Kenny Hsu is the author of An Inconvenient minority: The Attack on Asian-American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy. He is also the founder of Critical Race Theory, a critical race theory movement that focuses on anti-whiteness and anti-Americanism.
00:00:20.000YouTube wasn't letting us create the stream for some reason, and so we had to keep trying to recreate it, so you gotta put a title, and you gotta put the description, and do all this work, and then we're like, okay, go, and then YouTube goes, deleted, no, and then we're like, uh, okay, refresh, try again, and then the same thing happens, and I'm just like, oh, jeez, dude.
00:00:38.000Well, it's a crazy, crazy time out there, man.
00:00:41.000We're hearing some restaurants in LA are being forced to shut down because some of their fully vaccinated staff members have contracted breakthrough cases of COVID.
00:01:11.000They're saying over 300 plus either people or groups.
00:01:14.000I'm not sure if they're saying groups.
00:01:15.000The local journalist said the group was seen coming through over 300 plus seen earlier today.
00:01:19.000So maybe he means people, but I mean, they're just...
00:01:22.000Welcoming people in at a time when there's a 900% surge in COVID cases among the illegal immigrants that are coming through the border.
00:01:29.000So if they're saying that lockdowns are looming because of the rise in these cases, and then they're letting in tons of people who have COVID, either they're really, really dumb or intentionally bringing about, yeah.
00:01:45.000And we're also going to talk a bit about critical race theory, because there was some error.
00:01:48.000I guess apparently the Biden administration was pushing some anti-whiteness and then got questioned on it.
00:01:53.000And they were like, yeah, no, we should not have done that.
00:01:58.000And so now they're walking things back.
00:01:59.000And we're going to be talking about this with Kenny Hsu, who is the author of An Inconvenient Minority and Presumably a Self-Described Inconvenient Minority.
00:02:15.000Yeah Yeah, so I am the author of the new book an inconvenient minority the attack on Asian American excellence and the fight for meritocracy I talked about this value about of meritocracy that our culture is increasingly losing because it increasingly wants to Treat people on the basis of their race and not on the basis of the content of their character.
00:02:40.000So what do we lose when we penalize Asian American success or just American success?
00:02:46.000Because it's not just about Asian Americans.
00:02:49.000It's about anybody who works hard, studies hard, tries to be successful.
00:02:54.000And what do we do when we penalize the excellent?
00:02:56.000Well, I talk about that in my book, An Inconvenient Minority.
00:02:59.000I think we'll just end up like a bunch of... American society and the global society will just be a bunch of really, really dumb people.
00:03:15.000It's like sorting chickens, you know what I mean?
00:03:18.000Like, oh, these ones gotta go over there, and these ones gotta go over there, and it's just like... How does that help humanity in any way?
00:03:47.000This is very interesting because a lot of excellence, when you put people into a meritocracy, falls along, I think, the Pareto distribution.
00:03:54.000And Jordan Peterson was talking about this, that you have very, very few people at the very top.
00:03:59.000And you can see this throughout almost all of human culture.
00:04:02.000And the only place where it seems to fail is money, because money gets passed down.
00:04:07.000So you get these people that are born into extreme amounts of wealth.
00:04:13.000Merit meritocracy imbalance when it comes to wealth.
00:04:16.000Yeah, I mean that's totally true I mean and you know, it's funny because our elite right now People are fighting over these scarce elite prestigious positions at places like Harvard University and and now you know people are a lot of these ambitious people and feel like they have to be a part of some victim category in order for them to have a shot at a place like Harvard or a shot at a place like a prestigious arts fellowship or you know a Guggenheim or something like that.
00:04:50.000And it's funny because you see this and now you have one out of six people in Gen Z, one out of six Generation Zers Think that they are LGBTQ plus, um, which is an interesting thing if you think about it, because, you know, we know that biologically speaking, um, that is much higher than the ratio of people biologically who would be LGBTQ plus.
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00:08:58.000Let's jump into this first story and just talk about what's been going on with these lockdowns.
00:09:12.000restaurants that have prevailed through the pandemic lockdowns are now closing their doors as cases rise, mainly due to the Indian Delta COVID variant.
00:09:21.000It comes as they all see an increase in cases, and California has seen infections rise to 5,063 per day, or a 160% increase from 1,900... Wait, what is this?
00:10:04.000On Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot suggested she may make masks mandatory, like LA, as cases increase 164% in a month, from 34 per day to 90 per day.
00:10:19.000And they go on to say they're blaming this on Delta, but let me highlight something else.
00:10:23.000Mitch McConnell warns there could be lockdowns if Americans don't get vaccinated as the Delta variant continues to wreak havoc.
00:10:31.000I'm just going to come out and say, man, it is going to be incredibly difficult to convince people that they should get the vaccine if we're hearing at the same time they're planning lockdowns regardless of the vaccine.
00:10:42.000So whenever we talk about this stuff, you know what we say?
00:11:30.000If I invited a plumber to my house, and I was like, my toilet's clogged, and he was like, I recommend smashing it with a sledgehammer, I'd be like, bro, are you a plumber or not?
00:11:38.000I'm going to find a plumber who's going to be like, I will fix your toilet.
00:11:58.000It's actually against the rules on YouTube to tell people not to go to a doctor.
00:12:04.000This is the point we're at right now, where regardless of the news, regardless of what's going on with lockdowns, you have, I guess, vaccine zealotry.
00:12:12.000Of like, just let the strange man come to your door, knock on your door, and give you a vaccine.
00:12:16.000It's like, well yeah, but you know, if they do, call your doctor and say, what do you think?
00:12:25.000You know, it's, it's, it's crazy because you have these, the government imposed lockdowns, right?
00:12:32.000And they, and they said, um, we are doing this for your, your benefit, your safety, but then they're taking away all of control.
00:12:39.000You know, they're taking away your freedom to be able to, um, you know, go where you want and do these kinds of things based on this virus.
00:12:46.000And they're basically taking away your own ability to, to, to accurately judge for yourself.
00:12:52.000You know, what the best thing is that works for you.
00:12:55.000It's almost like, you know, I don't even know what to say.
00:12:58.000I was genuinely surprised because people responded to me and they were like, you're so dumb.
00:13:26.000But it's, like, a very, very, very low amount of reported deaths from—in VAERS.
00:13:32.000And, okay, so here's what I'm thinking.
00:13:33.000I'm like, okay, what if we could reduce those numbers by making sure that people talk to a doctor before they just went out to one of these, you know, centers or before they decided to get vaccinated?
00:13:43.000Because let's say there's somebody who would normally have a counterindication or an allergy, and you've got all the celebrities in the world, you've got people like Casey Neistat, and they're telling people to just go do it.
00:13:52.000And Casey's response to me was that he went to a parking lot, waited 45 minutes, stuck his arm out the window, and then they said, carry on, good sir.
00:13:58.000And I'm like, would you talk to a doctor first?
00:14:02.000Even at these places, they want you to fill out the form to make sure you don't have any allergies or anything like that.
00:14:06.000If we could get people to simply be like, hey, here's my history.
00:14:09.000And then the doc said in that rare, rare instance, oh, hey, wait, what's that?
00:14:14.000You've got a, you've got a glycol allergy or something like that.
00:14:16.000Well, I'm going to go and say, don't do it.
00:14:18.000Maybe we could reduce VAERS and reduce actual harm and vaccine hesitancy.
00:14:23.000And then maybe then we could actually solve this problem.
00:15:13.000And I'm like, oh, that's a good point.
00:15:14.000How am I supposed to be, like, this voice of reason when I'm like, we really gotta, you know, everyone's gotta pitch in, go to your doctor, make sure you find out what's right for you and if you can't get that vaccine.
00:15:25.000And then they're like, but Tim, they're just opening the security gates and walking people through that are sick.
00:16:55.000They want the hard numbers for the large group and the percentages of people who get shuffled under or left behind they just don't care about.
00:17:02.000Well, that's a reasonable way, the way that you put it.
00:17:06.000But the funny thing about what you just said, and then also what you said earlier about the panic about all of these lockdowns is that, and the fact that they're now closing these restaurant stores in California, you know, because somebody got the Delta variant of COVID, is that we already knew Based on the vaccine people's own data that you could still get COVID from the vaccine and then you know the COVID may be less effective but you could still die.
00:17:32.000The vaccine may be less effective so you know what you know you so somebody you know got hurt From COVID, from the Delta variant.
00:17:40.000But that's still within the realm of possible outcomes.
00:17:43.000It's still an entirely reasonable outcome as to what happened.
00:17:46.000And you shouldn't make a completely panicked move because of that.
00:17:52.000What they're saying now is that... Well, for one, they're saying almost all of the cases and deaths are among people who are not vaccinated.
00:17:59.000And we're still seeing a lot of stories about people who are getting it and are vaccinated.
00:18:03.000But, you know, I always try to tell people Be careful about what the media highlights, you know what I mean?
00:18:09.000Because there's so much media and there's so many people, of course if you give out 360 million doses or something like that, 336, you're going to get a large amount of adverse reactions.
00:18:20.000Relatively large, you know, depending on what your perspective is.
00:18:22.000And then news outlets are going to start snatching that up and writing about every single possible one.
00:18:26.000So that's why I'm like, just talk to your doctor, because they might be like, look at this chart.
00:18:31.000It's kind of on the media not to panic society because these shutdowns were really only because we didn't want to overload the hospitals in the beginning.
00:18:41.000And it was only going to be 15 days just to make sure we could handle this mass, what we thought would be a mass influx of patients, which turned out I think, as far as I know, we never really had that mass, you know, hospital overrun that we thought we would.
00:18:55.000There are videos of, like, people who go around.
00:18:57.000They were going around during the height of the pandemic and finding empty hospitals.
00:19:01.000But I think people misunderstood that it was, like, key areas were absolutely overloaded.
00:19:05.000Now, as for, you know, New York, we know that there were some patient issues at hospitals in New York.
00:19:12.000And so Cuomo decided he would just murder people instead of actually utilizing the Mercy or the Javits Center.
00:19:17.000So he was warned, if you put sick people in nursing homes, you'll kill all these old people, and he was like, whatever.
00:19:23.000Because if you were to put them in the Mercy or the Javits Center, which were, I think the Mercy had like one bed used, and the Javits was at 30%.
00:19:30.000So we did set up this great, amazing center, like, we're really worried about this, and he was like, meh.
00:19:34.000Did you ever find out why he didn't use the hospitals?
00:19:37.000I mean, in my opinion, it's because it would have made Trump look really good.
00:19:42.000They're saying right now, because people didn't get vaccinated, and I'm not entirely sure if this makes sense, but this is what they're saying.
00:19:50.000Because people didn't get vaccinated, then transmissibility was still running rampant among people who were not vaccinated, which resulted in mutations.
00:19:59.000which resulted in a more resistant vaccine resistant strain which somewhat reduces the efficacy of these vaccines and now you're getting fully vaccinated people who are getting sick with delta because i think they said it was like 88 but the thing i i doesn't quite make sense um i'm not i'm not quite sure that actually makes sense because youtube actually has a rule That you cannot say the vaccine prevents COVID.
00:20:23.000That's actually in YouTube's rulebook.
00:20:25.000So I'm like, well, if the vaccine was never 100%, then people could still get COVID.
00:20:31.000It could still mutate and still become vaccine resistant.
00:20:59.000That's why I'm like, don't, don't come to me for advice, but I can't say one thing when you're ushering people through the border, the Biden administration and not doing anything about it.
00:21:11.000And you mentioned earlier about them being utilitarian.
00:21:14.000But I'm not sure that you can look at the way that those Texas Democrats left the state with zero masks and who are now going back and spreading COVID among their own people.
00:21:23.000And I don't think that you can look at the border and say that they actually truly care about the good of the whole when they're actively promoting policies that make it possible for, what, 900 percent increases in COVID cases at the border?
00:23:08.000Now we have restaurants shutting down.
00:23:10.000Joe Biden, the President of the United States, is espousing medical misinformation, my friends.
00:23:16.000So, for TimCast.com, we say, I guess we put we, we say we now because it's not they.
00:23:22.000During a town hall on Wednesday night, President Biden claimed that people who have received vaccines will not get COVID-19 after fully vaccinated White House officials have recently been infected with the virus.
00:23:32.000He said, quote, The various shots that people are getting now cover that.
00:24:52.000I if you guys are out there listening, don't ban him for this.
00:24:55.000Don't ban Joe Biden for saying this thing.
00:24:57.000I mean, he acknowledged that maybe it's wrong.
00:24:59.000Maybe put a thing on there that how much how long until like, you know, Fauci comes out and actually says, oh, actually, you know, CDC guy like Joe Biden was right the whole time.
00:25:36.000Like, the rules explicitly say that you can't say there are certain treatments for COVID, but Oxford came out with a study saying they may, they may, may?
00:25:44.000And I'm like, I can't even talk about that.
00:25:46.000So I love, I love the sheer absurdity that is YouTube.
00:25:49.000Back when all of this first started, I did a video about it.
00:25:53.000It was when everything was going crazy in Wuhan and it wasn't spreading anywhere else.
00:26:06.000And then, like, a couple weeks later, they're like, OK, actually, yeah, you can't talk about it.
00:26:09.000And I was like, OK... So this is the problem with censorship that these big tech platforms do.
00:26:14.000By choosing, you know, to ban certain information, it's very likely, because they're not experts, soon, that information will actually turn out to be correct or important, and then they've banned it, and we've got to go back and change it?
00:26:30.000Yeah, that's where we're at with Communist America and big tech and YouTube, so...
00:26:37.000I used to think that was more of a more of a an allegory or is that the right word for it?
00:26:43.000I would say it sounded like hyperbole when Alex Jones was first talking about it, but I think it's a good assessment that it is 100% an information war, that fifth generational warfare we're seeing now.
00:26:52.000I love being able to have a debate about an idea where one person has bad information and the other person is able to correct them and you can see the process because then other people that have the bad information also get to be part of that process.
00:27:06.000So that's why I'm turned off by censoring things that are wrong.
00:27:10.000I want to make sure I'm being fair to Joe Biden because it may not be that he's wrong.
00:27:16.000It may just be that he doesn't know how to put words together.
00:27:26.000They say, quote, the experts say we know that this virus is in fact, uh, um, uh, it's going to be, or excuse me, Biden loses his thoughts on vaccines, flubs answer on his foreign policy work, and falsely tells all town hall you won't get COVID if you have the shot.
00:27:55.000Look, I mean, obviously we know, you know, we know what Joe Biden's strengths and weaknesses, particularly weaknesses are right now at this advanced age stage of his presidency.
00:28:04.000I mean, I was always of the belief that Kamala Harris is really running a lot of the show on Joe Biden, especially with regards to his racial policy, his equity policy, everything like that.
00:28:16.000I mean, say what you want about Joe Biden being ineffective, but all that does is that makes Kamala Harris and her agenda even more effective.
00:28:24.000Well, so, so, you know, your book is about meritocracy.
00:28:28.000And I don't even, we're sitting here like we know that you have this book and talking about stuff, and I can only assume you probably don't like Joe Biden, but I don't know.
00:28:43.000He, he was, he was the candidate that was able, he was the only candidate the Democrats could run that was able to win back the Trump voters.
00:28:51.000That was able to win back some of the Trump voters.
00:28:52.000That, that's, that, that's what I think about Joe Biden.
00:29:19.000Joe Biden, what do you think about regarding meritocracy as you've written a book on it and and the fact that we have a
00:29:24.000Government or at least the top of our government the president where we vote people in based on popularity not
00:29:29.000necessarily merit And so I want to know what there's merit in there, isn't
00:29:34.000there not necessarily You can have some dumb idiot that everyone loves that becomes president and doesn't have any idea what they're doing because he's the most popular.
00:29:42.000Well, the thing is, that's what some people think about Trump.
00:29:45.000They think he's just a dumb idiot, but I think he has genuine merit.
00:29:48.000He is probably the most effective marketing salesperson that we have, you know, that I've ever seen in my lifetime on the campaign trail.
00:29:57.000You're saying that he is the greatest president of all time?
00:30:00.000I'm saying he's the greatest marketing strategist of all time.
00:30:03.000Do you think there's something we could do better with our government so that we could get more merit at the top?
00:30:08.000Well, you know, they... Here's the thing about our political system, and this correlates kind of with meritocracy.
00:30:16.000I take different definitions of merit.
00:30:20.000So I don't think that the person who wins the president should be the person with the most degrees, or the person who's supposedly done the most for our country, or whatever.
00:30:27.000The person has to really connect with the people.
00:30:30.000And I think that our system, our political system, flawed as it is, still gives the people the ability To to make judgments on themselves, you know, to choose the president.
00:30:41.000And I think that that that's worth preserving.
00:30:43.000So you think that the president's main job is to connect with the people, not so much to be the best or at any one thing.
00:31:08.000That's what Trump did probably most effectively.
00:31:11.000He was able to create that vision, Make America Great Again, Keep America Great, 2016, that resonated with a segment of the populace that the Republican Party had historically not been able to resonate with.
00:31:46.000And that's why he ended up, for a variety of reasons I'll say, one of the reasons, He ended up not winning a re-election, though we'll see what happens next once people realize that Biden was actually the worst choice.
00:31:56.000But one of the problems was the people he surrounded himself with.
00:32:10.000He still showed his political neophyte instincts when he chose Rex Tillerson as his Secretary of State.
00:32:16.000I mean, they obviously could not connect from the very start.
00:32:20.000He started to be a little better towards the end in terms of his administrative picks.
00:32:25.000But you could tell at the very beginning he was too hewn to the Republican Party and their instincts instead of being able to go with what his vision was.
00:32:35.000And that harmed him because he only has four years.
00:32:37.000You only have four years as president.
00:33:28.000Department of Education blames random error for document promoting critical race theory this fall.
00:33:34.000And we also saw Jen Psaki challenged on this.
00:33:36.000So the original story was that the Biden administration's guidelines for schools reopening this fall is backing a radical group's literature that promotes anti-racism training in public classrooms across the country.
00:33:46.000Now we got to break down that word anti-racism.
00:33:49.000Because if you are unlearned, you may just assume these code words, these dog whistles, just to mean what it means on the surface.
00:33:57.000No, anti-racism, according to Ibram X. Kendi, is racial discrimination.
00:34:21.000It is a value in mirror image to racism that serves the same function, but for a somewhat different ideology.
00:34:29.000That being, what he claims is, if we're anti-racist, meaning we actually implement the exact same policies of the past, but we do it, it'll be better this time!
00:34:41.000And that just, as far as I'm concerned, it's just literally racism.
00:34:45.000So the good news, I suppose, is that the Biden admin has backtracked after sparking a major backlash on social media regarding critical race theory, blaming a random error for a government guy that promoted a far-left group and their agenda.
00:35:00.000Jenteki claims it was an error to promote the group that urges teachers to disrupt whiteness and oppression after Republicans accused the Biden admin of flip-flopping.
00:35:23.000Yeah, I mean, it's funny you bring up Eric Adams, because he was, in New York City, you would think, oh, there were a couple of really woke candidates.
00:35:32.000Maya Wiley was a big woke candidate in New York City.
00:35:35.000And you would think, oh, the black Americans and Hispanic Americans would vote for the woke candidate.
00:36:51.000He actually was in the anti-Fidel Castro underground in Cuba.
00:36:55.000And he said, he said some scary stuff.
00:36:58.000He said that if Black Lives Matter gets real power, they're gonna kill people.
00:37:01.000He said that these people are Marxist, they're enemies from within, they're scary, and I'm like, man, this is a guy who had to flee Cuba because of what happened.
00:38:12.000And you know, it's it's funny because during the campaign, if you remember Biden during 2020 campaign, Biden was pressured to say defund the police and he did not say defund the police.
00:38:25.000And I'm convinced that if he went and crossed that line and he said, yeah, we're going to go defund the police.
00:38:32.000I'm convinced that, you know, even more Trump voters, you know, even even, you know, the voters that he supposedly won back from Trump would have stayed with Trump.
00:39:12.000He basically was talking about the divide in this country and how bad it is.
00:39:17.000First of all, he launched his campaign on a lie, Charlottesville, the very fine people hoax.
00:39:23.000He just absolutely rammed that lie on people's throat because he's a scumbag.
00:39:28.000And now he says, you know, we need to unify, you know, we need to come together.
00:39:32.000And it's like, dude just went on and gave a speech where he said the Republicans' voting legislation is the greatest threat since the Civil War.
00:39:38.000You want to talk about bombastic and divisive language?
00:39:41.000Sure, we can talk about critical race theory.
00:39:43.000How about the President of the United States coming up and saying the Republican agenda is a bigger threat than the Confederacy?
00:40:42.000Combine a massive escalation in the cost of food with Joe Biden saying the Republican agenda is the greatest threat since the Civil War.
00:40:50.000This guy is flicking matches at a powder keg.
00:40:54.000We talked about last night with Jose Lamas about the Cuban revolution, how Castro betrayed the revolution and essentially didn't install their democracy.
00:41:04.000And I asked him, what could we have done differently?
00:41:06.000Or what could they have done differently in 1960 that would have prevented it?
00:41:09.000He said not to be more patient, not to revolt against Batista.
00:41:14.000Because what they thought was Batista was running for election again, and they thought it was going to be rigged.
00:41:18.000So they were like, they had a preemptive revolution to get this guy out of office before he could So this I could see something like that happening in this country with all this divisiveness, people thinking there's election issues, that people would act impatiently.
00:41:30.000And I think it's it's up to us to stay, you know, calm, even if the system seems flawed, that we, you know, remain and work within the system.
00:41:38.000You see, you see Joe Biden said the other day as well that he wants to, he's working to ban any weapon with the ability to take multiple rounds.
00:42:53.000I mean, you know, the funny thing is, you know, you go to China and China, of course, the communist party, um, has a, has a huge monopoly over the arms, over arms and everything like that.
00:43:05.000And not only do they have a monopoly of arms, they have increased their monopoly to surveillance.
00:43:10.000And now they can surveil you, you know, for, for whatever thing.
00:43:13.000So now they control the arms and they control, you know, your actions that can control your thoughts.
00:43:19.000You know, and they can incentivize you based on your thoughts.
00:43:21.000This is the whole idea of like a social currency.
00:43:23.000They have a social currency system in China now.
00:43:25.000And it's like, this is the direction that we are progressing as a country.
00:43:54.000There's a reason why we don't have, to a certain degree, jackboot Biden thugs kicking doors in and dragging people out by their hair, especially over COVID and lockdowns.
00:44:04.000But you do see things like that in Australia and New Zealand and Canada and the UK.
00:44:09.000There's a reason why it's a little better here.
00:44:59.000I think the Founding Fathers kind of put the Second Amendment into place because they expected the government to grow and grow and grow, as governments do, like they would talk about.
00:45:07.000We're not a bunch of men governed by angels.
00:45:23.000This is something that we need to pay attention to.
00:45:25.000This is not something that we can afford to lose.
00:45:27.000So, I don't want to say this is pessimistic.
00:45:30.000A lot of people seem to think that when I talk about escalation in a conflict, it's pessimism, and I'm like, don't take it to a dark place.
00:45:41.000Do you want to pay $50 for a hamburger, Joe?
00:45:45.000Furious restaurant owners vent at Biden for telling them to raise wages, what they say will lead to more inflation and drive them all out of business.
00:45:55.000This story, what does it have to do with what I just said?
00:45:57.000Food costs are typically the number one indicator of when a revolution happens or some kind of major revolt.
00:46:04.000So if Joe Biden and the White House administration are giving everybody $15-$16 an hour not to work, Restaurants are shutting down.
00:46:30.000So think about, and we've mentioned this a lot, but think about, if someone's getting $16 an hour to not work, why would they accept $16 an hour to work?
00:46:38.000You're basically offering them $0 for 40 hours a week.
00:46:43.000And I had a friend, you know, in Virginia, my old friend, where he works as a bartender, and he comes back to me, and we were just catching up, and I'm like, So how's it going at work?
00:47:21.000It is so hard to live in a functioning society when you have young, idealistic individuals with arrogance but ignorance.
00:47:30.000So there's this viral tweet that keeps getting reposted by young people on Reddit because they just don't know what they're talking about.
00:47:37.000And it's like this tweet goes, So if we raise the minimum wage to $15, you're mad that everyone's getting paid the same as you?
00:47:46.000Then go to your boss and tell them you want to raise, or you can go work an easier job for more money.
00:47:52.000And if you can't figure that out, you need to reassess your critical thinking skills.
00:47:56.000And I just like, facepalm so hard I nearly break my nose, because I'm like, first of all, whoever said fast food was an easier job than working where you were at?
00:48:05.000The assumption that the job's gonna be easier, no, it's probably worse, it's a low-skilled job.
00:48:08.000But anyway, regardless, if you go to your boss and say, hey, I can go get that job for 15 bucks an hour and it's easier, give me more money, okay, then the cost of goods at your business goes up to accommodate the rise in labor costs.
00:48:23.000Now, the guy who flips the burgers realizes that he can't get your service anymore because it's too expensive.
00:48:57.000This guy says, you gotta pay me more, otherwise I'm gonna go, I'm gonna quit.
00:49:01.000And so the guy says, okay, I'll pay you more.
00:49:03.000Let's say that guy is a building manager.
00:49:05.000He's the, or the superintendent, the guy who makes sure the pipes are working and repairs things.
00:49:10.000He's getting paid, you know, he's in New York City, gets paid 50k, whatever, he manages this big building.
00:49:14.000Well, now his cheeseburgers cost $30 because they're paying all the employees 20 bucks an hour, 25 bucks an hour to accommodate, to beat in competition the government's free money.
00:49:26.000So now he goes to the building owner and says, if you want me to maintain this building, I need a massive raise.
00:49:34.000Because if these people are getting $12 an hour, now they're getting $20?
00:52:07.000But what happens with inflation is exactly like you say, um, the fixed costs that, not the fixed costs, the costs that are unable to be leased up.
00:52:18.000Within a certain period because of contractual obligations tend to fold things tend to go bankrupt and People get homeless.
00:52:24.000This is how you cause a lot of social problem with just a very small Small shift in in in the in the economic atmosphere and this is like this is what happened with the Great Recession, right?
00:52:35.000I mean with the Great Recession you had a default rate that rose somewhat significantly in the homeownership because people were not able to pay back their mortgages and And because of that small shift in mortgage rates, there were so many financiers who bet on low default rates, and they were not able to get the returns that they want.
00:52:57.000That caused a massive gradated shift across the economy that eventually resulted in the Great Recession.
00:53:01.000So these little things make big differences.
00:53:18.000And I'm like, Joe Biden purposefully tanking the economy to trigger some kind of mass unrest?
00:53:23.000I was talking to Allison earlier, and I was like, after seeing the news about them opening up the border gate and just letting people walk through, and the COVID rates are rising among them, 40 Border Patrol agents getting COVID, regardless of whether or not there's a, because we mentioned 188,000, but how many people actually had COVID and how they based on that ratio.
00:53:45.000Regardless of that, they're saying without mass vaccination, then we have to lock down.
00:53:50.000Okay, but you just let in 188,000 people and you didn't test them or vaccinate them.
00:53:54.000So how are we supposed to increase that ratio when you're pumping the numbers back down?
00:53:58.000I said, there is no way the Biden administration is so dumb that they're seeing that and simultaneously seeing vaccination rates and going, Oh, this is fine.
00:54:54.000A lot of the people are they know full well the Federal Reserve is out of control and that the economy is going to crash as if it keeps inflating.
00:55:01.000So they're just hitting the gas and they're like in behind closed doors.
00:55:04.000They're like calculating the losses that we're going to see a lot of people are going to be this a lot of people are going to be that they're just accepting it behind closed doors and just like the Great Depression telling us everything's fine.
00:55:14.000To go back to what you were saying about the Great Recession, Kenny, with all the problems it led to, I don't think we've ever escaped the Great Recession.
00:55:22.000I think the Titanic hit the iceberg, and it's just a long and slow split.
00:55:28.000Because if you look at the money stock, the M1 money stock, you can actually see that everything's very stable in terms of growth until 2008.
00:55:44.000Yeah, see what happened was, because of COVID, they said you can now use your savings accounts like checking accounts, which it put all of a sudden the money and savings accounts into the general money supply, causing a massive spike.
00:55:58.000So it looks, I think that big spike we saw is the Titanic splitting.
00:56:03.000And now it's going to go down, and Ian, you are correct, I agree with you, because I think what they're doing, I think they know, that's my point, they're watching, they know, but they're the people who are trying to steal as much of the fine china and silverware before the ship goes down.
00:56:17.000They're grabbing as much as they can, so imagine being on this boat.
00:56:20.000And then you hear a big rumble and you're like, what was that?
00:56:23.000And then you see these super rich people just frantically carrying silverware and running full speed towards the lifeboats.
00:56:29.000And you're just like, I wonder why they're doing that.
00:56:31.000At least we're not being locked in our rooms with the doors welded shut.
00:56:35.000Well, to be fair, people in cities technically stay at home orders all last year.
00:56:43.000Regarding bringing meritocracy into the economy, because like I was saying at the beginning of the show, Jordan Peterson mentions, you see it throughout culture, except in economy, because ultimately wealthy people transfer wealth to kids that aren't necessarily intelligent or valuable, but they're super... Or valuable?
00:57:00.000Yeah, valuable to society is what I mean.
00:57:20.000And so we've created almost like a meritocratic economy where there's all these different currencies and the valuable ones are the ones that give you the most utility.
00:57:48.000Yeah, but if you bought Dogecoin back when it came out, man, you got rich.
00:57:53.000There's like one dude who's a millionaire now off Dogecoin.
00:57:55.000I'm not too worried about the actual dollar value because in a system like that, there would be no central currency that everything is valued at.
00:58:03.000They would all have value based on the individual.
00:58:07.000Well, I mean, the reason why we have a single currency money economy is to facilitate transactions, just to make it a lot easier.
00:58:15.000Wouldn't it be easier for the world if everyone had a one-world currency?
00:58:19.000Yeah, that sounds like a globalization.
00:59:02.000The government is full of a bunch of Benny Hill-type stooge cops running around, holding their hats, frantically trying to figure out what's going on.
00:59:22.000They want the United States to stay the power.
00:59:24.000But we have a responsibility, just as Washington did, to give that power away, to step down.
00:59:30.000And I think now we're in the position to create a world economy that, with all these different types of currencies that intermingle and intercorrelate, Yeah, you know what, man?
00:59:39.000I would love for there to be some kind of system, global system, that defends freedom, protects sovereign borders, but still allows us to avoid war and function in a unified manner in a certain sense.
01:00:00.000How could a system, which is by nature organized and therefore has to suppress some freedom in order to gain organization, also protect freedom?
01:00:09.000Like a bill of rights, a system based around a core of ideologies that says, in order to violate a person's rights, there must be due process.
01:00:20.000So we have organized a system in the U.S.
01:00:23.000Now, there's a lot of places in the world that don't have that.
01:00:26.000I'm not suggesting we go with force and kick their doors in and then staple constitutions to their walls.
01:00:31.000But it would be awesome if, whatever ends up happening with mass communications, we don't end up with a Chinese communist-style overarching global authority.
01:00:40.000We end up with a classically liberal, we respect, if you live in the United States, then you are allowed to set the laws for the United States.
01:00:55.000There's that famous quote that I think it was from one of the Rothschilds, I'm not entirely sure, you would probably know, where he said that it's not, it's not, it's not that, what did he say?
01:01:05.000Globalization will happen whether anybody wants it to or not, or something like that.
01:01:10.000And a lot of people I know, a lot of libertarians and ANCAPs, think he was, you know, twirling his mustache going, yeah, globalization will happen!
01:01:18.000When in reality he was saying, like, the way the world is going with communications and trade, we will eventually have a one world government.
01:01:25.000The goal, I suppose, is the United States and those who live in it should be able to have their rights respected within their own borders.
01:01:31.000They should have their constitutional freedoms and rights.
01:01:33.000They shouldn't be banned or censored or shut down.
01:01:35.000But there could be international agreements on what happens in the event of conflict, of war, of territorial disputes.
01:01:55.000Because I'll tell you, man, I've been watching a lot of Stargate SG-1, and you know what one of the biggest problems is?
01:02:00.000And I'm not talking about the fiction of the show, I'm talking about what the writers perceive when they're making the show, is that when they encounter other worlds and try to negotiate, they say, you can't negotiate on behalf of your people.
01:02:11.000Like, if we give you weapons or utility, you'll go to war and you'll destroy yourselves.
01:02:15.000So we need to have some kind of... We need to have a way to prevent World War III or whatever.
01:02:21.000Now, of course, there are powerful global interests, elites, who desperately want a one-world authority.
01:02:29.000The only problem is they're crackpot authoritarians who would burn your life to the ground, and they don't care about you as an individual.
01:02:37.000They care about the numbers, the utilitarianism.
01:02:39.000That's a nightmarish world to live in.
01:02:41.000That's what the Chinese Communist Party does.
01:02:53.000I mean that we gave them authoritarian power to write our Constitution.
01:02:58.000Like, at one point in time in the U.S.
01:03:01.000history, we had an authoritarian government because those people were the ones who eventually came together and then they created the constitutional system that now protects freedom.
01:03:11.000But in order to do that, we had to trust them with the ability to To make a constitution and a bill of rights and then to actually execute on that, at least for the first few years.
01:03:20.000But they didn't just write a constitution and staple it to a wall and say, this is what you have to deal with.
01:03:26.000In order to actually get the constitution, they were going to states and negotiating, and the states were like, bug off, we don't care, we don't want this.
01:03:32.000And it was actually very, very difficult.
01:03:34.000It took, I think, over like 15 or 20 years to finally get states to actually vote for and sign on to the constitutional system.
01:03:40.000It did, it did, but we still trusted them to make the initial creative effort.
01:03:46.000Now, we had the ability to provide a backlash against that, but again, George Washington could have been king.
01:03:54.000So, he had to actually step down and say, okay, I'm not actually going to do that.
01:03:59.000Other people... Well, that just shows we didn't have the authoritarian Right, and that system was still being developed at that time, and there were people who exercised sort of authoritarian influence, like in Marbury v. Madison.
01:04:10.000Judicial branch was not granted the ability for judicial review at the time.
01:04:14.000They gave themselves the ability for judicial review in Marbury v. Madison.
01:04:18.000So they kind of had a little bit of a, we're gonna get some power.
01:04:22.000Nobody gave them the ability to do that, but they did.
01:04:25.000But is that is that is that is are some instances of authority being exercised in bad ways indicative of the entire system being authoritarian at some point?
01:04:35.000I would say, yes, you have totalitarian authoritarians, which are very dangerous.
01:04:38.000Where, like, the author of the Constitution is the authoritarian.
01:04:47.000Authoritarian is a system defined by an authority that commands on down versus liberty, a liberty-based system, a weaker centralized power structure.
01:05:00.000You always have aspects of authority within any given system.
01:05:03.000A family unit, a government, a democratic... So if you go all the way to the top of the political compass to authoritarian, you've got a guy who's beating the peasants to death and holding people at gunpoint to steal their stuff.
01:05:18.000If you go all the way to the bottom, you get anarchy.
01:05:20.000And it's where either you have free trade anarchy, where it's, you know, ANCAPs, or you have anarcho-syndicalism or communism, where people are sitting around and basking in the glories of their labor, which is utopian, to be completely honest.
01:05:37.000So if you go all the way to the bottom with anarchy, you can literally have a small tribe of people who agree to share things and don't really ever think about money, or you can have free market capitalists that are just like, hey, the market dictates.
01:05:48.000So, just because somebody says, I should have the ability to, like, you know, there's somebody who says, I'm writing this constitution and this is what I think we should do, doesn't mean the system is authoritarian.
01:05:56.000They're, like, so, we can either, it's a gradient.
01:06:02.000You could be 60% libertarian with 40% authoritarian, you can be, you know, any number.
01:06:07.000Well, you know what Thomas Hobbes says about that.
01:06:10.000I mean, he says, the function of a government is to hold people at gunpoint.
01:06:14.000They have the The function of government has the power to hold somebody at gunpoint and demand things from them, you know that he said Even basically even we have this he would say, you know We have this veneer of liberalism right now where we give the people the illusion the ability that they have, you know rights and sincere voting power, but really
01:06:35.000You know, who has the ability to coerce you?
01:06:38.000It's true, but... In that sense, it's authoritarian.
01:06:42.000Just because there are rules doesn't mean we're an authoritarian government.
01:06:44.000Because the one thing about the United States is, and this is a lesson conservatives should have learned a while ago, you're allowed to speak, for the most part, and use that ability to build culture.
01:06:55.000Now there are confines in the Overton window.
01:06:57.000But because many people on the right weren't actively building culture, they were chasing after it, constantly defending from what the left wanted.
01:07:07.000In the United States, we have an authoritarian culture that is taking over.
01:07:11.000We still have some libertarian aspects within it.
01:07:14.000And if we don't stop the authoritarian encroachment, it goes into government, which it is, with what Joe Biden is doing.
01:07:19.000And this is something I was talking about four or five years ago.
01:07:23.000And now here we are, where we're dangerously close to the government absorbing authoritarian cultural aspects and the people who oppose it being too fractured to do anything about it.
01:07:33.000What I mean to say is, for the longest time, the United States was not authoritarian in that you could absolutely have your crackpot free speech group going around saying crazy things, and even have the ACLU defend you as you marched through Skokie, Illinois, with saying horribly anti-Semitic things.
01:07:48.000But that was because we authoritatively decided you could do that by saying, if you're going to stop them from doing that, we're going to arrest you.
01:09:49.000Now, democracy can be tyranny, tyranny of the majority, but there's a big difference between a centralized hierarchical command structure of authority that dictates everyone has to do something and no one can do anything about it, and a group of people coming out, voicing their opinion, and the system changing in response to the will of the people.
01:10:02.000Right, when you have one person issuing the authority, it's very dangerous, but when you have a group able to do it, it's called democracy.
01:10:07.000So to clarify too, there can be cult authoritarianism for sure.
01:10:12.000Everybody marching to dogma and just reacting in a certain way.
01:10:16.000And that's Black Lives Matter and critical race theory and critical race applied principles.
01:10:21.000But when that goes into government, you end up with dictatorial presidents screaming at the top of their lungs, threatening people and using those powers against their perceived enemies.
01:10:31.000And that's when your government becomes authoritarian.
01:10:40.000So the group decides, so six people, there are ten people, six people decide on pepperoni, four people decide on pineapple, but someone still has to make the call to Domino's and say, okay, we're getting pepperoni pizza.
01:10:56.000Now that person may say, I have the mandate to call dominoes, uh, because we have the majority who said they want pepperoni.
01:11:07.000But what if somebody on the pineapple side was like, well, no, you don't have the mandate because we want to make it unanimous.
01:11:14.000And you're like, well, no, I think it's majority rule.
01:11:16.000And then at that point it's a, it's actually, I could see it be the person who calls the pepperoni is actually just asserting his power over the other 10 people.
01:12:02.000So, the issue is, if you and I agree, we're going to arm wrestle, and the winner gets to choose what topping we put on our pizza, and you lose, you can't then claim, well, you don't have the mandate.
01:12:13.000We agree to a sorting mechanism by which we decide how things are made.
01:12:17.000Just because we have to make hard decisions and someone has to be the one to do it, doesn't mean that it's an authoritarian system.
01:12:24.000If Black Lives Matter gains power because of their cult ideology, they will have the ability to enforce this because they have a bunch of zealots who go around smashing windows and beating people.
01:12:33.000But there will be one person who exercises the authority and dictates to their cult to go and take action.
01:12:40.000Then, the will of the people doesn't matter anymore.
01:13:03.000The Constitution never came, the election never came, and before we knew it, Castro was just the dictator who controlled everything.
01:13:09.000That's where we're going, thanks to critical race theory and the elimination of meritocracy.
01:13:13.000The idea is, you cut off the tall grass, you take away anyone's ability to challenge you, and you mandate things based on seemingly random characteristics, and then, that's probably one of the surefire ways towards authoritarianism.
01:13:28.000With a meritocratic system, it's not as easy to have authoritarianism, but you can, right?
01:13:34.000With a meritocratic system, you can get, let's just call it a free market system.
01:13:39.000Over time, monopolies form, power develops, and you get the East India Trading Company.
01:13:42.000No regulation, the wealthiest, most powerful company that ever existed.
01:13:46.000And they can do what they want, set up cities, enslave people, attack people.
01:13:50.000With centralization, with leftist ideology, with things like critical race theory, you use ideology and you just centralize authority immediately.
01:14:00.000So instead of taking a long amount of time to earn your position, they assert it by force.
01:14:05.000I mean, this is the premise of my book, you know, An Inconvenient Minority.
01:14:09.000So, you know, critical race theorists, you know, they actually, it's funny the way we talk about critical race theorists, because you need to realize that critical race theorists use race as a marketing tool.
01:14:20.000They use race as a marketing tool to get people of that race to support them, to value them, to buy their books, to vote for them, everything like that.
01:14:29.000Race is a marketing tool at this stage of things.
01:14:35.000It's a marketing tool for the purpose of eventual oppression because if you can convince somebody that their race is what matters to you and race is a set of characteristics that involves not acting white or acting white or this kind of thing, then you can convince them to do things based on things that they wouldn't otherwise have chosen to do because you've appealed to a racial identity.
01:14:57.000Well, there's another component to the critical race theory stuff, and it's the riots.
01:15:57.000So you're an American, and you just happen to be of Asian descent, of Asian ethnicity, your parents are Asian, but you are an American citizen.
01:16:05.000What I see in this, in what the schools are doing, like Harvard, to Asian Americans, to people of Asian descent, is they're simply saying, because you look like those people, you can't go to this school.
01:16:17.000Yeah, they're treating you based on something that you can't control about yourself.
01:16:21.000They're also treating you based on something you didn't consent to give them.
01:16:24.000You know, Harvard asked for race in your college application, but even if you don't give your race, They're still going to find out what race you are, because they have an access to a database of all the students in the entire country.
01:16:40.000And they know not just your race, they know your family's household income, they know the neighborhood that you live in, they know the school that you went to, they know the crime rate of the school that they went to.
01:16:52.000And so regardless of how you consent to this, if you consent to give this information or not, they're going to treat you based on it.
01:16:59.000You know, and this is the new, this is the marriage.
01:17:01.000Harvard's admissions process is the marriage of racial profiling with data mining.
01:17:13.000It represents an authoritarian future where people are going to get information from you without your consent and things like race, background, everything like that, and then judge you on it.
01:17:27.000That is what the authoritarians will eventually do, and Harvard's process is an example of where we're going as a culture.
01:17:33.000The main thing I see here that is the most alarming is, as we've mentioned earlier in the show, the left doesn't view individuals.
01:17:51.000They don't care about the individuals and the work being done, and they don't care about the fact that there could quite literally be a black man who was born in Spain!
01:18:01.000And so they're like, ah, but his skin looks a certain way.
01:18:04.000And then you have Americans in this country who are of any background and they're like, we want you to go to this school simply because of how you look.
01:18:41.000Oh God, I had another part of that point.
01:18:43.000Well, the point is, regardless of certain things, like I went to Thailand and I was taller than everybody, right?
01:18:51.000I certainly think through hard work and dedication and commitment and you can achieve great things and become the best of the best of the best.
01:19:00.000Now, of course, there's always going to be a Michael Phelps.
01:19:03.000He's got a wider arm span than normal.
01:19:05.000And if someone was saying, like, he produces less lactate, lactic acid or something.
01:19:10.000So this makes him just the best swimmer ever.
01:19:33.000It doesn't matter, in my opinion, what you look like.
01:19:34.000It matters if you have the determination, the commitment, the willingness to do better, to be better.
01:19:41.000And so what the problem I have with all of this is, first and foremost, how insane is it that these people would look at a 10-year-old Vietnamese kid, whose parents came here from Vietnam, and they say, Oh, honey, you can't go to Harvard.
01:20:05.000Well, you know, I agree with you there.
01:20:09.000Look, and I'll just show you some facts.
01:20:13.000Look, Harvard University, you have to score, if you're an Asian American, you have to score 440 points higher on the SAT to have the same chance of admission as a black American.
01:20:35.000If you submitted an application, the exact same application, and you had the same SAT score, the same grades, the same objective metrics, the only thing you did was you changed your race from Asian to black.
01:20:50.000A Harvard admissions officer is going to look at the Asian application and they're going to say, oh, he's just like all the other Asians.
01:20:57.000Probably groomed by his parents, overachieving, test-taking nerd, no personality.
01:21:02.000The story is most likely going to be, oh my gosh, this guy is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
01:21:08.000We have to admit him and give him everything.
01:21:10.000Yeah, and the thing is, they say they do this to admit the kids from underprivileged backgrounds, but if you look at even the black admits at Harvard University, 70 plus percent of them are upper middle class or higher and 50 percent of them are immigrants, are children of black immigrants.
01:21:35.000So they're not even admitting the kid from the south side of Chicago who you may think deserves or should get that chance.
01:21:43.000They're admitting the privileged kid who looks black.
01:22:08.000And I was told Asians don't have powerful special interest groups, so they don't get special favors in government, and people are allowed to discriminate against you on the basis of your race if you tell them the truth about your family.
01:23:25.000And then race realists think, if I see, you know, something like the bell curve, Uh, and I see these differences based on IQ.
01:23:32.000It clearly must be the racial component and perhaps some of it, you know, I think it was Sam Harris and a few other, uh, I think, I'm not sure who it was, Sam Harris and maybe some of the IDW people saying there's some component there, obviously, why wouldn't there be?
01:23:44.000But they think it's the end all be all absolute reason.
01:24:14.000I think part of what Kenny is seeing and part of what you see with these black kids being like the kids of Nigerian immigrants is a cultural thing.
01:24:21.000So Tim's talking about how that you look a certain way so that means you're not going to have a chance to get in.
01:24:26.000Do you think it is how you look or do you think it's at least partly because of the Asian cultural preference for hard work and studying and all that?
01:24:33.000So, you know, this is a complicated question.
01:24:37.000I think that predominantly what explains disparities in... I think predominantly what predicates disparities in the United States with regards to a lot of these things is cultural.
01:24:50.000I think that cultural factors, for example, Asian Americans don't come to the U.S.
01:24:55.000with like a significantly higher IQ than the average person.
01:25:00.000And in fact, studies have shown that Asians with lower IQ are able to overcome that lower IQ because they study pretty hard, they work really hard, and they're actually able to compete with whites at an IQ bracket that's a quintile higher, a quintile of the standard deviation higher than them.
01:25:17.000So this is this is this is this is massive.
01:25:20.000This is this shows you that it's not just your IQ that makes you successful.
01:25:25.000You really have to put in the work and what Asian Americans do on average and I'm saying this on average every individual is different.
01:25:32.000There are a lot of Asian-Americans who don't work hard, but Asian-Americans individually on average study twice as many hours as the average American per week.
01:26:26.000The Chinese Communist Party does not believe in free speech.
01:26:30.000People can be whatever, you know what I mean?
01:26:31.000That's why, you know, there was a story that came out recently, Gallup poll.
01:26:36.000Race relations are worse than they've been in like a really long time.
01:26:40.000And I think it's because millennials are extremely racist.
01:26:43.000I think that modern leftist and progressive millennials are the most racist we've seen in a very, very, very long time.
01:26:50.000And so that's why you see around like 2013 race relations plummet.
01:26:55.000Because this is when millennials start aging into the workforce, into influential positions, and they start espousing their racist ideology.
01:27:03.000Now you have racist millennials admitted white supremacists like Robin D'Angelo espousing racist ideals
01:27:10.000And then all of a sudden you've got a bunch of minorities being like yo these people are racist what?
01:27:14.000When I'm a really did lay on that race card during occupy Wall Street when the occupy activists
01:27:21.000Segregated all the activists by race. I remember seeing that yeah, no joke. They did crazy
01:27:27.000They created race-based caucuses for voting on how the body would spend money.
01:27:33.000They literally had like the Hispanic caucus, the Asian caucus, the people of color caucus, the black caucus.
01:27:40.000And so I remember they split up all the groups based on race and there was this black dude chilling because Zuccotti Park, where Occupy happens, is slightly downhill.
01:27:47.000So there's like this ledge that slowly turns into a very high ledge like very small at the top of the By the street and then as you walk down the ground goes down the ledge stays the same height and he's sitting up on top of it I see him arguing with somebody and I walk over and I'm listening to him and he just goes Do you have any idea what the press is gonna say when they find out y'all?
01:28:05.000segregated based on race and I started laughing and I'm like dude, yes, like these people have lost it and But you know what?
01:28:14.000That's crazy because it's so, it has, the question of success in America has much less to do with your race, your race, than it has to do with these cultural values that can be adopted by any race.
01:28:30.000And to say, I mean, you know, hard work, studying hard, any race can do, it doesn't matter if you're Asian, you can study hard if you're white.
01:29:18.000The one thing they found among every group, every race, every gender, every age bracket, every IQ bracket, every class, was those who refused to give up succeeded and those who gave up failed.
01:29:32.000I mean, this is one reason why black Americans who join the military, who join the army, actually tend to have much higher career success outcomes, both military and non-military afterwards.
01:29:46.000You know, in the army, you're taught things like perseverance.
01:29:48.000You're taught things like overcoming and resilience and everything like that.
01:29:51.000And the people who are put with that kind of structure in their lives, you know, can can really elevate and that's why you see black
01:29:58.000Americans who are in the military, you know, are disproportionately well represented among the
01:30:03.000upper middle and upper classes in America.
01:30:06.000When you were studying the meritocracy and the failure of, is it Harvard that's doing
01:30:12.000these admissions things? Was that what you said?
01:30:14.000Okay, so here's the thing about this crazy thing that's happening at Harvard.
01:30:19.000All of this admissions process, this race baiting and profiling started at Harvard, but it has since grown to become an entire Ivy League phenomenon.
01:30:31.000And then from there, the Ivy League exported this ideology to big corporations like Google and Facebook.
01:30:37.000And now you see Google and Facebook and their diversity and inclusion programs also be anti-Asian.
01:30:43.000You know, I just published this article in Quillette magazine.
01:30:46.000Asians make up 90% of Silicon Valley software engineers.
01:30:51.00090% of Silicon Valley software engineers, but you go up each level of management, Asians get lower and lower and lower percentage.
01:30:59.000And so, in the executive level, they're only like 20% of the executive level of Facebook and Google.
01:31:07.000You know, this is an example of, and nobody is advocating for Asians to be hired more or promoted more in Silicon Valley and things like that because they don't fit the narrative because they're still considered over-represented.
01:31:22.000If you earn it, if you can do it, then there you go.
01:31:25.000Are you able to isolate methodologies that enhance meritocracy amongst education and business?
01:31:32.000First of all, I understand IQ is correlated significantly with performance in college, and particularly Not just IQ, but standardized test scores.
01:31:46.000You have to look at objective metrics, like standardized test scores.
01:32:15.000They say, you know, it disproportionately benefits the wealthy and privileged over, you know, poor black and Latino students.
01:32:23.000You know, they pointed the fact that blacks tend to do worse on standardized tests than other people.
01:32:29.000But what they conveniently leave out is that standardized tests actually correct for wealth and privilege.
01:32:37.000Because if you're a poor kid, an immigrant kid, who has no social connections, You're not going to be able to stand out when compared next to a rich and wealthy kid, except through the standardized test.
01:32:55.000The standardized test is the only test that allows you to be able to compete side by side with a wealthy and privileged kid and beat them.
01:33:03.000Because typically what happens is the guy shows up, talks to the dean, and says, my son would like to go here.
01:33:07.000Let me give a donation to the West Wing.
01:33:13.000And nearly 10% of Harvard's new class could be considered a child of a donor, that make this Dean's List that Harvard uses to signify primarily children of donors.
01:33:34.000So there's a lot of issues, and I don't know if we have all the answers, but we do have super chats.
01:33:39.000So let's talk to you guys, see what you have to say.
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01:33:58.000Mr. 36 says, Hey Tim and crew, thank you for all the important work you do.
01:34:12.000The exciting thing is when new people come, they bring an unexpected, like a whole new reality of being that like changes, you know, in ways you didn't even conceptualize could happen.
01:34:51.000Placid Saint says, Tim, Lucas and Isaac Botkin from T-Rex Arms said in an Armory livestream on Twitch, they would go on your show by invite only to talk about changing the culture on two-way and how to do it.
01:35:26.000Like, in the original Independence Day, he's just the doctor, and then they, like, really emphasized his gay marriage in the, uh, in the new, in the sequel.
01:37:25.000Yeah, who mentioned, someone mentioned it to us.
01:37:27.000Andreas, I think, was talking about it.
01:37:29.000Someone on the show was like, hero, because he basically is like, he's an anti-imperial, but then by the end he decides to spare the emperor or whatever.
01:38:31.000Frank says, I want to hear Ian say, just like the Pied Piper led rats through the streets, we dance like marionettes, swaying to the symphony of destruction.
01:38:39.000Just like the Pied Piper led the rats through the streets, we dance like marionettes to the symphony of destruction.
01:38:44.000Swaying to the symphony of destruction.
01:42:24.000The rats would drown in about 15 minutes.
01:42:27.000With the next group, he puts the rats in, and then right before they give up and drown, he takes them out, dries them off, lets them rest for a few minutes, and then puts them back in.
01:42:36.000The second time, they swam for, like, several days.
01:42:40.000And what they say is it's because the rats were holding out, hoping that the hand would come back and save them from their fate.
01:43:03.000Everybody starts boiling in their seats.
01:43:05.000We get riots and people are losing their minds and then they lift it all.
01:43:09.000And everyone's like, now if the lockdowns come back, it could be indefinite.
01:43:13.000And people would sustain themselves more without becoming hopeless because they know if they just hold out, There will be an end to the lockdown.
01:43:21.000So now, assuming this experiment translates to humans, maybe it doesn't.
01:43:31.000Hey, I'm in the middle of nowhere, that's why I got out of the cities.
01:43:33.000And you got Jack Posobiec saying it, you got me saying it, we had Travis Corcoran with the book Escape the City, although he was saying it's not time to leave the city just yet.
01:43:42.000My thing is like, dude, we just got these electric bikes, we're like riding them around, like in the, you know, it's like just, it's a big yard, it's like, you know.
01:43:49.000And so we just ride them around, we go skating, we've got ramps, we got a barbecue grill, we got chickens.
01:44:21.000Sometimes, don't you just want to just go to the top of the mountain and just sit back and look at the stars and, you know, pull out a bag of chips and just, you know, read a book or something?
01:45:40.000I mean you would presume they're smart people, you know, if they built all of these companies Why are they giving it all of these things?
01:45:46.000Well, they're appealing to their sense their emotion of of Empathy.
01:45:52.000Oh, you need to go and contribute to these people because it shows that you care because you can virtue signal So as a result, this is this entire emotion breeding industry, you know results in billions of dollars for Black Lives Matter and the like Yep All right, James Groh says, long time listener, first time super chat.
01:46:07.000You've kept me sane and informed for years and I look forward to all your future projects.
01:46:21.000But they weren't talking about it, right?
01:46:22.000Wasn't it like they showed the top people and he wasn't even on the list and then they showed like Larry Elder's got like Oh, because they're trying to keep him off.
01:46:29.000They're trying to block him from being able to run.
01:47:30.000Yeah, you break the plastic down with pestiopsis microspora fungus and turn it into sugar and then you mix it with graphene to 3D print the tubes.
01:49:20.000The real money for national outlets is not in a local story about food.
01:49:24.000But now, TacoBell.com, international chain, says at the top, sorry, we are unable to get certain ingredients and might not have your items available.
01:49:33.000I was listening to a podcast and there was a grocery magnate who was saying that we're looking at inflation of like I want to say six to fourteen percent and then he was talking about like breaking down the kind of inflation we're gonna see and he's like it's coming like there's no escaping it and I'm pretty sure that's part of the reason we're seeing shortages at like Taco Bell and like these shortages of meat and everything but it's depressing.
01:49:56.000Mick Dundee says, can't have this argument without philosophy.
01:50:06.000You know, I've been thinking a lot about tactics, and like the Gravel Institute, when they cheered on the tactic that was used by the insurrectionists, but then denounced the insurrectionists themselves, and I'm using insurrectionists as, you know, the way they describe it on the left.
01:50:18.000So the people on January 6, you know, stormed the Capitol, and then Gravel Institute was like, they said it was a good thing, but they just disagree with the people who are doing it.
01:50:27.000And I've been thinking a lot about this because I've, I've long said, you know, the ends don't justify the means because you'll never meet the ends.
01:50:33.000If you build a government based on using violence and, you know, and, and seizing power, then you will just eventually get that anyway.
01:50:40.000The problem is if people are going to use those tactics and they work and they exist, it'll never stop no matter what you do.
01:50:45.000And thus you end with, you end up with this endless cycle and there's no real way to fix it.
01:50:49.000We get a couple hundred years of classical liberal values and an expansion of civil rights, and then the wingnut crackpots come in and destroy it all and let it on fire to seize power.
01:50:58.000And they claim we're justified to do it.
01:51:00.000The Founding Fathers won the liberty and the Bill of Rights through a violent revolution.
01:51:41.000Mr. Bojangles says, The Constitution forbids the government from inhibiting the liberties of the people.
01:51:49.000Therefore, the government should be responsible for ensuring corporations that operate within the public space do not limit those same liberties of the citizenry.
01:51:57.000The challenge is, the Supreme Court has applied a lot of these arguments to corporations as individual entities, and that's where the challenge is.
01:52:04.000To say that Twitter has to host the speech of Ian is arguably the same as telling Ian he has to say a certain
01:52:15.000The issue is we need to regulate big tech like utilities, like common carriers,
01:52:19.000more like a phone company. Maybe not utility, but like a phone company. Which is utility, I guess.
01:52:24.000And then they can't take you down because they have nothing to do with it.
01:52:27.000Except people are telling me that they can't get texts through about, like, a doctor was like, I'm a doctor and my cousin's a, you know, a pathologist.
01:52:35.000I'm texting him COVID vaccine and it wouldn't go through on his phone.
01:53:40.000Or you just do, uh, they say we're going to do two pizzas and one will, one will be a half pineapple pepperoni and the other will be pepperoni and then everyone's happy.
01:54:15.000You didn't agree to the social contract.
01:54:17.000However, there's an interesting argument I have with libertarians about, and ANCAPs about, living in the United States, and it's, sure you're born here, it's great to be here, there's a lot of advantages to being here, but you don't have to be here.
01:55:26.000You know, you always ask, well, what do you give up when you come to America?
01:55:29.000I mean, you do get a lot of things as an American when you choose to come here as an immigrant, but you also, you do have to respect your culture and you have to respect American structure.
01:55:37.000You know, American structure is very individualistic.
01:55:40.000A lot of Chinese immigrants and a lot of immigrants from Asia are not necessarily used to that as much.
01:55:45.000You know, you do, if you want to make, if you want to make change in America, you have to speak up.
01:55:50.000A lot of Asian cultures are not used to speaking up, especially Chinese Americans who live under communist regimes.
01:55:56.000You know, it's like, is it squeaky wheel gets the grease or is it, what's the other analogy?
01:59:26.000They're all sitting in the house and it says, we're voting on lunch, we always vote on lunch, everyone agrees, that's how we vote on lunch, okay.
01:59:31.000Everyone raise your hand for pepperoni, 6-2, everyone raise your hand for pineapple, everyone does.
01:59:35.000And then they say, okay, we're ordering pepperoni pizza.
02:00:21.000Well, I'm gonna go start my own house.
02:00:24.000Then they go outside and some people might, you know, put on that flannel and take an axe and go be a lumberjack and build their own house.
02:00:30.000But you know, the funny thing is I talked to a lot of people and they're like, I shouldn't have to pay for this social contract.
02:00:35.000And I'm like, then you don't have to get the benefits of being in America.
02:00:48.000I really do hear great things about it.
02:00:49.000So go somewhere where you won't have this be happening to you instead of just being like, I want to reap the rewards of a society that I refuse to pay for.
02:00:57.000Now to be fair, American tax dollars go to a lot of dumb stuff that I'm not happy with.
02:01:03.000That's a fair point from people arguing it.
02:01:06.000And this is like the case of affirmative action, too, because sometimes you have a really great story, and even though you're not objectively qualified, somebody's going to admit you because of your story.
02:01:15.000And that would be more acceptable to me if Harvard College came up to a lesser qualified person of a certain race and said, hey, you're not objectively qualified, but we're going to admit you.
02:01:25.000But, you know, we need you to assimilate to our culture and, you know, be grateful.
02:01:30.000But instead, what they do is that not only they admit you, they indulge your, you know, every desire with great inflation, everything like that.
02:01:37.000They make sure that you pass, you know, and get A pluses in every class.
02:01:41.000The average grade at Harvard is an A minus, surprisingly.
02:01:48.000At that point, you're not engaging in a fair social contract.
02:01:51.000At that point, you are incentivizing a person to be a parasite on your school, rather than become a person who becomes fully assimilated into the culture.
02:02:14.000I do not think I would be able to because with the expansion of Timcast comes great responsibility.
02:02:19.000And so there's a lot of people that I have to meet with all the time.
02:02:21.000I work literally every single day because even though the weekends I no longer do this show, we're doing the vlog and I'm interviewing people.
02:02:28.000One of the main reasons I reduced the amount of content I was producing on a day-to-day basis, which was I used to do five segments on my Timcast channel and now it's down to two.
02:02:37.000Because I needed more time to meet with people and strategize and take care of other business.
02:02:42.000If my whole day was dedicated to just recording and researching, I had no opportunity to grow.
02:02:47.000So then I stopped doing content on the weekends.
02:02:49.000I used to do, I think, like three hours on the weekends as well.
02:03:04.000However, we actually are hiring more journalists, and we are going to have one of our reporters covering the election issues.
02:03:11.000So, I will say, a lot of people who are, you know, like, diehard Trump supporters will probably be disappointed with our coverage.
02:03:19.000However, they will not be angry to a certain degree, right?
02:03:23.000I see a lot of the stuff that comes out from, like, MSNBC and a lot of these mainstream outlets, and it's just disparaging and poorly framed and everything like that.
02:03:29.000No, we're going to be fair, which means airtime for the Republicans, airtime for the Democrats, and the argument.
02:03:35.000And so our goal is, here's what the Republicans said, here's what the Democrats said, you decide.
02:03:40.000We can only give you the information, we're not going to tell you what to think.
02:03:43.000I'm sure that will be satisfactory to many, many people who aren't getting that from the mainstream press, and I'm sure we'll get smeared by the mainstream press for simply entertaining the fact that Republicans have opinions on the matter.
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02:04:27.000But, Kenny, is there anything you want to shout out?
02:04:28.000Your book, obviously, your social media?
02:04:31.000Well, I'm also president of a group called Colorist United.
02:04:33.000We advocate for a race-blind America, and that's the ideal that America should be, right?
02:04:40.000You know, I understand we've had problems with race regarding to America today, but if any country in the world is going to finally become a country where race doesn't have to matter in a person's life or we
02:04:51.000can judge a person just solely as an individual it has to be America because we are the most
02:04:55.000diverse country in the nation we have been able to handle this diversity experiment relatively
02:05:00.000well so go to coloristunited.org if you're interested in this concept and shoot me a
02:05:05.000question or link anything that you want.
02:05:14.000And the book, An Inconvenient Minority?
02:05:16.000My book, An Inconvenient Minority, The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy, you can get on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, wherever books are sold.
02:05:25.000Buy it because then when it hits a number we got so I'm not gonna say we've take full credit for this.
02:05:44.000I'm extremely proud of when I read the super chat where it told the Amazon robot to order speechless and smart and then people were like I went to my Amazon shopping cart and the book was in there.
02:05:55.000But you guys definitely should buy An Inconvenient Minority because when this reaches number one on Amazon, and it should, hopefully, or when it rises in the ranks, people see it.
02:06:07.000It's free advertising, so it's like a snowball rolling down a hill.
02:06:10.000And then when people are wondering what this is and they read it, they'll start to understand what's wrong with this critical race applied principles in our schools.