Ep. 794 - White Rage Against The Machine
Summary
The last institution to have held out against leftist ideology has succumbed. For decades, the left has hollowed out the media, the schools, the churches, the corporations, and now even the U.S. military has gone woke as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs frets about the supposed scourge of white rage.
Transcript
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The last institution to have held out against leftist ideology has succumbed.
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For decades, the left has hollowed out the media, the schools, the churches, the corporations,
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and now even the U.S. military has gone woke as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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frets about the supposed scourge of white rage.
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Sure. First of all, on the issue of critical race theory, etc.,
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I'll obviously have to get much smarter on whatever the theory is,
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but I do think it's important, actually, for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read.
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And the United States Military Academy is a university, and it is important that we train
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and we understand, and I want to understand white rage, and I'm white, and I want to understand it.
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So what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building
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and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America?
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I want to maintain an open mind here, and I do want to analyze it.
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I've read Lenin. That doesn't make me a communist.
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So what is wrong with understanding, having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?
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Few things stir up my own swarthy rage, quite like hearing the chairman of the Joint Chiefs use phrases such as white rage.
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But as parents of all races across the country stand up against critical race theory, transgenderism, other aspects of leftist ideology,
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the establishment is doing its damnedest both to deny and to defend their kooky agenda.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from Friday is from Old Schooled, who says,
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White rage. That's what General Milley wants to understand.
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This is so pathetic, both in the conflation of critical thinking and critical theory.
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They actually are even using the two terms interchangeably.
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Critical thinking would be when you use your faculties of reason and apply them to many problems.
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It's an academic ideology that seeks to debunk everything, dismantle everything, bring it all to criticize, right?
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It's the ruthless criticism of all that exists, to quote Karl Marx, who General Milley seems to like to read quite a lot.
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I don't think that Milley is, while he is maybe teaching all of these stupid books on Robin DiAngelo or Ibram Kendi, the chief of naval operations, Michael Gilday, defended the same sort of thing.
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He said that we need to have all of this modern race hustling crap on the reading lists in the various military academies and for the enlisted guys and the ensigns and the sailors and everybody else.
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But you think, okay, if you're reading all of that in the line of just sort of being well-read and understanding all the problems, if you want to understand why the hundreds, according to Milley, it was thousands of white insurrectionists attack the Capitol and the coup d'etat.
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But if you want to understand that, how come we don't also have books on the reading list to understand the BLM terrorists who burned the country down last year?
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I don't see a whole lot of reading focused on that problem.
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Because the left is obviously framing this as a racial thing.
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I strongly suspect that it's not primarily a racial thing.
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I strongly suspect it's ideological and these radicals are hiding behind race.
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Wouldn't that make you a better read, more situationally aware military general Milley?
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No, because the, I mean, it would, but the arguments are just total bunk.
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It is just a way of getting even the freaking top brass at the Pentagon to defend this woke insanity.
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You've got the, you've got the Navy now reading how to be an anti-racist to, to better understand their country.
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A book that proposes, quote, future discrimination against white people that, that is now on the professional reading list.
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The, the arguments they're making here, because on the one hand, they are defending critical race theory.
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You've got the CNO, you've got the chairman and the joint chiefs openly defending this radical leftist ideology.
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And then when you call them on it a little too hard, they switch from defending it to denying that it even exists.
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Chris Ruffo is the, the Manhattan Institute scholar who has really popularized much of what's going on in critical race theory.
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Most people, I suspect, had never heard this term before Chris Ruffo made a big deal about it.
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So Joy Reid invites him on her program and then denies that critical race theory has any effect on the world at all.
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First of all, it's very interesting to me that so many people are now running away from the race of the, the, the, the label of critical race theory.
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I'm going to quote two critical race theorists.
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Barbara Appelbaum with the book, Being Good, Being White.
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Robin DiAngelo, who's another critical whiteness studies scholar, says that, quote, all white identity is inherently racist.
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So what you're doing is you're playing a series of word games.
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You know that critical whiteness studies is a subfield of critical race theory.
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And this is, this is really, I think, the most essential thing.
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But see, one of the things that I don't know, you probably never watched me on TV.
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Just, you know, we didn't know who each other were, you know, not so long ago.
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But I don't allow people to just make up and say lies on the show.
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It's just not really right to do that and let people hear.
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Robin DiAngelo is not a critical race theorist.
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Robin DiAngelo, I don't know who the other woman is, but she's not.
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I don't know anything really about what you're saying here, Chris.
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But I just want you to know critical race theory is having no effect whatsoever.
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And it's worth watching this entire 15-minute painful discussion.
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I can't even really call it a discussion because Joy Reid wouldn't let Chris get a word in edgewise.
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But her argument basically is this retreat into nominalism.
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To use my friend Matt Peterson's phrase over at Claremont.
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But she's retreating back into this point of, well, what really is critical race theory?
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Now, the left has made a big deal out of critical race theory for now going on four decades.
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But now that someone actually called them out on it, all of a sudden they're denying it exists.
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And they'll play these little semantic shifts where you'll place critical race theory in the broader tradition of critical theory,
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which is a major topic of my book, which is out now for order, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.
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If you place, as conservatives are trying to do, or as conservatives are trying to communicate to people,
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CRT, within this broader history that goes back to the Frankfurt School, it goes back further to Karl Marx,
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and it goes forward into intersectionality, into, as Chris mentioned there, critical whiteness studies,
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which is what you're getting out of, you know, ethnic studies.
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All of these, the broader school of grievance, school of resentment.
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You recognize what a huge influence this has all had on our country.
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It's not merely that CRT was invented in 1981 or, you know, and flourished during the 1980s at Harvard Law School
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The very point of CRT is that you can't limit it to just one academic field.
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The thing has to branch out and pervade things.
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This is why Martin Jay, who is a sympathetic scholar of critical theory,
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and he's probably one of the most important ones that we've had who actually gives the story of this.
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Martin Jay says, quoting other critical theorists,
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that the genius of critical theory is that it's not just its own academic field.
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Rather, it is a gadfly on other academic systems,
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which is why there's no critical theory department at most universities.
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There are literature departments, the ethnicity studies departments, history departments, many other departments,
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and critical theory has pervaded all of them, and certainly in law school through CRT,
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and certainly now in the broader culture, in the corporations, in the media,
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and even in the military through this woke race hustling nonsense.
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According to our national archives, America was built on structural racism.
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So there was a little-noticed report that came out from a National Archives Task Force on Racism.
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Does every institution now have a task force on racism?
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We're going to set up the Michael Knowles Show Task Force on Racism.
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I guess we actually do that when we point out the left's hypocrisy on race,
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but no one takes those reports all that much to heart.
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So the National Archives, which hosts America's founding documents, right,
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the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, says that there is structural racism
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that has permeated American society, and the task force suggested major changes
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to how the Constitution and other records are presented in order to provide, quote, context.
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You've got these documents that lay the groundwork for our country,
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but we need to reframe how they are presented, right?
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This is the same kind of language that comes up in the 1619 project from Nicole Hannah-Jones.
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It's the same kind of language that you're getting in the academic movements like CRT,
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and it's the same sort of framing now that you're getting throughout all of the institutions.
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They believe that the founding fathers and other white,
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historically impactful Americans are portrayed too positively.
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When we're talking, it's not even so much the facts.
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The central thesis is that America was founded to preserve slavery.
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The American Revolution was fought to preserve slavery.
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It's almost a minor point compared to the broader issue,
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we want to reframe the history of the country to put slavery at the center of it.
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I will say this is a minor pedantic point, but it does drive me crazy.
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Whenever I see the word impactful, to me it's a red alert,
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because the word impactful is a very, very silly word.
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Some people defend it, but a thing cannot be full of impact,
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I'm not denying that it's a word in the dictionary.
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It's a very silly word that people shouldn't use.
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And it's just a hint to me that people just are kind of mindlessly using jargon.
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It's like the sort of people who use the word synergy with a straight face.
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It's just these words that enter into our broader lexicon,
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And I'm making sort of a joke about impactful here,
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but you see this with all sorts of words like structural racism,
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beep, boop, beep, beep, boop, structure, systemic, white supremacy, patriarchy,
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And no one knows what these things really mean.
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because that helps to shape our mind and shape our culture.
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So the task force, by the way, just for you trying to keep up,
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says that structural racism in our founding documents includes,
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quote, legacy descriptions that use racial slurs and harmful language to describe BIPOC communities.
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BIPOC, you're not allowed to say people of color anymore.
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You now have to say black and indigenous people of color,
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And also, there are terrible terms you can't use,
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include elderly, you're not allowed to use that term.
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You're not allowed to do it, according to the National Archives.
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And illegal alien, which is as clinical a term as it gets,
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Presumably, you have to use terms like future American,
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imprecise terms that actually mean the opposite of what they purport to mean.
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It's just a big hammer that the left uses to smack their political opponents without any
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It's the worst thing you can be labeled as in this culture.
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So we're just, even if we know it's just, it's not true, it's meaningless,
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But Republican Representative Bob Good was just criticizing critical race theory,
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which we are told is both really, really good and doesn't exist, right?
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Those are the simultaneous arguments coming from the left.
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And as he's describing this on a House of Representatives conference call,
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unable to push back against what Representative Good is saying,
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You can just see this past week in Virginia's Loudoun County,
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and they actually called the police to come in and arrest parents who had gathered
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to express their grievances with government and local school officials.
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I hope that you will not nationalize the culture war that started in Virginia
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and bankrupt critical race theory with hard-earned taxpayer dollars.
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Gosh, that really makes me think about this subject in a new and fresh way.
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before I was just trying to understand why these parents are rising up
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against critical race theory and its various derivations in the schools
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in our rhetoric in the West, in the Anglosphere,
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we shall fight on the beaches and in the streets,
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You had, you know, sort of Churchill's rhetoric.
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But now we have the beautiful rhetoric of Norcross and the Democrats.
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They can try to get us to shut up about CRT and its related fields.
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and they can just try to muzzle us with that word racist.
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I know that these elite politicians don't believe that ordinary people
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ought to have a say in their children's education
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And I don't care what General Milley or the Chief of Naval Operations
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or this ridiculous Democrat congressman or anyone else has to say,
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or Joy Reid or anyone else has to say about it.
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Because the theories, the ideological frameworks around CRT
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it's all the same stuff, are having a huge effect.
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There was a U.S. Olympic track and field trial on Saturday.
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And one of the women athletes, Gwen Berry, was a hammer thrower.
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Speaking of using hammers to smack down our opponents,
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There were two other athletes there in the trials.
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So, the two good patriotic athletes stood and faced the flag with their hands on their hearts.
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turned to the side, hand on her hip, to take a photo.
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She's probably auditioning to be the next Nike spokesman.
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Unfortunately, I guess she's still going to go to the Tokyo Olympics with the United States.
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Now, if I were running the show, I would not permit that.
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I would kick her off of the team because she obviously hates her country.
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And therefore, we should not have her representing our country at the Olympics.
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I can't say that I'm familiar with her accomplishments.
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But I don't care if she's the best athlete on the team.
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So, you don't have a right to be on the team if you hate your country.
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The entire point of the Olympics is to go and represent the best and the strongest
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and the most wonderful of our country and to put our country first.
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She then wears a t-shirt that says activist athlete.
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I wish she would not play on the American Olympic team.
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And then she said, my purpose and my mission is bigger than sports.
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I'm here to represent those who died due to systemic racism, whatever that is.
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If CRT and intersectionality and critical theory broadly were just confined to a handful of Marxist cranks in the academy, that would be one thing.
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If it were, as Joy Reid pretends that it is, just confined to Harvard Law School, that would be fine.
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It wouldn't be good, but Harvard's kind of a lost cause at this point, so we'll just let the institution rot.
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I guess at the heart of this denial that CRT is broader than just one law school's academic theory, is this denial of the belief that ideas have consequences.
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A denial of the belief that when you have an idea, even if it begins in a law school, that it then has effects throughout the broader legal system, throughout the broader university system, throughout the broader culture.
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This theory that places white supremacy and bigotry and wickedness and evil at the heart of the American story, that is having an effect on our Olympic team.
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Therefore, this little academic theory actually is a political problem for the community.
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Because you can draw direct correlation between the insanity that has been plaguing our universities through things like CRT and crime in the streets.
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When Charles Kessler at the Claremont Institute called the 2020 Summer of Hate, called the BLM riots, the 1619 Project riots, Nicole Hannah-Jones, who started 1619, said she was honored, that she was proud for them to be called the 1619 Project riots.
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She was proud that her cultural and somewhat pseudo-academic movement was having real effects in the streets.
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And that's obviously what is happening through CRT and through the other movements.
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And now AOC is coming out and she's saying, don't believe your lying eyes.
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Ben is going to be talking about the effect of all of this on the elections in 2022.
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Ben seems to believe that the Democrats are in for a real bruising in a couple of years.
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I guess those elections, the campaigns will really start next year.
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There have been pretty big spikes in crime around the country.
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I'm thinking of Chicago, where murders and shootings are up 50%.
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I'm thinking of places like New York and Los Angeles, where crime is clearly spiking before
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But, you know, the left often believes that you should not care about what's going on in
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practice when you could instead focus on what's going on in theory.
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And in theory, AOC believes everything is fine.
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Well, it's nothing more than Republican hysteria.
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We are seeing these headlines about percentage increases.
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Now, I want to say that any amount of harm is unacceptable and too much.
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But I also want to make sure that this hysteria, you know, that this doesn't drive a hysteria
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and that we look at these numbers in context so that we can make responsible decisions
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You need to look at the murders going up 50% in context.
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If this is going on on our streets, we want to get rid of it.
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And I just don't think that this line of argument is going to work for Democrats who are trying
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Assuming that we can get our election system back into order, assuming that we can get some
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of the safeguards against fraud back into order, those safeguards were taken away in large
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part during the 2020 election and the excuse was the coronavirus lockdowns.
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But now the Democrats are trying to make that permanent through a naked power grab and perversion
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So assuming you get all that in order, you're going to have to win over voters.
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And what AOC is saying here is you're being hysterical.
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If you're worried about your communities, if you're worried about the safety of your family,
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This is just the tricks and traps of white supremacy.
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Not just race that is causing people some problems.
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It was a video just came out from a spa where a woman is going up to the manager and complaining
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because the spa has a transgender policy and the spa allowed a dude to go into the women's
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changing room and just strip down in front of the women.
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I don't think women and little girls should be forced to see naked grown men with all of
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And the staff says, sorry, there's nothing we can do.
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It's OK for a man to go into the women's section, show his penis around the other women, young
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So what this woman is showing, by the way, you can hear the way she's speaking is a little
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I suspect this woman doesn't go to sort of soirees at the critical race theory organizations
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We're told that the only people who oppose these radical policies are white supremacists
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This woman doesn't sound particularly white to me.
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And she's going out there and she's saying, hey, get that dude out of the women's changing
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And the guy behind the counter says, well, no, you understand because of the sexual orientation.
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But I love the way, you know, you could probably sit through about 10 hours of sexuality studies,
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women, sex and gender studies at Harvard or Yale or somewhere else, and have them try
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to explain to you the meaning of the deconstruction of the gender and the this and the that.
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And then this woman could go up there and she'd say, OK, here's my counterpoint.
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That's that's what lets me know that he's a man.
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So, you know, gosh, we could have saved ourselves all that time, all that jargon to just know,
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yes, that is what lets you know that he's a man.
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And it's obviously wrong to force women and little girls to change, to strip naked in front
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of dudes and to have to see naked dudes in their changing room.
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And no amount of philosophizing by these kooks and cranks on the campuses is going to change
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So you're seeing this come up, especially at the school boards right now.
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But I bet you're going to see more videos like this as this crazy sexual politics continues
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I think you're going to see women finally push back.
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And I don't think it's going to be the super duper elite white supremacist, whatever, you
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know, what the sort of caricature of the people who run the country.
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It's going to be ordinary people of all sorts of races with just even a modicum of common
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So Chip Roy, who's a congressman down in Texas, he is venting this frustration, this
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I think it's there is a bit of rage going on, but I think it's rage in response to the
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I think that the indignation that conservatives feel right now is in response to, say, BLM burning
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the country down, both ideologically for many years, but also literally last year.
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I think it's in response to our politicians not serving the people on many important issues,
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It can't even preserve its own borders as a country.
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And so Chip Roy down in Texas is looking at the situation.
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He's saying a lot of Texans are wondering what what the advantage is to us to be in a
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union in the in this United States that won't do its most basic job and is just leaving us
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open to a surge of foreign nationals pouring over every day.
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Every state in the union should send resources to the state of Texas to help us secure the
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border because that government, Texas is going to secure this border.
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If the United States of America is failing to uphold its end of the bargain of our having
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a union, and I've got people in Texas that are starting to rattle about what are we getting
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What are we getting out out of being a part of a union that won't secure its own border?
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It's our border, too, as a Texas state, and we have a duty as a state, as a sovereign people
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This is pure John Locke kind of stuff, the first duty of government to secure the people and
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I mean, you are seeing this fraying of the country.
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And if there is rage on the part of conservatives, it's because we're watching this whole thing
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We're watching now our Olympic athletes are not expected to salute the flag.
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Because our other athletes in the NFL are not saluting the flag.
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Because our politicians now in the Democratic Party are disrespecting the flag and protesting
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And the current, the sitting vice president of the United States was bailing out rioters
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And Hillary Clinton, the previous Democratic nominee for president, was encouraging civil
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She said, you can't be civil with a political party that opposes what you think.
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So that's an explicit call for political violence against all of your opponents.
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Maxine Waters, the same thing, all of these guys.
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And so conservatives that, not even just conservatives, just ordinary people are looking around and
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saying, hold on, we're not conserving the border.
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We're not even conserving the ladies changing room.
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They're the ones who are really, I think, leading the charge to disintegrate the country.
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But the Republicans, at their very best, are feckless.
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The very best, they're doing nothing other than occasionally cutting taxes.
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I like a tax cut as much as the next guy, but that ain't going to solve the problem.
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On any serious issue, any meaningful cultural issue, the Republicans have flopped.
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I do not advocate disintegration of the union, but it's no wonder that Chip Roy's constituents
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are telling him, hey, what are we getting out of this?
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It seems like all we're doing is give, give, give.
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And we're not getting anything out of this union.
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I think probably a lot of ordinary Americans are feeling that way.
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Speaking of the southern border, by the way, you now have, you now have President Joe Biden,
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poor old Joe Biden, just trying to keep up with the political prevailing winds.
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Originally, about four or five decades ago, you had Mexicans and Guatemalans and Salvadorans
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You had people from the Latino world, from Latin America, who had their own distinct nationalities.
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Then, through the machinations in no small part of groups like the Ford Foundation, of leftist groups
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that saw the success of the black civil rights movement and wanted to model different racial
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solidarity progressive movements after that, they created this idea of the Hispanic.
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But, Latino, you see, is not very intersectional because the O implies that the man has a special
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So, they made it Latinx, which is not a Spanish word at all.
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And, Spanish, of course, is a European language that came over when Christopher Columbus invented
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A representative, Carlos Jimenez, is a Latinx representative.
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And, he just eviscerated President Biden for using this silly term that has no significance
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Can I ask you, as a fellow Hispanic American, what your thoughts are on the fact that, I found
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it really demeaning, frankly, that comment there that, you know, all Hispanics are afraid of
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I don't even know what the heck it means, to be quite honest.
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My father, my mother brought me here looking for a better life, escaping socialism and communism
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And so, that somehow we're different than anybody else and that we're afraid we're going to be
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And so, you know, I think the president really is out of touch.
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He goes on to say that there is a racist undertone to the implication that Latinos are all
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And Latinx, he says, is the stupidest thing he's ever heard of, which is, quote, insulting
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to our culture to try and restructure an entire language to fit your politics.
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Yes, keep your wokeness out of our language, he says.
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But the thing is, wokeness and language are the same thing.
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The perversion of language is the primary vehicle of wokeness.
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It's the primary instrument by which wokeness advances, which coincidentally is the topic
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of my book, Speechless, which many of you are reading right now and I appreciate.
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And those of you who haven't ordered it yet, you can order it and then you'll know exactly
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This is what so many on the right, but also kind of in the middle and also disaffected liberals
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And I'm thinking in particular about Winston Marshall, who's a musician from the band Mumford
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I don't listen to a lot of contemporary music, but I've always enjoyed Mumford and Sons.
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And you might remember a few months ago, Winston Marshall committed the unforgivable sin of
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reading Andy Noe's book about Antifa and having enjoyed it.
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And at the time, Winston attempted to placate the mob.
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He tried to say, hey, look, I'm learning and I'm sorry.
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And I, at the time, I thought of the final, one of the final scenes of Breaking Bad when,
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when Hank, the cop brother-in-law is lying on the ground, the gangster standing over him
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And Walter, you know, Bryan Cranston's character says, just apologize.
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And Hank turns to me and says, oh my gosh, you're the smartest guy I know, but you're
00:37:37.520
too stupid to realize he made up his mind to kill me 10 minutes ago.
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He's just announced he's leaving Mumford and Sons to speak freely.
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I think we got to know this is the way it's always going to work out.
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The choice is not between being canceled or being uncanceled.
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The choice is between when that mob comes for you, keeping your dignity or losing your
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I think this is the biggest lesson that people are learning right now.
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You're seeing it in the arguments over the curriculum in various schools and over critical
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race theory and over transgenderism and all of this stuff.
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There was a Japanese soccer player, Kumi Yokoyama.
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She's a soccer player on the Japanese women's national team, as well as on the Washington
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Spirit, which is apparently an American soccer team.
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And Kumi Yokoyama has come out and said that she is transgender.
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It's in Japanese, so we're not going to play it.
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Now she's transgender, which I guess makes her a straight man.
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I'm not particularly interested in these soccer teams, and I don't know anything about this
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But if she is now transgender, if she is now saying that she is a man, my simple question
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But no one's asking if she's going to be kicked off of the team now.
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Presumably she will not, even though she's, according to the logic of transgenderism, she
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But what this really gets to is, there are always limits to speech, to behavior, to freedom,
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When this leftist here's tumbler is a tumbler, it's not a book.
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When a thing is defined, right, when a thing is a thing, it is not other things.
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Let me try to bring this down to earth a little bit more.
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If two plus two equals four, then two plus two does not equal five.
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And you have to kick the idea that two plus two equals five out of the university.
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And if someone says that two plus two equals five, you need to punish that person with a
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Now, this is illiberal and authoritarian, some people would suggest.
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It's acknowledging that if a man is a man, he is necessarily not a woman.
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And by the way, I'm even granting the illogic of transgenderism here.
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If he becomes a woman, then he's necessarily not a man and is not permitted to be on the
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This is the whole process of language is distinguishing one thing from another.
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Hey, man, we'll just let's just be cool and tolerate everything.
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I mean, this is the great genius of someone like Herbert Marcuse, one of the most influential
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critical theorists, father of the new left, who says in that infamous essay, Repressive
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Tolerance, that you can't tolerate intolerance.
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And all the conservatives went after him for it.
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Now, speaking of just limits, we are now seeing voter laws around the country, notably in Georgia,
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to try to reinstate the election integrity measures that we had until last year.
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The Biden administration, the attorney general Merrick Garland, they do not like this idea.
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And so they're going to sue Georgia for trying to protect their election system.
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Today, the Department of Justice is suing the state of Georgia.
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Our complaint alleges that recent changes to Georgia's election laws were enacted with the purpose of denying or abridging the right of black Georgians to vote on account of their race or color in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
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Several studies show that Georgia experienced record voter turnout and participation rates in the 2020 election cycle.
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Approximately two-thirds of eligible voters in the state cast a ballot in the November election just over the national average.
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But then in March of 2021, Georgia's legislature passed SB202.
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Many of that law's provisions make it harder for people to vote.
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The complaint alleges that the state enacted those restrictions with the purpose of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color.
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The Georgia law does make it harder for certain people to vote.
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Makes it harder for people who don't live in Georgia to vote.
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Makes it harder for political operatives to vote on behalf of other people who are in Georgia.
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It actually does limit the vote to only the people who ought to be voting.
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It's about the integrity of the election system.
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This is a naked power grab here by the federal government.
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And by the way, do you want to know the proof that the federal government knows
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that these laws are intended to beef up election integrity?
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They are admitting in their own federal election power grabs.
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Here, you've got the DOJ going in and trying to fix this through lawsuits.
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But the Congress is also trying to do it through the Corrupt Politicians Act, H.R. 1 and S.1.
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And they admit in the law that their proposed changes are going to register a lot of ineligible voters to vote.
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The reason for this is they give immunity to illegal aliens who vote illegally.
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So what the law first does is it registers a ton of illegal aliens.
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Then the Democrats deny that the illegal aliens are being registered.
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But then the Democrats put in a special provision saying that when the illegal aliens inevitably vote,
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to some degree, they're going to receive legal immunity.
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They know that when you get rid of, when you have widespread mail-in ballots,
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that even Obama admits is susceptible to fraud,
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when you have election day turn into election season,
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then the problem of voter fraud, which exists in every election to begin with,
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And so they're trying to actually defend against that.
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And Merrick Garland is now doubling down on that.
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Wajahat Ali, he's a leftist blue check and journalist.
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I feel America has forgotten we're in the middle of a pandemic
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I see packed restaurants and people inside stores and malls,
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ordinary normal country going around without muzzles on your face all the time.
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They're viewing our traditional way of life as an absolute horror,
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And it's why I think you're seeing just a touch of rage across all demographic groups.
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because they don't, they don't view our country as,
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The only horror we see are the people trying to upend the entire culture.
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