The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast - China, Fentanyl, Pro-Palestine Protestors, BLM, and Marxism ｜ Xaviaer DuRousseau EP 211

00:00:00.000 Like imagine your entire world shattering that you built for yourself.

00:00:03.540 It was ugly.

00:00:04.440 I left college a little early because I moved out to Northern California.

00:00:08.080 And as I moved out there, I became even more woke.

00:00:10.520 Because now I'm in the center of just woke ideology living right outside of San Francisco.

00:00:15.640 So then I decided I was going to go on this whole mission of debunking a whole series of PragerU videos.

00:00:21.600 So I started studying the counter arguments from an objective standpoint without confirmation bias for the first time.

00:00:27.420 And I was mortified.

00:00:30.000 I just kept debunking every single narrative I ever believed in.

00:00:33.260 And I thought of every single person I argued with marching for George Floyd

00:00:36.840 and all of this mess just to figure out I was wrong about everything.

00:00:40.860 They have convinced these kids, if you are a part of any of these marginalized groups,

00:00:45.780 you need to be against Israel.

00:00:47.780 I look at these groups and I'm like, you guys are so misled.

00:00:50.880 What it really came down to is I knew I was never going to be able to look myself in the mirror

00:00:56.140 and be proud of myself if I went and just sacrificed my values.

00:01:04.540 Xavier DeRousseau, welcome to my podcast.

00:01:07.400 Thank you for having me.

00:01:08.440 This should be fun.

00:01:10.140 I heard you got into trouble very recently with a Beyonce crowd.

00:01:14.880 How did that happen?

00:01:16.320 So there I was, minding my business as per usual,

00:01:19.260 and I was on Fox with Bryce Hall,

00:01:21.740 and we were just talking about why so many people in Gen Z,

00:01:24.180 especially people in LA are waking up and I truly did not see this question coming but Trace Gallagher

00:01:29.800 asked me about how I felt with Beyonce going and speaking on behalf of Kamala Harris yeah and I

00:01:35.740 just started laughing to myself and thinking I just saw a tweet before I came here about how

00:01:41.160 Beyonce's album is nowhere to be seen on the charts even though it came out this year so I said maybe

00:01:46.420 Beyonce should be more focused on keeping her albums on the charts rather than talking about

00:01:51.480 politics because their album's already gone and oh my goodness the beehive got well first the

00:01:57.960 barbs got a hold of it okay wait what's a barb so the barbs are Nicki Minaj fans and I'm well

00:02:03.760 known in the barb community because I'm a big Nicki Minaj fan and her fans all started posting

00:02:10.960 it because apparently Beyonce fans and Nicki fans have beef I didn't know that but apparently they

00:02:16.380 have beef even though they've collabed a few times so they started posting it and then this 0.97

00:02:20.400 woman named Tasha Kay posted it. And she's basically a messier internet version of Wendy 0.94

00:02:25.780 Williams. Okay. And she posted it. And then next thing I know is all these blogs are posting it. 1.00

00:02:31.120 The Shave Room posted it. It got 2 million views in less than two hours. And then it got even

00:02:36.860 messier because they went and found all my old tweets praising Beyonce and Jay-Z. Now here's

00:02:42.760 a thing i'm not a hypocrite i can criticize beyonce and still appreciate her artistry same

00:02:50.680 thing with jay-z yeah and all my all these people are bringing up the tweets i'm like okay you can

00:02:54.780 bring up these tweets but it doesn't negate the fact that beyonce's album fled the charts like

00:02:59.120 harriet tubman in the middle of the night so all the all things can be true at once but i'm fighting

00:03:04.800 for my life right now they are swarming my email they're swarming my inbox i think a couple of

00:03:09.280 them leaked my number and oh my gosh I'm getting doxxed and it's only been like two hours so

00:03:14.960 we're having fun oh my god well okay wow what a day I mean that's got to be what happens when

00:03:22.360 people go against Taylor Swift too right oh yeah it's pretty big I feel like Taylor Swift it's like

00:03:27.380 the numbers are bigger but Beyonce fans are more aggressive like especially on a day where the

00:03:32.080 beehive has time don't catch them on a day where they're bored they had time today oh that's funny

00:03:38.420 Why do you think, like, are you conspiratorial in wondering why there are so many celebrities that are endorsing Kamala?

00:03:45.200 Do you think there's, like, dirt there, or do you think they're brainwashed into thinking that's actually a good idea?

00:03:50.240 Well, something that I've been talking about a lot is I know it's a PR thing.

00:03:53.960 So if you talk to a lot of celebrities behind the scenes, what they're going to tell you is if they're not Republican or conservative, they're at least not with the woke stuff.

00:04:01.620 But the thing is, is their PR is so on their case about the fact that they need to go out and present like they support Kamala Harris or like they support all the woke causes that are going on.

00:04:12.800 And that's being exposed more and more by people like Amber Rose speaking out and people like Bryce Hall speaking out.

00:04:18.180 And what I've learned, like when I moved to L.A. last year, some of the first people I met actually worked in celebrity and influencer PR.

00:04:26.100 and they told me that even though they were republican and their clients were republican

00:04:30.240 they all had to pretend not to be when it came to public image because if it was found out that

00:04:36.720 they were conservative they could get canceled lose their brand deals and all of this mess but

00:04:41.440 what's funny is the people that i know that have been speaking out they all told me they didn't

00:04:46.400 lose any brand deals they lost some followers but they gained a whole new audience that loves

00:04:50.620 and appreciates them even more interesting okay so this just could be outdated like i can see how

00:04:56.340 people were getting like i think the tide is turning and it's much more acceptable to be

00:05:00.260 conservative now than say 2019 or 2020 might have been like peak you're gonna get canceled if you

00:05:06.480 have conservative views right but maybe people are just behind now i was i was thinking i don't

00:05:12.300 it was the other day and i was like how how have people not realized that the political party that

00:05:18.760 has the more open views which used to be the democratic party that's not the party anymore

00:05:25.760 right it's switched it switched a while ago but it has like definitely switched now and i still

00:05:31.140 have friends that are democrats because they've been lifelong democrats that haven't realized that

00:05:36.100 like i don't i don't get it the left should have chilled out while they were on top because they

00:05:42.000 had us walking on eggshells for a bit and when i say us i mean just like people in general all of

00:05:46.460 society, they had people afraid to speak out against an organization like BLM, for example.

00:05:51.040 Yeah. But what they did is they took it too far. And you can only put people in this corner for so

00:05:56.300 long before they start to just lash out and just completely reject everything you're saying. And

00:06:01.100 when I moved to LA last summer, I started to catch wind of that because people were coming up to me

00:06:07.400 saying, thank you for saying everything I'm not allowed to say. And I'm like, interesting. And I'm

00:06:12.780 like first of all what really makes you think you're not allowed to say it and two how long

00:06:18.080 are you going to allow yourself to be silenced before you get to this point of frustration

00:06:22.560 where you just crash out and start speaking your mind without filter and i think that's what's

00:06:27.960 happening is so many people are tired of pretending to be okay with everything that's 0.95

00:06:32.040 happening because they have taken it so far and crime has gotten so out of control and the trans

00:06:37.860 stuff and the bathroom and locker rooms and sports all this stuff that should be common sense that

00:06:42.420 we should be able to sit down and have a civil discussion about people are sick of being told

00:06:46.300 that they can't speak their opinion on it yeah it's amazing how far people have to be pushed

00:06:52.500 to get frustrated like i think i mean maybe it's a personality thing i got i think i've always been

00:06:58.880 someone who gets frustrated easily probably that's like no i'm just gonna go against the

00:07:02.420 grain i don't know i don't know what you're like oh yeah 100 okay i'll just blame it on being a

00:07:07.080 Capricorn oh yeah me me too you're a Capricorn too we shouldn't get into that but yeah oh that's

00:07:15.640 funny but so I didn't have to get pushed very far before like I don't trust that no I'm not

00:07:20.680 going to say that especially if you want me to say it like what what's going on behind there why do

00:07:24.600 you want me to say that but it's amazing how weird society had to get before people were like okay 0.99

00:07:29.620 now that now that these things are happening especially some of the trans stuff like now 0.98

00:07:34.320 that this is happening this is clearly too far and it was like it was too far in like 2018 yeah

00:07:40.040 but you had to wait till 2024 to be like well now it's too far anyway well in fairness as someone i

00:07:46.480 used to be on the left i was yeah i want to yeah hear your background okay yeah now yeah yeah let's

00:07:52.980 get into it let's get into it um so as someone that's on the left and i'll get more into like

00:07:57.540 the whole story of how i got red pilled but when i was on the left what i will say in their defense

00:08:02.320 is things have to get bad on that side before they start to get better.

00:08:05.380 Like some of the movements that ended up becoming corrupt later on,

00:08:08.900 or maybe they were from the beginning and people just didn't realize,

00:08:11.620 such as the Me Too movement.

00:08:13.160 Like that needed to happen.

00:08:15.160 That was happening for, everything that was happening there was happening for so long

00:08:18.520 before people finally started to speak out.

00:08:20.240 But unfortunately, every time those movements get traction,

00:08:22.820 they start to get befouled, essentially.

00:08:25.760 But one thing I didn't expect when I came over from the left to the more conservative side

00:08:31.200 is I wasn't used to censorship.

00:08:33.920 I wasn't used to being told you're not allowed to say this

00:08:36.240 because when I was a liberal,

00:08:37.500 I was always having conversations with conservatives

00:08:39.460 and Republicans and a lot of my friends were conservative

00:08:42.520 and I never once even had the thought

00:08:45.920 of telling them you're not allowed to have this opinion.

00:08:48.980 So when I switched over to this side

00:08:51.500 and then all of a sudden,

00:08:53.380 all the people I used to be friends with on the left

00:08:55.640 are suddenly telling me I'm not allowed to speak

00:08:57.960 and I'm silenced and I'm blocked

00:08:59.440 often. I'm not allowed to go to family events anymore. I was told I couldn't come to a funeral

00:09:05.480 because I was a KKK member and a white supremacist. And I'm like, first of all, how does that benefit

00:09:10.380 me? I'm the blackest person in LA County. And second of all, it's like, are we really allowing

00:09:15.380 things to get that intense where you are not allowing your own family to come to a funeral

00:09:19.720 because of political differences? And then it became a whole thing where you can come just

00:09:24.100 don't speak on politics. And it's like, trust me, I wasn't going to. That's not what my focus was

00:09:28.660 right now. But it certainly was a journey to get here. So my family, as you probably can tell from

00:09:34.440 what I just said, it's mostly far left people. They're all, for the most part, on some spectrum

00:09:39.860 of the left. Some of them are very radical, I'd even say, like absolutely hate white people. 1.00

00:09:44.280 And my background, I was born in Southside, Chicago, and I was about five minutes away from 0.94

00:09:50.400 Oblock, which is notoriously the most dangerous neighborhood in Chicago. And I spent a lot of my

00:09:55.360 summer's there. But my family, I always say it's like Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but backwards.

00:09:59.600 My eldest brother got into trouble and my mom was like, we are moving the entire family to the 0.99

00:10:04.400 middle of nowhere cornfields to get away from this hood rattery. So we moved to Pontiac, Illinois, 1.00

00:10:09.180 small town of 10,000 people. Oh, wow. Yeah. Like predominantly white, 95% white. Wow. And to my

00:10:16.040 knowledge, we were only the third family living there at the time with young black kids. So there

00:10:22.360 was no diversity whatsoever once we moved there so it was a culture shock for most of my family

00:10:27.200 I was young but it was just hard for me to find myself because I would go to school and have my 0.52

00:10:33.140 normal life in Pontiac with all these white people who I viewed as my friends and then I would go up

00:10:38.720 to Chicago and I would be told by family members don't trust white people too much white people

00:10:43.060 will smile in your face and then they'll turn their back on you and I even had some like never 0.98

00:10:47.280 walk into a white person's back door they might kill you like insane things like that calling

00:10:52.920 them blue-eyed red-headed devils so I always had this like complex of do I trust them and do I not 0.98

00:10:58.800 and the other part was people always saying things to me like oh you talk white oh you act white I 0.87

00:11:03.420 had the privilege of going to a very still middle class working class school but it was better than

00:11:09.500 Chicago public school by far so I was learning how to speak proper English while a lot of the

00:11:14.920 kids in the school that I would have went to at a state in Chicago were literally illiterate. 0.61

00:11:20.140 So when I would go up to Chicago, they'd be like, oh, you talk like a white boy. Why you talk like 0.57

00:11:24.120 that? Miss Shailene grandson, he talked like a white boy. He think he white or something. 0.97

00:11:27.680 So I would always feel so insecure that I was too white for the black people. But then I would go 0.81

00:11:34.340 back to Pontiac and I would feel like I'm too black for the white people because what was being told 0.60

00:11:38.180 to me. So when I got to college at that point, I was like, I need to find my identity. This is the

00:11:44.800 time to do it. So I found it in my blackness and I made, where did you go? University of Illinois

00:11:50.380 in Urbana-Champaign. And I started getting involved in certain groups, like trying to

00:11:55.280 become more woke, trying to become more conscious and aware of every single racial issue in the

00:12:00.700 world. And I started viewing everything through the, through the lens of race. Um, I actually

00:12:05.240 left college. What year was this? This was, I went to college in 2015. Okay. Okay. So that was like,

00:12:11.560 it's getting pretty woke in colleges at that point yeah and I was a part of it I that's a

00:12:17.540 whole nother story but I helped pretty much bring on a campus where it was mandatory in order to

00:12:22.520 graduate you have to take an ethics studies class and there was a bunch of scandals that happened

00:12:26.320 that year with racial relations because of the election coming up and it was like a whole race

00:12:30.860 war and the affirmative action bake sales and it just got very very ugly and when I I left college 0.52

00:12:38.100 a little early because I moved out to California or Northern California for an opportunity in 0.65

00:12:43.040 e-commerce. And I was seeing how things were there. And as I moved out there, I became even

00:12:47.320 more woke because now I'm in the center of just woke ideology living right outside of San Francisco.

00:12:53.400 And I started posting about BLM type of stuff before BLM even blew up in 2020. So I would say

00:12:58.920 from like 2017 until 2020, I was just a micro influencer doing activism, going to events,

00:13:05.700 helping lead marches, things of that nature, sending people resources. And in 2020, I ended up

00:13:11.980 being, I was literally just bored during the pandemic. It's like, people think I'm kidding

00:13:16.200 when I say that. I was bored and I had time on my hands. So I applied to be on a reality show.

00:13:21.220 Have you ever heard of The Circle? Yeah. So I made it through 25,000 people. I was cast for

00:13:27.400 The Circle, but my character as presented to me, even though I had to sign a contract saying that

00:13:32.100 that I came up with the idea, even though I didn't, I was supposed to be a catfish where I was a woke

00:13:38.020 white sorority girl named Samantha. And my whole shtick on the show was talking about my activism

00:13:44.260 and talking about why I was a passionate BLM activist, but from the perspective of a fake

00:13:49.580 white woman. And for those who don't understand the premise of the show, it's like, you don't

00:13:53.380 meet your competitors. You all talk to each other through like a social media platform called the

00:13:57.980 circle that is such a strange idea for a show oh what kind of people came up with that and then to

00:14:06.600 say that it was your idea yeah oh that's weird because I told them I did in their defense tell

00:14:11.760 them I wanted to bring in some of what I was doing already with activism to my brand and when I

00:14:18.000 started making it like deeper into the semi-finals of like the casting process which was so long

00:14:24.080 because of COVID. That's when they came up with the idea of we should make you a catfish and have

00:14:30.220 you say all the things that you want to say, but from the perspective of a white girl, so that you 1.00

00:14:34.540 can be this beacon of racial unity. And I was like, okay, sure, I'll do it if that's what you guys want

00:14:40.880 me to do. And as I was getting ready for the show, I saw a video that made me so mad. And it was a

00:14:49.760 PragerU video. And I was like, okay, they're talking about BLM. They're talking about George

00:14:55.480 Floyd. I'm like, there is no way I'm going to allow this to stand. So I decided, first of all,

00:15:03.280 the reason I was so mad is because I knew it was right. And I knew I couldn't debunk it.

00:15:07.800 So then I decided I was going to go on this whole mission of debunking a whole series of PragerU

00:15:12.840 videos and make a series out of it myself. And that was also to help me learn how to debate so

00:15:18.620 that I was ready to debate on the show if I needed to so I started studying the counter arguments

00:15:23.300 from an objective standpoint without confirmation bias for the first time and I was mortified

00:15:29.540 because one by one it was like I accidentally red-pilled myself I just kept debunking every

00:15:35.180 single narrative I ever believed in so much so that in October of that year I backed out of the

00:15:39.820 show three days before I was supposed to fly out and film it wow wow well good for you why did I

00:15:47.860 decide to build an online university well there is a crisis now in higher education the president

00:15:57.060 of harvard university resigned today weeks calling for the genocide of jews violate penn's code of

00:16:03.780 conduct we have a problem of affordability and cost spiraling student loans we have a groupthink

00:16:09.940 emerging and that warps the entire academic enterprise i experimented with putting my

00:16:15.860 lectures online and found that I could teach far more people at very low cost

00:16:20.860 than I could at the university and I thought well why not scale that what I'm

00:16:29.540 hoping to do is to find the best lectures in the world and to bring them

00:16:35.540 to as wide as possible an audience he came to me he basically said I want you

00:16:40.040 to do the best course that you've always wanted to do we want to bring you the

00:16:44.420 highest quality education possible at the lowest possible price. It's extremely

00:16:48.820 high-level content that anybody can use to educate themselves and it's available

00:16:52.460 to everybody. Well that would be good. I think it's funny because I got cancelled

00:16:58.700 at the university so I could try to return the favor. When I first went to

00:17:04.640 university it was 2000 and what was it it was 2011 2012 and I remember there

00:17:12.240 there was a lot of feminism in my courses so I was taking a Greeks like a Homer course and I just

00:17:18.240 wanted to learn about Homer and like read the Iliad etc and it was Homer taught through the

00:17:22.360 feminist perspective and I was like I'm like paying for this course and that isn't what I

00:17:27.640 paid for like I showed up in it and it was through a feminist lens I was like okay so I read all the

00:17:33.120 books I could on feminism that were like pro-feminism and anti-feminism just to read them

00:17:37.040 and then came to my own conclusions like year one university i don't know why it seemed i don't know

00:17:44.080 if it's a personality thing or disagreeableness like why some people want to do that and some

00:17:48.920 people won't do that but anyway good for you for doing that did it hurt did it like make your world

00:17:54.960 fall apart a little yeah it's funny in retrospect like it had a happy ending because i was able to

00:18:01.360 you know build a platform of fighting propaganda now so it was all god's plan at the end of the

00:18:06.000 day. But during the process, like I tell people, it was ugly. Like imagine your entire world

00:18:11.000 shattering that you've built for yourself. And at the time, like the e-commerce business I was

00:18:14.980 building started to fall apart because of the pandemic. And then on top of that, I now have

00:18:20.220 put all my eggs into this basket of becoming this political activist for the left and put so much

00:18:26.600 passion in hours. And I thought of every single person I argued with online and in person about

00:18:32.000 this cause and marching for George Floyd and all of this mess just to figure out I was wrong about

00:18:37.660 everything. But what it really came down to is I knew I was never going to be able to look myself

00:18:42.940 in the mirror in the eye and be proud of myself if I went and just sacrificed my values to go

00:18:50.620 beyond this show. And now it's so funny and ironic to me now that people call me a grifter because I

00:18:55.680 became a decently well-known black conservative. It's like, trust me, if I wanted to grift,

00:19:00.400 I'd have a lot more money and a lot more fame

00:19:02.660 Had I went on that show and just became a BLM activist

00:19:05.420 And you know sometimes you just have to choose what's difficult

00:19:08.480 And stick with your integrity and it works out so much better

00:19:11.040 Because then so that was October of 2020

00:19:13.600 A few weeks later the election happened

00:19:15.800 At that point I was just so upset

00:19:17.420 And my old roommate told he looked at me he goes

00:19:19.960 You have to do something

00:19:20.940 I'm like what you want me to do run for office

00:19:22.860 I'm like I am not doing that

00:19:23.940 And he goes no like you planned your whole life

00:19:27.040 About becoming this political content creator

00:19:29.760 why don't you just start speaking out about what you've learned but from a different perspective

00:19:33.960 oh so a light bulb so your roommate was well supportive anyway yeah he was all he always

00:19:41.340 leaned conservative okay and just we had civil conversations about it all the time which is why

00:19:47.600 I always say to conservatives like sometimes it's funny to like troll and everything but don't don't

00:19:52.960 be too harsh on liberals and progressives because him being so gracious to me and so many of my

00:19:59.560 other conservative friends being so gracious to me is why I was even open to conservative ideas

00:20:04.200 in the first place, which is now why I communicate in such a particular way when I'm having a debate

00:20:09.180 with someone. A Jubilee episode just came out where I sat down with this black girl who started,

00:20:15.100 she started the episode of Jubilee letting everyone know that she's a proud Marxist. 0.79

00:20:19.980 And I was like, okay. And then when we ended up being selected to debate systemic racism,

00:20:24.020 I was nothing but kind, empathetic, and understanding with her while also being 100% truthful in what it was that I believed.

00:20:32.620 And I feel like that conversation was so much more impactful than had I went up there and was like, you have victim mindset and you think you're oppressed and yada, yada, yada.

00:20:42.860 Like that's tired and played out.

00:20:44.300 We've argued enough.

00:20:45.200 We have spent the last four years at each other's throats, so much so that it's led to two assassination attempts of our soon-to-be president, and I'm over that.

00:20:56.820 I'm so over that.

00:20:58.320 I want to be able to sit down and have a calm conversation, and I'm very grateful that my roommate and I, for so long, we were able to have that because then when he was the one that was like, you should go be a voice for so many people who probably are like you and woke up to this mess but feel like they're crazy.

00:21:14.820 because I genuinely felt like I was crazy. I didn't know much about the conservative space.

00:21:19.120 I knew maybe three names. I knew Will Witt, Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, and Dr. Peterson.

00:21:25.540 And those are like the only people that I knew on this side. And still, I was just like, I'm

00:21:30.920 going to go for it. And I'm so happy I took that chance. Wow. Okay. So did you end up reaching

00:21:36.040 out to PragerU? I did. I did reach out to PragerU. Well, it was when they were casting for Prager

00:21:44.100 force back in, I believe end of 2021, they were just bringing on some influencers for their youth

00:21:48.860 program. They still have the youth program. And I was just sending them my videos. And I told them

00:21:52.720 a little bit about my story and how much I love them. And they were like, okay, great. Send us

00:21:57.500 your videos and we'll post some of them. So they started posting some of my videos, which meant

00:22:01.240 the world to me and was such a huge boost to me starting to grow as a brand new influencer,

00:22:06.560 because you have to think the little following I did have, I had to lose all of that essentially

00:22:11.800 and then rebuild, which was definitely a struggle, but it was worth it. And then over time,

00:22:18.740 it's so funny that so many people assume that I was hired at PragerU so seamlessly because of my

00:22:25.700 backstory. But when it comes to actually becoming a personality there, I had to scratch and claw to

00:22:29.960 get there. So in 2022, Will Witt left and to go do his own venture. And I auditioned to be

00:22:37.940 a PragerU personality and so many people again just assume that because of my backstory it was

00:22:42.100 like that for me but no I made it to the semi-finals didn't even make it to the finals

00:22:46.340 so they went with different selections but I told them I'm like any way that I can possibly

00:22:51.320 work with you guys please let me know and I'm serious because I love what you guys do so much

00:22:55.920 and I'm still so determined to work with you guys in a bigger capacity and Sabrina from PR she

00:23:01.660 reached out to me she goes well Dennis Prager is doing a fundraising episode for PragerForce

00:23:06.740 and if you want to come in i'm like sure i'm there so i did dennis's radio show it was supposed to be

00:23:12.760 a five minute segment but i went into it with the mindset of i need to wow him so much that he's

00:23:17.640 going to want to move around his whole show live oh yeah cool and that he did it ended up being

00:23:22.020 like a 30 minute segment where we just hit it off so then he invited me in for stories of us which

00:23:26.500 i was like are you serious oh yeah so i went in there and what i did that a lot of people don't

00:23:30.540 do when they want an opportunity is i went around to and i'm not exaggerating i went to every single

00:23:35.240 office in the Prager U building shook every single person's hand thanked every single person for what

00:23:41.460 they did and told them if there's ever a project doesn't matter how random it is if there's ever

00:23:46.300 a project where my skill set is valuable please let me know and next thing you know boom I'm hosting

00:23:52.540 a Nickelodeon style kids game show called Guess or Mess which is so out of my comfort zone because

00:23:58.020 I can't stand kids.

00:24:01.280 I can finally say it now that I'm retired from the show, but I cannot stand.

00:24:05.940 I love kids, but I can't stand them at the same time.

00:24:08.280 You know what I mean?

00:24:09.180 And for me to do this show, it was just like, oh my goodness.

00:24:12.720 Then it was even more chaotic because when I went there for the first episode of Guess

00:24:15.840 or Mess, I am blind as a bat.

00:24:17.840 So I didn't realize the teleprompter was going to be so small.

00:24:21.100 I get there and I can't see the teleprompter and the show is the next day.

00:24:25.060 So they're freaking out.

00:24:25.740 I was like, don't worry.

00:24:26.520 I got this.

00:24:27.220 next day I come back do the show flawlessly they came up to me they're like did you get context or

00:24:32.420 something I was like nope I'm at I stayed up until 2 a.m the night before memorizing that entire

00:24:38.140 script word for word until I knew it by heart because I can still tell you hey everybody this

00:24:43.100 is yes or mess my name is Xavier that's crazy oh wow good for you so I did that and by impressing

00:24:53.260 them with the amount of effort that I put into that they end up giving me a hybrid role so I

00:24:58.260 still wasn't a full personality I finally got hired in the beginning of 2023 in a hybrid role

00:25:02.820 doing guests for mess doing some promos for their kids department but also marketing took a massive

00:25:07.760 pay cut and everything but I was so determined to be there and within I want to say seven months of

00:25:12.880 just showing my like proving myself and working my behind off they finally gave me the role as a

00:25:18.600 regular you personality. And I love it here. Wow. Well deserved. Thank you. Do you know how rare

00:25:24.260 that is? I've been like from managing my dad's brand and hiring people and trying to grow it.

00:25:29.560 And then making Peterson Academy and growing that I didn't realize how many people don't want to

00:25:36.020 work. Yeah. So true. Which I, I think it's just, and I totally get it. If you want to have a work

00:25:43.480 life balance where a whole bunch of your life encompasses not working and doing other things.

00:25:47.840 I don't know what those other things are, but like, I do understand that, but I didn't

00:25:51.140 realize how rare it is to go into a job and be like, okay, I'll do whatever it takes.

00:25:57.180 Most people don't do that and it really works.

00:26:00.000 Yeah.

00:26:00.660 It's, they take no for an answer or the other thing that people don't do is so many people

00:26:04.840 are afraid to be assertive.

00:26:06.780 They're afraid to be assertive just to go up to someone and be like, I want this opportunity.

00:26:11.580 This is what I can do.

00:26:13.040 Give me an opportunity to prove it to you and I will make it happen.

00:26:15.900 so many people are afraid to do that but like you have to and the first because I got told no

00:26:21.660 so many times there were so many conversations I had with PragerU that were tough conversations

00:26:26.960 very humbling conversations and in retrospect they made a great decision because I wasn't ready

00:26:31.820 in retrospect I was not ready to be a personality back then and I feel like by the time I became a

00:26:36.880 personality I found my own voice I wasn't trying to be the next anybody anymore I knew what it was

00:26:42.560 that I believed in. I stood firm on that. I was more creative. I was more motivated and it made

00:26:47.200 me hungrier to have the position that I have now. And now that I have it, it's like, I just am so

00:26:54.280 unbelievably grateful because they're allowing me to do so many incredible things. Like I just

00:26:59.640 released a short documentary. Oh yeah. I wanted to, I wanted to bring that up too. So yeah. Tell

00:27:05.560 me about that. So at PragerU, we just released a new short documentary called Their Lives Mattered,

00:27:10.300 the forgotten victims of crime in America, and what it's about is we are putting the spotlight

00:27:15.020 on the sadly overlooked true victims, which tends to be children. We have all these woke DAs and

00:27:22.620 these terrible policies and these terrible movements like defund the police that have

00:27:27.240 destroyed so many often predominantly black communities because there is no one enforcing

00:27:32.540 the law there anymore. So what that does is that allows these criminals on the street who are 0.98

00:27:37.160 going around murdering each other. And when they're spraying their bullets, they don't care who they

00:27:41.180 hit. They're hitting children. So what I did is I went to Chicago, went back to actually the same

00:27:47.260 neighborhood I grew up in or spent my summers in, I should say. And I sat down with a mother,

00:27:53.240 for example, named Happy Greg. Her four-year-old son was just getting his haircut. She went to the

00:27:59.320 car to get snacks for him. And when she came back, he was dead on the floor. Oh my gosh.

00:28:05.460 We sat down with a father who, similar situation, but his daughter was just playing in the yard, playing in the front yard at her grandmother's house during 4th of July weekend.

00:28:16.080 And criminals start running down the street.

00:28:19.080 Gang, it was some kind of gang violence.

00:28:21.340 They start shooting.

00:28:22.640 They hit Natalie.

00:28:23.800 Young baby Natalie.

00:28:25.320 And this is happening way more often than anybody realizes or that anybody truly wants to talk about.

00:28:31.580 but it's not getting the spotlight in the media that it deserves because they're so focused on

00:28:36.360 people like George Floyd and people like Breonna Taylor, and they're making household names of

00:28:41.060 people like them. But we should be making household names of Mikel Moultrie Jr. We should be talking

00:28:47.100 about Natalie Wallace. We should be talking about so many of these other young children who are

00:28:51.200 being senselessly murdered, who are truly innocent and died in ways that were completely preventable.

00:28:57.380 so is this is this generally speaking is this gang violence that just goes awry a lot of the

00:29:04.440 time it's gang violence that it's not already awry but yeah it's it's more often than not either

00:29:09.180 gang violence or just people who want to go enjoy the loser life of being a hood rat and start

00:29:16.120 shooting recklessly and going around doing crazy stuff and it's it was actually one of the most

00:29:21.340 heartbreaking things i've ever had to endure sitting and listening to these parents talk about

00:29:26.180 how nobody even tried to sit down with them to hear their story i was the first one and this was

00:29:31.260 years later for some of them and what was even crazier is when i was asking like is there remorse

00:29:36.780 when these people find out what they did is there remorse they have no remorse and the bad the even

00:29:42.600 worst part is there's no justice we talk about justice for so many people these criminals who

00:29:48.140 shot and killed these kids have yet to be prosecuted and for an example like happy greg

00:29:53.720 her son her four-year-old son that was killed they have it on video they have the shooting on video

00:29:58.120 they have eyewitnesses the person who shot and killed her son also went and did an armed robbery

00:30:04.760 and had an attempted murder situation one county over same gun same bullet fragments and shells

00:30:11.720 they could trace all of that and still the woke da's of chicago will not prosecute them

00:30:17.400 why because these progressive DAs which is an oxymoron to begin with they have essentially

00:30:27.860 made these cities like Chicago Los Angeles Baltimore Philadelphia into safe havens for

00:30:33.780 criminals they've gotten rid of the three strikes rule for them or they at least don't prosecute

00:30:39.020 with the three strikes rule which says if you continue to do these crimes we are going to give

00:30:43.900 few harsher punishments. They're not really doing that anymore. There are at least five states that

00:30:48.860 have already completely gotten rid of cash bills. So you're able to just walk out for some of these

00:30:53.180 crimes. They've stopped. No bail? No bail. It's just basically someone comes and picks you up is

00:30:58.540 my understanding. I don't know exactly how it works, but all I know is these criminals are back

00:31:02.660 on the street. And when they go and they shoot and they kill somebody else and they get a slap

00:31:07.340 on the wrist, they do not care. They do not care at all. And we had a couple of detectives from

00:31:12.860 Chicago who came with us to do some of the filming and some of the more rough areas just to keep us

00:31:17.700 safe and I asked them I was like off the record I know online it shows that over 50 percent of

00:31:22.160 people who murder in Chicago get away with it is that accurate and why and they looked at me well

00:31:28.040 first they looked at me they looked at each other they looked at me again and said the real number

00:31:31.620 is probably closer to 90 percent what and is this specific to Chicago or are there other cities that

00:31:37.320 also have this problem um there's a bunch of cities with this problem Chicago is certainly

00:31:41.260 one of the worst because they have arguably the worst DA outside of, I'd say LA now has

00:31:46.120 George Coscon, who is absolutely awful. But when it comes to murder, I'd say Chicago might have

00:31:50.760 the worst. Philadelphia is terrible. Baltimore is terrible. Pretty much blue city with higher 0.98

00:31:55.520 murder rate. You can trace it to a progressive DA. And that's why I say, yes, it's important to

00:32:01.120 pay attention to who's in the white house, but you also need to pay attention to your local

00:32:05.160 government. And what I want people to walk away from watching their lives mattered on PragerU.com

00:32:10.500 with is one, you need to pay attention to what's happening in your community. And two, you need to

00:32:16.080 go out and make your voices heard about who your DA should be. Because when you point up to the top

00:32:21.800 of the food chain, they have nothing to do more often than not with what's happening in your

00:32:25.800 backyard. So we need people to be aware that thousands of children are being murdered. We

00:32:30.580 need people to be aware that your progressive DAs are aware of that and okay with that. And we need

00:32:35.020 people to take action because all these young children who died, their lives mattered.

00:32:40.500 So do you think the reason that these DAs are more inclined to let these people off the hook is because they're concerned about some sort of bad reputation for putting gang members behind bars?

00:32:53.660 Is that where this comes from?

00:32:56.260 What I believe it comes from is ultimately just Marxism.

00:32:59.700 Because, you know, with Marxist ideology, they take all accountability off of the criminal and they blame it on circumstances such as race or income and all these different things.

00:33:08.560 So they say, oh no, this troubled young black individual went and murdered somebody. We can't

00:33:15.120 be too harsh on him. We need to blame the system. And the thing is, is even the system that if you

00:33:22.120 want to blame the system, if you, if we're going to entertain that notion, the system still falls

00:33:27.200 back to progressive and Marxist ideologies because you look at schools like in Chicago,

00:33:31.860 that is a school to prison pipeline. All that school is doing with how terrible they are,

00:33:37.640 the lack of funding, the lack of school choice, the lack of attention that they're getting from

00:33:41.340 the left-wing superintendents and powers that be, all that that's doing is putting these kids on a

00:33:46.820 fast track to failure. This is happening outside of the black community, but just looking at the

00:33:51.060 black community, the percentage of young black boys that are illiterate is unreal. I think last 1.00

00:33:57.420 time I looked, it was over 70%. I want to say it was roughly 80% of young black kids cannot pass 1.00

00:34:05.940 literacy tests they are not up to standard whatsoever so these kids can't read they're

00:34:11.460 told forever that they are oppressed they're told for so long that there is only so much they can do

00:34:17.280 as a young black kid and what you do is you make them have these glass ceilings so when you and

00:34:22.740 really the ceiling to them feels cement because you're constantly telling them this hood is all 0.60

00:34:26.700 you're ever going to know so when that's all they're ever going to know they look side to side

00:34:30.640 and who are the only people who are making money, they're either gang members or strippers. That is

00:34:36.500 why so many of them go to those two routes because if they can't rap and they can't play basketball

00:34:41.240 or football and they're not fast enough to run track, they're either going to stripping or to

00:34:46.380 gang violence. So that ultimately goes back to the mindset being put on the left. I don't think we

00:34:52.320 have a systemic racism issue in America. I think we have a systemic disempowerment issue in America

00:34:56.800 because it makes no sense how many people told me when I was a kid that I was going to have

00:35:01.200 glass ceilings on me because I was black. I was literally the first black valedictorian in the

00:35:05.880 history of my high school, and yet I still graduated my high school thinking that there

00:35:10.520 were limitations on me because of my skin color. That's inexcusable. That is absolutely unacceptable,

00:35:17.160 but that's what Marxist ideology does, and that's what groups like BLM pride themselves in.

00:35:22.580 groups like blm talk all the time about how they are trained marxists the founder patrice colors

00:35:29.320 is our color yeah patrice color she is on record saying how she is a trained

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00:36:24.240 idea how marxism got popular like in those communities do you have any idea of like how

00:36:31.700 that slowly infiltrated in i kind of know about how it got put into universities starting like

00:36:36.900 back in the 80s slowly trickling in but i don't know how it permeated everywhere you know it's

00:36:42.980 interesting you say that because i asked that exact same question recently when i was looking

00:36:47.020 back at their lives mattered i was like how did marxism become so normalized in the black community

00:36:51.860 and there's a book that i haven't read it fully myself yet i ordered it i've only read one chapter

00:36:58.160 of it so far it's called american betrayal and it's talking about how these ideologies have

00:37:02.560 snuck into america but i haven't finished reading it yet but what i believe is ultimately these

00:37:08.060 groups are looking for any way to play the victim yeah marxism is probably the easiest way to put

00:37:13.280 all blame on the systems that came before them or to make an oppressor oppressed dynamic because

00:37:20.580 the thing is that i've noticed is every time there's a movement that doesn't really have

00:37:24.300 much substance or principle to stand on they find some way to drag the black community into it so

00:37:30.140 like when the lgbt movement started getting super super big and that was a movement that like okay 0.66

00:37:35.720 it kind of made sense at first like let people get married if they want to get married that's cool

00:37:38.640 then the tea guy added in it's like okay i'm squinting at that that kind of doesn't make sense

00:37:42.360 then all of a sudden you have a brown flat or brown stripe on the flag it's like how did black 0.51

00:37:47.020 people get there like we didn't ask to be a part of this so they brought in the struggles of black 0.77

00:37:53.100 americans and said that this is now a part of the lgbt issue that makes no sense yes there's black

00:37:59.120 lgbt people but there are people from every other demographic so where where's their stripe on the

00:38:03.700 flag and then look at groups like the free palestine group they have completely infiltrated

00:38:10.540 i'm convinced that most of the blm activists who know that blm is dead and gone at this point

00:38:15.720 converted over to the free palestine movement and just became way more extreme way further

00:38:21.520 uneducated and way deeper in marxist ideology i actually did you see the ucla encampments 0.66

00:38:29.360 yeah so I wild I actually helped destroy those oh my gosh and I haven't talked enough about 0.99

00:38:35.680 did you go there yes so I with my friend Kim Higby we went and got the same red wristbands

00:38:42.620 over at Staples I knew it wouldn't be that hard to find because it all it took to get into the

00:38:46.740 encampment was a bright red wristband so I went about the exact same ones a whole roll and we

00:38:51.260 went in there I was in the skies I had my pink bucket hat on and everything and I was basically

00:38:55.500 there for research purposes and i was going around having conversations with people and these people

00:39:00.040 are so uneducated um and i don't even say that in a harsh way i'm saying like they genuinely are the 0.98

00:39:06.640 definition of ignorant so there was a it's not insulting it's just the definition of ignorant 0.98

00:39:12.380 yeah like that's the only way that's me being nice about it because i'm low-key rude but i'm

00:39:17.100 keeping it nice there was a big display on the zionist side right outside of the free palestine

00:39:23.400 encampment at UCLA and it was playing clips from October 7th and I went over and I stood as uh I

00:39:29.400 stood next to a bunch of these people inside the encampment and they were all asking each other

00:39:34.180 what is that what is this video they're playing and why is it so loud and I looked at them and

00:39:40.280 I'm like oh those are just clips from October 7th they're like what was October 7th oh it was a 1.00

00:39:46.880 that's so painful it's like these kids are just misfits who are looking for community and are

00:39:54.180 looking to be able to say that they did something for good and for change because in their defense

00:40:00.000 if i didn't know the truth and i wasn't educated about what was happening and all i heard was

00:40:05.080 allegations of genocide and all these different things i would be like oh yeah like let's go and

00:40:10.200 fight this cause i saw this on tiktok let's go fight this cause but what they're not doing is

00:40:14.760 they're not actually educating themselves on how this all came to be and how so many things that

00:40:20.360 they're being told is a blatant lie and how I realized truly again how misinformed a lot of

00:40:26.520 these kids are is they have this huge sign inside the encampment where it's you name the issue if

00:40:34.020 you're black because black lives matter you need to stand against white supremacy which means you 0.91

00:40:38.740 need to be against Israel if you're Hispanic they have they're trying to build unlawful borders and 0.97

00:40:44.160 you need to be against the conservative movement and all the Zionists because they support borders 0.96

00:40:48.600 and they're all for... Wait, this is on a sign? This is all on a sign. Oh, wow. It went into 1.00

00:40:53.500 Native American, like literally, you name it. There was another sign that talked about why

00:40:57.240 LGBT people should support the Palestinians. It's like, go there. We've all heard the jokes at this 0.94

00:41:02.620 point, like queers in Palestine is not going to be the same energy as queers for Palestine, for 1.00

00:41:06.440 sure. And it's like, yeah, they'll embrace you with open arms and an open neck, is how I always 0.99

00:41:12.580 say it. But that being said, they have convinced these kids, if you are a part of any of these

00:41:18.200 marginalized groups, you need to be against Israel. And I get it. As someone who is very

00:41:24.920 passionate about real, actual social justice and real, actual helping people who are being

00:41:31.340 wronged by society, I look at these groups and I'm like, you guys are so misled. You are so

00:41:37.620 unbelievably misled. But I understand. It's like you feel like you can't lay your head on a pillow

00:41:42.300 at night and sleep comfortably if you didn't do something to try to fight against this genocide 0.68

00:41:46.980 but no what's really happening is Hamas is overtaking these people and Hamas is

00:41:53.440 miseducating these people and indoctrinating them from a young age and all the rapes and the murders

00:41:59.120 and the kidnapping and the terrible horrible things that happened not only on October 7th but

00:42:04.100 so many times leading up to October 7th that led into this entire war if you're going to do social

00:42:10.540 justice, do it for the people who are being raped and murdered and kidnapped, because that's not

00:42:14.360 happening on the other side. How old are students did you see here? Like, are these like 20 year

00:42:21.080 olds? So what was interesting is I got there pretty early in the day. And when I first got

00:42:26.440 there, it was young. It seemed to be mostly freshmen and sophomores from everyone. I taught

00:42:32.300 everyone I taught to, there was an underclassmen or faculty at first, which I thought was really

00:42:36.140 interesting and then or faculty yeah there was quite a few faculty members there which threw me

00:42:42.800 but a lot of them were there and then a lot of the kids there were underclassmen which again

00:42:47.580 went into this whole belief that I had that a lot of these kids are just trying to find community

00:42:51.700 because by the time you're in your junior and senior year you have your tribe in college

00:42:55.260 and a lot of these kids that were in this encampment they are just looking for some sort

00:42:59.480 of community but then so how cam and I helped destroy the encampment is we just started handing 0.94

00:43:05.420 out all the bracelets I was like oh you want to go into the camp man you look Jewish I'm gonna 0.95

00:43:09.220 give this to you I was like giving it to everybody so that like they no longer had a way to figure 0.90

00:43:15.220 and I did this during lunchtime so when they were or during one of the like the little marching

00:43:19.420 sessions I should say so when they came back for lunch they couldn't tell who actually was supposed

00:43:23.980 to be a part of the encampment and who's not which is why in some of the videos I have from it you see

00:43:27.860 me holding Oreos and Capri Sun because I was tearing up their food because why not I had to

00:43:32.760 eat um but as things got chaotic there then all of a sudden these men that looked probably early

00:43:42.220 30s and were very very middle eastern looking and barely spoke english all started coming

00:43:49.620 and i recognized a couple of their faces and all it did all it took was a quick google search

00:43:54.640 of things that were happening at columbia and i started realizing a lot of these same

00:44:00.680 like more aggressive protesters are the same people that were just at colombia they're making

00:44:07.360 their rounds they are making their rounds around the country going to from encampment surprise me

00:44:12.060 i acted surprised but that doesn't surprise that makes total sense yeah and it's just like blm

00:44:17.480 because blm did the same thing and blm did something that was similar to the free palestine

00:44:21.940 stuff when you go when i went to some of the blm marches because i never participated in looting

00:44:27.000 looting a writing for clarity. But when I got there, they would pretty much give you this QR

00:44:32.400 code and be like, go ahead and sign up for this. So if you get arrested, we have resources for you.

00:44:37.580 We have a whole team. And also if you want training on protesting, yada, yada, here you go.

00:44:42.120 I'm like, Oh, this is a whole organization. And it was the exact same thing when I got to this

00:44:48.660 encampment. The first two things that I noticed were one, they were handing me flyers with a QR

00:44:54.660 code and telling me I needed to do that in order to stay in. So I pretended to do it because I

00:44:58.680 didn't want them to have even my IP. And two, I noticed the gender neutral bathrooms, or not the 0.99

00:45:03.920 bathrooms, the gender neutral poop buckets, I should say. And I'll never let them live that 1.00

00:45:08.300 down. That's why I always call them musty anti-Semites because that is just so nasty 0.99

00:45:12.320 to be sharing a gender neutral poop bucket. Like that is the lowest of lows. 0.99

00:45:17.720 yeah yeah but all that to say it is a very organized situation that's happening there

00:45:25.120 and i wonder who's funding it yeah but i know as far as what's happening online i can't say 100

00:45:31.840 who's funding what's happening at the universities but i do know it's a very organized operation

00:45:36.840 that's happening there but what i can say is i know for a fact that qatar is funding a lot of

00:45:42.180 the big influencers who are now ridiculously anti-semitic and just it's like they wake up

00:45:48.840 and they find a new reason to hate jews or they wake up and find a new issue to blame on jews

00:45:54.040 and i saw some receipts and trying to trying to choose the words wisely because i was shown this

00:46:04.120 stuff in confidence so i unfortunately the source has to be trust me bro but i've seen the receipts

00:46:10.340 And I know for a fact, guitar is paying a lot of these people a healthy amount of money.

00:46:14.900 One person I did already call out was a Dan Bilzerian.

00:46:17.880 Oh, is he being paid?

00:46:19.500 Oh, he was in financial ruin.

00:46:21.400 Allegedly.

00:46:22.380 Allegedly. 0.99

00:46:23.140 Dick. 0.99

00:46:23.880 Yeah. 0.97

00:46:24.840 Yeah.

00:46:25.320 That explains.

00:46:26.000 I've been wondering, cause I've been on X and I've been like, how is this like in grade four?

00:46:32.260 Like when, when we were kids, I feel like generally people knew what the Holocaust was and like that. 0.58

00:46:40.060 it was clearly evil and it was like how could people do that like we don't everyone kind of 0.81

00:46:46.240 learned about that right and I was like how are there people online now that are coming out and

00:46:50.880 being like well maybe history isn't exactly what we were told it's like how are you people know who

00:46:57.280 you are aren't you worried that you're saying those things and people know who you like right

00:47:00.880 like that's insane I've seen some insanity but this anti-semitic stuff that's going on is like

00:47:06.980 haven't, haven't you read anything? Right. Don't you know that this is like a repeat of history

00:47:12.420 repeatedly? This is what happens. You're going to be part of the bad guys. You know, those are

00:47:16.120 always the bad guys. Basically. Right. I just, I don't get it. Being paid makes sense. Right.

00:47:21.500 Oh my gosh. My goal is just to be on the right side of history. My goal is that when history

00:47:26.060 books are reflecting all of this, if my name is ever mentioned, it shows that I did what I could

00:47:30.620 to fight some of this propaganda because bad things happen when not enough good people are

00:47:34.620 willing to stand up and say something about it and we fortunately have the privilege of having

00:47:39.060 a platform but even if you don't have a platform person-to-person conversation direct marketing if

00:47:44.380 you even want to call it that it's the most impactful thing that you can do is having

00:47:47.640 conversations with people so that they are not being ignorant education is how we fix so many

00:47:53.660 of the issues that we have in our culture and that's really the whole motto that our CEO at

00:47:58.460 PragerU Marissa Streit always says education is how we got into this mess so education needs to

00:48:03.080 be how we got out of this mess. So to see so many people trying to rewrite history and something

00:48:08.100 like the Holocaust, like I understand there's a lot of things that we should be questioning in

00:48:11.720 history. I can understand conspiracies because there's a lot of conspiracies that I love a good 0.78

00:48:16.720 conspiracy theory because a lot of the times they get proven right. But what we're not going to do

00:48:21.120 is sit here and pretend like the persecution of Jews hasn't been happening for an unbelievably

00:48:26.720 long time and like you can't go to israel to this very day go to the holocaust museum go to

00:48:34.000 go all around europe see the concentration camps there are descendants of people who escaped there

00:48:40.700 are still holocaust survivors alive today and there are people who full-blown negate the fact

00:48:45.660 that the holocaust happened that to me is a you have to wake up and make a conscious decision to 0.90

00:48:50.360 go out of your way to be that ignorant yeah that is crazy yeah it's crazy i just knew like i knew 0.55

00:48:55.940 I was friends with a bunch of Jewish kids, especially when I was little and they all 0.97

00:48:59.720 had somebody who was impacted by it. So it wasn't that long ago. Right. Right. Something that's

00:49:04.920 scary about that is when I was in high school, we had the sweetest, sweetest girl name. I believe

00:49:10.360 her name was Merle or Merle. She was from Germany. And I remember just out of coincidence, it really, 0.98

00:49:18.140 cause I asked, I actually asked the principal about it. I was like, did you intentionally

00:49:21.520 have a Holocaust survivor come speak here the second semester of the year right when we get this

00:49:26.980 German foreign exchange student because I just thought that was weird and he was like no it was

00:49:30.960 totally coincidence this has been booked for over a year I'm like okay just was curious because I

00:49:35.540 felt so bad for her because during her during the speech of this Holocaust survivor everybody was

00:49:42.200 staring at Meryl and I was staring at her and I thought that the reason that she was so red in

00:49:47.240 her face was because everyone was staring at her and she thought that people were going to attack

00:49:50.700 her for being German I went and I said hi to her to see if she was okay after to see like what did

00:49:56.120 you think and she told me she goes I can't believe that this is real I'm like what do you mean she

00:50:02.880 goes she gave me the analogy she named some random president that no shade but a lot of the average

00:50:09.880 person who isn't a historian isn't going to know much about she named like a president or some

00:50:15.100 figure in history she goes yeah she what do you know about them I'm like that they were president

00:50:19.280 that's pretty much it and she goes that was pretty much hitler in the history books when i grew up

00:50:24.480 in germany yeah she and she was a she came from a wealthy family and her she so she went to a very

00:50:31.240 nice school so nice that she was able to afford being a foreign exchange student oh and she told

00:50:36.380 me that she maybe read one or two paragraphs her entire education about hitler and all the whole

00:50:46.960 story of everything with the Holocaust and all of that history, she was completely unfamiliar.

00:50:53.820 She was mortified. And that shook me to my core. Because it goes to show there are people who

00:51:01.920 aren't learning this side of history. And you know, history repeats itself unless you go out

00:51:07.420 of your way to stop it from repeating itself. And by not educating people on the Holocaust,

00:51:12.360 all you're doing is begging for it to happen again that was terrifying that's wild so that's

00:51:21.660 that must be the arguments that these anti-semitic people are doing like i i watched i watched a

00:51:29.100 podcast that had a historian that was doing kind of a revisionist version of of churchill and hitler

00:51:36.740 and i read i read the transcript because i can't handle watching podcasts

00:51:40.720 so i read the transcript and it was like i could see how if you were being really ignorant or if 0.99

00:51:48.180 you were resentful and stupid that you could be like yeah maybe that's a scam too like once you're 0.99

00:51:55.420 into conspiracies you can go down like rabbit holes but like there has to be something twisted 1.00

00:52:00.940 to be with you to be like yeah the holocaust that's what they're lying about let's blame the 0.93

00:52:06.820 jews okay so something's wrong yeah like they're that's just a different level of ignorance 1.00

00:52:13.020 it's a frightening level of ignorance a dangerous level of ignorance but that's where we are right 1.00

00:52:18.940 now interesting i didn't realize that i mean it totally makes sense but i didn't realize that

00:52:25.040 this pro-palestine group was kind of an amalgamation of all these other groups

00:52:29.260 that have been kind of fading away since 2020 or becoming less relevant or people figured out

00:52:35.020 they were fraudulent or something like that that makes sense they need a different place to go

00:52:38.720 yeah and my point that before i went on that whole tangent what they do when they don't have enough 0.97

00:52:44.380 substance to stand on they bring in the black community every time there's a movement that

00:52:49.540 does not have stuff substance they try to say oh this is an issue for black people because the fact 0.55

00:52:56.060 that they've made everything happening in israel about people of color versus white people is again 0.98

00:53:03.820 extremely ignorant seven over 70 of jewish people or over 70 of people in israel aren't even white 0.91

00:53:10.700 so that doesn't make sense just fundamentally and a lot of the people in israel are also arab 0.97

00:53:16.800 a lot of the people in positions of power over in israel are arab so for you to try to make this a

00:53:23.300 black versus white issue where? Cause when I went to Israel, so I've been to Israel three times in

00:53:29.900 the last year. Wow. The first time I went was just vacation. So it was out of curiosity. So I became

00:53:36.780 fascinated. This seems like a chill place to go to relax. Right. Well, this was before the conflict

00:53:42.080 and I really didn't know much about Israel. I'll be totally transparent. I didn't even know what

00:53:49.120 Palestine was when I first went to Israel I was not very educated on the issue at all and like I

00:53:55.680 knew about a bit of my general understanding of Israel before I went in June of last year

00:54:01.140 was that Israel is always having to defend themselves from persecution of and like with

00:54:06.840 the Jews and that's like the one place that they've had a safe home that was all I really knew

00:54:11.060 so when I was with Marissa Streit our CEO at PragerU and she told me how she goes on a family

00:54:17.400 vacation there every year she's like you should come with us next time we have plenty of room

00:54:20.800 I was like seriously I was like be careful inviting me somewhere because one thing about me I'll book

00:54:24.620 a flight I was like I will be on the first flight out and I sure was and I was really fascinated

00:54:30.440 with Jewish culture though because what I feel like lacked from my childhood was tradition I

00:54:36.000 feel like there was not much tradition when I grew up so when I saw how every single weekend

00:54:41.360 Jewish people are having these Shabbat dinners which is like a mini Thanksgiving that was the

00:54:45.960 coolest thing in the world to me and I learned how they're reading the Torah and no matter where

00:54:49.760 they are in the world they're all reading the same section of the Torah at the same time

00:54:53.080 that to me especially for a community that's been dispersed all over the world that was so cool to

00:54:58.680 me so I was like yeah I want to go there I want to see things with my own eyes I want to see if I

00:55:03.380 see any oppression people started telling me when I said I was going to go be careful they don't

00:55:07.520 like black people there all these different narratives so I went there and I was blown away

00:55:12.900 but the first thing I noticed was I barely saw white people at first like everywhere I was going

00:55:18.480 it was very very diverse I don't think I've ever heard more languages being spoken in

00:55:23.180 one place at one time and I live in LA and I'm saying that like it was so

00:55:27.800 just beautifully and organically and wildly diverse and I'm like that's interesting and

00:55:36.520 everywhere I went I was treated with nothing but respect like I the only thing that you could say

00:55:42.680 was negative in the way I was treated was the same way everybody's treated when you're in the

00:55:46.900 shook which is like their market oh they're throwing they're throwing their shoulder and

00:55:50.200 they're getting their way through that's the only thing but once you start doing it back they kind 0.90

00:55:53.440 of look at you like okay you're one of us now so like truly I had the time of my life when I was

00:55:58.500 out there and I tweeted how I was out there I'm sitting there again minding my business as per

00:56:03.480 usual enjoying myself and I started getting attacked on Twitter of people just being mad

00:56:08.580 at me for being there. And that's when I realized that antisemitism was still a thing. I didn't even

00:56:13.160 realize antisemitism was still a thing. I thought that that was something that was so late and tired

00:56:17.720 and played out. So to get all this backlash just from being here, I'm like, y'all know that doing

00:56:22.440 all this is just going to make me double down, right? So then I do this series called Walk With

00:56:26.400 Me where I go on these unhinged rants with my Air One smoothie. And one of my first Walk With Me's

00:56:31.380 was, it was about just antisemitism and how corny it is and how to me it sounds like bitterness and

00:56:37.580 jealousy it does sound like bitterness and jealousy yeah it is bitterness and jealousy 0.98

00:56:41.340 it is yeah yeah because people are like oh all these jewish people they're over representing 0.96

00:56:46.320 in these industries i'm like y'all just sound broke and miserable because y'all don't have 0.99

00:56:49.820 the work ethic y'all don't stick together as a community all i can give a million reasons why

00:56:54.420 it sounds you guys sound broke bitter and jealous yeah and you're blaming all your issues on the

00:56:59.620 jews and the jews are can blame their success on their hard work yeah sorry you can't relate

00:57:05.260 so that was like basically one of my first videos fighting anti-semitism and then when october 7th 0.99

00:57:11.420 happened what shocked me more than anything so this was before october 7th yes oh so you saw

00:57:18.920 anti-semitism before october 7th yes okay i wasn't last year oh okay i don't think i was aware that

00:57:25.240 there was this anti i think i'd potentially heard people talking about it but i didn't see anything

00:57:31.220 until pretty recently and then suddenly it was like everywhere yeah yeah it's just like what i

00:57:38.000 learned is pretty much throughout history it goes through these waves and these spikes and it starts

00:57:42.560 with media propaganda if you go to the holocaust museum something that will blow your mind is when

00:57:47.400 you look at what led to the holocaust it's the exact same rhetoric and the exact same formula

00:57:53.580 as what's happening today because it starts with back then it was like the political cartoons which 0.86

00:57:59.540 are basically like our memes and social media influencers now it was the articles it was like

00:58:04.020 the whatever version of commercials they had back then all those little things started to happen

00:58:08.620 where they were turning people against the jews blaming everything on the jews and making all this

00:58:14.300 making all these public people condemn jewish people so there was already a resentment there

00:58:19.780 so then when they started putting people into encampments there would be kids just riding their

00:58:25.140 bike across the street and not thinking anything of it because anti-semitism was so normalized

00:58:29.940 and supported so when we see what's happening today it's almost like they're trying to push

00:58:34.880 for another holocaust which october 7th was the biggest massacre of jews since the holocaust

00:58:40.020 and it's like i can't be surprised just based on the backlash that i got last year in june before

00:58:46.160 october 7th so then when october 7th happened though i thought everybody was going to be on

00:58:50.680 the same page because when i started seeing the videos of the woman being dragged into that truck

00:58:55.600 and like a deceased woman being spat on i saw all these videos i'm like okay everybody's going to

00:58:59.920 agree that this is terrible i'm not kidding within 12 hours the entire narrative flipped

00:59:06.440 the entire media narrative flipped to blaming it on israel and blaming it on the jews or denying it

00:59:13.360 altogether did did you see what happened on tiktok were you on tiktok after october 7th yeah okay i

00:59:19.280 i don't know what you saw on your tiktok but my tiktok's like you know it leans i don't know

00:59:25.380 there's a lot of just random tiktok things on there and then occasionally there's a conservative

00:59:29.440 video so it would lean more conservative than to the liberal videos after october 7th the only

00:59:34.340 thing i saw and it was flooding my feed were videos of dead babies like pro hamas videos

00:59:41.580 and i was like i this isn't even the type of contact the content i interact with right i was

00:59:47.660 like but it was just it was all over my feed so i eventually got rid of it by saying you know not

00:59:51.920 interested multiple times but it was like pushed in there i'm convinced it was pushed in there

00:59:56.640 and i have friends in canada not anti-semitic people just like regular people probably a little

01:00:02.160 bit more liberal um that were like this is really bad have you seen what i've seen on tiktok and i

01:00:08.180 was like i think if something suddenly just floods your feed and you see it everywhere and that's all

01:00:14.580 you see and it's only one perspective that's propaganda yeah like you can't trust that like

01:00:19.820 read a little bit you know look at what's actually happening look into the history but

01:00:24.120 the videos on tiktok were so provocative that i think for people who aren't thinking it was just

01:00:30.420 like well that's bad and that was it yeah so i saw people who were like normal people being like 0.74

01:00:35.660 what israel's doing is wrong yeah you know i was like you're not seeing the whole picture here 0.82

01:00:40.580 you're being shown something i don't know who's behind that china who knows i don't even know why 0.61

01:00:45.700 they would be behind that i have no idea what's going on there but i have my theories okay i have

01:00:51.000 my let's go because my how i look at it is because people try to be like this is not an america first

01:00:56.080 issue but 100 it is because first of all israel is our most needed inconsequential ally for so

01:01:03.400 many reasons geopolitically etc but you have to think that there are so many groups who want to 0.58

01:01:10.000 see america and all of western society fall from being the world power you have russia who's mad 0.82

01:01:16.620 at us about ukraine you have china that's been salivating at the thought of taking over taiwan 0.94

01:01:22.520 for so long and you have china who we've essentially been in a silent war with for

01:01:28.980 years now when it comes to propaganda fentanyl because a lot of people don't realize how involved 0.81

01:01:35.260 china isn't with the whole fentanyl crisis oh i know nothing about that oh oh let me put you

01:01:40.800 well first i'll finish this point then i gotta spin the block on china okay so you got them 0.61

01:01:45.240 celebrating over taiwan and then you have basically the collective middle east led by iran

01:01:52.000 who wants their lick back against america plus qatar who hates america and they all hate israel

01:01:57.480 because that's the one beacon of democracy and the one place that america really can base our 0.68

01:02:02.780 support in in the middle east the enemy of your enemy is your friend a very basic philosophy

01:02:09.080 so even though russia china and the collective middle east don't have much in common what they

01:02:15.100 do have in common is they don't want america to be the world power anymore so china also is still 0.53

01:02:21.500 very vengeful again and this leads into the whole fentanyl thing so china is so vengeful to western 0.90

01:02:29.460 society because of what made China fall as the world power. And one of the biggest things that 0.98

01:02:35.220 made China fall as a world power is I believe it came from Great Britain, but there were basically 0.90

01:02:41.380 there was an opioid crisis in China that completely demoralized our society, made so many of their

01:02:46.960 military age men either die or become sick or lazy or just lose complete focus. So the opioid

01:02:54.120 crisis in China. I forgot what decade that was, but it went on for a while and it really,

01:03:00.200 really harmed China. And ever since then, they have been wanting to become the world power again 0.87

01:03:04.920 for obvious reasons. So one of the things that they have been doing is being in a silent war

01:03:10.560 with America through the fentanyl crisis. What a lot of people don't know is the materials that

01:03:16.080 are used to make fentanyl are largely created in China. Fentanyl itself is created in China.

01:03:22.600 The counterfeit Tylenols, like what killed Prince.

01:03:25.460 A lot of people don't know the singer Prince was killed by a Tylenol that was laced with fentanyl.

01:03:32.200 Those are made in China.

01:03:33.720 Adderall that's laced with fentanyl is made in China.

01:03:36.540 Are they lacing Adderall with fentanyl? 0.85

01:03:38.120 Yes.

01:03:38.600 Everybody thinks it's just cocaine.

01:03:39.940 It's not just cocaine.

01:03:40.940 Oh my gosh.

01:03:41.540 It's like over-the-counter drugs.

01:03:43.520 It's prescription drugs.

01:03:44.740 It's all these different things that are particularly harming college kids because so many college kids make their way through college with Tylenol for their hangover, Adderall to focus in class.

01:03:55.140 They're being laced with fentanyl.

01:03:57.260 So many people that are dying of fentanyl were not trying to do any crazy drug.

01:04:01.520 They were just kids a lot of the time.

01:04:04.560 And China is also directly involved with bringing that fentanyl to the Mexican cartel.

01:04:12.120 and then they give the mexican cartel the resources the routes and even the devices

01:04:17.880 of communication that are needed to navigate through the u.s without being caught and exposed

01:04:23.060 and then you there's also like if you look even deeper into it you know china obviously has close

01:04:29.600 relations with a lot of people again on the left a lot of these politicians and i'm not going to

01:04:34.240 say that's only the left but a lot of these more socialist globalist style politicians are in 0.71

01:04:40.880 cahoots with china they're turning a blind eye to the fact that china is supplying the mexican 0.64

01:04:46.640 cartel to bring in all of these drugs that are laced with fentanyl people don't realize we lose 0.73

01:04:53.180 more military age men every single year to fentanyl than we lost in the vietnam the iraq

01:05:02.840 and there's like a whole list and a few other wars all combined every single year we lose more

01:05:09.120 fentanyl and it's not the number one issue that we're discussing that's very alarming to me and

01:05:15.480 if you look at china's whole current approach to military and they're i don't have their names

01:05:22.500 memorized but if you look at a lot of like the generals who are viewed as like they're quintessential

01:05:27.260 generals they're generals that they get all their philosophy from all their approaching or approaches

01:05:32.160 from when it comes to war, their new thing translates to war by deception. So it's basically

01:05:40.480 killing us with a borrowed knife. They're killing us through fentanyl. They're killing us through 0.79

01:05:45.140 the propaganda that they're pushing through on TikTok. By now, I would hope most people know

01:05:49.280 that the TikTok we have here in America is a completely separate app from what the TikTok is 0.84

01:05:55.420 over in China because they are intentionally demoralizing us. Yeah, I know. It's funny that

01:06:01.700 people talk about that but they're like yeah it's a different app here don't worry they own it yeah

01:06:06.580 and they won't show their own people it they show it to us but it's fine it's fun yeah wild it's like

01:06:13.720 that alone just goes over people's heads and uh it's you combine the propaganda they're spreading

01:06:22.080 with the fentanyl crisis with the flu's niece and you think about all the things that we have 0.78

01:06:29.160 been through in the last five years you can trace so much of it to china but their goal is to win a

01:06:36.040 and this is like written in some of like their headquarters and stuff for military like you can

01:06:40.640 look this all up i'm reading about this in a book called blood money um they have it written that

01:06:46.260 they want to win wars without firing a single bullet and right now that's what they're doing

01:06:50.680 they're wiping out our military aged men wow that totally makes sense i also think people who don't

01:06:59.100 travel i've never been to i've never been to china i haven't been to asia actually but i know

01:07:05.160 from going to eastern europe and like different areas just around the world different cultures

01:07:09.980 are different yeah like going from canada to the u.s you're like okay we're pretty similar like

01:07:15.480 everyone's kind of like this and then you travel across the world and you're like oh you don't

01:07:18.780 think like i think at all like i don't even know if the chinese government thinks in generations

01:07:24.600 they might think in like periods of 200 years it's like how long is this plan like you've been

01:07:29.940 thinking about this since like when was the opium issue was that in the 20s something like that i

01:07:35.480 believe so it was it was something like that like that was 100 years ago we're like still annoyed

01:07:39.900 about that we'll wait till tiktok exists and get them that way they play the long game because

01:07:45.480 they're not a new country a lot of people forget that america is still a relatively new nation

01:07:49.340 so when we think of something long term we're thinking 10 years out yeah we're thinking 20 0.73

01:07:54.260 years out oh no china is they're waiting if it's 2200 the year 2200 they'll be happy they'll just 0.60

01:08:02.300 be happy to be back on top and having another massive empire it's it's crazy that is crazy 0.89

01:08:09.220 and we're living in the midst of it oh my gosh okay well well what's your plan for your future

01:08:15.280 Or are you just going to try to spread awareness about how insane everything is?

01:08:18.920 Well, my immediate plan is just to make sure the beehive doesn't take my life.

01:08:24.760 But, I mean, I'm so proud to be working at PragerU because what we're doing is trying to educate people.

01:08:30.380 We're trying to fight propaganda.

01:08:31.720 We're trying to just bring a combination of common sense and historical knowledge back to our society because that's something that we've lost.

01:08:38.420 And until we have that foundation of knowledge, we can't fight for American values.

01:08:46.000 So that's what we're trying to bring back is just sanity, sanity, American values and

01:08:52.880 prosperity.

01:08:53.940 And what I'm going to do for now is just keep trying to spread truth the best I can with

01:09:00.220 what I've got.

01:09:01.180 Well, good for you.

01:09:02.560 Very impressive.

01:09:03.700 Thank you very much for joining me.

01:09:05.120 That was, that was very interesting.

01:09:08.420 I was way more historical than I thought it was going to be.

01:09:11.360 Same, actually.

The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast - November 01, 2024

China, Fentanyl, Pro-Palestine Protestors, BLM, and Marxism ｜ Xaviaer DuRousseau EP 211

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