“Diversity Equity & Inclusion” Really Means Shut Up — Transcript

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1. 0:00when all arguments boil down to power
2. 0:02dynamics that means there can't be any
3. 0:03arguments arguments are useless more
4. 0:06than that if my arguments make you feel
5. 0:07uncomfortable that's me using my power
6. 0:09against you that's me hurting you that's
7. 0:11me Micro aggressing you and so you have
8. 0:14to shut up right if you say something to
9. 0:15me that hurts me you need to shut up
10. 0:17because you're not making an argument
11. 0:18arguments are just power
12. 0:20so if you say something that offends me
13. 0:22that's you using your power against me
14. 0:23in the same way as if you had hit me
15. 0:25and so you need to be quiet
16. 0:27that's so that the powerless can
17. 0:29reassert themselves it's time to shut up
18. 0:30and do the work they have to do the work
19. 0:33and the work inevitably it actually is
20. 0:34work you have to sit there and listen to
21. 0:36a bunch of nonsense from people who
22. 0:37don't make arguments but talk inherently
23. 0:39about how suffering they are and how
24. 0:42difficult their lives are and if you
25. 0:43have anything to say on the other end
26. 0:45then you have not done the work I mean
27. 0:47at least they're being honest of it that
28. 0:49it's work I mean it certainly is not
29. 0:50play I'm not sure how else you would
30. 0:51categorize it but if you do the work
31. 0:53this means you're supposed to just shut
32. 0:54up and listen and by shutting up and
33. 0:56listen we mean never having a discussion
34. 0:57of course you should listen to the other
35. 0:58person's perspective and then you should
36. 0:59offer your own this is called the
37. 1:00conversation and grown-up adults do it
38. 1:02all the time
39. 1:03but according to the left you're not
40. 1:05supposed to do this sort of stuff
41. 1:06if you speak up you may have committed
42. 1:09one of those horrible brutal
43. 1:11microaggressions aggressions that are so
44. 1:13small you can't even see them they're so
45. 1:16small they're not just big aggressions
46. 1:18or medium-sized aggressions they're
47. 1:19microaggressions the most Insidious
48. 1:21kinds of aggressions like dust that gets
49. 1:23under your fingernails in terms of
50. 1:24aggression
51. 1:27in fact if you if you speak if you say
52. 1:30something wrong the only way that we can
53. 1:32teach you a lesson is if we create I
54. 1:33don't know like a tree of Oppression
55. 1:35and we just create this giant tree in
56. 1:37the middle of a campus and we just put a
57. 1:39bunch of chains on it and called the
58. 1:40tree of Oppression
59. 1:41and um and it's a magical place and then
60. 1:45we will all know that we are all
61. 1:46oppressed but we're not all oppressed
62. 1:48only some of us are oppressed and if you
63. 1:49make fun of the tree of Oppression
64. 1:50you're part of the microaggression
65. 1:51universe or maybe you hire ibrahamex
66. 1:53candy to give the Martin Luther King Jr
67. 1:55Legacy convocation in order to ensure
68. 1:57that somebody has been paid off in order
69. 1:59to assuage the feelings of the of the
70. 2:02broad left because if ever makes candy
71. 2:04is able to put cash in his bank account
72. 2:05then this means that you have fought
73. 2:07racism in some unknowable way
74. 2:10this sort of garbage has been written
75. 2:11into the code of nearly every major
76. 2:12institution in American Life the term
77. 2:14that's used on campus and in corporate
78. 2:16boardrooms Across America are diversity
79. 2:18equity and inclusion which of course is
80. 2:20the sort of Happy Talk the orwellian
81. 2:22happy talk that you hear very often from
82. 2:23the left is like when Twitter says they
83. 2:25have a health and safety Council and
84. 2:27what they really mean is you're not
85. 2:28allowed to say anything we don't like
86. 2:29like Leah Thomas is a dude or we'll ban
87. 2:31you because that's health and safety
88. 2:33right so they say diversity equity and
89. 2:35inclusion and what they mean by that is
90. 2:36shut up
91. 2:37right they don't mean inclusion because
92. 2:38if you have a point of view that argues
93. 2:40with their own then you should be quiet
94. 2:43and by Equity they mean again systems of
95. 2:46power that have to be reversed they
96. 2:47don't mean equality right because
97. 2:49equality of Rights might actually be
98. 2:50something worth pursuing what they mean
99. 2:52is equity equality of outcome and that
100. 2:54can only be achieved if a finger is put
101. 2:56on the scale on behalf of marginalized
102. 2:58groups
103. 2:59so this means that institutions are
104. 3:01allowed to discriminate against Asian
105. 3:02Americans at Harvard so they can't get
106. 3:04into the schools you know make sure that
107. 3:06you have to correct that historic
108. 3:07discrimination because of course Asian
109. 3:09Americans were the chief beneficiaries
110. 3:11of Harvard when it was first established
111. 3:13by Asian Americans in the Asian dominant
112. 3:15system that was created by Asian
113. 3:17Americans at the founding of the United
114. 3:18States
115. 3:21you press forward inclusion by saying
116. 3:23that anybody who goes to church is
117. 3:24really we don't mean you and if you're
118. 3:26one of those crazy people who cites the
119. 3:27Bible we don't mean you and we say
120. 3:28inclusive what we really mean is like
121. 3:31everyone but you mostly
122. 3:34and that's inclusion
123. 3:36and of course you have to teach all
124. 3:39children that this is the most important
125. 3:41thing and so we have to do this at the
126. 3:42earliest possible level right you have
127. 3:43to teach small children in Ames Iowa to
128. 3:45engage in Black lives matter at school
129. 3:47week of action in your public schools
130. 3:49these are very important things that you
131. 3:51have to do to forward diversity equity
132. 3:52and inclusion all of which is designed
133. 3:55to indoctrinate kids in the idea that
134. 3:57all argumentation is stupid that reason
135. 3:59is bad the discussions are wrong and
136. 4:01that everything is a reflection of power
137. 4:03so be quiet
138. 4:05wokism is destructive to the country no
139. 4:07democracy can survive the denial of
140. 4:09Truth the substitution of narratives of
141. 4:11power for discussion about ideas and as
142. 4:13it turns out the tenets of orchism are
143. 4:15Lies when it comes to race it is vital
144. 4:17to understand that what makes America
145. 4:18different from virtually every other
146. 4:20country on earth is that the founding
147. 4:21principles of the United States what
148. 4:23makes it distinctive is that the
149. 4:24founding principles of the United States
150. 4:26were Universal not racist
151. 4:28the Declaration of Independence is
152. 4:29Promised which was not fully kept at the
153. 4:31time of the Declaration of Independence
154. 4:33was a universal promise
155. 4:35that's not me saying that that's
156. 4:36Frederick Douglass saying that this
157. 4:37Booker T Washington saying that says
158. 4:39Martin Luther King saying that
159. 4:40right it's black leaders saying that the
160. 4:42promissory note had to be cashed but
161. 4:45that doesn't mean that the promise was
162. 4:46meant to be evil and selective and
163. 4:48discriminatory and that that's what's
164. 4:50written into the DNA of the United
165. 4:51States far from it the Constitution of
166. 4:55the United States was written as far as
167. 4:57it could be when you still had half the
168. 4:59the nation slave holding in half the
169. 5:01Nation free was written to allow for the
170. 5:03birth of the United States but it was
171. 5:05also written to allow a path forward
172. 5:06Away From Slavery the Constitution of
173. 5:09the United States has a bevy of
174. 5:10Provisions that are designed to move the
175. 5:11United States Away From Slavery entirely
176. 5:14the Northwest Ordinance signed by George
177. 5:16Washington in 1787 banned slavery in new
178. 5:19territories
179. 5:20there are approximately 60 000 free
180. 5:22black Americans living in the United
181. 5:23States about the time of the founding
182. 5:24the Constitution of the United States
183. 5:25banned the importation of slaves Beyond
184. 5:271808. this is not to deny that racism
185. 5:30and slavery and racial evil were a deep
186. 5:33part of U.S history of course they were
187. 5:35but it is to say that what makes America
188. 5:37special and distinctive and great
189. 5:39is that the principles that really do
190. 5:42rest underneath the American ideal are
191. 5:45not racist they are Universal they are
192. 5:47individualistic which is of course why
193. 5:49black Americans are by all available
194. 5:51statistics the richest group of black
195. 5:53people anywhere on Earth
196. 5:54it is the reason why the United States
197. 5:56alone among multi-racial democracies has
198. 5:58elected a black president I know we're
199. 5:59supposed to pretend that that's not a
200. 6:00data point in favor of anything but it
201. 6:02turns out it's actually a data point in
202. 6:03favor of something
203. 6:05the United States happens to be by all
204. 6:07available poll data one of the most
205. 6:08racially tolerant places on planet Earth
206. 6:11and yet the idea is that Americans are
207. 6:12racist and that if Americans aren't
208. 6:14racist they really are racist right if
209. 6:16you say you're not racist this is just
210. 6:18because you haven't accepted your own
211. 6:19racism
212. 6:21right yeah deep down we'll give you an
213. 6:23implicit bias association test a deeply
214. 6:26flawed social science nonsense study
215. 6:28where you click a little button and then
216. 6:30it tells you if you're racist or not
217. 6:31based on how quickly you tap on that
218. 6:33little button
219. 6:34and that's how we'll know if you're
220. 6:35racist we won't know that you're a
221. 6:36racist because say you know it's 1960
222. 6:38and you actually sponsored a law in
223. 6:39Alabama preventing black people from
224. 6:41going into restaurants that's like a
225. 6:42pretty good indication of race no what
226. 6:44we will do is we'll have you click a
227. 6:45button in your Harvard class and then
228. 6:46we'll tell you that you're a racist
229. 6:47based on no evidence other than how you
230. 6:49click that button by the way you can
231. 6:51also game that test the second time you
232. 6:53take it you almost invariably do better
233. 6:54than you do the first which is the mark
234. 6:55of a bad test my tests are supposed to
235. 6:57be duplicative if you take an IQ test
236. 6:59and one day you score 100 and the next
237. 7:01day you score 150 that's a bad IQ test
238. 7:02you didn't randomly get 50 points
239. 7:04smarter
240. 7:07and wokeism is also wrong in arguing
241. 7:10that there's no objective truth more
242. 7:11generally of course biological sex
243. 7:14exists of course biological sex exists
244. 7:17men and women exist
245. 7:28I always choose this example because it
246. 7:30was only a few years ago that Dennis
247. 7:31Prager was literally laughed off the set
248. 7:33of Bill Maher's show for pointing out
249. 7:35that many people on the left had said
250. 7:37that men could be women and women could
251. 7:38be men and Bill Martin insists like what
252. 7:40kind of crazy are you talking and now
253. 7:42you have Supreme Court nominees openly
254. 7:43saying they cannot Define the word woman
255. 7:45in hearings and then being confirmed
256. 7:48okay but as it turns out yes men and
257. 7:50women exist and they are different and
258. 7:52all reproductive capacity for the human
259. 7:54species rests on this fundamental
260. 7:55distinction and it is not all that
261. 7:57difficult to define a woman or to define
262. 7:58a man you can do it via genetics you can
263. 8:00do it via reproductive organs you can do
264. 8:02it through secondary sex characteristics
265. 8:03there are many different ways that you
266. 8:05can do this no there is no random third
267. 8:07sex know that gender fluidity is not a
268. 8:10thing a man cannot be a woman and a
269. 8:11woman cannot be a man these are basic
270. 8:13facts this doesn't mean you should be
271. 8:15mean to anybody
272. 8:24but it turns out that truth is not mean
273. 8:26it's just truth truth is not a system of
274. 8:29power it is just truth
275. 8:31fact are just facts and as I'm fond of
276. 8:34saying they don't care about your
277. 8:35feelings
278. 8:42finally wokism is wrong because again
279. 8:44with all of the
280. 8:46stuff that we've talked about in the end
281. 8:47it forecloses discussion and that's what
282. 8:49we need I mean if we're going to have a
283. 8:51functioning Republic in the United
284. 8:52States we actually have to have
285. 8:53discussions between one another where
286. 8:54we're not so insulted that we go off to
287. 8:57our safe space crime corners and weep
288. 8:59about it
289. 9:00and where we have Student Activities
290. 9:02that that are set where you have pizza
291. 9:04and Kumbaya sessions just to get away
292. 9:06from the possibility that someone might
293. 9:07disagree with you you're free to do that
294. 9:09it's a free country but it is also the
295. 9:12case that if you wish to see the United
296. 9:13States thrive in the future it's going
297. 9:15to have to stick to the principles that
298. 9:16brought us here namely things like
299. 9:18individual freedom things like objective
300. 9:21truth things like strong social
301. 9:22institutions that reinforce important
302. 9:24social rules
303. 9:25these are important things if we can do
304. 9:28all of that we'll preserve the United
305. 9:29States if we can and if we fall to
306. 9:30wokeness we're in real trouble which is
307. 9:32why wokeness has to be destroyed I think
308. 9:34with the help of God it will be
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