The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 649 - Defund The Thought Police

00:00:00.000 The White House is no longer mincing its words on the coronavirus lockdowns. On this,

00:00:06.540 the 245th day of 15 days to slow the spread, the White House, specifically our wonderful

00:00:11.720 White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who makes all of our hearts go pitter patter. 0.92

00:00:16.080 Kayleigh McEnany came out and used a perfect word to describe the ever increasing COVID lockdowns. 0.97

00:00:23.520 She called them Orwellian. I think a lot of the guidelines you're seeing are Orwellian.

00:00:29.340 Let me start by saying the CDC has put out considerations as we prepare to go about

00:00:34.960 Thanksgiving, about socially distancing, wearing masks, doing what you can. There's a whole list,

00:00:39.880 a page of very good considerations. And in that, they say, we're not recommending a certain number

00:00:43.840 of people, but we are giving considerations that you should put in place. And I think that's the

00:00:47.740 American way. The American people know how to protect their health. We've dealt with COVID for

00:00:51.620 many months, but it's Orwellian. It is Orwellian. There's a whole lot of newspeak going on,

00:00:57.040 and there are a whole lot of thought police on the left. The left wants to defund the police. I think

00:01:02.520 probably it would be a little wiser to defund the thought police, particularly as they ramp up

00:01:08.200 their control. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:18.720 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from yesterday is from Bart Simpson. I imagine that's a

00:01:24.320 pseudonym, but that's what he says his name is. Bart Simpson writes, funeral homes should add a

00:01:30.140 Republican voting option for the deceased. I think that's absolutely true. You know, conservatives

00:01:35.900 have long said, I think this is Chesterton's word, that because we view tradition so highly,

00:01:43.300 because we look to our founding fathers, because we look to our ancestors, that we're the greatest

00:01:49.360 Democrats of all, because we don't just want to enfranchise the living people. We also want to

00:01:54.620 enfranchise the people who came before us. We want to learn from, from their wisdom. We want a democracy

00:01:59.840 of the dead. And the left obviously took that suggestion and they really, they got it just a

00:02:04.720 little bit wrong because what they ended up doing is putting ballots in the hands of dead people

00:02:08.840 in states all over this country. But I agree. If the dead are going to be enfranchised,

00:02:14.200 if we're going to do a lot of dead voter outreach, we need to, we need to make sure that the Democrats

00:02:19.820 lose their lock on that vote. I also have some exciting news for this show before we get into

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00:02:50.060 relax and unwind. Well, that is no more. We will be adding a fifth show starting very shortly and we

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00:05:03.600 Kayleigh McEnany calls out the Orwellian guidelines. I'm pleased she did this. I felt

00:05:08.920 the Trump administration handled this virus about as well as anybody could, but it still left a lot

00:05:14.640 to be desired. You know, this was a sort of singular attack, both as a scientific and viral

00:05:20.600 matter from China and then as a political matter from the left in the United States, the way they

00:05:24.700 exploited these lockdowns for political purposes. And early on, you heard President Trump, you know,

00:05:30.320 using very cautious language about it. Now though, the White House is saying, look, these guidelines

00:05:34.340 are Orwellian. They're absolutely over the top. This is the thought police coming in. You know,

00:05:40.800 any term that you could imagine from George Orwell's 1984. You know, the term Orwellian is overused.

00:05:48.440 Sometimes people make fun of it. The reason it's overused is because many, if not most people,

00:05:54.060 read 1984 in school. Well, today I think people just read Ibram Kendi in school, you know, and White

00:05:59.420 Fragility and all that stuff. But at least until very recently, you read 1984 in school. And so

00:06:04.520 people would use that term. And, you know, people would ask, does this really describe our society?

00:06:11.240 Or do people just use it because it's one of the few books that they actually have read? You know,

00:06:15.360 it's sort of like how everyone compares every historical moment to the Holocaust or the fall

00:06:19.960 of the Roman Empire because those are the only two historical events that anyone knows anything

00:06:23.600 about. However, the term Orwellian is apt here. It's well used. Kayleigh McEnany was right. 1984

00:06:33.360 is a sort of political prophecy, right? It was written in 1948 and then published in 49. And it's about

00:06:40.700 this dystopian future where an oppressive government is, you know, using the manipulation

00:06:47.420 of language to change people's minds and they're enforcing radical behavior and promoting all sorts

00:06:54.420 of radical ideas. Newspeak in particular, which is the language of 1984, is almost exactly a parallel

00:07:03.400 to political correctness. But how did Orwell do this? I mean, the reason this describes society

00:07:07.720 is because it's a political prophecy and prophets do not just predict the future. What prophets do

00:07:13.800 is speak the truth. What George Orwell did here was not predict, oh gosh, how did he get it right?

00:07:20.900 He had a crystal ball and he figured out what our politics would look like in 40 years or 50 years.

00:07:27.320 No, he just saw what was happening in 1948. And then he extrapolated that out. We've discussed a

00:07:34.580 little bit, I mean, just political correctness, which 1984 prophecies very well. You can see the

00:07:40.100 origins of political correctness in the 1920s. So maybe it flourishes in the 80s and 90s.

00:07:44.620 But if you were really paying attention, if you're a good observer, you saw that happening.

00:07:47.980 And that's what's happening here. Specifically, the think poll, that's a term from 1984, refers to the

00:07:54.180 thought police. You know, the experts who are constantly telling us what we can think, what we can't

00:07:59.840 think, and who often preach one thing and practice another thing. You see this right now in the

00:08:05.640 Democratic Party. Top politicians invoking the experts, the thought police, are telling you to

00:08:11.700 avoid gatherings. They're telling you not to have Thanksgiving dinner. They're telling you if you do

00:08:17.360 have Thanksgiving, you can only invite 10 people. So your least favorite children are not allowed to

00:08:22.240 go to Thanksgiving. They have to sit outside. Maybe next year there'll be better girls and boys, 0.99

00:08:26.440 and then they can get invited to Thanksgiving too. They're telling you to wear the masks,

00:08:29.780 even though there's a huge new study just came out on masks that, you know, I hate to say I told you

00:08:35.140 so, but I told you so. Proves a lot of conservatives right, proves a lot of leftists wrong on that.

00:08:40.860 And then those politicians violate all of the rules right now. Maybe they've come home by now,

00:08:46.640 but as of a few days ago, a number of California lawmakers were in Maui. They were there with a number

00:08:54.160 of lawmakers from other places, Texas and Washington state. They were there as part of the Independent

00:09:01.220 Voter Project Conference, which has been going on for more than a decade. Took place at the Fairmont

00:09:06.380 Kealani on Maui's southwest shore. They shrunk the size of this conference this year. Usually they

00:09:12.900 book 120 rooms. This year it was only 50. 50 people from three different states, lawmakers, liberals,

00:09:19.180 fly to this beautiful shore in Maui and they gather together and they have nice wine and they have nice

00:09:25.560 food and they just have a lovely vacation. You're not allowed to go see your dying relatives. You're

00:09:29.700 not allowed to go to church, but Democratic lawmakers, they're allowed to go to Maui with one

00:09:34.380 another because they are not afraid of the virus. They don't take this seriously at all. I highly doubt

00:09:39.420 that any of them are wearing masks. In fact, if you look at some of the pictures floating around,

00:09:43.080 they're obviously not wearing masks because they don't believe this stuff. They're not living their life

00:09:48.120 in fear of the virus. Neither am I because I don't believe the politicians. But sadly, a lot of

00:09:53.700 people do believe these politicians, these sociopaths. And it's a huge violation of the

00:10:00.100 public trust to do that. It's not just a few silly politicians. Because you might say, well, I don't 0.99

00:10:05.400 know, those Democrat lawmakers, they just don't know any better. You know, they should be listening to

00:10:09.320 the experts. I'm right to cancel Thanksgiving and wear the mask everywhere. They're wrong. But actually,

00:10:15.420 actually, even the top medical experts are ignoring these coronavirus guidelines in a truly Orwellian

00:10:24.900 manner. So you saw yesterday, we actually played it on the show, Governor Gavin Newsom, who's

00:10:31.140 Nussolini, he's trying to lock down the whole state again. Nussolini gets caught going to a very fancy

00:10:37.800 birthday party, which he said was outdoors, but it actually looks like it was indoors at the French

00:10:42.320 Laundry, which is a Michelin rated, extraordinarily expensive restaurant. It's like $350 or $400 a

00:10:47.680 plate. And he was there with a lot of his friends and they were all shoulder to shoulder and nobody

00:10:51.260 was wearing masks and everybody was swilling great wine. And no one was afraid of this virus that they

00:10:56.460 tell you, you have to live your life cowering in fear of. Then he got caught and he made an apology

00:11:01.400 and he tried to, you know, move past it and say, okay, no big deal. Turns out it wasn't just news in

00:11:08.060 there. Turns out some of California's top medical authorities were there as well. So here we had

00:11:16.640 the California Medical Association CEO, Dustin Corcoran. He was there. The California Medical

00:11:25.780 Association lobbyist, Janice Norman, were both at this dinner. So you can't just say, well, the

00:11:33.180 politicians aren't listening to the experts. The experts themselves, the top dogs at this medical

00:11:39.180 association, they don't care about the virus. They're not worried. Of course they're not worried.

00:11:44.760 It has a very, very, very, very low mortality rate. It always has, but especially now.

00:11:53.220 If you look, people are always talking about how the cases are spiking throughout the country and

00:11:57.020 it was such a slate of hand because the media went from reporting on deaths and hospitalizations to the

00:12:01.680 cases. But look at the deaths. You see the cases spiking up. And if you look at the deaths,

00:12:06.360 they're way, way, way, way down. They're barely registering on the graphs. Good thing, right?

00:12:11.720 We now have these treatments. We now have these vaccines. We now, and we have actually for some

00:12:15.460 time had treatments for the virus. And yet these people tell you, you've got to live in fear. Well,

00:12:20.500 they do not themselves. If that isn't Orwellian, I don't know what is. And by the way, the last holdout

00:12:25.280 for them are the masks. And we talked a little yesterday about why there's this divide over the

00:12:29.800 masks. It seems conservatives hate the masks. Liberals love the masks. And some squishy people

00:12:37.000 say, why do the masks have to be political? And the masks have to be political because they're a

00:12:41.680 public matter. When you've got hundreds of millions of people all masking themselves like

00:12:46.640 banditos in public, that is a political question because it affects how our society works, how it's

00:12:52.120 governed, how you can go into shops, how you can go into access government services, how you can go

00:12:56.320 into restaurants, how you can go to church, or if you can't go to church. Obviously, that is political.

00:13:01.380 And I have been saying from the very beginning that the efficacy of these masks has been overstated.

00:13:07.300 I have regularly cited epidemiologists who have backed me up on this, even though I take those

00:13:13.240 studies with a grain of salt. I figure if the studies are to be invoked, then we should at least

00:13:17.760 point out the ones that support the conservative point of view. Pointed out that Dr. Fauci said masks are

00:13:22.680 BS in the beginning of this. Pointed out that the Surgeon General said that masks are BS in the

00:13:26.460 beginning of this. Then, through political correctness, they changed their tune. Talk

00:13:30.200 about Orwellian. That which is not prohibited is compulsory. Now we have a study that even the

00:13:36.060 New York Times had to report on out of Denmark that shows the masks are much, much, much, much,

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00:14:58.940 trueunderdog.com or anywhere you get your podcasts. This is a Danish study. I love it. You know, I don't

00:15:06.780 usually enjoy reading the New York Times. About once a year, I enjoy reading the New York Times,

00:15:11.340 and it's when stories like this come out. They were wrong. The alarmists were wrong.

00:15:18.760 The masks do not protect the people wearing the masks, according to this study.

00:15:25.020 The Danish researchers found out that mask wearers were not protected from becoming infected by the

00:15:30.580 coronavirus any more than their maskless counterparts. This contradicts the mainstream consensus.

00:15:37.460 This contradicts the CDC, which has gotten so much of this wrong. And it reminds us that scientific

00:15:45.580 discoveries are not made by consensus. This is when I want to bang my head against a wall.

00:15:51.520 When I hear people, whether it's in climate change or the coronavirus or anything else, say,

00:15:57.260 well, Michael, the majority of scientific experts say blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay. So what? Is it true

00:16:05.880 or is it not true? Science is not a democratic process. Material inquiry, free thought for that

00:16:12.580 matter. Forget just this narrow realm of material scientific inquiry. All free thought, all science in

00:16:18.400 the broader sense, meaning knowledge, is not a democratic inquiry. In fact, the truth is very often

00:16:24.160 unpopular. Actually, consensus is usually a sign that perhaps some thinking has gone a little bit

00:16:32.900 wrong. And that's what apparently happened here. These surgical masks did not, we're talking about

00:16:39.980 surgical masks, did not protect the wearers against infection with the coronavirus in a large

00:16:44.600 randomized clinical trial. So if the surgical masks aren't going to do it, probably your little

00:16:48.480 hanky that you wear or your dirty bandana or whatever you're wearing on your face isn't going to do

00:16:53.700 very much either. Now, there is still an open question as to whether or not the masks will

00:16:59.540 protect the virus from spreading. And there's still an open question about how exactly the virus spreads.

00:17:05.120 And there's still open questions about those much discussed droplets. Okay. Most people are wearing

00:17:12.700 the mask to protect themselves. They might even say that they're not wearing the mask for that reason,

00:17:16.860 but that's obviously why they are wearing the mask. They'll walk by you and they'll pull up the mask.

00:17:22.120 Actually, I'll give you the great example of how I know this is true. I don't wear the mask. I almost

00:17:26.840 never wear the mask. I've always thought it's completely ridiculous. And I certainly am not going to 0.90

00:17:31.420 wear the mask if I'm walking around outside. And when I'm walking around outside and I encounter some

00:17:36.380 very, very scared looking liberal millennials, and you can always tell whether it's the haircut or the,

00:17:42.880 maybe there's like a, I don't know, lots of kind of weird, you can just tell, you know,

00:17:48.040 they've got with the clothing and you can see a mile away, a liberal millennial. I'm walking and

00:17:53.880 they see me without a mask and their eyes bug out like Don Knotts on, on the Andy Griffith show.

00:17:59.500 You know, I just pop right out of their head and they'll immediately, even if they're not wearing,

00:18:04.380 they'll pull that mask up right over their nose. Are they pulling that mask up right over their nose

00:18:08.760 because they're afraid of infecting me with the virus? No. I'm obviously not concerned in any way

00:18:14.960 being affected with the, infected with the virus. Not because I don't think I can get it just because

00:18:19.840 I'm, I actually think there's a very good chance that I will get it at some point,

00:18:23.020 but because I'm not going to live my life in absolute fear. And because I don't think the

00:18:28.120 masks are going to be particularly effective at protecting me from the virus anyway. So I don't

00:18:32.500 wear it. And I'm, by the way, I'm backed up by this Danish study. They pull it up to protect

00:18:37.600 themselves. And what we now know, if you're one for believe in studies is that that is completely

00:18:44.300 ridiculous, completely ridiculous, but it is Orwellian, especially, and people forget it now, 1.00

00:18:51.000 but especially the way the masks went from, don't do it, only idiots wear masks. Eric Swalwell, 1.00

00:18:55.400 remember the former future president, Eric Swalwell said, if you wear the masks, stop buying

00:19:00.180 the masks, people stop doing it. It's dumb. Don't do it. Now we all, we all have to wear the masks. 1.00

00:19:05.160 That was a real Orwellian flip in the way that in 1984, the country, Oceania, will just switch

00:19:12.840 which country they're at war with. One day they're at war with East Asia, but they've always been at 0.99

00:19:16.580 war with East Asia. One day they're at war with Eurasia, but they've always been at war with 0.95

00:19:20.260 Eurasia. They constantly, they send ideas down the memory hole. They rewrite history. That's what 1.00

00:19:26.780 we're seeing. But there's another feature of 1984 that makes this moment Orwellian.

00:19:34.220 Everyone's focusing on the new speak and political correctness and the rewriting of history and all

00:19:37.880 that. Yeah, it's very important. The other aspect, and I suppose it's a minor part of the book, is

00:19:43.440 that it's not, 1984 is not just about creating a uniformity of pleasure. It's not just about

00:19:50.740 creating a kind of total conforming love. It's also about creating a uniformity of hate.

00:19:59.500 It's also, I mean, there's a, there is a practice in the book called the two minutes hate. And every day,

00:20:04.800 everyone will gather around the screens all over them. And the villain, the contrived imaginary

00:20:10.720 villain will pop on screen and everyone just has to hate him. And you just have to hate this guy so

00:20:15.060 much. And then that's over and you can go back to your work. We have two minutes hate here in America.

00:20:19.820 We have two minutes hate and we actually just saw it in a viral video that some, some friends and some

00:20:25.500 listeners to the show have sent to me asking what exactly white people are superior at, which we will 0.92

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00:22:18.000 gone very viral on a huge YouTube channel. I think it has something like 10 million subscribers to this

00:22:23.120 channel. This is the current embodiment of the Orwellian concept of two minutes hate, of dehumanizing

00:22:31.660 people, of suppressing one's own empathy, trying to stamp out one's own empathy. Ironically, in the

00:22:37.820 name of equity and justice and compassion. The video opens up with a simple question. What are white 0.83

00:22:44.520 people superior at? They're asking people who I think they're all black, but you know, some, I don't 0.98

00:22:49.760 know, race is sometimes a blurry thing. So who knows? But I guess at least the premise is that this

00:22:55.620 outlet is asking black people, what are white people superior at? It starts out funny enough. 1.00

00:23:01.160 What exactly are white people superior at? Oh, according to television, everything. A white man

00:23:06.140 could fly. Even a white woman, she'd be four foot one. She knew karate. She could take down 15 people. 0.99

00:23:14.520 What are white people superior at? Man. Huh. Um. Oh, God. What are white people superior at? 0.99

00:23:35.760 They just keep talking, mostly about their pets. White people love their dogs. Like, that's all you see. 0.99

00:23:42.140 Cats. Letting them get on your countertops while you're cooking. Yes. I get that you love your pet,

00:23:48.040 but like, you need to take it everywhere. Like, everywhere. I guess, you know, hey. Emotional

00:23:52.920 support animals, I guess. What exactly are white people superior at? 0.93

00:23:56.140 She, she, she, she, she, she, she.

00:23:57.420 Men, like, making cereal. Casseroles. What kind of casserole? Tuna. It's always tuna. What do you mean?

00:24:03.680 It's always tuna. Using mayonnaise in a lot of their recipes. Making bland food. Unseasoned chicken.

00:24:10.060 Okay. So it starts out funny enough. It's kind of an interesting aspect of the video that

00:24:16.040 a number of these people are obviously part white. I mean, they're obviously, some people would be

00:24:22.420 indistinguishable from white people, but they identify, maybe they're a mixed race or something

00:24:26.220 like that, as many, many people are, but they identify as black and they identify sort of against

00:24:31.240 being white, even, even if they are in part white. But you know, I think these comments are actually

00:24:36.080 pretty funny. What are white people good at? I don't know, making cereal? Yes, it's true. 1.00

00:24:40.560 White people do prefer cereal. You know, what are people, what are they superior at? Oh, 1.00

00:24:45.920 making tuna casserole with lots of mayonnaise. Yeah, that's true. Guilty as charged. I do. I love

00:24:51.340 a tuna melt. Call me. I know I'm a little swarthy to be a wasp, but I do. Okay. That's kind of,

00:24:56.520 that's kind of funny. Of course, there's a hypocrisy here because if another channel went out and asked

00:25:00.980 the question, what are black people superior at? And they gave any answers similar to this about 0.53

00:25:05.720 food or anything else, you know, the makers of that video would be canceled. They would be ostracized.

00:25:11.320 They would probably be sent away from the country and banished. They would lose their job. It would

00:25:15.440 be called racist and white supremacist. Sure. There's that hypocrisy, but I'm just judging on 0.62

00:25:19.980 the quality of the video itself. Yeah, it's kind of funny. White people do take their dogs too many 1.00

00:25:24.460 places. It drives me absolutely insane. And it's almost always white people on the little planes with the 1.00

00:25:29.140 little yappy things. In the restaurants now, all these millennial white women pretend that 1.00

00:25:33.900 they're little poodles, little mini poodles or emotional support animals. It is ridiculous. 1.00

00:25:38.320 It's a funny thing. We can laugh at that. Okay. But then the video takes a turn because then it 0.98

00:25:43.620 stops being about these funny cultural and racial differences. Then it becomes about resentment.

00:25:51.340 White people are great at having fun. That's a function of white supremacy because they just don't 0.98

00:25:58.080 have as many stresses as we do. White people are very superior at their privilege and utilizing 1.00

00:26:03.240 it. We do not have the privilege to do whatever and however we want to. 0.95

00:26:07.800 What exactly are white people superior at? Not getting arrested. 0.56

00:26:12.020 I was driving down the street, I was driving down the highway with a friend of mine who was

00:26:15.880 white. And he was like, I just want to pull over and pee. And I'm in the passenger seat.

00:26:20.020 And I was like, please don't. Because a black man thinks differently. If I pull over to the 1.00

00:26:23.440 side of the road and pee, a cop is going to be right behind me to punish me. 1.00

00:26:27.720 What exactly are white people superior at? 0.98

00:26:29.960 Insecurity. 0.98

00:26:30.720 Pretending.

00:26:31.380 Fear.

00:26:32.000 Being fearful of nothing. 0.99

00:26:33.940 Being ignorant. 0.99

00:26:34.860 Blame. 1.00

00:26:35.280 Letting their egos control their every move.

00:26:37.520 Privilege.

00:26:38.080 Privilege.

00:26:38.660 Filling victimized.

00:26:39.740 Playing the victim. 0.98

00:26:40.660 Congratulating themselves over s*** that they're incompetent at or that should have already 0.98

00:26:45.320 been done. 0.99

00:26:45.880 They're superior at being d***ed. 1.00

00:26:49.100 Whoa, that's some pretty bigoted stuff right there, isn't it? These people are pretty 0.98

00:26:53.300 vicious racial bigots, aren't they? This stops being funny all of a sudden. 0.99

00:26:59.540 These actually are bigots. I mean, the things they're saying are deeply bigoted and wrong

00:27:03.720 and immoral. And the thing about it is, just like with all bigots, it's not even necessarily

00:27:09.700 the case that they're wrong about the other guy. Andrew Klavan makes this point a lot.

00:27:13.920 The thing about bigots that we all get wrong is it's not that they're necessarily wrong about

00:27:17.600 what they're saying about the other guy. It's that they're wrong about themselves. They

00:27:20.480 don't recognize that they have the problems that they're accusing these people that they

00:27:24.980 despise of having. 0.84

00:27:26.840 One of the lines here is that white people are really good at playing the victim. The entire 0.99

00:27:31.140 premise of this video is to play the victim, right? So obviously, if you're going to accuse

00:27:34.900 the other guy of that while you are doing it yourself, there is some hypocrisy there.

00:27:39.280 And then one of the lies of this video is they're pretending that this is a racial distinction,

00:27:44.100 primarily. And I guess it might be in the case of they don't like white people.

00:27:48.880 But it's not a racial distinction in who is making the video. They're trying to pretend that

00:27:53.840 this group of performers are representative of black people. They're not. One of these guys was 0.99

00:27:59.420 wearing an Angela Davis t-shirt. Angela Davis is one of the most infamous communists in the country. 0.99

00:28:04.340 Another guy was wearing a t-shirt that said, dismantle. These are not a random sampling of

00:28:11.120 black Americans. These are radical, radical leftists, some of the most radical of all of them,

00:28:16.660 right? We're talking about people with kind of crazy political ideologies, sort of represented in

00:28:23.720 sort of crazy outfits. Because the one thing that the left is trying to do in particular is suppress

00:28:30.640 this idea that black people are permitted to think for themselves. Clarence Thomas made this point

00:28:35.360 during the Anita Hill hearings in the early 1990s when he described his confirmation process as a

00:28:41.300 high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves. President Trump

00:28:45.300 has been saying since 2016, come on, leave the left. They haven't done anything for you. And he made

00:28:50.340 huge inroads among the black population. I don't think any of those black Americans were permitted to 1.00

00:28:54.620 be in this video. What the left is trying to do is contrive and gin up racial resentment to affect

00:29:01.640 their political goals. They don't care about black people at all or any other racial group. What they 0.92

00:29:05.900 care about is that Angela Davis picture. What they care about is the ideology that she represents,

00:29:10.240 radical leftism. And then they say, they have the audacity to say in this video that

00:29:16.480 one thing white people are very superior at is controlling the narrative. 0.64

00:29:21.280 What exactly are white people superior at? Making us believe that we don't matter. Believing that 0.96

00:29:27.000 they're superior. Feeling superior. Thinking they're superior. Thinking that they're superior.

00:29:30.860 Thinking that they are superior. Self-delusion. Controlling the narrative. Believing their own

00:29:35.640 press. Marketing of white superiority. Whether you are Republican, whether you're Democrat,

00:29:40.520 whether you're conservative, like white people are really good at upholding white supremacy. 0.96

00:29:44.900 How about claiming that, you know, they are actually a whole separate race when actually white DNA 0.97

00:29:49.340 comes from the black female? Hold on a second. I don't, I'm not, I'm not going to make the 1.00

00:29:54.720 biological, uh, question. I'm not going to take the biological question seriously of whether or not

00:29:58.980 I came from a black female. I mean, I did come from a Sicilian female who is darker than probably most 0.98

00:30:03.640 people in this country. But regardless of that point, you've just spent the whole video castigating

00:30:11.220 white people as a race. We talked about this yesterday. White racial consciousness is very, 0.80

00:30:16.840 very low in this. Pew research showed this. White racial consciousness is something like 15%. Every

00:30:21.160 other race, it's over 50%. So yeah, I don't, I don't think about whiteness or being white or anything

00:30:26.560 like almost ever. But you can't make a whole video saying white people are terrible, white people are 0.97

00:30:32.200 oppressive, white people do this, white people do that. And also they think they're a race. No, I don't, 0.99

00:30:36.180 you think so. You're the one making that argument. The left is the one making that argument

00:30:40.700 because it's politically advantageous, but controlling the narrative. Every institution

00:30:44.760 in America has spent millions of dollars practically and has spent nine months uttering

00:30:49.280 the phrase black lives matter. You couldn't, you could never make this kind of a video

00:30:53.160 in the other direction, but of course you can in, in this direction. And it gets, it gets way worse

00:31:00.560 than that. We'll skip around, but it ends on a point that, that the left is always trying to make.

00:31:04.100 It's an Orwellian point for that matter. It, it makes this whole racist, bigoted,

00:31:09.840 awful kind of argument, the whole video. And then they try to end on an egalitarian tone

00:31:16.660 of equality.

00:31:18.460 Just because our skin color is different, you're no better than me. You're no smarter than me. 1.00

00:31:23.860 No, no superiority there.

00:31:27.780 No superiority. Yeah. Okay. I'm no, no one is making the claim that white people are superior

00:31:33.060 and you know, they are, that's a flat statement. White people are superior, but this video is making 0.79

00:31:38.800 the claim that white people are inferior on the basis of their race. That's not egalitarian at 0.97

00:31:42.860 all. There's nothing, there's no reason anyone should take that seriously. If this were in the

00:31:47.640 other direction, that channel would be taken off of YouTube right now. Perhaps it should be. I don't

00:31:51.820 know. I don't know. I mean, I'm, I'm all for, for hearing out various points of view. The left

00:31:56.720 certainly isn't though. Imagine if that were in the other direction. You know, there, we've seen a

00:32:02.780 number of racial hate hoaxes over the years. They've cropped up. We just got another one.

00:32:06.240 Clifton Utsi, 18 years old, just claimed his BMW was vandalized in a hate crime.

00:32:11.280 The, the SUV was spray painted, spray painted with racist slurs, including the N word, including

00:32:16.640 the KKK, messages against Black Lives Matter. And the minute I saw this story, I said, that

00:32:21.820 didn't happen. It didn't happen. I know it didn't happen because that, that is not the

00:32:27.460 sort of thing that happens as a rule in America. That is the sort of thing that the left believes

00:32:32.500 happens as a rule in America. It's why it's so easy to point these out. And it's why the

00:32:35.940 left always falls for these and the conservatives do not. Well, turns out I was right. This was

00:32:41.320 perpetrated by the alleged victim himself, Mr. Utsi. He also put a message of a pro Donald

00:32:48.120 Trump message on there, put sugar in his own gas tank. That's too bad. It was insurance

00:32:52.280 fraud and Erie County. And this is obviously, I believe this was in Erie County, Pennsylvania,

00:32:58.900 somewhere over there. They are now going to charge this guy for lots of crimes as they should,

00:33:04.560 because this sort of thing really, really rips up America. And it is just a crime in itself

00:33:08.280 to commit insurance fraud. Normal and decent people of all races, not these radicals and

00:33:15.140 these race hustlers like this guy, Utsi, or like the people in that video, but normal,

00:33:20.240 the majority, normal, decent people of all races reject this stuff. You actually just saw it in

00:33:25.860 California. California tried to reinstitute racial quotas, racial biases in hiring to disadvantage,

00:33:34.060 I guess, whites, whites and Asians, and to give advantage to black and Hispanic 0.76

00:33:37.460 applicants for various jobs. And that proposition failed. It failed 57 to 43%. And it failed not just

00:33:47.040 because white people voted against it, not even in particular because white people voted against it,

00:33:51.160 because racial minorities voted against it, Latinos in particular, who would have benefited from the,

00:33:56.600 from the, the program. That's a good sign. And it reminds me, Clarence Thomas said this very

00:34:02.460 same thing. He wrote it in his, his memoir. These kinds of quotas, these kinds of programs,

00:34:10.000 these kinds of what, what Michael Gerson called the, the soft biggest, bigotry of low expectations,

00:34:14.280 these sorts of things do not just hurt Asians or white people or even the country broadly.

00:34:20.520 They hurt the people that they purport to help because they damage their dignity,

00:34:24.960 because they put them on an unequal playing field. You know, you hear this phrase,

00:34:29.480 no one's equal until everybody's equal. Yeah. Well, okay, sure. If that's true, 0.94

00:34:32.360 it's certainly true in this case as well. And I think you're seeing people of all races waking up

00:34:38.160 to that. That's a, that's a very helpful thing. Right before we get to the mailbag, important to

00:34:42.520 note, just an election update. I know everyone thinks the election's over. It is actually not over.

00:34:46.740 There is a legal process playing out. Joe Biden is not the president elect, much as the media want to

00:34:51.540 pretend that he is. We talked about yesterday how a county in Georgia just discovered a pro-Trump

00:34:56.880 county. It turns out their votes weren't counted and the votes went overwhelmingly for Trump. So

00:35:02.480 they finally discovered those votes. Well, a second county in Georgia has just found a memory

00:35:06.320 card with thousands of votes on it that had not been uploaded into the system used in the state.

00:35:11.080 And the majority of those votes were for Donald Trump. This is Fayette County.

00:35:15.520 Now the, we're being told that this was more easily discoverable than the last problem that was

00:35:23.120 in Floyd County. Well, if it was more easily discoverable, why did they discover it afterward?

00:35:27.440 Doesn't make a lot of sense. How many memory sticks have gone missing in this country?

00:35:31.700 One of the vulnerabilities of digital voting, and there are many others as well. One of the

00:35:36.880 vulnerabilities of widespread mail-ins for that matter. Boxes of ballots go missing because they

00:35:41.760 come in at different times. Who knows where they're being stored? Trump campaign's got a tough road ahead.

00:35:46.220 They've got to prove massive voter fraud. They've, I talked to Rudy Giuliani just on Friday and he said

00:35:52.480 that they've got a strong case. They're going to have to make that case. The election is not over

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00:37:45.980 with the mailbag. Always running late on the mailbag, but I'm going to fly through these

00:38:01.980 questions and give you the answers that you desire. From Isaac. Dear Michael, my girlfriend

00:38:06.840 voted for Trump in 2020 after voting for Clinton and Obama in past elections. Wow, that's great.

00:38:11.660 However, recently we faced some disagreements over masculinity and femininity. For example,

00:38:16.840 the Harry Styles, Candace Owens incident. She believes that traditional manly activities such

00:38:22.740 as chopping wood or fishing are shared by men who oppressed women. I explained that oppression

00:38:28.380 itself is a vague argument and that doing the manly aforementioned activities are also conducted

00:38:32.960 by men who believe in respecting and protecting women, which signaled a whole deluge of arguments.

00:38:37.940 Have you and sweet little Elisa faced any such arguments? If so, how did you deal with them?

00:38:41.240 Best regards. No, we really haven't. I mean, sweet little Elisa and I have known each other

00:38:47.420 since we were 10 years old. So maybe at some point something came up, but no, I can't really

00:38:51.760 think of it. Certainly not in our marriage or romantic life together because we just reject

00:38:57.800 feminism. We just reject it. If you reject feminism, your relationship, your marriage will 1.00

00:39:04.000 get better. Throw it out. I know that we're not supposed to do that. We're supposed to pretend

00:39:08.580 that feminism is about respecting women. And we're supposed to pretend that, oh, no, maybe the new 1.00

00:39:13.320 feminism is bad, but the old feminism is good. And yeah, no, some parts of feminism. No, just get 1.00

00:39:17.400 rid of it. It's just, it's a false ideology. It's a nefarious ideology. It's based on a false

00:39:22.320 anthropology and it makes everybody miserable, most especially women. It's just bad. Get rid of it. 1.00

00:39:27.960 It's an ideology. It's not about, people were told, it's about sexual equality. It's not,

00:39:32.200 it's called feminism. It's not called humanism. It's not called humanitarianism. It's called

00:39:36.300 feminism. And it, it, it's a self-contradictory ideology in many ways. It's got many different 1.00

00:39:41.980 offshoots and it's just wrong. It posits most importantly that in the old and terrible days of

00:39:48.800 the past, women were victims and now we've got to break off our shackles and liberate ourselves. 0.98

00:39:54.120 And that way it shares, it's just an offshoot of Marxism and various other modern ideologies.

00:40:00.960 And even before Marxism, you don't, you know, everyone always blames Marx for everything.

00:40:04.660 He was a very bad guy with very bad ideas, but this goes even, even earlier than Marx to the idea of

00:40:10.420 liberation, a personal liberation, individual liberation as the primary goal of politics,

00:40:17.460 which by the way, goes back all the way to the garden of Eden. When we were told ye shall be as gods,

00:40:22.220 when we were told to disobey the moral order and you, that will make you free and it will make

00:40:26.780 you happy. And guess what? It didn't. It made us all, um, miserable and mortal and, uh, left us all

00:40:32.520 to die. Uh, the same thing is true today. Get rid of, get rid of feminism. You'll have a much better 1.00

00:40:37.340 life. Men and women are not constantly warring against one another. There will not be a war of

00:40:42.040 the sexes because of course everybody is sleeping with the enemy. Men and women are complimentary. 0.90

00:40:46.400 They go together. Well, women make me wake up in the morning. I wake up every morning. I think, 1.00

00:40:51.820 oh my gosh. And not just be a sweet little Elisa has an omelet ready to go because sweet little 1.00

00:40:57.140 Elisa in particular, but then women generally, the, the sexual difference generally is a beautiful

00:41:03.340 thing about the world. And we should enjoy that. And men have virtues. Word virtue, right? As vir means

00:41:09.100 man and women have virtues and we should enjoy those and not think that we're all just out to get

00:41:15.140 one another. From Travis. Hello, Michael. What did Abigail Adams mean? Oh, here's another feminist 0.97

00:41:19.540 question. What did Abigail Adams mean when she told John to remember the ladies? It's a very famous

00:41:24.380 line in a letter she wrote. Did he let her down? I have heard she simply wanted him to remember he

00:41:29.040 was representing women, but it seems to me she is asking him to allow women to represent themselves.

00:41:34.020 What is your take on all of this? Many thanks. I think that the feminism of Abigail Adams is a little

00:41:39.860 bit overstated, but yes, she, she was asking for more political representation for women. The, the 0.99

00:41:46.460 whole, I think, I think we had them pull the whole letter. Yeah. The whole letter from Abigail Adams

00:41:52.440 says, or, or the whole passage that's crucial here. By the way, in the new code of laws, which I suppose

00:41:59.880 it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and

00:42:05.100 favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands.

00:42:10.840 Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the

00:42:16.080 ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which

00:42:20.940 we have no voice or representation. This is read that Abigail Adams was, was demanding the vote.

00:42:27.920 Probably that's not the case. What she was, what she was demanding better legal protection for women 1.00

00:42:32.140 from their husbands. She was demanding better protection for women, for instance, to own 1.00

00:42:35.840 property. She was demanding that women be better represented in the government. Sure. But the idea 1.00

00:42:41.420 that we would read her as a 21st century feminist, I think is silly. She did have a little proto-feminism 0.93

00:42:46.260 to her. There's no question about that. And it's, it's also hard to tell how hyperbolic she's being,

00:42:52.520 if there's any irony or slight irony in her language. We do know that John Adams disregarded that part of

00:42:58.340 the letter. But he did consult his wife. He had great respect for his wife. He consulted her on a

00:43:02.120 lot of political matters. And so that is the case. Rather than this ideological idea of just the

00:43:07.920 uniformity of progress, you know, the science of progress, the science of history that the left is

00:43:12.120 always selling us on that basically women were chattel slaves and now they're finally free liberated 1.00

00:43:16.620 beings because they're permitted to, you know, go on Tinder and sleep with a bunch of men and become

00:43:23.020 middle managers at the widget company because that, that is like the peak of human flourishing. 0.96

00:43:27.400 That's, that's obviously a very silly argument to make. Some eras are better for women. Some eras 0.69

00:43:31.600 are worse. Some cultures are better for women. Some cultures are worse. Some, some geographic regions 0.51

00:43:35.620 are better for women. Some, some are worse. The thing to focus on is not this kind of silly view of

00:43:42.260 history is always getting better, but to focus on, on virtue and, and to focus on that, that personal

00:43:48.460 care that one can have within a relationship, which was a very, very successful marriage like John

00:43:53.300 Adams and Abigail Adams. From Steve, dear Michael, a friend asked a question that I could not answer.

00:43:58.440 He would being entitled, he said that being entitled to the labor of healthcare workers

00:44:04.300 under government run healthcare would not be different than being entitled to the labor of

00:44:09.980 police and fire personnel. How, how would that be the case? I believe the government has a role in

00:44:15.500 protecting its citizens and does not have a role in providing free healthcare. But how would I argue

00:44:19.340 the difference to someone who believes healthcare should be a right? Thank you for all that you do.

00:44:23.080 Great, great question. This is a really good question. I think we've got to stop using such

00:44:29.460 liberal language. We conservatives use very liberal language. And what I mean by that is not that we

00:44:34.240 necessarily use progressive or leftist language all the time, but we use liberal language as opposed to

00:44:40.880 conservative language in that we're arguing in purely abstract terms in these purely abstract ways without

00:44:49.820 talking about the real institutions. I think your friend actually raises an important objection.

00:44:55.700 Why is it that having government run healthcare is socialism, but having government run police and

00:45:01.020 fire departments is not socialism? Well, it's because those are different products, right? Those are

00:45:07.260 different things. The protection of one's life against marauders, the protection of civil society

00:45:13.200 and the rule of law is one thing. And it's different than providing advanced medical care,

00:45:16.540 which is always changing. But sure, it may, it may well be the case that we pass a law in this

00:45:22.500 country and say, you're, you're entitled to healthcare now. What has changed is not the metaphysical

00:45:28.700 character of government. What has changed is not necessarily tearing up the constitution,

00:45:32.960 though it might have some constitutional problems. What has changed is then the nature of healthcare,

00:45:37.100 right now, people get into healthcare. They believe it's a private field. They have certain

00:45:40.520 expectations of how much money they can make, of how they can work, the freedom that they'll have.

00:45:44.520 We, the American people have an expectation of a certain amount of freedom in our medical care,

00:45:47.880 and then the government's going to take it over and change the product. They will outlaw that old

00:45:51.380 product. They will make a new product, which is government healthcare. They will turn healthcare

00:45:54.760 workers into government employees. That's a different thing. And that has a lot of problems.

00:45:58.460 I would stop arguing about this at a purely abstract metaphysical level and say,

00:46:02.740 I have the right to this. You're violating my natural right to, to not pay this amount of tax

00:46:09.720 for healthcare, but to pay this amount of tax for police or something. I think that gets too muddy.

00:46:13.440 I think it is overstated. I think it accepts too many libertarian premises, which are not defensible

00:46:19.200 and are not true and are, are counterproductive. I think what we have to do is argue from a conservative

00:46:24.700 point of view, which would be one of practical questions, which would be one of prudence,

00:46:29.940 which would be one of saying, well, this would be better than, this thing would be better than this

00:46:33.220 thing. The reason that we shouldn't have socialist medicine is because we have the greatest healthcare

00:46:39.120 system in the world. Everyone who wants good healthcare comes here. We do, it's good for

00:46:43.960 everybody. It's better for some people, obviously. Healthcare will always be better for rich people.

00:46:47.660 I don't care how communist your healthcare system is. The rich will get better medical care than the

00:46:52.460 poor. I've been to Cuba. I've been by that hospital. I've talked to Cuban people. You are being lied to

00:46:57.660 if you believe that the Cuban healthcare is equal for everybody. It certainly is not, 1.00

00:47:02.280 and it isn't anywhere else in the world. We have a good system and we shouldn't break it. That's a

00:47:05.920 prudential argument. We like to have medical choice and it will, we won't like not having

00:47:11.440 medical choice. That's a prudential argument. That's an argument of taste. That's an argument

00:47:15.160 of culture. That's an argument of tradition. The government is not good at running these massive

00:47:21.100 bureaucracies. Corporations aren't that good at it either, but at least there's a little bit of

00:47:25.620 free choice. Can we reform either of those? Sure. Again, that's not just a purely principled

00:47:31.160 metaphysical argument. That's a practical argument. That's where we should start making

00:47:34.880 those arguments. I think those are more convincing. I think those are more defensible. I don't think

00:47:39.220 people want to privatize the police except for a handful of, you know, very ideological libertarians.

00:47:44.140 I don't think people want to necessarily totally privatize the fire department, but certainly not the

00:47:50.000 police. And I don't think people want to totally make a government run healthcare system. Maybe they 0.78

00:47:57.120 want a little bit of a government run healthcare system. We actually already have that in some ways. 0.99

00:48:01.440 But the way we're going to win that argument is from defensible premises that will be made

00:48:06.200 practically appealing to people. You know, this is something that Donald Trump has shown us over the

00:48:10.480 last four years. I hope he gets another four to show us this. You don't need to have this perfect

00:48:15.540 ideological, especially libertarian purity. That's, that's something Trump broke. That's why the

00:48:20.280 never Trumpers became never Trumpers is because they were so furious that he wouldn't espouse their

00:48:24.940 same bumper stickers and their same slogans. They were so furious that he would just talk to people

00:48:29.160 and he's talking in a practical way. And they said, that's not true conservatism. Yes, it is. It's much

00:48:34.740 more conservative than the bumper sticker dime store philosophizing that we'd been getting for 20 or 30

00:48:40.720 years previously from people who were only speaking in the abstract and were ignoring actual

00:48:45.200 Americans who, who actually on the right were committing the same problems that they accused

00:48:51.900 the left of committing, where the left always said, who cares if it works in practice? Does it work in

00:48:55.820 theory? Too many conservatives, quote unquote, were doing that too. And I think that we, if we learn any

00:49:00.920 lessons from Trump, that ought to be one of them. Talk about prudence, talk about practice, talk about

00:49:06.660 personal relationships, getting back to the earlier mailbag questions. Talk about real things. Don't get so lost

00:49:12.480 in your own theories and ideology that you become disconnected from the rest of the world, that

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 19, 2020

Ep. 649 - Defund The Thought Police

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