The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 561 - American Taliban

00:00:00.000 When you tear down your own history, expect to get smushed. That is the lesson that the

00:00:07.000 left taught us yesterday. It's a very important lesson. I don't think they meant to teach us this.

00:00:11.380 I don't think they meant for all this symbolism, but that is what happened when they literally

00:00:15.640 pulled the statue down and it literally smushed one of the rioters. This happened in Virginia.

00:00:21.140 It's a very sad story. It is actually a genuinely sad story all around, every single part of it.

00:00:27.740 A bunch of these leftist goons went around the American Taliban, tied a rope around a statue,

00:00:35.400 pulled it down, and they didn't expect the statue was going to hit them on the head. Let's take a

00:00:39.000 listen. So they've, you know, they've got the statue here. They're all very excited. They're

00:00:48.240 pulling it down, goes down and their excitement turns to terror in just a moment because

00:00:57.740 they realized that the statue has crushed one of their own guys.

00:01:02.620 Get a medic, get a medic. They're all of a sudden, by the way, all of a sudden they want the services

00:01:07.000 of the state, you know, the cops, the ambulance, the EMT, all of that, because it has crushed them.

00:01:13.200 All the other statues around this had been beheaded in the moments just before they pulled this one

00:01:19.440 down. A few takeaways. There are no cops stopping these guys, right? Of course not. If I were a cop,

00:01:25.400 I wouldn't want to stop them either because there's no institutional support for the police.

00:01:29.900 Another big takeaway. We are tearing down our history to liberate us, but the destruction of

00:01:35.360 our traditions will actually kill us. All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael

00:01:40.700 Knowles Show.

00:01:41.160 We are living through the rise of the American Taliban. That's what it is. Senator Cruz tweeted

00:01:55.180 that out yesterday when he saw these videos of people beheading statues, pulling them down. It's

00:01:59.440 just like the Taliban. When they go through Afghanistan, they get, they see 2,000 or 2,500

00:02:04.600 or 3,000 year old statues and they blow them up. Well, that's what we're getting with American history.

00:02:10.340 And these are statues that are 150 years old or 100 years old or maybe 200 years old and

00:02:15.260 they're pulling them down. That's what these left wingers are doing. And it's not just the

00:02:20.180 Confederate statues. The one they're going after the most is the guy they always go after the most.

00:02:27.300 In recent years, you've seen statues of this guy beheaded. You've seen this guy's celebratory day

00:02:33.140 renamed. You've seen his other statues vandalized and graffitied. I'm talking about my man,

00:02:39.280 Christopher Columbus, whose statue was pulled down just yesterday as well.

00:02:53.740 Oh, how happy they were. They got him. I mean, this, these are images that you saw during the

00:03:01.160 Iraq war. These are not, not with Columbus. They pulled down Saddam Hussein, right? These are images

00:03:06.960 you see during times of war, except we're not in a time of war. At least I don't think we're in a

00:03:10.860 time of war. This is supposed to be a time of peace and we're not pulling down other people's

00:03:14.260 statues. We're pulling down our own. This is about a lot more than George Floyd or Black Lives 0.81

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00:04:56.620 haven't already. So when I saw the Columbus statue come down, I realized this is about a lot more than

00:05:05.860 Black Lives Mattering. Okay, this is about a lot more than George Floyd. This is about a lot more 0.69

00:05:10.860 police brutality. My first question was, what does Christopher Columbus have to do with Black

00:05:16.760 Lives Matter or the police in 2020? Obviously nothing. He has nothing to do with it. What

00:05:22.660 this is about ultimately is an attack on our very civilization, on Western civilization. This has

00:05:30.540 been building among the left for a very long time. You saw it really start to come to fruition in the

00:05:36.980 70s and 80s in the United States, where you had Jesse Jackson marching on college campuses,

00:05:43.020 leading kids in chants that said, hey, hey, ho, ho, Western civ has got to go. Western cultures got to

00:05:50.760 go. And Columbus is the first guy they got to go for because Christopher Columbus is the symbol of

00:05:58.120 Western civilization. They hate Christopher Columbus for the exact same reason that I love

00:06:03.100 Christopher Columbus. This guy was a devoutly Catholic, transnational, autodidact. He was mostly 0.99

00:06:10.720 self-taught. He was not a noble when he was born, right? He was of low birth. He married pretty well.

00:06:16.200 He was first and foremost, so intrepid. He was afraid of nothing. He was the greatest navigator of

00:06:22.500 his age, sailed all over the world. He wanted to sail to get a new trade route to the Indies. So what did

00:06:28.320 he do? He went to Portugal. He lobbied the crown in Portugal. They wouldn't give it to him. He was

00:06:32.080 dogged about it, but it didn't happen. He goes to Spain. He studies for years all the great works

00:06:38.620 in Spain so that he can converse with the court, so he can win them over, so he can get funding

00:06:43.140 for his voyage to the Indies. They say no. But finally, just as Columbus is leaving to go regroup

00:06:50.100 and try again, they call him back in. His biographers say it was because of the brilliance of his personality

00:06:58.060 and his determination. The crown says yes. Queen Isabella says yes. Another great hero of Western

00:07:03.760 civilization that people don't talk about. He manages to make it to the new world, running on

00:07:09.440 nothing but prayer and dead reckoning. This guy didn't have any instruments, at least on his first

00:07:14.900 voyage. He's just looking at the stars. He makes it to the West Indies. He has this first encounter with

00:07:22.200 a primitive native peoples. They accuse him of treating the natives horribly. They say he's a

00:07:29.260 murderer. He's a genocidal maniac. None of that is true. He was a conqueror in the sense that he came

00:07:36.620 over and he established the West in this new world. But he was actually much nicer to the natives than

00:07:42.740 any of the Spaniards he was traveling with. He would intervene on their behalf a lot. He adopted the

00:07:47.400 son of a Native American friend of his and raised him as his own son. The guy is totally misunderstood

00:07:53.780 and attacked, but he expresses so much of our civilization. And that's why they hate his guts.

00:08:00.860 Okay. The leftist radicals are tearing things down, not for principles, but for power.

00:08:09.460 You think, and they want you to think that they are tearing these things down because they hate them

00:08:14.800 per se, but it's not that. The left here hates this specific civilization they're tearing down.

00:08:21.660 So for instance, they tear down history, not because they oppose all history. It's because

00:08:27.740 they oppose our history. They tear down churches, not because they oppose religion. In a way, politics

00:08:35.020 is religion for them. So they do like a certain kind of religion. They just don't like our religion.

00:08:40.940 Okay. They tear down the government, not because they oppose government, but because they oppose

00:08:44.400 our government. They have their own governments, which we'll see in a moment. They abolish the

00:08:48.280 police, not because they hate the police even, but because they hate our police. And guess what's

00:08:55.280 going to happen the minute they get into power? They're going to set up their own governments and 0.80

00:08:58.380 their own police. And trust me, those governments and those police are going to be a lot less just

00:09:02.320 than our own. You saw this in Seattle. So in Seattle right now, Antifa radicals have set up

00:09:07.700 an autonomous zone. They're calling it the city hall autonomous zone or CHAZ. This is an area where

00:09:15.020 the civil authority in Seattle and the cops and the mayor and everybody else have lost power. They

00:09:19.660 are not running those streets anymore. And you've got these leftist radicals now running the streets.

00:09:24.680 And the thing that's so ironic about it, they talk about how they want to open borders. They talk about

00:09:28.760 how they want to abolish the police. What's the first thing these guys do the minute they take any

00:09:33.000 power in the city. They set up rigid borders. They don't let people in and they set up their

00:09:39.340 own system of cops. Obviously it exposes them as total hypocrites, but it's pretty spooky too.

00:09:45.260 Take a listen to some video that was captured within the autonomous zone of these leftist radicals

00:09:51.640 taking justice into their own hands. You don't know the owner of this place? The owner that's

00:09:56.560 actually being nice and letting us stay here? Don't go. You forgot. We are the police of this

00:10:01.520 community now. We are the police. I thought you wanted to abolish the police. Oh no, you just want

00:10:07.180 to be the police. Okay. Different, different thing. Now there's no law and order. So they're not the

00:10:14.980 police in that way. They're thugs. They're being disrespectful. That's what the point is. They're a gang.

00:10:22.780 Uh-oh. Getting a little bit violent over here. A little bit loud. The camera starts shaking.

00:10:33.280 Now we're starting to lose the picture.

00:10:38.420 That is the police without law and order. That police looks a lot worse than the other kind of police.

00:10:44.980 That these leftists want to abolish. This is not a situation that you want to be in because

00:10:49.900 if you're one of these utopians, one of these radical communists or anarchists who think that

00:10:55.680 abolishing the police means abolishing the police, well, you're in for a rude awakening because when

00:11:01.300 you abolish the police, all that means is that a new set of police are going to come in. When you

00:11:05.580 abolish the government, all that really means is that a new government is going to come in. There's a

00:11:10.540 line about communists which is that Christians go to heaven and socialists go to communism. What they

00:11:17.160 mean by that is you're not going to get there on earth at least, okay? This is a utopian vision that

00:11:23.860 as long as we're in a fallen world is not going to exist. And so these leftist dreams of abolishing

00:11:29.120 the state, abolishing the police, it can't happen. That's why every communist or socialist regime that's

00:11:34.120 ever come around maintains a tight grip on power. The police don't go a little lighter. They go a lot

00:11:40.280 harder when you get these regimes. The state doesn't fall away. The state becomes much, much more

00:11:45.880 important. The Seattle police abandoned this precinct, okay? And what they're now receiving,

00:11:54.160 according to Como News out there, is that they're getting reports of armed people manning the

00:11:59.360 checkpoints intimidating people trying to enter and people committing extortion. You have now got,

00:12:05.240 as always happens with these revolutionaries, these insurrectionists, you've got a politics much

00:12:11.760 less just, much less equitable, much, much less prosperous taking its place. That should terrify

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00:13:35.260 in Seattle and Washington. You get to Governor Jay Inslee, who you probably forgot ran for president.

00:13:39.940 I kind of forgot that, but there he is. Jay Inslee was asked, what's going on in this freaking

00:13:46.200 autonomous zone? You know, are we some two-bit banana republic? Inslee's response puts his head

00:13:52.220 in the sand and says, I don't know nothing about it. Governor, I'd like to ask you about what's

00:13:57.060 going on in Seattle. There's this thing called the Capitol Hill autonomous zone. What's your

00:14:01.420 thought on that? The fact that the protesters have taken that over and not allowing people

00:14:04.960 to come and go freely? And I hope regarding the National Guard. Well, that's news to me,

00:14:10.680 so I'll have to reserve any comment about it. I have not, I have not heard anything about that.

00:14:16.200 From any credible source. Not that you're not credible. It's just like, before I

00:14:22.000 espouse an opinion, I should know of which I speak.

00:14:28.160 What you're saying, terrorists took over one of the most important city in our state.

00:14:33.460 I mean, I just don't know. And you're saying that's the main news story and it's the only

00:14:36.880 thing that's being reported in Washington. I guess, well, it's just so funny because I guess

00:14:41.400 I haven't seen the news. Please, please, please don't ask me about that because I don't have an answer.

00:14:45.520 He doesn't have an answer and he's, he's not doing a very effective job of lying about it either

00:14:51.820 because he doesn't have an answer. He's got to lie about it because he doesn't have an answer.

00:14:57.080 Because in his rhetoric, in his ideology, he's supporting these wackos and he's seeing in real 0.99

00:15:02.560 time the effects of that. He's saying, one, it's going to take power away from him. But two, it doesn't

00:15:08.960 look like it does in the, in the picture books. Okay. It doesn't look like it does in the leftist

00:15:15.120 daydreams of this utopian vision, because so long as human nature is broken, you're not going to get

00:15:21.300 that utopia on earth. And he's seeing it played out in real time and it's, it's left his ideology

00:15:27.880 exposed as bankrupt. So there's a follow-up question on this. They say, well,

00:15:33.040 what about these takeovers of the streets, even hypothetically speaking, here's a hypothetical

00:15:39.240 answer. As far as the national guard, how long are you going to keep them there? And with,

00:15:44.160 if there is a takeover of a street in Seattle where they're barricading and keeping people out,

00:15:49.660 the protesters are, would you want to be involved? You know, that's a hypothetical look at,

00:15:56.040 we've got to have safety. I'm sure that people will find a way to have public safety everywhere

00:16:00.360 in the state. I'm confident of that. Uh, the, the national guard is demobilizing over

00:16:06.800 two thirds of them were demobilized of yesterday. I don't know if they're completely demobilized at

00:16:10.880 this point or not, but if not, that'll be shortly, I believe. So you see what the reporter has to do

00:16:16.480 because Jay Inslee is not playing on the level here is he's got to pretend like it's hypothetical.

00:16:22.560 Say, okay, so hypothetically, if a bunch of communists and anarchists took over an entire

00:16:26.720 neighborhood of Seattle, what would you do? You're not giving us an answer on what you're

00:16:30.640 going to do because it is happening. So what about hypothetically? And then Inslee says, well,

00:16:34.000 you know, look, that's hypothetical. He then doesn't answer the question. And then the best

00:16:38.480 he's got is we're demobilizing the national guard. The best he's got is we're, we're going to use less

00:16:45.920 police force. We're going to use less force on the streets to stop this. Cause he's like a robot.

00:16:52.540 He's like a non-playing character in a video game, right? He's, he's only got one mode and the mode

00:16:57.800 is leftism, at least in his rhetoric. So he says, well, the only thing I can possibly say about the

00:17:02.620 police is we're going to take away their power. Even though, guess what? Right now, I think the

00:17:08.480 people in Seattle probably want a little bit more police power on the streets. I think even if

00:17:12.320 they're super duper left wing, they're looking around and saying, I don't want warlords running

00:17:16.580 around and controlling my neighborhoods. So maybe give us a little more police power,

00:17:20.620 but Inslee, a prisoner of his own ideology can't, can't compute that. And so even in the hypothetical,

00:17:28.640 which is really happening, he can't give that answer. This gets to something that yesterday I

00:17:35.220 talked about and some people sent me some criticism. I pointed out that the left controls

00:17:40.360 every major institution in America. They control the mainstream media. They control education and the

00:17:47.540 academy and, and higher education, the college campuses, but they control education all the way

00:17:52.200 from pre-kindergarten on upward. They control Hollywood. They control big tech. They control

00:17:58.980 administrative government. They control all of these things. And so some people wrote into me and they

00:18:02.580 said, well, what about the police, Michael? You know, the cops and the military, those are right-wing

00:18:08.280 controlled institutions. And there's a little bit of truth to that. They're definitely a bit more

00:18:13.520 right-wing than, than, you know, for instance, the New York teachers union. Okay. But they're still

00:18:20.160 subject to the civil authority. And ultimately what we're seeing around us right now is they don't have

00:18:24.720 all that much power. You know, they're still being run by bureaucrats and occasionally by the elected

00:18:31.800 people. So there, there was a really idiotic tweet going around yesterday. Got 151,000 retweets,

00:18:39.460 442,000, 443,000 likes. And the tweet said, defund the police. Impossible. They cried as they

00:18:46.460 defunded education, healthcare, social security, welfare, Planned Parenthood, public transit. And

00:18:51.440 one thing that makes this a really stupid tweet, even though everyone thinks it's true, is that none

00:18:56.540 of those institutions are being defunded. Education funding has only increased over the past several

00:19:02.900 decades. Increased dramatically in many cases, both private and public. Think about the cost of

00:19:10.220 schooling now in terms of what, where your taxes are going. And in terms of when you go to a private

00:19:15.480 school, the cost of college, for instance, or a state college, right? It's gone through the roof.

00:19:20.000 Healthcare prices gone through the roof. Social security has exploded. We haven't cut a single

00:19:24.620 thing from social security. That's the third rail of American politics. Welfare. We haven't seriously

00:19:29.200 cut welfare in this country. If anything, we've expanded it dramatically. Planned Parenthood's

00:19:33.180 market share of abortions has increased dramatically. And even with a Republican elected

00:19:37.760 president, their funding hasn't really been cut all that much. A little bit here, a little bit there,

00:19:43.380 but actually much of the funding that was cut from Planned Parenthood was Planned Parenthood's own

00:19:47.620 choice because they didn't want to play by the laws that were already on the books.

00:19:51.520 Public transportation, same thing, on and on and on. The only institution that's actually being cut

00:19:55.700 right now in real time is the police. During the Obama administration, what was getting cut?

00:20:02.280 You had military cuts. You had the sequester, right? You had those institutions, which I think a lot of

00:20:08.440 people consider to be the most powerful because, you know, it's guys walking around with guns on their

00:20:12.360 hips. Compared to those other institutions, they don't have a whole lot of power. The conservative

00:20:20.380 influence that is on them is, is not particularly strong. And when you think about shaping a country,

00:20:25.660 I know it doesn't seem like it at the time, but the teacher in the New York public school union who

00:20:31.500 teaches, you know, pre-kindergarten actually has more influence than any beat cop or any soldier who's

00:20:39.940 being deployed. When you think about actual nation crafting influence, the cops are coming under such

00:20:47.000 fire. They're being so defunded that even the show cops is being canceled. Bad boys, bad boys,

00:20:52.940 what you going, what you going to do, what you going to do when they come for you, bad boys,

00:20:56.640 bad boys is getting canceled. So, you know, I mean, I've been watching cops. Cops is older than I am,

00:21:01.360 actually. Cops has been on the air for 33 years or maybe 32 years. It was about to be 33,

00:21:07.560 but their network, the Paramount network just spiked it. They killed it.

00:21:12.580 They killed it because the cops are unpopular now. Okay. And this is a kind of absurd way of the

00:21:20.860 politically correct cancel culture showing you something that the broader popular culture has

00:21:26.660 already decided. Cops are bad. So even now TV shows about cops have to be bad. It's not just cops

00:21:33.680 getting canceled, by the way, which is too bad because I always thought that was a great, great show.

00:21:37.200 One of the early reality TV shows, even one of the great films of all time, Gone with the Wind

00:21:43.440 is being canceled because it depicts the South in the 19th century. And that is very politically

00:21:51.220 incorrect. And so it's being pulled from HBO Max. And there's a real irony to this, which is that the

00:21:57.360 movie Gone with the Wind depicting the 19th century South actually played an important role in the

00:22:06.560 development of racial relations in the country because Hattie McDaniel, the black actress in

00:22:12.900 Gone with the Wind, won an Oscar, broke a barrier for her performance. So just listen to her

00:22:20.320 introduction at the Oscars ceremony, which was much more bearable at the time. Much, you know,

00:22:26.420 back in those days, it wasn't all glitz and glamour and Jimmy Kimmel. It was, they kept things much

00:22:30.660 shorter. It was much more humble, but listen to this beautiful introduction and a recognition that her

00:22:34.920 winning the Oscar was an important step in American race relations.

00:22:38.380 I'm really, especially happy that I'm chosen to present this particular plaque. To me, it seems

00:22:46.880 more than dust a plaque of gold. It opens the doors of this room, moves back the walls,

00:22:54.840 and it enables us to embrace the whole of America, an America that we love, an America that almost alone

00:23:02.540 in the world today recognizes and pays tribute to those who give their best, regardless of creed, race,

00:23:10.500 or color. It is with the knowledge that this entire nation will stand and salute the presentation of

00:23:17.100 this plaque that I present the Academy Award for the best performance of an actress in supporting roles

00:23:24.520 during 1939, the Hattie with Daniels.

00:23:30.480 Listen to that introduction. What we're being told by the left now is that everybody before yesterday,

00:23:36.200 every day, everybody before we, our wonderful selves were born, was hopelessly bigoted and racist and terrible,

00:23:42.680 and now it's up to us to tear down their statues if we want to continue to be good people.

00:23:46.460 That introduction was very self-aware. That introduction was aware that there was a race

00:23:52.120 problem in America, and there were concrete steps you could take to ameliorate that race 0.71

00:23:56.700 problem, to bring people together. And this is true going back a long way. If you go back all

00:24:02.980 the way to the Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Independence written by that terrible 0.58

00:24:07.520 guy, Thomas Jefferson, who is a mean old racist who is so much worse than we are, you see that Americans

00:24:13.960 at the time understood there was a race problem. There was this peculiar institution of slavery that

00:24:19.140 a lot of people really didn't like, and that everybody recognized was foisting a very difficult

00:24:24.360 dilemma on the American colonies. They complained about it. You know, in the Declaration of Independence,

00:24:30.260 they're complaining about this and trying to work their way through it. That kind of nuance is lost

00:24:35.000 when you're in the business of tearing down statues. So Hattie McDaniel gets up there, 0.98

00:24:39.300 first black woman to win an Academy Award. Is her speech about how it's damn well about time a black 1.00

00:24:46.300 woman wins an Academy Award, and all you people in the room who gave it to me are terrible bigot racists.

00:24:51.080 No, not quite. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, fellow members of the motion picture

00:24:57.060 industry, and honored guests, this is one of the happiest moments of my life. And I want to thank each

00:25:03.080 one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of the awards. For your kindness, it has made me feel

00:25:09.140 very, very humble. And I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the

00:25:14.820 future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry.

00:25:22.720 My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel. And may I say thank you, and God bless you.

00:25:28.840 So this is one of the great acceptance speeches in the history of the Oscars. And most notably,

00:25:36.600 because it was short. Back in these days, people had class and decorum, so they knew not to make

00:25:42.220 their rambling speeches go on for 10 minutes. They kept it to, I think, Hattie McDaniel did it for a 0.90

00:25:46.620 minute or 90 seconds. But you heard what she said. She used phrases that are very politically incorrect.

00:25:51.760 She said, I hope to be a credit to my race. Now, that phrase, you certainly couldn't say anymore.

00:25:56.420 But what is in that phrase, what is in that phrase is an acknowledgement of the racial significance of

00:26:02.820 this moment. And to say, I hope that I am representing my race in a good way, just as

00:26:09.940 the presenter was representing her race in a good way. Imagine if the presenter came out and said,

00:26:14.360 you know, she was wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood and, you know, she made some sort of bigoted comments. 1.00

00:26:19.320 That woman would not have been a credit to her race. But what this is representing is a moment

00:26:25.100 of coming together, two people recognizing their significance. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts

00:26:28.960 and Sciences recognizing the significance of this and trying to help American race relations. And then

00:26:34.940 the word she used that's probably even less popular now is humble, humility. You're not allowed

00:26:42.200 to be humble anymore. We've got to be prideful. Pride, which we've always considered to be the queen of

00:26:47.200 all vices, the queen of all sins, is now considered the paragon of virtue. But humility is a lot better

00:26:53.160 than pride. When you consider the great saints of history, do you remember them for their pride or

00:26:59.020 their humility? If you're familiar with the real saints, then it's probably the humility. Saint John

00:27:04.840 Vianney, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Thomas Aquinas, one of the most intelligent, brilliant minds

00:27:10.260 ever to exist on earth, was known for his humility. At the end of his life, after Thomas Aquinas had

00:27:18.040 written the greatest works of theology, of philosophy ever written, Thomas Aquinas, after a religious 1.00

00:27:24.560 vision said, everything that I have written seems like so much straw to me now compared to what I've

00:27:30.940 seen. All of my efforts, my humble efforts have been really nothing compared to the immensity of God

00:27:38.300 himself. A perfect example of humility. Even the secular saints, even if you reject the real saints

00:27:45.440 and you're just talking about political saints or leftist saints or secular saints, I think of guys

00:27:50.740 like Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. These are people who are really by the secular culture considered

00:27:56.620 some of the greatest men to ever live. Well, what are those guys known for? Their humility, not their

00:28:01.680 pride. Gandhi in particular puts forward this image of humility. And Nelson Mandela, you know,

00:28:07.480 the guy was imprisoned for a long time. Nelson Mandela was involved in some very radical,

00:28:11.780 radical left-wing politics, which is why conservatives have a little bit of an issue

00:28:14.680 with him. But when he came out of prison, he represented a political humility, a political

00:28:21.820 healing, a political coming together. That's what we want. That's what we need more of. If you want to

00:28:28.160 come together and heal as a country, you need that sort of thing. But unfortunately, humility along with

00:28:32.860 the wind has been canceled. Race and sex are being used as tools of prideful ideologies to tear down

00:28:40.220 everything that we once held dear. Sometimes both race and sex are being used at the same time to do

00:28:46.780 that. This is my favorite article that I saw on the internet yesterday. This is from Amru Al-Kadi

00:28:55.180 in the Independent, British paper. The headline is, how Britain's colonial past can be traced through to

00:29:02.960 the transphobic feminism of today. Huh? What's that mean? Well, the tweet about it is even weirder.

00:29:10.320 Tweet about it, title, opinion. What the white supremacist roots of biological sex reveal about

00:29:18.800 transphobic feminism. Let me try to delve the depths of that very bizarre statement. 1.00

00:29:27.180 Transphobic feminism. These are people like J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, 1.00

00:29:30.640 who came out and said, men are men and women are women. And if men can be women,

00:29:33.820 the women don't mean anything at all. And I'm a woman and I want to identify as a woman. I don't 0.99

00:29:37.740 want men wearing a dress to tell me that I'm not really a woman or that they are women and can tell

00:29:42.300 me what a woman is. Okay, so that's transphobic feminism. Biological sex obviously is an offense 1.00

00:29:51.740 to the transgender ideology. And so biological sex has to be bad. But the only way that we can 1.00

00:29:57.440 understand good and evil today where we've lost that kind of dialogue is to say that anything bad

00:30:02.880 is white supremacist or white nationalist or white privilege or something to that effect, right?

00:30:12.800 That's the political way that we can understand ideas like good and bad and evil and virtue and

00:30:17.840 things like that. So biological sex now is white supremacist. News to me because I actually am under

00:30:23.120 the idea that black people have biology too and Asian people have biology too. But I don't know.

00:30:30.060 Allegedly, that is not the case. It gets down to this debate that happened between Daniel Radcliffe

00:30:35.300 and J.K. Rowling. J.K. Rowling, you know her position on it. Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry

00:30:40.480 Potter in J.K. Rowling's movies, came out and said, transgender women are women. And any statement to

00:30:47.940 the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice

00:30:52.140 given by professional healthcare associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than

00:30:57.840 either Joe or I, referring to J.K. Rowling. First of all, professional healthcare associations don't

00:31:04.520 know anything about the nature of mankind. They're not philosophers. They don't understand the human

00:31:13.640 nature itself. They don't understand these internal sorts of questions. They have no more expertise on

00:31:19.120 it than anyone else. And as we've seen in the past few weeks, the public health experts don't appear to

00:31:23.860 have much expertise. They are tools of political ideology. But moreover, look at how ridiculous

00:31:28.560 this is. You've got a man, Daniel Radcliffe, attacking a woman, J.K. Rowling, who's been very

00:31:36.080 good to him, by the way, because she said women should be able to define what a woman is. Women should 1.00

00:31:41.960 exist. And Daniel Radcliffe says, no, how dare you? I'm a man. There is an article. This is such an

00:31:46.300 outrageous article. The article is titled, J.K. Rowling is still talking. J.K. Rowling is still

00:31:54.920 talking, written by a man. How outrageous. You've got one man who J.K. Rowling has really helped to

00:32:04.340 create his whole career, attacking her. Another man attacking her, telling her to shut up because she 0.98

00:32:09.180 says that women are women. Because she says, rightly, that if the transgender ideology is 1.00

00:32:16.440 correct, then to be a woman doesn't mean anything at all because men can be women too. That's the 0.98

00:32:23.200 state that we're in. That's what happens when you start pulling down the statues, not just of our

00:32:28.220 history, but of our philosophy, of our understanding of ourselves, of human nature. We think that we're

00:32:33.060 liberating ourselves from that. In a way, we're liberating ourselves. We're liberating ourselves from

00:32:38.900 every single thing that grounds us. We're liberating ourselves from ourselves, and we're going to get

00:32:43.000 smushed by that statue. We've got to get to the mailbag first, though. I've got to thank our friends

00:32:47.260 over at, oh, over at you. We're very, very close to 60,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel, which is

00:32:54.740 very important because my friend Drew Klavan decided to start this little race to beat me on the YouTube

00:33:00.920 subscribers without telling me about this. So thank you for allowing us to pull ahead here. I really

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00:33:39.780 today. We will be right back with The Mailbag.

00:33:54.440 And speaking of exclusive bonus content, you know, I'm going to be heading over to my friend Stephen

00:33:58.920 Crowder's show right after this. So you can check that out. That's going to be on Crowder's YouTube

00:34:03.340 channel when it goes up live. But it should be a lot of fun. I always like hanging out with that

00:34:08.220 guy. It's usually one expects the unexpected. So I'll see you over there. Let's get into The Mailbag

00:34:14.780 from Stacey. As the history nerd, I'm seeing something odd on social media. Perhaps you are

00:34:20.340 too. That those lovely African stoles that the Democrats were wearing for their photo op 0.99

00:34:25.260 were Ashanti in origin. Perhaps Democrats didn't research enough to know that the Ashanti tribe was one

00:34:30.860 of the trading partners with Portugal for enslaved Africans in the 18th and 19th centuries. So I ask

00:34:36.920 you to ask the Democrats, one, what happened to the evils of cultural appropriation? Two, does this

00:34:43.800 mean they actually support slavery in the slave trade? Three, recreating the position that caused

00:34:48.320 the death of George Floyd, this sort of irony that people are now kneeling? Really, keep up the good

00:34:53.040 work. Daily Wire is where I get my sanity check. You make a good point. First of all, on cultural

00:34:58.060 appropriation, that was always a cynical attack. That's just an attack to shut up conservatives.

00:35:03.560 Okay? There was always going to be a double standard there. The left is going to do whatever

00:35:07.420 they want in terms of cultural appropriation, and the right doesn't get to do anything. It's just a

00:35:12.340 way of saying shut up, which is what the left does to us all the time. On the Kente scarves that they

00:35:18.040 were wearing, which I'm really sorry that Chuck Schumer didn't go the full way and wear the full

00:35:23.160 dashiki with the kufi hat or something. He just wore the stole. You know, I didn't know this about

00:35:30.700 the Ashanti tribe. I mean, I'll look into it. It wouldn't surprise me at all because the left does

00:35:34.740 this a lot. You'll see very often white liberals are the people promoting the socialist holiday,

00:35:42.100 the invention of the 1960s, Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa, which virtually nobody on earth celebrates. It was

00:35:48.120 created by an African-American critical studies professor in Los Angeles, and it's supposed to

00:35:55.620 be a pan-African holiday, but it's just a socialist invention. And the irony of it is that the phrase

00:36:02.620 Kwanzaa comes from Swahili, which is an East African language, and yet virtually every African-American

00:36:09.820 is of West African origin. It doesn't matter, okay? The specifics there don't matter because it's just

00:36:15.340 ideological. It's just a narrative creation. It doesn't have a root in real historical experience.

00:36:22.940 And so I'm not surprised at all that Chuck Schumer, who's also contriving these sort of

00:36:27.480 political conveniences, doesn't know the whole deep history of the African stole that he decided 0.57

00:36:33.400 to wear for a photo op. From Mitch. Hey, Michael, with all of the washing of the feet, genuflecting,

00:36:40.200 kneeling, and reciting of creeds, does the Roman Catholic Church have grounds to sue Black Lives

00:36:45.720 Matter over copyright infringement? Asking for a friend. Also, what are your personal thoughts on

00:36:51.040 this event? Love the show. Yeah, this is a good comparison, I think, which is that you now have a

00:36:56.200 secular liturgy of liberalism, and like all liturgies that have come out of the secular West,

00:37:03.020 they are mimicry of Catholic liturgy, because that is the defining liturgy of the West that has shaped

00:37:09.340 so much of our history and our culture. But it's perverted, at least, or it's inverted. It's just

00:37:15.120 like a weird liturgy, because instead of worshiping the creator, we're worshiping certain creations.

00:37:21.440 Instead of recognizing the original sin lurking in all of our hearts, we're just recognizing this

00:37:26.260 little portion of sin, which is called racism. Still sinful, but not the whole story here.

00:37:34.680 Instead of recognizing our own brokenness and fallenness, we're recognizing only the brokenness

00:37:39.080 and fallenness of white privilege, for instance. And so things go off kilter here. In a way, I have

00:37:46.440 empathy for the Black Lives Matter, left wing, even Antifa. Even these insane, violent, thuggish Antifa

00:37:55.000 guys, I have a sort of empathy, or at least sympathy for, because they have natural religious longings

00:38:01.940 that they cannot express religiously, because they've convinced themselves of a bunch of stupid

00:38:07.000 religious ideas. So they still have to express them some way. It's like steam. You know, the steam's

00:38:12.060 got to come out of the engine somewhere. The steam, or the steam, rather, has to come out. You know,

00:38:15.620 it's too pressure, full of pressure. So it's got to be released somewhere. It's being released in

00:38:19.800 politics. And that is not going to make anybody happy. That is not going to fulfill that longing.

00:38:23.860 And it's going to make things a lot worse. So I would recommend, since they've got the cheap

00:38:28.240 knockoff of the Catholic liturgy, maybe they head over to a church whenever those reopen,

00:38:32.260 attend a mass and get the real thing. From Jenna, speaking of Catholicism,

00:38:38.500 I'm a Catholic woman in her mid-20s. I met my boyfriend three years ago when I was struggling

00:38:42.620 with my faith. Due to this, we did not wait until marriage to sleep together. But especially in the

00:38:47.480 past year or so, I've been struggling with guilt and wanting to stop until we're married. How do I

00:38:52.180 tell my boyfriend? He respects your opinion. So what are some arguments as to why this would be a good

00:38:56.920 decision for ourselves and future marriage? Thanks. I think this is a great idea. And I, you know,

00:39:01.080 it's weird because a lot of people beat themselves up over this. They say, okay, well, I did one thing

00:39:06.260 in the past, and then I've now changed my mind about that thing. But I feel like I've still got

00:39:11.240 to do that thing, which I now think is wrong. No, you don't. You've changed your mind. Now change

00:39:15.020 your behavior. It's a little bit easier to change your mind than to change your behavior sometimes.

00:39:20.480 But surely your behavior should follow from that changed mind. What are some good arguments for this?

00:39:27.480 Well, a good argument from tradition is simply that this has developed when our society had a sane

00:39:34.660 sense of social relations, and it developed presumably for a reason. And you actually don't

00:39:40.340 need to boil that down to an explicit, rationalist, ideological summation of why it works. The very fact

00:39:48.500 that it has worked for so long and led to flourishing cultures is in itself, actually, a pretty good

00:39:53.160 argument. Why is it better to wait until marriage? Well, it's better to wait until marriage, even

00:39:58.660 though in this culture, virtually nobody has done that, especially among millennials or Gen Z. But

00:40:04.000 when we realize it is better, why is it better? Well, because it represents a commitment. It

00:40:09.160 represents a giving wholly of yourselves to the other person. Presumably, if you've been sleeping

00:40:14.680 together before marriage, probably you're using contraception, I would imagine. That in itself,

00:40:19.220 also part of Catholic teaching, is withholding. Withholding a very important piece of yourself

00:40:25.960 from your spouse. And so, in a way, it represents you and your spouse using each other merely for

00:40:32.180 pleasure, not to give yourself wholly to someone. Norm Macdonald, the comedian, has a great bit on sex.

00:40:40.220 I forget which album of his this is, but go back and check it out. He walks in, he goes into this

00:40:45.760 nightclub, he goes, okay, so I was thinking the other day that sex is a filthy, shameful thing that

00:40:51.460 is obviously only meant for procreation. And it gets this big shock and surprise from the whole

00:40:57.140 audience. But the thing is, he's sort of right, and he goes through all the reasons why. So that's a

00:41:03.520 more comedic way of thinking about why this is. And another reason that it might behoove you to stop

00:41:10.580 now and then wait until you get married, which, by the way, good friends of mine have done. Friends who

00:41:15.760 were definitely getting down to business before they had a reversion to the faith. And then they

00:41:21.380 have paused it before their marriage. One of the reasons is that the anticipation will make

00:41:28.060 the marriage itself, one of the most significant events of your life, more special. You know,

00:41:32.900 the kind of Catholic idea of the world is first the fast, then the feast. The idea is we live in time

00:41:38.300 and space. And so it is important discipline for us to fast sometimes, to deprive ourselves of certain

00:41:44.460 things, to discipline ourselves a little bit. And then on feast days, to gratify some more of those

00:41:51.500 longings. And through this process, we come to a fuller understanding, not just of our bodies,

00:41:57.360 but of our spiritual selves as well. And the tough line on other religious ideas, and certainly on

00:42:04.200 secularism, is instead of first the fast, then the feast, you have first the feast, then the hangover.

00:42:08.760 And that's the culture that we're living in right now. And that's just not the best way to live for

00:42:15.080 human flourishing. So I hope somewhere in there, you get a good argument to convince your boyfriend.

00:42:20.900 Because I'm telling you, if you take a little break for a while, it'll be that much better when

00:42:24.680 you start again. Okay. From Daniel. Congrats on beating Klavan's YouTube subs. Thank you very much.

00:42:31.440 I'm a conservative member of a very far-left music industry. I've always kept my mouth shut on

00:42:35.520 politics among my peers. So far, that's been easy. However, with the new rise of BLM mandating that

00:42:42.300 the huge majority of people I work with start, you know, talking about these things, I'm starting to

00:42:47.280 think that I'm going to be forced to either voice what side I'm on, or risk being exposed by somebody

00:42:53.780 else due to my silent complicity with white supremacy, quote unquote. Should I continue to censor

00:42:59.360 myself, or should I go all in for patriotism, justice, liberty, dying in a blaze of glory?

00:43:06.880 Patriotism, justice, and liberty are important things. More important even than that is the truth.

00:43:13.320 Okay. And what you're being asked to do is lie and you shouldn't lie. I think that there's good reason

00:43:20.180 to sometimes not just go all out with what you think. You don't need to go to every water cooler

00:43:26.620 conversation and tell them how much you love Donald Trump. You can be wise as a serpent and innocent

00:43:32.120 as a dove, but you shouldn't lie. Okay. And we're in this very dishonest political moment, very scary

00:43:39.140 political moment, where you're being told if you don't go along with a radical, false, dishonest political

00:43:45.940 movement, then you're a terrible bigot, white supremacist murderer. And so you've got to constantly

00:43:53.700 perform your affirmation of this, this crazy leftist movement. I wouldn't lie. Okay.

00:44:01.300 I haven't lied generally in, in my public life. And that has cost me certain things. Okay. That does

00:44:08.200 come with costs. Every night I go to bed, I put my head on the pillow. I'm grinning ear to ear. I sleep

00:44:12.780 like a baby. Okay. But there was a cost to that. You might have to pay a cost to that. There are times

00:44:18.840 in life when you are told lie and have a pleasant professional life, you know, get more money, get

00:44:25.920 more success, whatever, or tell the truth, be honest, live with integrity and take a cost.

00:44:34.640 You, you're, this is an eternal decision that you could make. I mean, this is, this is up to you.

00:44:39.380 It's your life, but you know, which one I would be making. All right. Let's see. What do we have?

00:44:47.560 Last question from Nick. Dear Knowles, master of words and phrases that have been dead for 100

00:44:52.200 years. Oh my God. Are you serious? You think that I use old timey phrases? That's so embarrassing. I

00:44:57.200 feel like I'm, I'm sweating like a whore in church here. As a white man, I'm doing everything I can to 0.93

00:45:02.560 listen and be aware of my whiteness like BLM tells me to do. Unfortunately, after spending weeks

00:45:09.040 refraining from speaking and only listening, I'm no closer to fixing my whiteness. I am still white. 0.97

00:45:14.480 However, I've discovered a possible solution. Since the crime is not an action, but rather actual

00:45:19.240 skin color, I've come to the conclusion that I must literally erase whiteness by darkening my skin to 1.00

00:45:25.720 cover up the shame and fully become an ally. Do you think this is the best approach to erase

00:45:31.320 whiteness in America? Only if you want to get elected governor of Virginia, then it's a good,

00:45:36.600 but only if you're a Democrat, by the way, it's not going to work. If you're a Republican,

00:45:40.040 you have made a really good point here, which is if you're white, you'll be smeared as a bigot

00:45:47.640 just, just by virtue of being white. But if you try to change the fact that you're white, 0.62

00:45:52.620 you'll certainly be smeared as a bigot because you will be wearing black face. If you speak up 0.96

00:45:59.660 against racism, you will be smeared as presumptuous as using your white privilege

00:46:05.780 ultimately as a bigot. But if you are silent and you don't voice your support for these radical

00:46:11.300 leftist movements, you will also be smeared as a bigot because as we've been told, silence is

00:46:15.520 violence. Silence is consent to white supremacy. What the radical left has done here is set you up

00:46:22.620 in a situation where you cannot win if you accept their premises. So perhaps the key

00:46:27.200 is not to accept their premises and certainly, certainly not to dress up in blackface. I don't 0.99

00:46:33.400 think that's going to help the situation at all. That's our show. I'll see you over at Crowder

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Ep. 561 - American Taliban

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