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0:04all right good evening it should hardly
0:10come as a surprise to anyone in this
0:12room that colleges and universities have
0:14become flashpoints for the most heated
0:16culture war conflicts of the day
0:19universities are now the sights of far
0:22left-wing and doctrine ation of students
0:24anarchic violence against conservative
0:27speakers and students administrators
0:29literally under siege from radicalized
0:31minority students demanding social
0:33justice payback students wailing about
0:36microaggressions and retreating into
0:38segregated safe spaces to sum up our
0:42former institutions of higher learning
0:44have degenerated into circuses of
0:46militant irrationality and radicalism
0:50how did it come to this well to answer
0:53that question you could do no better
0:54than to read david Horowitz's book the
0:57left in the university vol 8 of and the
1:01latest addition to his series of
1:03collected conservative writings entitled
1:05the black book of the american left this
1:08book contains nearly four dozen essays
1:10written from 1993 to 2010 and it
1:14addresses what david horowitz describes
1:16as one of the underappreciated tragedies
1:18of our time the successful campaign of
1:21the left to subvert the curricula of
1:23collegiate institutions and transform
1:26entire schools and departments into
1:28doctrinal training centers for their
1:30social and political causes this
1:33campaign arguably has done more to steer
1:35America toward the left's goal of the
1:37fundamental transformation of this
1:38country than any other strategy of
1:41cultural Marxism this book chronicles
1:44that campaign over most of the last
1:45quarter century and David's efforts to
1:47bring some political neutrality and
1:49intellectual integrity to college
1:51classrooms
1:52you already know David Horowitz is the
1:55author of too many books and articles to
1:56name all of them essential reading for
1:58understanding the radical left and for
2:00waging war against it among them our New
2:03York Times bestsellers radical son
2:05unholy alliance and most recently big
2:08agenda president Trump's plan to save
2:10America and if you've heard me introduce
2:13David before you've no doubt heard me
2:14call him the left most hated a pasta
2:17because he knows them better than they
2:19know themselves and that makes him an
2:21existential threat to them and
2:23invaluable to us ladies and gentlemen
2:27please welcome the author of the left in
2:28the university and the founder of the
2:30Freedom Center David Horowitz thank you
2:41Mark thank you everybody for coming I
2:45was last week I was at the University of
2:49Houston in Houston where the week before
2:55not they had held a National Conference
3:00for students for justice in Palestine
3:04the University hosted students for
3:07justice in Palestine is a creature of
3:10the terrorist organization Hamas and is
3:12on mass propaganda network and I brought
3:17along a little clip to show you so you
3:20can share with me founder of Hamas said
3:30this there's no place for you Jews among
3:33us and you have no future among the
3:36nations of the world you are headed to
3:38annihilation so it's very clear that I'm
3:40on her protection
3:41it's to destroy the Jewish state and to
3:45annihilate us Jews students students for
3:50justice in Palestine which I selected
3:52many in here was created by Hamas
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5:26that was seven minutes into my talk and
5:31I had said at the outset of the talk
5:33that when I was a radical at Berkeley in
5:38Columbia and 60s I always wanted to hear
5:43what the other side had to say because I
5:46I felt that would make me a better
5:47radical I would have the arguments those
5:51days are gone the greatest American
5:55tragedy of my lifetime is the
6:00destruction of our educational system by
6:04progressives and that it's conversion
6:07into an indoctrination and recruitment
6:11center for the ideological left this
6:17book that I've written the left in the
6:19university is the sixth book that I've
6:23written about the universities and this
6:25problem which has been 50 years in the
6:29making and it it has a special interest
6:34because it's really dispatches from a
6:37war front it recounts it it's what I
6:43wrote engaging in a battle to restore
6:49academic freedom to the University to
6:51restore the modern research university
6:56to our basically our liberal arts
6:59colleges the principles of it
7:01I am I based my campaign which was for a
7:05and academic Bill of Rights for students
7:08on the
7:10very famous academic freedom statement
7:14of the American Association of
7:16University Professors which these days
7:19is run by Stalinists who we're not happy
7:24with my proposals but I took their 1915
7:28statement which was really the statement
7:31that created the modern research
7:32university basing it on scientific
7:37principles and scientific procedures
7:39that is you have a hypothesis and you
7:44confront it with counter opinions and
7:49you try to test it by evidence and of
7:52course in a liberal arts feels the
7:55humanities sociology always feels
7:58political science there's no way of
8:02conducting the kind of experiments that
8:04scientists actually do so every issue is
8:07controversial and the 19:15 stay at the
8:11place of a faculty member in a democracy
8:16to indoctrinate his or her students but
8:18to present them with divergent opinions
8:21in a fair-minded way because the task of
8:25a teacher in a democracy is to teach
8:28students how to think not tell them what
8:31to think what's actually happened over
8:34the last 50 years is that the political
8:37left and I I suspect a lot of my
8:41generation of radicals
8:42stayed in the Universities and pursued
8:46academic careers to avoid the draft and
8:50to avoid fighting communism which they
8:52sympathized with and what they've done
8:56is they reverted the universities the
9:00colleges obviously not the physics
9:02departments and geology departments but
9:04they the citizen training aspects of the
9:10university all the social studies fields
9:14and the law and so forth they reverted
9:18them to their nineteenth-century origins
9:20in the 19th century all of our College
9:24were doctrinal institutions they were
9:26religious institutions Harvard Yale they
9:30and what they were there for was to
9:33instill the doctrines of the particular
9:35denomination because they were training
9:38ministers and priests and so forth and
9:42that's what our universities have become
9:45today except that the religious
9:49doctrines that they teach and then and
9:52then still are the doctrines of Marxism
9:58identity politics which is cultural
10:01Marxism which I'll explain shortly and
10:07for those of you who are mystified that
10:10college students should want to it's not
10:13just the perfect they believe me there
10:15are there's a whole faculty cohort
10:18behind these Pro terrorist students and
10:21these anti-democratic students and anti
10:24learning students as I say when I was a
10:27radical and I consider myself a Marxist
10:32revolutionary at the time I wanted to
10:35hear what our opponents were saying I
10:38wanted to be able to answer them as I
10:40was in school to learn how to do that
10:43that's the way I perceived it if you
10:49want to understand why there's this
10:51concerted effort to shut down the other
10:55side of the debate it's because these
10:57are religious institutions now our
11:00liberal arts colleges and they're not
11:02dealing with a divergent opinion as one
11:06would in a democracy they're dealing
11:09with a religious heresy and what you do
11:12to heretics is you burn them at the
11:14stake if you have enough power to do
11:17that or you just close them down as
11:20happened for example to charles murray
11:23and university of michigan and other
11:26conservatives i mean this is it's
11:28nothing personal I don't take this at
11:30all personally so what happened was
11:34beginning in the 19th
11:35the left saw the universities as
11:39instruments of their revolutionary
11:41designs and so the first thing they did
11:45was begin a purge of conservatives from
11:48faculties by not hiring them basically
11:51so that today on most college campuses
11:54conservatives are as rare as unicorns
11:58they then they purged conservative books
12:03from the required reading lists they
12:05student normal Stan average student can
12:08go through four years of a college in
12:10our country today never encountered
12:13encounter a conservative adult or read a
12:17book by a conservative who hasn't been
12:19dead for a hundred years the next thing
12:22they did was to purge conservative ideas
12:24from the curriculum and they did that by
12:27inventing what they called studies
12:30American Studies Black Studies Women's
12:35Studies these are all political fields
12:37they're not scholarly fields but they're
12:40about learning left-wing politics you
12:44couldn't be a conservative and dear
12:46women's studies professor because
12:48women's studies is not about the
12:50academic study of women it's about
12:53training Marxist feminists it's about
12:58training students in the in the
13:00discipline you know thoroughly
13:02discredited Marxist idea that the
13:05environment determines everything that
13:06we are socially constructed and that's
13:09how you get this idea that a gender is
13:12socially constructive socially
13:15influenced but socially constructed if
13:18you go over to the neuroscience
13:19department or to the biology department
13:21you learn that it's hardwired into the
13:26biological system job well elevates is
13:29obvious Tanny normal human being lesson
13:32had their brains clued up by leftist
13:34ideology so the fields now are so
13:40constructed that a conservative really
13:42can hardly be part of them or could not
13:44be part of them there are no
13:45conservatives and
13:46women studies departments that's some of
13:51the founders of women's studies who
13:53actually believe they should be about
13:55the study of women you know I've been
13:58purged and you know treated as enemies
14:01by these political radicals on our on
14:04our faculties the next thing that they
14:07did was to prevent conservative
14:13discourse coming in from the outside now
14:16when you come to a campus and you get
14:18treated like this
14:20of course the cougar the newspaper they
14:23are the entire report was of the
14:27demonstration on anything that I said so
14:30I'm you know just basically the
14:33university was deaf to my presence which
14:37was the it's the purpose its the agenda
14:41of the left but until about 2001 I was
14:46reminded of this by one of the chapters
14:49in my book the left and the university
14:51is called and culture at Cornell and
14:54it's when Ann was pelted with oranges
14:56physically attacked when she was
14:59speaking and if you think having an
15:02orange thrown at you at high speed isn't
15:07intimidating it is I remembered that in
15:132001 I had conducted a campaign I
15:16thought the idea of reparations for
15:19slavery paid a hundred and thirty seven
15:22years after the fact
15:23from people who were never slave owners
15:26to people who were never slaves was a
15:30bad idea and actually racist and at the
15:35indiscretion to say so when I was
15:39invited to speak by college Republicans
15:42at the University of California Berkeley
15:44I asked the Chancellor I I wrote the
15:48Chancellor and said because I knew that
15:50yahoo had been unable to speak in
15:52Berkeley because of the threats of
15:55violence uh hobb which they couldn't
15:57contain us all right
15:58to introduce me well somebody from his
16:01office introduced me just to protect the
16:04students and what he did was he assigned
16:0730 armed guards for my talk when I had
16:13to go to the bathroom before I spoke six
16:16guys in flak jackets preceded me into
16:19the bathroom and kicked open the stall
16:21doors and I remember saying out laughter
16:24that this is an absolute disgrace in
16:27America but when you have university
16:30officials like that there's no way to
16:31stop it
16:32you have to expel students who do things
16:36like these students did we're like
16:39they're doing now at Reed College where
16:41they're demonstrating inside classrooms
16:44they don't want Aristotle taught because
16:47he was white Wow that University
16:52actually I had visited Reid and I
16:54thought it was a pretty pretty good
16:56school even though it's a left-wing
16:58school is very traditional and the
17:00students were all interested in
17:01discussing ideas with me not attacking
17:04me political but that obviously
17:07obviously has has changed
17:12so in 2001 what happened is people
17:16started to get physically attacked and I
17:19had a bodyguard for that Berkeley event
17:21and I have not been able to go to a
17:26college campus I mean I've been
17:27physically attacked before that um I'm
17:33trying to think cuz I'm a little lacks
17:34about these things and I visited Butler
17:37I did not have a bodyguard when I was at
17:42Butler and I was attacked through this
17:45chocolate cream pie in my face which
17:48isn't physically damaging but there's a
17:50picture of me on the internet looking
17:52pretty pathetic I mean it was I was
17:54wearing a suit and it was just gooey
17:56stuff but I'd been physically attacked
17:59where violence that would hurt me was
18:05intended and I could never finish a
18:07speech if there wasn't massive camp
18:09security think the campuses know they
18:12have a security problem um so when I
18:16when I spoke at the University of
18:18Houston there were about 10 cops in
18:20uniform and there were two undercover
18:24cops in the audience and they that's why
18:28they marched out because they knew now
18:31that they would be arrested if they did
18:33anything but when you go to a campus in
18:35you that's the atmosphere it's not an
18:40intellectual discourse anymore there's
18:43not going to be an exchange of ideas and
18:45let me say I've been on four hundred
18:47college campuses and only three times
18:50have I been invited by faculty once by a
18:54Dean who I got there he hid from me
18:57because he was under assault from his
18:59own faculty and the fact of the matter
19:03is that there is no I mean I I'm sure
19:06there were decent people on faculties
19:09across this country but none of them has
19:12the courage to stand up for the
19:14conservatives and invite them the
19:16solution to the Berkeley problem or any
19:18of these problems is for the faculty to
19:20band together and invite a conservative
19:23and lecture the students who come and
19:27the students on campus to fight for the
19:29right for free speech there are no such
19:31people that is a huge problem and that
19:35is an indictment of the whole university
19:38system the college system and that is
19:42part of the complete conversion of the
19:45university into a one-party system in a
19:47one-party state and one of the books I
19:50wrote with Jacob Blackson it's called
19:53one party classroom because that's what
19:57it is it's a one-party state you get one
20:01point of view yeah one of the
20:06consequences of this is the
20:11mis-education or a lack of education of
20:15college graduates now
20:21years here oh the percentage
20:24I think one-third of Millennials think
20:28that George Bush killed more people than
20:30Joseph Stalin 25% of the students who
20:38actually know who Lenin was and that's a
20:40minority I think he was a great guy
20:45you know I could go on and on with these
20:47these things but of course this has
20:50affected our judiciary you wonder why
20:54the media is such a disgrace these days
21:00it's because of the way people are
21:04educated the communications departments
21:06our training rounds in Marxism III I've
21:12been to the University you know the
21:14University of Texas when I went there in
21:17Austin a professor of communications who
21:20is a Bolshevik sees a and remember the
21:24international socialist was a Bolshevik
21:26organization which is calling it's
21:29called for a dictatorship of the
21:30proletariat in America inside the
21:33lecture hall where I supposed to speak
21:36was leading chants exactly like then
21:39when you saw at the top of my talk here
21:42um and I was only able to continue
21:45because there was a vice chancellor who
21:48came and now this is in the good old
21:51days and said you know you'll be
21:54arrested if you continue this
21:56demonstration in here and it took her a
21:58long time to stop people usually they
22:00come in and they say these
22:03administrators they don't say a word to
22:06me but they'll say there's a safe room
22:09from people who are disturbed
22:13distressed by what David Horowitz has to
22:17say and then to show you now I'm far
22:20gone it's Scott a couple of weeks ago I
22:25was in Washington DC and I called up the
22:29Chronicle of Higher Education told them
22:31I was coming now
22:34fifteen years ago I since I was a
22:37leading I was probably the leading
22:39conservative critic of what was going on
22:42in the universities they the Chronicle
22:44actually allowed me to write a piece for
22:48them called in defense of intellectual
22:51diversity which is in this volume the
22:54left in the university so they invited
22:59me when they heard oh and I was treated
23:02to a I was featured in my profile on the
23:05front page of The Chronicle also because
23:07I was such a prominent critic so they
23:10invited me and I told them that I had a
23:13new book which I would like them to
23:16review but you know fix it I sent him a
23:18copy so they could look it over
23:21and they arranged the the editor Scott
23:25Smallwood who had treated me well fairly
23:28I don't know if it was well I don't
23:30remember exactly but family somewhat
23:32fairly fifteen years ago
23:37um he's the one who invited me he didn't
23:41show up for the meeting but they had ten
23:44editors and reporters you know shoot me
23:51questions for an hour and then they
23:53asked me if I would come you know to a
23:56room and videotape an interview for ten
23:59minutes that they were going to put up
24:00right away on their website when I left
24:05I got an email that they're not gonna
24:08put it up no explanation and there isn't
24:10a trace of my visit in The Chronicle of
24:14Higher Education now that is the no the
24:17intellectual journal well you can see
24:21it's it said there is no dialogue no
24:25dialogue left so what is the religion
24:28that they teach it's very important the
24:34religion is as you all already know is
24:37identity politics which is really
24:41cultural Marxism which I'll explain in a
24:43moment
24:44a Marxism it's a view of the world in
24:50which society is divided into warring
24:54classes remember the Communist Manifesto
24:57the history of all hitherto existing
25:00societies is the history of class
25:03struggles which is bunk but that's what
25:06Marxists believe well so what you have
25:11this there's two ideas here there are
25:14actually three the first is that
25:18people's class is the determinant factor
25:22and when the Bolsheviks came to power of
25:25course they set out to eliminate classes
25:30like the cool acts and by eliminating it
25:33was at the point of a gun which is what
25:36they did so you first of all you erase
25:40the individual our whole society is
25:43built on the idea of individual rights
25:45and individual accountability but if you
25:48are a Marxist view it's about classes
25:52this is classical Marxism it's Marxism I
25:55grew up with the second idea is that
25:59society is divided into oppressors and
26:02oppressed so there's the ruling class
26:05and then there was the working class and
26:08the third idea is that there's a civil
26:11war between these classes and it's a
26:13conflict that can only be resolved
26:15violently now if you think about it this
26:20this had a certain coherence this idea
26:22and the idea was of course that private
26:25property which creates the classes is
26:28responsible for all of the social
26:30problems Wars poverty and so forth
26:36so if you have a revolution the
26:39revolution was to take away the
26:41ownership of the means of production
26:43from the ruling class and put everybody
26:45in one class well there's a certain
26:48coherence for that idea because you wind
26:51up after you've eliminated the bed
26:54oppressor class um where everybody is
26:58isn't equal because nobody is an owner
27:01of property um this is a delusional idea
27:04and it led to the deaths of a hundred
27:08million people in the 20th century very
27:12destructive you you if you take away
27:15people's identity as individuals an
27:20individual merit I mean the American
27:22idea is so much Martin Luther King's
27:24idea that with judge people by the
27:26content of their character
27:29however cultural Marxism identity
27:33politics is a hundred times worse
27:36because it sees society is divided into
27:40races ethnicities genders and it has
27:44this ridiculous the way they they judge
27:48who's oppressed is whose marginal so I
27:52don't know if you dress yourself up in a
27:56dress and have a mustache and you know
28:00put rabbit ears on your head of course
28:06your marginal just look around you
28:11you're gonna be marginal now that
28:13doesn't mean you're oppressed it's just
28:15a fact
28:17Jews are marginal we've been marginal
28:20throughout history and persecuted for
28:23that matter but this is a very
28:28pernicious idea that society is divided
28:34into it an oppressor group based on race
28:40based or based on gender or based on
28:44sexual orientation an oppressor group
28:47and an oppressed group and then of
28:51course the ideology is one of war
28:59there's a phrase for it I've discussed
29:02this before but I it hasn't been picked
29:04up by people but it needs to be picked
29:06up by conservatives people of color now
29:12people of color is not a group it's not
29:19a group there's not an identity of
29:20interest just as the Rwandan you think
29:24the Tutsis and Hutus that a common
29:26interest you think that Pakistanis and
29:30and Indians have a common interest their
29:35war with each other and I the example
29:40I've given is of Mexico where you have
29:43two main ethnic groups the descendants
29:46of the conquistadors who slaughtered the
29:49indigenous Indians oppressors and the
29:52descendants of the indigenous survivors
29:55of the indigenous Indians II oppressed
29:57but when they cross the border into the
29:59United States they're both people of
30:01color
30:01therefore oppressed therefore you know
30:04marginal deserving special interest
30:07special allowances you don't look at
30:10what they actually do they break the law
30:13if they break the law no suggesting that
30:16well I'm Mexican I mean this is the left
30:18is so good at converting whatever you
30:20say into what you didn't say but it's
30:28it's to convert power on these so-called
30:31oppressed groups and deprive the
30:33oppressor goes well if you look at the
30:35world Maharaja's and India are people of
30:37color be headers in Syria Isis members
30:42they're people of color Idi Amin and
30:45Mugabe and these monsters in Africa
30:49dictators are people of color everybody
30:53in the world is people of color
30:55except the bad evil oppressors white
30:58people the biggest social problem we
31:01have in America is a rampant anti-white
31:04racism people talk now Democrats people
31:08that you would think had brains talk
31:11about America as
31:12white supremacist nation it's idiotic
31:15it's lunatic yeah there are some Ku Klux
31:19errs around there are some white
31:21supremacist what are they
31:24500 we're in Charlottesville out of a
31:27nation of 330 million the Ku Klux Klan
31:32once head up but they have 11 senators
31:36and 75 congressmen daily the white
31:39supremacists the actual white
31:42supremacists was a member of Congress
31:47there are some black supremacist in
31:49Congress I would tell you that but I'm
31:51not one white supremacist same thing
31:55with Nazis and neo-nazis those kids and
31:58our Hitler Youth is what they are
32:01literally what they were cheering is an
32:06organization that wants to exterminate
32:08the Jews and says so in so many words
32:11which I actually read up more statements
32:14from the mosque but you just have to
32:16read the mus charter to know that
32:18extermination of Jews is their agenda
32:23now I could go on and on about this but
32:28this is the greatest problem our country
32:30faces why are we so divided because
32:33everybody on the left everybody is a
32:35progressive is seeing everything in
32:37racial gender terms and and lying about
32:40it Hillary ran a campaign on the idea
32:44that the women are I somehow oppressed
32:46in this country by been to the extent
32:52that there's a gender wage gap so that
32:54women actually earn twenty four cents
32:58less on the dollar than men for the same
33:00work and the same experience in the same
33:03jobs it's a big lie and Hillary knows
33:08it's a lie because she was around when a
33:10male dominated Congress in 1963 people
33:15passed the equal pay for equal work Act
33:18making it illegal to pay women less than
33:21men and uh as I've said many times from
33:25platforms like this you can show in one
33:28sentence why it's a lie and that is if
33:31it were true employers would fire all
33:35their male employees hire women and
33:37increase their profits 20% it doesn't
33:41happen because it's a lie and yet
33:44there's no where's the media where are
33:47the referees where are the sensible
33:50people in our public life pointing this
33:54out they they don't exist and that's
33:57because of our corrupt corrupted educate
34:01destroyed educational system they were
34:04the the modern research university
34:06that's where and I got my model of what
34:10I wanted a university to look like from
34:12having guy I went to Columbia in the
34:141950s as a Marxist
34:17I was never harassed by my professors
34:20the way conservative kids are harassed
34:23these days I never knew the politics of
34:26my professors if if students in the
34:29class took one opinion they took the
34:31opposite to teach us how to think that
34:35was what a university should be it was
34:37it was one of the great achievements a
34:39mankind really the modern research
34:42university that the left has destroyed
34:45it doesn't exist it what was going on at
34:50schools like Harvard and Yale is
34:53disgraceful and you can say I mean it's
34:56all over YouTube you can see it so is
35:00there a solution well there's two ways
35:06of looking at that question sure you
35:12know my Bill of Rights was one attempt
35:15at a solution if if they just observe
35:19the universities the you know the
35:22principles that they preached everything
35:25would be fine but they don't they don't
35:27there is an a an administrator in this
35:31country who has reached out to my login
35:35Ann Coulter or myself or any of the
35:38conservative speakers and attempted to
35:41reverse this not what so here's my
35:45proposal and in doing the academic Bill
35:49of Rights I ask you'd any external
35:53forces being placed on the university we
35:56passed a few resolutions supporting the
36:00idea of those principles that should
36:02they should be fairness but no
36:04legislation and no wielding of political
36:07power but the left has convinced me that
36:14appeals to Reason our feudal my the
36:18campaign i waged failed so here's how i
36:21would fix it today there were 33 states
36:25where republicans control the state
36:29legislatures the Appropriations
36:34Committee both in both houses of the
36:39legislature in every one of these states
36:43controls the Lifeline the oxygen tubes
36:47for the presidents of these universities
36:51and the universities no University
36:54project in of course in public public
36:57institutions 85% of our students go to
37:00public universities all the chairman of
37:06the Appropriations Committee would have
37:08to do is to call the president the
37:11University and say you are constantly
37:15coming to me to fund to underwrite to
37:19make possible this for your university
37:22that for University and of course to
37:26advance your own careers because you are
37:28judged on what you can bring to the
37:30University so I have three things that I
37:35want from you and if I don't get them
37:38I'm not gonna answer your phone calls
37:40ever again the first I want you to
37:46provide me
37:47with a degree required reading lists for
37:51every one of your undergraduate courses
37:53in the liberal arts and then I'm going
37:56to submit that to a one of our
37:59conservative think tanks and they're
38:02going to look it over to see if there
38:05are is parity between the conservative
38:09books that you require and the
38:11conservative authors that you require
38:13students to read and and the leftist
38:16ones and of course there's no parity
38:19whatsoever because the conservative
38:21books barely exist and I know this
38:23because I did a book called one party as
38:26I mentioned one party classroom where I
38:28study the regime lists of our didn't
38:31seventy courses uh and I can tell you
38:34they are conservative book free and that
38:38doesn't even impose on the professor the
38:43responsibility not to ridicule the
38:46conservative ideas but to present them
38:48so the students can weigh them one of
38:50the group one of the complaints I had I
38:52spoke at the New England Western New
38:57England law school and the conservative
39:00students there with their complaint was
39:02that every time the name Antonin Scalia
39:04or just as our Clarence Thomas comes up
39:08they make jokes about them that you know
39:11that's a way of stopping people from
39:14weighing their ideas you ridicule is it
39:16very powerful powerful weapon and having
39:21submitted those lists to me I want you I
39:24give you a term to do this to see that
39:29all the required readings for
39:32undergraduates they're those lists
39:35there's parity between the required
39:37conservative and left-wing
39:40texts second thing I want you to do is
39:45to provide me with a list of all the
39:48speakers who are invited to your canna
39:50campus and often paid exorbitant fees if
39:55they're on the left my michael moore
39:58will get fifty
39:59thousand dollars from a state school
40:00during an election year to election year
40:04for the Democrat they ran a slacker
40:07store the Supreme Court has already said
40:10that that means Republicans have to get
40:13an exact amount of the same amount of
40:15money just to adhere to the Constitution
40:18of course that isn't happening or hasn't
40:20happened so I want a list of all the
40:24speaker's invited by your professors and
40:27by your student organizations and I want
40:30them to dead within the year I want
40:33absolute parity between Republicans and
40:36Democrats leftist and conservatives and
40:40the third thing I want is I want you I I
40:45will again I will have a committee look
40:47over your faculties and I want you to
40:50begin an affirmative action program to
40:55to diversify your faculties you have a
40:59law faculty and I could throw a dart at
41:03a board with universities named on it
41:06and it didn't matter which one I hit you
41:09have a law faculty with fifty or a
41:12hundred law professors and maximum two
41:19or three are Republicans or
41:22conservatives you can't tell me that
41:24Republicans aren't lawyers so I want you
41:27to begin a program to divert and I want
41:31a progress report every semester to see
41:35your progress on it and then I will take
41:37your phone calls for your projects now
41:41will that happen there's only one
41:45Republican well actually there are two
41:48that I know who would do that one of
41:52them is present in the United States
41:54and the other one is Steve Bennett when
41:57I see other Republicans with some spine
42:00I'll think maybe something like this
42:04could happen
42:06III want to close with the
42:10and going back to the University of
42:12Houston this was a national conference
42:15students for justice in Palestine was
42:17created by the terrorist organization
42:19Hamas its founder hot em Bosnian is an
42:23agent of Hamas hot them Bosnian is the
42:27chairman of the board of American
42:30Muslims from Palestine which provides
42:32over $100,000 a year for students for
42:36justice in Palestine
42:38um and which is a mass operation Hostin
42:42bot see and by the way is a faculty
42:44member at the University of Berkeley
42:46University of California Berkeley um and
42:49of course he's the head of the a slow
42:51Islamophobia Studies program which is
42:54the program to defame and libel and
42:59slander people like me and try to get
43:01people not to listen to us and the
43:07entire agenda of students for justice in
43:11Palestine is to spread genocide lies
43:15about the State of Israel State of
43:18Israel doesn't occupy an inch not an
43:20inch of Arab land the land on which
43:24Israel was created belong to the Turks
43:27for four hundred years prior the Turks
43:29are not Arabs nor are they Palestinians
43:32Pat who never was a country called
43:35Palestine it's a geographical term that
43:38the Romans imposed on the Jewish
43:41homeland the Jews are the only
43:43indigenous people of the land around the
43:49Jordan because the Mandara vation is
43:54Philistine who are the enemies of the
43:56Jews Palestine is a geographical area
44:01it's like New England New Englanders
44:04they didn't exist the Palestinian
44:06nationality or claim to a nationality
44:10until 1964 sixteen years after the
44:14creation of the State of Israel then you
44:15can have all kind of kritis
44:17the Israeli government as you can of any
44:19government but you can't be spreading
44:22genocide allies that come right out of
44:25the Hamas playbook printing on your
44:30calling Israel an apartheid state it's
44:32the only state in the Middle East that
44:34isn't apartheid and putting naps created
44:39by Hamas which show a country called
44:42Palestine existing in 1947 no such
44:45country ever existed and then invaded by
44:49Jews these are Nazis there are Nazis on
44:52our campuses these kids are Hitler Youth
44:55and they are supported by every
44:59University administration including the
45:01University of Chicago which has been
45:04people that praise it because they you
45:07can't believe a word that comes out of a
45:10university administrators mouth these
45:12days because it's the universities that
45:16tear down the posters that we put up
45:18pointing this out it's the universities
45:21that provide offices for these Hitler
45:25Youth students for justice in Palestine
45:27and and they have the whole left and toe
45:29with them the Muslim Students
45:31Association which like SJP is a Muslim
45:35Brotherhood creation but the political
45:38left which is a totalitarian Pro
45:40terrorists left these days all of them
45:44are in tow to do everything that they
45:47can to undermine the Jewish state and
45:51make them vulnerable to the genocide all
45:55intentions with whatever it is 30000
45:58rockets from Hezbollah and Hamas and
46:01Iran I aimed at the Jewish state this is
46:06a it's a it's a other disgrace and the
46:10silence around it which is a silence
46:12also by Jewish organizations that are
46:15don't want to upset the Muslims then
46:19it's just amazing every time there's an
46:22atrocity committed by Isis all of the
46:25Liberals in this country
46:26so-called rally around the Muslims as
46:30though somebody is persecuting Muslims
46:33there is this something like I forget
46:36the exact number but it's five or seven
46:38times the number of hate crimes against
46:40Jews in this country as against Muslims
46:47so just to close this I also I have a
46:53proper forum proposal at the end of this
46:55book but it would take administrators
46:57with some integrity to carry it out
47:00which I don't have any faith in anymore
47:03um I just think that our country is in
47:10grave danger because of this it goes
47:15then they have corrupted the k-12 system
47:17as well
47:18stood kids are being indoctrinated from
47:20kindergarten they have no respect for
47:23youth no respect for innocence they're
47:27on a mission that from their God which
47:29is history what they think is history
47:32they're on the right side of it that's
47:33not what's moving in any direction
47:36that's why they're so shell-shocked
47:39they thought it was moving in their
47:40direction suddenly it isn't if Trump
47:44hadn't come in and demolished Isis
47:46something ro bhama didn't even try to do
47:49for eight years who knows what the
47:54future would be we could be back in the
47:56dark ages however it's a battle that I
48:03hope that you will get involved in we we
48:07have websites that deal with this we
48:10have campus campaigns and I hope that
48:14more people on the right join us and not
48:17just on the right oh yeah I mean Hillel
48:21is is an organization that's gone now
48:23because it's been taken over by the left
48:26but there are some brave members of
48:29Hillel - I'm waiting for them to come
48:32out of the woodwork and
48:35expose this terrorist network on our
48:37campuses and this is just one piece of a
48:41gigantic problem that's been caused over
48:44a 50-year period by the assault on the
48:48left on our universities and their
48:50conversion into cultural Marxist
48:52religious institutions thank you David
49:16thank you so much um I I fear we're
49:20having a problem with a certain
49:23viewpoint you myself many people in this
49:27room started off as socialists
49:29communists we were starting from a base
49:31of attempting to be good decent moral
49:34ethical people and we were misdirected
49:37and once we learned about the body
49:38counts of how many people were murdered
49:40for this utopia we started rethinking I
49:43I fear that's what's going on in the
49:45university is exactly what the
49:48government wants to be doing you were
49:49talking about government funding if
49:51you're trying to create a society of
49:54Rhian slaving humanity of tyranny of
49:58undermining constitutions and democracy
50:00they're doing exactly what they want
50:03them to do and it seems like the only
50:05alternative is first to just call them
50:07out on for employers don't hire people
50:10from people like you Berkeley and Yale
50:13and Harvard look it's very sinister what
50:17the left is done oh because you can't do
50:19that they've inserted themselves into it
50:22I mean there are still the university is
50:25a gigantic institution and and there are
50:30marvelous parts of it untouched well not
50:33not entirely untouched because you in
50:37the medical schools and in science
50:39schools there's a leftist campaign you
50:44know
50:45to intimidate people into a day you know
50:48adopting all of the myths of identity
50:50politics so there's a political war
50:52going on for the students minds but the
50:55fact of the matter is that a university
50:58like Berkeley or the University of
51:00Houston a lot of it does really
51:02marvelous things in medicine you know in
51:06physics and astrophysics and various
51:10technical fields so you can't tell
51:13people don't send your kids to Harvard
51:16or Yale they have to get it look it's
51:18always it's a political battle
51:21conservatives don't like politics I mean
51:23this is a huge handicap for
51:26conservatives when I first came into the
51:29write and look around I said you know
51:32where's the ground army
51:35there is none conservatives politics is
51:39a dirty business that we engage in every
51:4118 months you know outside the 18 months
51:46unless we're you know trying to get some
51:48favors for our companies or something
51:50like that
51:51outside the 18 months we go back to
51:54normal life which is creative we're
51:57creating jobs we're creating products
52:01we're making people's lives better
52:03that's what conservatives do whereas
52:05leftist are at war all the time right
52:09then and as much as we're the creators
52:11that we created these universities we
52:13can recreate new universities the hills
52:16cells the Prager University is the
52:18online universities there's a it isn't
52:20as if everything is it's available now
52:22well look I I don't know very much about
52:25clothes Dale although I've done
52:29fundraisers with him but I've never been
52:32to Hillsdale because I think because
52:35their president is a very traditional
52:37conservative who doesn't approve of my
52:40confrontational politics but the fact of
52:45the matter is these are tiny come there
52:49we're not talking about it Harvard and
52:53Yale these yeah
52:54whether they're endowments for 500
52:57billion dollars and by the way one of
53:01the great things that Trump is doing and
53:03I actually know the guy who proposed
53:06this as part of this tax bill is an
53:10endowment tax on private universities
53:13like Harvard and and Yale so a 10%
53:18endowment tax would pay for all those
53:20student loans wouldn't it right but I'm
53:23just trying to think in a different way
53:24in as much as we never had an internet
53:27we didn't have immediate information
53:28instantaneous that you know we used to
53:30buy encyclopedias we we don't need
53:33encyclopedias now we have it all and
53:35maybe we just have reorganized look I
53:38agree that the Internet has greatly
53:41greatly increased the power of
53:44conservatives it's broken the monopoly
53:47the information monopolies the left used
53:49to have a lot of things are happening
53:54the Trump movement is the biggest
53:57grassroots the first time well it's the
53:59second time when the Tea Party appeared
54:02I said ah finally at last a ground army
54:05is forming now it's much much bigger so
54:08there's hope in that
54:09but let's not underestimate the odds but
54:12let's be sober about that hello mr.
54:16Horowitz I think the hardest thing for
54:19conservatives is how to understand the
54:22liberal mind the logic I like logical
54:27right I read I know it I know that
54:29Dennis Prager and you have said it's a
54:31religion and it doesn't require any you
54:33know it's a faith-based type of thing
54:35and I read Evans IX book on the liberal
54:39mind which went helped explain some of
54:41it but children and students are
54:45impressionable they don't have their
54:48minds aren't fully formed but they're
54:51professors and the leaders of the
54:53movement the progressive movement are
54:55adults and I want to ask you since you
54:59were in that you had that perspective as
55:02a young man what how do they envision
55:05utopia what are they
55:07they don't use my idea I mean I've
55:10written so much about this the second
55:12volume in this series the black book
55:13series it's called progressives it's in
55:17there the difference is this
55:20conservatives form their views of the
55:23world by looking at the past which is
55:26the record of what human beings are
55:28capable of both good and bad and if you
55:33you know read about the founding of this
55:35country that's what they did they
55:37studied societies and they thought
55:39democracy was a really bad system but it
55:42was better than the others and on
55:46practical grounds leftist don't look at
55:48the real world that way they're always
55:50looking at an imaginary future it used
55:53to be called communism and it's
55:55socialism now it's social justice all
55:58the same thing all ultimately the same
56:02thing all headed in the same direction
56:03to treat people as collectives to erase
56:08their individuality to judge them either
56:11on their class position or on their race
56:14or gender or sexual orientation and
56:18always to see it in terms of oppressors
56:21and oppressed and that is what they're
56:26thinking if you want to call it thinking
56:28and for them it's tremendous they think
56:31of themselves social justice warriors we
56:34even use their language to describe them
56:37they're heroic they're living in a
56:40fantasy a romantic fantasy in which
56:43they're saving the world if you think of
56:46you're saving the world you're not gonna
56:48give that up I mean you're not thinking
56:50logically I mean I you know I watch the
56:54television like everybody I'm thinking
56:57uh you know if people get run over by a
57:00terrorist truck about gun control that
57:03was that doesn't make any sense
57:06whatsoever how can you even begin with a
57:09straight face to do things like that and
57:13it's because it's because the
57:17elimination of guns which is what their
57:19agenda is
57:20is part of creating this world where we
57:22all get along people don't get along
57:25they haven't gotten along since Cain
57:28killed Abel for crying out tears well
57:31that's what I want to ask you is that do
57:34they just discount history I mean look
57:36at not yeah it was totalitarian they
57:39they think they're smarter than
57:42everybody else
57:43and everybody who existed before them
57:45look the Bolsheviks Lenin Trotsky these
57:49were very very smart people Michael
57:53Moore you know he doesn't come up to
57:58them but we can look back and see that
58:01those that Lenin at the time that was
58:04the first time that now we've had these
58:06two don't they how did the left react to
58:13the collapse of the Soviet Union the
58:15deaths of 40 million people the
58:18starvation the gulag how they reacted
58:22with a oh that wasn't real socialism
58:25we're smarter than Lenin than
58:28preobrazhensky then Lukacs go on and on
58:34that's the way people think they're
58:36arrogant and they're stupid what more
58:39can you say and there's so much
58:41emotional satisfaction it's a religion
58:45it's a consolation for the all the
58:48disappointments of life that's what it
58:51is and you need to take that away from
58:53them with cause I mean I described in my
58:56book radical son the personal crisis I
58:58went through when I realized that
59:00Marxism
59:01is a load of crap it was everything to
59:06me it made everything I did important
59:08and that's the way it is for every
59:10leftist and you can see by the way in
59:15their contempt their utter contempt for
59:18people who disagree with them their
59:20arrogance the lack of respect
59:23it just it's astounding you see it every
59:27day on television you see idiots like
59:29Joanne
59:31or lawrence O'Donnell pathological liar
59:34in the case of O'Donnell but just
59:37in the case of joy and read why is she a
59:40because she can't there's no
59:43empathy there there's no respect for
59:46people who disagree with her yes sir
59:51thank you David for what you are
59:53accomplishing I would like to make a
59:56point
59:57you had mentioned very very briefly in
59:59passing the problem of K through 12 I
1:00:03would like to bring to your attention if
1:00:05you're not aware of this for example my
1:00:08wife is a teacher at LAUSD the second
1:00:11largest public the second largest public
1:00:15school district in the United States
1:00:17second only to New York and she recently
1:00:20showed me some literature from a course
1:00:24that the teachers are not being exposed
1:00:26to in terms of training these students
1:00:30of LAUSD
1:00:31in the importance of understanding the
1:00:34Muslim faith the five pillars of the
1:00:37Muslim faith their prayers what they
1:00:41signify when they prostrate themselves
1:00:44what that signifies they go into great
1:00:46detail about this any other religion it
1:00:49to be totally banned correct that's the
1:00:52problem not that they're not that
1:00:54they're teaching what Muslims believe
1:00:57but they the fact that Christians Jews
1:01:03probably atheists are excluded why
1:01:07because their oppressors of Muslims
1:01:09there's a political agenda in the Adina
1:01:13school district in Minnesota Tim a
1:01:16suburb of it's a wealthy suburb of
1:01:18Minneapolis that giving first graders a
1:01:20book you know a kids book with big
1:01:23pictures big a on the front of it a is
1:01:26for activists
1:01:28X is for Malcolm X and on and on now I
1:01:34forget the other thing but it's a
1:01:35complete leftist agenda I have a website
1:01:39called stop k12 indoctrination
1:01:43on that website there's a code of ethics
1:01:46for k-12 teachers which if you don't
1:01:50observe you lose your light you get
1:01:53suspended and then if you persist you
1:01:56lose your license that would stop all
1:01:57this but it requires a political City
1:02:04Council
1:02:05whoever oversees the school district
1:02:10with integrity they have to have
1:02:13integrity and they have to have enormous
1:02:18guts mr. Horowitz I've seen a lot of
1:02:25your videos on YouTube before and I've
1:02:27wanted to ask you this question for a
1:02:29while cuz my grandmother actually had to
1:02:31live in Nazi Germany the National
1:02:35Socialists in Germany frequently
1:02:36portrayed the Jews as being greedy rich
1:02:39capitalists who only got rich because
1:02:42they stole everything from everybody
1:02:44else
1:02:44they according to Hitler basically
1:02:47cheated to get to the top the concept of
1:02:50white privilege which is what many
1:02:52liberals
1:02:53talk about today where they accuse white
1:02:57Christians like myself from basically
1:02:59stealing from everybody else do you feel
1:03:02that the national socialist rhetoric of
1:03:05the Jews influenced many liberals today
1:03:08to come up with their rhetoric of white
1:03:10privilege I don't think it was direct I
1:03:13think but I you know maybe make myself
1:03:16clear there collectivists the National
1:03:19Socialists were socialists and they had
1:03:23you know they pick and the out-group the
1:03:26group that's the source of the problems
1:03:27and the Liberals in America who are not
1:03:31liberal they're bigots most intolerant
1:03:34people in America are people who call
1:03:37themselves liberals they have picked a
1:03:40group to scapegoat which is white people
1:03:44it's quite amazing the NACD is now wants
1:03:51to ban the National Anthem is the most
1:03:52racist anthem ever
1:03:55these people I mean they're it's nuts
1:03:58but not if you're inside the religion
1:04:02not if you're inside the religion if
1:04:04you're inside the religion black people
1:04:06can't be racist scan it because they
1:04:09have no power
1:04:10well don't want to Barack Obama and the
1:04:11to corrupt Attorney General's we had
1:04:14during his administration you know it's
1:04:19amazing to me every time there was a an
1:04:23officer was killed by individuals
1:04:28incited by black lives matter who would
1:04:32appear at the microphone as the police
1:04:34chief in whether is Dallas or New
1:04:37Orleans or Cleveland it's always a black
1:04:40cop this kindness we are the most
1:04:43tolerant inclusive society in the
1:04:46history of the world of any size I mean
1:04:49of course if you have only five black
1:04:52people and everybody else is white like
1:04:54in Switzerland or something it's not a
1:04:57big problem but we have large minority
1:05:00populations and we we have people who
1:05:05are the age of most of the people in
1:05:07this audience can remember the
1:05:10difference thirty or forty or fifty
1:05:12years ago the thing that really strikes
1:05:17it when one of the most pampered or the
1:05:20most pampered racists in America is
1:05:22tonic easy coats is the darling of the
1:05:25Atlantic and every liberal so-called
1:05:29organization and he has a pathological
1:05:32hatred for America and for white people
1:05:35if you read is anything that is really
1:05:37anything that is written man you know
1:05:43when I see these issues discuss publicly
1:05:47what's missing is a simple statement you
1:05:53know in America the constant Tim Kaine
1:05:55the other day I mean who say communists
1:05:58Tim Kaine was a Christic well you know
1:06:02that Chris --tx were I mean these were
1:06:04communist supporting that
1:06:07in eastern Salvadorian communist
1:06:10guerrillas in the 80s that's what Tim
1:06:12Kaine is the attack general Kelly the
1:06:16other day and his ideas that the
1:06:19Constitution enshrined as he put it
1:06:23slavery actually the American Founding
1:06:27that slavery existed for 3,000 years
1:06:29before anybody said it was immoral not
1:06:32Jesus not Moses
1:06:34nobody certainly not Muhammad the
1:06:37Muslims are still practicing slavery and
1:06:39I still think it's ok but white
1:06:44Christians and led by Wilberforce in
1:06:47England and by Thomas Jefferson here
1:06:49Thomas Jefferson wrote into our birth
1:06:51certificate that were all creatures of
1:06:54God whatever you think of other people
1:06:56can be inferior to you or not they're
1:06:59creatures of one creator therefore equal
1:07:04in his or I have to say these days her
1:07:07eyes whatever and they have right to
1:07:13Liberty every black in America Oh does
1:07:19their freedom to Thomas Jefferson the
1:07:22American Founding the 350000 Union
1:07:26soldiers who gave their lives to free
1:07:28them and have President Abraham Lincoln
1:07:31who gave his life as well and when I
1:07:34hear that and I know I'm in a
1:07:36conversation with rational people and
1:07:38not religious fanatics but I I don't I
1:07:41don't you know I watch quite a bit of
1:07:43television although it's very hard these
1:07:45days I don't see that simple fact
1:07:49recognized it's okay to be white that
1:07:53are you familiar that that's some
1:07:56brilliant I'm not good at this I'm a
1:07:58kind of a sledgehammer but um the Milo
1:08:01gianopolous the trolls this I think was
1:08:05channel 4 which is a troll channel
1:08:07conservative trolls put up it's okay to
1:08:12be white and it drove the left up the
1:08:15wall why
1:08:17they're racist and what you know when I
1:08:22see a conservative on television say
1:08:25you're a racist to a Democrat then I'll
1:08:28know we're on the road to freedom thank
1:08:32you
1:08:33[Applause]

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