The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 769 -The “Academic Freedom” Hoax

00:00:00.000 1619 Project founder Nicole Hannah-Jones has been denied tenure at the University of North Carolina.

00:00:07.640 Leftists are furious. Squishes are worried. And I, for one, could not be happier because 1.00

00:00:13.500 academic freedom is for chumps. It is a hoax, as you can see very clearly from all of our public 1.00

00:00:19.760 debates, from transgenderism to the COVID vaccine. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from 21 Jack Jordan, who writes,

00:00:38.620 unrelated, but today my female teacher said that women get raped for far more than men, 1.00

00:00:43.900 and therefore it's ridiculous that men are the ones deciding how we fix that. I decided to raise

00:00:48.960 my hand and said she was wrong. If you include prison population, men actually get raped more

00:00:53.300 than women. She told me I should check my facts, and where in the world did you hear that? So I 0.99

00:00:57.380 told her the Bureau of Justice Statistics dot gov, and she responded with, we don't need to talk

00:01:02.560 about that. I'm in high school, and I'm already canceled. Wow. This comment actually ties in so

00:01:08.160 well to what we're talking about today, which is the idea of academic freedom, which the libs and 0.86

00:01:12.640 the squishes are always pushing, but which is just completely ridiculous. Obviously, your point was 0.92

00:01:17.480 right on the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and also her point was wrong in that just because someone

00:01:22.620 experiences something, that does not mean that they cannot have an opinion on it. It does not mean

00:01:26.260 that they don't have faculties of reason, and they can't have something to offer to the world.

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00:02:40.880 I love that Nicole Hannah-Jones, the 1619 Project propagandist, was denied tenure at UNC. So the

00:02:49.340 libs are furious because the libs want this woman to push her propaganda even more than she already 0.98

00:02:54.820 has. Let's not forget the 1619 Project, which is based on a lie. The entire thesis of the 1619 Project

00:03:01.440 is that the American Revolution was fought to protect the institution of slavery. It's just not true.

00:03:06.220 There is no evidence of this whatsoever. Even left-wing academic historians shot this down.

00:03:10.880 The times persisted in error for seven months, but then even they corrected it. And it was kind

00:03:15.680 of a fake half correction where they just added in these words, some of, they said some of the

00:03:21.120 colonists fought the revolution for this reason. Even that is bogus. It's just the American Revolution

00:03:26.480 was not fought to protect the institution of slavery. That doesn't even make sense.

00:03:31.960 Slavery would not be abolished throughout the West for quite some time afterward. And there,

00:03:35.080 and there were people at the Constitutional Convention and at the Continental Congress who were

00:03:39.680 fighting against slavery. Regardless, we are now being told by the, what do you call them,

00:03:46.020 libertarian right or the squish right? We're being told that this is a grave threat to academic

00:03:51.800 freedom. And I just, I just don't want to hear it anymore. This is what the libs do. They push some

00:03:59.360 bogus idea and then for a while the conservatives fight against it. And then we accept all of their

00:04:04.080 premises and then we start arguing their points. This is what happened with academic freedom.

00:04:09.340 The modern conservative movement, the one that started after World War II began with William F.

00:04:14.100 Buckley Jr. publishing a book called God and Man at Yale. The subtitle of which was called

00:04:17.680 the, the superstitions of academic freedom. He called it a hoax. It's a joke. And it, it goes,

00:04:23.420 it goes back much further than that. Academic freedom comes from the University of Leiden

00:04:27.420 in 1575. It begins after the Protestant revolution, the University of Leiden decide in the Netherlands

00:04:33.920 decides that they're going to have academic freedom. And yet even this first university

00:04:39.040 with total, you can say and think whatever you want, they refuse to grant total academic freedom.

00:04:44.200 Then the Protestant Senate of Dort in 1618 restricted this even further because they wanted to combat the

00:04:49.180 Armenian heresy. Okay. Keeping up so far, then some German universities tried to revive it for like

00:04:53.780 five minutes. Napoleon shut that down. Then in 1636, Harvard was founded in America. Was it founded

00:04:59.480 on academic freedom? No, it was founded to quash the antinomian heresy. These universities were 0.97

00:05:05.100 founded with a mission, with a purpose. They have to have a mission. If you're going to teach anything,

00:05:09.400 you're going to teach some things and you're going to contradict other things. If you're going to

00:05:13.040 teach the two plus two equals four, you're not going to permit the teaching that two plus two equals

00:05:16.720 five. And this is not just true in mathematics. It's true throughout the university.

00:05:21.940 In 1940, you have the American Association of University Professors. This is the, we're talking

00:05:29.140 about the height, the peak of academic freedom in America, right? They issue their statement on

00:05:33.800 academic freedom and tenure. So this is the actual professors. These are the guys who are fighting in

00:05:38.740 the trenches for academic freedom. And in their statement on academic freedom, they say that teachers

00:05:42.660 have the right to quote freedom in the classroom in discussing their subject, but they quote should be

00:05:47.400 careful not to introduce into their teaching controversial matter, which has no relation to

00:05:52.240 their subject. And later they told them to exercise appropriate restraint. So even the most out there

00:05:58.360 full on endorsement of academic freedom says teachers can't mouth off about their stupid politics and they 1.00

00:06:03.000 need to use restraint. And they're obviously accountable to the trustees and to the parents and to the 0.99

00:06:08.040 university administrators, obviously. And yet the, the right somehow adopts these terms. Even the,

00:06:14.880 the Bill Buckley's intellectual heirs, the people who call themselves Buckleyites and things like that,

00:06:19.480 who now are, you know, they're writing for places like, I don't know, the dispatch or something,

00:06:23.800 you know, these kind of left wing, ostensibly right wing outlets. Uh, they'll endorse this.

00:06:30.480 They'll say, yeah, we support academic freedom. It's just a joke. Debates take place within limits.

00:06:35.940 Okay. You see this very clearly. Forget the schools for a second. You see this very clearly

00:06:40.380 on the vaccine issue. Certain opinions cannot be held in public. There are just, there are just

00:06:47.660 limits on it. There are just restraints. And we might not like that. And we might want the

00:06:51.240 restraints to be different. I certainly do, but we have to acknowledge there are limits to these

00:06:56.240 debates. So on the vaccine issue, a lot of people don't want the vaccine. That's something like one in

00:07:01.160 five Americans and a huge portion of them say they will never get the vaccine under no

00:07:05.420 circumstances. Now you've got multiple governors, governor of Ohio, governor of Maryland, governor

00:07:12.940 of New York, COVID are offering cash prizes, lottos for people who get the vaccine. You get

00:07:22.780 the vaccine, you get entered in the lottery. Maybe you can win millions of dollars. Sort of undercuts

00:07:27.480 the messaging here, right? Cause the messaging is everybody can't wait to get the vaccine. Oh,

00:07:30.760 it's so wonderful. There's no questions about it whatsoever. And that's why we're going to pay

00:07:33.460 people millions of dollars to do it because of how, because of how obvious a choice it is to go

00:07:38.200 get it. No, it, obviously some people have reservations here, but you are not allowed to

00:07:43.700 mention this. A great example of it. I was watching The View. I wasn't really watching The View. I was

00:07:48.500 watching clips of The View. And there was a debate between Meghan McCain, Republican, Joy Behar, Democrat.

00:07:54.140 And the debate was over the vaccine and why some people are not getting the vaccine right now.

00:08:01.060 Now listen to the debate. Listen to the two sides of this argument and see if you can suss out what

00:08:07.920 the differences are. You know what? It's not that complicated people. It's not nuclear physics. All

00:08:14.400 right. All you have to do is get the damn vaccine. When you go inside, wear a mask. Even if you have the 1.00

00:08:21.420 vaccine, there might be variants around where the damn vaccine and then get the booster when that 0.99

00:08:26.420 time is coming. Well, what is the complicated problem here with people? I don't understand 0.99

00:08:31.520 it. This is just to own the libs. When I was a kid, the polio vaccine was available and everybody

00:08:36.780 was dying to get it. If you watch those kids on television, those iron lungs, that's what they 0.99

00:08:42.100 used to show us. A child and an iron lung. And I was a child and I'd be like, oh my God, I don't want

00:08:47.440 to be in there. Get me that shot. And of course people did it. Everybody's getting it. Okay. 0.82

00:08:53.060 You guys out there, it's not, you're not owning the libs by not getting the shot. Nobody's grown

00:08:59.460 an extra arm. Nobody's grown an extra head. Everybody's fine. It's the people who are not

00:09:03.640 taking it who are not fine. Okay. Hold on. So pause for a second here before we get into Megan's side of

00:09:08.620 it. I know a lot of people who haven't taken the vaccine and they're fine and they're totally fine,

00:09:13.480 right? Especially young people, especially people who are not really at risk from this virus.

00:09:19.380 They think, look, I'm not really at risk. Statistically, I'm at a very low risk of this

00:09:23.260 virus. Even if I get it, I'm at very low risk of any complications. So why would I get the vaccine?

00:09:28.540 Well, what about with a polio vaccine? Right. COVID's not polio, especially for young people.

00:09:33.040 Polio, very dangerous for young people. COVID, just not that dangerous for young people. That's just

00:09:37.240 the statistics of it. I'm not spreading any kooky conspiracy theories. Some groups are at greater risk

00:09:41.860 than others. It's not complicated people. Wear the damn vaccine. Wait, what? What does that mean?

00:09:48.660 Well, why, what? Look, people got the polio vaccine. Come on. What's so complicated? Here's

00:09:52.440 what's complicated. The public health authorities had far greater credibility when the polio vaccine

00:09:56.640 came out. They've squandered their credibility. Now they've lied to us multiple times. They've

00:10:00.320 admitted they've lied to us multiple times. And even when they haven't lied, they've just made

00:10:03.420 predictions. They've gotten the predictions wrong. So pardon me if I don't rush to believe them

00:10:07.900 when they say that something's totally fine. I'm not saying I'm, I'm never going to get the vaccine.

00:10:12.960 I'm not saying that if I were 85 years old, I wouldn't get the vaccine. But obviously there,

00:10:19.040 there are reasons that people are hesitating here. One fifth of Americans who are not only interested in

00:10:26.200 owning the libs. I love owning the libs. It's a great thing, but there are other reasons as well.

00:10:29.760 Okay. Megan responds. The messaging is absolute garbage coming from Fauci. And it's not just about

00:10:36.260 owning the libs. The demographics on who is vaccine hesitant, it crosses the gamut. There's

00:10:41.020 still a lot of hesitancy in the African American community. I, um, a nurse I know who actually was

00:10:47.020 administering vaccines said that her daughter wouldn't get it because she was worried about

00:10:50.760 fertility issues. This is something I keep hearing a lot that a lot of women are concerned about what it 1.00

00:10:56.240 could possibly do. Uh, if you're in childbearing years, all the women on this show, I assume are 1.00

00:11:00.800 done having babies except possibly me. That's something that I would want to know. I believe

00:11:05.700 the science. I believe it's healthy. I think they have come out saying even pregnant women

00:11:08.900 can get this vaccine. But the fact that there hasn't been a summit or a discussion or figures

00:11:15.900 that people trust on TV to try and help quell some of this. That's why the conspiracy theories keep

00:11:22.060 growing and spreading. People just don't understand and don't know. And I don't like to judge people

00:11:27.420 who aren't, uh, accessible to the same kind of resources and education I am. But this is a

00:11:32.300 serious, serious problem in this country. You know, a lot of people I'd like to, yes, a lot of people,

00:11:38.860 um, of color have every right to be skeptical of the government. All right, let's pause it right 1.00

00:11:44.360 there. So Megan McCain makes the point. Yeah, this is about more than owning the libs. 1.00

00:11:48.580 And look, some, especially women in their childbearing years have these worries because

00:11:52.400 of stories that we've heard. And these have been published, right? It's not just like a friend of

00:11:56.280 a friend of a friend said they had some issues. These are things that have been written about in

00:11:59.840 the popular press. Public health officials have discussed some of these things. So sure,

00:12:07.100 some, some worries beyond owning the libs. But then notice, Megan says, but I, I trust the

00:12:13.520 scientists. I trust the public health authorities. And it's a big problem that some people are,

00:12:18.420 hesitant to get the vaccine, but black people in particular can have a good reason to be worried 1.00

00:12:24.240 about getting the vaccine. And then Joy Behar comes in and she says, well, yes, you're right. Black 1.00

00:12:27.200 people are totally justified in hesitating to get the vaccine. White people are not, 0.99

00:12:31.240 but black people totally are, even though it's the same vaccine, it's the same science. We're all 0.90

00:12:34.360 the same people. No black, when black people hesitate to get the vaccine, that's totally great. 1.00

00:12:38.920 That's awesome. And when white people hesitate, that's really bad. They agree. They agree over 0.99

00:12:45.360 the fundamentals of the debate, which is that everyone should get the vaccine. Everyone

00:12:49.340 should trust the public health authorities. When white people hesitate, it's bad. When black 1.00

00:12:52.700 people hesitate, it's good. Where's the debate? I mean, I don't mean to be too harsh. I think Megan's 0.98

00:12:59.460 raising some good points here, especially in the first part of her answer. But in the fundamentals

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00:14:26.920 For months, we were told that it is a wacky, kooky conspiracy theory to suggest that the virus

00:14:33.260 that was discovered 400 yards from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the coronavirus associated

00:14:40.680 with bats discovered 400 yards from the place where, where Chinese officials were studying

00:14:46.460 coronaviruses and bats. That's insane to suggest there's any link. Right now on this show, right

00:14:53.880 when the story came out, right at the very beginning of the epidemic, we pointed out, huh, that's a

00:14:59.300 coincidence. Huh? What? That's a little strange. Maybe we should look into that. We were told, no,

00:15:03.400 this is a kooky, crazy conspiracy theory. PolitiFact said, no way. This is fake news. This is

00:15:10.240 great. You can't suggest that. Now it's looking more and more like the Wuhan Institute of Virology

00:15:16.700 had something to do with the leak. There's a lot more evidence of this now. Public health officials

00:15:21.780 have changed their tune. They're saying, okay, after, after a year of Dr. Fauci saying, no way,

00:15:26.240 don't bother my friends at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that people associated with me have been

00:15:32.780 working with for a long time, even on some of these issues. Uh, no, no, no, don't worry about

00:15:38.420 that. Don't look over there. Well, now, now we are paying attention to the man behind the curtain

00:15:44.220 and it looks as though there might be a connection. Jen Psaki was asked about this at the White House

00:15:48.260 and her non-answer, I think, is the answer. House Republicans are claiming that they have

00:15:54.020 significant circumstantial evidence that COVID-19 originated in a lab. Has the White House seen

00:16:01.260 any circumstantial evidence that it did not originate in a lab? I will say that our view continues to be

00:16:07.400 that there needs to be an independent, transparent investigation. Uh, and that needs to happen with

00:16:13.200 the cooperation and data provided from the Chinese government. We don't have enough information

00:16:18.440 at this point to make an assessment. At what point would President Biden call President Xi and say

00:16:24.460 we've got 587,883 dead Americans. We're just trying to figure out if this happened, if COVID originated in

00:16:33.600 one of your labs, uh, let us in. Well, I would say that we have made that call publicly many times.

00:16:39.620 Uh, we have conveyed that privately and we have certainly communicated that they were not transparent

00:16:44.340 from the beginning. That's not acceptable. There's an opportunity now in the next stage

00:16:48.520 of this effort for them to be transparent, to participate in international investigation that

00:16:53.460 can bring a conclusion, uh, to the origins and provide information that we Republicans, Democrats,

00:16:59.460 everyone in this country would love to have access to. Oh, okay. Okay. That's fine. Cause initially

00:17:04.440 you all said this was completely insane. Now here, Jen, Jen Psaki actually made the point when she opened up

00:17:10.140 her answer. She said, look, well, you can't disprove a negative. And she obviously misspoke as she 0.58

00:17:13.460 sometimes does. She went to say, you can't prove a negative, but for a year more now, more than a

00:17:18.360 year, all these guys said the Wuhan Institute had nothing to do with it. They were trying to prove

00:17:23.800 the negative. They said, no, it had nothing to do with it. You're saying, well, now we're hearing

00:17:27.940 people have evidence that they did have something to do with it. Do you have any evidence to the

00:17:30.640 contrary? Well, no, we need to look, there'll be talks and investigations and Hey, it's no big deal.

00:17:36.600 I think it is a big deal. I think it is a big deal in no small part. Forget about China for a 0.99

00:17:41.780 second. Forget about the CCP and the Wuhan Institute. The same public health officials

00:17:47.120 who told us don't wear masks, masks don't work. Then they said, you have to wear masks,

00:17:52.260 masks do work. And then they told us, get the vaccine. There's no problems whatsoever. And

00:17:56.600 then they said, well, you know, if you get the vaccine, there's this clotting issue. So we're

00:17:59.060 going to pause the vaccine for a little bit, but okay, now there's no problems again. And Hey,

00:18:02.380 the Wuhan Institute had nothing to do with it. Actually, they might've had something to do with it.

00:18:05.480 We just don't trust them. Okay. And it's not our fault that we don't trust them. And it's not

00:18:09.600 that we're conspiracy theorists because we don't trust them. They have squandered their credibility.

00:18:14.320 That's their problem. Speaking of conspiracy theories, aliens. Have you been reading the

00:18:22.080 headlines? Aliens are around. They're afoot. The UAPs, which is the new term for UFO. They,

00:18:28.240 the army and the Navy and the Pentagon are coming out and saying they've got a lot of evidence of UFOs

00:18:33.900 and it's all coming out now. And there's going to be a big report from the Pentagon,

00:18:37.120 the former head of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program,

00:18:42.240 which is the Defense Department's UFO program, said that he believes the government is in possession

00:18:47.060 of mysterious, exotic technology. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. A lot of people are talking about

00:18:53.480 this. I had a little bit of a debate with my pal, Matt Walsh over this, because he's totally on board

00:18:57.440 the alien train. He says, yep, I'm, I'm a hundred percent. There are aliens. I'm skeptical.

00:19:03.840 I'm not just skeptical because it's, it's a rather outlandish claim. We haven't seen a ton

00:19:10.680 of evidence of this yet. I'm not just skeptical because it poses challenges for one's worldview.

00:19:17.480 I'm skeptical because of the politics of it all. The leaks that we are seeing about the UFOs,

00:19:25.460 where are they coming from? They're coming from the federal government. They're coming from the

00:19:30.620 federal agencies. They're cut. The government that we have been told is totally infiltrated

00:19:35.960 by woke radicals who are opposed to our traditional way of life. The, the military that just aired an

00:19:43.460 ad about how the, their ideal soldier is a soccer playing girl raised by lesbian mothers or something. 0.99

00:19:51.060 The, the same defense apparatus that the CIA, for instance, just posted a commercial saying that

00:19:59.480 we need to, you know, hire strong intersectional feminist Latina women. That's the ideal James 1.00

00:20:05.380 Bond now or something. The, the idea that these guys are just accidentally dripping the UFO stuff,

00:20:12.400 it strains credulity. I think I don't buy it. I think this is an intentional leak. I think that the,

00:20:24.180 the propagandists in the federal government know exactly what they're doing. And I think it's a

00:20:28.500 distraction. I think that there is an, I don't know, I'm not saying that's a grand conspiracy.

00:20:33.360 I'm not, I don't know what, what is the agenda? I don't know what the agenda is. I'm just saying

00:20:37.280 this sort of information doesn't drip, drab, drip, drab out. This kind of headline grabbing

00:20:43.080 sensationalism does not just accidentally leak in this very steady methodical way from the federal

00:20:49.420 government, especially the Pentagon on accident. That's not what happened. There is a messaging plan

00:20:55.260 here. There is a communications plan. This is how people run PR. Okay. This is how people run

00:21:02.100 communications. Now, what is the point of it? I don't know. I suspect it's to just grab a lot of

00:21:07.620 headlines and grab all of our attention and get us all talking about this. Perhaps so we're not talking

00:21:11.260 about other things. I don't know. I don't know exactly what the aim is, but I'm not taking the bait

00:21:16.680 unless, until I see more evidence that they're, you know, the UFOs have landed and the Martians are

00:21:21.260 running the government. I, which I guess I might believe that. I might believe that Joe Biden is

00:21:27.020 actually just a sort of, you know, a Martian or something. So that would explain a lot of his

00:21:31.380 verbal faux pas. But until I see some evidence of that, I'm not, I'm not taking the sensationalist

00:21:35.620 bait. I want to focus more on the mundane political matters at speak here. Talking about these foreign 0.99

00:21:44.480 enemies of ours, either from another universe or from right across the ocean. Compare the army ads.

00:21:52.540 This is, this has now gone viral. Two army ads that are, that are running. One out of Russia, one

00:21:58.000 the aforementioned lesbian woke army ad in the United States. Which do you think represents

00:22:06.900 a better prepared army going in the right direction? Giant hulking muscular guy. Big muscular guy gets

00:22:22.000 out of bed. He's doing push-ups. Looks like a James Bond villain jumping out of airplanes.

00:22:28.660 Got guns full of rounds shooting at their enemies. Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness. I like to think I've been

00:22:43.720 defending freedom from an early age. Oh my goodness. With such powerful role models, I finished high

00:22:51.840 school at the top of my class. And after meeting with an army recruiter, I found it. A way to prove

00:22:58.280 my inner strength. I'm U.S. Army Corporal Emma Malone Lord. And I answered my call. So if you're

00:23:05.320 walking down a back alleyway somewhere at night and you see the, the Russian guy with the guns,

00:23:13.480 with the black rifles, which is going to be more intimidating, that guy or the little girl

00:23:21.820 sort of blushing on Santa Monica Pier, talking about how wonderful her lesbian mothers are and

00:23:26.460 how she's been fighting for freedom her whole life. Freedom, presumably by freedom here, she's

00:23:30.380 referring to the redefinition of marriage, which even, even Barack Obama opposed like eight or nine

00:23:35.840 years ago. Hillary Clinton, when they ran for president, they said marriage is a sacred union 0.80

00:23:41.300 between a man and a woman. So this infantry woman is obviously way more woke than even the most

00:23:48.580 left wing presidents we've had, I suppose, until Joe Biden.

00:23:53.740 Now, why, why is this? Why are they pushing this out there? I actually, I think I understand the

00:23:59.020 logic between the, behind the U.S. Army and the CIA pushing this out. They believe we're not going to

00:24:03.380 fight real wars anymore. It's all going to be propaganda wars. It's all going to be messaging.

00:24:07.720 It's all going to be drip, drab, drip, drab from the government and foisting that on the rest of the

00:24:11.100 world. And our most lethal propaganda that we can put out there is this woke insanity. So they are

00:24:17.260 trying to recruit people for that. It's the, it's the last institution that hasn't been totally taken

00:24:22.320 over by the left, the military, but they're trying to, I think a lot of the officer class has been, 0.96

00:24:26.380 and now they're saying, yeah, we don't want guys who look like that crazy Russian. We want super 1.00

00:24:30.740 woke girls who are far to the left of Barack Obama, who all they want to talk about is their 0.99

00:24:35.580 lesbian mothers. We want them because that, that will be the final institution to fall. And, and by the 1.00

00:24:42.380 way, there is a strategic purpose here. They're very good at propaganda, very, very good at

00:24:46.940 politics on the woke left. Does not make us feel very safe though, does it? Doesn't make me feel

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00:26:01.880 supporting the show. In this debate here over the woke army ad, in the woke CIA ad, for instance,

00:26:11.040 we compare it to the Russian army ad where it's the crazy guy with the giant muscles shooting guns.

00:26:15.440 And we laugh about that. But in our public discourse, you're not really allowed to suggest

00:26:20.860 there's anything wrong with the woke army ad. What's wrong? Are you saying it's wrong to redefine

00:26:27.820 marriage? Are you, are you a bigot? Are you a phobe? You must be a phobe. Are you saying it's wrong

00:26:33.620 for two lesbian women to raise a child? Who knows whose child it is, but are you saying that's wrong? 0.98

00:26:38.400 That's somehow not the same as a husband and a wife raising a child? How dare you? Are you saying

00:26:43.480 it's wrong that this girl is fighting in combat? Are you, how dare you? You're, you're really not 0.99

00:26:51.020 allowed. I mean, I guess we'll do it on this show for as long as they let us stay in the air

00:26:55.180 to suggest, huh, maybe, you know, maybe that isn't ideal. Maybe they're, you know, they're

00:26:59.000 more ideals, ways of, of raising children or fighting wars, but we'll say it. But you're not

00:27:05.540 really allowed to say that at universities, at the workplace. You're not really allowed to say,

00:27:09.820 in the government, certainly, you're not, you're not allowed to say it anywhere. So much for academic

00:27:13.660 freedom. There's always going to be boundaries on these things. And by the way, it's about to become

00:27:19.300 much harder to raise questions about this. This is the ideology of drag queen story hour 1.00

00:27:24.240 now throughout the entire culture. Remember we were told by all those squishes, all the 0.97

00:27:29.080 quote unquote conservatives who were totally cool with drag queen story hour called it a

00:27:33.300 blessing of liberty. We were told, oh, it's just a, come on, just a little thing. It's a little

00:27:38.060 thing at some library in San Francisco. It's no big deal. So now PBS is teaming up with the New

00:27:45.700 York City Department of Education. They're partnering up on drag queen story hour programming.

00:27:51.940 Here is miss little hot mess. One of the leaders of drag queen story hour talking about the new 1.00

00:27:57.040 venture, which is geared towards kids aged three to eight. Get your singing voices ready.

00:28:04.640 Hmm. And we're going to start with our hips. The hips on the drag queen go swish, swish, swish, 1.00

00:28:12.700 swish. Swish, swish, swish. Swish, swish, swish, swish. The hips on the drag queen go swish, 1.00

00:28:18.880 swish, swish, swish. All through the town, the dance of the drag queen goes twirled, twirled,

00:28:28.240 twirled, twirled, twirled, twirled, twirled, twirled. The dance of the drag queen goes twirled, 0.61

00:28:37.620 Twirl, twirl, all through the town.

00:28:46.960 Big finish.

00:28:49.340 Excellent.

00:28:50.220 Give yourselves a round of applause.

00:28:53.140 Okay, I've had enough round of applause.

00:28:55.400 That's too much round of applause.

00:28:57.000 What's wrong with that?

00:28:58.480 Hey, what's wrong with that?

00:29:00.560 Are you seriously going to say it's wrong for drag queens

00:29:06.580 to be dancing around for children?

00:29:08.200 You can't say that.

00:29:09.520 The New York City Department of Education says it's great.

00:29:11.560 PBS, public broadcasting, says it's great.

00:29:14.600 This is no longer just in some library.

00:29:16.260 Your kids are going to see this if they're watching PBS,

00:29:18.680 which means you're a bad parent.

00:29:20.380 But let's say they flip, you know,

00:29:22.440 you're trying to show them the good stuff.

00:29:24.660 You know, you're trying to show them wholesome entertainment,

00:29:27.120 like I don't know anything else.

00:29:28.180 But then they accidentally turn on PBS and they see this.

00:29:32.440 This is what's going out there in the culture.

00:29:34.740 And you will not be,

00:29:35.440 there is no academic freedom in the classroom

00:29:37.740 or at work or in the government

00:29:38.900 to disagree with this sort of thing.

00:29:41.140 You'll be called a bigot.

00:29:42.100 You'll be called a phobe of some sort

00:29:44.280 and you will lose your job.

00:29:46.020 And that's just the way it goes.

00:29:47.400 It's not the only thing crazy going on in New York

00:29:49.160 right now, by the way.

00:29:50.640 Andrew Yang running for mayor of New York,

00:29:52.340 some kind of imaginative conservatives

00:29:55.280 really enjoyed Andrew Yang

00:29:58.080 when he was running for president.

00:29:59.160 I always thought he was one of the worst candidates in the race.

00:30:01.100 And I was totally right.

00:30:01.940 Now he's talking about giving non-citizens the right to vote. 0.95

00:30:04.100 Now how can we continue to invest in our democracy

00:30:06.780 to make it better here in New York City?

00:30:08.960 I think we should enable young people to vote

00:30:12.320 starting at age 16.

00:30:14.560 The second thing we should do

00:30:16.400 is expand the franchise

00:30:18.120 to non-citizens, lawful permanent residents.

00:30:22.020 Now we're here in part inside of the Statue of Liberty

00:30:24.300 because New York City is a city of immigrants.

00:30:26.460 I myself am the city of immigrants.

00:30:27.760 And immigrants form the core of so many

00:30:31.620 of our neighborhoods and communities.

00:30:34.100 There are approximately 622,000 lawful permanent residents.

00:30:38.620 You probably think of them as green card holders

00:30:40.220 who are responsible for tens, hundreds of millions of dollars

00:30:46.800 in tax revenue.

00:30:48.440 Their kids go to our schools.

00:30:50.040 They supply many of the jobs that we rely upon.

00:30:54.220 They should have a say in the future of their city too.

00:30:58.700 We can enable green card holders,

00:31:01.060 lawful permanent residents to be able to vote.

00:31:03.220 So young people, non-citizens, 1.00

00:31:06.660 we have to invest in the mechanics of our democracy

00:31:08.600 at a higher level.

00:31:10.060 There it is.

00:31:11.180 Yang wants to invest in our democracy.

00:31:13.660 He wants to expand freedom

00:31:15.380 by letting foreign nationals vote in our elections.

00:31:20.340 Now do you see the problem here?

00:31:22.500 The problem that Andrew Yang is showing you

00:31:24.460 is the problem with this whole abstract notion of freedom.

00:31:29.960 And sometimes you see it expressed in freedom of speech

00:31:31.560 and sometimes you especially see it expressed

00:31:33.340 in this like academic freedom canard.

00:31:36.940 It's true.

00:31:37.660 In a certain sense,

00:31:39.180 by giving foreign nationals who are in our country 0.99

00:31:42.180 the right to vote,

00:31:42.880 you would expand freedom,

00:31:44.720 certainly the freedom of these foreigners to vote,

00:31:47.160 and you would expand democracy

00:31:49.040 in the sense that more people would be voting.

00:31:51.960 But by doing that,

00:31:54.140 you would be undercutting freedom

00:31:56.300 and you would be undercutting democracy

00:31:58.060 because democracy requires a distinction

00:32:01.060 between the citizens and the non-citizens,

00:32:04.100 the people who are in and the people who are out.

00:32:07.260 The country and not the country.

00:32:09.160 That's the point of national borders

00:32:10.300 which people like Andrew Yang are trying to erase.

00:32:12.180 If the citizens are going to have freedom,

00:32:17.340 you've got to limit the freedom of non-citizens 1.00

00:32:19.860 to interfere in the citizens' government.

00:32:22.660 If the democracy is going to be strong,

00:32:25.860 you need to deny democratic rights

00:32:28.460 to the people who are not in the democracy.

00:32:30.820 There is a thought that stops thought.

00:32:32.640 That's the only thought that ought to be stopped.

00:32:34.020 A line from Chesterton

00:32:34.900 that is more and more apt each day.

00:32:37.780 If you want there to be freedom in the classroom,

00:32:42.940 you need to limit certain things.

00:32:48.400 Right?

00:32:48.520 If you want...

00:32:49.240 The whole purpose of liberal education

00:32:50.580 is to teach you how to use your freedom.

00:32:52.320 That's why it's the liberal arts, right?

00:32:53.520 It's liberal education to make sense of our freedom.

00:32:55.720 It's not to learn how to do a trade.

00:32:57.320 It's not to learn how to do a job.

00:32:59.060 Contrary to what many conservatives say

00:33:00.740 about how you've got a major in STEM or whatever.

00:33:03.300 No.

00:33:03.740 The point of liberal education

00:33:04.620 is actually so you can read a bunch of literature and history

00:33:06.560 and make sense of human nature and your freedom

00:33:09.140 and tamp down your vices

00:33:10.320 and exercise your virtuous habits

00:33:13.860 and your higher will.

00:33:15.220 So in order to do that,

00:33:18.580 for instance,

00:33:19.320 you should not be taught things

00:33:20.480 that undermine the notion of objective reality

00:33:23.560 or goodness or truth or beauty,

00:33:25.560 which is precisely what these radical leftists are doing.

00:33:29.320 If you want to have true academic freedom,

00:33:32.080 as William F. Buckley makes very clear

00:33:33.840 in the book that launched

00:33:34.460 the modern conservative movement,

00:33:36.000 that must mean the freedom of parents and trustees

00:33:40.340 and people in our political system

00:33:42.400 to limit the curriculum.

00:33:46.440 People can have...

00:33:47.140 Look, if some kooky professor like Hannah Nicole Jones 1.00

00:33:49.580 want...

00:33:50.520 Nicole Hannah...

00:33:51.180 I keep confusing her with Anna Nicole Smith,

00:33:53.320 who is a much more admirable professor.

00:33:55.560 And then Nicole Hannah Jones.

00:33:56.780 Nicole Hannah Jones, 0.99

00:33:57.740 if she wants to teach her kooky trash, 1.00

00:33:59.720 her anti-historical nonsense, 0.99

00:34:02.260 if she wants to explore that

00:34:03.800 in her own intellectual pursuits

00:34:05.180 on her own time and her own dollar,

00:34:06.420 that's totally fine by me.

00:34:07.600 I got no problem with that.

00:34:09.100 But she does not have the right 0.99

00:34:10.660 to foist that trash 0.99

00:34:13.040 on students in the classroom, 0.98

00:34:14.580 particularly not in a taxpayer-funded classroom.

00:34:18.260 You want true freedom?

00:34:19.640 Then you got to put limits 1.00

00:34:22.460 on all of that disgusting libertine garbage 1.00

00:34:26.200 that would undermine freedom. 0.99

00:34:28.420 This is one of the themes

00:34:29.280 of my upcoming book,

00:34:30.660 Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Mind.

00:34:31.940 You can head on over

00:34:32.600 to SpeechlessBook.com

00:34:34.320 to pre-order your copy today.

00:34:35.680 Or if you want an extra personal touch,

00:34:37.920 which I would strongly recommend,

00:34:39.440 text Speechless to 53445

00:34:42.360 to pre-order a signed copy.

00:34:43.900 What I would recommend, actually,

00:34:45.000 best of all,

00:34:45.900 is you should get three copies.

00:34:47.540 Seriously, you should get three.

00:34:48.340 I know a lot of you have pre-ordered.

00:34:49.440 I love that,

00:34:49.880 that you pre-ordered the book.

00:34:50.740 That's great.

00:34:51.540 You should get that copy to read.

00:34:53.920 Thumb through.

00:34:54.640 You should get the signed copy

00:34:56.060 to keep a nice little keepsake.

00:34:57.580 That'd be kind of fun.

00:34:58.400 And you should get the audible.

00:34:59.560 You should get the audio book

00:35:00.320 so that you can read it in the car.

00:35:01.800 Now, some people might think

00:35:03.300 that I'm saying this

00:35:03.940 just so that we can triple the book sales.

00:35:06.040 Well, they're sort of right.

00:35:07.500 But I actually do this a lot.

00:35:08.540 I will often get the audio book

00:35:09.700 and the physical book

00:35:10.500 and then I'll switch back and forth.

00:35:11.840 If you want to understand

00:35:13.160 the PC police better

00:35:14.280 than they understand themselves,

00:35:15.840 you know what you should do?

00:35:16.380 You should go pre-order Speechless.

00:35:19.880 There we go.

00:35:20.820 We'll be right back with the mailbag.

00:35:34.880 Welcome back to the show.

00:35:36.540 My first question comes from Andrew.

00:35:39.320 Sir Knowles,

00:35:40.020 I bid the assist

00:35:40.780 for I am speechless.

00:35:42.760 Controlling words,

00:35:43.440 controlling minds.

00:35:44.200 Does that count?

00:35:45.180 Does he get a ding?

00:35:46.280 Okay, I guess he doesn't.

00:35:47.020 I thought they got ding,

00:35:49.780 but that's okay.

00:35:50.560 That's fine.

00:35:50.900 We already got two.

00:35:51.740 I've been very Italian

00:35:52.900 for my entire life,

00:35:54.100 but a few weeks ago

00:35:54.760 I heard you use

00:35:55.320 a presumably Italian word

00:35:56.700 that I had never heard before

00:35:57.960 and could not find anywhere

00:35:59.160 because I have no idea

00:36:00.020 how to spell it.

00:36:01.000 The words sounded like

00:36:02.280 gulions

00:36:03.020 or maybe gulionis

00:36:05.980 or YouTube captions

00:36:08.200 spelled it gulion.

00:36:09.500 Please enlighten me.

00:36:11.440 So that word that I used,

00:36:13.020 if you're from New York,

00:36:13.980 if you come from

00:36:15.080 a southern Italian family

00:36:16.360 like Sicily

00:36:17.100 or Calabria

00:36:17.820 or Napoli

00:36:18.940 or something like that,

00:36:20.120 you might have heard this term.

00:36:22.300 Gulions is a kind of

00:36:23.660 New York bastardization

00:36:25.820 of a southern dialect

00:36:26.860 of the Italian word

00:36:27.840 colloni.

00:36:29.420 Colloni is the sort of thing

00:36:31.360 that Caitlyn Jenner once had.

00:36:33.620 You know,

00:36:33.840 colloni is the, 0.97

00:36:35.360 it's like the word cojones 0.97

00:36:36.400 is where it comes from. 0.94

00:36:37.420 It's a great word

00:36:38.160 and gulions

00:36:39.100 just really is a terrific way

00:36:40.500 to say it.

00:36:41.000 I'm glad that I could teach you

00:36:42.180 New York Italian slang.

00:36:44.660 From Alexander,

00:36:45.520 Michael,

00:36:46.500 you and Ben seem to have

00:36:47.320 somewhat different notions

00:36:48.080 of free speech.

00:36:48.880 You frequently say

00:36:49.600 that not all cancel culture

00:36:50.760 is bad,

00:36:51.820 for example,

00:36:52.540 or that is rather

00:36:53.620 canceling communists,

00:36:55.400 critical race theory

00:36:56.040 proponents,

00:36:56.560 et cetera,

00:36:57.240 and that's good,

00:36:58.080 whereas Ben seems to take

00:36:59.140 a somewhat more libertarian

00:37:00.180 free speech absolutist approach

00:37:01.560 and often warns of wielding

00:37:02.940 political or cultural power

00:37:04.160 that you wouldn't want

00:37:04.940 to be wielded against you

00:37:06.040 if the other party culture

00:37:07.060 became more dominant.

00:37:08.000 My question is this,

00:37:09.020 how do you strike

00:37:09.560 the ideal balance

00:37:10.420 between canceling

00:37:11.240 abhorrent ideas

00:37:12.000 while still maintaining

00:37:13.100 the appropriate amount

00:37:13.860 of free speech principles?

00:37:15.060 Thanks,

00:37:15.360 Active Duty Marine,

00:37:16.000 a long-time fan.

00:37:16.540 Thank you very much.

00:37:17.500 I know that Ben

00:37:19.360 talks about this a little bit.

00:37:20.620 You know,

00:37:20.740 he definitely speaks

00:37:22.220 much more

00:37:22.880 in the free speech

00:37:23.760 absolutist camp,

00:37:24.980 but I actually don't think

00:37:26.140 our ideas on this

00:37:27.100 are very far apart

00:37:28.100 because I think that

00:37:29.160 if you asked Ben,

00:37:30.060 hey Ben,

00:37:30.380 do you think racists

00:37:31.380 should be canceled?

00:37:32.620 I think he would

00:37:33.180 probably say yes.

00:37:34.640 In fact,

00:37:35.020 I think he has said yes

00:37:35.800 in the past.

00:37:36.640 If you asked Ben,

00:37:37.620 hey,

00:37:37.780 if someone,

00:37:38.240 you know,

00:37:38.500 says Heil Hitler 0.92

00:37:39.340 at the water cooler,

00:37:40.140 do you think

00:37:40.420 they should not

00:37:41.320 lose their job?

00:37:42.040 I think he would

00:37:42.540 obviously say,

00:37:43.420 yeah,

00:37:43.540 no,

00:37:43.680 that person

00:37:44.040 has no right

00:37:44.520 to keep their job.

00:37:46.100 So I think in practice

00:37:47.980 he would acknowledge

00:37:49.100 those limits

00:37:49.860 and maybe his language

00:37:51.780 would be a little more

00:37:52.660 in the free speech

00:37:55.100 abstraction camp

00:37:56.720 than mine would be,

00:37:57.400 but I just think,

00:37:58.140 I think that actually

00:37:58.920 kind of proves the point,

00:37:59.740 right?

00:37:59.880 We would all acknowledge

00:38:01.220 that speech has limits.

00:38:03.300 This is true

00:38:03.860 as a matter of law,

00:38:05.440 right?

00:38:05.580 There are certain speeches

00:38:06.180 that's just illegal,

00:38:07.000 direct threats,

00:38:08.600 fraud,

00:38:10.700 copyright infringement,

00:38:12.760 sedition,

00:38:14.360 these sorts,

00:38:14.800 obscenity obviously,

00:38:15.820 so those sorts of things

00:38:17.240 and those protections,

00:38:19.300 especially obscenity

00:38:19.900 that have been whittled

00:38:20.400 away over the years,

00:38:21.360 but the point of it is,

00:38:22.260 the reason we have

00:38:22.820 those protections

00:38:23.340 is that some speech

00:38:24.320 undermines other speech

00:38:25.560 and so I'm not even saying

00:38:26.800 it's great to cancel people,

00:38:29.580 I mean,

00:38:29.840 I think it's great

00:38:31.000 to cancel communists,

00:38:31.860 I think it's awesome,

00:38:32.380 I think it's great

00:38:32.780 to cancel Nicole Hannah-Jones,

00:38:33.960 I'm totally for that,

00:38:35.440 but it's more

00:38:36.800 than that,

00:38:37.460 I guess I'm saying

00:38:38.420 we will cancel people,

00:38:40.580 people will be canceled,

00:38:41.780 every society

00:38:42.500 throughout all of history,

00:38:43.900 including and especially

00:38:44.720 our own,

00:38:45.500 has canceled people,

00:38:47.260 the thing that's changed

00:38:48.420 and it's what we're referring

00:38:49.320 to now with cancel culture

00:38:50.260 is just what people

00:38:51.020 get canceled for,

00:38:51.960 in the 50s you get canceled

00:38:53.020 for being a communist,

00:38:54.160 today you get canceled

00:38:54.920 for not being a communist,

00:38:56.460 and so I just,

00:38:57.300 I think that the,

00:38:58.200 the real squishes on this,

00:39:00.740 I'm not talking about Ben,

00:39:01.620 I'm talking about people

00:39:02.280 who won't acknowledge

00:39:03.240 that there are any limits

00:39:04.500 to speech whatsoever,

00:39:06.080 the real squishes on this

00:39:07.420 are just burying their head

00:39:09.000 in the sand

00:39:09.500 and just denying reality,

00:39:11.080 and I think politics

00:39:12.820 goes a lot better for you

00:39:14.000 when you acknowledge reality,

00:39:15.380 and the reality is

00:39:16.300 there are going to be standards,

00:39:17.400 there are going to be things

00:39:18.020 that people face consequences for

00:39:19.880 and get ostracized for

00:39:20.840 and even are censored for,

00:39:22.020 and I would just much rather

00:39:23.360 those standards be good

00:39:24.380 and true than false

00:39:26.260 and wicked,

00:39:26.980 like the ones that the left

00:39:27.860 is trying to push forward,

00:39:29.360 and we've fallen into this trap

00:39:30.640 for a long time,

00:39:31.220 and it's the problem

00:39:32.220 that I'm trying to fix,

00:39:33.280 urgently trying to fix,

00:39:35.080 in my upcoming book,

00:39:35.840 Speechless.

00:39:36.520 From Grace,

00:39:37.980 Dear Michael Knowles,

00:39:39.140 I'm a college student,

00:39:40.080 next year is my senior year,

00:39:41.520 I'm going to be

00:39:42.280 a middle school math teacher,

00:39:44.260 it's not a popular age,

00:39:45.300 but yeah, it's not,

00:39:45.960 good luck for you,

00:39:46.680 oh my gosh,

00:39:47.180 you're a saint,

00:39:48.040 but those kids need lots of love

00:39:49.220 and someone who won't force them

00:39:50.140 into the leftist lie.

00:39:51.160 Next year,

00:39:51.700 my college is going to be

00:39:52.600 requiring the vaccine to attend,

00:39:54.220 we'll still be required

00:39:55.000 to wear masks on campus,

00:39:56.100 I don't want to get the vaccine

00:39:57.060 because of the stories

00:39:57.680 I've heard about its effects,

00:39:59.040 I've brought up my concerns

00:40:00.140 with family and close friends,

00:40:01.480 I was offered a chance

00:40:02.300 at a forged vaccine card,

00:40:04.220 because of my faith,

00:40:05.000 I feel as though lying is wrong,

00:40:06.860 and I don't think that people

00:40:07.920 should be forging vaccine cards,

00:40:09.440 do I get the vaccine

00:40:10.160 and just pray that it does more harm,

00:40:12.400 it does more good than harm,

00:40:13.580 thank you for your wisdom,

00:40:14.700 oh suavest of the Daily Wire hosts,

00:40:16.520 sincerely a concerned college student.

00:40:19.680 Tricky question,

00:40:20.640 other people have written in

00:40:21.440 with this question,

00:40:22.960 if you have very serious concerns

00:40:24.460 about the vaccine,

00:40:25.260 I think it's perfectly right

00:40:26.140 not to get the vaccine.

00:40:27.080 Now, there is a question

00:40:30.420 over how dishonest it would be

00:40:33.740 to imply to someone

00:40:35.680 that you have had that vaccine

00:40:37.780 when you have not had that vaccine,

00:40:39.800 and how one might say it

00:40:40.860 without committing a sin,

00:40:43.160 without lying overtly,

00:40:45.720 but while maybe obscuring

00:40:48.860 one's real actions

00:40:53.280 and desires and motives.

00:40:54.260 I think that if you don't want

00:40:56.920 to get the vaccine,

00:40:57.760 that's a perfectly legitimate thing.

00:40:59.740 I think you're obviously

00:41:01.040 a young person,

00:41:02.380 you're not really at risk

00:41:03.340 of this virus,

00:41:04.180 I think the overreach here

00:41:05.280 is outrageous by the government,

00:41:06.760 and I don't think

00:41:07.580 that the public health officials

00:41:08.540 have very much credibility at all.

00:41:11.060 And I think that there are ways

00:41:13.260 to be creative

00:41:14.420 in one's language and communication

00:41:16.400 that would not require one

00:41:18.820 to commit a mortal sin

00:41:19.900 while still avoiding this vaccine.

00:41:22.960 Take that for what it's worth.

00:41:24.260 From Paul.

00:41:24.980 Hey, Michael.

00:41:26.060 When speaking to those

00:41:27.000 who imagine themselves

00:41:28.080 to be a they or a them,

00:41:30.060 why are you okay

00:41:31.180 being referred to as a you?

00:41:33.360 Shouldn't we be addressing them

00:41:34.720 as y'all or you guys?

00:41:36.540 For example, Demi.

00:41:39.480 When did you guys decide

00:41:41.140 y'all were non-binary?

00:41:43.620 I want to get this right, Michael.

00:41:44.840 I would hate to offend someone,

00:41:46.260 especially in a way

00:41:47.120 they don't yet know

00:41:48.740 is offensive to them.

00:41:50.200 Thank you, Michael.

00:41:50.940 Have a wonderful weekend.

00:41:51.760 I need a drink

00:41:52.840 after that question.

00:41:53.540 I don't know if I,

00:41:55.200 did anybody,

00:41:56.100 well, there's another trick too

00:41:57.320 because when I moved to the South,

00:41:59.080 Senator Cruz said,

00:42:00.180 Michael, have you started

00:42:01.040 to speak Southern yet?

00:42:01.960 And I said,

00:42:02.940 how do you speak Southern?

00:42:03.820 He said, well,

00:42:04.160 instead of referring to you,

00:42:05.220 you have to refer to y'all.

00:42:06.540 I said, oh, well,

00:42:07.320 you'd refer to y'all

00:42:08.120 in the second person plural,

00:42:09.700 right, when you're talking

00:42:10.240 to multiple people.

00:42:10.880 He said, no, no,

00:42:11.220 you refer to y'all

00:42:11.860 even when you're talking

00:42:12.460 to one person.

00:42:13.560 I said, well,

00:42:13.880 if you refer to y'all

00:42:15.480 when you're talking

00:42:16.060 to one person,

00:42:16.820 then what is the plural of y'all?

00:42:18.360 He said, well,

00:42:18.680 it's all y'all.

00:42:19.760 So I don't know,

00:42:20.580 you know,

00:42:20.720 I'm obviously not the expert

00:42:21.920 on these various dialects.

00:42:23.500 I'm pretty good

00:42:23.900 on Southern Italian,

00:42:24.820 Southern American

00:42:25.440 and woke leftist

00:42:26.540 a little bit harder for me,

00:42:27.880 but I agree.

00:42:28.520 It's very, very tricky.

00:42:29.620 And even,

00:42:30.300 even the verb agreement

00:42:31.360 is tricky here.

00:42:32.260 If Demi Lovato is now they,

00:42:35.120 would you say,

00:42:36.420 they is Demi Lovato?

00:42:38.640 Their name,

00:42:40.640 you'd say their name

00:42:41.340 is Demi Lovato.

00:42:41.940 That's not complicated,

00:42:42.680 but they is,

00:42:44.000 they goes,

00:42:45.280 they goes to the store.

00:42:47.020 Now this sounds ungrammatic.

00:42:49.020 I guess it's ungrammatical

00:42:49.900 from the very beginning.

00:42:51.340 From Ken.

00:42:53.160 Are we coming

00:42:53.860 at the abortion issue

00:42:54.760 from the wrong perspective?

00:42:55.600 It seems obvious

00:42:56.260 that the left

00:42:56.740 does not think or care

00:42:57.680 that a fetus

00:42:58.200 is a living thing with rights.

00:42:59.440 Should we then switch

00:43:00.320 the argument

00:43:00.800 to men's rights

00:43:02.000 to have a say

00:43:03.120 on what happens

00:43:03.700 to their unborn child?

00:43:05.180 I was not always a Christian

00:43:06.260 and in my younger years

00:43:07.160 there were two times

00:43:07.820 I had to drive my lady 0.94

00:43:08.700 to get an abortion. 1.00

00:43:09.480 Oh my gosh.

00:43:11.060 Oh my,

00:43:11.520 and both times

00:43:12.120 I begged her

00:43:12.800 not to do it.

00:43:14.880 Gosh.

00:43:15.580 I don't mean to be crass, 0.96

00:43:16.840 but if sperm

00:43:17.400 is found on a body

00:43:18.300 or a rape victim

00:43:19.120 or a rape victim, 0.97

00:43:21.080 it's his DNA.

00:43:21.980 But if it's used

00:43:22.620 to help create

00:43:23.080 a brand new life,

00:43:24.380 we're told

00:43:24.800 it's no longer his.

00:43:26.840 Maybe changing

00:43:27.680 the minds of the left

00:43:28.540 is the wrong angle.

00:43:29.540 Maybe we should change

00:43:30.260 the minds

00:43:30.660 of the quiet men

00:43:31.460 afraid to speak up

00:43:32.380 for their 50%

00:43:33.520 of the decision.

00:43:34.340 Yeah, I mean,

00:43:34.860 fair enough.

00:43:36.240 The issue here,

00:43:37.140 gosh,

00:43:37.520 what a horrible thing.

00:43:38.280 I mean,

00:43:41.180 I have many thoughts

00:43:42.160 on this experience.

00:43:43.820 Sorry,

00:43:44.540 sorry that you

00:43:45.340 were involved in that.

00:43:47.840 Sorry,

00:43:48.300 especially for the kid.

00:43:52.140 Should,

00:43:52.840 should the man

00:43:53.640 have rights here?

00:43:54.240 Yeah,

00:43:54.560 certainly the man should.

00:43:55.420 I mean,

00:43:55.560 we should just

00:43:55.980 outlaw abortion,

00:43:56.820 so it's not,

00:43:57.480 it should not really

00:43:58.360 be even a question

00:43:59.000 of the men

00:43:59.640 or the women. 0.99

00:44:00.100 It just should not

00:44:00.700 be legal.

00:44:01.500 And obviously,

00:44:02.140 the men should have

00:44:02.740 some say here

00:44:03.360 because man

00:44:04.960 is one of the parents,

00:44:07.020 one of the two parents

00:44:07.840 of the little child,

00:44:10.360 regardless of what

00:44:11.020 the U.S. Army says

00:44:11.740 about that

00:44:12.180 and lesbian mothers 1.00

00:44:12.840 and all sorts of things.

00:44:14.420 Now,

00:44:14.980 the problem here,

00:44:16.240 though,

00:44:16.380 is if you're

00:44:18.860 having sex 0.83

00:44:20.520 out of wedlock,

00:44:21.140 which statistically

00:44:22.140 everybody is doing,

00:44:23.120 so I,

00:44:23.880 you know,

00:44:24.080 I'm not trying

00:44:25.080 to sound holier

00:44:26.560 than thou

00:44:27.020 because now

00:44:28.000 I happen to be married

00:44:29.200 and, you know,

00:44:29.920 did not find myself

00:44:31.160 in that awful situation.

00:44:34.260 However,

00:44:36.160 really it is incumbent

00:44:37.180 on the men

00:44:37.700 to kind of man up

00:44:38.680 and not put women 0.87

00:44:39.680 in a bad position

00:44:40.440 and if they do put women 0.60

00:44:41.440 in a bad position

00:44:42.180 to man up

00:44:42.860 and get married

00:44:43.380 and not,

00:44:44.620 not facilitate

00:44:46.540 these sorts of awful things

00:44:47.760 but to say,

00:44:48.400 hey,

00:44:49.220 let's go,

00:44:49.720 shotgun wedding,

00:44:50.380 baby,

00:44:51.000 we're getting married

00:44:51.580 in a month or two

00:44:52.300 and, you know,

00:44:52.880 people don't,

00:44:53.660 don't want to do that

00:44:54.520 and maybe it was just

00:44:55.400 a one-night stand

00:44:56.080 or something

00:44:56.460 but that's why you

00:44:57.240 shouldn't do that

00:44:58.320 sort of thing

00:44:58.760 and,

00:44:59.120 and,

00:44:59.520 you know,

00:44:59.780 if you do,

00:45:00.200 a lot of people do it

00:45:00.900 but then,

00:45:02.060 then there are going

00:45:02.460 to be consequences

00:45:03.100 to that

00:45:03.520 and no matter

00:45:04.520 how awful

00:45:05.040 the consequence

00:45:05.560 of that would be,

00:45:07.120 one imagines

00:45:07.760 it could not be worse 1.00

00:45:08.480 than killing a kid, 1.00

00:45:09.760 right?

00:45:10.360 So yes,

00:45:11.320 men should have 0.62

00:45:12.000 greater rights here

00:45:12.620 but men also need 0.97

00:45:13.300 to behave

00:45:14.280 in a more civilized way

00:45:15.200 and if they

00:45:16.340 make mistakes,

00:45:17.360 they gotta

00:45:17.600 take responsibility

00:45:19.980 for those mistakes.

00:45:21.520 And by the way,

00:45:22.340 also,

00:45:22.960 if the mistake

00:45:23.520 is a child,

00:45:24.260 if the consequence

00:45:24.940 of the mistake

00:45:25.480 is a child,

00:45:26.860 it's not a bad reward.

00:45:28.060 Not a bad reward

00:45:28.900 for your mistake.

00:45:29.900 From Matthew,

00:45:30.460 hey Michael,

00:45:31.100 I recently turned 19

00:45:32.200 which is the legal age

00:45:32.960 to purchase tobacco products

00:45:34.080 where I live in Vancouver,

00:45:35.340 Canada.

00:45:36.100 Oh my gosh,

00:45:37.280 Canada is freer

00:45:38.140 than America?

00:45:38.780 They raised the age here 1.00

00:45:39.620 in the United States

00:45:40.380 to 21.

00:45:41.460 When I was a kid,

00:45:41.960 it was 18

00:45:42.340 but now it's 21.

00:45:43.720 Oh my gosh, 0.99

00:45:44.300 that's pathetic. 0.99

00:45:45.380 I've been curious 0.99

00:45:46.180 to give cigar smoking

00:45:46.900 a try with my friends

00:45:47.680 particularly because 0.80

00:45:48.620 our ridiculous

00:45:49.300 provincial health guidelines 0.75

00:45:50.320 still only permit

00:45:50.980 outdoor gatherings

00:45:51.660 and I see it as a good way

00:45:52.740 to have something to do

00:45:53.420 while hanging out together.

00:45:54.520 When I mentioned this

00:45:55.220 to my mother,

00:45:55.740 she was absolutely horrified.

00:45:57.440 Doesn't help

00:45:58.040 that when you Google

00:45:59.220 are cigars harmful,

00:46:00.240 the top result

00:46:00.760 is a page from the CDC

00:46:01.920 that basically says

00:46:03.180 cigar smoking

00:46:03.720 will turn you

00:46:04.180 into a tooth decaying 0.92

00:46:05.120 cancer magnet.

00:46:06.280 Since you've mentioned

00:46:06.780 on your show

00:46:07.160 that you started smoking cigars

00:46:08.200 at an early age,

00:46:08.960 do you think it's

00:46:09.300 a worthwhile habit

00:46:10.040 to adopt

00:46:10.560 and convince my mother of?

00:46:12.380 If so,

00:46:13.080 how should I go

00:46:13.560 about changing

00:46:14.060 her negative perception

00:46:15.060 of cigars?

00:46:17.460 Cigars entail health risks.

00:46:19.800 That's just the case.

00:46:20.540 Drinking entails health risks.

00:46:22.320 Eating fast food

00:46:23.580 entails health risks.

00:46:25.400 You can mitigate

00:46:26.000 some of this

00:46:26.740 by only doing it

00:46:28.500 in moderation.

00:46:29.260 I wouldn't call it a habit.

00:46:30.460 I think of cigarette smoking

00:46:31.660 as a habit.

00:46:32.320 That's really an addiction

00:46:33.280 that satisfies

00:46:34.940 the appetitive part

00:46:35.740 of our souls.

00:46:37.840 Whereas I think

00:46:39.160 of cigar smoking

00:46:40.040 as a hobby

00:46:40.620 that appeals

00:46:41.860 to the thumatic 0.82

00:46:42.520 part of our souls.

00:46:43.240 What do I mean by that?

00:46:44.260 I mean that

00:46:45.000 cigarette smoking

00:46:45.980 is just more about

00:46:46.760 kind of base appetites

00:46:47.900 whereas cigar smoking

00:46:49.300 is more spirited.

00:46:50.340 It's more

00:46:50.740 of a jubilant activity.

00:46:52.460 It's more of a

00:46:53.300 celebratory sort of thing.

00:46:54.920 And so I don't,

00:46:55.400 you know,

00:46:55.600 if I don't have a cigar

00:46:56.340 for a while,

00:46:56.740 I don't start getting

00:46:57.260 the shakes

00:46:57.700 and scratching my neck.

00:46:58.940 I like,

00:46:59.600 I enjoy smoking cigars.

00:47:00.840 I had one for breakfast

00:47:01.860 as a matter of fact.

00:47:02.500 I had a little,

00:47:02.840 just a few puffs

00:47:03.460 of one for breakfast

00:47:04.020 that I didn't finish

00:47:04.700 last night.

00:47:05.600 But you should be aware

00:47:06.320 there are health risks.

00:47:07.200 Okay,

00:47:07.360 there's health risks

00:47:08.220 to a lot of things in life.

00:47:10.220 And so if you do it

00:47:11.360 in moderation,

00:47:11.880 I mean that's what I do

00:47:12.840 and I think it's terrific.

00:47:14.320 But you know,

00:47:16.060 there is a world

00:47:16.880 in which you have

00:47:17.520 to face health consequences

00:47:18.520 for that.

00:47:18.920 There's no way

00:47:19.340 to escape consequences

00:47:20.180 in life.

00:47:20.560 I think there was a line

00:47:21.120 though from Churchill

00:47:21.720 who said that

00:47:22.800 he's taken more

00:47:24.520 out of cigars

00:47:25.100 than cigars have taken

00:47:25.920 out of him.

00:47:26.820 From Mason,

00:47:27.400 Michael,

00:47:27.660 I've got to admit

00:47:28.180 I look forward

00:47:28.760 to watching your show

00:47:29.560 daily just to see

00:47:30.340 what outfit you have on.

00:47:32.240 What?

00:47:33.340 You're the most,

00:47:34.200 wow,

00:47:34.520 this is great.

00:47:35.160 I should have put

00:47:35.560 this question further

00:47:36.120 up in the show.

00:47:36.540 You're the most

00:47:37.280 consistently best dressed

00:47:38.520 man other than

00:47:39.320 Jordan Peterson.

00:47:40.460 Do you just have

00:47:41.000 good taste

00:47:41.580 or does your wife 0.99

00:47:43.140 help pick your wardrobe?

00:47:44.800 Wow,

00:47:45.060 to be compared

00:47:45.500 to Jordan Peterson

00:47:46.400 in the sartorial department

00:47:48.020 is a great honor.

00:47:49.520 Jordan always wears 0.99

00:47:50.420 those wonderfully tailored

00:47:51.460 Seville row suits.

00:47:53.140 I appreciate the compliment

00:47:54.500 on my taste.

00:47:55.360 I consider myself

00:47:56.260 to be a man

00:47:57.020 of simple taste.

00:47:58.700 I am easily satisfied

00:47:59.800 by the very best.

00:48:01.660 Another line

00:48:02.220 borrowed from

00:48:02.700 Winston Churchill.

00:48:03.480 From Joshua,

00:48:04.180 why is everyone

00:48:05.780 complaining

00:48:06.300 that Biden

00:48:07.200 seemingly didn't get

00:48:08.360 anything in return

00:48:09.440 for lifting sanctions

00:48:10.340 on NS2 pipeline

00:48:11.840 instead of wondering

00:48:12.920 what Russia did 0.84

00:48:13.700 to earn it?

00:48:14.600 More Democrats 0.57

00:48:15.300 solicited Russian

00:48:16.260 election interference.

00:48:17.640 Yes,

00:48:17.960 of course,

00:48:18.260 there's a ton

00:48:18.600 of shady stuff.

00:48:19.420 It was so preposterous

00:48:20.340 when the left,

00:48:21.080 I mean,

00:48:21.320 specifically with regard

00:48:22.240 to Russia,

00:48:22.640 the idea that the left

00:48:23.820 would accuse the right

00:48:25.040 of cozying up to Russia 0.87

00:48:26.040 after the left

00:48:26.880 spent almost a full century 0.95

00:48:29.180 sucking up

00:48:30.140 to the Soviet Union 0.99

00:48:31.260 and in some cases

00:48:31.880 working directly

00:48:32.560 on their behalf

00:48:33.160 is crazy.

00:48:33.900 But yeah,

00:48:34.500 it's not just feel-good

00:48:35.780 ideological stuff.

00:48:36.900 There's some brass knuckle

00:48:38.180 money and power politics

00:48:39.720 behind a lot of this.

00:48:41.020 From Sophia,

00:48:41.640 Michael,

00:48:41.980 I watched Candace's show today

00:48:43.460 and her argument

00:48:44.240 with Nicole Arbor

00:48:45.020 reminded me

00:48:46.100 of what you always say

00:48:46.960 about cancel culture.

00:48:47.900 It seems like the right

00:48:48.820 is indeed confused

00:48:49.700 about what we stand for

00:48:50.700 and I think the problem

00:48:51.680 is a semantic one.

00:48:52.920 How we define

00:48:53.980 cancel culture.

00:48:55.000 We should be

00:48:55.660 canceling celebrities,

00:48:56.660 not regular people,

00:48:57.580 who do heinous things

00:48:58.740 online like harassment,

00:48:59.940 right?

00:49:00.520 Give the libs a taste

00:49:01.400 of their own medicine

00:49:02.300 except we stand up

00:49:03.240 for the good,

00:49:03.660 the true,

00:49:03.860 and the beautiful.

00:49:04.560 Did you watch the episode?

00:49:05.580 What do you think?

00:49:06.200 Subscribe for Ben,

00:49:06.860 stay for Klavan,

00:49:07.480 renewed for Knowles.

00:49:08.140 Thank you.

00:49:08.540 I'm so pleased to hear that.

00:49:09.640 In our final 10 seconds,

00:49:11.920 Candace was right.

00:49:12.760 Yes,

00:49:13.220 canceling is totally fine.

00:49:14.400 I mean,

00:49:14.560 I really,

00:49:14.880 I like Nicole Arbor.

00:49:15.760 She's a very,

00:49:16.160 very nice gal

00:49:17.000 but I disagree

00:49:17.980 with a lot of conservatives

00:49:18.840 on this.

00:49:20.120 As I think I've made clear

00:49:21.420 in this show,

00:49:22.540 people will be canceled.

00:49:24.120 There will be standards.

00:49:25.240 People will face consequences.

00:49:26.580 The question is what for?

00:49:28.480 What are the consequences?

00:49:30.020 What are the things

00:49:30.680 that are acceptable to stay?

00:49:31.960 What are the things

00:49:32.540 that are unacceptable to stay?

00:49:33.960 The reason that we've lost

00:49:35.160 so much of the culture,

00:49:36.220 I think,

00:49:36.440 is because we've thrown

00:49:37.080 our hands up

00:49:37.760 and disavowed standards

00:49:39.160 entirely,

00:49:39.920 which we continue to do

00:49:41.100 at our own peril.

00:49:42.120 Learn how to avoid it

00:49:42.880 in my upcoming book,

00:49:44.320 Speechless Controlling Words,

00:49:45.080 Controlling Minds.

00:49:45.540 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:49:46.400 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:49:47.640 We'll see you Monday.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 21, 2021

Ep. 769 -The “Academic Freedom” Hoax

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