Gutfeld on President Biden pushing racial equity over equality — Transcript

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1. 0:00hi i'm greg gutfeld with jesse waters
2. 0:02katy pavlich juan williams
3. 0:04and she once had to put down on my
4. 0:06little pony dana farino
5. 0:07the five
6. 0:15yesterday president biden signed four
7. 0:18executive actions based on racial equity
8. 0:21focusing on systemic racism in private
9. 0:24prisons
10. 0:25housing coveted relief and tribal
11. 0:28relations
12. 0:29apparently systemic racism is like
13. 0:31oxygen it's everywhere you look
14. 0:33and the solution is equity not equality
15. 0:37equity even joe's using the word does he
16. 0:40know what it means
17. 0:42who knows which means it's time for
18. 0:46greg explain stuff the media wishes
19. 0:49you wouldn't understand not crazy about
20. 0:52the hair
21. 0:54equality as you know means you have the
22. 0:57opportunity to try something even if
23. 0:59you're bad at it
24. 1:00i can try to play basketball i will suck
25. 1:02but in america
26. 1:04i have an opportunity to try just like i
27. 1:06have the opportunity to become an
28. 1:08electrical engineer
29. 1:10a pipe fitter or a peloton instructor
30. 1:13i would suck at those too but it's
31. 1:14against the law to discriminate against
32. 1:17me
33. 1:18it's about equality of opportunity not
34. 1:20equality of
35. 1:21outcome which is what equity promises
36. 1:24equality of outcome a reserved space
37. 1:28based on the single variable of systemic
38. 1:30discrimination
39. 1:31your equity becomes an entitlement so
40. 1:34even though i suck at basketball there
41. 1:36should be a place for me
42. 1:37in the nba equity not only ignores
43. 1:40competence
44. 1:41it reduces the diversity of talent that
45. 1:43comes from opportunity as well as
46. 1:44ignoring
47. 1:45how people choose different things shall
48. 1:47we create female quotas
49. 1:49for loggers and roofers and garbage
50. 1:51collectors and other male-dominated jobs
51. 1:54even if women don't want them you know
52. 1:56workplace death
53. 1:57for men is 10 times higher than women
54. 2:00do activists seek equity there or is it
55. 2:03just the cush
56. 2:04jobs they're after and of course with
57. 2:06equity you you will need someone to
58. 2:08decide who gets what
59. 2:09and that's what this is really about
60. 2:11power the power to remake society to
61. 2:14placate the critical race theorist
62. 2:16who works with only one variable revenge
63. 2:19it's about the furthest you can get from
64. 2:21unity not that joe would know
65. 2:23or care
66. 2:25[Music]
67. 2:26all right juan i hope you appreciated my
68. 2:29essay
69. 2:30my question to you is if equity is about
70. 2:34allocating resources
71. 2:36to create equal outcomes how is that
72. 2:38possible when every single person is
73. 2:40different you're going to need
74. 2:41laws quotas and force like you would
75. 2:44have seen in ussr during their communist
76. 2:47era
77. 2:47if you want everybody to equal you need
78. 2:49force
79. 2:52uh let me tell you how i see this greg
80. 2:54because it's really quite
81. 2:55different i mean to me to my mind let's
82. 2:58just look at it this way you know
83. 3:00if you look at where the cities in
84. 3:03america put incinerators where they put
85. 3:05dumps uh you know even when they build
86. 3:08highways it always goes through
87. 3:10minority neighborhoods poor
88. 3:11neighborhoods and the case the highways
89. 3:14cutting them off from downtown and much
90. 3:16of the economic activity of those
91. 3:18places you think about things like
92. 3:20government
93. 3:21assistance for housing mortgage
94. 3:23assistance after world war two
95. 3:25student aid programs after world war ii
96. 3:28overwhelmingly even
97. 3:29farm aid farm bureau programs
98. 3:31discriminated against black people
99. 3:33in this country's history so biden to my
100. 3:36mind greg it's not about
101. 3:38guaranteeing any individual outcome what
102. 3:41it's really saying is we need
103. 3:43to make sure that the starting point for
104. 3:45everyone
105. 3:46is level that we're on a level playing
106. 3:48field i mean this extends to childhood
107. 3:51poor where poor quality schools are
108. 3:53higher levels of
109. 3:55unemployment and scarcity of jobs
110. 3:58again to me this is really the problem
111. 4:01that joe biden is talking about when he
112. 4:03talks about equity making sure that
113. 4:04government
114. 4:05is playing fear for all people and you
115. 4:08know
116. 4:09to me it's it's a painful thing because
117. 4:12it's plain for me to see
118. 4:13in my life and i think it should be
119. 4:15plain for everybody to see
120. 4:17uh you know and i think when you talk
121. 4:19about like how police treat black people
122. 4:22and
123. 4:22stuff like that it just it burns and
124. 4:25hurts deeply when others say oh there's
125. 4:27nothing going on here and it's just so
126. 4:29plain for me to see
127. 4:30yeah i think the thing is though that
128. 4:31everything you just mentioned in the
129. 4:33front of that commentary i would
130. 4:35absolutely agree with you're talking
131. 4:36about everybody having equal opportunity
132. 4:38but equity builds into this idea of uh
133. 4:42up um outcome equality which is
134. 4:44absolutely impossible
135. 4:46it's impossible by the way that's what
136. 4:48he's talking about
137. 4:50that's that's exactly what equity is
138. 4:51defined as that's what makes it
139. 4:52different than equality
140. 4:54but anyway i agree with everything you
141. 4:56said that's what we all want and
142. 4:57discrimination is illegal
143. 4:59and it should be dana no matter how hard
144. 5:01you try to make it legal
145. 5:03so dana here's what this is a different
146. 5:05part of the equity equality thing that
147. 5:08drives me crazy is that we
148. 5:11uh we talk a lot about female equality
149. 5:14in certain jobs
150. 5:15but they never really talk about the
151. 5:17jobs like loggers
152. 5:19or those kind of jobs you always talk
153. 5:20about ceos and cfos and
154. 5:22football coaches but you never talk
155. 5:24about the the ones where
156. 5:26men are dying by you know the hundreds
157. 5:28or thousands every year
158. 5:30that's what you would call sweat equity
159. 5:32i believe those jobs you have a lot of
160. 5:34that
161. 5:34i was trying to remember do you remember
162. 5:36like about four months ago or so
163. 5:38there was a controversy that bru came up
164. 5:41and trump was involved in
165. 5:42merriam-webster's dictionary changed the
166. 5:44definition of the word
167. 5:46um in order to conform to what the
168. 5:49left wanted it to be and i feel like
169. 5:51this equality equity thing and i'm glad
170. 5:53thank you actually i feel like you've
171. 5:54done a public service for all of us to
172. 5:56explain
173. 5:57all of this because it's like wait where
174. 5:59did this word come from and did you
175. 6:00catch
176. 6:01joe biden today he was talking about
177. 6:04equity in his speech and then he said
178. 6:05equality and he's like
179. 6:07equity yeah because it's not natural the
180. 6:10one thing though that i didn't hear
181. 6:11anyone talk about today
182. 6:13from the white house is what's the main
183. 6:16issue that you can deal with to ensure
184. 6:18equality of opportunity
185. 6:20which will get you to more equity and
186. 6:22that is
187. 6:23education k-12 education and
188. 6:26to one's point one you're fortunate to
189. 6:29have had
190. 6:30a a mom and a the the drive that you had
191. 6:33the education you had and you have made
192. 6:34so much of yourself
193. 6:36and you're here with us and we're so
194. 6:37glad for that and i look at this across
195. 6:39the country and think k through 12
196. 6:41education
197. 6:41it is not up to speed especially after
198. 6:44the pandemic
199. 6:45but that's how you get to equality and
200. 6:48equity
201. 6:49the last thing i would say is if you
202. 6:51believe that america is an
203. 6:52exceptional nation as many people in
204. 6:55america believe
205. 6:56but also so many people around the world
206. 6:58they believe america is an exceptional
207. 7:00nation and why because at least in
208. 7:02america
209. 7:03you would have a shot everyone would
210. 7:05have a shot to try hard to work
211. 7:07if you come here and you have a dream
212. 7:09you have a business idea
213. 7:11you can make it here unlike in many
214. 7:14other places around the world most other
215. 7:15places around the world
216. 7:16mm-hmm and to your point about the
217. 7:18teachers that we're going to be talking
218. 7:19about that the b block the teachers
219. 7:21unions
220. 7:21are no help in this so jesse i wrote
221. 7:24this monologue because of you
222. 7:25i think it was you yesterday saying you
223. 7:27didn't know what equity was and you
224. 7:29didn't know why
225. 7:30it was being so i wrote that for you was
226. 7:31my instruction helpful
227. 7:35well juan made a very convincing case
228. 7:37greg but i think you made a better one
229. 7:40and here's why if you read biden's
230. 7:42speech
231. 7:43from yesterday in print what he says is
232. 7:46exactly what you said and it's very
233. 7:48slick
234. 7:49he says that all men are created equal
235. 7:51but because of
236. 7:52slavery and historical injustices
237. 7:55some of us are not equal therefore we
238. 7:57have to impose
239. 7:59equity we have to impose a
240. 8:02fair outcome in order to address
241. 8:05these historical problems and if you
242. 8:08disagree with any of that
243. 8:10then you're discriminating against
244. 8:12people and he puts susan rice
245. 8:15on point for this and he even spells out
246. 8:17who he's talking about
247. 8:19racial minorities religious minorities
248. 8:22indians and people that are in protected
249. 8:25classes
250. 8:26and he even spells out how he's going to
251. 8:28do it greg
252. 8:29he says housing is a right free housing
253. 8:33he says he wants to have universal pre-k
254. 8:36he says he wants certain people to have
255. 8:38access to certain
256. 8:40loans certain universities get special
257. 8:42perks
258. 8:43he says he wants to federalize the
259. 8:45voting system in this country
260. 8:47he wants to guarantee certain levels of
261. 8:49health care
262. 8:50so if you're looking at that that looks
263. 8:52like back backdoor socialism
264. 8:54and it kind of looks like to some people
265. 8:57like it's backdoor reparations
266. 8:59i don't think you can say that yet
267. 9:01because it hasn't been
268. 9:02implemented yet but the way it's so
269. 9:04vague
270. 9:05it leaves you to believe yeah i'm for
271. 9:07this i'm for that i want everyone to be
272. 9:09prosperous
273. 9:10but when you see that susan rice is in
274. 9:13charge
275. 9:14and she's picking winners and losers
276. 9:15with her lawyers and her bureaucrats
277. 9:17and she's going to destroy you if you
278. 9:19get in your way that doesn't sound very
279. 9:22unifying and the federal government is
280. 9:24so big so powerful
281. 9:26and has the arm of the department of
282. 9:27justice this affects hiring
283. 9:30this this affects firing this affects
284. 9:32buying selling contracts admissions
285. 9:35this affects everything so when you look
286. 9:38back and you see this might destroy the
287. 9:40dollar because it's going to
288. 9:41spend trillions of dollars why
289. 9:44are we doing this greg donald trump's
290. 9:47america first agenda lowered the black
291. 9:50poverty rate to the first time
292. 9:52under 20 percent had the black jobless
293. 9:55rate to the lowest level
294. 9:56ever exploded wages to the highest level
295. 9:59in 60 years
296. 10:00why wouldn't you want that capitalistic
297. 10:02approach
298. 10:03because they don't want capitalism they
299. 10:05want socialism they want them to be in
300. 10:07charge
301. 10:08and that's the problem it's not going to
302. 10:09work it's going to make them feel better
303. 10:11but it's not going to work so katie last
304. 10:14word to you what i think these the idea
305. 10:16of centrist
306. 10:16joe biden lasted all of 24 hours
307. 10:20because this is about as far from the
308. 10:22center as you can get
309. 10:25you you were warned greg the problem
310. 10:27with
311. 10:28conflating equity and equality of
312. 10:31opportunity is that equity
313. 10:33actually requires that you discriminate
314. 10:35against certain kinds of groups so we've
315. 10:36seen this in academia
316. 10:38with harvard getting sued for
317. 10:39discriminating against asian
318. 10:41students for example and i think that
319. 10:43you have to look at it in the broader
320. 10:44picture it's always
321. 10:46talked about in this narrow lens of race
322. 10:48but we've seen
323. 10:50the mayor of baltimore who is is black
324. 10:52the mayor of atlanta is black the mayor
325. 10:54of chicago is black
326. 10:56and for me when you look at it and break
327. 10:57it down by population and where these
328. 10:59problems
329. 11:00are happening it looks more like a
330. 11:01political class issue than it does
331. 11:03a race issue and there's no
332. 11:05accountability for the federal
333. 11:06government spending
334. 11:08trillions of dollars throughout the
335. 11:09decades on these issues
336. 11:11with no real return on investments and
337. 11:13then of course you have
338. 11:14the teachers unions not allowing for any
339. 11:16kind of school choice which just
340. 11:18enables this vicious cycle of poverty in
341. 11:21these places while the federal
342. 11:22government pretends that they're doing
343. 11:23something about it
344. 11:25that's a good point all right up next
345. 11:26the biden white house siding with the
346. 11:28teachers union
347. 11:29refusing to return to classrooms even
348. 11:31though the cdc
349. 11:32just said it was safe