Ep. 769 -The “Academic Freedom” Hoax
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Academic freedom is a hoax, as you can see very clearly from all of our public debates, from transgenderism to the COVID vaccine. The 1619 Project founder Nicole Hannah-Jones has been denied tenure at the University of North Carolina. Leftists are furious, and I could not be happier.
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1619 Project founder Nicole Hannah-Jones has been denied tenure at the University of North Carolina.
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Leftists are furious. Squishes are worried. And I, for one, could not be happier because
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academic freedom is for chumps. It is a hoax, as you can see very clearly from all of our public
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debates, from transgenderism to the COVID vaccine. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from 21 Jack Jordan, who writes,
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unrelated, but today my female teacher said that women get raped for far more than men,
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and therefore it's ridiculous that men are the ones deciding how we fix that. I decided to raise
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my hand and said she was wrong. If you include prison population, men actually get raped more
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than women. She told me I should check my facts, and where in the world did you hear that? So I
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told her the Bureau of Justice Statistics dot gov, and she responded with, we don't need to talk
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about that. I'm in high school, and I'm already canceled. Wow. This comment actually ties in so
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well to what we're talking about today, which is the idea of academic freedom, which the libs and
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the squishes are always pushing, but which is just completely ridiculous. Obviously, your point was
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right on the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and also her point was wrong in that just because someone
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experiences something, that does not mean that they cannot have an opinion on it. It does not mean
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that they don't have faculties of reason, and they can't have something to offer to the world.
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I love that Nicole Hannah-Jones, the 1619 Project propagandist, was denied tenure at UNC. So the
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libs are furious because the libs want this woman to push her propaganda even more than she already
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has. Let's not forget the 1619 Project, which is based on a lie. The entire thesis of the 1619 Project
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is that the American Revolution was fought to protect the institution of slavery. It's just not true.
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There is no evidence of this whatsoever. Even left-wing academic historians shot this down.
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The times persisted in error for seven months, but then even they corrected it. And it was kind
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of a fake half correction where they just added in these words, some of, they said some of the
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colonists fought the revolution for this reason. Even that is bogus. It's just the American Revolution
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was not fought to protect the institution of slavery. That doesn't even make sense.
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Slavery would not be abolished throughout the West for quite some time afterward. And there,
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and there were people at the Constitutional Convention and at the Continental Congress who were
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fighting against slavery. Regardless, we are now being told by the, what do you call them,
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libertarian right or the squish right? We're being told that this is a grave threat to academic
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freedom. And I just, I just don't want to hear it anymore. This is what the libs do. They push some
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bogus idea and then for a while the conservatives fight against it. And then we accept all of their
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premises and then we start arguing their points. This is what happened with academic freedom.
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The modern conservative movement, the one that started after World War II began with William F.
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Buckley Jr. publishing a book called God and Man at Yale. The subtitle of which was called
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the, the superstitions of academic freedom. He called it a hoax. It's a joke. And it, it goes,
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it goes back much further than that. Academic freedom comes from the University of Leiden
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in 1575. It begins after the Protestant revolution, the University of Leiden decide in the Netherlands
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decides that they're going to have academic freedom. And yet even this first university
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with total, you can say and think whatever you want, they refuse to grant total academic freedom.
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Then the Protestant Senate of Dort in 1618 restricted this even further because they wanted to combat the
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Armenian heresy. Okay. Keeping up so far, then some German universities tried to revive it for like
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five minutes. Napoleon shut that down. Then in 1636, Harvard was founded in America. Was it founded
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on academic freedom? No, it was founded to quash the antinomian heresy. These universities were
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founded with a mission, with a purpose. They have to have a mission. If you're going to teach anything,
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you're going to teach some things and you're going to contradict other things. If you're going to
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teach the two plus two equals four, you're not going to permit the teaching that two plus two equals
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five. And this is not just true in mathematics. It's true throughout the university.
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In 1940, you have the American Association of University Professors. This is the, we're talking
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about the height, the peak of academic freedom in America, right? They issue their statement on
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academic freedom and tenure. So this is the actual professors. These are the guys who are fighting in
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the trenches for academic freedom. And in their statement on academic freedom, they say that teachers
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have the right to quote freedom in the classroom in discussing their subject, but they quote should be
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careful not to introduce into their teaching controversial matter, which has no relation to
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their subject. And later they told them to exercise appropriate restraint. So even the most out there
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full on endorsement of academic freedom says teachers can't mouth off about their stupid politics and they
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need to use restraint. And they're obviously accountable to the trustees and to the parents and to the
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university administrators, obviously. And yet the, the right somehow adopts these terms. Even the,
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the Bill Buckley's intellectual heirs, the people who call themselves Buckleyites and things like that,
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who now are, you know, they're writing for places like, I don't know, the dispatch or something,
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you know, these kind of left wing, ostensibly right wing outlets. Uh, they'll endorse this.
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They'll say, yeah, we support academic freedom. It's just a joke. Debates take place within limits.
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Okay. You see this very clearly. Forget the schools for a second. You see this very clearly
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on the vaccine issue. Certain opinions cannot be held in public. There are just, there are just
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limits on it. There are just restraints. And we might not like that. And we might want the
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restraints to be different. I certainly do, but we have to acknowledge there are limits to these
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debates. So on the vaccine issue, a lot of people don't want the vaccine. That's something like one in
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five Americans and a huge portion of them say they will never get the vaccine under no
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circumstances. Now you've got multiple governors, governor of Ohio, governor of Maryland, governor
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of New York, COVID are offering cash prizes, lottos for people who get the vaccine. You get
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the vaccine, you get entered in the lottery. Maybe you can win millions of dollars. Sort of undercuts
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the messaging here, right? Cause the messaging is everybody can't wait to get the vaccine. Oh,
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it's so wonderful. There's no questions about it whatsoever. And that's why we're going to pay
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people millions of dollars to do it because of how, because of how obvious a choice it is to go
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get it. No, it, obviously some people have reservations here, but you are not allowed to
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mention this. A great example of it. I was watching The View. I wasn't really watching The View. I was
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watching clips of The View. And there was a debate between Meghan McCain, Republican, Joy Behar, Democrat.
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And the debate was over the vaccine and why some people are not getting the vaccine right now.
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Now listen to the debate. Listen to the two sides of this argument and see if you can suss out what
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the differences are. You know what? It's not that complicated people. It's not nuclear physics. All
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right. All you have to do is get the damn vaccine. When you go inside, wear a mask. Even if you have the
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vaccine, there might be variants around where the damn vaccine and then get the booster when that
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time is coming. Well, what is the complicated problem here with people? I don't understand
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it. This is just to own the libs. When I was a kid, the polio vaccine was available and everybody
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was dying to get it. If you watch those kids on television, those iron lungs, that's what they
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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
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to be in there. Get me that shot. And of course people did it. Everybody's getting it. Okay.
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You guys out there, it's not, you're not owning the libs by not getting the shot. Nobody's grown
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an extra arm. Nobody's grown an extra head. Everybody's fine. It's the people who are not
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taking it who are not fine. Okay. Hold on. So pause for a second here before we get into Megan's side of
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it. I know a lot of people who haven't taken the vaccine and they're fine and they're totally fine,
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right? Especially young people, especially people who are not really at risk from this virus.
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They think, look, I'm not really at risk. Statistically, I'm at a very low risk of this
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virus. Even if I get it, I'm at very low risk of any complications. So why would I get the vaccine?
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Well, what about with a polio vaccine? Right. COVID's not polio, especially for young people.
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Polio, very dangerous for young people. COVID, just not that dangerous for young people. That's just
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the statistics of it. I'm not spreading any kooky conspiracy theories. Some groups are at greater risk
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than others. It's not complicated people. Wear the damn vaccine. Wait, what? What does that mean?
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Well, why, what? Look, people got the polio vaccine. Come on. What's so complicated? Here's
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what's complicated. The public health authorities had far greater credibility when the polio vaccine
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came out. They've squandered their credibility. Now they've lied to us multiple times. They've
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admitted they've lied to us multiple times. And even when they haven't lied, they've just made
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predictions. They've gotten the predictions wrong. So pardon me if I don't rush to believe them
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when they say that something's totally fine. I'm not saying I'm, I'm never going to get the vaccine.
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I'm not saying that if I were 85 years old, I wouldn't get the vaccine. But obviously there,
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there are reasons that people are hesitating here. One fifth of Americans who are not only interested in
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owning the libs. I love owning the libs. It's a great thing, but there are other reasons as well.
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Okay. Megan responds. The messaging is absolute garbage coming from Fauci. And it's not just about
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owning the libs. The demographics on who is vaccine hesitant, it crosses the gamut. There's
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still a lot of hesitancy in the African American community. I, um, a nurse I know who actually was
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administering vaccines said that her daughter wouldn't get it because she was worried about
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fertility issues. This is something I keep hearing a lot that a lot of women are concerned about what it
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could possibly do. Uh, if you're in childbearing years, all the women on this show, I assume are
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done having babies except possibly me. That's something that I would want to know. I believe
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the science. I believe it's healthy. I think they have come out saying even pregnant women
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can get this vaccine. But the fact that there hasn't been a summit or a discussion or figures
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that people trust on TV to try and help quell some of this. That's why the conspiracy theories keep
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growing and spreading. People just don't understand and don't know. And I don't like to judge people
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who aren't, uh, accessible to the same kind of resources and education I am. But this is a
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serious, serious problem in this country. You know, a lot of people I'd like to, yes, a lot of people,
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um, of color have every right to be skeptical of the government. All right, let's pause it right
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there. So Megan McCain makes the point. Yeah, this is about more than owning the libs.
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And look, some, especially women in their childbearing years have these worries because
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of stories that we've heard. And these have been published, right? It's not just like a friend of
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a friend of a friend said they had some issues. These are things that have been written about in
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the popular press. Public health officials have discussed some of these things. So sure,
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some, some worries beyond owning the libs. But then notice, Megan says, but I, I trust the
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scientists. I trust the public health authorities. And it's a big problem that some people are,
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hesitant to get the vaccine, but black people in particular can have a good reason to be worried
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about getting the vaccine. And then Joy Behar comes in and she says, well, yes, you're right. Black
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people are totally justified in hesitating to get the vaccine. White people are not,
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but black people totally are, even though it's the same vaccine, it's the same science. We're all
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the same people. No black, when black people hesitate to get the vaccine, that's totally great.
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That's awesome. And when white people hesitate, that's really bad. They agree. They agree over
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the fundamentals of the debate, which is that everyone should get the vaccine. Everyone
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should trust the public health authorities. When white people hesitate, it's bad. When black
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people hesitate, it's good. Where's the debate? I mean, I don't mean to be too harsh. I think Megan's
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raising some good points here, especially in the first part of her answer. But in the fundamentals
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of the debate, you're not really allowed to disagree. And I don't think, I don't think on network
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right. Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S in there. How did you hear about us box? So they know that we sent you.
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For months, we were told that it is a wacky, kooky conspiracy theory to suggest that the virus
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that was discovered 400 yards from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the coronavirus associated
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with bats discovered 400 yards from the place where, where Chinese officials were studying
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coronaviruses and bats. That's insane to suggest there's any link. Right now on this show, right
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when the story came out, right at the very beginning of the epidemic, we pointed out, huh, that's a
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coincidence. Huh? What? That's a little strange. Maybe we should look into that. We were told, no,
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this is a kooky, crazy conspiracy theory. PolitiFact said, no way. This is fake news. This is
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great. You can't suggest that. Now it's looking more and more like the Wuhan Institute of Virology
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had something to do with the leak. There's a lot more evidence of this now. Public health officials
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have changed their tune. They're saying, okay, after, after a year of Dr. Fauci saying, no way,
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don't bother my friends at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that people associated with me have been
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working with for a long time, even on some of these issues. Uh, no, no, no, don't worry about
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that. Don't look over there. Well, now, now we are paying attention to the man behind the curtain
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and it looks as though there might be a connection. Jen Psaki was asked about this at the White House
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and her non-answer, I think, is the answer. House Republicans are claiming that they have
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significant circumstantial evidence that COVID-19 originated in a lab. Has the White House seen
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any circumstantial evidence that it did not originate in a lab? I will say that our view continues to be
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that there needs to be an independent, transparent investigation. Uh, and that needs to happen with
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the cooperation and data provided from the Chinese government. We don't have enough information
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at this point to make an assessment. At what point would President Biden call President Xi and say
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we've got 587,883 dead Americans. We're just trying to figure out if this happened, if COVID originated in
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one of your labs, uh, let us in. Well, I would say that we have made that call publicly many times.
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Uh, we have conveyed that privately and we have certainly communicated that they were not transparent
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from the beginning. That's not acceptable. There's an opportunity now in the next stage
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of this effort for them to be transparent, to participate in international investigation that
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can bring a conclusion, uh, to the origins and provide information that we Republicans, Democrats,
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everyone in this country would love to have access to. Oh, okay. Okay. That's fine. Cause initially
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you all said this was completely insane. Now here, Jen, Jen Psaki actually made the point when she opened up
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her answer. She said, look, well, you can't disprove a negative. And she obviously misspoke as she
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sometimes does. She went to say, you can't prove a negative, but for a year more now, more than a
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year, all these guys said the Wuhan Institute had nothing to do with it. They were trying to prove
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the negative. They said, no, it had nothing to do with it. You're saying, well, now we're hearing
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people have evidence that they did have something to do with it. Do you have any evidence to the
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contrary? Well, no, we need to look, there'll be talks and investigations and Hey, it's no big deal.
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I think it is a big deal. I think it is a big deal in no small part. Forget about China for a
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second. Forget about the CCP and the Wuhan Institute. The same public health officials
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who told us don't wear masks, masks don't work. Then they said, you have to wear masks,
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masks do work. And then they told us, get the vaccine. There's no problems whatsoever. And
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then they said, well, you know, if you get the vaccine, there's this clotting issue. So we're
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going to pause the vaccine for a little bit, but okay, now there's no problems again. And Hey,
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the Wuhan Institute had nothing to do with it. Actually, they might've had something to do with it.
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We just don't trust them. Okay. And it's not our fault that we don't trust them. And it's not
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that we're conspiracy theorists because we don't trust them. They have squandered their credibility.
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That's their problem. Speaking of conspiracy theories, aliens. Have you been reading the
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headlines? Aliens are around. They're afoot. The UAPs, which is the new term for UFO. They,
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the army and the Navy and the Pentagon are coming out and saying they've got a lot of evidence of UFOs
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and it's all coming out now. And there's going to be a big report from the Pentagon,
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the former head of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program,
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which is the Defense Department's UFO program, said that he believes the government is in possession
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of mysterious, exotic technology. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. A lot of people are talking about
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this. I had a little bit of a debate with my pal, Matt Walsh over this, because he's totally on board
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the alien train. He says, yep, I'm, I'm a hundred percent. There are aliens. I'm skeptical.
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I'm not just skeptical because it's, it's a rather outlandish claim. We haven't seen a ton
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of evidence of this yet. I'm not just skeptical because it poses challenges for one's worldview.
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I'm skeptical because of the politics of it all. The leaks that we are seeing about the UFOs,
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where are they coming from? They're coming from the federal government. They're coming from the
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federal agencies. They're cut. The government that we have been told is totally infiltrated
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by woke radicals who are opposed to our traditional way of life. The, the military that just aired an
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ad about how the, their ideal soldier is a soccer playing girl raised by lesbian mothers or something.
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The, the same defense apparatus that the CIA, for instance, just posted a commercial saying that
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we need to, you know, hire strong intersectional feminist Latina women. That's the ideal James
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Bond now or something. The, the idea that these guys are just accidentally dripping the UFO stuff,
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it strains credulity. I think I don't buy it. I think this is an intentional leak. I think that the,
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the propagandists in the federal government know exactly what they're doing. And I think it's a
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distraction. I think that there is an, I don't know, I'm not saying that's a grand conspiracy.
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I'm not, I don't know what, what is the agenda? I don't know what the agenda is. I'm just saying
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this sort of information doesn't drip, drab, drip, drab out. This kind of headline grabbing
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sensationalism does not just accidentally leak in this very steady methodical way from the federal
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government, especially the Pentagon on accident. That's not what happened. There is a messaging plan
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here. There is a communications plan. This is how people run PR. Okay. This is how people run
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communications. Now, what is the point of it? I don't know. I suspect it's to just grab a lot of
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headlines and grab all of our attention and get us all talking about this. Perhaps so we're not talking
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about other things. I don't know. I don't know exactly what the aim is, but I'm not taking the bait
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unless, until I see more evidence that they're, you know, the UFOs have landed and the Martians are
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running the government. I, which I guess I might believe that. I might believe that Joe Biden is
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actually just a sort of, you know, a Martian or something. So that would explain a lot of his
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verbal faux pas. But until I see some evidence of that, I'm not, I'm not taking the sensationalist
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bait. I want to focus more on the mundane political matters at speak here. Talking about these foreign
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enemies of ours, either from another universe or from right across the ocean. Compare the army ads.
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This is, this has now gone viral. Two army ads that are, that are running. One out of Russia, one
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the aforementioned lesbian woke army ad in the United States. Which do you think represents
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a better prepared army going in the right direction? Giant hulking muscular guy. Big muscular guy gets
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out of bed. He's doing push-ups. Looks like a James Bond villain jumping out of airplanes.
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Got guns full of rounds shooting at their enemies. Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness. I like to think I've been
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defending freedom from an early age. Oh my goodness. With such powerful role models, I finished high
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school at the top of my class. And after meeting with an army recruiter, I found it. A way to prove
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my inner strength. I'm U.S. Army Corporal Emma Malone Lord. And I answered my call. So if you're
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walking down a back alleyway somewhere at night and you see the, the Russian guy with the guns,
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with the black rifles, which is going to be more intimidating, that guy or the little girl
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sort of blushing on Santa Monica Pier, talking about how wonderful her lesbian mothers are and
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how she's been fighting for freedom her whole life. Freedom, presumably by freedom here, she's
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referring to the redefinition of marriage, which even, even Barack Obama opposed like eight or nine
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years ago. Hillary Clinton, when they ran for president, they said marriage is a sacred union
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between a man and a woman. So this infantry woman is obviously way more woke than even the most
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left wing presidents we've had, I suppose, until Joe Biden.
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Now, why, why is this? Why are they pushing this out there? I actually, I think I understand the
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logic between the, behind the U.S. Army and the CIA pushing this out. They believe we're not going to
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fight real wars anymore. It's all going to be propaganda wars. It's all going to be messaging.
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It's all going to be drip, drab, drip, drab from the government and foisting that on the rest of the
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world. And our most lethal propaganda that we can put out there is this woke insanity. So they are
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trying to recruit people for that. It's the, it's the last institution that hasn't been totally taken
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over by the left, the military, but they're trying to, I think a lot of the officer class has been,
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and now they're saying, yeah, we don't want guys who look like that crazy Russian. We want super
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woke girls who are far to the left of Barack Obama, who all they want to talk about is their
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lesbian mothers. We want them because that, that will be the final institution to fall. And, and by the
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way, there is a strategic purpose here. They're very good at propaganda, very, very good at
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politics on the woke left. Does not make us feel very safe though, does it? Doesn't make me feel
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supporting the show. In this debate here over the woke army ad, in the woke CIA ad, for instance,
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we compare it to the Russian army ad where it's the crazy guy with the giant muscles shooting guns.
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And we laugh about that. But in our public discourse, you're not really allowed to suggest
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there's anything wrong with the woke army ad. What's wrong? Are you saying it's wrong to redefine
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marriage? Are you, are you a bigot? Are you a phobe? You must be a phobe. Are you saying it's wrong
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for two lesbian women to raise a child? Who knows whose child it is, but are you saying that's wrong?
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That's somehow not the same as a husband and a wife raising a child? How dare you? Are you saying
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it's wrong that this girl is fighting in combat? Are you, how dare you? You're, you're really not
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allowed. I mean, I guess we'll do it on this show for as long as they let us stay in the air
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to suggest, huh, maybe, you know, maybe that isn't ideal. Maybe they're, you know, they're
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more ideals, ways of, of raising children or fighting wars, but we'll say it. But you're not
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really allowed to say that at universities, at the workplace. You're not really allowed to say,
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in the government, certainly, you're not, you're not allowed to say it anywhere. So much for academic
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freedom. There's always going to be boundaries on these things. And by the way, it's about to become
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much harder to raise questions about this. This is the ideology of drag queen story hour
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now throughout the entire culture. Remember we were told by all those squishes, all the
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quote unquote conservatives who were totally cool with drag queen story hour called it a
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blessing of liberty. We were told, oh, it's just a, come on, just a little thing. It's a little
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thing at some library in San Francisco. It's no big deal. So now PBS is teaming up with the New
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York City Department of Education. They're partnering up on drag queen story hour programming.
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Here is miss little hot mess. One of the leaders of drag queen story hour talking about the new
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venture, which is geared towards kids aged three to eight. Get your singing voices ready.
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Hmm. And we're going to start with our hips. The hips on the drag queen go swish, swish, swish,
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swish. Swish, swish, swish. Swish, swish, swish, swish. The hips on the drag queen go swish,
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swish, swish, swish. All through the town, the dance of the drag queen goes twirled, twirled,
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twirled, twirled, twirled, twirled, twirled, twirled. The dance of the drag queen goes twirled,
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Are you seriously going to say it's wrong for drag queens
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The New York City Department of Education says it's great.
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Your kids are going to see this if they're watching PBS,
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You know, you're trying to show them wholesome entertainment,
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But then they accidentally turn on PBS and they see this.
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It's not the only thing crazy going on in New York
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I always thought he was one of the worst candidates in the race.
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Now he's talking about giving non-citizens the right to vote.
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Now how can we continue to invest in our democracy
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Now we're here in part inside of the Statue of Liberty
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There are approximately 622,000 lawful permanent residents.
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You probably think of them as green card holders
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who are responsible for tens, hundreds of millions of dollars
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They supply many of the jobs that we rely upon.
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They should have a say in the future of their city too.
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we have to invest in the mechanics of our democracy
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by letting foreign nationals vote in our elections.
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is the problem with this whole abstract notion of freedom.
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And sometimes you see it expressed in freedom of speech
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by giving foreign nationals who are in our country
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certainly the freedom of these foreigners to vote,
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the people who are in and the people who are out.
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which people like Andrew Yang are trying to erase.
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you've got to limit the freedom of non-citizens
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That's the only thought that ought to be stopped.
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If you want there to be freedom in the classroom,
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It's liberal education to make sense of our freedom.
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about how you've got a major in STEM or whatever.
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is actually so you can read a bunch of literature and history
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and make sense of human nature and your freedom
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which is precisely what these radical leftists are doing.
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that must mean the freedom of parents and trustees
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Look, if some kooky professor like Hannah Nicole Jones
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particularly not in a taxpayer-funded classroom.
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