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1:40alrighty so
1:42you may have noticed that critical race
1:44theory has become the topic of the day
1:46and the media are fighting mad about it
1:48they are very very angry about this as
1:50we'll discuss critical race theory has
1:52been infiltrating our institutions for
1:54literally decades
1:55and it is the ideology that has taken
1:57over most of our major institutions this
1:59is why we saw the specter last week of
2:01an admiral in the united states navy
2:02explaining why he had recommended that
2:05sailors be reading ibram x candy who's
2:08one of the great race grifters and
2:09racists of our time it's the reason why
2:11there are corporations all over america
2:14training their workers that if they are
2:16white they suffer from inevitable
2:18whiteness and this inevitable whiteness
2:21is in fact a symptom of discrimination
2:23it's like to do the work do the work in
2:25order to be properly woke and in order
2:28to properly address their own flaws
2:31these inherent flaws in them not they've
2:33done anything bad in their life but
2:34because of their whiteness they are bad
2:37this is why you see corporations giving
2:38money to things like gibbermex kennedy
2:40center that's why you see jack dorsey of
2:41twitter giving 10 million dollars to
2:43upper mexican center for anti-racist
2:45research which today has produced no
2:46actual research
2:48it's the reason why you see the media
2:50consistently using the language of crt
2:53always using the language of equity
2:54rather than the language of equality the
2:56language of equality is in the
2:57declaration of independence it's in the
2:59constitution the language of equity is
3:00not because equity is a mush term that
3:02in modern parlance has come to mean
3:04equal outcome rather than actual
3:07fairness
3:08by fairness typically speaking if you go
3:10back to the ancients the idea is
3:11fairness is you get what you deserve
3:13right your action results in particular
3:14results and this would be equity this
3:16would be justice that is not what the
3:18modern definition of equity means the
3:19modern definition of equity means that
3:21no matter what your action the outcome
3:23should always be the same because after
3:24all the system is rigged against you and
3:27failure is just a symptom that the
3:28system is rigged against you the basic
3:31tenets of critical race theory have in
3:33fact been watered down and then spread
3:36like manure all the way through most of
3:38our major institutions from corporate
3:39america to the media to academia where
3:41it began and certainly into the halls of
3:44government
3:45and what you see from the media is an
3:46unwillingness to confront this or a
3:48willingness to champion it
3:50the media's reaction on this has been
3:51utterly irresponsible because of course
3:53they are proponents of crt crt
3:55is not merely a legal theory it started
3:57off as legal theory sort of like
3:58intersectionality started off as a legal
4:00theory and then it became an actual
4:02activist point
4:04this happens in politics all the time by
4:05the way there are kind of highfalutin
4:07theories and then they are kind of
4:09dehydrated and dehydrated more and
4:11dehydrated more to the point where they
4:12become a pill and then all you do is you
4:14take the pill and now you have become
4:16sort of an advocate for that ideology
4:18and the game that people like to play is
4:20that after people take that pill and get
4:22the inevitable results of that pill then
4:24they say well you know that really has
4:25nothing to do with the original ideology
4:26right this is just boiling down to that
4:28but here is the reality the reality is
4:30that crt was corrupt and wrong in its
4:32first instance
4:34and that the logical progression of crt
4:36what we are seeing now is in fact
4:38connected to critical race theory
4:40so i'm going to start today
4:42by going through what exactly critical
4:44race theory is in the words of some of
4:46the creators of critical race theory
4:48and then we're going to show you how the
4:50media boil this down and how terrible it
4:52is for america because they are actively
4:54spreading this stuff now the reason that
4:56i'm bringing this up is because
4:57yesterday i was browsing in advance of
4:59the show
5:01and i noticed that the front page of the
5:03washington post like the front page of
5:05the washington post
5:07had this video on it
5:09okay and the the
5:10title on the video it's from some new
5:12show they call the lily
5:14is what is white racial identity and why
5:16is it important
5:17and the first thing that occurred to me
5:19when i saw this by the way is that video
5:22that was put out by the comedian
5:24uh the i'm trying to remember his name
5:27ryan something
5:29that video in which it showed a woke
5:30person and a racist person and it turns
5:32out they agreed on everything okay
5:34because how else do you get a headline
5:36from the washington post that says what
5:38is white racial identity and why is it
5:39important is this the very top of the
5:41washington post page it was connected to
5:43a five minute video
5:45about
5:46basically why you are if you are white
5:48you're inevitably guilty and you're
5:50responsible for evil citizen
5:52evil systems that are promulgated
5:53throughout american life and that result
5:56in inequity
5:57the video is amazing
5:59so we're going to start before we get to
6:01the video with an explanation of what
6:02crt is and then you'll see how it has
6:04been basically rebranded repackaged
6:07gussied up and then just shoved
6:09in your face via places like the
6:11washington post
6:12okay so here are the basic tenets of
6:14critical race theory and richard delgado
6:16and gene stefanczek were two of the
6:18founders of critical race theory in the
6:20late 1970s okay so what i'm about to
6:22quote is from their book critical race
6:23theory and introduction and the reason
6:24i'm doing this is because one of the
6:26games that the media love to play is
6:27when you say critical race theory they
6:29will say what do you even mean by
6:30critical race theory what i mean is
6:32exactly what the founders of critical
6:33race theory are saying how about that
6:35and what i mean by critical race theory
6:37is exactly what critical race theory is
6:39i don't mean what the media say that it
6:41is because they lie about it i don't
6:43mean what people who don't know a
6:44critical race theory say that it is say
6:46that it is
6:47a critical race theory was like assigned
6:49reading when i was at harvard law school
6:51this was a well-respected branch of
6:53thought at harvard law school when i was
6:54there and that was all the way back in
6:562007 i graduated
6:58and so here is some of what they say
7:00delgado and stefanczyk in critical race
7:03theory and introduction quote although
7:05critical race theory began as a movement
7:06in the law it has rapidly spread beyond
7:08that discipline
7:09okay so this gives the lie that you'll
7:11sometimes hear from people in the media
7:13well you know it was just a legal way of
7:14looking at things it really has nothing
7:16to do with the activism we see it wrong
7:17okay even the founders of that movement
7:20understand that it is a movement it
7:21start like most things in life it
7:23started as an academic theory and then
7:25eventually it turned into a political
7:26activist movement and marxism originally
7:29started as an academic theory and then
7:30it turned into a politically activist
7:31movement that resulted in the slaughter
7:32of you know 100 million people okay so
7:34it turns out a lot of ideological
7:36movements eventually turn out to be
7:38practical political movement so here's
7:40what they write although critical race
7:42theory began as a movement in the law it
7:43has rapidly spread beyond that
7:45discipline today many in the field of
7:47education consider themselves critical
7:48race theorists who use crt's ideas to
7:51understand issues of social of school
7:52discipline and hierarchy tracking
7:54controversies over curriculum and
7:55history an iq and achievement testing
7:58political scientists ponder voting
8:00strategies coined by critical race
8:01theorists ethnic studies courses often
8:03include a unit on critical race theory
8:05and american studies departments teach
8:06material on critical white studies
8:08developed by crt writers unlike some
8:10academic disciplines critical race
8:12theory contains an activist dimension
8:14again this is the founders admitting
8:15this is an activist ideology
8:17it not only tries to understand our
8:19social situation but to change it it
8:21sets out not only to ascertain how
8:23society organizes itself along racial
8:25lines and hierarchies but to transform
8:26it for the better
8:28i remember not me saying it these are
8:30the founders of critical race theory
8:31saying this it is an activist ideology
8:34designed to tear away at the systems of
8:36the united states
8:38and they're bragging that it has spread
8:39into every major discipline in the
8:41united states so it's not the right
8:42disclaiming this is not some sort of
8:43chimera it's not a figment of our
8:44imagination the people who founded it
8:46brag openly about how this ideology has
8:48spread through our institutions
8:50everything from testing philosophy with
8:52regard to educational movements to how
8:55people vote right all of that has been
8:57bled in with regard to crt
9:00so what are the principles of critical
9:01race theory
9:03so there are essentially four laid out
9:04by delgado and stefanczyk in this
9:06particular book there are two that
9:08pretty much everybody agrees on and
9:09there are two that are kind of argued
9:10about because they're in direct conflict
9:11with one another it's the first two that
9:13everybody agrees about
9:14our quote first that racism is ordinary
9:17not aberrational normal science the
9:20usual way society does business the
9:21common everyday experience of most
9:23people of color in this country
9:25right so that means that you are racist
9:27even if you don't know you're racist
9:29because the systems are racist and you
9:30are shaped by the systems
9:32racism is not an aberration you can't
9:33point to that guy over there and say ah
9:34that guy's a racist because he says
9:36racist stuff
9:37no that's not how racism is defined
9:39racism is just the water in which we
9:41swim racism is the air that we breathe
9:43everything that surrounds us the
9:45mesmatic substances that surround us and
9:47in which we live our lives those are
9:49where racism lives racism is ordinary
9:51the way that breathing air is ordinary
9:53and drinking water is ordinary right
9:55it's normal science second most would
9:58agree that our system of white over
9:59color ascendancy serves important
10:01purposes both psychic and material the
10:04first feature ordinariness means that
10:05racism is difficult to cure or address
10:08okay this is one of the key tenets of
10:09critical race theory it's very very
10:11difficult to fight racism very difficult
10:13now the reason they say this is not
10:14because they actually want to fight
10:15racism the reason they say this is
10:16because their entire proposition is that
10:19you cannot fight racism as an individual
10:21level if you call out a racist incident
10:23you have not helped fight racism the
10:25only way to fight racism is to search
10:27within your own heart and even then it's
10:29really not within your own heart because
10:30you may have nothing but good intentions
10:31you really have to search inside your
10:33own adherence to your environment right
10:35you have to search inside your own
10:37adherence to american systems everything
10:39must be leveled everything must be torn
10:41out by the roots that's how you fight
10:43racism and this is central to their
10:45theory
10:46it means that racism is difficult to
10:48cure or address colorblind or formal
10:50conceptions of equality expressed in
10:52rules that insist only on treatment that
10:54is the same across the board can thus
10:55remedy only the most blatant forms of
10:57discrimination such as mortgage
10:59redlining or the refusal to hire a black
11:00phd rather than a white high school
11:02dropout that do stand out and attract
11:03our attention
11:05and so here is where we immediately
11:06start sliding into if there is no equal
11:08outcome then some sort of deep inequity
11:10has been done right they're saying that
11:12if you fight racism by pointing out that
11:14a black phd should get the math job over
11:16the white high school dropout that's not
11:18actually fighting racism it doesn't do
11:19any good because racism is hard to fight
11:21and that would be easy
11:23that's one of the games that the crt
11:25advocates like to play is refusal to
11:26define terms they like to be
11:28deliberately vague the vaguer they are
11:30the more they can claim that you are
11:32failing to achieve their purposes
11:34see when you give people the idea that
11:35they get to go ghost hunting that
11:36basically the way you fight racism is
11:38not to fight actual on-the-ground racism
11:40it's to actually ghost hunt
11:42and no matter what they do you can say
11:43they've not achieved it
11:45no matter what racism they have thought
11:46no matter what racism they oppose you
11:48can say well it doesn't matter because
11:49you see it's very difficult to fight
11:51racism and you haven't internalized that
11:53battle yet
11:54okay this is why critical race theory in
11:56essence is just a cult
11:58you're supposed to follow whatever the
12:00cult leaders tell you and if you don't
12:01follow what the cult leaders tell you
12:03they will tell you that you have not
12:04been sufficiently
12:06loyal to the cause of anti-racism turn
12:09and get to more from the authors of
12:11critical race theory and i'm quoting the
12:12people who write this stuff i'm not
12:13making it up i'm quoting it to you
12:15because and the reason i'm doing this
12:16again is because the media lie and they
12:18say that if you are critical of critical
12:20race theories because you haven't done
12:21the reading
12:22okay i'm reading you the reading so now
12:23you've done the reading i'll get to that
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13:50richard delgado and gene stefancek
13:52continue in critical race theory and
13:53introduction so we've already
13:54established a few key principles here
13:56okay one racism is ordinary not
13:57aboriginal two
13:59white over color ascendancy serves
14:00important purposes okay what they say
14:02here is that this second principle white
14:05over color ascendancy serves important
14:07purpose purposes
14:08this
14:09actually
14:11is deeply tied into policy they say this
14:13second feature sometimes called interest
14:15convergence or material determinism as a
14:17further dimension because racism
14:19advances the interests of both white
14:21elites material or materially and
14:23working-class people psychically large
14:25segments of society have little
14:26incentive to eradicate it okay so the
14:28idea here is that racism again is all
14:30around you and it serves you you may
14:32think that you're against racism you're
14:34not you're happy about racism because if
14:35you're an elite it serves you materially
14:37the system serves you as an elite the
14:39system serves you the system is racist
14:41therefore you are racist in upholding
14:43the system if you are a poor white
14:44person you are still privileged by the
14:47system because you psychically get to
14:49look at all these people of color and
14:50say those people of color are less than
14:51i am and therefore i have more common
14:53cause with the white elite than i do
14:55with the people who are of my own class
14:56you may notice the marxist tinge here
14:58right because now we're talking about
14:59class differentiation and why really
15:01people should have class solidarity
15:02rather than racial solidarity and you
15:04can see that the marxist dimension has
15:06started to slip in here because as we'll
15:07explain in just a second critical race
15:09theory isn't a neo-marxist movement it
15:11is an offshoot of critical theory which
15:12is in and of itself a marxist movement
15:16okay so what are the effects of this
15:18okay so derek bell who's again in a
15:20major critical race theorist will get
15:21more on him in a second he had a
15:23shocking proposal the brown versus board
15:24of education for example right that is
15:26one of the great anti-racist moments in
15:27american history with an actual supreme
15:29court decision saying that under the
15:30constitution of the united states it is
15:32illegal
15:33for blacks and whites to be forced into
15:36separate schools derek bell says that
15:38this just promulgated more racism
15:41he says that the brown versus board of
15:43education considered a great triumph of
15:44civil rights litigation may have
15:46resulted more from the self-interest of
15:48elite whites than a desire to help
15:50blacks
15:51okay so these are the first two themes
15:52and these are the ones that everybody
15:53kind of agrees on one is that racism is
15:55ordinary not aberrational and the second
15:57is that that ordinariness serves
15:58important psychic and material purposes
16:00for white people right your whiteness
16:02makes you enjoy the racism of the system
16:04okay then we get to two principles of
16:07crt that are sort of in conflict with
16:08one another
16:09and when i say sort of i mean almost
16:11directly in opposition to one another
16:13according to delgado and stephanie a
16:15third theme of critical race theory the
16:16social construction thesis holds that
16:18race and races are products of social
16:20thought and relations not objective
16:22inherent or fixed they correspond to no
16:24biological or genetic reality rather
16:26races are categories that so society
16:28invents manipulates or retires when
16:30convenient
16:31okay so then you might say okay well
16:33that sounds more like you know the
16:35martin luther king thing okay so if race
16:36is a social construction then we really
16:39should attempt to see beyond race we
16:40should see individuals as individuals
16:42okay but no this is not what critical
16:44race theorists argue instead they argue
16:46that systems of power are racist and
16:48they have made up race as a social
16:50construct in order to damn other people
16:52but the way that you get beyond that is
16:54not by seeing beyond race the way that
16:56you get beyond that is by embracing race
16:58okay which brings us to the fourth
16:59thesis which is a direct conflict
17:01thesis the fourth thesis
17:03is the notion of a unique voice of color
17:06coexisting in someone uneasy tension
17:08with anti-essentialism the voice of
17:09color thesis holds that because of their
17:11different histories and experiences with
17:12oppression black indian asian and latino
17:15writers and thinkers may be able to
17:16communicate to their white counterparts
17:18matters that the whites are unlikely to
17:20know minority status in other words
17:22brings with it a presumed competence to
17:23speak about race and racism
17:25the legal storytelling movement urges
17:27black and brown writers to recount their
17:28experiences with racism and legal system
17:30and to apply their own unique
17:32perspectives to assess laws master
17:33narratives this is where you get into
17:35the superiority of the of the
17:37perspective of people of color right
17:39white people can't talk about this stuff
17:42they're presumed incompetent to talk
17:43about this stuff now you may say wait a
17:44second i thought that race was a social
17:45construct ah but no because in essence
17:49this fourth thesis is more important
17:50than the third thesis
17:52there's racial essentialism if you are
17:54white you suffer from whiteness if
17:55you're a person of color you have a
17:56presumed superiority to speak about
17:58racism and we must listen to your
18:00perspectives on the system
18:03now all of this is the outgrowth of
18:04critical theory critical theory is a
18:06branch of thought that began in the
18:07early 20th century with something called
18:08the frankfurt school the frankfurt
18:09school posited basically that systems of
18:12power and hierarchy throughout the world
18:14were in fact covers for discrimination
18:16and cruelty
18:18and thus we had to be super critical
18:19about all of those systems of power it
18:21was a marxist theory that basically said
18:23that
18:25everything bad in nazi germany was a
18:26product of capitalism everything america
18:29the frankfurt theorists actually openly
18:30said that america in the 1950s was
18:32proto-fascist that was going to lead to
18:34nazi germany which is of course insane
18:36they were marxist of course they
18:37believed that a critical theory
18:40is is a sort of neo-marxist movement in
18:42which power defines everything right
18:44which as you can see bled the only
18:46difference between sort of critical
18:47theory and critical race theory you can
18:49see the similarity in the names is the
18:50word race instead of saying that all the
18:53systems of power are created in order to
18:55help the upper class which is sort of a
18:57critical theory posits critical race
18:59theory posits that all of the systems of
19:00power were created in order to help
19:02people of specific races
19:04okay which is why there is pretty heavy
19:06crossovers so derek bell who i mentioned
19:07earlier again one of the
19:09founders of critical race theory and a
19:10man who barack obama famously hugged in
19:13the 1980s as he was trying to preserve
19:14his tenure at harvard law school despite
19:16having done very little academic work
19:17derek bell wrote the whole liberal world
19:20view of private rights and public
19:21sovereignty mediated by the rule of law
19:24needed to be exploded
19:25a worldview premised upon the public and
19:27private spheres is an attractive mirage
19:29that masks the reality of economic and
19:31political power right so what is the end
19:32goal of critical race theory according
19:34people like derek bell explode the
19:35system
19:36the end goal is to teach everybody that
19:38they are the products of a corrupt
19:39system the only way to extirpate and
19:42exergate your own whiteness
19:44is to involve yourself in this great
19:47task of exploding the system ideas of
19:50private and public rights the idea of
19:52liberal
19:53world views in which you have the rights
19:55of freedom of speech or the right to own
19:57your own property all of these things
19:59lead to discrimination and not not only
20:01lead to them spring from a desire to
20:03uphold discrimination
20:05this is the fundamental political theory
20:07of critical race theory
20:09okay so all of this is the lead up
20:11to how the media present this stuff
20:13okay so the way that the media present
20:15this stuff is as a way to fight racism
20:18so they discovered that using the term
20:19critical race theory is actually not
20:20particularly helpful because people look
20:22at it and they go wait this sounds like
20:23super stupid and racist it sounds like
20:25you want to tear down the most
20:26successful systems that have ever been
20:27created for creating the possibility of
20:30prosperity
20:31wealth
20:32equality right you want to get rid of
20:35those sounds like you want to explode
20:36those why would we possibly listen to
20:37you so instead they came up with this
20:38new rubric and the new rubric is this is
20:40anti-racism
20:42so what they do is they take critical
20:43race theories idea of race which is that
20:45is implicit in everything and then they
20:47say in order to be anti-racist you have
20:49to tear down the systems they've shifted
20:51the definition of racism from stuff that
20:52we all understood to be racism namely a
20:54belief in the superiority or inferiority
20:56of an individual based on their racial
20:58characteristics
21:00they took that they trashed it and i
21:01said no that's not what real racism is
21:03real racism is believing in the system
21:06so anti-racism would be destroying the
21:08system
21:09so under that rubric of quote-unquote
21:11anti-racism they've started to
21:12infiltrate all of the major institutions
21:14the word racism is such a powerful word
21:17in american public life because of the
21:19true and vicious history of racism in
21:21the united states that if you can hijack
21:23that word if you can morph that word
21:25into a code word for the system and
21:27tearing down the system if you can do
21:28all of that you've achieved unbelievable
21:30things on behalf of a left that wishes
21:32to destroy all of those systems in the
21:34name of some sort of greater equity and
21:36this is exactly what the washington post
21:38proposes to do now to normal people who
21:39watch this stuff it looks like
21:41gobbledygook you watch this and you're
21:42like i don't understand what in the f
21:44you are talking about when we watch this
21:46washington post video together which
21:47again is about five minutes long when we
21:49watch that together and listen to it
21:50you'll see it makes no sense nobody
21:52bothers to define their terms these
21:54folks sound as though they are cult
21:56members trying to explain the cult to
21:58other people
22:00it sounds weird and bizarre it sounds
22:02vague and unpractical but that is the
22:04whole purpose the whole purpose is in
22:06order for you to be
22:08a member of the elect a member of the
22:10political and intellectual elite you
22:13have to buy into a system
22:15it is all about social virtue signaling
22:17you wonder what people are learning in
22:18colleges these days they're not learning
22:20about american history for sure instead
22:21what they are learning is how to speak
22:23this language because this is the key
22:26into the elite in modern american
22:28society it's the key to institutional
22:29power in american society
22:31is the woke run the place now in just
22:33one second we're going to go through
22:34this video because it really is
22:34indicative of where we are in the debate
22:36and why there is blowback right now well
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23:45okay finally this brings us to the
23:47washington post understanding your
23:49whiteness video
23:50it's all about understanding your
23:52whiteness
23:53and truly
23:54this is racist crap because as you may
23:56have noticed the notion of racial
23:57essentialism that your racial
23:59characteristics define you and define
24:00your perspective is racism the notion
24:03that we ought to treat you as superior
24:05or inferior in your outlook on the world
24:07based on your race is in fact the
24:10classical definition of racism but it's
24:11now anti-racism because it's directed
24:13against destroying the quote-unquote
24:14racist systems okay so this comes out as
24:16a weird bunch of gobbledygook nonsense
24:17i'm gonna try and translate it for you
24:19here here's the washington post lead
24:20story yesterday again from washington
24:23post the lily
24:25racism racialization white body
24:27supremacy is not episodic it's
24:30structural remember that there were um
24:34thousands of george floyd before the one
24:36that you saw your bodily response to
24:39this this horror right
24:42is not the same thing as you dealing
24:45with the structural aspects of business
24:47george floyd's death became a deeply
24:49personal and racial tragedy for many
24:51americans for the first time white
24:54people were becoming aware of their
24:56whiteness and the systemic ways that
24:57white supremacy affects all of us white
25:00people in particular
25:02get aroused get upset say this is unjust
25:05this isn't right this shouldn't happen
25:07there's like an awakening that happens
25:09and so part of their racial identity
25:12development is
25:13seeing that awakening what they do with
25:15it
25:16is really the next piece of it in this
25:19episode we're tackling white racial
25:21identity and why understanding your
25:23whiteness is integral to becoming
25:24self-aware as a white person i'm nicole
25:26ellis and this is the new posit there
25:28for a second
25:30alrighty so
25:32understanding your white identity now
25:33you may have thought to yourself i don't
25:34really have a white identity like for me
25:37i'd be considered white by these folks
25:39i'm jewish my identity is many different
25:40things but kind of in terms of ethnicity
25:43it's more jewish because that actually
25:45connects to how i act in the real world
25:47and and honestly i don't care about
25:49ethnicity so my jewish ethnic identity
25:50is really only tied into the fact that
25:52as the son of a jewish mother i am
25:53religiously jewish right by that law but
25:56my ethnicity really has nothing to do
25:57with it and the idea of a general white
25:59identity is also very weird because the
26:02only aspect of quote-unquote white
26:04identity is generally in american
26:05history in opposition to quote-unquote
26:07black identity or asian identity or
26:10mexican identity but the reality is that
26:12for the vast majority of history and
26:14including american history people didn't
26:15see themselves in terms of white
26:17identity okay they saw themselves in
26:19terms of sort of where they came from
26:20there was irish identity there was
26:22italian identity there was czech
26:23identity there was jewish identity there
26:24was russian identity and if you go to
26:26europe today trying to say to an italian
26:28you have white identity they'd be like
26:30what i'm italian what are you talking
26:31about
26:32like brits and italians they have
26:34different cultural heritages because
26:36culture is not the same as ethnicity the
26:38attempt to cudgel everybody who is not a
26:40person of color into the white
26:41identitarian category is an awkward one
26:44and is in fact a social construction
26:47but for these folks like nicole ellis of
26:48the washington post it is important that
26:50you understand your white identity what
26:51they mean is they're going to cuddle you
26:53into an identity where you are
26:54responsible for all the evils of the
26:56world you're responsible for the george
26:58floyd situation here first of all when
27:00res menachem at the very beginning
27:02an author when he says at the beginning
27:05there are thousands of george floyds you
27:06never saw
27:07well i mean under what time context are
27:09we talking are we talking like the last
27:11several hundred years because then
27:13that's true are you talking about like
27:15the last several years the answer of
27:16course is no the number of black unarmed
27:18men killed in the united states by cops
27:20is under 20 every single year
27:23so no it's not thousands of people or
27:25being treated the way that george floyd
27:27was treated
27:28okay but again the idea is that pointing
27:31out that
27:32incident which again was not even like
27:34there's still no evidence it's amazing
27:35how this has been promulgated there's
27:37still no evidence that was a racist
27:38incident it was not alleged in court it
27:40was not alleged by the federal
27:41government it's been alleged by no one
27:42and yet that has become the racial
27:44incident in america despite the fact
27:46that there's no racial animus thought
27:47why because it's structural you've heard
27:49that word structural okay the idea again
27:51is that
27:53in reality derek chauvin isn't really
27:55according to crt even to blame for derek
27:56shelvin's activity derek shovin is just
27:58an agent of the structure and the
28:00structure is to blame
28:02and you are both to blame for upholding
28:04the structure and you are a symptom of
28:06that structure because you are created
28:07by that structure okay let's continue at
28:09this washington post video
28:11[Music]
28:14it says why is white racial identity
28:16important
28:17i am originally from a smaller
28:21town in oklahoma whiteness was the
28:24defaults and whiteness was the comfort
28:26part of the structure of racism in the
28:29way that it's maintained is to keep us
28:31from
28:32recognizing that racism is a part of our
28:35daily lives and so it's a longer term
28:38process of looking at your understanding
28:41of yourself in the world both
28:43historically but also contextually the
28:46family you live in the community you
28:48live in and what role whiteness plays in
28:51that
28:52so
28:54here you have a woman named kelsey aries
28:56originally saying that whiteness was her
28:57default and her comfort i don't know
29:00what that's supposed to mean other than
29:01this is her confessing her sins in mao's
29:03style right she didn't know she was
29:05racist but it was her default and her
29:06comfort she didn't even know she didn't
29:08even know what kind of sin she was
29:09committing but she was by dint of just
29:11where she lived and then you have
29:12rebecca tobarak who is one of these
29:14authors who was speaking before saying
29:16that you know finding your whiteness and
29:18discovering your own sin is a lifelong
29:20process that sounds very much again like
29:21cultic language it sounds like a cult
29:24sounds like you have to spend your
29:25entire life cleansing yourself of
29:27whatever the master says is your sin you
29:30have to spend your entire it's a
29:31lifelong process of discovering your own
29:33whiteness and looking within
29:37or and what exactly are you hunting for
29:39the answer is you're hunting for
29:41whatever i tell you to hunt for
29:42you're hunting for your own unconscious
29:45racial bias that has infused the core of
29:47your very being
29:50and the only and if you can't uncover it
29:51it's because you're racist obviously
29:53right this is the perfect kafka trap if
29:54you say well i looked inside myself and
29:56i really don't think i'm racist ah it's
29:58because you are so infused with your own
29:59racism you can't even recognize your own
30:00racism
30:02pretty incredible stuff this nonsense
30:03continues
30:05the more you kind of dive into that the
30:06more i'm really realizing how deeply
30:09rooted racism is and to like my everyday
30:11thought process
30:13no matter how much you work at that
30:14there's still even almost more work to
30:17be done
30:18a living embodied anti-racist culture
30:21does not exist among white people white
30:23people got to start getting together
30:25specifically around race wide
30:27accountability groups are really helpful
30:29in terms of having a place to process
30:31having
30:32a group of people whose responsibility
30:35it is to call me on things or to
30:37challenge me we're unpacking
30:40wrong things that we've been taught in
30:42history class i realized that i needed
30:46to go back and unpack and reorganize
30:50everything that i had learned because it
30:53was complete okay stop for a second okay
30:55so the so washington post recognizes and
30:58they they suggest you should create an
30:59accountability group this is direct
31:01malice crap
31:03direct mouse so over the weekend i was
31:05reading a book about the current what
31:08they call third revolution in china the
31:10xi jinping revolution and what they've
31:12done in many of their companies is they
31:14have these sort of political groups
31:16where you're supposed to get together
31:17and this has been true for decades
31:19really since the inception of maoism but
31:20now it's sort of moved into the
31:21corporate sphere over there
31:23you're supposed to have these
31:24accountability groups where you get
31:25together and you confess your sins
31:26against marxism right they would
31:28actually have maoist struggle sessions
31:29during
31:30time now where you would do this you'd
31:31get up and you'd confess your sins and
31:33you were forced to do this and this has
31:34been true in every communist country
31:36right paul pott used to have these
31:37things we'd get up and you confess your
31:38sins against marxism
31:40and then you would be punished for it
31:42and then you would sit back down
31:43so they are now suggesting that in
31:45exactly the same fashion we have quote
31:47unquote accountability groups if white
31:49people get together and call each other
31:50out on their racism and then presumably
31:52forgive each other and the more you
31:54confess the more praiseworthy you are
31:56the more you say i i this is why you see
31:59rebecca toperak in this video saying
32:01things like well you know you almost
32:04never finished the work it's almost
32:05impossible to finish the work you can
32:06never get to the end of the work or
32:07kelsey arias saying i've never even
32:09discovered the the depth of my own
32:11racism i was never able to come up with
32:13the depth of my own racism
32:14or at least kennedy saying i have to go
32:16back this is where it starts to get
32:17institutional we have to go back and we
32:19have to see the way we teach history and
32:20we have to re-teach ourselves history
32:22this way
32:24and here you start to see the creep over
32:25from he's sort of personal brow beating
32:28and the self-scourging the 12th century
32:31style self-scourging
32:33and and maoist-style struggle sessions
32:35to now we have to teach how we how we
32:37teach it we have to change how we teach
32:38this stuff in schools to children okay
32:40let's continue completely through a
32:43white lens
32:44most of us in doing this work have
32:46experienced this where there's a period
32:49of deep shame
32:51for being white and for acknowledging
32:53the harm that our ancestors have caused
32:56and that's a very legitimate piece of
32:58this work
32:59and
33:00we can't ask people of color to hold our
33:03hands through the shame piece that needs
33:05to happen with other white people when
33:07you do that for one two three four five
33:11years right
33:12you end up with actually a community
33:15that is aligned with each other in
33:17theory that sounds like a good idea but
33:21i guess i'm curious to hear like what
33:22are some of the pitfalls or risks that
33:24you run if that's the only step you take
33:26the biggest answer is white people don't
33:28really understand racism
33:32and so if i'm relying on other white
33:34people to teach me about racism that can
33:36only go so far i only best understand
33:39racism by talking to people who are
33:41directly impacted by racism from
33:44different perspectives so in addition to
33:47having white accountability groups and
33:49white accountability buddies it's also
33:51really important to have sustained and
33:53meaningful relationships with people of
33:56color
33:57okay so this is rebecca toperak and all
33:59the rest of these people suggesting they
34:01can't even understand racism right it's
34:02so deeply rooted in them they feel shame
34:04they feel shame at their own whiteness
34:05so first of all if you feel shame
34:06because of your race this is racist you
34:09should not feel shame under any
34:10circumstances because of a condition
34:12that you were born into that's insane
34:14okay it's the definition of racism truly
34:17if you feel ashamed because you were
34:18born black we would say oh my god that's
34:19terrible why would you feel ashamed for
34:21being born black
34:22but now the idea is there's something
34:24good about feeling ashamed for being a
34:26white person why did you do something
34:28wrong normally shame attaches when you
34:30do something wrong but the idea is that
34:31by the very color of your skin you are
34:34complicit in this racist system because
34:36the system benefits you even
34:37unconsciously and so you can't even
34:38fight racism right this goes back to the
34:40critical race theory principles that we
34:41were talking about right the critical
34:43race theory principles one of them is
34:44that white people can't even properly
34:46understand race only black people and
34:48only hispanic people and only asian
34:50people and even there is a hierarchy
34:52there only people who are not white can
34:54properly understand racism so now the
34:56washington post says you need to find a
34:57black friend
34:58now recognize that you are all in the
35:00same video they're saying that if you
35:02ask a black person to guide you on
35:04racism this is in and of itself racist
35:06because you're assuming that that person
35:08has either the wherewithal or the desire
35:10to tell you about racism it's using that
35:12black person as sort of a token to lead
35:13you
35:14but you have to find black friends
35:16because those black friends are the only
35:17ones who are capable of awakening you to
35:19your own racism and to your own
35:21complicity in the system
35:23this is all cultic nonsense it's all
35:26cultic behavior and it's infused
35:27everything continue
35:29i don't have the ability to like
35:31inherently name things as upholding
35:33white supremacy or as
35:36being racist my whiteness is going to
35:38show up at different points in my life
35:40and at different points in different
35:41relationships
35:42but is it fair or healthy to be seeking
35:45out relationships with people just to
35:47have a diverse network because i feel
35:49like for people of color you're kind of
35:51constantly trying to gauge whether or
35:53not it's worth it to be vulnerable or
35:55share how someone hurt you when your
35:58white colleagues or co-workers or
36:00friends mess up
36:02there's a different
36:04cost for my friends of color to be in
36:06relationship with me so i think one of
36:08the things that's really important is
36:10ongoing being a friend on an ongoing
36:13basis for lots of different things not
36:15just like thinking about racism as a
36:18part of our friendship when there's
36:20something horrible that happens those
36:22relationships are
36:24number one for me to
36:27be there for them as them for me it's a
36:30it's a relationship and so it should be
36:32reciprocal but also so that i have a
36:34broader understanding of the world
36:37everything i thought about how i existed
36:40in my white body in the world
36:43was very wrong
36:45and i needed this new
36:48lens
36:49to see the world through so i think
36:51that's been a big piece of my own work
36:57incredible and nicole ellis is sitting
36:58there but so black people shouldn't be
37:00friends with you because then they're
37:01gonna be used as tokens and well they
37:03won't be used as tokens i mean we'll
37:04still be friends but we'll kind of use
37:06them as tokens but we're helping to
37:07re-examine our own prejudices and nicole
37:09ellis is sitting there like the judge on
37:11high trying to judge all these white
37:12people right i mean that's that she's
37:14there to provide them the absolution
37:16okay this is racist nonsense it's being
37:18taught to your kids in school it's being
37:19pushed by the washington post on their
37:21front page
37:22and the washington post now the left is
37:24angry that you caught them
37:25okay because here's the reality there's
37:26push back and the pushback is incredibly
37:28serious we're seeing a bevy of states
37:30push actions to ban the teaching of
37:31critical race theory in schools which is
37:33good okay critical race theory schools
37:35have to decide what they teach to kids
37:37they don't teach kids that two plus two
37:38equals five because that's a waste of
37:39time stupid counterproductive and
37:41illogical you shouldn't be teaching kids
37:43about racial essentialism you shouldn't
37:44be teaching kids that all the systems of
37:46power in the united states are racist
37:47you shouldn't be teaching kids that by
37:49dint of their very skin color they ought
37:50to feel shame you shouldn't teach kids
37:52false notions of american history
37:54because that's a garbage thing to do
37:57and you're starting to see blowback on
37:58this and the left which has embraced all
38:01of this right the left loves this stuff
38:02right joe biden's administration agrees
38:05with this washington post video
38:07i dare you to find a single member of
38:08the washing of honestly of the biden
38:10administration who would dare to say
38:12that this video is the pretentious
38:14crappy self-defeating nonsense that it
38:16is you wouldn't find one person in the
38:17entire administration who would say that
38:18not one so the blow and the blowback is
38:20coming and the blowback is very very
38:22real and the left is very upset about it
38:24it is not a coincidence that the same
38:25day that the washington post ran this
38:28particular video the washington post
38:29also ran a very long piece being very
38:32angry that anybody including christopher
38:34ruffo who's one of the people leading
38:35the charge has been fighting back
38:36against critical race theory and this is
38:38precisely the point the left has been
38:40renormalizing america by pushing radical
38:42ideas slowly into the mainstream by
38:45being intransigent and very very loud
38:48inside specific institutions
38:50okay they push a little bit and then
38:51they push a lot but they continue to
38:53push and they are very intransigent and
38:54they hope that by bullying you into
38:55silence and feel and making you feel
38:57shame for your own race and making you
38:59feel shame for your own systems and
39:00making you feel shame for america
39:02and they can shut you up and then take
39:04over the institutions and what's
39:05happening right now is that that vast
39:06middle is saying no
39:08all it takes to quote-unquote
39:09re-normalize and already re-normalize
39:11institutions is a bunch of people in the
39:13middle saying absolutely not we're not
39:14doing this and this is why the left is
39:16getting pissed because a bunch of people
39:18who are here too for silent a bunch of
39:19people who are very quiet up to this
39:21point they're now standing up and
39:22they're taking back their school boards
39:23they're standing up and they're retaking
39:25their legislatures they're standing up
39:26and they're retaking congressional seats
39:27and they're saying no and the left can't
39:29handle it because for a long time twenty
39:31percent of the country has run the other
39:32eighty percent of the country and now
39:34there's a vast swath in the middle who
39:36are saying no we're not going to do this
39:37stuff
39:38which is phenomenal
39:40and the first step on that is awareness
39:42of the fact that this 20 percent of
39:43people these radicals who have created
39:45this coalition or to push this nonsense
39:46have started to take over the
39:47institutions and in many cases have
39:48already have have done that you can
39:50renormalize as long as you have a core
39:52percentage on the other side of 20
39:54and the and the 60 in the middle the
39:56unaligned side with the 20 pushback
39:59rather than the 20 radicals who are
40:00pushing this stuff in the first place
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43:17all right so the push back to critical
43:18race theory has begun christopher ruffo
43:20is one of the lead researchers on that
43:22particular issue he now works over at
43:24the manhattan institute and uh and he
43:26has a book out coming out pretty soon
43:28with uh with harper which uh full
43:30disclosure is also my publisher and he's
43:32been pushing into sort of common
43:33parliament's critical race theory it's
43:35been used as the term that was used
43:37before critical race theory was woke-ism
43:38critical race theory is more specific
43:40because it actually goes to the
43:41ideological roots of all of this well
43:43those the the root of the of the
43:45pushback has now
43:47created fruit and you're seeing it all
43:49over right so you're seeing videos like
43:51here's one that went viral of a father
43:53and daughter a black father and daughter
43:54pushing back against critical race
43:55theory it was an excellent video and the
43:57reason
43:58it is so telling is because because
44:00critical race theory suggests that all
44:01the systems of america are deeply racist
44:03and inherently
44:05directed at promoting the subservience
44:07of black americans particularly it means
44:09that you're basically saying black
44:10people they have no agency they have no
44:12agency in america in the freest country
44:13in the history of the world with the
44:15richest black families on planet earth
44:17on average
44:18they have no agency whatsoever and so
44:20here is a young black man named corey
44:22yeshua and his six-year-old daughter
44:23royalty pushing back on critical race
44:26theory and saying this is nonsense and
44:27it hurts black people which it
44:29absolutely does depriving people of
44:30agency is the worst single thing you can
44:32do to anyone in life it is the worst
44:34thing when you tell people they have no
44:36agency in their own life you cannot do
44:37anything worse to a child than that
44:39truly
44:40and when you do when you create actions
44:42that give them no agency obviously that
44:44is an extension of that very idea
44:46anyway here was a corey issue this went
44:48completely viral of course
44:50daddy teaches you can be anything in
44:53this world that you want to be right
44:55don't daddy teach you that yeah and it
44:57doesn't matter if you're black or white
44:59or any color it doesn't matter if you're
45:01black white brown yellow
45:04right black and how we treat people is
45:07based on who they are and not what color
45:09they are and if they're nice and smart
45:12see this is how this is how children
45:14think right here critical race theory
45:16wants to end that not with my children
45:19it's not going to happen
45:22good for him right so this went viral
45:24there's an illinois dad who got up
45:25recently at a school board hearing
45:26pushing against critical race theory
45:28again black guy
45:29and he said this is this is nonsense he
45:31said color was not discussed in my home
45:33at all
45:36the only race it is the human race i
45:38don't i never raised my sons to see
45:40anybody of color color was never even
45:41discussed in my house at all all we know
45:44is that as much as children grow they
45:46just see other kids and they'll just
45:48immediately start playing there is no a
45:49child see them like why is this skin
45:51coming like that in mind that we never
45:52discuss that when it all comes down to
45:54it people are just people my sons never
45:56had to talk about white people all they
45:59know is that they were people they were
46:00their friends they played with them they
46:02never once came home and said dad my
46:03white friend across the street that they
46:05just said my friends
46:08okay and of course this is exactly right
46:10the pushback is happening even the
46:12mainstream media the reason that they
46:13are starting to get so worried about
46:14this and to lie about it is because they
46:16are deeply deeply worried
46:18that the right is gonna be able to
46:20mobilize on this because people in the
46:21middle right that unmotivated 60 in the
46:23middle are looking at the left and
46:25saying what you're preaching right now
46:26is cultic crazy garbage that tears away
46:28every system of freedom in the united
46:30states here's a pbs reporter fully
46:32acknowledging on national tv on sunday
46:33the critical race theory is mobilizing
46:35people as well it should
46:37specific to this idea of critical race
46:39they have to tell you to spend some time
46:40reporting on this county in virginia
46:41about an hour outside of washington and
46:43and to your point this is something that
46:45is mobilizing people and resonating very
46:48deeply it was about a hundred degree day
46:50dozens and dozens and dozens of parents
46:53mostly white in this largely affluent
46:55county showed up to a school board
46:57meeting for many of the very first
46:58school board meeting they'd ever
46:59attended specifically because of this
47:01one issue
47:03okay as well they should the pushback
47:05has begun again if you want to
47:06re-normalize the institutions if you
47:07want to make them normal again and what
47:09you're going to have to do is stand up
47:11and say no and people in the middle have
47:13to be aware they are aware now they're
47:14waking up to it and they are fighting
47:16back and this scares the living hell out
47:18of the left because this is the first
47:19institutional pushback that we have seen
47:21in america for quite some time against a
47:23systemic motivated left
47:25and it's great the first thing you got
47:27to do is do what rufo has done and
47:29others we've done it on the show expose
47:30critical race theory for what it is
47:32number two tell people they have to form
47:33coalitions with people who are in the
47:35middle and that those coalitions have to
47:37be mobilized against this very core
47:39hardened group of people who are pushing
47:41a radical ideology and the institutions
47:43can in fact be taken back i talk about
47:44this in my new book the authoritarian
47:46moment at length because it's really
47:48really important
47:49okay so meanwhile the media is pushing
47:51back on all of this right and they're
47:52telling you lies about all of this the
47:54media have decided
47:56that they are going to simply lie about
47:58what critical race theory is so now
47:59because there's a giant pushback because
48:01americans are pushing back against
48:02critical race theory because finally for
48:04the first time in a very long time you
48:05have a large swath of americans looking
48:07at a movement from the left that's now
48:08been promoted across the military across
48:10your schools across your your
48:12universities and across your media and
48:13in sports and in every area of your life
48:15because we have noticed it the media has
48:18come up with two areas of pushback
48:19because again they are activists
48:20critical race theory as the founders say
48:23of critical race theory is not merely an
48:24idea an ideology or philosophy it is in
48:27fact about activism quote critical race
48:30theory contains an activist dimension it
48:32not only tries to understand our social
48:33situation but to change it
48:35richard delgado gene stefan critical
48:37race theory introduction right this is
48:38their goal is to change things and many
48:40in the media have
48:42have drunk from the well
48:43they've imbibed they're infused with the
48:45spirit of critical race theory so
48:47they've come back with two angles of
48:48pushback angle of pushback against the
48:50pushback number one
48:52is actually actually you just don't know
48:56what critical race theory is and you've
48:58seen this over and over so you saw mark
49:00lamont hill who is a radical idiot
49:03he had on james lindsay and he started
49:05explaining to him well you know let me
49:06let me explain how this really isn't
49:07about gromshi and you haven't read
49:08enough gramsci now let me explain how
49:09it's really not about delgado or stefan
49:11purely it's about various other marxist
49:14thinkers and really has nothing to do
49:15with marxism even though everybody i'm
49:16quoting is a marxist
49:18and everybody's like wow that's he he
49:20knows critical okay i just read you the
49:22tenets of critical race theory now you
49:23know the tenets of critical race theory
49:25they they in their inception were not
49:26vague they've been made deliberately
49:28vague that
49:29who are criticized can then say actually
49:31you don't know even what you're talking
49:33about actually you've never read any
49:35critical race theory actually you are
49:38just saying something that is okay so
49:40the way this is broadened out in the
49:41public view with regard to the media and
49:43you have members of the media saying
49:45actually critical race theory is just us
49:47teaching accurate history
49:49accurate history is just critical race
49:50theory okay the answer is no it's not
49:53because critical race theory again
49:54assumes that whiteness is pervasive
49:56everywhere that white supremacy is
49:58pervasive in every institution and that
50:00institutions and principles of power
50:02were created in order to re-establish
50:04and re-enshrine white supremacy okay
50:06that's what critical race theory says
50:07it's in its f it's founding tenets okay
50:10but what you get is from the media is if
50:11you push back against this you get the
50:13coverage from the washington post okay
50:14here's how the washington post covers
50:16the pushback against critical race
50:18theory quote critical race theory holds
50:20that racism is systemic in the united
50:21states not just a collection of
50:22individual prejudices an idea that feels
50:24obvious to some and offensive to others
50:27rufus alleged that efforts to inject
50:29awareness of systemic racism and white
50:30privilege which grew more popular
50:31following the murder of george floyd by
50:33police posed to grave threats to the
50:34nation
50:36it's the latest cultural wedge issue
50:37playing out largely but not exclusively
50:39in debate over schools at its core it
50:41pits progressives who believe white
50:43people should be pushed to confront
50:44systemic racism and white privilege in
50:45america against conservatives who see
50:47these initiatives as painting all white
50:49people as racist
50:50again the way that the washington post
50:52is boiling this down is that if you
50:53believe that there is racism in america
50:57then this means that you are a critical
50:58race theorist
51:00right and and that if you don't believe
51:01that if you believe that there is no
51:02racism in america you're conservative
51:03that of course is a great simplification
51:06okay this is but this is what cnn's
51:08bakari seller says if you're angry at
51:09critical race theory it's just because
51:11you don't like regular history you don't
51:12want to be taught regular history here
51:13goes with anderson cooper i think that
51:15critical race theory can go by another
51:17name uh america's history
51:20it's amazing that we're having this
51:21discussion where we're celebrating
51:23juneteenth and now individuals don't
51:25want to teach us what led us up to
51:26juneteenth it's as if we want to keep a
51:28secret from our children that the
51:30founders of this country actually own
51:32slaves um you know at what point will we
51:34be able to teach children that what
51:35happened six years ago yesterday in
51:38charleston south carolina was a white
51:39nationalist who walked into a church and
51:41murdered nine people i mean that is a
51:43part of america's history
51:46okay i have a question
51:48you can teach all of those things to
51:49kids and in fact every single school
51:51child in america knows those things if
51:53they have been taught history at all in
51:54every state in america that there was
51:56slavery in america and that many of the
51:58founders enslaved yes we all know that
52:00because that is part of american history
52:02in fact there was a giant you may have
52:04missed it there was a giant civil war
52:05where like hundreds of thousands of
52:06americans died
52:08over exactly this question and in fact
52:10pretty much everybody understands that a
52:12white nationalist shot up a black church
52:13in south carolina because we're all
52:15alive when that happened
52:17but the basic idea here is that if you
52:19don't push the idea that every
52:20institution in america is rife with
52:21racism and you as a white person don't
52:22properly understand racism this means
52:24that you're just not studying regular
52:26history you get the same thing from the
52:27washington post jonathan k part i hear
52:29he was saying the same thing people are
52:30trying to stop us from learning history
52:32so this is misdirect number one is that
52:33if you hate racial critical if you hate
52:35critical race theory because it's
52:36garbage the real thing you're trying to
52:37do is stop people from learning history
52:38it's a lie
52:41the people who are trying to you know
52:44pushing back against quote-unquote
52:45critical race theory which is basically
52:47a blanket way of
52:49keeping us from recognizing talking
52:52about and teaching the fullness of our
52:55history
52:56what they're doing is they're denying
52:58the country it's full it's full
53:00retelling the united states is a is a
53:03great nation and even though people are
53:05trying to keep us from learning our all
53:08of our history ms oppo lee
53:10showed that it is possible to do things
53:14to make it possible so that the
53:16generations coming and the generations
53:19unborn get to know their entire history
53:22warts and all okay this is misdirect
53:24number one is the critical race theory
53:25is just history no it's not the people
53:27who literally the people who wrote
53:29critical race theory say it's not just
53:31that right they say that brown versus
53:32board of education for example is a
53:34racist decision designed to uphold white
53:36supremacy
53:37okay that's what critical race theorist
53:38derek bell says and that's not teaching
53:40history that's teaching garbage okay so
53:42that's misdirect number one is that if
53:43you don't like critical race theory the
53:44push back to the pushback you don't like
53:46critical race theories because you don't
53:46want to study history then there's
53:48pushback number two pushback number two
53:50is that critical race theory doesn't
53:52exist poof it's in your imagination and
53:54if you've noticed that all the theories
53:56of critical race theory have been
53:57entered into education and if you've
53:59noticed that there are educational
54:00departments that explicitly say critical
54:03race theory is taught if you notice that
54:05they're they're actual military
54:07departments that talk openly about
54:08critical race theory if you've noticed
54:09that robin deangelo is getting hired by
54:11your corporation or ibm x candy is being
54:13pushed by your corporation or that on
54:15your recommended book list from your
54:16toothbrush company is ibrmx candy if
54:18you've noticed any of this it's because
54:20you're crazy
54:22it's all in your imagination so chuck
54:25todd again this is you cannot trust your
54:27media because they lie to you because
54:28they are part of this institutional push
54:30here is
54:31chuck todd from msnbc saying critical
54:33race theory this is all creation it's
54:35just a creation
54:37let's take this uh this so-called
54:40controversy over critical race theory
54:41and i say so-called controversy because
54:44it's sort of
54:45it's a creation that keeps people
54:47watching or keeps people clicking and
54:49suddenly you know yada yada school board
54:52meetings are getting disrupted right and
54:54you're just sort of like
54:55wait a minute are you covering the news
54:57that people need to know
55:00yes we are you're not you're downplaying
55:03it basically pretending that none of
55:04this exists
55:06of course it exists it exists in schools
55:08we have private schools teaching we have
55:09public schools teaching it and your job
55:11as the media is to expose that and you
55:13say well that's not newsworthy you know
55:14it's newsworthy whatever donald trump
55:15ate and crapped out today that's
55:17newsworthy what's truly newsworthy is a
55:19theory we'll go for four years on donald
55:20trump as a russian cat spa but we won't
55:22spend 30 seconds on most school boards
55:24in major metropolitan areas of the
55:26united states have taken up the rubric
55:27of anti-racism which is really just a
55:29renaming of critical race theory that we
55:31won't pay any attention to
55:33okay chris hayes does the same thing on
55:34msnbc he tries to blame the right for
55:36even reacting to critical race theory in
55:38the first place
55:39he had a chiron the other day on msnbc
55:41that is so beyond crazy it's like he
55:42said that the right is fixated on race
55:44we're fixated on race that's all you
55:46guys care about it's literally all you
55:48guys talk about like 24 hours a day and
55:51when we notice and we push back then
55:52it's oh i can't believe they noticed i
55:54mean like really
55:55look at these people obsessed with the
55:56race here's chris hayes doing this
55:57routine
55:58critical race theory uh as a sort of
56:00technical term is basically a set of
56:02analytic tools that academics in some
56:04fields use starting in law for studying
56:07systematic racism in our society the
56:09right has rendered the term meaningless
56:11through over deployment making it into a
56:13culture war rallying cry
56:15since february month over month the
56:16mentions of the term have more than
56:18doubled
56:20entire right-wing media machinery has
56:22become obsessed whipping up a moral
56:24panic almost entirely among white people
56:26that their children are being taught
56:28toxic truth is about america's long
56:30history of racial oppression hierarchy
56:34okay it's amazing right oh my god
56:35they're mentioning critical race theory
56:37yes we noticed
56:38you mentioned it and we noticed so the
56:40gas lighting is on two levels one is
56:41it's just history no it's not it's an
56:43actual theory that was meant to be an
56:45activist theory according to his
56:46founders second the lie is that it
56:49doesn't exist it absolutely does exist
56:51and it has a cost and the cost is that
56:54we are not allowed anymore according
56:56critical race theory to call out
56:57problems as we see them in the united
56:59states whether they are problems of
57:00actual racism or while they are problems
57:02that are not due to racism but result in
57:04unequal outcome because it turns out
57:06that if you want to prevent unequal
57:07outcome if you would like more equal
57:08outcome people have to act differently
57:10but if you notice that people have to
57:11act differently for example you say that
57:13crime should be policed
57:15right you should actually spend time
57:16policing crime rather than suggesting
57:17that the cops are racist this is because
57:19you have not imbibed from the well of
57:21critical race theory you have not
57:22recognized your own white supremacy
57:24you've not recognized that the police
57:25are in fact a tool of white supremacy in
57:27the united states and the costs of this
57:29are largely borne by black americans
57:32not entirely but largely born by black
57:34americans
57:35yeah the same people who are pushing
57:36critical race there are pushing defund
57:37the police because they believe that the
57:38police are in the words of nicole hannah
57:40jones basically the heirs to the slave
57:42catchers
57:43and so is it any wonder that you see
57:44kids being caught in crossfire in the
57:46bronx
57:47here we have video of kids being caught
57:49in a crossfire in the middle of new york
57:51city
57:52okay this wouldn't have happened even 10
57:53years ago in new york city when you
57:55drink deep from critical race theory
57:57what you end up is with is more
57:58suffering more inequality
58:01more cruelty
58:02more violence
58:04and apparently more happy members of the
58:06media
58:07and and the the pushback has begun it
58:09should begin and uh frankly i'm i'm
58:11ecstatic to see how far the pushback is
58:14going at this point
58:15again mobilize get together with your
58:17friends push back because the time is
58:19now alrighty we'll be back here later
58:20today with an additional hour of the ben
58:22shapiro show in the meantime go check
58:23out the michael knowles show today he's
58:24discussing more on how the mayor of
58:26chicago is declaring racism a public
58:27health crisis you can hear more details
58:29about this story over on michael's show
58:31that is available right now i'm ben
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