Ep. 556 - Black Lives Matter’s Lies Matter
Summary
On this episode of The Michael Knowles Show, Michael explains why he doesn t think Black Lives Matter and why he thinks Black Lives Don t Matter. He also explains why no one else in the black community thinks that Black Lives matter.
Transcript
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Okay. I was really thinking about doing today's show without any video. It was just going to be
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a black screen and just audio. I promise you I was thinking about it because I know that I need
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to signal to everybody what a good person I am and how much I support black lives matter. Cause
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those two things obviously exactly the same. And I just wanted to be like all of the white
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liberal slacktivists who were on Instagram yesterday, but I got in trouble. I'm sure you
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saw a lot of just, when you're scrolling on Instagram or social media, you saw black squares
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and it was a black square to black out for black lives matter. But I got in trouble because I just
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got it wrong. I posted a black square with a rainbow on it because I was confused. I didn't know if I
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was supposed to post a black square for black lives matter or a rainbow for pride month. I didn't know
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which way was going to be the best way to show my liberal piety to everybody because the secular
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liturgical calendar is so confusing. Then a friend messaged me when I posted this, he said,
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Michael, that's, that's very offensive. That's a liberal friend of mine, but you know, nice guy.
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He says, Michael, it's very offensive what you just did. You, you can't, it looks like almost like
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you don't support black lives matter, which now we all have to support. I think they passed a
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constitutional amendment. Isn't it required that you support black lives matter? But I don't support
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black lives matter because I think black lives matter peddles lies and harms a lot of people.
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Ironically, most especially black people. We've got the tapes to show you that I promise you,
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you are not going to see on the mainstream media. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles
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I'm always getting in trouble on social media. I just don't know how to speak liberal. I don't
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know. I guess I just don't know how to be in the liberal culture. I'm going to let you in
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the little secret. Nobody thinks that black lives don't matter. Nobody thinks that. Many people think
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that many other people think that black lives don't matter. See, many people think that there
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are all these bad people who obviously aren't them because we, we're all just such wonderful
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people. But there are, there are many, many other really bad people who think that black lives don't
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matter. And that's why we've got to post the black square to show all those really bad people out there
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that, that we know that black lives matter. But the thing is, the thing is every single person thinks
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that black lives matter. You know how you know that? Because of your Instagram feed yesterday,
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because of social media, because everybody was doing it. Black lives matter is not about convincing
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people that black lives matter. Okay. Everybody is convinced of that. Everybody with any influence
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in anything believes that black lives matter. Everybody, virtually everybody in government,
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media, virtually everybody in corporate America is actively promoting the black lives matter movement,
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not even just the idea that black lives matter. Black lives matter is not about convincing people
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black lives matter. It's about pushing a radical agenda, radical leftist agenda that peddles lies.
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Black lives matter. Black lives matter is founded on a lie. The foundational lie of black lives matter
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is that there is an epidemic in this country of racist whites hunting down black men every time they
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leave their homes. That's what LeBron James said just the other day. And the, the specific lie of this
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is that it's racist white cops who are hunting down black men. The, the most specific version of this
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is Michael Brown. There was this lie that in Ferguson, Missouri, officer Darren Wilson hunted down Michael
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Brown, who was completely innocent. He wasn't doing anything. He was down on his knees with his hands up
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and he said, don't shoot. And that cold blooded killer, Darren Wilson killed him anyway. And none of
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that happened. We know that none of that happened. What really happened is Michael Brown robbed a store,
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reached into Darren Wilson's car, grabbed his gun. The gun went off. Michael Brown goes away. Then he
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turns around and charges back at Darren Wilson. And only then does Darren Wilson fire his gun. This is
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backed up by multiple autopsies. This is backed up by many eyewitnesses, black eyewitnesses. This is backed
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up by a grand jury report. The story that black lives matter based its whole movement on is a
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complete fabrication. Okay. Beyond that, we know the idea that there's this scourge, this epidemic of
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racist whites nationwide hunting down innocent black men isn't true. You can just look at the
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statistics that, that simply is not the case. The specific lie that cops are gunning down innocent
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black men, also not true. There's a good piece on this out in the wall street journal from Heather
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McDonald today. Here are the numbers from 2019. Obviously the most recent numbers we can get
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375 million annual contacts between police officers and civilians, police officers of all races,
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civilians of all races. In 2019, police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed
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and dangerous, right? Because the cops don't particularly enjoy going around shooting people,
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right? Even, even if you think that they're these psychopath cops, certainly they don't want to
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be caught up in, in a scandal and some media firestorm because they've had to discharge their
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weapon. A quarter of the people who were killed by cops in 2019 were black, which Heather points out
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is lower than the crime rate would predict. Police fatally shot nine unarmed black men and, or nine
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unarmed black people, but that's almost anonymous with men. Uh, and 19 unarmed white men in 2019.
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There aren't too many young girls going around committing, you know, very violent armed crimes.
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Even unarmed here does not necessarily tell the whole story because it includes a case such as this
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in Newark, New Jersey of a guy who had a loaded gun in his car during a police chase. So was he
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unarmed when he was shot? I guess so technically, but I mean, not really. They did have a loaded gun in
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the car during a police chase. We know, and this is a statistic that's going around for a long time.
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A police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black man than vice versa.
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Now, what the media want to tell you is that they're going to peddle those lies. Then they're
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going to tell you the lie about the, the operation of black lives matter itself, which is that the
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protests are completely different from the looting and the rioting and the arson and the assault and the
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murder. And the thing is, they're not, they're not. I'm not saying that there aren't peaceful
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protesters. Of course there are peaceful protesters. What I am saying is the so-called peaceful protests
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and the looting and the rioting and the arson and all of that overlap. They overlap almost perfectly.
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There, there's no, what they're actually trying to tell us right now is that even though the looting
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and the arson and the riots and the murder is happening in the same place at the same time for
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ostensibly the same reason as the peaceful protests, they're totally different. That is simply not the
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case. Isn't it a weird coincidence is what the media keeps saying. The peaceful protest unexpectedly
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turned violent. How many times does it have to happen before it's no longer unexpected? I, I'm no
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prophet, you know, I'm, I'm now Nostradamus predicting the future, but I can guess that where most of this
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civil unrest is happening, they're just going to be looting and riots and arson.
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The final nail in the coffin of this lie that the protests are completely peaceful, Black Lives Matter,
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totally peaceful. And then, yeah, there are a couple of bad apples who just happened to burn down a lot
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of American cities. Uh, they're a rare exception. They, they don't, they don't characterize the movement.
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Actually, the final nail in that lie came from the celebrity Idris Elba, the actor Idris Elba, who posted
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his, his square. And then he wrote this quote, quote, this ain't a movie ain't calling cut. We cutting the
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throat of the old system. So if you ain't with us, then you better run new breed. I don't know where this,
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uh, poetry comes from. I'm not sure. It's not probably not Wordsworth or something, but, uh,
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he posts this line of very violent rhetoric. Now you might say, Michael, it's just a metaphor
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because he says he's, he's cutting the throat. Sure. But he says he's cutting the throat of the
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old system. So he's not cutting the throat of people. It's the old system. Yeah. Except in the
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next line, he says, so if you ain't with us, you better run, uh, run from what? Why are we going to run?
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Oh, because, because all of this rhetoric is incredibly violent. Unlike the mainstream media, unlike
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celebrities of all races, unlike liberals, black business owners know that black lives matter has
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resulted in widespread violence. There's one woman I'm good. I want to draft her to run for president.
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She's speaking the most common sense of maybe anybody I've seen with a public platform. And she just
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happens to be a business owner on a street who got her, her shop destroyed by these rioters.
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She came out and gave a, a harder, more realistic look at the black lives matter riots.
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Problem that barbers me, you says black lives matter. I've worked here part time.
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Plus, I'm a part owner of this store. You said black lives matter. Why don't you choke me? I'm black.
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Tell him, sister. Look what you did to my store. Tell him, sister. Look. Look what you did to my store.
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Tell him, sister. That's why, because I got their bags. These are my bags right here. Good men. Look at the things you've done.
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Good men. Look for black lives matter. We've been here all night cleaning up. All night cleaning.
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And you've got black people standing right here with them. But tell me, black lives matter.
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Exactly. You lied. You wanted to loot at a store. You needed money. Get a job like I do. Stop stealing.
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It's the neighborhood. We're trying to build it up and you turned it down.
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Only a liberal intellectual could not understand that. That is the simplest, most precise,
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most accurate statement of public policy I've seen in a long time. Black lives, you say black lives
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matter. You're destroying my community and my business. You say you're doing this for black lives.
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That's obviously not true. You're doing it because you want to take all my money. And instead of doing
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that, instead of stealing from people, which is a sin and a crime, you should get a job. Get a job
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like I do and act like a normal person in civil society. Simple enough. It would only the most
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sophisticated white liberal could not understand that statement. Love that woman. I want her to run
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for president. You're not supposed to see that video. You're not supposed to see videos of all of
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the looting. There was one video of the looting that came out yesterday. It was being narrated by a guy
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who's filming it. These people coming out of, I guess, a sneaker store. And the guy deserves an
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of the looting because we've been told this is a peaceful protest. That's about justice.
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That's about all these, all these really noble, wonderful values. And yet when we see the videos,
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it looks like people are just stealing a lot of sneakers.
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So you got people pouring out of this store and this guy's following a woman who's carrying some
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At least show me what you got. Show me what you got since you, since you left your car.
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Let's see what you got. You left your car in traffic, ma. You got right?
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She's nodding, but she doesn't want to talk to him.
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More people pouring out of the store, more people pouring into the store.
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Come on, man. Damn, the pregnant shit got right. This s**t crazy, yo. This s**t crazy, boy.
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The man who filmed and narrated that short video deserves an Academy Award. I mean,
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that is some really compelling content. I think what it shows us is this is not about George Floyd.
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This is not about justice or really noble values. It's just petty crime. And in some cases,
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it's not so petty crime because here's the answer from the Black Lives Matter intellectual defenders,
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people like Hannah Jones at the New York Times, who's behind the absolutely anti-historical trash
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known as the 1619 Project, which rewrites American history and wins Pulitzer Prizes for its fiction.
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The intellectuals at the New York Times, like Hannah Jones, say that actually what's happening
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here, all the looting and the riots and everything, yeah, okay, it's not great, but it's not violent.
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One of the things you offer is a full perspective and context, most importantly, context. When we
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look at people rioting and looting, and no doubt some of the victims of the looting are going to be
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businesses that are African-American businesses, how are we to interpret what we see there?
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How are we to interpret what we see? Please give us that context. You're so good at context. I have
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to cut it there because Hannah Jones gives the opposite of context. Hannah Jones completely
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rewrites context, takes things out of context, and then occasionally just invents pieces of context
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because she has lied about her central thesis in the New York Times, in the 1619 Project,
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specifically on race in America. She was called out for it by academic historians. They ignored the
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academic historians. They gave her the Pulitzer anyway. So with that context, here's her answer.
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We need to be really careful with our language. Yes, it is disturbing to see property being destroyed.
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It is disturbing to see people taking property from stores. But these are things. And violence is
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when an agent of the state kneels on a man's neck until all of the life is leached out of his body.
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Destroying property which can be replaced is not violence. And to put those things, to use the exact
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same language, to describe those two things, I think really, um, it's not, it's not moral to do
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that. It's not moral. We've got to be really careful with our language here, says the most famous liar
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at the New York Times, which, you know, that's a stiff competition. So the fact that she was able to
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grab that title, really impressive. Then look at what she says. She says, we shouldn't call this
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violence. When you break into somebody's home or store or you rob somebody, that's not violence
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because ultimately you're just taking property. So what she just said is not true. That is violence.
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When you burgle somebody, it's violence. When you, when you mug somebody, it's violence. It's not
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murder, but it's violence. And she's saying, so because it's not murder, you can't call it violence.
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It's, there were people, I think it was actually Hannah Jones, but there were at least some people who
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were rationalizing this, who said it was a symbolic taking. It was, it's not stealing. It's a symbolic
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taking. Like, wow. Okay. What's, it's the symbol of your, your burglary. Okay. It's the symbol of
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the, of the violent crime that you're committing. Okay. She wants to get rid of the murders that are
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happening. She wants to pretend that they're not really happening. She wants you only to focus on
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people stealing shoes, which is bad. That is a crime. Also there's murders happening and all of
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black lives matter is more or less denying it. Here's, here's just one example. This is one guy
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who at least he's been going around social media a little bit, even if the BLM supporters don't want
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to acknowledge him. 77 year old St. Louis retired police captain, David Dorn. David Dorn was shot dead
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by looters when he tried to get the looters to stop looting a local pawn shop. Okay. David Dorn
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was a black man. His black life did not particularly matter to these rioters. These, I'm sorry, peaceful
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protesters. They're the peaceful rioters. I think it's one of the peaceful looters, arsonists, rioters,
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and murderers. They're very peaceful. Unexpectedly, unexpectedly they committed these crimes. David Dorn is
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not the only one. Okay. There are many other people around the country. There have been many
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cops who have been injured or killed in this. There were cops that I think it was what? Five
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cops killed by a black lives matter supporter. Was it in Dallas during the first uprising of the
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peaceful protest of black lives matter? Many, many cops. Peaceful, the peaceful protest of black
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lives matter. I was walking around Los Angeles yesterday, multiple neighborhoods in Los Angeles
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and all the shops are boarded up. They're boarded up because they're afraid that the peaceful rioters
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are going to come in and, and rob them blind or worse or hurt them. The weirdest thing about it though
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was that it had graffiti tagged on a lot of these shops in multiple neighborhoods in LA. I thought,
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how is there graffiti there when the, the mobs haven't run through here yet? And it had graffiti
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like BLM, black lives matter. But then I looked a little more closely. The graffiti had clearly
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been put on by the shop owners because it said things on there like minority owned business,
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black lives matter. We support black lives matter. Please don't rob us. Black lives matter.
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We're people of POC business. Like we're not those bad white people. Go rob the white people,
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but we can, but don't rob us, please. And I get it. I totally get it. If I were a shop owner right
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now, I would probably graffiti all those things on my own building. One, to make it look like the
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mobs had already come through here, but two, just to plead with them, please, please don't destroy
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my livelihood. I just made it through two and a half months of this shutdown for coronavirus. I can
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barely rub two nickels together and now you're going to take everything else I have or worse or attack
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me or kill me as has happened in other places. I totally get it. But you don't have to plead for
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your life and property with peaceful protesters. It's not, that's not what you do. Peaceful
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protesters, you just talk, you know, you kind of hash it out and you talk. That's not what's going
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on here. What's behind all this? There is something motivating this that is beyond the petty crime,
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though we're seeing a lot of petty crime and not so petty crime. There's something motivating
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this that is beyond the man who was killed in Minnesota, who I think at this point is
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barely tangential even to the story of these riots that are going on. There were crowds in
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Amsterdam, massive, huge crowds in Amsterdam, ostensibly for George Floyd. Do we really think
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that on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, in Amsterdam, people who don't speak our language,
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have never been to Minnesota, don't know George Floyd, don't know anything about the
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racial and social makeup of the United States, that they're really, they're just so riled up
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because of this sad death of a man in Minnesota that they're coming in. I don't think so.
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People are torching cars in Paris right now. Now, the thing is people are always torching cars in
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Paris. There's always a riot going on there. So maybe that, you know, we've, we've just got to take
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that as a classic, you know, it's a day that ends in Y, but I think there's a broader political
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reaction going on right now. And I think it's beyond George Floyd. And I think it's beyond even
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questions of race. And I think it's beyond Minnesota. I think it is a political reaction
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to and from liberalism. This whole thing is being promoted in many ways by white liberals,
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specifically because they can't make sense of their political system. The best,
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the best example of this, I have spent many years reading many, many books to try to understand
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liberal modernity. And then yesterday I found out I, I could have avoided doing all that and
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just watched one 24 second video of two white kids playing beer pong in a room and they see the
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Black Lives Matter mob going by and they knock on the, on the glass and they say, we, thumbs up,
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we support you. We support you. Take a listen to what happens. They're walking by, see him down
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there and you see the thumbs up from the kid. He's filming it. Yeah. Thumbs up. Then I'm knocking.
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Hey guys, do you notice me? No. And then they threw something from the window.
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We're on your side. Oh, they threw another thing through the window.
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And these stupid, stupid liberal teenage guys or the guys in their early twenties,
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we're on your side. Even after they throw the second rock through the window,
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you might be on their side. I don't think that those guys down there are on your side,
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buster, but the kid is shocked. He goes, it doesn't make sense. I posted the, the black square.
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I'm a good person. Why are you throwing rocks through my window? I'm one of, I'm the good one.
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I'm not like all those many, many terrible people out there who, who think black lives don't matter.
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You know, all those real people, not just those imaginary people. Yeah, I'm a good one.
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Rock goes through the window anyway. What is, what is this about? Why don't they get it?
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What are they not getting? What are the writers not getting? What is everybody not getting about this?
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I think it's all about religion, which we will get to in one second. But first I've got to thank
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What is this all about? What are the kids who get the rocks thrown through their window and they
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still say, we're on your side. What are they not getting? I think this whole thing is about secular
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liberals trying to use politics to answer questions that only religion can answer.
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I think white privilege is a stand in for original sin. I think when they say,
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I've got my white privilege, obviously I was, I was born with it. I didn't do anything to have
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my white privilege, but I have it and it's bad and I feel sorry for it. And it's, it's made the world
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worse. That, that, that's exactly the way to talk about original sin, but they can't talk about
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original sin because they've rejected actual religion, traditional religion. And so they've got
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to make this bizarre political ideology into their religion. You hear them all the time talk.
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They'll say slavery is America's original sin. This is a classic liberal talking point. And it's not
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true. Slavery is not America's original sin. Slavery is a very bad thing. It made the country much more
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difficult to be created and to develop. And it, it, we're still haunted by it to this day. But do you
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know what America's original sin is? Original sin. That's, that's the original sin. There are more sins
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in America than just slavery. There are more sins, not just in America, the abstraction, but in each
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of us lurking in our own hearts, every single one of us than just that. This cult of liberalism has
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replaced church. Uh, mayor Bill de Blasio in New York, who I think is still the mayor, the governor of New
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York threatened to remove him from office because he's doing such a bad job in, in Manhattan right
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now. Mayor Bill de Blasio was asked a question at a press conference that gets right to the heart of my
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thesis here. He was asked why he won't let people go to religious services because of coronavirus. Remember
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that? There was this virus that they told us was really bad and we couldn't go out, but now when
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it's rioters, it's fine. They said, why won't you let people go to church and synagogue, but you will
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let them go out and loot fifth Avenue and mob everybody and riot. Obviously there's much more
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social distancing at church than there is in these riots. And de Blasio's answer was that these riots,
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these call it a race, right? You call it a riot for justice. You'd call it looting, or you can call it
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a liberal riot, you know, the liberalism riot. He says that's much more important than going to
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church. This is the other piece of the equation. When you see a nation, an entire nation simultaneously
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grappling with an extraordinary crisis seated in 400 years of American racism, I'm sorry, that is not
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the same question as the understandably aggrieved store owner or the devout religious person who wants to go
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back to services. When you see somebody who's been aggrieved by 400 years of slavery, that's much, much more
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important than people who want to go to church. But don't forget, a lot of the people showing up to these
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protests, so-called, are white people. So even if, even if de Blasio is right, that nothing has changed since
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slave days. It's just as bad now as it was in 1859 in the antebellum South for black people.
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Even if that were true, and it's obviously not true, but even if it were true,
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why are the little pasty white Antifa kids allowed to go? They're not aggrieved by slavery. They did not
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have any ancestors who were slaves. Their ancestors weren't brought over on slave ships. They weren't,
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their ancestors weren't segregated against by Jim Crow or redlining or any of those things that
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you're talking about. So why do they get to go? Because it's, it's actually not a race thing here.
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It's an ideological point that Bill de Blasio is making. Bill de Blasio, like so many leftists,
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doesn't seem to be particularly religious. Doesn't seem to like religion very much. Actually seems
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very anti-religious, anti-Christian, and specifically anti-Jewish. To, to hear this guy talk to the Jews is,
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is a, is really something to behold. So de Blasio is at least honest. He's an honest radical. And he
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says, it's more important to participate in these political ideological activities than to go to
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church. He's not the only one. There was, there have been a few of these videos of what, I guess
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they're calling them protests, but they're not. They're really more liturgical services.
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One is of a whole group of white people kneeling down and begging forgiveness of a whole group of
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black people standing up. Take a listen. This is in some backyard somewhere, I guess. Probably,
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I don't know how many, 60, 70 white people kneeling down to maybe, I don't know, 40, 50 black people
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standing up. It's kind of hard to make out what he's saying, particularly as I'm talking over it,
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but even when you're listening to it normally, you can't hear it that well.
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Just to watch it, there is no difference between this and a religious liturgical ritual,
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right? I'm Catholic. I go to mass. Mass has lots of rituals, lots of kneeling and lots of smells and
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bells, lots of things that we all do together. If I were to, I mean, they, they obviously look
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different in, in terms of, you know, it's not a bunch of like liberals wearing t-shirts, you know,
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looking like ruffians, but to actually look at the movements up and down, they are identically
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liturgical. Same thing. There was another protest. I don't know where it was. It was just a whole huge
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group, probably over a hundred white people with their hands up, sitting on the ground,
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chanting mantras that are being given to them by the leader of the liberal liturgy.
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I will use my voice in the most uplifting way possible.
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I will use my voice in the most uplifting way possible.
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And do everything in my power to educate my community.
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And do everything in my power to educate my community.
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I will love my black neighbors the same as my white ones.
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I will love my black neighbors the same as my white ones.
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Get kind of cult vibes here, don't you? That's what my friend Tyler Carden over the blaze tweeted
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at. He says, is this a cult? I think this is a cult. It just reminds you, you go to church and you
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say, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.
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Or when you recite things, lord have mercy, lord have mercy, right?
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That is, it is a liturgy, but it's a liturgy of this weird religion called liberalism.
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And actually, there are many Black Lives Matter activists, the real ones, the hardcore ones,
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who have been going off on white liberals specifically for this kind of stuff, for these,
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for this slacktivism, or for these weird creepy cult rituals.
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And she opens up the video, and she goes, this is ridiculous.
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We told you exactly what to do, and you screwed it up.
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So I think a lot of conservatives haven't been sending this video around,
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because they're kind of put off by this idea of, you told me what to do.
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But in the middle there, even though she's a radical leftist activist,
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she makes a really good point about these white liberal slacktivists.
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And y'all still find a way to do the least amount of s*** possible.
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The thing that takes the least amount of effort.
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And not only that, you chose something that actively does harm.
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You chose to take the f***ing hashtags we're using to disseminate information
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about where the cops are, about how to keep people safe,
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You all take it, and you fill it up with a bunch of f***ing black squares.
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Y'all just see somebody do some s***, and then I don't even understand.
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How the f***ing we can't get y'all to organize around s*** else
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I don't even, I don't even, I can't even comprehend
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how all of you all got on the same page to do the same clown s*** thing.
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So this goes on for like another three minutes,
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and I recommend going to Instagram and checking it out
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Okay, so we here at BLM, radical activists want to radically transform society.
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That's one of the demands of Black Lives Matter.
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We want to totally upend civil society and government.
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I love, she, look, this woman is, is wrong about a great many things,
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ideologically speaking, but she makes a great point about,
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because I got a lot of flack for making my little joke
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All these white liberals were very upset with me.
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And so all the white liberals felt really embarrassed
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and they felt sort of like they can't win for losing.
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really big on all these kind of racial identity politics.
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But she did it, it had like a special border or something.
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Or she did it multiple times so that her Instagram feed,
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which has a zillion followers, you know, she's a big celebrity.
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She wanted her Instagram feed to look, look nice
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Because, well, one, because it was just slacktivism,
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but because she was taking so much care for herself,
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to various bail funds for probably for Antifa actually,
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but they think it's going to, to black protesters.
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and I said, you know, you're doing all of these things,
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but most importantly, you're posting on social media about it.
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And you're showing everybody what a great person you are
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because you're virtuous and you're very liberal.
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It's not about the man who was killed in Minnesota.
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and religious contradictions in this leftist ideology.
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Look, when I looked around at the hordes of people
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so I looked around at all of these sort of things.
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is not about what people are telling us it's about.
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because he was able to form a coherent sentence.
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He said, the arc of the moral universe is long,
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There is a happy ending if you've read the Bible,
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Also, this hasn't been the purpose since the beginning.
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That is the progressive rewriting of our purpose.
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The American story is a story about action and reaction.
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I wish I could say that hate began with Donald Trump
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then that means that what you just said isn't true,
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Biden was right the second time, not the first time.
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we know history is not a predetermined science.
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Marx and his followers and leftist intellectuals
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is this predetermined set science, and it's not.
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We're not just on the verge of perfecting human nature,
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Progressivism is things get better, better, better,
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it's the people who describe their political agenda,
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You know, I actually have a great deal of empathy
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And so because mankind is naturally religious, right,
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or call it spiritual or call it whatever you want,
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we have these longings for things beyond this world.
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you're going to express those longings somewhere else.
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And what the left does is it expresses those longings
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those perfectly right intuitions through politics.
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But when you try to make an idol and a god of politics,
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in the spirit of unity and the spirit of coming together,