The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 896 - The Least Racist People Ever

00:00:00.000 Jim Cramer, the eccentric stocks guy from CNBC, has had it with you and your freedom and your

00:00:08.160 prudence and your legitimate moral and medical objections to the Fauci-ouchie. And if you're

00:00:13.400 not going to comply, well, then in his view, maybe it's time to take some more drastic measures.

00:00:20.200 Lord knows what happened if he didn't partake. But back then, anyone who refused to get vaccinated

00:00:25.720 would get ratted out immediately because we knew that person could hurt other people.

00:00:30.400 The commonweal was a commonweal. Now we're engaged in a similar struggle with COVID and Eisenhower

00:00:36.200 would be aghast. We have immunocompromised people who are incubators for every variant to come,

00:00:42.260 walking around lawfully unvaccinated. That's psychotic. We have companies that have tried

00:00:47.960 hard to get people vaccinated and now backing down. We have governors who want to be president

00:00:51.840 by grandstanding on a foolish state's right issue, the right to get sick, get other people sick.

00:00:57.060 So it's time to admit that we have to go to war against COVID. Require vaccination universally.

00:01:02.100 Have the military run it. If you don't want to get vaccinated, you better be ready to prove your

00:01:06.460 conscientious objector status in court. And even then, you need to help in the war effort by staying

00:01:12.000 home until we finally beat this thing.

00:01:14.040 Martial law. The CNBC stocks guy is calling for martial law to make you take the experimental shot

00:01:24.740 to protect against a virus that poses very little threat to the vast majority of people who,

00:01:30.060 according to the CDC, may very well contract and spread the virus even after they're vaccinated.

00:01:35.460 My hope here is that Jim Cramer has just invested a bunch of money in Pfizer or something and is

00:01:42.320 working on an elaborate pump and dump scheme. But I suspect that's not the case. I suspect

00:01:46.840 he's just stating his honest views, which I suspect are the honest views of many liberals. That is

00:01:53.460 that we need to suspend constitutional government, the ordinary American way of life for 15 days

00:02:00.480 or 15 months or a few years or maybe just forever. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:12.320 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from CRDP07, who says,

00:02:17.840 Pete Buttigieg says, black people don't have the resources to obtain a valid ID. 0.89

00:02:23.960 Pete Buttigieg also says, black people worried about gas prices have the resources to just buy an 0.98

00:02:29.680 electric car. That was his advice. Mr. Secretary, what happens? What do you say to people who are

00:02:37.060 worried about the prices at the pump? Well, just buy an electric car. It doesn't need to be the

00:02:41.440 Tesla Model X. It can be the Model S. That's only like 60 grand. That's fine. That's what we can do.

00:02:46.460 But yeah, but right. But black people can't afford to get bus fare to go down and get a valid government 1.00

00:02:51.900 ID, but everyone's going to buy a Tesla. Is that? It seems a little disingenuous to me. All of this 0.92

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00:04:28.720 Contrary to what Jim Cramer and CNBC and all the rest of the libs want, we seem to be moving away

00:04:35.540 from the direction of martial law and mandates and lockdowns and taking away all your rights.

00:04:41.740 Another federal judge has just blocked Joe Biden's vaccine mandate. This was a federal district judge,

00:04:51.080 St. Louis-based district judge, Matthew Schelp, who is now, he's now stopping the mandate from going into effect

00:05:00.240 for healthcare workers in 10 states. Those states are Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska,

00:05:08.240 New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. When we talk about the vaccine mandate,

00:05:13.320 it can get a little bit confusing and you hear about all these rulings from all these different courts.

00:05:17.060 That's because there are actually multiple vaccine mandates. There's a vaccine mandate for federal

00:05:21.720 workers. There's a vaccine mandate for federal contractors. There's a vaccine mandate for healthcare

00:05:25.920 workers. There's a vaccine mandate for workers at allegedly private companies with 100 or more

00:05:31.160 employees. And so you've got to fight it on all these different fronts and there are slightly

00:05:34.840 different mechanisms for all of these different mandates, but they're all getting smacked down.

00:05:41.160 Just about every single challenge to the mandate that has gone up to one of these federal courts has at

00:05:46.040 least resulted in a pause, in a stay of the mandate until they can sort out the legal issue.

00:05:50.980 You know, the Daily Wire is leading the fight where the lead plaintiff in the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of

00:05:55.920 Appeals, that would be against the employer mandate from OSHA. But this is great news for healthcare

00:06:01.640 workers. Last year, healthcare workers were the greatest heroes in the history of America. They were like

00:06:07.560 the boys with the flag on Iwo Jima. They were the first responders on September 11th. They were the

00:06:12.800 most wonderful, lauded people in the world. But then the minute they didn't want to take the

00:06:17.260 experimental drug for a virus that doesn't pose a great threat to a lot of people, all of a sudden 0.92

00:06:22.480 they became persona non grata, you know, and they were murderers and killers and irresponsible and 0.99

00:06:28.780 anti-vax schmucks. So this is great news. It's more evidence that the mandate is unconstitutional, 1.00

00:06:37.080 which we've been calling from the very beginning. And as I've said, you know, I hate to say I told you so,

00:06:41.520 but from the beginning I've said, I think that Joe Biden knows that it's unconstitutional. I think

00:06:47.220 Joe Biden knows he doesn't have the power to push these kinds of mandates in this way. He almost

00:06:52.800 admitted as much on the campaign trail. That's why he said, I'm not going to do a vaccine mandate. I

00:06:56.100 have no reason to do it. But then he reversed course. Why? Because even if the mandate is struck

00:07:03.760 down in the courts, which it's looking increasingly like it will be, it doesn't really matter because by

00:07:09.400 that time, all the people will have gotten vaccinated because their employers will have

00:07:13.580 forced them to, or they'll lose their jobs. And so it's just a pressure campaign. And then

00:07:17.340 six months later, a court rules and says, no, it's unconstitutional. And Biden says, whoopsie

00:07:21.140 daisy. Oops. Okay. Well, nevermind. You all already took the Fauci ouchie. So deal with it.

00:07:27.120 He'll get exactly what he wants. Speaking of important court cases, there is an extremely

00:07:32.440 important court case that has gone up to the court today. The court is hearing oral arguments in this

00:07:39.680 case today. This is more important than the vaccine mandate cases. This is more important than any other

00:07:46.700 case that's going to go before the court this year or in the next several years. It is Dobbs versus

00:07:55.080 Jackson women's health. This is a case about a Mississippi abortion law that could overturn

00:08:02.540 Roe versus Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Roe versus Wade is the case that established the

00:08:08.120 fictional constitutional right to abortion. Planned Parenthood v. Casey held it up.

00:08:16.240 Capitol Hill police expect up to 20,000 protesters to show up to DC this morning. There will be pro-lifers

00:08:24.340 there. There will be pro-abortion people there. This is expected to result in a larger crowd than

00:08:30.780 any Supreme Court demonstration ever. This is because Roe versus Wade is perhaps the single most unjust

00:08:43.340 constitutionally and legally incoherent Supreme Court decision in history. There are some competitors for

00:08:51.740 this title, but it definitely can lay a claim to it. And a lot of our current political dysfunction

00:08:58.640 comes from Roe versus Wade. Because regardless of your feelings on abortion, the simple fact is there

00:09:04.480 is no right to an abortion in the constitution. And even abortion's most ardent defenders, if they're

00:09:10.240 being honest, will admit that. It's just not there. And in 1973, activists on the court decided that

00:09:18.720 they were going to invent this right to abortion. They were going to read some invisible ink written

00:09:23.440 in the constitution somewhere between the emanations and the penumbras. And because of that, now every 0.61

00:09:29.160 Supreme Court nomination fight is extremely bitter. You remember Amy Barrett. You certainly remember

00:09:35.620 Brett Kavanaugh, Robert Bork. I mean, it seems to me whenever there's a conservative judge up

00:09:39.760 for the court, there's these really hideously bitter fights because the Supreme Court holds an

00:09:44.860 incredible amount of power now because they're not just interpreting the law according to their prudence

00:09:50.800 and according to the text of the constitution and according to case law, but they are now

00:09:55.500 making law in some ways in so egregious a way that it has no basis whatsoever in the text,

00:10:03.300 like in Roe versus Wade. The specific issue is Mississippi's abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

00:10:08.600 The court will address the question of whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions

00:10:16.040 are unconstitutional. So this is before the baby can survive outside the womb and you're talking about

00:10:22.360 an issue that will cut right to Roe versus Wade because Roe versus Wade forbids states from prohibiting

00:10:28.980 abortion pre-viability. The lives of countless millions of people will be affected by this decision.

00:10:36.520 It will be life or death because of this decision. And I'm not talking about the poor women who can't 1.00

00:10:44.620 get abortions anymore. Thousands of women every year who died from abortions, even though that never 0.98

00:10:49.380 took place. That was a complete lie from the pro-abortion movement. And actually one of the guys who

00:10:54.360 created that lie, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, he was the head of NARAL, the Abortion Rights League. He admitted

00:10:59.260 that that that was a lie. He said, yeah, that 5,000 number, we just made it up. The actual number of

00:11:04.400 women who died from back alley abortions the year before Roe versus Wade was less than 40, 4-0.

00:11:10.620 And by the way, 20 some odd women died of legal abortions that same year. And when you look at

00:11:15.000 the legality by state by state of abortion in the year before Roe versus Wade was decided,

00:11:20.680 your likelihood of dying from an abortion was basically the same if it was legal or illegal.

00:11:25.800 Okay. But the lives of 60 million babies have been killed since Roe versus Wade.

00:11:29.260 How many more in the future could be killed or could be saved? And almost as important as that,

00:11:35.620 the future of the conservative legal movement will very likely be decided by this case. The

00:11:41.700 Federalist Society, Originalism, all of these movements that have developed over the past

00:11:49.520 few decades, more than a few decades now, on how conservatives are going to retake the courts

00:11:55.420 and reshape the law. If we don't win here, we've already lost so much. We lost marriage. We lost

00:12:01.960 the definition of sex itself in the Bostock decision. We lost Obamacare. If we can't overturn

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00:13:32.200 its Christmas photo. So the Biden White House Christmas photo showed a fireplace mantle hung

00:13:39.820 with stockings for six of Joe Biden's grandchildren. It's very nice, sort of elegant design in the

00:13:47.320 grand room. Six stockings. Wait a second. Joe Biden has seven grandchildren, but there's only six

00:13:55.260 stockings there and they've got all their little names on there. So it's clearly for the grandchildren.

00:13:58.400 Now you might say, this is just because Joe Biden's forgetful. He is very forgetful. But I don't know,

00:14:02.880 Jill Biden's not that forgetful and the White House staff is certainly not forgetful.

00:14:06.100 Oh, right. One of those grandchildren is illegitimate. It was the grandchild that

00:14:13.720 Hunter Biden had with London Roberts, who was a stripper. And Hunter Biden refused to acknowledge

00:14:20.820 the baby. And then a court forced him to take a paternity test. And then it turned out he was

00:14:24.320 the father, meaning Joe Biden is the grandfather. And Joe Biden refuses to acknowledge his own grandkid.

00:14:28.240 According to London Roberts's attorney, neither Hunter Biden nor Joe Biden, the warm, wonderful,

00:14:38.220 happy, good old Uncle Joe president, has ever seen the three-year-old child.

00:14:45.380 I really do not mean this as a cheap political attack. I don't mean this to go after family or

00:14:51.140 anything like that. Not very much shocks me in politics. But I am genuinely impressed by the

00:15:00.580 cruelty of the president of the United States, Joe Biden, in refusing to acknowledge one of his

00:15:07.420 own grandchildren. Yeah, Hunter Biden's a complete degenerate. I don't expect anything of him. He's a 0.97

00:15:13.600 crooked, degenerate. But what about Joe Biden? I'm not going to, I don't want to take any cheap 1.00

00:15:22.820 political attacks here at Joe. I just think Joe says he's a nice guy. He's a normal guy. He's a

00:15:27.300 devout Catholic, right? And he is cruelly refusing to acknowledge one of his own grandchildren,

00:15:32.740 the president of the United States. Shouldn't that be a scandal? What is this kid going to think?

00:15:37.640 The kid's three years old now, probably doesn't understand too much. What is this kid going to

00:15:41.220 think? I think it's a she. I don't know. Well, let's just say it's a she. I'll look at it. I don't 1.00

00:15:47.060 know very much about the kid in Navy is sort of ambiguous name as so many are these days. But what

00:15:51.680 is this child going to think when she grows up and is nine or 10 years old? Says, why won't my daddy

00:16:00.180 acknowledge me? Why won't my grandpa, the president of the United States acknowledge me? I'm not good

00:16:04.760 enough. I'm a mistake. I'm an accident. I'm a shame. I'm a problem. I'm a humiliation.

00:16:10.440 That's a horrible thing to do to a child. That is a genuinely horrible thing that Joe Biden is

00:16:15.880 doing right now. And I try to resist all the easy political attacks on Hunter Biden, even though

00:16:21.200 there are plenty of legitimate attacks because he was compromising national security. He was selling

00:16:26.540 America's influence around the world to the highest bidder. I mean, there were a lot of serious

00:16:30.800 problems with Hunter. I try to lay off the Hunter stuff. But what Joe, it's not even Hunter's

00:16:36.560 problem. So I don't have any expectations of him. What Joe Biden is doing here is disgusting.

00:16:43.020 It's despicable. It's shameful. It's extremely cruel. And it should be a national scandal and 0.99

00:16:47.860 more people should talk about it. Speaking of cruelty, Twitter has a new feature. It's called

00:16:55.680 Twitter Spaces. If you remember the app Clubhouse, it's kind of like that where you can log in

00:17:00.380 and have audio conversations with a curated group of people. So Twitter has just rolled this out. I

00:17:05.560 haven't tried it yet, but I did see when Twitter rolled it out that there was a trend, a trending

00:17:13.520 hashtag. The trending hashtag was a hashtag, Mayo Monkeys Gotta Go. I said, Mayo Monkeys? What is a 1.00

00:17:20.620 mayo? And then I looked at what was next to it. Y-T people deserve nothing. N-U-F-F-I-N. Y-T, 1.00

00:17:29.640 like YouTube people? Well, I agree. I do think they deserve nothing. I don't think they deserve

00:17:33.180 anything. Oh, no, it's white. Then I realized it's white people. White people deserve nothing. 0.96

00:17:41.000 Hashtag Mayo Monkeys Gotta Go. Now, I have always considered myself more of an aioli monkey. 0.99

00:17:46.280 I'm a little spicier and Mediterranean and very, very sophisticated. But I think they were using

00:17:52.040 this term Mayo Monkey to refer to all white people. Take a listen to the conversation.

00:17:57.300 First of all, let me tell you something. If you're in here or y'all go run back and tell them,

00:18:02.560 y'all ain't got to tell them that nobody else said shit but me. I'm going to say, listen, 0.99

00:18:07.680 you ain't got to chop shit up. I am for the white genocide. I am for the total erasure of the white 1.00

00:18:12.720 race. You don't have to chop this up. Yes, I am for all of you white dying like flies. I am for 1.00

00:18:19.600 it. I am for it. I support it. I am for putting all you white possums in a gas chamber and letting 1.00

00:18:26.220 that motherfucker ring. I am for it. So you don't have to chop shit up. I'm for it and I'm going to 1.00

00:18:31.720 stand 10 toes down behind it. Simple as that. So you got to chop shit up. You ain't got to screw

00:18:36.560 the shit. I said it and I stand on it. Now, lest you think that this was just some kind of random 1.00

00:18:44.960 brief exchange from a co-host of this conversation on Twitter, it wasn't. One of my producers was in

00:18:51.240 the conversation live when it was happening. It was the whole conversation. Obviously,

00:18:54.560 look at the title of it. White people deserve nothing. Hashtag Mayo Monkeys got to go. This was 1.00

00:18:59.320 trending on Twitter. It would seem to contradict the lie that we're often told and now that children

00:19:07.980 are taught in schools across the country that black people can't be racist. You'll hear this

00:19:13.560 taught in corporate boardrooms, in classrooms, all over the place. Black people can't be racist. 0.96

00:19:20.860 So even if they say something like this, they're not really racist because they're black and if you're 0.98

00:19:24.240 black, you can't be racist. So by definition, they're not racist, even if they're calling explicitly for

00:19:28.560 the white genocide, their words, not mine, and saying we have to put white people in gas chambers. 0.98

00:19:36.540 It goes without saying, I hate to even be so cliche as to say this, that if white people did anything 0.98

00:19:42.140 like this, it would be not just an incident on Twitter, not just a controversy in the United

00:19:46.920 States. It would be an international incident. The UN would be looking into this, okay? But it's not.

00:19:52.980 And so there is obviously a double standard here. And it's frankly, it's not even really worth,

00:19:57.280 I mention it just so briefly for the handful of people who don't see the point, who don't see

00:20:03.480 the double standard. Contrary to the view that is taught in schools and in offices and HR trainings

00:20:12.660 and comes from critical race theory and other associated movements, contrary to the idea that

00:20:18.840 only white people can be racist. All of the evidence we have available to us suggests that white 0.75

00:20:25.720 people are the least racist people on earth. They are the least racist people ever in the whole

00:20:33.100 history of the world. Pew Research had a survey that came out just a few years ago, showed that white

00:20:41.180 people have the lowest racial consciousness by far. They asked people who are white, black, Asian,

00:20:47.660 and Hispanic, and Hispanic. How important is your race to you? And of the people who said that race

00:20:53.800 was somewhat or very important, you had that number over 50% for Asian people, over 50% for Hispanic

00:21:01.900 people, over 70% for black people said their race is somewhat or very important to them. Only 15%

00:21:08.780 for white people. Shockingly low racial consciousness. There's another survey. Survey just came out from 0.96

00:21:16.260 Rasmussen that said that 37% of American adults believe that black people hold racist views as opposed

00:21:28.840 to just 15% who believe that white people hold racist views. Now you might say, well, that's just

00:21:35.740 because, I don't know, there were a lot of white people polled, but it's not true. Even among only

00:21:40.100 the black people polled, the black people believed that black people were more racist than white 0.99

00:21:44.300 people. 31% of the black people surveyed by Rasmussen said that they considered people of their own race 0.97

00:21:50.260 to be racist, while only 24% of them thought that white people were racist. So we're not saying that

00:21:56.020 white people are not at all racist or that black people are completely 100% racist, but all of the data

00:22:00.900 we have suggest that white people are the least racist people in the history of the world. In fact,

00:22:08.260 the very concept of racism, the very idea that racism might be a bad thing comes from white people.

00:22:16.140 That's, just look at the history of the ideas. So the idea that, that only whites can be racist

00:22:22.800 is, as we see from social science, as we see from various Twitter conversations, perfectly divorced

00:22:30.880 from reality. Okay, it's, and you see this a lot in our culture, increasingly so. Maybe the most obvious

00:22:38.040 version of this is that, is transgenderism, the idea that men are really women, and if you say that

00:22:42.880 they're not, you're, you know, you have to be silenced. If you contradict this obvious delusion that is

00:22:49.920 totally divorced from reality, but you see this on issues of sex, race, economics, politics,

00:22:58.900 everywhere you are seeing a chasm opening up between the official narrative that the establishment

00:23:05.500 tells us, and reality. And this is a very scary thing, because things do not end well when your society

00:23:16.220 is divorced from reality. Let's take this beyond the racial issues, and the mayo monkeys having to go, 0.99

00:23:21.560 and the sex, even just broadly. If your society is grounded on delusion, your society is not going

00:23:30.180 to flourish. And when you look around us right now, and you see society crumbling in basically every

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00:26:16.100 Speaking of Twitter, Hipster Rasputin is out at Twitter. Jack Dorsey, the founder and CEO of Twitter

00:26:26.140 is out. I think he actually left the company already once before and then he came back. Well,

00:26:31.220 now he is out again. The new CEO is the current CTO, the technology officer, Parag Agrawal.

00:26:41.280 And as one does now when someone comes into a position of prominence, everyone's digging up Parag's

00:26:48.660 old tweets. There was one tweet that is really going viral where he makes some comment about white

00:26:54.360 people and racism and he's really quoting him daily show. And I think it's a little bit of a

00:26:59.440 misdirection. I don't think that's the most alarming thing that Parag has ever tweeted.

00:27:05.140 I don't think it's the most alarming thing he's ever said. There's a far more

00:27:09.600 unsettling clip that came from a podcast that Mr. Agrawal was on recently. It's called In Machines

00:27:16.780 We Trust. In the clip, Agrawal talks about misinformation and his theory on how Twitter

00:27:24.640 needs to combat the alleged scourge of misinformation. Who gets to decide what is

00:27:30.960 misinformation? Can you give a clear clinical definition of misinformation? Does something

00:27:35.500 have to have malicious intent to be misinformation? How do you know if your credible sources are

00:27:39.920 truthful? What's measuring the credibility of those sources? And someone even saying,

00:27:43.920 I've seen misinformation in the so-called credible sources. So how do you define that phrase?

00:27:48.940 I think that's the existential question of our times. Defining misinformation is really,

00:27:54.320 really hard. As we learn through time, our understanding of truth also evolves.

00:27:58.680 We attempt to not adjudicate truth. We focus on potential for harm. And when we say we lean

00:28:05.940 on credible sources, we also lean on all the conversation on the platform that also gets

00:28:10.420 to talk about these credible sources and points out potential gaps as a result of which the credible

00:28:15.860 sources also evolve their thinking or what they talk about. So we focus way less on what's true

00:28:23.120 and what's false. We focus way more on potential for harm as a result of certain content being amplified

00:28:31.080 on the platform without appropriate context. There's the key. There's the key to all the bad

00:28:39.040 stuff that's about to come out from Twitter and all the bad stuff that's really already going on at

00:28:42.860 Twitter. And it's the heart. I don't think I'm overstating it. It's the heart of all the bad stuff

00:28:53.040 that we have been getting out of the left in recent decades. We don't try to adjudicate what is

00:29:00.580 true. We just try to look at the potential for harm. This simple sentence, which he repeats,

00:29:08.240 it's not that he misspoke. He knows exactly what he's saying. That sentence is at the very heart

00:29:14.300 of our cultural rot. We don't want to find out what's true. We don't want to find out what's true.

00:29:21.600 Maybe there's a skepticism there. We can't really know what's true. How are you supposed to know

00:29:26.040 what's true? A lot of people on the left have been telling us that you can't really know what's

00:29:31.040 true. There is no objective truth. The movements of Derrida, the movements of post-modernism,

00:29:37.620 the movements all throughout the academy and all throughout our society. A lot of people on the

00:29:41.740 right have embraced this too, especially libertarians have embraced this kind of talk.

00:29:45.620 Well, who's to know what's good? Maybe your definition of good is different than my definition.

00:29:49.760 Who's to know who really can adjudicate truth? We just need to respect one another's boundaries.

00:29:55.660 We just need to respect, you do you, I'll do me. Forget about what's true. Let's only focus on

00:30:01.660 what's harmful. Now, there's another really nasty premise in here, which is that what's true

00:30:09.260 and what's good might be totally different things. And consequently, what's false and what's harmful

00:30:17.820 might be totally different things. In the traditional society, the good and the true

00:30:25.180 and the beautiful were considered to be united, the transcendentals, right? What do we want? We want

00:30:32.520 what's good and true and beautiful. But in the modern society that throws all those crazy old ideas away

00:30:39.060 from old uncle Aristotle and Christianity, throws those away, something might be good but false.

00:30:45.880 You know, a lie that we all, but the lie maybe is for our own good. And something might be true

00:30:52.500 but really harmful and so we've got to deny that truth. Forget about the truth, he says. In the old

00:30:59.320 society of Christianity, you know, that built our entire civilization, we believed that the truth

00:31:07.700 would set you free. And we believed that lies would enslave you. And now we believe the opposite.

00:31:15.600 Now we believe, look at transgenderism. I guess that would be the clearest example of this. 0.98

00:31:20.020 We believe that the truth is cruel, that the truth will actually enslave you. If you're a man,

00:31:24.980 but you don't want to be a man, that that truth that you are a man will enslave you and it's mean

00:31:28.460 and it's nasty and it's wrong. And the lie, the lie say that you are a woman if you're really a man,

00:31:34.060 that the lie will set you free. That's what Agrawal is talking about here.

00:31:40.440 And actually, you will see it applied specifically on this transgender issue.

00:31:45.220 They've already set policies to this effect at Twitter, that if you directly call a man who thinks

00:31:51.600 he's a woman a man, you can be banned for that. It doesn't matter that the thing you said is true. 0.97

00:31:56.140 Maybe it's harmful because you didn't lie. Because lies are good, according to these moral

00:32:03.200 idiots. I don't even say it with wrath and anger to say that they're idiots. I mean, 1.00

00:32:10.160 it's just a fact. They're moral idiots and it's going to harm them in society if they persist. 1.00

00:32:15.320 You talk about harmful. Lies are harmful and the truth is good and the truth will set you free. 1.00

00:32:19.720 C.S. Lewis has a great quote on this. He says, if you look for truth, you might find comfort in the

00:32:25.740 end. But if you look for comfort, you will find neither truth nor comfort, only soft soap and

00:32:33.100 wishful thinking to begin and in the end despair. It is no mere coincidence. It's no accident that as

00:32:43.920 our society has discarded truth and pursued only an unfettered comfort that despair has increased.

00:32:57.660 That people are increasingly desperate. They turn to drugs and they turn to suicide and they turn to

00:33:01.800 all sorts of madness. Got to ground the society in the truth, whether that's on Twitter, whether that's in

00:33:09.680 our ordinary conversations day by day, whether that's our government, whether that's the whole way that

00:33:13.560 we live together. Agrawal goes on. He says, our role here at Twitter is not to be bound by the First

00:33:24.500 Amendment. We're going to focus less on thinking about free speech and more thinking about how the

00:33:31.400 times have changed. Now, I know that a lot of conservatives are going to be really ticked off by

00:33:36.520 this and they're going to say, oh, what a jerk. I hate this guy. It's terrible. He's making a halfway 1.00

00:33:43.960 decent point in the most offensive and off-putting way possible. But he's saying, look, at Twitter,

00:33:50.400 our standard is not exactly the First Amendment standard. Just like in a school. A school is not

00:33:56.380 necessarily bound by the First Amendment. The school can say, Johnny, stop saying that in the way that

00:34:02.560 the government might not be able to say, Johnny, stop saying that. The school, the family, the office

00:34:11.280 place, the place of employment, even civic associations can put more constraints on speech.

00:34:19.040 They can enforce standards to a greater degree than the government can. That's always been the case in

00:34:24.280 America. Local communities can enforce more of these standards than the government can. That's long

00:34:30.720 been the case in America. And I think it is fair for Agrawal to say, look, we're a platform. We want

00:34:38.040 our users to have a good experience. So we're not going to allow certain hateful speech. It makes

00:34:42.900 perfect sense. We've always done that. I can't go into a restaurant and just start screaming whatever

00:34:48.880 I want to scream. I might be asked to leave. And I think it's perfectly legitimate for Twitter to say

00:34:55.300 that to have a similar kind of standard. But what's the standard going to be? Is it going to be that if

00:35:00.480 I tell the truth, if I say perfectly ordinary things, if I say that men are not women, if I say 0.62

00:35:05.460 that white people shouldn't all be genocided like the Twitter space people say they should be, if I say

00:35:11.480 that actually maybe I want to vote for Donald Trump, if I say that those things ought to be

00:35:18.720 protected, right? I think we just need to, as I said in my book, Speechless Controlling Words,

00:35:22.220 Controlling Minds makes a great Christmas present, number one national bestseller.

00:35:26.360 If I, as I said in this book, we conservatives need to move beyond just talking about procedural

00:35:35.380 norms and just talking about one standard view of the first amendment and pretend that that has

00:35:42.640 always applied everywhere in society when it hasn't. We need to start talking not just about

00:35:46.280 the freedom of speech, but about what we ought to say. It gets back to the first part with Agrawal

00:35:50.800 on Twitter, which is we need to start talking about what's true and what's good. And we need

00:35:55.640 to start promoting what is true and good and beautiful. And we need to start opposing and

00:36:00.500 discouraging things that are ugly and false and wicked. Speaking of the boundaries of speech,

00:36:06.400 you know, my friend, Lauren Boebert is in trouble. Lauren Boebert, freshman congressman,

00:36:11.720 conservative congressman. She made a joke about Ilhan Omar. She made a joke that Ilhan Omar supports 0.63

00:36:18.980 terrorism. And you might not think it's a joke because Ilhan Omar has been caught on camera

00:36:24.520 giggling about Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah. But, you know, it's just a joke. She was just making a joke.

00:36:29.400 And you're not allowed to do that. You're not allowed to make jokes about the left. And you're

00:36:33.520 certainly not allowed to call them terrorists. You are almost required to call right-wingers

00:36:38.980 terrorists and insurrectionists and white supremacists and neo-Nazis and whatever. 0.97

00:36:42.520 Call half the country that. But you're not allowed to make jokes about the left, even 0.98

00:36:47.880 leftists who giggle about Al-Qaeda. So, Lauren began to apologize to Ilhan Omar. I don't think

00:36:56.540 she should have apologized. I'm not against apologies. I'm very pro-apology. But in this

00:37:00.880 case, I don't think it was warranted. So, she went to apologize. I thought that was a mistake.

00:37:05.100 They had a phone call. Ilhan Omar released this statement about Lauren Boebert. She goes,

00:37:09.140 quote, today I graciously accepted a call from Representative Lauren Boebert in the hope of

00:37:13.780 receiving a direct apology for falsely claiming she met me in an elevator, suggesting I was a

00:37:18.060 terrorist and for a history of anti-Muslim hate. Instead of apologizing for her Islamophobic comments

00:37:23.320 and fabricated lies, Representative Boebert refused to publicly acknowledge her hurtful and

00:37:27.280 dangerous comments. Instead, she doubled down on her rhetoric and I decided to end the unproductive 0.99

00:37:31.340 call. I'm glad that Lauren stood her ground because what Lauren did, she called privately

00:37:35.600 apologized and Ilhan Omar said, no, you've got to publicly apologize and you've got to

00:37:39.120 talk about Islamophobia, which is a completely made-up term. And you've got to talk about

00:37:43.400 your anti-Muslim hate, which Lauren Boebert has not demonstrated. And you've got to acknowledge

00:37:49.360 your dangerous comments. She hasn't said anything that's dangerous. And Boebert said, no, I don't

00:37:54.260 think I'm going to do that. That was the right thing to do. Here's Lauren's version of the conversation.

00:37:59.780 Hey everyone. This is Lauren with a quick update on a phone call I had today with squad member

00:38:05.500 Ilhan Omar. I had reached out to her Friday and three days later, I was able to connect with her

00:38:11.360 on the phone because I wanted to let her know directly that I had reflected on my previous

00:38:16.540 remarks. Now, as a strong Christian woman who values faith deeply, I never want anything I say

00:38:24.260 to offend someone's religion. So I told her that even after I put out a public statement to that 0.99

00:38:29.820 effect, she said that she still wanted a public apology because what I had done wasn't good enough.

00:38:35.520 So I reiterated to her what I had just said. She kept asking for a public apology. So I told Ilhan Omar

00:38:42.400 that she should make a public apology to the American people for her anti-American, anti-Semitic,

00:38:48.840 anti-police rhetoric. She continued to press and I continued to press back. And then Representative

00:38:55.300 Omar hung up on me. Love it. Great stuff. Glad Lauren did it. Maybe this was 4D chess. Maybe she 0.93

00:39:02.140 was just waiting to get Ilhan the whole time, but this is exactly right. No reason to apologize for

00:39:06.380 this joke to Ilhan Omar whatsoever. Meanwhile, by the way, some of Lauren's allegedly conservative

00:39:13.480 Republican colleagues are going on CNN to bash her. 1.00

00:39:18.940 I have time after time condemned my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for racist tropes and

00:39:25.960 remarks that I find disgusting. And this is no different than any others. As a member of Congress

00:39:31.600 and seeing such division in our country, we all have a responsibility, both elected members of Congress

00:39:38.720 on both sides of the aisle and the American people in our communities and are at work in our communities

00:39:44.220 and everything else to lower. We have a responsibility to lower the temperature. And this does not do that.

00:39:49.780 I didn't come to Congress to throw bombs on Twitter, to raise, take advantage of people by saying crazy

00:39:55.200 things, to raise money or to be a comedian. I'll leave comedy to Dave Chappelle. I was disappointed in

00:40:00.740 the comments. I was encouraged to see that she did apologize for the comments. And I believe that's a

00:40:04.700 step in the right direction. That's Republican Nancy Mace, quote unquote, Republican Nancy Mace. 0.99

00:40:09.900 She's in a very conservative district in South Carolina, but she's a relatively liberal Republican.

00:40:14.580 She is now trying to codify transgenderism into the federal law, into the Civil Rights Act. She refused

00:40:20.260 to sign the amicus brief of conservatives pushing for the overturn of Roe v. Wade. So she's a lib by

00:40:25.920 Republican standards. And I just got to tell you, I am skeptical of any, any so-called conservative

00:40:35.400 who spends her time going on CNN to bash her conservative colleagues, especially over a joke, 0.94

00:40:42.160 almost over any issue, but especially over a joke. Deeply suspect. You didn't come to Congress

00:40:46.460 to attack Democrats, as she says. No, you came to Congress to attack fellow Republicans on CNN.

00:40:51.040 Not a good look. Speaking of the boundaries of speech.

00:40:58.960 Another one bites the dust. Not just hipster Rasputin, Jack Dorsey at Twitter, who stepped down

00:41:04.400 apparently voluntarily or somewhat voluntarily. Fredo. Fredo Cuomo at CNN was taken out into a fishing

00:41:14.040 boat on the lake and he didn't come back, metaphorically speaking. He has been suspended

00:41:19.760 indefinitely from CNN after a story came out that Fredo advised his brother, Andrew Cuomo,

00:41:27.120 who was, you know, governor of New York during his political scandals. And Cuomo may, Chris Cuomo may

00:41:32.320 have used some of his journalistic contacts to try to help Cuomo. Here's the statement from CNN.

00:41:37.440 When Chris admitted to us that he had offered advice to his brother's staff,

00:41:41.200 he broke our rules and we acknowledged that publicly. Hold on. I just want to pause right there.

00:41:45.120 The way that CNN phrased this makes it seem like the transgression was not the wrongdoing. It wasn't

00:41:52.780 that he helped his brother and used his contacts. It's that he admitted the wrongdoing, right? He says,

00:41:57.540 when Chris admitted to us that he did this, he broke our rules. You're never, at CNN, the rule is you

00:42:02.480 never admit wrongdoing. So he, was that a Freudian slip? Was that a Fredoian slip? I think it might've

00:42:07.380 been. They go on. We also appreciated the unique position he was in and understood his need to put

00:42:11.700 family first. However, these documents point to a greater level of involvement in his brother's

00:42:15.840 efforts than we previously knew. As a result, we have suspended Chris indefinitely pending further

00:42:22.940 evaluation. This is going to be maybe an unpopular view on the right, but I've got to say it because

00:42:31.260 it's my view and I think we ought to put the truth first. I feel bad for Fredo. I feel bad for Fredo.

00:42:37.880 Not because he didn't do anything wrong. He did a lot of things wrong, but I think he's being held

00:42:42.960 to a different standard here than other CNN employees. First of all, is the story here,

00:42:49.760 the shocking, the big revelation is that a CNN host, a CNN employee whose brother and father were both

00:42:59.340 Democrat governors of New York might just possibly be a Democrat operative.

00:43:04.480 No, you're, stop the presses. You're kidding me. Well, gosh, next you're going to tell me that

00:43:11.040 that bridge that I bought in Brooklyn isn't really mine. Is that really? You're telling me he is a

00:43:15.700 Democrat? No way. Second of all, he's not the first CNN employee or establishment media employee to do

00:43:26.340 this. Remember Donna Brazil? Donna Brazil, I think while working for CNN, passed debate questions to 0.98

00:43:33.720 Hillary Clinton. She still works throughout the establishment media. Remember Candy Crowley? 1.00

00:43:39.600 Remember her? She was moderating a debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney and she just lied on

00:43:45.380 behalf of Barack Obama to trip up Romney, made him lose the debate based on a complete lie

00:43:50.480 regarding the Benghazi terror attack. Remember that? Doesn't matter. Oopsie daisy, whoops, moves on.

00:43:59.200 They're, they're all Democrat operatives. That's what CNN is. CNN is not some impartial

00:44:06.680 journalistic outlet where facts matter first, no matter what they say. It's a propaganda piece for

00:44:13.480 the left. I don't even really, it doesn't even really bother me in the history of media. Generally,

00:44:18.040 parties have had their own outlets. The Republicans had their outlets. The Democrats had their outlet.

00:44:21.680 That's why their newspaper's called the Tennessee Democrat, right? You know, and so I don't,

00:44:25.240 I don't really even mind that. I wish they were more honest about it, but poor Fredo. Poor Fredo.

00:44:32.940 I guess that was ever thus. Poor Fredo. He's getting frustrated. He's saying, I'm smart. Not like

00:44:40.420 everybody says like dumb. I'm smart. I can do things. But he can't now because he's been suspended. 0.99

00:44:46.960 Poor guy. All right. You know, do you remember, I don't mean to belabor the point on Chris,

00:44:50.720 Chris Cuomo. But do you remember during COVID, he got COVID and then he pretended that he was,

00:44:56.380 he was holding up and quarantining in his basement. And then he even did that whole thing

00:45:02.540 where they filmed him coming up for the first time and seeing his family and I missed you.

00:45:07.320 And then it was all fake because it turned out that he was actually going out for bike rides with

00:45:11.220 his family during the alleged quarantine out in the Hamptons. And the only reason we know that is

00:45:15.020 because he got into a fight with some guy on the street and the guy said, Hey, oh, aren't you supposed

00:45:18.940 to be holed up in your room? And he's getting to get into a big fight and shouting match. So it was

00:45:22.760 all BS. The guy spreads lies on his show constantly. That though, doesn't violate the

00:45:27.540 journalistic integrity of CNN. What violates the journalistic integrity seriously is that he got

00:45:32.280 caught. That's what does it. Speaking of getting caught, you know that the debate over critical race

00:45:40.680 theory in schools has largely hinged on this question. Is critical race theory really being

00:45:48.480 taught in schools? The left might say, well, it's a good thing. Well, it's a bad thing. Well, I guess

00:45:53.440 they'll, they'll really just say it's a good thing. But what a lot of it has come down to is critical

00:45:58.800 race theory isn't really being taught in schools. It's just this legal movement. It's only being taught

00:46:05.240 at Harvard Law School. You conspiracy theorist conservatives think it's being taught in elementary,

00:46:10.860 middle, and high schools. It's not. So we have video from the Detroit superintendent, Nikolai Vitti,

00:46:18.780 saying explicitly that the Detroit public school curriculum is deeply imbued with critical race

00:46:25.960 theory. Our curriculum is deeply using critical race theory, especially in social studies, but you'll

00:46:33.760 find it in English language arts and the other disciplines. We made, we were very intentional

00:46:40.380 about creating a curriculum, infusing materials, and embedding critical race theory within our

00:46:47.660 curriculum. They're not even shallowly using critical race theory. They're deeply using it. You heard it

00:46:52.800 from the horse's mouth. Was that the horse's mouth? I don't know. That was some part of the horse.

00:46:57.380 And actually, it's a good explanation of it. Because critical race theory is not, it's not just like

00:47:05.460 calculus. It's not just like division or arithmetic. It's not just like you're being taught a lesson.

00:47:14.920 Okay, this week we're going to learn critical race theory. Critical race theory is a lens. It is an

00:47:21.240 analytical framework through which you can view just about everything. I also talk about this in my

00:47:27.180 book, Speechless Controlling Rates, Controlling Minds, that critical theory broadly is not just a system,

00:47:34.140 but it's a gadfly on other academic disciplines, right? It's not just one discipline. It's part of

00:47:40.620 social studies and literature and everything, and it's there. And that's the reality of it, folks.

00:47:46.580 And they're going to lie to you because they don't believe that truth really matters.

00:47:50.940 They don't think that the truth is necessarily good. They think that some lies can be really good,

00:47:55.140 some truths can be really harmful. Don't let them get away from it. The truth will, in fact,

00:47:59.460 set you free. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

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00:48:56.880 Matt Walsh Show. Leftists at St. Louis University have gone to extreme lengths to get my talk tonight

00:49:02.140 canceled. I'll still be there tonight, of course, but first we'll talk about what we've learned from

00:49:06.160 this whole absurd ordeal. Also, Chris Cuomo is suspended from CNN, yet Zoom sex fiend Jeffrey 0.96

00:49:12.460 Toobin remains employed. So how do they choose who gets free passes over there and who doesn't? We'll

00:49:17.180 talk about that. And just a day after Jack Dorsey resigned as CEO of Twitter, they've already made a

00:49:22.780 major move to suppress free speech on the platform. Plus, the Jussie Smollett trial begins as new

00:49:28.420 revelations emerge about just how far he went in his race scam. And a CNBC host calls for the military

00:49:35.940 to administer forced vaccinations. I'll talk about all of that and much more today as a best-selling

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The Michael Knowles Show - December 01, 2021

Ep. 896 - The Least Racist People Ever

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