Would MLK Support Critical Race Theory? - Will & Amala LIVE

we're live good evening everybody and i would like to thank you all for coming out and watching the 2021 emmy awards now tonight i get the distinct honor of giving out a very very special award and that is the award for best actress now this year has been a very very tough year i'm sure for everybody no matter where you are watching in the world but the good news is when you are quarantined and stuck at home it is a great year for television so we have some very amazing actresses to honor tonight and i will again have the honor of giving out the emmy award for the best actress now the award is going to willamina wit come on up young lady here you are oh thank you very much i uh i can't tell you how much it means for this event to be sponsored by woca cola and uh just what it means for um a woman like me to really break the glass ceiling that's held held so many people back you know we we've learned that uh biological females have just not been able to perform at the level necessary to really deserve these type of awards so we need more people identifying as female or women in in order to deserve these awards so i'm very grateful that's my acceptance speech thank you very much wow what an honor to have the first trans woman to ever win an emmy award and a female category ansi okay ladies and gentlemen that was a great performance from taylor by the way taylor how long have you been acting for 30 seconds now you might notice that taylor is sitting in will's spot and that's because will is off being a will is identifying as a female actress [Laughter] yeah will is identifying as absent and he is out uh traveling the the united states you know doing doing what will does is he would say somebody's got to do it now the reason we have that opening today is because we have a very interesting story and that is the story of a one mj rodriguez i'm going to show you the article here mj rodriguez this is out of variety it's going to become the first trans woman up for a major acting emmy so we can take a look here this will be the first time this has ever happened in emmy history and you know what it's it's an interesting thing we thought about do we cover this story today is it bigoted to be against this and to not want to see a trans woman in a female category and obviously no it's not and that's why we're talking about it today and a lot of people will see this story and hear about mj rodriguez and they will think oh well it's fine it's fine she he looks and acts like a woman talks like a woman looks exactly like a woman is indistinguishable from a woman it should be okay that that he is now in a female category winning female awards in the emmys and no it is not okay and here's why because when we normalize things like this it is going to infiltrate other facets of our society it is going to become a problem it's the same thing that we would say for sports it's the same thing that we would say for bathrooms it goes across the board and although this seems insignificant it really isn't yeah diminishes the accomplishments of women of female athletes of female actresses um any i don't know women women should be able to for since the beginning of time or since the beginning of our civilization as we know it uh peop women have had to compete with one another for the accolades for reserve for women but now a man can simply say i identify as a woman and be in contention for the same awards and that is obviously not fair right and it's not even that they're just in contention for the same awards it's that they get elevated uh privilege and choice for these awards because at the same time the emmy awards and all these other institutions and corporations choose to virtue signal so they look for people like mj rodriguez to nominate them for awards i can nearly guarantee that this is not based any on any capacity how well this person acts even though mj you may be a great you may be a great actor however that is not why you've been given this this prestige this honor it's because the emmy awards the institution of the emmy awards now gets to virtue signal and what does it mean to be a woman who wants to achieve things like this when somebody who is a biological man simply identifying as a woman gets higher status and higher privilege because of that well any any any uh idea of merit is obviously white supremacy and it is the job of anybody who occupies a position of power to dismantle white supremacy by any means necessary right so we don't want people competing for the best awards or the best athletic accolades or anything like that we want to dismantle uh reality as we know it and usher in this new reality that is anti-white supremacy yeah i'm you know what at this point right nothing shocks me anymore i'm waiting for the day when all the emmy award actress nominees are all trans women that's that's what i'm waiting for that's what i'm waiting for in sports that's what i'm waiting for in the job market that's what i'm waiting for in motherhood because apparently that's a thing now as well and if you watched the program yesterday you saw a couple that has a baby and the mother the biological mother identifies as male and the father identifies as female the father was attempting to breastfeed their child how insane can you get very very insane and all jokes aside all mockery aside uh think about what this is normalizing and it's something that we never talk about in relation to the trans issue here in america we are normalizing what is a problem really mentally and what goes on to create other problems in terms of mental health depression suicidal ideation anxiety and we've seen it time and time again there have been multiple studies done on the transgender community here in the united states and abroad that shows that no matter how much you truly normalize uh this thinking and this dysmorphia the suicide rate does not change right and think about you know again we all there's always overlooked victims to this type of ideology and for that couple yesterday that's pushing this it's their kid it's the child that they're trying to breastfeed as with a male nipple that obviously is not producing any milk right um but but the the world that that child is going to grow up in is a distorted version of reality and that is why when you when your worldview that's handed to you that you're brainwashed with uh is a distorted view of reality then guess what your the way that you think the world works is not actually how it works and that's going to lead to negative mental health outcomes it's going to lead to depression it's going to lead to you being very confused about who you are and how the world is because and it's it's not that's that's an innocent baby an innocent child and this is happening not just with the children of uh trans couples because that's probably a very tiny subset of the population but it's the bigger problem is the fact that this ideology is everywhere and it's all over the media it's being celebrated in the emmys it's being it's it's in every you know we have the diversity quotas and all this stuff in in all the oscars now and in netflix and hollywood nothing gets made unless it's pushing this woke indoctrination across the board it's in our school curriculum now critical race theory stuff so this distorted view of reality that doesn't work in the real world is being pushed everywhere and uh that is it's not going to lead to good outcomes for mental health or for the society at large and it's it's fine the transgenderism i will say does exist body dysmorphia does exist i don't believe it exists at the rate that we're seeing today i think that is purely born out of cultural acceptance and nurturing of that sort of behavior but it does exist and it's fine to accept that however we're not looking into the real treatments of how of how this thinking how this body dysmorphia should be treated here in america right now what we are doing is we are placating to to people who can't accept their reality and then we are giving them long-term life-altering irreversible treatment that is not doing them any good at all like i said there have been multiple studies done the longest one being out of sweden done for 30 years on transgender individuals that it shows that even after sexual reassignment hormone blocking hormone therapy the suicide rate does not change and they have the highest suicide rate of any demographic here in the united states so if you realize if you can come to the point where you recognize that your form of treatment that your choice of treatment for these people is not working that the loss of life is still the exact same you need to re-look what type of treatment you are giving them you need to look at long-term mental treatment and counseling to help these people which there have been no studies done on done on whatsoever yeah it is not compassionate to reinforce someone's delusions if they do not correspond to reality compassion looks like rehabilitating someone back to reality it's the same thing we see in la on the streets people our streets are full of needles and homeless people and our parks are not safe to take your children to because there's this idea that we have to be compassionate and it's not compassionate to tell to make sure that your sidewalks are clear and that you don't step on a needle when you walk outside your front door and there's not poop on right outside your front door like there was in my last apartment and it is not compassionate to seed reality or to seed the order of your city's ced i'm using that verb um two the people who are not playing by the rules of reality that you have to go for you can't you don't you don't you know lower the standard of reality to someone's delusions or someone's own uh idea of what how things should be you rehabilitate them to get to the bare minimum and right now we're just lowering lowering the standard and society is getting worse and worse and while we're seeing trans actresses on tv and now being nominated for female emmy awards we are not talking about the young kids who are experiencing this body or gender gender dysmorphia whatever you want to call it we're not talking about the people who detransition you have organizations like glad a very famous lgbt rights organization that says that we do not want to highlight the stories of detransitioning trans people because they hurt the movement and that should tell you everything that you need to know about what is happening in regard to transgender people in this country they do not want to tell you the truth because they know that they cannot influence you if they do so now instead of celebrating people like mj rodriguez and putting them in female categories we should be talking about the real issue behind this and the fact that it's a growing issue and the fact that we are trying to influence our children to have gender confusion which we are seeing now in all of our children's entertainment we're seeing it now in their public schools we're seeing it all over our nation and our society and again it is having detrimental effects so no i will not be supporting this female emmy nominee emmy nominee yeah like you said it gets very tiresome because this stuff happens every day but the people who are pushing this ideology are not taking any naps and they're not taking any breaks and so any ground that we just whenever we decide oh well it's not we're talking about just because it's it keeps happening like no you have to stand up and call call us cause i think it's racist to say call a spade a spade now someone called me out for that at one point but you have to say call it like it is right and uh and you know reinforce your commitment to reality absolutely and you know speaking of reality right now there is a whole group of people in this country that would choose to morph reality through the lens of race and look at people based on their skin color and then make uh make their assumptions based on that now there's been a recent conversation that's been brought up on twitter it's been trending the name kevin mccarthy has been trending uh who is the gop leader and we're going to get into some of his comments here this is in no way an endorsement of kevin mccarthy or uh his leadership or anything that he does i just want to talk about this specific comment he was featured on the reuben report and he brought up critical race theory not only in relation to today's time but in relation to martin luther king jr now this is a very short clip only a few seconds about what he had to say um let's go over and see what what all the heat is about critical race theory goes against everything martin luther king has ever told us don't judge us by the color of our skin and now they're embracing it right they're going backwards critical race theory that's it that was enough to cause a ripple effect on the internet that is outrageous how dare he how suggested anything that critical race theory is not what everyone needs to believe how dare you put words in the mouth of martin luther king jr except he didn't his own words he simply just shared his own words that we should be we should be judging people based on the content of their character and not their skin color which is the exact opposite rhetoric that crt purports exactly can we look at some of the replies to that uh tweet because they were pretty crazy like even yeah mlk's own daughter i think her name is bernice internet's great today let's see i'm going to pull up the the responses here some people are saying that crt is the republican's new boogie man of controversy based entirely on deliberately misunderstanding the point in what way have we misunderstood the point can you tell me because i've read a multitude of papers and essays on critical race theory and i have in no way felt that i've misunderstood the point in any way shape or form critical race theory stands to say that white people by virtue of being born hold a certain amount of privilege that people like me don't have or other people of color don't have and that we should take that into account when navigating our day-to-day lives and we should take that into account when it comes to leadership and power in this country is that not what critical race theory says it is but they will say that it's just a dif it's a way of teaching real history right except it's rewritten history and here's what uh bernice king or mlk's daughter replied to this clip and said um i encourage you to study my father's teaching in words beyond the last line lines of i have a dream this nation has yet to firmly commit to the intensive multifaceted work of eradicating racism against black people you should help with that now i would say that her dad made great strides in eradicating racism against black people yes and no one is claiming that there are zero racists left in america and that there we have completely eradicated but by uh reinterpreting this the whole race issue around critical race theory we're literally making the opposite of the prop we're undoing the progress that hurt mlk made by making by making everything about race again and re-racializing tensions between people and teaching little black kids that they're victims and teaching white kids that they're oppressors and and they should be guilty on the color of their skin yes we've brought it back we dug ourselves out of the 1960s we dug ourselves out of the antebellum period and now we're bringing it back but we're doing it through a positive lens we are we are doing restorative justice we are helping people black people have been helped and hurt by the the uh the remnants of of slavery that is not what we're doing at all we are segregating society in an effort to one dehumanize white people and to strip them of whatever said power they they claim to have uh under the critical race theorists point of view and at the same time we are trying to elevate black people but i don't get where the elevation thing comes from when i have the exact same rights as everybody else explain that to me there's no systemic racism happening right now in america right but that you know that the state of reality is not the point the point is that you get baptized into their religion right and become an anti-capital w white activist anti-whiteness activist and try to eradicate america of white supremacy which comes along with being things like math and being objective and we have to get rid of all that and like merit like we were talking about before uh because all those are vestiges of the white supremacists white males who founded america and we need to undo it and you you're not that ideology is not progressive and by by insisting that everyone adopts it or else they're racist we're not playing that game and so again this is another we talk about gender stuff all the time we talk about critical race through all the time but like we're not going to give up this ground we're you know any like i think ben shapiro said any hill that you choose not to die on is the hill you're giving up to the other side and we're like we're not giving up this hill this is an interesting comment and a comment i hear all the time from the left and i'm seeing it right now in the chat from somebody named yummy um no one even pushes crt that's i mean what are we doing here hold on i'm done for the day no one pushes crt well i guess i quit guys my job is done here because nobody's talking about critical race theory it's so interesting because uh i can cite multiple corporations that are pushing critical race theory nike disney raytheon lockheed martin i can cite uh federal institutions that are pushing critical races union the biggest teachers union in america right the biggest teacher the nea biggest second biggest explicitly right most of those things that you named are implicitly doing or like i guess they're putting it in all of their messaging they're putting in their products they're putting in their brand they're putting it everywhere but they're not saying hi we are pushing crt but if you look at what they're saying it everything that they're saying the way that they think is a is an outgrowth of the underlying ideology which is critical race theory and that's why that laughter likes to play these word games and say oh you're just that's just your boogeyman that you're calling everything that and you're putting you know random benign things under that because you just want to cause panic and no the critical race theory in critical theory in general or critical social justice is the ideology that really is related to marxism and post-modernism that is beneath uh the dominating the the dominant uh way of thinking in our culture today that's pushed by the mainstream media and that occupies all the institutions and so they don't like that we can call it a spacious bay they don't like that we can call it what it is right and that we can name the enemy because if you can name it then you can start to argue against it and they don't want to argue it uh because they can't stand by they don't have logic and reason and history and everything else on their side um so they instead play these word games in obfuscate and try to make it make things less clear which is the classic post-modern tactic where you just you know reinterpret reality and make all this confusion and then you advance your agenda in under the cloud of confusion and we're not playing that game yeah exactly we are exposing where critical race theory lies and where it's being bred and where it's being facilitated and it is again everywhere the cia the army all of our federal institutions you have our our colleges and our public schools who are purporting uh crt you have nicole hannah jones of the 1619 project being offered tenure at unc but then going over to howard it is happening everywhere and we can give you mountains and piles and piles of evidence but if you want to use the same talking point that no one even pushes crt i mean it just doesn't it doesn't work willwood in the chat said travis isn't playing games that's right i don't know if that's the real will wit but i think it is the real will with texas if it's you will yeah i think it is the real will wit there's so many imposters these days you know now somebody did a super chat here uh make 1984 fiction again said hard not to be black-pilled when mlk's own daughter opposes his ideas yeah it's a sad reality when you see people who are descendant of actual real real what we would call today social justice warriors uh actually making change and then you see their daughters and their descendants just completely dump on everything that they've ever said it's so sad it's sad i don't know what blackfield means but i'm going along with it it's like red pill is like oh i know what's going on i'm based black belt is like i know what's going on i'm based it's kind of like what we were talking about earlier which maybe we're not going to get into that but will did text us and say it's not him which actually just confuses me more because clearly he heard what we said now speaking of crt we got the chance to highlight one of our beautiful prager force members her name is noelle fitchett and she is a student at cal state fullerton we did an interview with her because she was forced to study crt we're going to get into that right now and show you that so here we go so on today's program we have noelle fitchit who is a prager force member and also a student at cal state fullerton who is studying biochem and philosophy but she has had a recent run-in with critical race theory noel could you tell us a little bit about that yeah so um a lot of my school is actually really radical when it comes to critical race there we have trainings for it so if you're the president of a club you have to go through what they call equity and racial justice courses before you're allowed to run your club even if it's not even related to anything political or social um my classes make us read critical race theory white privilege intersectionality and the thing that i find the most troubling is they teach it as fact so a lot of students have to just accept it and without question so there's no room for nuance or really any kind of discussion i thought they didn't teach critical race theories in school i thought that was a conservative dog whistle that we use to fearmonger and scare people oh my gosh it's so prevalent we have to write papers on it we had to analyze kimberly crenshaw peggy mcintosh a lot of the pioneers for it so it's super prevalent you came from a place where at least according to sabrina who is our lovely director of pragerforce a place that was not so conservative amla and i also came from places that we weren't conservatives we were on the left and then became conservatives was a lot of this this push for crt critical race theory is a lot of that stuff would push you to be more of a conservative and more outspoken um yeah because i think at the time when i was more socially left uh advocating for a lot of social justice things that i thought were good um i was taught in class like they would talk about for example um it came from an empathetic place they would talk about disparities and discrimination but they would always tie it to race and i remember i got into debate about white privilege and i was the like pro-white privileged side and i lost the debate and that set me down kind of a rabbit hole of realizing that discrimination disparities have there's a lot of other factors that contribute to that it's not just race race is not the only thing that's causing these things um it's really shallow to assume it's just race so right i think we all went through similar journeys with that i think it takes like you said just one moment for that to happen and then you go down this rabbit hole of oh my gosh maybe i'm wrong in other places it takes just one little seed of doubt to think oh no maybe i was not supporting the right ideology no i want to use you as a mythbuster right now because as you said you've been forced to study crt so i want to get a couple things that the left says about crt and see if you think that's true so the left will say that crt is not pitting people against each other based on race and it is not creating any sort of racial hierarchy do you think that that's true no not all it's it really aims towards white people like for example there's um peggy mcintosh says that white privilege is like an invisible backpack of tools that you carry around that only white people have um abramex candy says that white people have an inherent benefit benefit and the only answer to that is to discriminate against them she explicitly says that so it's definitely divisive and it's meant to be divisive they they don't really hide that claim at all if you read their papers what about the the crt theorists who say that uh that crt does not mean that we hate america that they are the true patriots how do you respond to that um i think the the thing that i would respond to that is they explicitly say that they want to tear down all the systems that we have in place now that's their primary goal because they believe that it's founded on colonialism and white supremacy they believe that all those structures have to be teared down and they say that in the introduction to white privilege not white privilege critical race theory they say that that's their goal is to destroy everything so i don't think that's very pro-america if they want to take down every single institution that we have if i were you i would be at least in my situation when i had to take classes like the ones that you're talking about when i was in college i was grateful to take those classes i was happy that i got to see what the other side was saying and i was glad that i got to see how i can fight against it by hearing just the bogus and horrible things that they were saying so when you're hearing all this stuff and i don't know if you're involved in any student groups like turning point or young republicans or you know young based conservatives whatever i know you're involved with prager force but maybe something else but what are you doing actively to i guess fight against these things that you're hearing in class or at least to educate people about um so i'm involved in all those organizations on my campus but aside from that i think it's really important for students to actually say something in class especially if they've read the papers just asking a question can change people's mind i didn't realize what an impact that had in my recent philosophy class we were talking about testimonial justice and epistemic a bunch of race theory stuff and a lot of people just accepted this fact and when i asked a question i had people private messaging me saying hey i never thought about it that way and then they went through their own you know discovery of awakening of realizing that a lot of the stuff being taught is not true so honestly asking questions and even i feel like we're at a time where you have to politely and respectfully challenge your professors because um if we just keep being silent it's just gonna this lie is gonna continue being spread so it doesn't have to always be too polite you can get along with it okay i'm actually a fan of aggression i i i'm just i'm gonna give a hot take will is the aggressive one and i'm the like the sweet nice one we balance each other out yes aggression without cruelty is what makes a man a man fair enough okay i'm not trying to veer away from the conversation i am just telling you a thing i i like philosophy as well who is your favorite philosopher oh that's hard okay i i sorry no no you broke up first so just uh repeat that answer what you were saying oh my bad sorry um i really enjoy reading a lot of the critical race theorists philosophers because i like understanding where they're coming from because then i can form a more cohesive argument so i like reading kimberly crenshaw i like reading um peggy mcintosh because then i can form a really interesting argument by understanding them so yeah i like listening reading them that's interesting because that's not a view that the left tends to hold they don't want to hear dissenting opinions they don't want to hear people who are dissident of what they believe and we as conservatives are are always the ones to come to the table and say yeah tell me what you think and then i'll give you my response so i applaud you for that i think my last question is are you hopeful for the state of colleges and our public institutions do you think it's going to get better from here or that we're going to keep sort of force-feeding this ideology to students i think honestly the only way that it'll get better is if students speak up and if they become professors um i know that there's like a big push for college isn't really necessary which you can totally go and do a job and do something else be an entrepreneur that's great but i think that more conservatives need to be college professors we have to be writing our own philosophy papers to combat this in order to see real change i agree with you i am a big fan of university education like a liberal education where you get to learn philosophy and history and art and the things that that make the world a beautiful place i think those things should be taught and that is what makes us human is being able to comprehend the beauty in the world but and it should be taught at a university right i am a big fan of that so i i am with you on the reformation of the reforming of universities and conservatives actually standing up within them last thing about prager force just what has prayer force been like for you and what would you tell other people who are there watching who want to join prayer force has been amazing it's been a family i've met so many amazing people i personally didn't have any conservative friends up until less than a year ago and pragerforce really provided a lot of community for me the prager force influencer program helped me develop my voice and just learn how to articulate my thoughts i met so many friends and so definitely highly recommend everyone to join it even if you're not going to make content if you just want to make friends and learn different perspectives um pragerforce and prageru is very oh they're actually diverse i'm really they're the real tolerant ones um it's just very open to different perspectives so highly recommend it everyone should join figure force uh yeah so everybody who's listening right now and is interested in prank reports go to pragerforce.com and please sign up the last thing i want to say is noelle you are this beautiful well-read young conservative woman but you're not just that you also make content online so where can people find the content that you make people could find me at noellefitch on instagram and noel no offence on every platform twitter instagram so keep it consistent that's what we like to do do the same thing all right make sure people can follow you one thing i just said oh one go for it one thing for consistency make your profile pictures the same across your different social media which i don't do but i should do it i actually started doing that so started doing it because then people yeah so they want to they go back wow it's a protest so this is why you guys watch this show okay i'm not here today we filmed this on monday and it's tuesday because i'm not here right so i'm giving you guys pro tips even when i'm not here you're welcome yeah you know will's always keeping you guys in mind even when he's not in the office thank you so much noel for being on the program uh i know you're going to be very very well received and i love that you have an interesting perspective in that you not only took the challenge of learning crt but you actually stand up and speak out against it so that's amazing thank you so much thank you guys okay so that was noelle fitchett she's amazing and again she's part of pragerforce if you want to meet other like-minded people and you're in high school college or a young professional under the age of 35 go to pragerforce.com and sign up to join breaker force you can become an influencer for our team and uh have featured content that goes up on our prayer you pages like instagram and twitter or you can just simply meet people who share your values which is a very very valuable thing to have in this day and age it is i'm so glad i'm not a college student these days oh right i graduated call undergrad in 2013 which betrays my age a little bit but that was like right before all the woke stuffs really started you know ramping up to an 11 and uh you know if you are right now a college student the deck is stacked against you and at minimum get a community um like prager force and the great thing about pragerforce is it is digital first so uh even if you're not it's hard to find like-minded people at your own college maybe but you can you know they're waiting for you prager force online so prayforce.com check it out now speaking of education and uh liberal education of all things uh we are going to get into an article here that actually taylor found it's called what happened to you it's on andrewssullivansubstack.com i would urge you to go and and check it out and actually read the whole thing for yourself but we pulled some really interesting quotes to just have a discussion on it today and it's really uh what we're witnessing right now is you know a lot of people will refer to leftists as liberals and i'm sure we hear that a lot we make an active effort at this show to try to not do that even though it is a hard slip uh that we often make but leftists are not liberals and they're especially not classical liberals if only the left were still mostly liberal right like i don't you know then this is it's an important distinction to make because if you're leftist or like radical leftist then you are the that's the type of people the blue haired people who are pushing this gender ideology their critical race theory that type of stuff um old school liberals are people who are just very pro-rationalism a lot of like the new atheist types but anyways let's get into some of these quotes because they'll help shed light on what's going on sure yeah so the first quote here is the the elites increasingly sequestered within one political party and one media monoculture educated by colleges and private schools that have become hermetically sealed against any non-left dissent have had a social justice reckoning these past few years and they have been ideologically transformed with countless cascading consequences now that might sound just like a whole bunch of like word vomit but essentially what it's saying is that the elites in this country are are really in control of obviously an entire political party being that of the left and then a media monoculture which which is mainstream media and they're also controlling public schools and private schools and they have transitioned us not not to be upholding the views of classical liberalism but the views of social justice right and that word monoculture is very accurate because it's it's describing like america's supposed to be a melting pot of perspectives of ideas and what you're getting in university now is not challenges to your your thinking or a variety of perspectives that you're exposed to you are taught a singular monoculture a singular idea as fact and the the mainstream media reinforces that hollywood reinforces that academia reinforces it everywhere and that is what's creating this the monoculture of our society today and it's so accurate so now to be someone who believes in freedom who proudly flies the flag who uh loves america you're the subculture now you're not you're not part of the the mainstream culture anymore and that that that is exactly what's happening right and which is why all the time we say that the leftists are not the true revolutionaries even though that's what they claim to be they claim to be these warriors who are gonna in state of revolution here in america and they're going to transform society and everything's going to be great under this liberal utopia that they're that they're aiming to create here we are the counter-revolutionaries really because they they control everything they control mainstream media they control our institutions they control the elites so we are the ones who are truly fighting the the culture war if you want to call it that that's happening here in america now another quote here that's really interesting this this article again go read it because it's just full of amazing information and an amazing perspective but here's another quote here and the core point of that movement its essential point is that liberalism is no longer enough not just not enough but itself a means to perpetuate white supremacy designed to oppress harm and terrorize minorities and women and and in dire need of dismantling that's a huge deal and it explains a lot it's true like all of you just read this and you're like okay well all of this is true it's no longer okay to be a liberal who who espouses economic freedom freedom of speech uh the the importance of individual rights anymore now we need this uh government to to come down upon us and regulate our rights and regulate our privilege in a way that shapes the society uh to to conform to leftist ideology right they're basically saying that you know if you're for enlightenment rationalism and using your brain and you know weighing evidence and innocent until proven guilty that's all old school to these people right now you have to be leftist you have to be aggressively advancing critical race theory you have to be aggressively advancing gender theory you have to be part of this monoculture and if because if you're not you're not an ally and you're out and uh so to so as far as the radical left is concerned they're against liberals in the classical sense liberals as much as they are against conservatives and that's why like we are in a moment where conservatives have a little bit of an we still have something in common with liberals you know we still believe that in the to that we liberals play by the same rules as conservatives in the sense that we both live in the world of facts and objective reality and objective truth and science and reason and these people don't they're conflating what gender is they're conflict they're redefining terms they're using all these post-modern tactics and so i think it's important to just recognize um where the where the lines are drawn in the in the culture war battle today because it's easy to if you can't clearly delineate between um these different ideologies it's going to be more confusing than ever it's already so confusing a time to live in and i've been talking with almond will about this a lot but like um i'm of the persuasion that the average person now more than ever the average american needs to really pay attention to what's going on it needs to dig in and i know it's some of this eyebrow sounding stuff you get to hear about post-modernism and enlightenment rationalism and all this stuff but like you need to know more than ever like really uh what the values that our country was founded on what why it's why you should be proud to be an american what was the you know we talked about revolution the real revolution was the american revolution that was the thing that's different these people are trying to bring us back to the revolutions that have already been done by mao and chayavara and all the places that ended up in in oppression the soviet russia um that that's not revolutionary they're making us regressed to the marxist utopia that has ended in poverty and suffering the american revolution ushered in the an unprecedented amount of freedom uh equality uh prosperity uh that the world has ever seen that was a real revolution and but that's the one that's under attack today and you need to inform yourself of why that was valuable and also inform yourself of what the current manifestation of these bad ideas are because that's the only way that we're going to be well equipped to fight back right it's crazy now that the the classical liberals the true classical liberals that you meet today are really right of center and it's it's interesting to me and it's a conversation that i've had with other prominent what i would call conservatives in the movement like dave rubin he defines himself as a classical liberal uh but we had a conversation in which he expressed that no really although he identifies as a classical liberal he's also very much a conservative because right now we have put classical liberals in a stance of which they now have to defend their standing which was something that never really was happening in american culture but now is at the forefront of our conversations especially when it comes to social issues so now he's saying if you are a classical liberal or if you are in any way trying to conserve and preserve what america was and what it was meant to be you are a conservative and that's a very important uh distinction to make because taylor and i were talking about this earlier again today we have a lot of conversations about these topics because we really want to give you guys the truth but when people ask me you know what what is your political affiliation or ask taylor what his political affiliation is it's kind of difficult to say conservative because that immediately puts you in a box of whatever that person perceives conservatives to be but now conservative is really an all-encompassing term like i said if you are trying to conserve and preserve what our founding fathers were trying to put in place here in this country you are a conservative yeah i mean it's tough the the people dishonest people in conversation love to play word games and to say well because and to somebody who's on the other side like they see a conservative they think white supremacists they think racist biggest homophobe and uh sometimes with like liberal people who they have to choose between their false perception of what a conservative is which is based on the stuff that the far left has been preaching or the far left and a lot of them are in the middle and but then there are there are a lot of people who are very talented and and open-minded like dave rubin who get exposed who actually meet conservatives and talk to them and realize oh you guys aren't these bigots that i've been hearing about my whole life and even you talked about the power of fear over like you were afraid of conservatives you've told me right because in your mind it was these people who wanted to they they were racist they wanted to come get you they want to take away your rights they wanted i don't know to segregate you or whatever it was that you believe um and it's i think it's so important to like be conscious of how of that perception out there because if we actually want to change minds the better you understand how someone else thinks the the better chance you have at changing their mind agreed yeah i again i was i was uh scared of conservatives definitely from a very young age because i was taught that they were out to get me that they didn't want me to be successful that they were putting all these barriers in place and systems in place to hold me back and then when you finally get introduced to the ideology itself you realize and to the people themselves you realize they're not these scary monsters that are out to get you whatsoever they just want you to be successful and they want you to know about your individual rights and uphold those one last quote from this article here uh i'll i'll show you it here real quick can i get a question in from the audience um technocatification great name um asks can you actually change a radical mind though i'd love to hear your guys opinions i mean i'm living in the tattoo show okay guys i'm gonna show you my tattoo here i don't know if you can see that there in the camera it's a blm fist tattoo right that is a blm fist tattoo with the words speak above it that i got when i was i want to say i think 16 years old so 16 years old i got this tattoo uh because i was a radical leftist who wanted to wanted to let everybody know that that's how i felt and that was where i was going to stand and i specifically remember going in and my mother even had this conversation with me and you know my mother is a very very radical leftist she said are you sure you want to get this tattooed and i was like absolutely nothing this is never going to change this is something that i will always and forever believe and i'm it's it's it's not going anywhere i am i'm stagnant right here in this belief and now here i am working for prageru talking about conservative beliefs so the radical mind does change now yeah i mean now the comments they'll claim that prager you paid her to to get that tattooed right and that's how committed we are to having a token black person but no someone asked in the comments i think it's a good point can you do you think it's possible to change someone's mind by talking to them because your experience was more it was very much a journey right right it was not a lightbulb moment i worked for the left and that put a bad taste in my mouth but i was still aware of the battle that i was fighting and the social justice issues that i wanted to stand behind it wasn't until i was rejected by leftists that i was working with in asking questions that i had to go out and find other people to answer them and that's when i found the nice conservatives yeah and i think what was really helpful for you was looking online and finding a lot of people like having intelligent conversations looking at facts and stuff like that so i think there's something to be said for um just speaking the truth but i think there's also something to be said for if you really want to change someone's mind like i'm sure it wouldn't have helped you to encounter like a hostile conservative who was like trying to beat you over their head with no this is the right way to think and you better think i don't know i'm doing southern accents so it's okay but uh you know i'm sure like having intelligent conversations with someone from the other side though would probably be more likely to sway you right oh it's like you want to you want to hear somebody who's doing it out of compassion for you and is doing it because they want you to know the truth and they want you to be liberated in the fact that you're not uh oppressed anymore and the people that i've ran into on the internet who really uh got to me were people like jordan peterson people like larry elder people like michael knowles this sort of intellectual side of the conservative movement who were just saying these are the facts oh especially tom soul which you see him up there but uh people who were just intellectually giving you facts they didn't uh really express their feelings into the situation they were just saying this is how it is and somebody may tell you it's different but this is the truth these are the true facts behind these matters and that's what changed my mind and i think conversation is obviously a great tool for that uh but social media is the conversation of today's time which is a crazy thing to think about it's exactly why we do this podcast because hopefully there are people out there that feel like we're conversing with them and yeah we really do make an effort not to just be an echo chamber not just to like you know pump the the red meat type of stuff but explain what we believe and why we believe those ideas and we do and then we try to do that by relating it to the news of the day so um hopefully we're helping to red pill yeah some more little envelopes out there and as we do that we have a fun little tweet that was put out today by matt walsh you know him you love him he's from the daily wire uh he tweeted today and i'll show you guys here please give me an example of a person just one person anywhere in america who really wants to vote and yet would be prevented from doing so by any of the voter id laws currently being enacted or proposed i just need one person can you give me one and guess what no they can't give you one now we're gonna go through some of these replies and in the meantime i want you guys to fathom you you think you you drum up in your imaginations and do so in the chat give me an example of one person who if they truly wanted to vote would not be able to do so and we will pick the best one from the chat we'll read out some of your responses if you guys can think of anything uh i however can't but i will try so let's look here there were two replies that i really liked to this one was there was an imaginary here we go an 85 86 year old disabled man who last drove 20 years ago doesn't travel and cannot find his birth certificate so that's a very specific imaginary person um but again that's an imaginary person now let's say that there's someone who does fit this description um three and a half years in between election cycles is a pretty long time to find another human being that you know that uh cares about you enough to drive you to a place where you can get a new your new birth certificate made or whatever whatever whatever it has to be like you literally have years to accomplish that and as unfortunate as that is that's i mean hopefully that this person has people who love him in his family and in his life that can assist him in this thing because all of there's no legal barriers in between this person this imaginary person and them getting a very real id right and you you'll recognize that none of these responses have anything to do with race yet the whole time we were talking about this whole voter voter suppression campaign coming out of georgia and all this stuff it was all in relation to black people and people of color how could you possibly do this there are black people who can't do this none of these replies to this twitter thread have anything to do with being black or a person of color so let's go ahead and knock that fallacy out of the water here's one an old professor's wife is wheelchair bound and the royal dmv has those old id machines there's no way to adjust it so that she can have her picture taken without standing up what type of excuse it's like how how hard did it how hard was it for you to create the maze of this situation in order to give this as an excuse that there's in no way no way shape or form a way that the dmv could get a picture of this woman's face to make her an id it yeah i i don't like it i don't like it i don't like it and if your entire argument is staked on these imaginary situations that require seven modifiers and clauses in your sentences to try to say well this and this and this and this and this and this and like there's not an actual person standing there and it's like you know even if there were um there are there is such a thing as various fringe extreme cases but that we can't we can't makes laws in society to that are around the same thing with like the abortion argument you know they take the very fringes extreme cases in their entire case against abortion hinges on cases of rape and incest but then they use that to justify a much broader position i feel like that's exactly what what they're doing here right and it just doesn't work and you can't meld you can't one sacrifice the integrity of an election to help a 99 year old disabled woman who is too short to get their picture taken for her id uh get uh you know get around the voter id laws in in a state it makes absolutely nothing you can move the camera they they are right right everyone's got one on their phone we do have technology if that cannot be the thing that causes our democracy to fall right we can't move a camera down four feet or whatever so it's it's it goes to show that people on the left will find any and all excuses to defend a position of which they previously held of which you guys love when i say of which um defend a position that they previously held instead of just saying you know what you make a valid point i think most people in this country if not all people in this country who are legal citizens can get a voter id and can get to a poll and can place their vote or can mail in their ballot or can do an absentee ballot instead of admitting that and just saying you know what okay maybe i was wrong we move on we we go forward with the voter id laws they have to put themselves and and just tangle themselves up in this game of twister where they try to come up with a valid excuse for their ideology yeah it's it's like this existential need to help people who are suffering but that turns into imagining suffering and imagining oppression that does not exist so that you convert your signal and because they have this need to get virtue signal points and that's i feel i as best as i can tell and describe it from afar it seems like that is what is sort of the driving and i'm sure that's not like a conscious thought process in your mind but it's like this there's some imaginary way that someone's being oppressed by this and i have to figure out a way that i can be the savior in that situation it's like guys like you know people can take responsibility for themselves and uh we don't we don't need you to be the the white savior right like somebody is being harmed i promise i promise somebody's being harmed by this and if i'm not the one to fix it then nobody's gonna do it like you like but you know people are were always telling you how impressed you are even your own mother you've said that right right and agreed it's like why do you need there to be all of this oppression when you like let me think for myself and have agency and like i don't understand you know i mean i think i have a theory on why people are incentivized to create oppression so it's like they can find meaning in being the alleviator of that oppression but it it's a backwards way of viewing the world and that ends up disempowering people do you think that people in like the young leftists of today like the 20-somethings are gonna be you know 70 years old and saying like you know when i wasn't young and i had to fight against the voter are they going to be like this is our oppression this is our time this is our doomsday this is our world war two i mean are our conservatives going to do that our left is going to do that because you know i think people are searching for some sort of oppression do people think that this is actual oppression i was distracted by a comment that said wait i've lost it but it was like czech made a how um how does a dead liberal get a voter id or something we have a funny audience we have a funny audience i will give you guys that um but yeah do you think that leftists in today's time are going to look back in 50 years and truly believe that they were fighting an oppressive battle i'd i think they will if the cult they win the culture war you know but if their ideology is exposed for what it is then hopefully they'll look back and say wow how dumb are we to believe all this crazy stuff good thing we got back back down to reality but no i don't think anyone will willingly go there i wonder if we're going to still be fighting this battle in 50 years are we the dennis pragers of what the 2070s i would be honored to carry on the torch so would i that would be amazing look whatever side truth and uh you know truth and reality is on i'm going down on that side so right you know and like and in this article that andrew sullivan they should have the graph that shows like how far left the democratic party has gone in the last few years and then the right relatively has not moved nearly as far and i mean that's like objective pew research type studies and so i mean you by staying true to your convictions and dennis breaker himself says this like you know everything i believed as a liberal jew new yorker and like i don't want to guess on what decade that was yeah i don't know but he's like i still pretty much believe all the same things right but now all those things are called conservative yeah so we when we've we've talked about that on the stream quite a bit too is that conservatives and their stances have not really changed in what we value and what we we hold to be true what we hold to be freedom what we hold to be liberty uh here in this nation but the walk left specifically has gone so far left in their extremism that our our little middle stagnant point moves right and when really we're not we're not right we're not alt-right we're not super conservative we're not ultra right-wing we are simply people who care about the truth the objective truth and making sure that that stays alive and they can move their little needle as far left as they want to move but we stay right there in the middle you don't get to meet call me and a radical extremist because you've been radically moving further and further you know to to an extreme you're the extremist we're just holding the line and staying committed to our values and our principles and the stuff that this country was founded on so yeah if you want to you know that's the side that we're going to diana we're not budging you know but uh if you want to however you want to call that whatever side that is we want to be on the side of truth and the values that our country was founded on and you guys do too and that's why you watch this stream so if you love what you're here today or if you would like to see us again in the future please like and 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