The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 281 - Running Train On Racism

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00:00:26.120 31st, 2025. TD ready for you. Misgendering white privilege and transphobia to quote Alexandria

00:00:34.860 Ocasio-Cortez. Today we run train on the progressive agenda. Then what should be done about Steve

00:00:41.060 King? We analyze congressional Democrat hypocrisy. Finally, the left is furious that Karen Pence is 0.59

00:00:47.300 starting to work at a Christian school. Heaven forfend. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is the

00:00:51.960 Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:25.340 like Shakespeare. Speaking of people who are not great with their words, speaking of people who could

00:02:32.280 probably use a thought processor herself, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, our gaffe-prone congresswoman 1.00

00:02:39.320 from upstate New York. She's really done it again. This was probably the funniest one she's

00:02:45.260 done yet. She was doing an interview with a newspaper and she said, quote, I'm six days into

00:02:51.600 the term and you already used all your ammo. She's referring to the right wing. So enjoy being exhausted

00:02:58.080 for the next two years while we run train on the progressive agenda. So for those of you who don't

00:03:06.540 know what running train means, running train is, um, when a man and a man and a man and a man and

00:03:15.400 another man and like 10 or 20 other men and a woman don't love each other very much, but they all get

00:03:22.520 together and they do that thing that men and women do when they do love each other. That is running

00:03:28.660 train. It's a very graphic sexual act. And, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez apparently thought, 0.99

00:03:36.980 oh, running train means succeed in implementing. I don't know. Is that what she thought it meant?

00:03:43.040 Uh, you can check out Urban Dictionary if you don't believe me. Although I do warn you about

00:03:47.460 putting that phrase into your Google searches, you will get some results that probably you don't want

00:03:53.260 to see. Uh, this is, uh, just a lovely gaffe. It doesn't have much to do with her policy proposals. 0.98

00:04:00.380 It's not a major news story. The reason though that I really like this one is it, this is what

00:04:05.820 happens when a nice girl from the suburbs, all of a sudden at the age of 28 decides to pretend that 0.97

00:04:11.940 she's Jenny from the block. This is what happens is you have this girl who grew up in this lovely

00:04:17.040 little place where the, the does are jumping and the little rabbits are there, you know, and it's so,

00:04:21.940 so lovely. You go to the community festivals, whatever. And she's pretending now that she's

00:04:26.560 from the Bronx, that she's from the South Bronx, the mean streets of the boroughs. And she's not. 0.86

00:04:31.920 And so she's trying to use slang terms, uh, you know, vulgar expressions as though she grew up in 0.96

00:04:38.040 those areas and she didn't, and she doesn't know what they mean. And it's really funny. This, uh,

00:04:43.580 this is an authenticity, authenticity issue for her. She has a lot of things going for her in the media.

00:04:49.880 She's likable. She's bubbly. She's relatively attractive. She is young. Uh, so she's got all 0.69

00:04:57.360 those things going for her. This authenticity thing though is an issue because pretty soon you're

00:05:01.220 going to see her like misquoting Biggie Smalls or something. It doesn't, she, she has all of the

00:05:05.920 trappings of, uh, of people who are from really privileged areas. She's a socialist. She's kind of

00:05:14.300 ditzy. She has a very expensive education, even though it didn't teach her very much. And she, 0.62

00:05:19.560 she's pretending to use urban language or vulgar language in a way that, that doesn't quite work. 0.95

00:05:26.260 Uh, Donald Trump, you know, knock him. If you will, the guy really did grow up in Queens and he

00:05:29.980 really talks like he grew up in Queens. And I bet he knows what that phrase means. Um, moving on to a

00:05:35.120 more important story, but equally frivolous on CNN, a CNN analyst, Areva Martin, uh, went on a radio

00:05:43.560 show with conservative radio host, David Webb, whereupon she accused David Webb of white privilege.

00:05:50.100 There's only one problem. David Webb is a black guy. Here's the exchange. 0.92

00:05:55.620 I never considered my color. The issue I considered my qualifications, the issue.

00:06:01.920 Well, David, you know, that, that's a whole nother long conversation about white privilege and things

00:06:07.520 that you have the privilege of doing that people of color don't have the privilege of. 1.00

00:06:13.560 How do I have the privilege of white privilege? David, by virtue of being a white male, you have

00:06:20.320 white privilege with this whole long conversation. I don't have time to get to it.

00:06:23.480 Areva, I hate to break it to you, but you should have been better prepped. I'm black. 0.75

00:06:29.720 Okay. Then I stand.

00:06:31.620 You went to white privilege. This is the fall suit in this.

00:06:35.720 Do you hear what she started to say? Areva, I hate to break it to you. I'm black.

00:06:41.280 And then there's that moment of silence that she says, well, okay, I can either apologize for just 0.99

00:06:46.180 being a race hustling, ignorant, uh, cynical politician, or I stand by my, and then he starts 0.99

00:06:54.800 to cut her off there. This is obviously hilarious. One of the best media moments of the year in a year 1.00

00:07:01.140 full of them already. Um, but this is the problem with, uh, the left right now is I identify this in

00:07:07.200 left-wing rhetoric. When you're debating a leftist, when they go on television, when they're in the

00:07:11.180 halls of Congress or wherever, they use so many logical fallacies and specifically they use these

00:07:17.140 ad hominem fallacies. They can't argue with the points that you're making. So they just start

00:07:21.280 attacking the person who's making them. And I've just identified a few of these. You've got to look

00:07:25.140 out for it because whenever the left throws one of these at you, you know that you've won the

00:07:29.640 argument. The first one you saw it right here is privilege. Um, privilege. I mean, the way this woman 1.00

00:07:35.560 did it from CNN, she went in, she felt, I don't need to look up who this guy is. I don't need to

00:07:40.340 look up what this guy thinks. All I'm going to do, I'm assuming he's a conservative. I'm going to

00:07:44.160 assume he's a white guy and I'm going to assume that he has all of this privilege. And, uh, she didn't

00:07:49.340 take a second to even second guess this notion. And then he tells her, I'm a black guy. I, uh, you,

00:07:55.680 you've done no homework. You know nothing about me. But imagine if that host were a white guy,

00:07:59.940 what could he have said? It would have convinced half the country, at least if he had been a white guy

00:08:05.220 and she'd say, ah, but you have white privilege. And even though she can't explain how that

00:08:09.420 manifests, it still would be convincing. This privilege thing is obviously an ad hominem attack.

00:08:14.660 And it means that arguments are not as important as the arguer that you should judge a person's

00:08:20.720 argument based on the color of his skin or who he is or, or where he is rather than the quality

00:08:26.480 and content of his arguments. The thing that's funny about privilege though, is that no privilege

00:08:31.840 disqualifies anyone from conversation? What privilege would disqualify anyone from debate?

00:08:37.660 In fact, privilege should overqualify you for debate. Shouldn't it? If I, I've had the privilege

00:08:42.560 of maybe a few extra brain cells than the average Joe on the street. Maybe if I'm lucky,

00:08:47.800 I've had the privilege of a good education from kindergarten all the way through college. Those are

00:08:52.320 privileges which have actually prepared me better to think about certain things and to discuss

00:08:57.440 certain ideas. That's a privilege of education. That's a good thing. That's not a disqualification

00:09:02.420 from debate. Uh, the left, as we talk about a lot, gets reality backwards. So what is a privilege?

00:09:09.340 A privilege is a special advantage for one person or one group. That's a privilege.

00:09:16.360 It's an advantage. What the left has turned privilege into is a disadvantage. They're saying

00:09:22.180 that if you are privileged, you are now at a disadvantage. You can't give your opinion.

00:09:26.440 Your opinion is invalid. Your, your political work is invalid and your vision is invalid.

00:09:32.480 It's, it's, it per, as the left always does, it's perverting the thing into the opposite of the

00:09:37.720 thing, the advantage into the disadvantage. And by the way, everybody has different privileges.

00:09:43.140 I, I'm not suggesting that nobody has privilege. I'm not suggesting that everybody has privilege.

00:09:47.620 If that were true, there'd be no such thing as privilege, but some people have different

00:09:50.860 privileges. Some people are more athletically gifted. I'm not an Adonis of a man. They have more,

00:09:56.300 of a natural privilege in that regard than I do. Some people are more mathematically gifted. They

00:10:02.380 have a privilege in that way. Some people are financially gifted. They're born into money.

00:10:06.740 I met a lot of people in my life who were born into money. I was not, but many people are. That's

00:10:11.860 a privilege. That's an advantage. I'm not going to demonize that. I'm not going to vilify that.

00:10:16.340 If you're born into money, good for you. I'm, I'm hope that helps your life and you get a good

00:10:20.680 education and you, you have, you can enjoy all the pleasures in the world. Uh, some people have

00:10:24.800 other privileges. There is a privilege to not being born into money. And the privilege of that

00:10:28.720 is you learn a little bit how the world really works. You, you can see more how most people are

00:10:34.000 living. You can go through a little bit of suffering. Maybe that suffering helps to form

00:10:38.180 your character, makes you stronger, makes you more courageous. Maybe it makes you more daring or more

00:10:43.960 ambitious. I've seen plenty of people born into wealth who become wastrels. And I've seen plenty of

00:10:48.520 people who had nothing growing up really make something of themselves succeed at the highest

00:10:52.960 level. Privilege is really hard to quantify in some hierarchy of victimhood, which is exactly what

00:10:59.280 the left wants to do. We all, uh, to varying degrees can have a privilege of reason. Some

00:11:06.420 people are unreasonable and some people have a very low privilege of reason. But, but if one has the

00:11:11.800 privilege of reason, then you shouldn't say you have privilege. So you're not allowed to speak.

00:11:16.040 You should say you have that wonderful privilege of reason. Please use it. Please enlighten me and,

00:11:20.960 and describe the world as you see it. The next one, which is very closely related, is mansplaining.

00:11:27.620 Uh, this is also obviously an ad hominem attack. This is also an attack that says that the arguer

00:11:33.280 is more important than the argument. Um, what, what mansplaining does, the funniest thing about that

00:11:40.580 stupid word is it's like man spreading. Mansplaining is when men sit, but if they're 0.99

00:11:46.640 sitting, these are their two legs, instead of sitting with their legs crossed over one another

00:11:50.220 really tight, they're sitting so that their legs are a little bit apart. The reason they do this,

00:11:55.080 in case you didn't take high school biology class, is that they're making way for certain

00:12:00.720 anatomical, uh, privileges that, that only men have and women do not have. So there's a reason for 0.75

00:12:07.400 this. It's a commonplace occurrence. Half of the population does it. The same thing with

00:12:11.260 mansplaining. Mansplaining is when a man explains something. Now we all explain things to each

00:12:17.280 other. The reason we do it is because we're human beings with the faculties of speech. So we use

00:12:22.300 speech and speech is politics. Speech is civilization. We speak to one another. We don't grunt like the 0.80

00:12:28.680 brutes most of the time. So we just talk and we persuade each other and we try to get each other 0.87

00:12:33.560 to come around to our points of view and we learn and we instruct and we're curious and we ask

00:12:37.600 questions. So that's just men explaining what the term mansplaining does is it portrays as bizarre or

00:12:45.020 strange when half of the population does the most basic human thing. That's supposed to be really

00:12:52.000 weird and strange. So you're talking to a girl who's not girl understanding to use Andrew Klavan's 0.99

00:12:57.920 term. And she says, you're mansplaining. You say, damn right. I'm mansplaining. What else can I do?

00:13:02.400 I can't womansplain. I don't identify as a woman. I'm sorry about that. The way that they use this,

00:13:08.800 of course, on the left is that it's a way of shutting up half of the population. All it means,

00:13:13.880 these phrases, check your privilege, these phrases mansplaining, it just means shut up.

00:13:18.860 And the reason that they go after men is men are more likely to be conservative. Obviously, there are a 0.97

00:13:23.940 lot of conservative women. There are a lot of very sad left-wing men. But generally, men trend more

00:13:30.680 conservative and certainly in America. So they use it to shut up half the population. The other one

00:13:36.560 they use is the phrases safety and comfort and safe space and that sort of thing. This is a little bit

00:13:43.880 different, but it's playing on the same idea. It still means shut up. It's still a logical fallacy 0.91

00:13:50.460 or a discursive fallacy. But what it does is when they say, your ideas are making me feel unsafe.

00:13:59.180 The things you're saying are making me feel threatened. They're making me, I'm not in a

00:14:04.400 place of comfort anymore. I hear this all the time when I go around to colleges. We speak at these

00:14:09.060 colleges. We'll get protested. There have been student groups that have tried to shut us down with

00:14:14.580 the administration. And they'll say, the things that Michael is saying are unsafe. They threaten us.

00:14:20.460 But of course, what do they threaten? What am I talking about? I'm talking about Edmund Burke and

00:14:24.020 that threatens them or something? Of course not. What they do is they conflate speech with violence.

00:14:28.760 And so when the left, if you're having a conversation, when they accuse you of this,

00:14:32.700 of threatening them, of making them feel unsafe, of making them not feel comfortable,

00:14:36.480 what they are essentially doing is accusing your speaking as physically assaulting and battering them.

00:14:44.580 They're saying, your words are punches. Your words are hurting me. It says, when you couple that with

00:14:49.860 mansplaining, it's that if you're speaking to a woman and you're disagreeing with her, you're the

00:14:54.080 equivalent of a wife beater because you're threatening her, you're making her unsafe, you're making her 1.00

00:14:58.300 uncomfortable. That's the third one. And then just one other, this is a broader observation in the

00:15:04.400 culture of what it's being led by the left, it's being weaponized by the left, is mental illness. 0.85

00:15:11.120 Mental illness is all the rage these days. It's all anybody can talk about. It's used as an excuse 0.93

00:15:17.520 to excuse terrible behavior. And it comes from a real place. Young people are much more likely

00:15:23.780 today to be anxious, to be stressed, to be depressed. An ASU study found that a quarter of

00:15:28.820 college students are suffering PTSD because Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016.

00:15:34.620 their rates of suicide are increasing, and especially among young people. Teen suicide

00:15:39.480 is up 70% now. And rates of being prescribed these depression drugs, all of these SSRIs and

00:15:48.960 those sorts of things are way up. They're also through the roof. So everybody thinks they have

00:15:52.400 a mental problem. Everybody is on depression drugs. Constantly talking about mental illness, 0.59

00:15:58.080 what it's really about is not the people, the few people who really could benefit from taking drugs

00:16:04.540 all the time. Not the few people who have worked through their psychological problems and actually

00:16:09.260 have a physical problem that requires medication. What this is about is relativism. This is what it's

00:16:16.060 all about. You see it all the time on Everyday Feminism, on all the really far left-wing websites and 1.00

00:16:22.440 podcasts. They all say that they have mental illness, and we need to talk about mental illness, 0.73

00:16:26.780 and we need to describe mental illness. And the reason that they talk about mental illness all 0.54

00:16:31.300 the time is because it brings to the fore different visions of reality, but not different visions of

00:16:37.680 reality using right reasons. Specifically, different insane visions of reality to say, well, this person

00:16:44.780 views things this way, and their mind is inaccessible to you. Because when people are sane, when they have

00:16:52.140 mental health, we can use our faculties of reason to communicate with one another. And we're speaking

00:16:58.480 about an objective outside world. But if everybody's a little crazy, if everybody's a little kooky,

00:17:03.660 nobody's really accessing the objective world in the right way, then we don't have access to

00:17:09.080 objectivity anymore. We don't have access to reality anymore. We're back in the tyranny of

00:17:14.280 subjectivism. We're back in the tyranny of our feelings. We can't talk about facts. As we say here on the

00:17:19.900 Daily Wire a lot, we have to talk about feelings. And nobody can be wrong, and nobody can be right.

00:17:24.800 Every opinion is valid. Everything is your truth or my truth or this truth or that truth.

00:17:30.380 This is why the left is focused on that. This is why not necessarily on CNN or the Washington Post,

00:17:36.720 but when you go to the really more fringy, more radical left-wing websites, blogs, podcasts,

00:17:42.280 that's what they're focusing on. It is not out of compassion for people who have psychological

00:17:46.560 problems. Very often, by the way, people who have psychological problems have philosophical

00:17:50.960 problems. The issue isn't the synapses in their brain. The issue is how they're living their lives

00:17:56.860 and how they view the world and how they view themselves in relation not only to their creator,

00:18:02.200 but the rest of the creation. And so they talk about that not out of compassion for those people,

00:18:07.520 but they do it as a way of advancing their base agenda, which they've had now for at least 50 or 60

00:18:13.640 years, which is radical subjectivism. Speaking of mental illness and speaking of radical

00:18:20.580 subjectivism, this video first cropped up on the internet, I guess really between Christmas and

00:18:26.360 New Year's, but because everybody was shut down in the commentary, we haven't gotten a chance to

00:18:30.460 talk about it. We have to talk about it. This is a transgender guy, so a guy who dresses as a woman, 0.99

00:18:36.780 goes into some store and starts losing his mind, losing what's left of his mind, because he thinks

00:18:46.080 that somebody has referred to him a six foot two giant man as a man. Take a look.

00:18:52.000 Excuse me, it's ma'am. It is ma'am. I can call the police if you'd like me to. You need to settle down. 1.00

00:18:58.180 You need to settle down and mind your business. Okay? Ma'am. Once again, ma'am.

00:19:03.140 I said both of you. No, you said sir. Once again, it's ma'am. I actually said both of you guys.

00:19:08.860 Right beforehand, you said sir. Sir? Okay. Motherf***er, take it outside. If you want to call me

00:19:15.360 sir again, I will show you a f***ing sir. Motherf***er. I follow guys now. I need your 1.00

00:19:24.740 corporate number, because I'm going to call them and talk about how it was misgendered

00:19:28.620 several times in this store. I need your corporate number now. Get it for me now.

00:19:37.080 I'm going to ask you to calm down and stop cussing. Get me your corporate number. Well,

00:19:41.600 I'm going to ask you for the fifth time to stop calling me a man, because quite clearly

00:19:45.640 I am not. And I have followers, but I'm sorry for that, ma'am. I will get you that number.

00:19:49.240 Is that okay? Yes. Get it for me now. I'm asking you to stop cussing. Get it for me now.

00:19:53.540 Yes. The giant person screaming, shouting, six foot tall, knocking over products, screaming

00:20:00.320 that he's going to go take the kid outside and beat him up. That person is clearly not a man.

00:20:06.020 Giant Adam's apple. I assume down below. Well, I don't know. Maybe let's not assume.

00:20:11.600 That guy is a man, obviously. He has a psychological condition, one imagines. He also has a philosophical

00:20:17.560 condition, which is being indulged and encouraged by our mentally insane society, which is that

00:20:25.860 he thinks that a man can be a woman, and a woman can be a man just because he puts on lipstick.

00:20:32.180 If you put on lipstick, then you're a woman. But of course, that's not what makes a woman. 1.00

00:20:36.120 Growing your hair a little longer is not what makes a woman. I know plenty of scraggly-haired 1.00

00:20:40.220 hippies out in LA who have long hair and don't think that they're women. 1.00

00:20:45.660 This thing that we've just watched here, the kid, I guess he said, okay, guys, calm down. I think he

00:20:51.080 was using guys in a gender-neutral way. And this guy, who thinks he's a woman, loses his mind, starts

00:20:55.880 screaming. And this kid backs down and says, I'm sorry, ma'am. I'm sorry, lady. It's okay.

00:21:01.720 You know? And the reason I bring this up is, look, this guy's obviously lost his mind. And what's

00:21:08.640 unfortunate for him is that the society is even crazier than he is. So they're going to encourage

00:21:12.720 him and let him continue down this path of self-degradation. But the reason I bring this

00:21:20.180 up, too, is because it shows where the rubber meets the road between various schools of conservative

00:21:25.580 thought. If you look at this guy, this guy is a man who wants to be a woman. And if you find your 0.96

00:21:33.400 political views are rooted really in individualism, self-definition, I can do whatever I want to do

00:21:40.200 absolutely at any time, I own my life, I can define myself however I want to define myself,

00:21:46.320 then he actually makes a pretty good case for always making other people call him ma'am or call

00:21:52.140 him a woman. The line from individualism to collectivism is actually pretty direct. I think

00:21:59.280 sometimes among conservative circles, we want to pretend that the big dichotomy in the world

00:22:04.020 is between individualism and collectivism. One prioritizes the individual as the absolute

00:22:12.260 most important thing in society. The other prioritizes the collective, all of those individuals

00:22:17.280 together. There are two sides of the same coin. There's a direct line between them. If you

00:22:21.960 say that the individual is the most important atomic fundamental building block of society,

00:22:28.180 that in a state of nature, individuals are just floating around in free space without any ties

00:22:33.040 of loyalty to family or friends or tribe or country or whatever, if you believe that,

00:22:39.600 then the government's job is first and foremost to protect individualism. That's the purpose of

00:22:46.620 is to protect individual liberty to the point of individualism. But if the government is there to

00:22:51.880 protect individualism and our corporate society decides that they're not going to recognize

00:22:57.200 somebody's own self-definition, then that corporation is infringing on individualism.

00:23:03.080 If this guy says, I am a woman and corporate America or the government, state government or whatever

00:23:08.560 says that he's not a woman, they're not going to call him a woman, they're infringing on his radical

00:23:14.020 individual self-definition. And so it makes perfect sense for there to be regulations over how

00:23:20.140 businesses can treat people, how schools have to refer to people, how to use pronouns. They use

00:23:26.840 the phrase misgendered. Obviously, the only person who has misgendered this guy is himself. He is

00:23:32.400 misgendering himself because he thinks that he's a woman. But they've inverted this phrase. And it does

00:23:36.980 make sense. There is a reason why in the thinking of all of those early, what we would call classical

00:23:41.960 liberals or even libertarians. If you look at Thomas Paine, for instance, the guy who wrote Common Sense,

00:23:49.040 Force in the American Revolution, or the writings of Thomas Jefferson, or people who come after that

00:23:54.380 throughout the Enlightenment and onward, you can see a line from exalting the individual as the be-all

00:24:00.840 and end-all atomic unit of society and protecting the collective of individuals. The actual difference

00:24:07.940 here, the actual different worldviews is between liberalism or modernism or individualism or

00:24:15.140 collectivism or everything that goes along with it and the conservative worldview, which says,

00:24:20.480 there is a reality. You cannot self-define. You cannot by yourself define reality. There is an

00:24:28.440 objective reality. You are a man. No law passed by any government will change the fact that that guy's

00:24:34.580 a man. No surgery that is cosmetic and alters his cheekbones or his Adam's apple will make that guy

00:24:40.640 not a man. No corporate code of conduct will make that guy not a man. No market, no free market,

00:24:47.920 which is now getting all of these corporations to start playing into the social justice warrior

00:24:52.920 handbook. We saw this with Gillette. We've seen this with Nike. We've seen corporate America leading

00:24:57.700 the way on liberalism and leftism. No free market is going to change the fact that this guy is a guy,

00:25:06.980 and it's where we have to appeal to something deeper, more profound, more transcendent rather than

00:25:13.280 the individual or the free market or certain documents, the constitution or state constitutions

00:25:21.540 or laws or whatever. We have to appeal to something which is transcendent, which is the natural law and

00:25:26.980 the natural law maker and the natural law giver and the institutions and the traditions that have

00:25:32.700 transported these metaphysical realities into our modern age. That is what we've got to talk about.

00:25:39.900 The question is not about rights. It's not about the rights of the guy who thinks he's a woman.

00:25:43.940 It's not about the rights of the guy working at the store. It's not about the rights of a democratic

00:25:47.680 republic to pass laws changing the definition of men and women. It's about reality, and we have to

00:25:53.740 recognize reality. We have to prioritize reality above any of the various ideologies, left-wing or right-wing,

00:26:00.680 that everybody is so crazy about today. We've got to talk about Steve King. We haven't had time. We've

00:26:04.840 run out of time in the last few days. We've got to talk about him. We've got to talk about those

00:26:08.740 cackling hens on The View, to quote Norm MacDonald. We've got to talk about different kinds of bigotry,

00:26:14.480 not just racial bigotry, but also religious bigotry. And if we have time, we'll talk about why we can't

00:26:20.220 run our own countries after the British Parliament runs train on Theresa May's Brexit deal. But first,

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00:27:41.220 with Steve King. Steve King, we've all talked about it, but we haven't had time to address it

00:27:57.240 fully on this show, which is Steve King, longtime congressman. He made these comments, allegedly,

00:28:04.740 though he hasn't really denied them, in an interview with the New York Times where he said white

00:28:09.580 nationalism, white supremacy, Western civilization, when did these things become offensive? Now,

00:28:17.900 obviously, that is offensive to a great many people, and just as a simple matter of fact,

00:28:26.140 just as a simple matter of language being offensive, white supremacy has always been offensive to a very

00:28:32.220 large number of people. Some people didn't find it offensive in the past. Now, more people find it

00:28:37.420 offensive, but it has always been offensive to some people. I think we can safely say white supremacy 0.82

00:28:42.720 has always carried offense to some people. Now, he has apologized for this. There were calls for him

00:28:51.340 to step down from Congress. He looks like he's certainly going to be primaried. He looks very

00:28:55.280 politically weak. He'll probably be beaten next election, but there were calls to do this, to do

00:29:00.660 that. He came out and apologized immediately, and he condemned white supremacy as an evil ideology.

00:29:06.960 Here's that. I reject those labels and the evil ideology that they define. Under any fair political

00:29:13.120 definition, I am simply an American nationalist. Okay. The evil ideology. He rejects them. He disavows

00:29:21.500 them. Okay. Good. I'm glad he did that. I think he felt that was the right thing to do. A lot of his

00:29:28.760 colleagues felt that was the right thing to do. Then the Congress went out and they voted to condemn

00:29:33.500 or rebuke Steve King. It's a little unclear what the effect of this is as a matter of terminology.

00:29:39.780 Was it a rebuke? Was it a condemnation? Was it a reprimand? Well, okay. The effect of it, though,

00:29:46.800 is he's already been stripped of his committee assignments. He won't sit on any committees.

00:29:51.040 He's basically powerless in the Congress now. Pretty harsh action was taken against him.

00:29:56.020 And I'll point out, harsh action was taken against him for speaking to a reporter. The things he said,

00:30:01.700 nobody's defending the things he said. I haven't seen one conservative defend the things that he

00:30:05.940 said. But it is a little scary as far as a precedent goes that when you say things to a reporter,

00:30:13.900 you can lose everything in your political career, not by the people who elect you, but from other people

00:30:19.060 in the government. Nevertheless, okay, that's fine. They took a vote to condemn King and his remarks.

00:30:26.240 And Steve King actually voted in favor of that bill. Here is King on his own condemnation.

00:30:32.580 So I want to compliment the gentleman from South Carolina for bringing this resolution. And I've

00:30:38.380 carefully studied every word in this resolution. And even though I'd add some more that are stronger

00:30:43.340 language, I agree with the language in it. So I want to ask my colleagues on both sides of the aisle,

00:30:50.360 let's vote for this resolution. I'm putting up a yes on the board here, because what you state here is

00:30:56.880 right, and it's true, and it's just. And so is what I have stated here on the floor of the House of

00:31:03.680 Representatives. Thank you, Madam Speaker. And I yield back the balance of my time.

00:31:06.920 Okay, so he's stripped of his committee seats, which means he's doing nothing in Congress,

00:31:13.100 essentially. He is condemned by the Congress. He voted for his own condemnation. He's called those

00:31:21.980 remarks, which he says were misinterpreted, he's called them an evil ideology, which he disavows.

00:31:29.880 What more do they want from him is the question. Here is his defense of the remarks that he made,

00:31:36.540 or rather, he's not defending them, but he is excusing them, because he says that they were

00:31:41.360 misinterpreted. So I'm going to tell you that the words are likely what I said. But I want to read it

00:31:48.800 to you the way I believe I said it. And that's this. White nationalist, white supremacist,

00:31:57.440 Western civilization. How did that language become offensive? Why did I sit in classes teaching me 0.51

00:32:04.580 about the merits of our history and civilization? That's the end of the quote. Just to watch Western

00:32:10.800 civilization become a derogatory term in political discourse today. Okay, so do you buy it? Do you buy

00:32:17.140 that they were separate thoughts? He said, white supremacist, white nationalist, beat, beat, beat, 0.98

00:32:23.000 beat. Western civilization, how did that become offensive? Because, of course, the phrase Western 0.98

00:32:28.140 civilization is not offensive. The left finds it offensive, but there's nothing wrong. Western

00:32:33.060 civilization is the greatest political achievement in the history of the world. Now, do you buy that

00:32:41.060 excuse? I don't really buy it. Even the way he's describing it, it's a little mealy-mouthed. I don't

00:32:47.600 know. It's a little too clever by half. So let's say that Steve King said it. He conflated Western

00:32:53.220 civilization with white supremacy. He said remarks that had been universally condemned across the

00:32:58.100 political aisle by his own party, by his own colleagues. He's been condemned, rebuked, reprimanded.

00:33:05.020 He voted for his own condemnation. He's off of all the committees. Okay. Okay. That's all fine. I'm with

00:33:11.540 you so far. But what about the Democrats? What about, what about, what about? Michigan first term

00:33:19.940 representative Rashida Tlaib was pictured just recently, just within the last couple of weeks,

00:33:24.600 with a Palestinian activist named Abbas Hamidat, who regularly praises Hezbollah,

00:33:31.720 Hezbollah, a terrorist organization, and has called Jews Zionist terrorists. Rashida Tlaib,

00:33:38.980 that same person, right when she got into the Congress, took a sticky note to the map of the world

00:33:45.400 in her office, wrote in Palestine and covered up Israel. Israel, the only state for Jews in the world,

00:33:52.780 plenty of states for Arabs, plenty of states for Muslims, one state in the entire world in all of 0.88

00:33:57.700 history for Jews. She symbolically wipes it off the face of the map. Where is her condemnation?

00:34:08.160 Where is her apology? I didn't ever saw her apology. Steve King apologized. He called it an evil

00:34:12.440 ideology. Where's her calling it an evil ideology? Minnesota representative Ilan Omar,

00:34:19.220 another Democrat freshman wrote on Twitter, quote, Israel has hypnotized the world. May Allah awaken 0.95

00:34:27.740 the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. Hashtag Gaza, hashtag Palestine, hashtag Israel. 0.89

00:34:36.000 Now, Steve King referred to white supremacy. He was conflated with neo-Nazis, these types. In his

00:34:42.520 speech condemning that evil ideology, he said it was the evil ideology that led Hitler to wipe

00:34:48.380 six million Jews off of the face of the earth. That anti-Jewish ideology is an ideology being 0.94

00:34:55.960 embraced by Ilan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. Openly embraced, not in an unrecorded interview with the

00:35:03.580 New York Times where we don't have the tape to listen to it, but publicly on Twitter. They defend

00:35:08.660 it still and the Democrats defend it still. Where is that apology? Where is that vote of condemnation?

00:35:14.400 Barack Obama, former president, two-term president, hope and change, took a smiling photo with Louis

00:35:20.980 Farrakhan, the head of the Nation of Islam. He's called Jews Termites. He refers to every other race 0.80

00:35:28.480 as awful and terrible white devils, a minister, truly a minister of racial bigotry and hatred. 1.00

00:35:35.980 And there's Barack Obama smiling with him. Couldn't be happier. And you know what happened? The 1.00

00:35:40.080 mainstream media had that photo before the 2008 election. They hit it. They didn't want it to

00:35:44.880 come out. It has since come out. Where's Barack Obama's apology? Where's Barack Obama calling that

00:35:49.600 an evil ideology? I just see smiles. I don't see him calling it an evil ideology. Where is the vote to

00:35:56.200 condemn and rebuke and reprimand Barack Obama? You might say, Michael, this is whataboutism.

00:36:02.500 Whataboutism is when we're talking about one topic, one person, one act, and then you point out

00:36:11.580 hypocrisy by saying, well, what about this other person or this other act that hasn't been equally

00:36:18.320 condemned? And really, whataboutism compares apples to oranges? When the phrase became popular during

00:36:24.260 the Cold War, it was about comparing apples to oranges. I'm comparing apples to apples here. I'm

00:36:29.540 comparing contemporary politician to contemporary politician on both sides of the aisle. The only

00:36:35.220 difference, of course, is that Steve King has been remorseful and has apologized, and Democrats are

00:36:40.120 still proud of it all. They're still smiling, and they're still championing these almost identical

00:36:45.120 ideologies. And if it's whataboutism, well, what about whataboutism? What about it? I would vote,

00:36:52.060 along with Steve King, for that rebuke, for that condemnation of Steve King and his remarks.

00:36:57.920 But before I did that, I would insert an amendment if I were in Congress, and I would also include a

00:37:04.520 rebuke of Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and Barack Obama for smiling with Louis Farrakhan. I would insist

00:37:10.800 on that being included in the condemnation and the rebuke, and we should have done that as well. I think

00:37:16.800 Republicans, they want to get rid of Steve King because he's politically poisonous at this point,

00:37:21.740 and he's passed his political usefulness, and he's been in the career for a long time, and he's probably

00:37:27.560 going to lose his primary next go around. They just want to stop talking about it. Fine. I get the

00:37:33.340 political expedience of that. But I would insist on including those condemnations of Omar Tlaib and

00:37:41.280 Barack Obama because without those condemnations, also in the condemnation of Steve King, it is very

00:37:48.000 clear that Democrats have no interest whatsoever in condemning racial bigotry. They're only interested

00:37:53.960 in attacking the GOP, and they're not even just interested in attacking the GOP. They're interested

00:37:59.000 in using Steve King as a proxy to attack Donald Trump. They don't care about Steve King. Steve King

00:38:05.760 is just some congressman, one of over 400 people, just doesn't, who cares? He doesn't affect the

00:38:13.060 country in the way that the president does, and they want to call the president racist and bigoted and

00:38:17.780 thisist and thatist. They want to tie the issue of illegal immigration to racism somehow. That's all

00:38:23.800 they want to do, and they are unwilling to deal with it in their own party. Linda Sarsour, another

00:38:32.960 anti-Semite, was given an award by Barack Obama in the White House. She has had close ties to the

00:38:39.100 Democratic Party and to the Women's March. The list goes on and on and on. If they want to condemn Steve

00:38:47.760 King, by all means, go for it. If they want to condemn racial bigotry and hatred, please, great. More power

00:38:54.080 to you, but do it on both sides. Otherwise, you're a fake, you're a fraud, you're a cynical politician. That's what the 1.00

00:39:00.040 Democrats are on this issue. Let's see what those cackling hens, to use Norm MacDonald's phrase, had to say at the 0.62

00:39:06.820 view about this issue. Will Republicans now step up to the plate with Donald Trump? Because he has been using, I

00:39:16.140 think, the border wall as sort of this dog whistle for racism. The government is still shut down, and I think it's all

00:39:24.140 about, let's not let all these brown people in, right? Unless they're working for farmers, unless they're working in 1.00

00:39:30.020 agriculture. So now will the Republican Party step up to him and say, we don't want this anymore?

00:39:34.820 There are 40, there's 42% of this country that support the wall. Are they all racist?

00:39:41.380 That's a good question. I'm asking you that. I don't, I don't think so. I don't think so. I think

00:39:46.960 there are a lot of people that believe in security. I don't know. Okay. So it goes on. Gotta love

00:39:50.880 Abby Huntsman, my old pal. She just is great there. She says, what do you think half the country is

00:39:55.420 racist? And this woman whose name I don't know says, well, that's a good question. And whenever

00:40:01.460 someone says, well, that's a good question, it means they just have no idea what they're going to

00:40:04.640 say. They have nothing to say. You always, I would always, whether I'm conducting an interview

00:40:09.460 or I'm on a panel with somebody and we're doing interviews, and you say, what do you think about

00:40:13.340 this? They'll say, that's a good question. Say, I know it's a good question. I thought it up.

00:40:16.300 Thank you for the compliment. Answer the question. But she thinks so. This woman clearly thinks that 1.00

00:40:20.240 half of the country is racist and Republicans are. Is Steve King racist? Is the wall racist? They

00:40:26.140 ask. Okay. Are Barack Obama and Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib racist? Are they, are Democrat

00:40:32.460 analysts on CNN racist for trying to shut up white people by using these ad hominem attacks, 0.98

00:40:39.100 white privilege, ironically against a black guy? Doesn't work every time, but do your research 0.97

00:40:43.760 next time. What about other kinds of bigotry? Because we're just focusing on racism, but I don't

00:40:48.560 only want to run train on racism. I want to run train on all sorts of bigotry. And the biggest

00:40:53.440 one that's cropping up in the news cycle is religious bigotry. This is far more prevalent.

00:40:58.720 Obviously, Christians around the world are the most persecuted religious group on earth right now,

00:41:04.480 and it's reached record highs, certainly in modern history. The left doesn't get this. The left

00:41:11.100 doesn't get religious bigotry, whether it's Islamic militants abusing Christians in the Middle East,

00:41:16.720 or whether it's leftists in a different way, in a more legal way, or rather a legislative way,

00:41:25.880 or a regulative way trying to attack Christians in the United States. The left doesn't get this

00:41:34.500 because the left doesn't take religion seriously. The left takes race very seriously. The left takes

00:41:39.460 race too seriously. They think that everything is about race, so much so that a CNN analyst will

00:41:44.820 accuse a black political commentator of having white privilege. That's how obsessed they are 0.51

00:41:49.020 about race. They take race too seriously. They don't take religion seriously enough. So Karen

00:41:53.860 Pence, who is the wife of Vice President Mike Pence, she was a school teacher. It was just announced

00:42:00.440 she's going to take a job as a school teacher. She's going to teach at this Christian school and

00:42:05.140 continue her career. I think she got tired of hanging around the Naval Observatory, and so she's going to do

00:42:10.580 this. Wonderful for her, great opportunity for the students. How did NBC News report it? They said,

00:42:15.460 quote, Karen Pence to teach at school that bans LGBTQ employees and students. What? What school does 1.00

00:42:26.300 that? Let's look a little more closely here. The school, which is a Christian school, in reality,

00:42:33.420 this is quoting from later on in the NBC article, bars its employees from engaging in or condoning

00:42:38.560 homosexual or lesbian sexual activity and transgender identity. So it's not banning people

00:42:44.800 who are attracted to members of the same sex. It's not banning people who identify or think that they

00:42:50.180 are members of the opposite sex. It's just saying you can't engage in that sort of activity, which 1.00

00:42:55.760 what that really means is that a Christian school expects its teachers to agree with Christian sexual 0.97

00:43:04.160 teaching, which is not just Christian sexual teaching, but it's Jewish sexual teaching. 0.99

00:43:10.820 In the extremist world, it would be Muslim sexual teaching. Christian sexual teaching is pretty 1.00

00:43:17.940 loosey-goosey compared to other religions' traditional moral teachings on sex. The basis of a Christian 0.99

00:43:26.380 education, which is what these kids are going to this school for, is to teach the Christian view of the

00:43:31.880 world. And a lot of atheist or secularist or whatever, humanist, modernist people now, they

00:43:38.220 want to say, oh, what do they want to learn? That stupid Christian view of the world? What do you think? 1.00

00:43:42.540 People were walking around with dinosaurs? What are those big dumb idiots? The Christian view of the 1.00

00:43:48.060 world as a basis for education is the only basis for education, just historically speaking. If you enjoy

00:43:57.160 all of the advancements over the last 1,200 or 1,300 years in math or science or literature or

00:44:03.420 history, historiography or philosophy or anything like that, you can thank the Christian view of the

00:44:10.500 world and the Christian basis of education. Education as we know it would not exist anywhere in the world 0.99

00:44:15.700 if it were not invented by the Catholic Church in the mid to late Middle Ages. It would not exist.

00:44:22.520 All of the universities, all of the cathedral schools, all of the metaphysical basis of education

00:44:31.600 itself that we have in our modern world, it comes from Christianity and it comes from specifically

00:44:37.040 the Catholic Church. So she wants to teach at this Christian school. That's fine. The Christian 1.00

00:44:43.120 school wants its students and employees to agree to a Christian morality. The left, of course,

00:44:49.500 hates Christianity. So it's very upset about this. What if it were announced? What if we had a

00:44:55.120 president whose first lady was Muslim and it was announced that this woman was going to teach at a 0.87

00:45:00.940 madrasa, a Muslim school? Do you think that madrasa would celebrate homosexual activity, sexual 0.98

00:45:08.360 activity? Do you think it would celebrate the transgender movement, transgenderism? Something tells me it 1.00

00:45:14.460 wouldn't. And what would happen then? NBC News would be thrilled. They would be, oh, how brave,

00:45:21.040 how brave and beautiful. This first lady, she's teaching because she loves children and she loves 0.54

00:45:26.920 education and she, oh, she's at a Muslim school. This is so wonderful. But because it's a Christian 1.00

00:45:33.500 school, they hate it. And this is why NBC News and the left, they don't care about the LGBTQ,

00:45:38.520 LMNOP employees or students. They don't care about that whatsoever. They are using them as they

00:45:43.800 always use the ever-multiplying victim groups as an instrument, as a tool with which to clobber

00:45:51.080 conservatives and the tradition. That's all it's about. I would love it if Karen Pence went on 0.99

00:45:58.020 sabbatical at the Christian school, went to teach at a madrasa. We'd see how the news covered that,

00:46:02.860 probably very differently because they are, unlike us, they are unwilling in the progressive agenda to

00:46:09.220 run train on bigotry and hatred and racism and all of those other nefarious ideologies. That's our

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 16, 2019

Ep. 281 - Running Train On Racism

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