Right-wing extremist Michael Knowles poses for a photo with a transvestite at CPAC and calls for the eradication of transgender people. The internet is full of treasures, including a photo of him posing with Lady Gaga.
00:00:53.300On the one hand, the libs are saying that I am a genocidal maniac who wants to kill every single transvestite that I ever see.
00:01:02.860And then on the other hand, they think that they're Sherlock Holmes, that they've discovered that on my own Twitter account,
00:01:08.800I once posted a photo smiling with this prominent transvestite named Lady Maga at Politicon a few years ago at this political conference where all sorts of people on the left and the right come out.
00:01:20.720There's that one, that Lady Maga who escaped my genocidal grasp.
00:01:24.040Wouldn't you say, if that photo is out there, wouldn't you say, oh, huh, maybe Michael's not a genocidal maniac.
00:01:32.520Maybe he doesn't want to be really cruel and mean to people.
00:01:35.120Maybe he can be perfectly nice and pose for a photo with a nice fella, even if the fella is dressed up a little weird.
00:01:40.380But he doesn't believe in the absurd anthropology of transgenderism and thinks that as it spreads and is normalized, that that would be a good thing for the country.
00:01:56.780Another gift of the internet is real-time reporting and video footage because once Michael Knowles started to feel the rightful backlash that comes from calling for mass hate crimes against an entire group of people, he tried to say he never said those things.
00:02:20.180Not only did you say that, you didn't go back and delete the receipts on your own Twitter account showing how manufactured your outrage is.
00:02:29.260I didn't delete the receipts because I don't want to kill all the transgender people.
00:02:33.280One, because it's not a real ontological category.
00:02:37.000And two, because I don't want to go slaughter and murder anybody.
00:02:40.460I said exactly what you said I said, which is I called to eradicate transgenderism, which is an ideology that posits that men can secretly be women, which is obviously not the case.
00:02:53.460And so all of the evidence that you are finding is proving my point and disproving the libelous headlines of the media, which changed their headlines.
00:03:03.700Because they knew that they would be sued into oblivion for the defamation that you're pretending is truthful.
00:03:35.520So I'm just doing this to get clicks or something like that.
00:03:38.560And sometimes the other version of this is Michael is secretly a transvestite or a drag queen or gay or any other number of weird identities.
00:03:51.880But he's, I don't know, he's just pretending it's CPAC or something like that.
00:03:54.740But the one conclusion they can never come to is, huh, maybe Michael doesn't hate anybody and he just thinks that it is a fact of nature that men and women are different.
00:04:07.040And even if we tolerate certain degrees of eccentricity and diversity at the fringes of society, we shouldn't enshrine as a matter of our law and philosophy and culture, the insane idea that a confused boy should chop off his genitals to pretend to be a girl.
00:05:53.260Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.
00:05:58.200See, I didn't say we need to eradicate transgender people, just the concept of transgenderism.
00:06:05.200If I said we need to eradicate poverty or cancer, you wouldn't claim that I'm saying we need to kill all the poor people or the cancer patients.
00:06:12.540Yes, because poverty and cancer are things that happen to someone.
00:06:16.700They are an unchangeable part of who someone is.
00:06:20.400Trans people can't just choose to not be trans, just like gay people can't just choose to not be gay.
00:06:26.400And the logical conclusion of eliminating transgenderism is that we must eliminate trans people.
00:06:32.360Wow, you know, he was pretty good until that very last bit where he said transgender people can't choose not to be transgender, but of course they can.
00:06:39.960Most of them have for much of their lives.
00:06:42.600You can live in accord with reality, and you can deny delusions and temptations.
00:06:53.000A man who is married, but, you know, he's out at a bar and he sees a cute girl down the bar and he thinks, oh, you know, she's pretty good looking.
00:07:01.360He says, no, I'm not going to do that.
00:07:02.940I'm going to say no to that lower desire.
00:07:06.380Because my rational will tells me that I love my wife and this would ruin my life and I've made a vow and I have higher priorities.
00:07:14.160I'm going to use my rational will, which is conscious and can reason, to suppress my lower will, which is very frequently unreasonable and appetitive.
00:07:23.540When you're going to reach for the third cookie after lunch and you say, no, I know my lower will wants that, but my higher rational will says, that's going to make me get fat and have a tummy ache.
00:07:43.260And there's not a comparison between Judaism and transgenderism because Judaism refers both to a tribe of people and to a religious tradition.
00:07:53.760An atheist, secularist, leftist, crazy person who doesn't believe a word of the Bible can still claim to be a Jew.
00:08:00.360But when it comes to concepts, yeah, you can eradicate communism.
00:08:06.120As we did, and that was the official policy of the United States for a long time, you're not saying I'm going to slaughter all the communists.
00:08:25.560This is Michael Knowles' Wikipedia page.
00:08:28.000It says, Michael John Knowles is an American conservative political commentator, actor, author, and media host.
00:08:35.180Imagine going to Yale, not being able to leverage any of your connections to further your acting career, end up like a D-list actor and having to resort to becoming a conservative political commentator.
00:09:27.000Michael, he couldn't get an acting job, so he decided to take up politics.
00:09:32.440But that isn't the order that things happened in.
00:09:36.440I was in politics first as a professional on congressional campaigns that rose to some prominence, presidential campaigns.
00:09:44.300Very often the libs will say, well, why is it that people who are in political media often have some kind of background in performance or acting or show business or something?
00:09:52.700Why is it that people that are on camera that speak and perform for a living, why would they have some background in performance?
00:10:00.920Which is, you know, a very silly question when you think about it that way.
00:10:03.740But they used to make this joke about Reagan.
00:10:05.960They said, oh, Reagan, he's a failed actor.