kind of stuff should
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Not just because they've transgressed some political line, but because they don't do
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Because this English teacher is teaching students to write poorly.
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And if your kid is raised to have his head filled with a bunch of nonsense, and to not
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even know how to use the English language, well, not only has he missed an opportunity,
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but you've actually set him up to fail in life.
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I feel really bad for all the other students at this high school who are obviously being
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Now, speaking of misuse of the English language and filling people's heads with lies, NPR,
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This is, thanks to Chris Ruffo, the, I won't even say conservative intellectual.
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I won't even say conservative journalist, though he is that.
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Chris Ruffo is a Gramscian political operative for the right.
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Chris Ruffo is a student of Herbert Marcuse for the right.
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He is a radical political operative who keeps scoring wins.
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He got Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard, fired.
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He's racked up a number of other wins in his career.
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And now he is absolutely destroying the new CEO of NPR with her own words.
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First, though, subscribe to the Michael Knowles Show YouTube channel.
00:37:25.220
My favorite comment yesterday is from Aaron Gomb, who says,
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the summarized in X minutes titles will never get old.
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Yeah, what are we going to do today, Mr. Davies?
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16-year-old kid's plight summarized in 10 seconds.
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Well, what this part of the show is about is the new CEO of NPR.
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NPR, National Public Radio, receives some public funding.
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Should probably be held to a higher standard than the usual partisan media.
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And so did they hire an objective, serious newsman to take this job?
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The places where we are prone to disagreement, say politics and religion?
00:38:14.080
Well, as it turns out, not only does Wikipedia's model work there,
00:38:20.120
Because in our normal lives, these contentious conversations tend to erupt over disagreement
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But the people who write these articles, they're not focused on the truth.
00:38:35.260
They're focused on something else, which is the best of what we can know right now.
00:38:40.460
And after seven years of working with these brilliant folks, I've come to believe that
00:38:48.520
That perhaps, for our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth and seeking to convince others
00:38:56.180
of the truth might not be the right place to start.
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In fact, our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that's getting in the way
00:39:08.080
of finding common ground and getting things done.
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The new head of NPR, the face of American public journalism,
00:39:20.100
says that the truth is getting in the way of getting things done.
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You know, this truth thing is a real hassle for us journalists.
00:39:32.640
So what would you call a journalistic endeavor that ignores the truth?
00:39:46.240
I don't know if he got his powers from Dumbledore or Gandalf or wherever.
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But Trump has this uncanny ability to make his opponents become the caricature of themselves
00:40:00.880
The new head of NPR is bragging at a TED Talk about how we need more fake news.
00:40:11.680
Chris Ruffo has pulled up zillions of this woman's old tweets.
00:40:15.680
During BLM, not during the latest BLM, not during, you know, the summer of hate when
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This is all the way back 10 years ago in 2014, the first time this popped up.
00:40:27.320
The new head of NPR says, protest on Market Street.
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Back at, she was an early adopter of BLM before they started torching everything.
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Headline, NPR CEO faces criticism over tweets supporting progressive causes.
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You know, even in the subheader right here, apparently this woman, Catherine Marr, claimed
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What I love about this is conservatives made this headline happen.
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Chris Ruffo, specifically, made the New York Times report on this by just digging up
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But the key here, and Ruffo has bragged about this, is that he's put NPR in a lose-lose
00:41:16.980
NPR can either fume, grit its teeth, and then stick by the new CEO, in which case it loses
00:41:29.480
NPR used to be the thing that just kind of educated people would have on in the background.
00:41:36.380
If NPR sticks with the CEO, they are admitting we are a far leftist, joke, fake news organization.
00:41:42.780
Now, maybe they'll do that just to avoid giving Ruffo and the conservatives the win.
00:41:48.540
The only alternative is they fire the CEO, because she's obviously not fit for this job.
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And if they fire the CEO, Ruffo claims another scalp.
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This is exactly the kind of position that you want to put your opponent in, where any move
00:42:10.620
Now, speaking of women in jobs, that's a little bit of a weak segue.
00:42:16.340
But speaking of blonde women in jobs where people are criticizing them for what they've
00:42:22.780
said, Kirsten Dunst is just, you remember Kirsten Dunst?
00:42:28.580
She has just gone on the record in an interview to complain.
00:42:32.640
I guess this pulls everything full circle on the gospel of envy that keeps cropping up.
00:42:41.820
And really, it seems to be a little more prominent on the left and all of the grievance.
00:42:45.680
And well, here's a grievance from a very famous, very wealthy Hollywood actress, Kirsten Dunst,
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who's upset that in the movie Spider-Man, she didn't make as much money as her co-star.
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Hopefully, the way I carve my path will help other, you know, actresses.
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But I definitely grew up in a time with major pay disparity between the lead actor and myself,
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even though I had been in Bring It On and he hadn't.
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I had more success in my box office than he did.
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You know, when you're that age, I'm still learning my taste in film.
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I didn't even know there was a place to challenge it.
00:43:34.120
This poor 17-year-old, extremely wealthy Hollywood starlet was taken advantage of by giving the lead in a very, very popular movie.
00:43:43.240
Or one of the leads in a very, very popular movie.
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Tobey Maguire, who apparently made more money than her on this movie,
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And Kirsten Dunst played Spider-Man's girlfriend.
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This isn't, you know, a disparate pay for the same work.
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She says, yeah, but I was more famous than he was going into it.
00:44:16.360
I don't know, maybe you were, but, you know, so what?
00:44:22.620
You get a more established actor is in a supporting role.
00:44:25.260
And the newcomer is in a major, but he's Spider-Man.
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Of course, Spider-Man's going to make more money than Spider-Man's girlfriend in the movie Spider-Man.
00:44:34.560
And it brings up a broader point about work and all this grievance mongering and all this activism.
00:44:40.680
Which comes down to a leveling kind of egalitarian leftism.
00:44:47.100
You know, this is when the modern liberals really start to sound like actual communists.
00:44:51.660
When they just want everybody to be given the exact same thing for, regardless of the distinctions in their life or the functions they perform.
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When we hear talk of the wage gap, whether it's in an office or whether it's in Hollywood, we're told that people are paid more or less money for the same work.
00:45:21.960
Some people perform their work a little faster.
00:45:37.560
And beneath this leftist demand for, you know, equal pay for actually unequal work or whatever, is a leftist premise that we're all really the same.
00:45:52.120
Now, Spider-Man and Spider-Man's girlfriend are not interchangeable in the movie Spider-Man.
00:46:00.940
No two people at a company, at a factory, in the field, anywhere, are totally interchangeable.
00:46:11.640
And when you want to level and make everything just homogenous and bland and boring, that is not merely an attack on conservatives.
00:46:20.420
It's not merely an attack on this group or that group.
00:46:22.260
It's an attack on humanity where we are all distinct.
00:46:25.580
We all have something that we all have something that we can contribute.
00:46:28.220
And the left wants to erase all of those beautiful distinctions that really do add the spice of life that we once called variety.
00:46:43.960
Because I was speaking last night at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where I was doling out champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
00:46:53.960
If you want to watch something, in lieu of the member block, you can watch that speech.
00:47:02.160
Because otherwise, I'm going to get the Illinois ickies.
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I know there's a lot of good conservatives in the middle.