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You need to get out.
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Help me get this reporter
out of here!
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I need some muscle over here!
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Keep doing it!
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You know, this is all
very personal to me
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"cause I experienced tyranny
at a very young age.
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Israel sent me
into the Soviet Union
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when I was 21 years old
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"cause I knew Russian
and Hebrew,
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and I was sent in to smuggle
out the names of Jews
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that I would find
in the Soviet Union
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and to smuggle in
religious items and so on.
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And I really experienced
what most people in the West
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have never, ever experienced:
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life under a totalitarian
regime."
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In order to keep myself sane,
I would make myself laugh.
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So, in my Moscow hotel,
which I knew was bugged-
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And how did I know?
It's very simple.
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They didn't allow any
Soviet citizen
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to stay in the same hotel
as a Westerner.
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So I would sing
from the Psalms.
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It says,
"They have false gods."
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They have ears that don't
hear, eyes that don't see,
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but people still
bow down to them.
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I think somewhere a cantor
just killed himself.
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A few cantors.
I think one is understating it.
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Everyone says, "Why are you
friends with Dennis Prager?
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You have nothing in common."
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As if, if our moms' first names
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were both Connie,
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we'd be simpatico
on every topic.
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He comes from the East.
I come from the West.
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He comes from religion.
I come from atheist/pagan.
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He comes from college
and knowledge.
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I come from tomfoolery
and sports,
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but yet we both share
a little something
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called common sense and values,
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and the common sense
and values-
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I think this may be the chance
for this country.
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Common sense and values
should trump everything.
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It should trump LGBT.
It should trump Chicano.
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It should trump black.
It should trump Trump.
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That's all we should be
focused on,
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is common sense and values.
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This is the place I'd always
kind of dreamt of
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when I was a kid.
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The houses I grew up in
did not have garages,
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and I always wanted cars and
go-karts and mini bikes and-
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Well, I wanted
a basketball hoop.
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I wanted a dog. I wanted dinner.
I wanted a whole bunch of stuff.
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I found out very early
what could happen to somebody
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if you got a free house,
a couple of food tickets,
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and just a stipend
from the government,
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that it was debilitating.
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My mom was never forced to go
out and take care of business,
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and I said to her once, sort of
from the mouth of babes,
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"Why don't you just get a job?
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"You get a job,
we'll have a car.
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"We could have a nice car
instead of a junker.
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We could get some furniture.
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And she said, "If I get a job,
I'll lose my welfare,
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meaning, "Use your head, boy.
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And I thought at that point-
I realized, not for me.
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I'm a little embarrassed,
because here's a guy
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listening to my show
for years,
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and he's the most downloaded
podcast in the world,
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and I didn't know who he was?
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Adam Carolla and his
partner, Julianne Hough.
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My name's Jimmy,
and his name's Adam.
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The king is parched
and grows weary.
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Jester, bring forth
a chalice of ale.
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Scamper away.
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I don't want to live in a world
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where Dennis Prager
knows who I am.
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The Dennis I enjoy is,
he's just home.
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He's reading the Torah,
and he's smoking a cigar.
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I don't want a Dennis Prager
who goes,
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'Hey, Ace Man,
"Man Show,'
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'Crank Yankers,' love it."
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If somebody were able to pick
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the two most
opposite upbringings
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in the United States
of America,
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they would take my upbringing
and his upbringing.
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I remember playing stickball
in Brooklyn, where I grew up.
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So some kid would say something,
you know, unbelievably stupid,
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and we'd all tell him,
"Will you shut up?"
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And he'd go,
"Hey, it's a free country, man.
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It's freedom of speech here."
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And it basically shut us up.
He's right.
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What's happening now
in the United States,
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you are not to be heard
on a college campus
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or at your place of work.
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This is brand-new.
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This is one of the few things
one could say
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we have no precedent for
in the United States.
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The real question is how long
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before they come for your job
and for my job-
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I mean, for anyone
who speaks for a living?
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They want to close us down.
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No, in all seriousness,
they do want to close us down.
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Don't you have a billion
views on PragerU?
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We do, we had a billion
views last year,
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but the same thing's
gonna happen to you.
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Look, you're the most
downloaded podcast,
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to my knowledge,
in the world, yeah.
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Yeah, I got a family.
I got employees.
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We're not an enemy
to goodness.
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We're not an enemy
to good things.
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We're an enemy of the dogmatic.
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Dennis and I were gonna
get together
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and do an event at CSUN.
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That's Cal State Northridge
out here.
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A little backstory-
my mother graduated CSUN
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with a degree
in Chicano studies,
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so that's all you need to know
about my mom and possibly CSUN.
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Never has a thesis
been so confirmed so rapidly.
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We were going to do an event,
you and I.
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And we've done events there
before.
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And we've done before.
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And the subject was,
essentially,
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what is happening
at our universities
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in terms of intellectual
openness, et cetera, et cetera?
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They had fully approved
you and me being there.
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They then canceled it
because of the topic.
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It doesn't bother me for me.
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It bothers me for this
beloved country of mine.
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It bothers me for the young
people who are being deprived
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of anything
that could open their minds.
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So I have a vision of us
as people, as human beings
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that is interested not in what
is different among us
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but what is the same, okay?
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So I believe,
even though I'm not like you,
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in the sense
of my superficial appearance,
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that I can sit down and talk
to you and understand-
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understand your predicament,
that I can listen to you.
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If that's not true,
if you deny that,
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then what is the reason
that you ask to be heard?
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Yes, thank you.
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That I disagree with.
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That I disagree with.
- No, no, no.
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- I disagree. I disagree.
- It's not a debate.
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I am sick looking at you.
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I am disgusted watching Alex
argue with you.
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You are not listening!
You are disgusting.
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And now I want your job
to be taken from you.
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People who have a great,
sterling reputation at Yale,
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"You know, you're old enough
to decide
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what Halloween costume
you should use,"
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and for that, it almost causes
a riot at Yale,
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and that's Yale.
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And I know last year
on Halloween,
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you went as Kevin Hart,
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and that caused-
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You don't know who
Kevin Hart is.
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Well, I do vaguely,
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but the point is, it's cultural
appropriation no matter what.
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That is correct.
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We're on the way
to the airport,
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which is where I do much
of my life, the airport.
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You know, I go to all sorts
of campuses,
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from Berkeley to Columbia
and everything in between.
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So, you know, my hope is,
it's Wyoming.
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It's a pretty
conservative state.
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All will be peaceful
and tranquil.
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It all began when students
invited a special guest
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to speak about socialism.
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Yeah, that's right, Aaron.
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We were on campus tonight
as hundreds lined up
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to see Dennis Prager speak
about his views,
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but before he even arrived
to campus,
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other students
who did not agree
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tried to stop his appearance.
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We're essentially here
because we don't agree
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with Mr. Prager's views
at all.
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He has said
many hurtful things
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and hateful rhetoric towards
underrepresented communities,
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of which Wyoming has many
beautiful, diverse communities.
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In the case of the University
of Wyoming, it was precious.
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"Dennis Prager, noted-"
which was a compliment-
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"Noted bigot,
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racist, homophobe, sexist,
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Islamophobe, and anti-Semite."
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I swear to God.
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So word got out to the person
who clearly knew me well,
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"It's probably worth
dropping anti-Semite.
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"The guy is a well-known Jew,
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written books on Judaism,
et cetera."
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So they dropped that
without a word of apology,
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needless to say.
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They just dropped it,
but everything else remained.
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It's ironic that, you know,
"The Los Angeles Times"
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would call you bigoted,
because what you do
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is the opposite of bigoted,
which is,
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"I don't care who's listening.
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I will simply speak the truth
as I know it to you,"
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versus a version that is meant
for this color
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and that group
and the LGBT community.
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Dennis is the most decent,
moral person I've ever met,
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and thus, he does not have
this animus in his heart,
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so he's able to be free
to piss everyone off.
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The only reason
for the attack
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is that I'm known
as a conservative.
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This is a brainwash
that they undergo.
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If you are conservative,
then you are not wrong.
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You are evil.
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They have to think we're evil.
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Otherwise they have
to debate us.
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All: Racist go home!
Racist go home!
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The chaos centered around
controversial conservative
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Ben Shapiro.
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Values matter significantly
more than melanin level.
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Racial diversity doesn't mean
anything.
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Decency means something.
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Diversity is not a bad thing,
but it isn't a good thing
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unless the people who are
racially diverse
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are also decent.
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Concerns over safety
and threats
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prompted University President
William Covino
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to cancel
the preapproved speech,
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but Shapiro continued with his
scheduled appearance,
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drawing dozens of protesters
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who were desperate
to stop him.
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Look at me. I mean, like,
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do I look like
a physical threat to anybody?
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Last time I was in a fight,
I was 14 years old.
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I was two years younger
than everybody else
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in my high-school class,
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and I was getting
my ass kicked.
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When I went to college,
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suddenly there were some folks
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who didn't think at all
like me.
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I've heard some
college campuses
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where they don't want
to have a guest speaker
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who is too conservative.
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All:
Charles Murray, go away!
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Racist, sexist, anti-gay!
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That's the free speech
of the left.
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This is not an argument.
This is a religion.
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When Professor Stanger was
escorting Murray out,
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she was left with
a concussion and whiplash.
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Shouldn't we be able to agree
on protecting free speech
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no matter who is speaking?
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There will be resistance,
and it will not be peaceful.
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Resistance to violent
hate speech
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is not another act of hate.
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It is an act of love.
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Whoever told you you only had
to hear what didn't upset you?
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All:
Shut it down! Shut it down!
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Shut it down! Shut it down!
Shut it down!
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Shut it down!
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A protest has turned violent
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at the University
of California, Berkeley.
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Campus locked down as more
than 1,000 people rallied
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against the appearance
of a controversial editor
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from Breitbart,
Milo Yiannopoulos.
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All I care about is free
speech and free expression.
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I want people to be able to be,
do, and say anything.
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It's disgusting.
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It's one thing to protest
someone's right
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to come here and speak,
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but it's another thing
to create
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this much amount
of destruction and violence
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and hurt and harm
other people.
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We need our voices heard,
and if this is the way
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that we think it must be done,
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then I suppose
that's what we got to do.
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It sends the message
that under no means
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will we allow any of this to
go on anywhere near Berkeley.
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Has the birthplace
of free speech
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now become its graveyard?
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If there's a fundamental
American right,
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it's to say what's
on your mind.
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The idea that if
you offend me,
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you should not speak...
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To create a unsafe space
here for all-
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- I did not-
- Be quiet!
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Is so bizarre.
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What a lot of people
don't get
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and Americans get to take
for granted
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is that free speech is a very
weird thing in human history.
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Mostly, our instincts are,
we don't like dissenters.
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We prefer to behead them,
set them on fire,
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send them out of our village.
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Free speech is unique
to the United States.
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Lots of countries pretend
to have it,
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but they'll cut your head off
for blasphemy in Saudi Arabia.
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In Thailand they'll throw you
in a prison
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if you make fun of the king.
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In Russia and China,
you go to jail
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if you say anything nice
about gay people.
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In Germany,
you can't praise Nazis.
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Sounds good, right?
But maybe not.
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Doesn't stop people from
promoting Nazism in secret.
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It just means you can't
debate them in public.
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France convicted
Brigitte Bardot five times
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for criticizing the practice
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of animal sacrifice
at a Muslim festival.
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The U.K. convicted a comic
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of a hate crime
for teaching a pug
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to do a Nazi salute.
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Just over the border
in Canada,
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a Christian preacher
was arrested for, wait for it
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preaching in public.
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Pretty much everywhere else,
cops can come to your house
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and arrest you for a rant
or a complaint
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or even for making a joke.
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The only reason
they can't do it here
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is because we have
the First Amendment.
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The only reason why you have
a First Amendment
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is to protect
the rights of minorities,
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the rights of the oddball,
the rights of the underdog.
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Free speech battles on campus
in the 1960s,
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starting in Berkeley
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and the Free Speech Movement
in 1964,
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were primarily about
whether or not
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you could have politics
on campus,
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and that was the start
of the Free Speech Movement.
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From 1964 on, it, you know,
took over campuses
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all over the country,
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and [ think it was
so successful
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that there was probably
a perfect week in 1977
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when free speech
was protected on campus
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at a level it never had been
before and would be again,
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probably right around the time
"Star Wars came out.
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The phase that we're in
right now
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is the most distressing one.
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Sometime around 2013, 2014,
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the students themselves
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started demanding
new speech codes
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or that people not be
invited to speak,
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or if they were invited,
that they be disinvited.
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Both Condoleezza Rice
and Christine Lagarde
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had to withdraw themselves
from giving speeches
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at Rutgers
and Smith Universities.
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That was when you first
started hearing
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about trigger warnings,
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things like
microaggression training.
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We're not sure if we even
believe in freedom anymore.
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Most universities today don't
require classes in civics,
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courses to know
the fundamentals
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of the Constitution.
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Instead, we have classes
on the things that divide us-
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identity politics.
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If we don't rediscover,
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reclaim an understanding
of the foundations
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of our society, we're in
jeopardy of losing it.
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Whew, you sure got to be
careful what you say nowadays
348
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so people don't get offended.
349
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Wow, I wonder who that
little scrap of paper is.
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I'm the First Amendment,
yes, the very First Amendment
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And I'm found
in the Bill of Rights
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Well, it's a long, long time
since my ink has dried
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And a long, long time
since my authors died
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But I'm just as important
today as I was back then
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At least I hope I am
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'Cause I defend
all your rights
357
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Gee, First Amendment,
you certainly sound important.
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Call me Firsty.
I like to think I'm important,
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but I'm not so sure anymore.
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How come people don't know
more about you, Firsty?
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People tend to take me
for granted,
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but if it wasn't for me,
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Americans wouldn't be able
to say what they want to say.
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- Oh, no.
- Oh, yeah.
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Sometimes when people
speak their mind,
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other people get offended.
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I hope people remember why
I'm important, or I may die.
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- Die?
- Yeah, die...
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along with the rest
of your freedoms.
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I'm the First Amendment,
yes, the very First Amendment
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Without me,
you'd be living in China
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In the Bill of Rights,
I'm the leadoff hit
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Read me in a museum or when
you're sitting on the sh-
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Both: Firsty!
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Why?
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both: No!
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Liberty is a value,
not a natural inclination.
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00:21:00,826 --> 00:21:05,491
Yeah, I love when I listen to
Dennis's show and somebody says,
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"Well, everyone yearns
to be free."
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- No.
- And he says, "No."
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They yearn to be
taken care of.
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The greater yearning
of the human species
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is to be taken care of,
not to be free.
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The French Revolution
and the American Revolution
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are at war with one another.
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Their motto was "Liberty,
equality, fraternity."
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That was not in our motto.
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We have "Liberty, in God
we trust, e pluribus unum...
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life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness."
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They're different values,
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and we have raised
a generation
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to believe that being
taken care of
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is more important
than liberty.
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49% of kids on campuses
in America today,
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according to Pew Research,
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do not believe in free speech
for hate speech.
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You know how moronic that is?
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The issue of free speech
doesn't apply to love speech.
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Nobody ever threatened
love speech.
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It's precisely the speech
you hate or you find hateful
401
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that needs to be protected,
but this is unknown.
402
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This is why we're fighting
for the soul of America.
403
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So how many of you think people
should be free in America
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or on a university campus
to say whatever they want?
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00:22:30,816 --> 00:22:35,754
One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.
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00:22:35,788 --> 00:22:38,066
How many of you think
there should be restrictions
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00:22:38,090 --> 00:22:41,458
on what you can say
on a campus?
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00:22:41,493 --> 00:22:43,772
One, two, three, four, five,
six, so it's pretty much tied.
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So no country in the world
has had free speech
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as much as this country.
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In Europe, you can be arrested
if you say things
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that the government thinks
is hateful.
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Give me an example-
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those of you who said
that you think
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there should be restrictions,
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00:23:01,046 --> 00:23:02,980
give me an example of what
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00:23:03,015 --> 00:23:04,793
should not be allowed
to be said.
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I would say, like, if you
have Nazi beliefs or values
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and you raise those
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because that can
make people uncomfortable.
421
00:23:11,590 --> 00:23:13,615
Okay, that's very important.
422
00:23:13,659 --> 00:23:17,095
So I'm a Jew, and Nazis
killed six million Jews.
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That's one out of every
three Jews on Earth
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was annihilated
in World War |I by the Nazis.
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00:23:23,569 --> 00:23:26,436
So I have a real hatred
to Nazis,
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00:23:26,472 --> 00:23:28,083
but I believe they should
be allowed
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to march freely in America,
428
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because if we say to the Nazi
today, "You can't speak,"
429
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then we'll say
to a non-Nazi tomorrow,
430
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"You can't speak either."
431
00:23:38,851 --> 00:23:41,946
And we hope that
if everybody speaks,
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the good ideas will win.
433
00:23:44,990 --> 00:23:46,668
Free speech is one
of the greatest innovations
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in human history.
435
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,071
It's how we figured out how
to have peaceful,
436
00:23:50,095 --> 00:23:51,961
pluralistic societies
437
00:23:51,997 --> 00:23:54,694
that are endlessly creative
and free.
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Free speech done correctly
439
00:23:56,135 --> 00:23:57,479
is one of the most
exciting experiences
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you can have in your life.
441
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Throw anything out there.
We'll question anything.
442
00:24:00,706 --> 00:24:02,851
Let's figure stuff out.
It's absolutely thrilling.
443
00:24:02,875 --> 00:24:04,719
And I also think
that it's incredibly fragile.
444
00:24:04,743 --> 00:24:06,988
If I thought that free speech
would just be something
445
00:24:07,012 --> 00:24:08,980
that could defend itself,
446
00:24:09,014 --> 00:24:10,759
I wouldn't be as worried
about it,
447
00:24:10,783 --> 00:24:14,219
but humans don't really
like freedom of speech.
448
00:24:14,453 --> 00:24:15,764
They like to say they like it.
449
00:24:15,788 --> 00:24:17,766
They definitely like their own
freedom of speech.
450
00:24:17,790 --> 00:24:19,067
They don't necessarily like
451
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your freedom of speech
that much.
452
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So we had an attorney
write CSUN a letter.
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You folks, you have a charter
which says
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that there's free speech
on your campus.
455
00:24:31,737 --> 00:24:34,468
So they had no choice.
456
00:24:34,506 --> 00:24:38,153
So we're coming back, and
we're saying whatever we want.
457
00:24:38,177 --> 00:24:40,236
Exactly.
458
00:24:42,214 --> 00:24:44,706
So here is exhibit A
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00:24:44,750 --> 00:24:48,880
of a man who was raised
with white privilege.
460
00:24:48,921 --> 00:24:50,650
Oh, yes.
461
00:24:51,623 --> 00:24:57,153
I got into a semi-heated debate
with a black fella
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who was on public radio,
463
00:25:00,232 --> 00:25:03,133
and he went on to explain
to me,
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I didn't know what I was
talking about
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because of my white privilege.
466
00:25:07,006 --> 00:25:09,551
And I said, "Well, let's
examine my white privilege,
467
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may we?"
468
00:25:10,642 --> 00:25:15,045
I did not go to college.
I worked cleaning carpets.
469
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:19,278
Later on,
I worked on construction sites,
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not as an apprentice or
a carpenter, but as a laborer-
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digging ditches,
mostly cleaning up garbage.
472
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Whatever work donkeys
were qualified to do,
473
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that's what I did.
474
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At a certain point, when I felt
like my white privilege
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wasn't kicking in at all...
476
00:25:37,269 --> 00:25:40,569
Mom was on food stamps
and welfare,
477
00:25:40,606 --> 00:25:42,631
Dad was eking out a living
478
00:25:42,674 --> 00:25:45,653
and had no extra money or time
for anybody else,
479
00:25:45,677 --> 00:25:48,556
I said, "You know what
would be a good job for me?
480
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Fireman. I'm strong.
I'm eager for the fray.
481
00:25:52,251 --> 00:25:54,829
I have no qualms
about my personal safety,
482
00:25:54,853 --> 00:25:57,948
and [ think I would make
a good fireman.
483
00:25:57,990 --> 00:26:00,857
Plus, I love chili.
484
00:26:00,893 --> 00:26:03,972
I love playing foosball,
and as far as I could tell,
485
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when they're not putting
out fires,
486
00:26:05,831 --> 00:26:09,096
they're eating chili
and playing foosball,
487
00:26:09,134 --> 00:26:10,812
So I just walked over there,
and I said,
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I'm gonna put in an
application to be a fireman,"
489
00:26:13,839 --> 00:26:15,583
and they said, "Fine.
I filled it out.
490
00:26:15,607 --> 00:26:17,218
I handed it to the guy,
and the guy said,
491
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Don't hold your breath."
492
00:26:18,844 --> 00:26:20,588
And I said,
"What does that mean?
493
00:26:20,612 --> 00:26:22,624
And he said, "We're not gonna
be getting to you
494
00:26:22,648 --> 00:26:24,116
for some years.
495
00:26:24,149 --> 00:26:27,084
And when you're 19
and you're destitute
496
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,264
and your stepmom"s
trying to extricate you
497
00:26:29,288 --> 00:26:31,232
from the garage
you're living in
498
00:26:31,256 --> 00:26:34,282
and you have no job
or no real income,
499
00:26:34,326 --> 00:26:37,591
the notion of "We'll call you
in six or seven years"
500
00:26:37,629 --> 00:26:41,224
is not a buoy you cling to.
501
00:26:41,266 --> 00:26:43,745
And sure enough,
I moved out of the house.
502
00:26:43,769 --> 00:26:46,295
I was about 25, 26, five,
six years
503
00:26:46,338 --> 00:26:48,636
into my carpentering career.
504
00:26:48,674 --> 00:26:50,251
My dad showed up
to my apartment one day,
505
00:26:50,275 --> 00:26:52,120
and he had a letter,
and he said,
506
00:26:52,144 --> 00:26:54,477
It's from the I A.
Fire Department."
507
00:26:54,613 --> 00:26:57,292
And sure enough, there was
a date to take the written test
508
00:26:57,316 --> 00:26:59,011
the following weekend.
509
00:26:59,051 --> 00:27:01,763
And I said, "I don't even
want to be a fireman anymore,
510
00:27:01,787 --> 00:27:05,382
but because I've waited
six years to be a fireman,
511
00:27:05,624 --> 00:27:07,235
I'm going down
to Hollywood High
512
00:27:07,259 --> 00:27:09,159
on 10:00 a.m. on Saturday."
513
00:27:09,194 --> 00:27:11,891
And I stood in line.
514
00:27:11,930 --> 00:27:14,342
There was a young lady,
very diminutive lady,
515
00:27:14,366 --> 00:27:17,301
a small, slightly built lady
behind me,
516
00:27:17,336 --> 00:27:19,180
could not tell her nationality.
517
00:27:19,204 --> 00:27:21,049
Could have been black, Latino,
or mixed
518
00:27:21,073 --> 00:27:22,684
or something like that.
519
00:27:22,708 --> 00:27:24,152
Everyone around me-
I kept saying,
520
00:27:24,176 --> 00:27:25,486
"When did you put in
your application?
521
00:27:25,510 --> 00:27:26,554
When did you put it in?"
522
00:27:26,578 --> 00:27:27,889
I turned around to her,
and I said,
523
00:27:27,913 --> 00:27:29,657
"When did you put in
your application?"
524
00:27:29,681 --> 00:27:31,809
And she said, "Tuesday.
525
00:27:45,731 --> 00:27:47,208
A safe space is a place
you can go to
526
00:27:47,232 --> 00:27:49,310
where it's safe
to do whatever you want.
527
00:27:49,334 --> 00:27:51,813
You can just be yourself,
and no one's gonna say
528
00:27:51,837 --> 00:27:53,848
or do anything
that makes you uncomfortable.
529
00:27:53,872 --> 00:27:55,950
There's this myth that when
you're in a safe space,
530
00:27:55,974 --> 00:27:58,773
all you do
is sing "Kumbaya" or something.
531
00:27:58,810 --> 00:28:01,780
The reality is,
it's when you feel safe
532
00:28:01,813 --> 00:28:03,358
that you have some of the most
important
533
00:28:03,382 --> 00:28:04,926
transformative discussions,
534
00:28:04,950 --> 00:28:07,228
at least I do
when I'm in my safe spaces.
535
00:28:07,252 --> 00:28:08,796
Once you go beyond college,
536
00:28:08,820 --> 00:28:10,698
you're gonna have
uncomfortable experiences,
537
00:28:10,722 --> 00:28:14,022
but to kind of force yourself
through pain
538
00:28:14,059 --> 00:28:17,131
and difficult experiences
is totally unnecessary.
539
00:28:18,163 --> 00:28:19,841
See,
I never went to college.
540
00:28:19,865 --> 00:28:21,924
I was a builder,
541
00:28:21,967 --> 00:28:25,699
but I always thought college
was this place for ideas.
542
00:28:25,737 --> 00:28:27,115
And now it's turned
into a place
543
00:28:27,139 --> 00:28:29,972
for some ideas
but not other ideas,
544
00:28:30,008 --> 00:28:34,844
and that seems to fly in
the face of ideas in general.
545
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,425
For a generation that demands
safe spaces,
546
00:28:37,449 --> 00:28:40,995
that equates ideas they don't
like to actual physical battery
547
00:28:41,019 --> 00:28:43,264
and requires trigger warnings
for class assignments
548
00:28:43,288 --> 00:28:47,122
that might be upsetting,
there's a name-snowflakes.
549
00:28:47,159 --> 00:28:49,355
We're creating
this environment
550
00:28:49,394 --> 00:28:53,763
where liberals and leftists
and progressives on campuses
551
00:28:53,799 --> 00:28:58,202
think that they need
to get government authority
552
00:28:58,237 --> 00:29:03,073
or university authority
to protect their ears
553
00:29:03,108 --> 00:29:04,719
from stuff that they don't like
554
00:29:04,743 --> 00:29:06,020
or stuff that's
actually offensive
555
00:29:06,044 --> 00:29:09,424
or that is racist or that is
sexist or that is horrible,
556
00:29:09,448 --> 00:29:12,748
and I just think that
that's a very dangerous view.
557
00:29:12,784 --> 00:29:14,362
I'm saying this not
for conservatives.
558
00:29:14,386 --> 00:29:17,014
I'm saying this for liberals.
559
00:29:17,055 --> 00:29:22,221
They have been bubble-wrapped
in academia for 40 years.
560
00:29:22,261 --> 00:29:25,162
When you try to create
a safe space
561
00:29:25,197 --> 00:29:30,465
in which it's difficult
to be unsettled, unnerved,
562
00:29:30,502 --> 00:29:32,197
you reinforce walls,
563
00:29:32,237 --> 00:29:36,799
which makes it difficult for you
to cultivate the capacity
564
00:29:36,842 --> 00:29:38,486
to learn from other people,
565
00:29:38,510 --> 00:29:40,877
especially people
you disagree with.
566
00:29:40,912 --> 00:29:42,423
Can I just say,
it feels really nice
567
00:29:42,447 --> 00:29:44,759
to live in a bubble
for a little while.
568
00:29:44,783 --> 00:29:46,494
You feel safe.
You feel protected.
569
00:29:46,518 --> 00:29:49,063
You feel like everyone agrees
with you and you're right.
570
00:29:49,087 --> 00:29:51,021
I If you do not like me &
571
00:29:51,056 --> 00:29:54,492
you are not allowed
in my safe space I
572
00:29:54,526 --> 00:29:56,460
all:
My safe space
573
00:29:56,495 --> 00:29:58,106
I Look and you will see
574
00:29:58,130 --> 00:30:02,328
There's a very select
crowd in your safe space I
575
00:30:02,367 --> 00:30:04,392
all:
My safe space
576
00:30:04,436 --> 00:30:06,268
I People that support me
577
00:30:06,305 --> 00:30:10,105
I Mixed in with more people
that support me -
578
00:30:10,142 --> 00:30:14,045
I And say nice things,
rainbows all around me
579
00:30:14,079 --> 00:30:17,572
I There is no shame
in my safe space
580
00:30:17,816 --> 00:30:19,409
I My safe space &
581
00:30:19,451 --> 00:30:21,496
No university should
ever create
582
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,420
a safe space for an idea.
583
00:30:23,455 --> 00:30:26,000
If you want to feel good,
get a massage.
584
00:30:26,024 --> 00:30:28,536
I want every student on
campus to be physically safe.
585
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,938
I don't want anybody
getting beat up.
586
00:30:30,962 --> 00:30:33,374
I don't want anybody getting
sexually assaulted or molested.
587
00:30:33,398 --> 00:30:37,062
I don't want anybody singled
out for, you know, threats,
588
00:30:37,102 --> 00:30:43,166
but if you mean emotionally
safe or intellectually safe,
589
00:30:43,208 --> 00:30:45,939
I don't know why you're
in college,
590
00:30:45,977 --> 00:30:49,357
because the whole point is that
you're going to leave soon,
591
00:30:49,381 --> 00:30:53,011
and I want you to be offended
every single day.
592
00:30:58,123 --> 00:31:01,388
All:
� Social Justice Warriors
593
00:31:01,426 --> 00:31:03,155
Get triggered 2
594
00:31:08,567 --> 00:31:10,558
both:
Bias Response Team, go!
595
00:31:40,365 --> 00:31:43,596
All:
I Social Justice Warriors I'
596
00:31:49,608 --> 00:31:51,519
We've gotten
to a point where,
597
00:31:51,543 --> 00:31:53,421
if you say you're tolerant
all the time,
598
00:31:53,445 --> 00:31:55,456
if you talk about diversity
all the time
599
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,539
and tolerance all the time,
600
00:31:57,582 --> 00:32:00,194
people somehow think that means
you are tolerant
601
00:32:00,218 --> 00:32:02,414
and you care about diversity,
602
00:32:02,454 --> 00:32:05,913
and in almost every case
almost without fail,
603
00:32:05,957 --> 00:32:08,949
today that's actually
the reverse.
604
00:32:08,994 --> 00:32:12,328
So right now it's very in
for everyone on the left
605
00:32:12,364 --> 00:32:14,475
to talk about tolerance and
diversity and all these things,
606
00:32:14,499 --> 00:32:17,278
and what is the type
of diversity that they hate?
607
00:32:17,302 --> 00:32:18,679
Well, the type of diversity
that they hate
608
00:32:18,703 --> 00:32:20,181
is diversity of thought.
609
00:32:20,205 --> 00:32:22,338
Dave Rubin has
every credential
610
00:32:22,374 --> 00:32:24,468
of a bona fide liberal.
611
00:32:24,509 --> 00:32:29,037
I mean, Dave Rubin is gay.
Dave Rubin is married to a man.
612
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:33,074
Dave Rubin is a lifelong
Democrat.
613
00:32:33,118 --> 00:32:35,196
When I talk about liberalism,
what is liberalism,
614
00:32:35,220 --> 00:32:36,597
and how is it different
than leftism?
615
00:32:36,621 --> 00:32:38,966
Liberalism really is
about the individual,
616
00:32:38,990 --> 00:32:40,968
and it's about live
and let live.
617
00:32:40,992 --> 00:32:43,638
It's not just this
amorphous idea of tolerance,
618
00:32:43,662 --> 00:32:45,494
which is what leftism is.
619
00:32:45,530 --> 00:32:47,608
That's a collectivist view
of the world,
620
00:32:47,632 --> 00:32:49,477
where we should be grouping
all of these people
621
00:32:49,501 --> 00:32:52,313
and we should be taking
from some and giving to others,
622
00:32:52,337 --> 00:32:54,615
and it is a shake
that will eat its own tail.
623
00:32:54,639 --> 00:32:56,317
- You are a liberal.
- I am.
624
00:32:56,341 --> 00:32:58,152
We obviously have
different politics,
625
00:32:58,176 --> 00:32:59,687
but it doesn't matter.
626
00:32:59,711 --> 00:33:04,012
On freedom of speech
we are completely united.
627
00:33:04,049 --> 00:33:06,327
Do you feel right now,
ideologically,
628
00:33:06,351 --> 00:33:09,297
your biggest enemy
are conservatives or the left?
629
00:33:09,321 --> 00:33:10,498
Oh, there's no question.
630
00:33:10,522 --> 00:33:12,467
A, my biggest enemy is
the hard left.
631
00:33:12,491 --> 00:33:15,102
B, the hard left poses
a far greater danger
632
00:33:15,126 --> 00:33:17,438
to the American future
than the hard right.
633
00:33:17,462 --> 00:33:22,400
I'm not worried about a few
dozen people with swastikas...
634
00:33:22,434 --> 00:33:24,011
- Thank you.
- Who want to replace
635
00:33:24,035 --> 00:33:25,613
the Jews
'cause they're our past.
636
00:33:25,637 --> 00:33:28,549
They have no resonance
on university campuses today.
637
00:33:28,573 --> 00:33:31,042
- Right.
- But the hard, hard left
638
00:33:31,076 --> 00:33:33,636
anti-Semitism,
anti-Christianity,
639
00:33:33,678 --> 00:33:36,670
intolerance for speech,
these are our leaders.
640
00:33:36,715 --> 00:33:38,659
When I used to teach
150 students
641
00:33:38,683 --> 00:33:40,061
in my first year
of criminal law,
642
00:33:40,085 --> 00:33:42,263
I'd look around, and I'd say,
"Future president,
643
00:33:42,287 --> 00:33:44,016
"future chief justice,
644
00:33:44,055 --> 00:33:46,167
'future editorial director
of 'The New York Times,'
645
00:33:46,191 --> 00:33:48,169
future managing partner
of Goldman Sachs."
646
00:33:48,193 --> 00:33:49,337
They're our future.
647
00:33:49,361 --> 00:33:51,205
What's happened
to this place?
648
00:33:51,229 --> 00:33:52,560
Ah!!
649
00:33:56,601 --> 00:33:58,035
Ah!
650
00:33:59,771 --> 00:34:01,582
This was the home of ruthless
media disrupter
651
00:34:01,606 --> 00:34:03,165
Samuel F. B. Morse.
652
00:34:03,208 --> 00:34:05,472
Who's his successor,
that fellow?
653
00:34:05,510 --> 00:34:08,639
Fellow? That word
is cisgender normative, okay?
654
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,546
You're worse than Hitler!
655
00:34:10,582 --> 00:34:12,059
Too late for flattery.
656
00:34:12,083 --> 00:34:14,415
I'm not giving this school
a dime.
657
00:34:15,453 --> 00:34:17,365
I've seen,
over the past 30 years,
658
00:34:17,389 --> 00:34:21,223
how the university has changed
and not for the better.
659
00:34:21,259 --> 00:34:23,771
Now they don't tolerate
the other side's viewpoint,
660
00:34:23,795 --> 00:34:26,307
and there are no conservatives
that are speaking out.
661
00:34:26,331 --> 00:34:29,577
If you're conservative
at this university, good luck.
662
00:34:29,601 --> 00:34:30,678
First of all,
I don't know how-
663
00:34:30,702 --> 00:34:32,179
you're not gonna get hired.
664
00:34:32,203 --> 00:34:33,748
I don't know what department's
gonna hire you
665
00:34:33,772 --> 00:34:35,383
at what college
it's gonna hire you at.
666
00:34:35,407 --> 00:34:36,717
You're not gonna get promoted.
667
00:34:36,741 --> 00:34:38,319
There's no way that
you're gonna be accepted
668
00:34:38,343 --> 00:34:39,654
by your fellow faculty,
669
00:34:39,678 --> 00:34:42,147
and I'm telling you right now,
670
00:34:42,180 --> 00:34:44,325
they're gonna figure out
a way to get rid of you.
671
00:34:44,349 --> 00:34:45,726
I mean, they will
figure out some means
672
00:34:45,750 --> 00:34:47,650
by whatever hook and crook.
673
00:34:47,686 --> 00:34:50,331
They'll never say it's because
of your political orientation,
674
00:34:50,355 --> 00:34:51,732
but they're gonna
get rid of you.
675
00:34:51,756 --> 00:34:55,590
This is also something of an
irony, but it's also really-
676
00:34:55,627 --> 00:34:56,804
I think it's kind of dangerous
677
00:34:56,828 --> 00:34:59,095
that there's only
one worldview now
678
00:34:59,130 --> 00:35:01,375
that's allowable
in the university,
679
00:35:01,399 --> 00:35:03,711
and if you don't have that,
you better be quiet.
680
00:35:03,735 --> 00:35:06,781
You must think like we think
and do what we do,
681
00:35:06,805 --> 00:35:08,182
and if you don't,
you're verboten.
682
00:35:08,206 --> 00:35:10,184
You're unwelcome.
You can't even speak here.
683
00:35:10,208 --> 00:35:12,553
You can't teach here.
You can't attend here.
684
00:35:12,577 --> 00:35:14,822
How in the world can we
possibly argue
685
00:35:14,846 --> 00:35:16,624
that this is academic freedom?
686
00:35:16,648 --> 00:35:18,381
It is ideological fascism.
687
00:35:18,416 --> 00:35:22,410
You must be one of us,
or you're unwelcome.
688
00:35:22,454 --> 00:35:25,685
Is it hard to be
a conservative at Berkeley?
689
00:35:25,724 --> 00:35:27,692
Yeah, sometimes.
690
00:35:27,726 --> 00:35:28,836
My name's Isabella Chow.
691
00:35:28,860 --> 00:35:30,504
I'm a third-year student
at UC Berkeley
692
00:35:30,528 --> 00:35:32,239
studying business and music.
693
00:35:32,263 --> 00:35:36,359
In spring 2018, I was elected
to student senate at Berkeley.
694
00:35:36,401 --> 00:35:39,113
There's a bill proposed
to our student senate
695
00:35:39,137 --> 00:35:41,148
that I felt like
I couldn't fully vote for
696
00:35:41,172 --> 00:35:42,783
because of my Christian beliefs
697
00:35:42,807 --> 00:35:43,851
and because I represented
698
00:35:43,875 --> 00:35:45,386
the Christian community
on campus.
699
00:35:45,410 --> 00:35:48,856
And so I abstained from voting
on that bill that night,
700
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,748
and I gave a short statement
of why I abstained,
701
00:35:52,784 --> 00:35:56,311
and the backlash was swifter
and bigger
702
00:35:56,354 --> 00:35:58,232
than what I would have
ever imagined.
703
00:35:58,256 --> 00:35:59,867
Senator Chow!
all: Resign now!
704
00:35:59,891 --> 00:36:01,958
Senator Chow!
all: Resign now!
705
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,391
There were hundreds
of students that came in
706
00:36:05,430 --> 00:36:08,502
and protested the fact
that I was still a senator
707
00:36:08,533 --> 00:36:10,144
and demanded my resignation.
708
00:36:10,168 --> 00:36:12,747
Tonight is not about
dismissing Christianity
709
00:36:12,771 --> 00:36:14,535
as universally toxic,
710
00:36:14,572 --> 00:36:16,751
but about validating
the experience of those
711
00:36:16,775 --> 00:36:20,187
at the hands of bigots who have
cowardly hid behind religion
712
00:36:20,211 --> 00:36:21,756
to justify their actions.
713
00:36:21,780 --> 00:36:23,658
Sitting there was
really hard.
714
00:36:23,682 --> 00:36:26,427
It was just difficult
to hear the accusations
715
00:36:26,451 --> 00:36:30,479
of people calling me a bigot,
calling me a hater.
716
00:36:30,522 --> 00:36:31,866
I hoped that there would be
dialogue.
717
00:36:31,890 --> 00:36:33,668
I hoped that there would be
718
00:36:33,692 --> 00:36:35,436
mutual respect
and understanding.
719
00:36:35,460 --> 00:36:38,339
When trans people are
under attack, what do we do?
720
00:36:38,363 --> 00:36:40,354
All:
Stand up, fight back!
721
00:36:40,398 --> 00:36:41,909
At this point,
I've been disaffiliated
722
00:36:41,933 --> 00:36:43,477
with every organization
723
00:36:43,501 --> 00:36:45,212
that I had a working
relationship with
724
00:36:45,236 --> 00:36:46,580
and voted out of clubs
that I've been in,
725
00:36:46,604 --> 00:36:48,182
like, even since
freshman year,
726
00:36:48,206 --> 00:36:52,200
but I wasn't elected to not
listen to my conscience,
727
00:36:52,243 --> 00:36:54,588
and I wasn't elected
to not represent
728
00:36:54,612 --> 00:36:56,706
a religious voice on campus,
729
00:36:56,748 --> 00:36:59,911
even if that voice
is a minority here at Berkeley.
730
00:37:02,387 --> 00:37:04,465
I've been assaulted
on my campus.
731
00:37:04,489 --> 00:37:05,533
You were assaulted?
732
00:37:05,557 --> 00:37:06,934
The night after the election,
yes.
733
00:37:06,958 --> 00:37:09,503
- You were physically assaulted?
- Physically assaulted.
734
00:37:09,527 --> 00:37:11,939
I was walking back
from a meeting that I had,
735
00:37:11,963 --> 00:37:14,475
and the assumption was that
someone followed me
736
00:37:14,499 --> 00:37:15,843
out of a building,
knew where I was
737
00:37:15,867 --> 00:37:18,412
'cause I had that meeting
every single week at that time,
738
00:37:18,436 --> 00:37:21,804
and someone came up to me
and said, you know,
739
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,299
"F you, racist B-word,
you support a racist party,"
740
00:37:25,343 --> 00:37:27,812
and just threw me
down the hill.
741
00:37:27,846 --> 00:37:29,757
Was anyone prosecuted for it?
742
00:37:29,781 --> 00:37:30,942
Mm-hmm.
743
00:37:30,982 --> 00:37:32,860
This is what they've tricked
everybody into thinking.
744
00:37:32,884 --> 00:37:34,895
You know, years ago it was
you were a racist
745
00:37:34,919 --> 00:37:36,530
and you were a bigot.
746
00:37:36,554 --> 00:37:38,818
Then it became Nazis.
747
00:37:38,857 --> 00:37:41,702
Now it's white supremacists,
or sometimes it's Nazis,
748
00:37:41,726 --> 00:37:43,637
and they'll always ramp
this thing up.
749
00:37:43,661 --> 00:37:45,005
I've been called
a white supremacist.
750
00:37:45,029 --> 00:37:46,507
I've been called a Nazi.
751
00:37:46,531 --> 00:37:49,410
You know, what's crazy
about calling someone a Nazi-
752
00:37:49,434 --> 00:37:51,512
that term is so malleable these
days-
753
00:37:51,536 --> 00:37:54,749
is you can reduce them
to a, you know, inhuman form,
754
00:37:54,773 --> 00:37:57,651
and you can justify punching
them or attacking them, even.
755
00:37:57,675 --> 00:37:58,675
You're not videoing me.
756
00:37:58,676 --> 00:37:59,854
All right, well,
we're in public.
757
00:37:59,878 --> 00:38:01,856
So I'm just gonna video it
for my own safety
758
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,357
'cause you seem really erratic.
759
00:38:03,381 --> 00:38:05,860
You are
encouraging violence.
760
00:38:05,884 --> 00:38:07,374
No, I'm not.
761
00:38:08,953 --> 00:38:11,365
Get your phone out
of my face, mother.
762
00:38:11,389 --> 00:38:13,983
Get your phone out
of my face.
763
00:38:14,025 --> 00:38:16,392
you.
you.
764
00:38:18,329 --> 00:38:19,797
Oh.
765
00:38:22,567 --> 00:38:26,970
"The Dennis Prager Show
returns in five seconds.
766
00:38:29,474 --> 00:38:31,485
I want to ask you something
"cause you're so
767
00:38:31,509 --> 00:38:33,754
on top of the situation
on campuses.
768
00:38:33,778 --> 00:38:38,807
Right now if you had to grade
freedom of speech on campuses
769
00:38:38,850 --> 00:38:40,327
versus two years ago,
770
00:38:40,351 --> 00:38:42,296
would you say
it's getting worse,
771
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,550
it's the same, awful, or what?
772
00:38:44,589 --> 00:38:47,334
So what's happening is that
there's a student population
773
00:38:47,358 --> 00:38:48,769
that has been silenced,
774
00:38:48,793 --> 00:38:51,605
that has been ostracized for
their beliefs and their views.
775
00:38:51,629 --> 00:38:53,974
Make no mistake, it's not just
the free speech laws
776
00:38:53,998 --> 00:38:56,477
and the free speech zones,
but it's the culture.
777
00:38:56,501 --> 00:38:57,812
This is what's so important.
778
00:38:57,836 --> 00:38:59,914
It's what is culturally allowed
to be said
779
00:38:59,938 --> 00:39:01,415
and not allowed to be said.
780
00:39:01,439 --> 00:39:02,950
I grew up during
the McCarthy period
781
00:39:02,974 --> 00:39:05,719
when it was the extreme right
at Brooklyn College
782
00:39:05,743 --> 00:39:09,680
which told me I had no right
to express my views,
783
00:39:09,714 --> 00:39:14,413
and it was the liberals
that were demanding free speech
784
00:39:14,452 --> 00:39:16,864
and the conservatives
that were trying to deny it.
785
00:39:16,888 --> 00:39:17,932
Today it's flipped.
786
00:39:17,956 --> 00:39:19,500
My name is Chevy Swanson.
787
00:39:19,524 --> 00:39:21,635
I'm the president
of the College Republicans
788
00:39:21,659 --> 00:39:23,537
here at the University
of Washington.
789
00:39:23,561 --> 00:39:25,072
We wanted to invite
Joey Gibson
790
00:39:25,096 --> 00:39:26,340
from Patriot Prayer
791
00:39:26,364 --> 00:39:27,842
to come do a freedom rally.
792
00:39:27,866 --> 00:39:30,444
We expected about,
maybe 100 people at most
793
00:39:30,468 --> 00:39:32,513
in the middle
of out central area on campus,
794
00:39:32,537 --> 00:39:34,733
Red Square-ironically named.
795
00:39:34,772 --> 00:39:37,384
Protesters started making
posts on social media,
796
00:39:37,408 --> 00:39:38,619
saying they were gonna
come protest,
797
00:39:38,643 --> 00:39:41,088
and the school ramped up
security on us,
798
00:39:41,112 --> 00:39:44,082
telling us that because
we invited a speaker
799
00:39:44,115 --> 00:39:46,482
that made the protesters mad
800
00:39:46,517 --> 00:39:48,529
that we had to pay every cent
of security
801
00:39:48,553 --> 00:39:50,521
caused by the protesters.
802
00:39:50,555 --> 00:39:52,614
At first, that was $17,000,
803
00:39:52,657 --> 00:39:54,635
and that's a bill we got a week
before the event-
804
00:39:54,659 --> 00:39:55,769
an impossible bill to pay.
805
00:39:55,793 --> 00:39:58,956
We were forced to spend
$10,000 in security.
806
00:39:58,997 --> 00:40:00,641
The day after I submitted
my application,
807
00:40:00,665 --> 00:40:02,690
they changed the rule
808
00:40:02,734 --> 00:40:05,412
to now where if your security
costs more than $1,000,
809
00:40:05,436 --> 00:40:07,081
you must make up
the difference.
810
00:40:07,105 --> 00:40:09,972
So they interrupt
conservatives,
811
00:40:10,008 --> 00:40:12,553
and then conservatives
have to foot the bill?
812
00:40:12,577 --> 00:40:14,121
The College Republicans
are actually
813
00:40:14,145 --> 00:40:16,170
under investigation right now-
814
00:40:16,414 --> 00:40:17,791
you know, causing
all these riots
815
00:40:17,815 --> 00:40:19,994
because of the speakers
we bring in.
816
00:40:20,018 --> 00:40:22,496
- You're causing the riots?
- Yeah, so...
817
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:23,664
Not the rioters?
818
00:40:23,688 --> 00:40:25,933
Ann Coulter's visit
to UC Berkeley
819
00:40:25,957 --> 00:40:27,686
isn't for another month,
820
00:40:27,725 --> 00:40:29,770
but student organizers
of the event
821
00:40:29,794 --> 00:40:31,438
say they are nervous.
822
00:40:31,462 --> 00:40:34,408
Do I support what happened
at the Milo Yiannopoulos event?
823
00:40:34,432 --> 00:40:36,510
Yes, I do, and what
we're saying this time is
824
00:40:36,534 --> 00:40:38,812
we need to come out again, and we need
to come out in bigger numbers.
825
00:40:38,836 --> 00:40:40,414
Okay, let me ask you
a question here.
826
00:40:40,438 --> 00:40:42,016
Let's just say
that Rachel Maddow
827
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:43,517
was scheduled to speak at Cal.
828
00:40:43,541 --> 00:40:46,020
And let's say that people
on the far right
829
00:40:46,044 --> 00:40:47,922
were really angry about that.
830
00:40:47,946 --> 00:40:50,891
They did not want her to speak,
and they came out,
831
00:40:50,915 --> 00:40:52,760
and they protested,
and they were violent,
832
00:40:52,784 --> 00:40:55,029
and they kept Rachel Maddow
from speaking.
833
00:40:55,053 --> 00:40:56,885
How would you feel then?
834
00:40:56,921 --> 00:40:59,929
I'm trying to picture
that actually happening.
835
00:41:00,191 --> 00:41:01,602
Campus police Captain
Alex Yow
836
00:41:01,626 --> 00:41:04,071
says police simply
could not guarantee
837
00:41:04,095 --> 00:41:07,759
that Coulter's originally
planned speech would be safe.
838
00:41:07,799 --> 00:41:10,644
We're hiding in the airport
in a baseball cap.
839
00:41:10,668 --> 00:41:13,047
That is exactly where we are.
840
00:41:13,071 --> 00:41:14,448
They are fascists.
841
00:41:14,472 --> 00:41:15,950
They don't want another point
of view.
842
00:41:15,974 --> 00:41:17,551
I mean, I've been doing
these college speeches
843
00:41:17,575 --> 00:41:18,652
for more than a decade.
844
00:41:18,676 --> 00:41:20,054
On the Berkeley campus,
845
00:41:20,078 --> 00:41:21,755
College Republicans are
fighting
846
00:41:21,779 --> 00:41:24,180
to give Coulter a platform
this week.
847
00:41:24,215 --> 00:41:25,859
They filed a lawsuit Monday
848
00:41:25,883 --> 00:41:29,114
trying to force the university
to ease restrictions
849
00:41:29,153 --> 00:41:32,089
they say are only placed
on conservative speakers.
850
00:41:32,090 --> 00:41:33,734
I think it's important
to call that what it is,
851
00:41:33,758 --> 00:41:36,570
which is essentially just
shredding the Constitution,
852
00:41:36,594 --> 00:41:37,838
or in a way that we see
happen a lot
853
00:41:37,862 --> 00:41:39,106
at Young America's Foundation
854
00:41:39,130 --> 00:41:40,874
when we're working with
students on their campuses,
855
00:41:40,898 --> 00:41:43,677
is this is the classic argument
that leftists will use
856
00:41:43,701 --> 00:41:45,179
in order to shut down
conservative speech.
857
00:41:45,203 --> 00:41:47,501
Security is the new
"Shut up,
858
00:41:47,538 --> 00:41:50,751
because by the time you factor
in all the security costs,
859
00:41:50,775 --> 00:41:56,145
you could stage "Hello Dolly
Meets Godzilla on Ice"
860
00:41:56,180 --> 00:41:59,172
for the same cost
as bringing Charles Murray in
861
00:41:59,217 --> 00:42:02,278
to give a 20-minute speech
to a few students.
862
00:42:03,788 --> 00:42:05,499
I don't even-
I'm perplexed, even,
863
00:42:05,523 --> 00:42:07,101
that people could even say,
864
00:42:07,125 --> 00:42:08,635
"Oh, it's not an issue."
865
00:42:08,659 --> 00:42:11,805
It's, like, one of the biggest
issues in America today,
866
00:42:11,829 --> 00:42:13,874
that the place that is
supposed to be
867
00:42:13,898 --> 00:42:16,595
a place of ideas,
the university,
868
00:42:16,634 --> 00:42:20,628
is the most closed place
in the United States.
869
00:42:20,671 --> 00:42:24,608
It's very important for people
to understand
870
00:42:24,642 --> 00:42:27,543
that this is not just
affecting conservatives.
871
00:42:28,279 --> 00:42:30,646
Liberals are being shut down.
872
00:42:39,690 --> 00:42:42,057
I considered myself
a leftist.
873
00:42:44,295 --> 00:42:48,892
I was a teaching assistant
for Communication Studies 101.
874
00:42:48,933 --> 00:42:51,800
I wanted my students
to comprehend
875
00:42:51,836 --> 00:42:55,966
how grammar could actually be
a big issue in our society.
876
00:42:57,175 --> 00:43:00,941
To demonstrate this point,
I brought in a clip
877
00:43:00,978 --> 00:43:02,742
from TV Ontario.
878
00:43:02,780 --> 00:43:06,148
So this is the province's
public broadcaster.
879
00:43:06,184 --> 00:43:08,744
And in the particular clip
I showed,
880
00:43:08,786 --> 00:43:12,279
it was Professor
of Transgender Studies
881
00:43:12,323 --> 00:43:14,018
Nicholas Matte,
882
00:43:14,058 --> 00:43:17,653
and he was talking
to Professor Jordan Peterson
883
00:43:17,695 --> 00:43:19,073
from the University of Toronto.
884
00:43:19,097 --> 00:43:21,675
And your attempts to regulate
my language use and-
885
00:43:21,699 --> 00:43:23,043
I don't care about
your language use.
886
00:43:23,067 --> 00:43:26,970
I care about the safety of
the people who are being harmed.
887
00:43:27,004 --> 00:43:29,316
I know. People who make
your kinds of arguments
888
00:43:29,340 --> 00:43:31,785
are always concerned
with other people's safety.
889
00:43:31,809 --> 00:43:33,787
I want to have really
deep discussions
890
00:43:33,811 --> 00:43:35,122
about all sorts of issues,
891
00:43:35,146 --> 00:43:38,154
and I don't think anything
should be off-limits.
892
00:43:38,883 --> 00:43:41,909
And that is today
what makes you an evil person.
893
00:44:09,046 --> 00:44:12,326
When I showed the clip in my
class, I did not take a stance.
894
00:44:12,350 --> 00:44:13,360
I was neutral.
895
00:44:13,384 --> 00:44:15,716
I treated Peterson's argument
896
00:44:15,753 --> 00:44:18,222
just as valid
as Matte's argument,
897
00:44:18,256 --> 00:44:20,918
but that was the problem.
898
00:44:20,958 --> 00:44:23,291
It was a problem
that I was neutral.
899
00:45:03,301 --> 00:45:06,168
I was just genuinely
very confused,
900
00:45:06,204 --> 00:45:08,935
because to me,
the university is a place
901
00:45:08,973 --> 00:45:11,040
where you can
question anything.
902
00:46:04,428 --> 00:46:07,887
Dr. Jordan Peterson refuses
to be pigeonholed.
903
00:46:07,932 --> 00:46:10,143
His new self-help book,
12 Rules for Life,
904
00:46:10,167 --> 00:46:11,999
is already a best seller.
905
00:46:12,036 --> 00:46:13,447
Hundreds of thousands
subscribe
906
00:46:13,471 --> 00:46:14,881
to his online lectures.
907
00:46:14,905 --> 00:46:17,084
His speeches regularly
attract protests.
908
00:46:17,108 --> 00:46:19,219
I'm not arguing
about your rights.
909
00:46:19,243 --> 00:46:21,355
And his new speaking tour
is selling out.
910
00:46:21,379 --> 00:46:23,390
I think he's dangerous
because of the sorts of people
911
00:46:23,414 --> 00:46:25,246
that he enables.
912
00:46:25,283 --> 00:46:27,160
It's quite the place
you've got here.
913
00:46:27,184 --> 00:46:29,016
So tell me about this one.
914
00:46:29,053 --> 00:46:31,283
It's a really nicely
built car.
915
00:46:31,322 --> 00:46:32,915
Mm-hmm.
916
00:46:32,957 --> 00:46:35,102
Hardly looks like
it's ever been driven.
917
00:46:35,126 --> 00:46:39,893
It's been very well taken
care of, unlike its owner.
918
00:46:39,930 --> 00:46:43,230
- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah, I've been put away wet.
919
00:46:43,267 --> 00:46:47,397
So are they gonna pass a law
in Canada outlawing pronouns?
920
00:46:47,438 --> 00:46:49,149
Oh, it's already passed.
921
00:46:49,173 --> 00:46:51,151
If you're an advocate
of free speech,
922
00:46:51,175 --> 00:46:54,167
which you are if you're
an advocate of freedom,
923
00:46:54,211 --> 00:46:57,057
then you still might say,
"Okay, well, there are limits.
924
00:46:57,081 --> 00:46:59,893
Some of them are illegal.
I can't incite violence.
925
00:46:59,917 --> 00:47:01,795
I can't incite someone
to a crime,"
926
00:47:01,819 --> 00:47:03,196
you know,
and that's already illegal,
927
00:47:03,220 --> 00:47:04,898
so there are limits
of that sort.
928
00:47:04,922 --> 00:47:06,390
This is different.
929
00:47:06,424 --> 00:47:11,590
This is the law insisting
that you say something.
930
00:47:11,829 --> 00:47:14,508
"You use my language,"
and my response was,
931
00:47:14,532 --> 00:47:16,310
"There isn't a hope in hell
932
00:47:16,334 --> 00:47:18,111
that I will ever use
your language."
933
00:47:18,135 --> 00:47:21,114
Once you control the language,
you control the outcome.
934
00:47:21,138 --> 00:47:22,849
Yeah, well, that's why
I wouldn't say those words.
935
00:47:22,873 --> 00:47:24,184
It's because
that's exactly right.
936
00:47:24,208 --> 00:47:26,953
As soon as I allow you
to define the territory
937
00:47:26,977 --> 00:47:29,523
in which we're going to engage,
then you get to win.
938
00:47:29,547 --> 00:47:31,458
There's a reason
that every time
939
00:47:31,482 --> 00:47:33,917
one of these professors or TAs,
940
00:47:33,951 --> 00:47:36,196
whether it's Lindsay Shepherd
in Canada
941
00:47:36,220 --> 00:47:38,518
or Bret Weinstein
in Washington,
942
00:47:38,556 --> 00:47:40,100
why are they all lefties
943
00:47:40,124 --> 00:47:43,992
who then say one thing
that upsets the left,
944
00:47:44,028 --> 00:47:45,238
and then they're purged?
945
00:47:45,262 --> 00:47:46,506
It will come for you.
946
00:47:46,530 --> 00:47:48,975
I mean, if there is someone
that's watching this right now
947
00:47:48,999 --> 00:47:50,977
that is a hard-core progressive
that's going,
948
00:47:51,001 --> 00:47:52,346
"Man, I hate Prager and Rubin,
949
00:47:52,370 --> 00:47:54,381
and this is all nonsense,"
guess what.
950
00:47:54,405 --> 00:47:57,636
If you have any spark
of individualism in you,
951
00:47:57,875 --> 00:48:01,588
if you have anything about you
that's interesting or different,
952
00:48:01,612 --> 00:48:03,945
they will come
to destroy that, too.
953
00:48:10,588 --> 00:48:12,566
You know, most people
don't get to see
954
00:48:12,590 --> 00:48:14,456
the thing that they love,
955
00:48:14,492 --> 00:48:18,554
a system that has the potential
to do great good in the world,
956
00:48:18,596 --> 00:48:20,276
be destroyed from within.
957
00:48:51,629 --> 00:48:53,306
- Dean's office.
- It's Stacy Brown.
958
00:48:53,330 --> 00:48:54,408
Is Steve around?
959
00:48:54,432 --> 00:48:55,509
Oh, he just walked
in the door.
960
00:48:55,533 --> 00:48:56,893
Hang on.
- Thanks.
961
00:49:07,044 --> 00:49:08,044
Yeah.
962
00:49:10,214 --> 00:49:12,626
Stop telling people of color
they're useless.
963
00:49:12,650 --> 00:49:14,027
You're useless.
Get the -
964
00:49:14,051 --> 00:49:15,662
all:
Hey, hey! Ho, ho!
965
00:49:15,686 --> 00:49:17,531
Bret Weinstein has got to go!
966
00:49:17,555 --> 00:49:19,455
Hey, hey! Ho, ho!
967
00:49:19,490 --> 00:49:21,515
Bret Weinstein has got to go!
968
00:49:24,562 --> 00:49:27,964
I think we did not see,
effectively,
969
00:49:27,998 --> 00:49:30,296
a coup in the institution
coming,
970
00:49:30,334 --> 00:49:32,735
and we didn't feel
vulnerable to it
971
00:49:32,970 --> 00:49:37,430
because we were both
very popular among students
972
00:49:37,475 --> 00:49:41,412
and we had the equivalent
of tenure.
973
00:49:41,445 --> 00:49:45,040
Weinstein, who identifies
as politically left,
974
00:49:45,082 --> 00:49:47,694
had announced he was
boycotting a decades-old event
975
00:49:47,718 --> 00:49:50,363
created by students of color
at the school.
976
00:49:50,387 --> 00:49:54,221
Day of Absence was a
tradition on Evergreen's campus
977
00:49:54,258 --> 00:49:57,592
from very nearly the founding
of the college.
978
00:49:57,628 --> 00:50:02,065
Day of Absence is named after
a play by Douglas Turner Ward,
979
00:50:02,099 --> 00:50:03,692
a black playwright,
980
00:50:03,734 --> 00:50:05,378
and the premise of the play
981
00:50:05,402 --> 00:50:08,372
is that in a fictional
Southern town
982
00:50:08,405 --> 00:50:12,239
the black population
decides not to show up one day
983
00:50:12,276 --> 00:50:14,488
in order to make the point
to the white population
984
00:50:14,512 --> 00:50:17,090
about the important role
that they are playing.
985
00:50:17,114 --> 00:50:21,608
Last year the committee that
organizes the Day of Absence
986
00:50:21,652 --> 00:50:23,497
announced in a faculty
meeting-
987
00:50:23,521 --> 00:50:25,632
a faculty meeting in which
there was no opportunity
988
00:50:25,656 --> 00:50:27,385
to ask any questions-
989
00:50:27,424 --> 00:50:31,088
they announced that
white people were being asked
990
00:50:31,128 --> 00:50:33,324
to leave the campus
for the day.
991
00:50:33,364 --> 00:50:36,176
And it was so strange
to hear that announced,
992
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,400
that I assumed
I had misunderstood
993
00:50:38,435 --> 00:50:40,096
what had been said,
994
00:50:40,137 --> 00:50:43,149
and then the administration
of the college made it clear
995
00:50:43,173 --> 00:50:46,404
that they were strongly
encouraging white people
996
00:50:46,443 --> 00:50:49,276
not to come to school
on that day
997
00:50:49,313 --> 00:50:53,045
in an effort to
Center people of color."
998
00:50:53,083 --> 00:50:55,177
I found this offensive.
999
00:50:55,219 --> 00:50:57,497
This was not, as
it was being portrayed,
1000
00:50:57,521 --> 00:50:59,132
a simple flip of the script
1001
00:50:59,156 --> 00:51:00,767
where instead of people
of color,
1002
00:51:00,791 --> 00:51:02,135
it was white people this time.
1003
00:51:02,159 --> 00:51:04,821
This was people organizing
this protest
1004
00:51:05,062 --> 00:51:07,641
telling others not to show up
to a public college
1005
00:51:07,665 --> 00:51:09,142
on a particular day
1006
00:51:09,166 --> 00:51:10,777
because of the color
of their skin,
1007
00:51:10,801 --> 00:51:14,396
which is anathema
to me as a liberal,
1008
00:51:14,438 --> 00:51:16,338
so I said so.
1009
00:51:16,373 --> 00:51:18,418
There was a backlash
over email.
1010
00:51:18,442 --> 00:51:21,776
My email went to the staff
and faculty email list.
1011
00:51:21,812 --> 00:51:23,790
There were students who worked
on campus
1012
00:51:23,814 --> 00:51:25,759
who were on that list,
which I was aware of,
1013
00:51:25,783 --> 00:51:27,260
and I just simply said,
1014
00:51:27,284 --> 00:51:29,663
"This is unacceptable,
and you can expect me
1015
00:51:29,687 --> 00:51:31,712
to be on campus on that day."
1016
00:51:31,755 --> 00:51:35,658
Tuesday, May 23rd of 2017,
1017
00:51:35,693 --> 00:51:37,320
I went to work.
1018
00:51:37,361 --> 00:51:39,796
I biked in as I always did.
1019
00:51:39,830 --> 00:51:42,663
I began teaching
my morning class,
1020
00:51:42,700 --> 00:51:47,797
and a student who I knew
pretty well from a past program
1021
00:51:47,838 --> 00:51:50,250
called me over a bit concerned
and said,
1022
00:51:50,274 --> 00:51:52,285
"Do you know that there
are people outside the door
1023
00:51:52,309 --> 00:51:56,212
chanting for you to be fired?"
1024
00:51:56,246 --> 00:51:59,216
And I said,
"No, that's pretty odd."
1025
00:52:23,240 --> 00:52:25,299
What shocked me was that
1026
00:52:25,342 --> 00:52:28,121
they were not at all
interested in that discussion.
1027
00:52:28,145 --> 00:52:30,790
If somebody who was the object
of a protest
1028
00:52:30,814 --> 00:52:32,525
that we were participating in
1029
00:52:32,549 --> 00:52:36,213
wanted to talk to us about
the nature of that protest,
1030
00:52:36,253 --> 00:52:37,631
I would have been right there.
1031
00:52:37,655 --> 00:52:39,399
So how is it that
I was being protested
1032
00:52:39,423 --> 00:52:41,401
by people who
weren't interested
1033
00:52:41,425 --> 00:52:43,403
in even engaging me
on the question
1034
00:52:43,427 --> 00:52:45,238
and showing me
that I might be wrong?
1035
00:52:45,262 --> 00:52:49,324
It would be weeks before I
would understand why that was.
1036
00:52:50,868 --> 00:52:52,879
All: These racist teachers
got to go!
1037
00:52:52,903 --> 00:52:54,928
Hey, hey! Ho, ho!
1038
00:52:55,172 --> 00:52:57,239
These racist teachers
got to go!
1039
00:52:57,274 --> 00:52:58,799
Hey, hey! Ho, ho!
1040
00:52:58,842 --> 00:53:00,936
These racist teachers
got to go!
1041
00:53:01,178 --> 00:53:02,839
Hey, hey! Ho, ho!
1042
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,474
These racist teachers
got to go!
1043
00:53:09,787 --> 00:53:13,655
Protesters then engaged
the president of the college
1044
00:53:13,691 --> 00:53:17,286
and got him to agree
to a meeting.
1045
00:53:21,398 --> 00:53:24,299
I decided that I should be
at that meeting.
1046
00:53:24,334 --> 00:53:26,803
If they were calling
for my firing,
1047
00:53:26,837 --> 00:53:29,282
I wanted to be there
to answer the charges.
1048
00:53:29,306 --> 00:53:31,206
I found a seat and sat down.
1049
00:53:31,241 --> 00:53:32,686
Within a couple of minutes,
1050
00:53:32,710 --> 00:53:34,921
there was an announcement
by protesters,
1051
00:53:34,945 --> 00:53:38,540
who were clearly in complete
charge of this meeting,
1052
00:53:38,582 --> 00:53:42,576
saying that the food and water
that was available,
1053
00:53:42,619 --> 00:53:45,331
publicly supplied,
were for people of color,
1054
00:53:45,355 --> 00:53:47,300
and that white people should not
avail themselves
1055
00:53:47,324 --> 00:53:48,814
of those things.
1056
00:53:48,859 --> 00:53:51,059
That was the tenor
of the meeting.
1057
00:53:55,599 --> 00:53:56,896
So / was here,
1058
00:53:56,934 --> 00:54:00,802
and I get this text from Bret,
two of them, actually.
1059
00:54:00,838 --> 00:54:02,465
The first one says,
1060
00:54:02,506 --> 00:54:05,476
They say I may not be
allowed to leave."
1061
00:54:05,509 --> 00:54:08,809
The second one,
I'm not sure what to do."
1062
00:54:08,846 --> 00:54:10,837
And then silence.
1063
00:54:10,881 --> 00:54:12,358
I heard from one dean
1064
00:54:12,382 --> 00:54:14,427
before I knew anything
about what had happened,
1065
00:54:14,451 --> 00:54:15,929
and that dean's concern
1066
00:54:15,953 --> 00:54:18,264
was that Bret not talk
to the press.
1067
00:54:18,288 --> 00:54:19,766
That was the concern
from the college,
1068
00:54:19,790 --> 00:54:22,384
that if any of the press
came calling,
1069
00:54:22,426 --> 00:54:24,952
he should send them
to college PR.
1070
00:54:24,995 --> 00:54:28,363
At the end of the meeting,
I was allowed to leave,
1071
00:54:28,398 --> 00:54:33,393
and I left the building
with a number of my students,
1072
00:54:33,437 --> 00:54:36,839
and I was flanked
by a number of other people
1073
00:54:36,874 --> 00:54:39,900
who wanted to talk to me
for various reasons,
1074
00:54:39,943 --> 00:54:42,844
including one young woman
1075
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:45,941
who I think in some ways
1076
00:54:45,983 --> 00:54:49,942
had not gotten the message that
talking to me was not allowed.
1077
00:54:49,987 --> 00:54:54,982
The next day the protesters
made a point
1078
00:54:55,025 --> 00:54:59,587
of bringing her to a rally
1079
00:54:59,630 --> 00:55:01,374
that they had organized
on campus
1080
00:55:01,398 --> 00:55:04,561
and having her read
a statement
1081
00:55:04,601 --> 00:55:07,002
that they had
prepared publicly,
1082
00:55:07,037 --> 00:55:09,802
and it's heart-wrenching
for me.
1083
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:12,775
She read this statement,
and she butchered it.
1084
00:55:12,810 --> 00:55:14,821
Reading out loud maybe
in front of a group
1085
00:55:14,845 --> 00:55:17,746
was not in her skill set.
1086
00:55:17,781 --> 00:55:23,413
Based on false,
racially charged alleged-
1087
00:55:23,453 --> 00:55:24,943
allegations.
1088
00:55:24,988 --> 00:55:26,933
They effectively
humiliated her
1089
00:55:26,957 --> 00:55:29,585
in order to demonstrate that
1090
00:55:29,626 --> 00:55:32,789
they had recaptured her
in some way.
1091
00:55:32,830 --> 00:55:37,427
Whereas the college
administration specific-
1092
00:55:37,467 --> 00:55:39,094
Sorry.
1093
00:55:39,336 --> 00:55:41,828
There are a lot of moments
that are
1094
00:55:41,872 --> 00:55:43,950
particularly telling
from the protest,
1095
00:55:43,974 --> 00:55:47,842
but I must say, that is among
the most chilling to me.
1096
00:55:51,748 --> 00:55:54,648
It's our students
that are stopping people.
1097
00:55:54,818 --> 00:55:57,597
Oh, our students
that are stopping people.
1098
00:55:57,621 --> 00:55:59,799
Why aren't we stopping them
from stopping people?
1099
00:55:59,823 --> 00:56:05,353
Because the president
has told Stacy to stand down.
1100
00:56:05,395 --> 00:56:07,454
I biked this direction,
1101
00:56:07,497 --> 00:56:10,956
which to this point is
my normal commute.
1102
00:56:11,001 --> 00:56:12,712
I saw people that I recognized
1103
00:56:12,736 --> 00:56:15,501
from the protest
the day before.
1104
00:56:15,539 --> 00:56:16,938
They saw me,
1105
00:56:16,974 --> 00:56:20,035
and they appeared to start
1106
00:56:20,077 --> 00:56:22,478
doing something
with their phones,
1107
00:56:22,512 --> 00:56:25,447
and I kept biking,
1108
00:56:25,482 --> 00:56:28,061
and then I realized,
"That just doesn't feel right,"
1109
00:56:28,085 --> 00:56:30,752
and I took the next entrance
into campus,
1110
00:56:30,787 --> 00:56:33,566
and I went to the police
station, and I said,
1111
00:56:33,590 --> 00:56:35,101
"Here's what I think
I experienced,
1112
00:56:35,125 --> 00:56:37,719
but I must be imagining it."
1113
00:56:37,761 --> 00:56:40,106
And she said, "I don't think
you're imagining it.
1114
00:56:40,130 --> 00:56:43,964
"I think they're looking
for you, and what's more...
1115
00:56:44,001 --> 00:56:45,901
"I can't protect you.
1116
00:56:45,936 --> 00:56:47,768
"You're not safe on campus,
1117
00:56:47,804 --> 00:56:51,196
and you're not safe anywhere
in town on your bicycle."
1118
00:57:00,117 --> 00:57:03,485
I think it's pretty clear
what happened at Evergreen
1119
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:06,080
is an extreme case,
1120
00:57:06,123 --> 00:57:09,067
and I've heard people
dismiss it on that basis,
1121
00:57:09,092 --> 00:57:11,686
that it was just a very
liberal campus
1122
00:57:11,728 --> 00:57:13,907
that went farther off
the deep end than any other,
1123
00:57:13,931 --> 00:57:16,075
and I think that's really
a mistake.
1124
00:57:16,099 --> 00:57:19,535
In some ways, Evergreen
is a preview of what's coming.
1125
00:57:19,569 --> 00:57:21,663
The fact that this
is happening
1126
00:57:21,705 --> 00:57:24,538
across so many campuses
1127
00:57:24,574 --> 00:57:28,204
means that it is going
to spread
1128
00:57:28,445 --> 00:57:30,743
into every quadrant
of society,
1129
00:57:30,781 --> 00:57:33,593
and things are going
to get worse elsewhere.
1130
00:57:33,617 --> 00:57:37,576
So Evergreen is describing
a future
1131
00:57:37,621 --> 00:57:39,783
that is rapidly approaching.
1132
00:57:46,730 --> 00:57:51,531
These ideas have sort of
contaminated the campuses,
1133
00:57:51,568 --> 00:57:53,046
but how are they getting
off the campus
1134
00:57:53,070 --> 00:57:54,447
and into the mainstream?
1135
00:57:54,471 --> 00:57:55,848
Well, they're partly
doing that
1136
00:57:55,872 --> 00:57:58,534
because the mainstream
will be run
1137
00:57:58,575 --> 00:58:00,553
by the people who are
on campuses,
1138
00:58:00,577 --> 00:58:02,855
but there's a more
conspiratorial element
1139
00:58:02,879 --> 00:58:04,745
to it than that.
1140
00:58:04,781 --> 00:58:06,726
It's like, it's very important
to remember
1141
00:58:06,750 --> 00:58:08,861
that the most politically
correct disciplines
1142
00:58:08,885 --> 00:58:11,047
are producing activists.
1143
00:58:11,088 --> 00:58:12,715
That's their goal,
1144
00:58:12,756 --> 00:58:16,715
and so they have a stated goal
of infiltrating organizations
1145
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:18,938
and altering them in the
politically correct direction.
1146
00:58:18,962 --> 00:58:20,773
Once we've created
an expectation,
1147
00:58:20,797 --> 00:58:23,209
that it's a nice thing
to do to censor people
1148
00:58:23,233 --> 00:58:25,812
in an enlightened way,
there's no reason to believe
1149
00:58:25,836 --> 00:58:27,180
that they're not gonna
construct a world
1150
00:58:27,204 --> 00:58:28,214
that looks like that,
1151
00:58:28,238 --> 00:58:30,683
and that is not a good world
for dissent.
1152
00:58:30,707 --> 00:58:32,618
That's not a good world
for oddballs.
1153
00:58:32,642 --> 00:58:34,754
It certainly isn't
a good world for comedians.
1154
00:58:34,778 --> 00:58:36,589
Bill Belichick,
the most confident coach
1155
00:58:36,613 --> 00:58:38,138
of all time, right?
1156
00:58:38,181 --> 00:58:41,173
Most coaches are like,
"I want raw athletes,
1157
00:58:41,218 --> 00:58:45,815
raw talent, sheer athleticism."
1158
00:58:45,856 --> 00:58:48,901
And Belichick's like, "Yeah,
that's cool. You got any Jews?"
1159
00:58:52,529 --> 00:58:55,965
Yeah, Jews, like,
five, six Jews.
1160
00:58:55,999 --> 00:58:58,244
No, we got, like, 6'4"
black dudes. No, no, too easy.
1161
00:58:58,268 --> 00:59:01,135
A Mexican,
you got a Mexican?"
1162
00:59:01,171 --> 00:59:02,682
Give me a place
with no free speech,
1163
00:59:02,706 --> 00:59:04,517
and I'll tell you,
unfunny people.
1164
00:59:04,541 --> 00:59:09,206
Russian comedy is-there's
a doll, and then you open it,
1165
00:59:09,246 --> 00:59:10,890
and then there's a little doll,
1166
00:59:10,914 --> 00:59:13,626
and then, wait for it,
you open that little doll,
1167
00:59:13,650 --> 00:59:15,628
and there's an even
smaller doll.
1168
00:59:15,652 --> 00:59:18,053
This is highbrow
Russian comedy,
1169
00:59:18,088 --> 00:59:19,632
is little doll, little doll,
1170
00:59:19,656 --> 00:59:20,867
little doll,
little doll, right?
1171
00:59:20,891 --> 00:59:23,236
And it's funny to them
every single time it opens.
1172
00:59:23,260 --> 00:59:24,704
There's another little doll,
1173
00:59:24,728 --> 00:59:26,205
and they can't get enough,
oh, my God.
1174
00:59:26,229 --> 00:59:28,041
That's no-free-speech comedy.
1175
00:59:28,065 --> 00:59:29,876
I know what
microaggressions are.
1176
00:59:29,900 --> 00:59:32,245
It's the latest liberal attack
at free speech
1177
00:59:32,269 --> 00:59:35,034
and a lot of fun
if you do them right.
1178
00:59:35,072 --> 00:59:36,716
The university has
a list of stuff
1179
00:59:36,740 --> 00:59:37,850
they don't allow speakers
to say,
1180
00:59:37,874 --> 00:59:39,685
you know,
to protect the students.
1181
00:59:39,709 --> 00:59:41,803
From what, ideas?
1182
00:59:41,845 --> 00:59:43,823
Allen is responding
to the show's
1183
00:59:43,847 --> 00:59:45,679
unexpected cancellation.
1184
00:59:45,715 --> 00:59:47,193
Some say the show was axed
1185
00:59:47,217 --> 00:59:50,596
because of its portrayal of
conservative Christian values.
1186
00:59:50,620 --> 00:59:51,964
If it was a bomb,
you could understand,
1187
00:59:51,988 --> 00:59:53,752
but the sitcom was ABC's
1188
00:59:53,790 --> 00:59:56,390
second-highest-rated comedy
this season.
1189
00:59:59,062 --> 01:00:02,175
Isn't it spooky that
we're having this discussion?
1190
01:00:02,199 --> 01:00:03,199
- Yes.
- Yes.
1191
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:04,577
But we have to have it.
1192
01:00:04,601 --> 01:00:06,045
I understand,
but it's just kind of spooky
1193
01:00:06,069 --> 01:00:09,282
that it's even a thing that
you're even thinking about,
1194
01:00:09,306 --> 01:00:10,917
that we have to be modulated,
1195
01:00:10,941 --> 01:00:13,603
and I'm a little worried
about it,
1196
01:00:13,643 --> 01:00:15,988
a little alarmed
about things I cannot say.
1197
01:00:16,012 --> 01:00:18,591
I do it anyway because
the thing I've always loved
1198
01:00:18,615 --> 01:00:21,194
about this is it's people,
money, and me.
1199
01:00:21,218 --> 01:00:22,328
There's no middleman in this.
1200
01:00:22,352 --> 01:00:24,797
Essentially, I'm running
the show at that moment.
1201
01:00:24,821 --> 01:00:27,100
But it is weird
that I'm thinking a little bit.
1202
01:00:27,124 --> 01:00:29,388
We as comedians,
the whole point
1203
01:00:29,626 --> 01:00:31,904
of what we're doing
on stage with our words
1204
01:00:31,928 --> 01:00:34,707
is to make a point
about the absurdities of life.
1205
01:00:34,731 --> 01:00:36,709
- Right.
- Like, I have a joke about,
1206
01:00:36,733 --> 01:00:38,544
you know, being comfortable
with my size, you know,
1207
01:00:38,568 --> 01:00:40,312
and I say, "It depends on where
I'm geographically,
1208
01:00:40,336 --> 01:00:41,881
"and if I'm in New York,
I'm pleasantly plump.
1209
01:00:41,905 --> 01:00:43,783
If I'm in L.A.,
I'm a beached whale."
1210
01:00:43,807 --> 01:00:46,752
I say if I'm in the Midwest,
I'm anorexic, and it's awesome.
1211
01:00:46,776 --> 01:00:48,354
- Right.
- And then I've had someone
1212
01:00:48,378 --> 01:00:49,789
come up to me after a show
and be like,
1213
01:00:49,813 --> 01:00:52,225
"You know, I was bulimic
in high school, and-"
1214
01:00:52,249 --> 01:00:53,826
- Right.
- I'm like, "Okay, calm down.
1215
01:00:53,850 --> 01:00:56,162
"That wasn't about you,
first of all.
1216
01:00:56,186 --> 01:00:59,232
It was a joke, and that's
what I'm up here to do."
1217
01:00:59,256 --> 01:01:03,022
How accountable can we be
1218
01:01:03,059 --> 01:01:07,087
when you are, in real time,
trying to create humor?
1219
01:01:07,130 --> 01:01:10,293
And as I explain to people
all the time...
1220
01:01:10,333 --> 01:01:14,236
the sort of foundation of humor
is negative.
1221
01:01:14,271 --> 01:01:15,932
So, if you said,
1222
01:01:15,972 --> 01:01:18,317
"What do you think
of your mother-in-law, Adam?"
1223
01:01:18,341 --> 01:01:21,187
And I was on stage and I went,
"She's a delight.
1224
01:01:21,211 --> 01:01:24,044
Megan's a delight."
1225
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:25,324
We're not hearing any laugh.
1226
01:01:25,348 --> 01:01:28,060
We're hearing laughs now
because we know how absurd.
1227
01:01:28,084 --> 01:01:29,762
You are free-forming it,
1228
01:01:29,786 --> 01:01:33,154
and you are responsible
to the 300 people
1229
01:01:33,190 --> 01:01:35,682
who put down 30 bucks
to come see you
1230
01:01:35,725 --> 01:01:37,069
and want to have a laugh.
1231
01:01:37,093 --> 01:01:39,372
It's way easier to be
against something,
1232
01:01:39,396 --> 01:01:40,940
but defining what you're for-
1233
01:01:40,964 --> 01:01:43,075
Defining what you're for.
What do you want?
1234
01:01:43,099 --> 01:01:44,677
What's the point of this?
1235
01:01:44,701 --> 01:01:47,180
And I say that because I-
back to comedy-
1236
01:01:47,204 --> 01:01:49,682
- To feel good.
- I can't do college campuses
1237
01:01:49,706 --> 01:01:52,403
because the first
couple sentences,
1238
01:01:52,442 --> 01:01:54,053
they're going, "Ooh."
1239
01:01:54,077 --> 01:01:57,172
Already I've got this image
of me, that I said,
1240
01:01:57,214 --> 01:02:00,275
"Listen, I've been doing comedy
for 32 years,
1241
01:02:00,317 --> 01:02:01,861
mostly about men and women."
1242
01:02:01,885 --> 01:02:03,195
That's essentially what
I've been doing,
1243
01:02:03,219 --> 01:02:04,430
and I still have to explain,
1244
01:02:04,454 --> 01:02:06,098
"This is a man's perspective."
1245
01:02:06,122 --> 01:02:09,183
I do this joke about...
1246
01:02:09,226 --> 01:02:12,104
the way people need to justify
their cell phone.
1247
01:02:12,128 --> 01:02:15,007
I need to have it with me
because people are so important.
1248
01:02:15,031 --> 01:02:16,409
- Right.
- You know, I said, "Well,
1249
01:02:16,433 --> 01:02:18,744
they don't seem very important,
the way you scroll through them
1250
01:02:18,768 --> 01:02:21,430
like a gay French king,
you know, just-"
1251
01:02:24,407 --> 01:02:26,307
Well...
1252
01:02:26,343 --> 01:02:28,321
That's very offensive
to the gay French kings.
1253
01:02:28,345 --> 01:02:29,972
Well, yeah.
1254
01:02:30,013 --> 01:02:32,004
I did this line recently
1255
01:02:32,048 --> 01:02:33,993
in front of an audience,
and you could-
1256
01:02:34,017 --> 01:02:36,829
comedy's where you can kind
of feel, like, an opinion,
1257
01:02:36,853 --> 01:02:38,130
and they thought,
1258
01:02:38,154 --> 01:02:40,132
"What do you mean, gay?
What are you talking about, gay?
1259
01:02:40,156 --> 01:02:42,401
"What are you saying, gay?
What are you doing?
1260
01:02:42,425 --> 01:02:44,826
What do you mean?"
You know?
1261
01:02:44,861 --> 01:02:46,105
And I thought,
"Are you kidding me?
1262
01:02:46,129 --> 01:02:47,824
I mean, we can't even-"
1263
01:02:49,232 --> 01:02:51,777
I can imagine a time-
and this is a serious thing.
1264
01:02:51,801 --> 01:02:53,279
I can imagine a time
where people say,
1265
01:02:53,303 --> 01:02:55,481
"Well, that's offensive
to suggest
1266
01:02:55,505 --> 01:03:00,033
"that a gay person moves their
hands in a flourishing motion,
1267
01:03:00,076 --> 01:03:01,787
and you now need to apologi-"
1268
01:03:01,811 --> 01:03:05,338
I mean, there's a creepy
PC thing out there
1269
01:03:05,382 --> 01:03:07,026
that really bothers me.
1270
01:03:07,050 --> 01:03:09,451
Kevin Hart has stepped down
1271
01:03:09,486 --> 01:03:11,853
from hosting
this year's Oscars.
1272
01:03:11,888 --> 01:03:17,418
I swear, man, our world
is becoming beyond crazy.
1273
01:03:17,460 --> 01:03:19,772
My team calls me,
"Oh, my God, Kevin,
1274
01:03:19,796 --> 01:03:23,198
the world is upset about tweets
you did years ago."
1275
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:25,878
You have the right
to remain silent.
1276
01:03:25,902 --> 01:03:28,180
Children: Anything you say
will be used against you.
1277
01:03:28,204 --> 01:03:31,435
Your posts on Facebook,
Twitter, and social media
1278
01:03:31,474 --> 01:03:33,185
will be saved to shame you.
1279
01:03:33,209 --> 01:03:35,888
You can't be funny.
You cannot think differently.
1280
01:03:35,912 --> 01:03:37,937
You can't challenge us.
1281
01:03:37,981 --> 01:03:41,060
We reserve the right
to be offended by everything.
1282
01:03:41,084 --> 01:03:43,162
You have the right
to remain silent.
1283
01:03:43,186 --> 01:03:45,450
It cannot help
but be true that
1284
01:03:45,488 --> 01:03:47,300
if this is allowed to continue,
1285
01:03:47,324 --> 01:03:49,201
that it is going to work
its way
1286
01:03:49,225 --> 01:03:52,957
into the entire apparatus
of government,
1287
01:03:52,996 --> 01:03:55,260
journalism,
maybe most seriously,
1288
01:03:55,298 --> 01:03:57,198
into the tech sector,
1289
01:03:57,233 --> 01:04:00,533
which has become
the governance apparatus
1290
01:04:00,570 --> 01:04:02,436
for the new public square.
1291
01:04:02,472 --> 01:04:06,102
YouTube and Google,
Facebook and Twitter
1292
01:04:06,142 --> 01:04:08,839
dictate whose voices
can be heard,
1293
01:04:08,878 --> 01:04:11,609
and if those entities
start trying
1294
01:04:11,848 --> 01:04:14,215
to engineer the conversation
1295
01:04:14,250 --> 01:04:16,617
to adhere to the rules laid out
1296
01:04:16,853 --> 01:04:21,017
with these phony
Trojan horse terms,
1297
01:04:21,057 --> 01:04:23,355
disaster will be the result.
1298
01:04:24,561 --> 01:04:26,105
Facebook is a place
1299
01:04:26,129 --> 01:04:28,107
where more than
a billion people worldwide
1300
01:04:28,131 --> 01:04:31,101
come to share
their thoughts and feelings.
1301
01:04:31,134 --> 01:04:32,966
Sometimes they post content
1302
01:04:33,002 --> 01:04:35,232
that's upsetting
or insensitive,
1303
01:04:35,271 --> 01:04:38,217
and some of those things
can make people feel unsafe,
1304
01:04:38,241 --> 01:04:41,939
like bullying, hate speech,
or violence.
1305
01:04:41,978 --> 01:04:44,190
That's why we have
global community standards
1306
01:04:44,214 --> 01:04:47,980
to decide what
and who should be removed.
1307
01:04:48,017 --> 01:04:50,452
I can't say nothing,
nothing I
1308
01:04:50,487 --> 01:04:52,264
Shut up, shut up,
don't want to open my mouth
1309
01:04:52,288 --> 01:04:54,166
[ can't say nothing,
nothing &
1310
01:04:54,190 --> 01:04:56,569
Shut up, shut up,
don't want to open my mouth
1311
01:04:56,593 --> 01:05:00,257
Can you define hate speech?
1312
01:05:00,296 --> 01:05:03,994
Senator, I think that this is
a really hard question,
1313
01:05:04,033 --> 01:05:05,177
and I think it's one
of the reasons
1314
01:05:05,201 --> 01:05:06,345
why we struggle with it.
1315
01:05:06,369 --> 01:05:08,280
I'm worried about
the psychological categories
1316
01:05:08,304 --> 01:05:09,465
around speech.
1317
01:05:09,506 --> 01:05:12,351
You used language of safety
and protection earlier.
1318
01:05:12,375 --> 01:05:13,986
We see this happening
on college campuses
1319
01:05:14,010 --> 01:05:15,354
all across the country.
1320
01:05:15,378 --> 01:05:16,607
It's dangerous.
1321
01:05:16,646 --> 01:05:20,173
40% of Americans
under age 35 tell pollsters
1322
01:05:20,216 --> 01:05:22,228
they think the First Amendment
is dangerous
1323
01:05:22,252 --> 01:05:23,529
because you might
use your freedom
1324
01:05:23,553 --> 01:05:25,564
to say something that hurts
somebody else's feelings.
1325
01:05:25,588 --> 01:05:29,218
We have a problem,
in that our public dialogue
1326
01:05:29,259 --> 01:05:33,025
is passing
through private servers
1327
01:05:33,062 --> 01:05:34,540
where no protections exist.
1328
01:05:34,564 --> 01:05:40,003
In other words, if you are not
able to access the Internet
1329
01:05:40,036 --> 01:05:41,280
in the same way
as someone else
1330
01:05:41,304 --> 01:05:43,115
because the content
of what you are saying
1331
01:05:43,139 --> 01:05:45,938
has been deemed unacceptable,
1332
01:05:45,975 --> 01:05:50,105
then that shapes
the conversation
1333
01:05:50,146 --> 01:05:52,191
that we are having
with each other.
1334
01:05:52,215 --> 01:05:56,015
PragerU had a billion views
last year.
1335
01:05:56,052 --> 01:05:59,249
This impact has
apparently disturbed
1336
01:05:59,289 --> 01:06:01,383
some of the folks at YouTube,
1337
01:06:01,424 --> 01:06:03,324
which is owned by Google.
1338
01:06:03,359 --> 01:06:08,195
Believe it or not, over 100
Prager University videos
1339
01:06:08,231 --> 01:06:10,063
are on the restricted list,
1340
01:06:10,099 --> 01:06:12,295
meaning that, in effect,
1341
01:06:12,335 --> 01:06:15,214
they are lumped with violence
and pornography
1342
01:06:15,238 --> 01:06:19,038
as unwatchable by children,
libraries, and schools.
1343
01:06:19,075 --> 01:06:21,066
So, for example, Churchill,
1344
01:06:21,110 --> 01:06:23,602
the man who saved
the free world-
1345
01:06:23,646 --> 01:06:25,658
Oh, my God,
everybody understands
1346
01:06:25,682 --> 01:06:27,560
why that'll be
on the restricted list.
1347
01:06:27,584 --> 01:06:30,610
The Iran nuclear deal.
Are you kidding?
1348
01:06:30,653 --> 01:06:33,122
That's the modern
"Debbie Does Dallas.
1349
01:06:33,156 --> 01:06:36,292
It shows you how convoluted
their moral compass is
1350
01:06:36,326 --> 01:06:38,294
that this would disturb them.
1351
01:06:38,328 --> 01:06:40,706
Among those that are
censored include a video
1352
01:06:40,730 --> 01:06:42,174
on the Ten Commandments.
1353
01:06:42,198 --> 01:06:43,976
The restrictions
are purportedly
1354
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:46,492
for blocking things like
pornography,
1355
01:06:46,536 --> 01:06:49,233
but apparently,
in YouTube's world,
1356
01:06:49,272 --> 01:06:50,716
talking about
the Ten Commandments
1357
01:06:50,740 --> 01:06:53,368
is comparable
and should be blocked.
1358
01:06:53,409 --> 01:06:54,753
I believe
the Ten Commandments video,
1359
01:06:54,777 --> 01:06:57,256
for instance,
contains references to murder
1360
01:06:57,280 --> 01:07:00,159
and, I believe, potentially,
Nazism or World War I,
1361
01:07:00,183 --> 01:07:03,395
something along those lines,
but they're not censored.
1362
01:07:03,419 --> 01:07:07,117
They're available to everybody
who's using normal YouTube.
1363
01:07:07,156 --> 01:07:10,251
They are not available
to the small subset
1364
01:07:10,293 --> 01:07:13,661
who have chosen
to activate restricted mode.
1365
01:07:13,696 --> 01:07:16,722
So I was thinking I have
a solution that will,
1366
01:07:16,766 --> 01:07:18,344
I think, appeal to Google.
1367
01:07:18,368 --> 01:07:22,396
I will re-release it
as the nine commandments.
1368
01:07:22,438 --> 01:07:25,703
That should solve the problem
of including murder
1369
01:07:25,742 --> 01:07:28,409
in my discussion
of the Ten Commandments.
1370
01:07:30,647 --> 01:07:33,292
I always say when you see
someone attacking a subject
1371
01:07:33,316 --> 01:07:36,662
by attacking a personality
rather than debating the idea,
1372
01:07:36,686 --> 01:07:39,348
that's often a sign
of a smear campaign.
1373
01:07:41,424 --> 01:07:43,502
I'm very much
into classical music.
1374
01:07:43,526 --> 01:07:46,223
I periodically conduct,
and I've been-
1375
01:07:46,262 --> 01:07:49,462
it's been a passion of mine
since I was a teenager.
1376
01:07:55,371 --> 01:07:58,306
If 1 sell out
the Disney Concert Hall,
1377
01:07:58,341 --> 01:08:00,537
it'll be the first time
1378
01:08:00,577 --> 01:08:02,221
that a regional orchestra
1379
01:08:02,245 --> 01:08:04,323
has ever sold out
the Disney Concert Hall.
1380
01:08:04,347 --> 01:08:06,725
Every penny is going
to the orchestra.
1381
01:08:06,749 --> 01:08:09,416
I am not getting a nickel
for doing this.
1382
01:08:13,556 --> 01:08:17,254
There are players in
the orchestra who won't come,
1383
01:08:17,293 --> 01:08:20,092
who urge their other players
not to go.
1384
01:08:20,129 --> 01:08:21,807
"We're not gonna play
for a conservative."
1385
01:08:21,831 --> 01:08:24,198
Welcome to
The Dennis Prager Show."
1386
01:08:24,233 --> 01:08:27,635
My guest is
Professor Andrew Apter,
1387
01:08:27,670 --> 01:08:30,416
professor of history
and anthropology at UCLA,
1388
01:08:30,440 --> 01:08:32,084
also a violinist and a member
1389
01:08:32,108 --> 01:08:34,353
of the Santa Monica
Symphony Orchestra,
1390
01:08:34,377 --> 01:08:36,422
which I am conducting
next Wednesday night
1391
01:08:36,446 --> 01:08:39,780
at Walt Disney Hall
in Los Angeles.
1392
01:08:39,816 --> 01:08:43,343
He and a couple of other
members of the orchestra
1393
01:08:43,386 --> 01:08:44,797
have asked people
not to attend
1394
01:08:44,821 --> 01:08:48,348
and fellow members
not to play for me
1395
01:08:48,391 --> 01:08:50,135
'cause I'm a hateful bigot.
1396
01:08:50,159 --> 01:08:53,527
When you write in your first
open letter I have here,
1397
01:08:53,563 --> 01:08:56,809
"Please urge your friends
not to attend the concert,
1398
01:08:56,833 --> 01:08:58,577
and then you're telling
my audience
1399
01:08:58,601 --> 01:09:01,680
that you in no way have worked
to stop the concert.
1400
01:09:01,704 --> 01:09:05,572
Protesting outside
doesn't stop the concert.
1401
01:09:05,608 --> 01:09:08,487
Telling people not to go to
the concert stops the concert.
1402
01:09:08,511 --> 01:09:10,122
No, you could still play
1403
01:09:10,146 --> 01:09:11,690
with an empty hall
if you want to.
1404
01:09:11,714 --> 01:09:13,546
Okay, well, all right.
1405
01:09:13,583 --> 01:09:15,561
And we know there's plenty
of people who are gonna go,
1406
01:09:15,585 --> 01:09:16,795
so that's really
not the issue.
1407
01:09:16,819 --> 01:09:18,685
[It is the issue.
1408
01:09:18,721 --> 01:09:20,399
It's really mind-blowing.
1409
01:09:20,423 --> 01:09:23,636
They're not going to attend the
concert of their own orchestra
1410
01:09:23,660 --> 01:09:25,771
to raise funds
for their orchestra.
1411
01:09:25,795 --> 01:09:28,196
It could be a beautiful story,
1412
01:09:28,231 --> 01:09:32,190
music transcends political
and social differences,
1413
01:09:32,235 --> 01:09:35,330
but they call us haters.
1414
01:09:35,371 --> 01:09:38,104
That's the irony.
That's really the irony.
1415
01:09:48,518 --> 01:09:49,795
No, we're not.
When I was growing up,
1416
01:09:49,819 --> 01:09:51,864
and I lived in a tiny
little room with my sisters
1417
01:09:51,888 --> 01:09:54,099
and the exterminator would come
and take care of the roaches,
1418
01:09:54,123 --> 01:09:56,202
when I was growing up, I didn't
get handed a packet that said,
1419
01:09:56,226 --> 01:09:58,237
"Here's your excuse in life.
You don't have to do anything.
1420
01:09:58,261 --> 01:09:59,672
It's 'cause you're a victim,"
okay?
1421
01:09:59,696 --> 01:10:01,240
I learned that I had
to work hard.
1422
01:10:01,264 --> 01:10:03,175
I had to stay in school,
and I had to study.
1423
01:10:03,199 --> 01:10:04,643
I don't need to learn
about white privilege.
1424
01:10:04,667 --> 01:10:06,011
White privilege is not
serving anybody.
1425
01:10:06,035 --> 01:10:07,513
This whole idea of the fact-
1426
01:10:07,537 --> 01:10:09,615
teaching little kids
that their skin color
1427
01:10:09,639 --> 01:10:10,649
makes them less fortunate
1428
01:10:10,673 --> 01:10:11,917
is not helping black kids
get ahead.
1429
01:10:11,941 --> 01:10:15,673
There seems to be
an ideological war happening,
1430
01:10:15,712 --> 01:10:18,238
and the left has
built their brand
1431
01:10:18,281 --> 01:10:20,750
off of the idea
that I am a victim.
1432
01:10:20,783 --> 01:10:22,928
The same people
who are covering everything
1433
01:10:22,952 --> 01:10:24,886
with bubble wrap
1434
01:10:24,921 --> 01:10:27,356
are also telling these people,
1435
01:10:27,390 --> 01:10:29,668
"You have a target on your back
because you're female.
1436
01:10:29,692 --> 01:10:32,404
"You have a target on your back
because you're black or Hispanic
1437
01:10:32,428 --> 01:10:33,572
or whatever you are,"
1438
01:10:33,596 --> 01:10:36,258
and thus, making all the people
1439
01:10:36,299 --> 01:10:39,234
they're trying to protect
miserable
1440
01:10:39,268 --> 01:10:41,780
because of the target
they falsely placed
1441
01:10:41,804 --> 01:10:43,363
on everyone's back.
1442
01:10:43,406 --> 01:10:45,651
If you're a victim surrounded
by predators,
1443
01:10:45,675 --> 01:10:47,753
by evil predators, man,
you're frozen.
1444
01:10:47,777 --> 01:10:48,954
I mean, if you think
of an animal
1445
01:10:48,978 --> 01:10:50,489
in a situation like that,
1446
01:10:50,513 --> 01:10:51,957
the animal's frozen in terror.
1447
01:10:51,981 --> 01:10:53,881
One idea is that, well,
1448
01:10:53,916 --> 01:10:55,928
you protect people
by protecting them.
1449
01:10:55,952 --> 01:10:59,547
The other is you embolden them
by encouraging them,
1450
01:10:59,589 --> 01:11:01,300
and that's a whole
different thing,
1451
01:11:01,324 --> 01:11:02,401
and it's the right thing,
right?
1452
01:11:02,425 --> 01:11:04,558
Because you can't
protect people.
1453
01:11:04,594 --> 01:11:07,539
Life's a fatal disease, right?
That's the old joke.
1454
01:11:07,563 --> 01:11:12,296
It's a sexually transmissible
disease that's 100% fatal.
1455
01:11:12,335 --> 01:11:14,513
You're not gonna protect people
from that,
1456
01:11:14,537 --> 01:11:16,815
and so the best you can do
is to make them strong.
1457
01:11:16,839 --> 01:11:18,884
Evel Knievel
is not hesitating.
1458
01:11:18,908 --> 01:11:20,376
Here we go.
1459
01:11:24,547 --> 01:11:29,610
I rode a bike everywhere,
never with a helmet.
1460
01:11:29,652 --> 01:11:33,418
The thing I found interesting
about not wearing a helmet
1461
01:11:33,456 --> 01:11:34,833
and crashing all the time-
1462
01:11:34,857 --> 01:11:36,535
Because I rode BMX bikes.
1463
01:11:36,559 --> 01:11:39,529
I was jumping
and doing wheelies.
1464
01:11:39,562 --> 01:11:41,326
I never hit my head once,
1465
01:11:41,364 --> 01:11:42,708
but because I didn't
have protection,
1466
01:11:42,732 --> 01:11:45,997
it was all elbows and knees
and rolling,
1467
01:11:46,035 --> 01:11:49,369
and I actually learned
how to fall.
1468
01:11:51,507 --> 01:11:54,477
The goal is not to put
yourself in danger,
1469
01:11:54,510 --> 01:11:59,448
but the goal is to get more
of a sense both of who you are
1470
01:11:59,482 --> 01:12:01,794
and of what the world
can look like.
1471
01:12:01,818 --> 01:12:04,344
I say never deny the pain.
1472
01:12:04,387 --> 01:12:06,298
Just don't let the pain
have the last word.
1473
01:12:06,322 --> 01:12:10,350
I would rather my kids
have spina bifida
1474
01:12:10,393 --> 01:12:12,919
than think of themselves
as victims.
1475
01:12:12,962 --> 01:12:17,559
I can't think of anything
more debilitating
1476
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:20,092
than thinking yourself
a victim.
1477
01:12:20,336 --> 01:12:24,739
I do an hour on happiness
every week on my radio show,
1478
01:12:24,774 --> 01:12:28,802
and I learned something from
listeners that startled me,
1479
01:12:28,845 --> 01:12:30,677
and that is I am convinced
1480
01:12:30,713 --> 01:12:33,683
that a certain percentage
of unhappy people
1481
01:12:33,716 --> 01:12:35,878
are addicted to being unhappy.
1482
01:12:35,918 --> 01:12:37,462
- Absolutely.
- I never knew that.
1483
01:12:37,486 --> 01:12:39,698
I thought everyone
wants to be happy.
1484
01:12:39,722 --> 01:12:41,900
Well, think about how
empowering it is
1485
01:12:41,924 --> 01:12:43,858
to say your problems
1486
01:12:43,893 --> 01:12:45,838
are not because of you,
you know what I mean?
1487
01:12:45,862 --> 01:12:47,773
You can't get a date, but it
has nothing to do with you.
1488
01:12:47,797 --> 01:12:49,408
The system's against you.
1489
01:12:49,432 --> 01:12:50,642
The system is stacked
against you,
1490
01:12:50,666 --> 01:12:52,377
and there isn't a bloody thing
you can do about it,
1491
01:12:52,401 --> 01:12:54,079
so why bother trying?
1492
01:12:54,103 --> 01:12:56,982
Of all the things to tell
anyone ever about anything,
1493
01:12:57,006 --> 01:12:58,350
that's got to be bottom
of the list
1494
01:12:58,374 --> 01:12:59,852
unless you really
don't like them.
1495
01:12:59,876 --> 01:13:04,370
Here's what our job is
as parents, as educators,
1496
01:13:04,413 --> 01:13:08,407
as politicians,
as cops and lifeguards.
1497
01:13:08,451 --> 01:13:11,910
Our job is to convince
younger people
1498
01:13:11,954 --> 01:13:14,480
they're not victims.
1499
01:13:14,523 --> 01:13:18,790
Our job is to say to a kid who
is confined to a wheelchair,
1500
01:13:18,828 --> 01:13:20,057
"Don't worry.
1501
01:13:20,096 --> 01:13:22,674
You're just gonna outwork
everybody else.
1502
01:13:22,698 --> 01:13:24,676
You're gonna out-hustle
everybody else,
1503
01:13:24,700 --> 01:13:28,432
and you will see that this thing
is not gonna hold you back
1504
01:13:28,471 --> 01:13:31,004
because you have the heart
of a tiger."
1505
01:13:32,708 --> 01:13:37,805
What we're doing how is
we're taking able-bodied kids
1506
01:13:37,847 --> 01:13:41,579
and convincing them they need
to use the handicap ramp.
1507
01:13:47,490 --> 01:13:49,835
I went to
Clark Atlanta University,
1508
01:13:49,859 --> 01:13:52,137
which is a black college
in Atlanta,
1509
01:13:52,161 --> 01:13:55,825
and I really wanted to have
just open and free dialogue
1510
01:13:55,865 --> 01:13:58,043
with as many of the students
as possible.
1511
01:13:58,067 --> 01:14:00,145
I got a great motto
on my radio show-
1512
01:14:00,169 --> 01:14:02,147
"I prefer clarity
to agreement."
1513
01:14:02,171 --> 01:14:04,149
We may not agree,
but at least it's important
1514
01:14:04,173 --> 01:14:05,951
that we be clear
where we differ.
1515
01:14:05,975 --> 01:14:07,986
The general belief
in American history
1516
01:14:08,010 --> 01:14:11,036
has been free speech
includes all speech,
1517
01:14:11,080 --> 01:14:12,557
including hate speech.
1518
01:14:12,581 --> 01:14:15,050
Do you think that
should be changed?
1519
01:14:15,084 --> 01:14:16,962
That's hard. That's hard
to say because you're really
1520
01:14:16,986 --> 01:14:18,763
telling a person that they
can't say what they think.
1521
01:14:18,787 --> 01:14:19,831
- Right.
- Right.
1522
01:14:19,855 --> 01:14:21,566
It's hard to say,
but words are powerful,
1523
01:14:21,590 --> 01:14:22,768
so people know what
they're saying
1524
01:14:22,792 --> 01:14:24,002
will invoke some type
of emotion.
1525
01:14:24,026 --> 01:14:25,103
Some type of feeling.
1526
01:14:25,127 --> 01:14:26,738
Right. Should they be
allowed to say it?
1527
01:14:26,762 --> 01:14:28,006
That's all I'm asking.
1528
01:14:28,030 --> 01:14:29,875
I'm talking a legal question,
not a moral question.
1529
01:14:29,899 --> 01:14:31,810
I can't legally say
that a person
1530
01:14:31,834 --> 01:14:33,779
shouldn't be allowed
to speak their mind.
1531
01:14:33,803 --> 01:14:36,864
According to polls,
50% of Americans your age
1532
01:14:36,906 --> 01:14:39,918
thinks that there shouldn't be
free speech for hate speech.
1533
01:14:39,942 --> 01:14:42,621
You don't agree with that?
- I do not agree with that.
1534
01:14:42,645 --> 01:14:44,790
I think if you take away
hate speech, you're hiding it.
1535
01:14:44,814 --> 01:14:47,626
- Right. That's worse.
- So it become worse.
1536
01:14:47,650 --> 01:14:49,594
Mm-hmm.
That's an interesting point.
1537
01:14:49,618 --> 01:14:54,522
Let me ask you this,
"cause it's generally said...
1538
01:14:54,557 --> 01:14:58,653
that a lot of
African-Americans think
1539
01:14:58,694 --> 01:15:02,722
that this country is
essentially racist.
1540
01:15:02,765 --> 01:15:04,943
Do you agree with-
do you think this country's
1541
01:15:04,967 --> 01:15:07,095
essentially racist?
1542
01:15:07,136 --> 01:15:10,048
I wouldn't say the average
white is naturally a racist.
1543
01:15:10,072 --> 01:15:12,050
I say it's been embedded
with on-
1544
01:15:12,074 --> 01:15:14,407
which this nation
has been built on.
1545
01:15:14,510 --> 01:15:16,922
So, if you think
of generation to generation,
1546
01:15:16,946 --> 01:15:19,124
think of your ancestors
and my ancestors,
1547
01:15:19,148 --> 01:15:22,027
the different, you know,
grounds which we come from,
1548
01:15:22,051 --> 01:15:23,762
you know, ever since
my ancestors
1549
01:15:23,786 --> 01:15:25,797
were brought here to America,
they were slaves.
1550
01:15:25,821 --> 01:15:28,222
Your ancestors were
slave owners.
1551
01:15:28,257 --> 01:15:31,625
So fast-forward generations,
1552
01:15:31,660 --> 01:15:33,672
then that privilege,
the white privilege
1553
01:15:33,696 --> 01:15:35,926
and that oppression
that has been,
1554
01:15:35,965 --> 01:15:38,577
you know, given within
my families, it's still there.
1555
01:15:38,601 --> 01:15:40,045
So I wouldn't say
it's intentional racism,
1556
01:15:40,069 --> 01:15:41,813
but it's more so
systematic racism,
1557
01:15:41,837 --> 01:15:44,549
a racism that has been
developed through generations.
1558
01:15:44,573 --> 01:15:46,785
Okay, just to correct
the record,
1559
01:15:46,809 --> 01:15:48,720
a vast number of whites
in America,
1560
01:15:48,744 --> 01:15:51,089
their ancestors
were not slave owners.
1561
01:15:51,113 --> 01:15:53,959
A, they were either Northerners
or they came here later.
1562
01:15:53,983 --> 01:15:58,887
I mean, you know, my ancestors
in 1863 were in Poland,
1563
01:15:58,921 --> 01:16:01,583
and they were not doing
very well.
1564
01:16:01,624 --> 01:16:03,702
They were Jewish, so...
- Got ya, got ya.
1565
01:16:03,726 --> 01:16:05,604
But anyway,
just for the record.
1566
01:16:05,628 --> 01:16:08,962
Your interactions
with non-blacks,
1567
01:16:08,998 --> 01:16:13,196
are they largely positive or
negative on a day-to-day basis?
1568
01:16:13,235 --> 01:16:14,980
The interactions
you will have day-to-day,
1569
01:16:15,004 --> 01:16:17,701
they won't be racist,
but, you know,
1570
01:16:17,740 --> 01:16:19,684
when there's opportunities,
you know,
1571
01:16:19,708 --> 01:16:21,820
you may hot be
the first thought.
1572
01:16:21,844 --> 01:16:23,755
You may not be the first one
to be called.
1573
01:16:23,779 --> 01:16:26,291
There's a lot of things
that go into why...
1574
01:16:26,315 --> 01:16:28,226
things, you know,
are the way they are.
1575
01:16:28,250 --> 01:16:31,743
At some point down the road-
I don't know when-
1576
01:16:31,787 --> 01:16:34,933
but at some point, we as blacks
are going to realize
1577
01:16:34,957 --> 01:16:38,723
the degree to which we identify
1578
01:16:38,761 --> 01:16:43,597
our aspiration
in victimization...
1579
01:16:43,632 --> 01:16:46,829
the degree to which
we rely on it...
1580
01:16:46,869 --> 01:16:50,931
not just as an excuse
but as a self-definition.
1581
01:16:50,973 --> 01:16:55,604
"Well, I don't know
what I want to do with my life,
1582
01:16:55,644 --> 01:16:58,773
but I think there's
some racism out there."
1583
01:16:58,814 --> 01:17:02,148
Well, there very likely
is some racism out there.
1584
01:17:02,184 --> 01:17:04,016
So what?
1585
01:17:04,053 --> 01:17:07,751
Until black America
gets to the "so what" place,
1586
01:17:07,790 --> 01:17:09,668
we're gonna fall farther
and farther behind.
1587
01:17:09,692 --> 01:17:12,627
You don't sit still in life,
I've discovered.
1588
01:17:12,661 --> 01:17:14,139
You go up, or you go down.
1589
01:17:14,163 --> 01:17:15,473
But the thing is,
it's another thing
1590
01:17:15,497 --> 01:17:17,129
to actually be in the shoes
1591
01:17:17,166 --> 01:17:18,343
of those who are
being oppressed.
1592
01:17:18,367 --> 01:17:20,812
I don't think anyone
in America's oppressed.
1593
01:17:20,836 --> 01:17:23,648
You do, obviously,
and that's a very big divide.
1594
01:17:23,672 --> 01:17:24,916
After hundreds of years
of slavery-
1595
01:17:24,940 --> 01:17:26,151
After hundreds of years
of slavery.
1596
01:17:26,175 --> 01:17:27,519
You don't think we've
been oppressed?
1597
01:17:27,543 --> 01:17:28,953
No, no, no, you didn't say
"have been."
1598
01:17:28,977 --> 01:17:29,977
You said "are."
1599
01:17:30,012 --> 01:17:31,289
You think blacks
were once oppressed?
1600
01:17:31,313 --> 01:17:32,657
Oh, of course.
It's a given.
1601
01:17:32,681 --> 01:17:34,693
So how do you not think
that it's generational?
1602
01:17:34,717 --> 01:17:37,796
How do you not think that we're
still trying to consciously,
1603
01:17:37,820 --> 01:17:39,364
socially still recover
from that?
1604
01:17:39,388 --> 01:17:40,932
It takes a long time.
1605
01:17:40,956 --> 01:17:42,901
After telling us
that we're not humans-
1606
01:17:42,925 --> 01:17:46,338
Okay, so the oppression
is not happening from outside.
1607
01:17:46,362 --> 01:17:47,939
It's a residue of the inside.
1608
01:17:47,963 --> 01:17:49,674
Of course, of course,
because of what's happened
1609
01:17:49,698 --> 01:17:50,923
on the outside.
1610
01:17:50,966 --> 01:17:52,610
But the thing is, it's still
being placed outside.
1611
01:17:52,634 --> 01:17:53,979
So no matter how whites act,
1612
01:17:54,003 --> 01:17:56,381
no matter how kind they
might be, it's irrelevant
1613
01:17:56,405 --> 01:17:57,816
because you're still oppressed
1614
01:17:57,840 --> 01:18:00,810
because of slavery
from the 19th century.
1615
01:18:00,843 --> 01:18:02,120
You just answered
your own question.
1616
01:18:02,144 --> 01:18:04,022
You may not be physically
getting beat, but mentally-
1617
01:18:04,046 --> 01:18:05,190
You answered
your own question.
1618
01:18:05,214 --> 01:18:06,214
All right. So, right, well-
1619
01:18:06,215 --> 01:18:07,292
You answered your own
question.
1620
01:18:07,316 --> 01:18:09,910
How many generations
would it take
1621
01:18:09,952 --> 01:18:11,229
for that to end?
1622
01:18:11,253 --> 01:18:12,931
That's a trick question.
1623
01:18:12,955 --> 01:18:14,699
No, no, it's not a trick.
Maybe there's no answer.
1624
01:18:14,723 --> 01:18:16,434
Maybe we don't know the answer.
- Exactly. Exactly.
1625
01:18:16,458 --> 01:18:17,802
Okay, fine. It certainly
wasn't meant
1626
01:18:17,826 --> 01:18:19,155
as a trick question.
1627
01:18:19,195 --> 01:18:21,740
I can't argue with what any
given individual feels inside.
1628
01:18:21,764 --> 01:18:23,341
Naturally, 'cause you
don't walk in our shoes.
1629
01:18:23,365 --> 01:18:25,710
Right, but you're not
walking in white shoes,
1630
01:18:25,734 --> 01:18:27,930
but you're ascribing
to whites-
1631
01:18:27,970 --> 01:18:30,940
Exactly,
'cause we're the oppressed.
1632
01:18:30,973 --> 01:18:33,685
So I don't have to walk
in your shoes to tell myself
1633
01:18:33,709 --> 01:18:35,187
that I've been oppressed
by you.
1634
01:18:35,211 --> 01:18:36,988
In America,
you were brutalized.
1635
01:18:37,012 --> 01:18:39,845
From birth on,
you were whipped, lashed.
1636
01:18:39,882 --> 01:18:42,260
Your children was taken
from you and sold away.
1637
01:18:42,284 --> 01:18:47,814
Your wives were used
at the will of the overseer.
1638
01:18:47,856 --> 01:18:50,257
I mean,
it just was dehumanizing
1639
01:18:50,292 --> 01:18:51,970
in every conceivable way,
1640
01:18:51,994 --> 01:18:53,985
and for centuries.
1641
01:18:54,029 --> 01:18:56,862
So you got a beef.
1642
01:18:56,899 --> 01:19:00,767
How long are you gonna
ride that beef?
1643
01:19:00,803 --> 01:19:03,431
How long do you think
it's gonna take?
1644
01:19:03,472 --> 01:19:08,501
'Cause the only person
who can break that bond is you.
1645
01:19:08,744 --> 01:19:12,180
Inside yourself, say, "Well,
just because white people
1646
01:19:12,214 --> 01:19:17,448
were once racist does not mean
I'm gonna sell out my life...
1647
01:19:17,486 --> 01:19:20,012
I'm gonna ask less of myself
1648
01:19:20,055 --> 01:19:23,457
and claim that I'm being held
back by victimization."
1649
01:19:24,827 --> 01:19:29,025
And that's what is so
startling to me-
1650
01:19:29,064 --> 01:19:33,023
the way that you see now
of inventing,
1651
01:19:33,068 --> 01:19:39,007
reinventing, as I say,
the oppression in your mind,
1652
01:19:39,041 --> 01:19:42,120
the same oppression that is
fading out of the world.
1653
01:19:42,144 --> 01:19:47,207
As it fades, you cling
and reinvent it, rebuild it,
1654
01:19:47,249 --> 01:19:52,244
and so you now become the
racist overseer of yourself.
1655
01:20:05,167 --> 01:20:06,911
Whether it's victimization,
1656
01:20:06,935 --> 01:20:10,030
cultural appropriation,
social justice,
1657
01:20:10,072 --> 01:20:12,803
or even trigger warnings
and safe spaces,
1658
01:20:12,841 --> 01:20:15,469
it's all about
identity politics,
1659
01:20:15,511 --> 01:20:18,503
which is the exact opposite
of common sense.
1660
01:20:18,547 --> 01:20:20,125
This country was founded on
1661
01:20:20,149 --> 01:20:21,993
we don't give a hoot
where you're from.
1662
01:20:22,017 --> 01:20:23,495
I know that there were
racists in the past.
1663
01:20:23,519 --> 01:20:26,865
I'm not talking about Americans
as flawed individuals.
1664
01:20:26,889 --> 01:20:29,334
I'm talking about the values
of the society
1665
01:20:29,358 --> 01:20:32,293
were e pluribus unum,
from many, one,
1666
01:20:32,328 --> 01:20:35,373
and now the other identities
are all that matter.
1667
01:20:35,397 --> 01:20:39,231
It's astonishing how dividing
of people this is,
1668
01:20:39,268 --> 01:20:41,168
and that's called wonderful.
1669
01:20:41,203 --> 01:20:42,881
That's called progressive.
1670
01:20:42,905 --> 01:20:46,603
Not belonging to a group,
to me, is my privilege.
1671
01:20:46,842 --> 01:20:50,073
Not having to walk in lockstep
with this group
1672
01:20:50,112 --> 01:20:52,604
or that group
or conform to whatever
1673
01:20:52,848 --> 01:20:55,493
whoever the leaders
of that group are espousing,
1674
01:20:55,517 --> 01:20:59,385
that is my real privilege,
to just be an individual.
1675
01:20:59,421 --> 01:21:02,000
The idea of the divine
individual, that is the West.
1676
01:21:02,024 --> 01:21:04,202
If we subsume that
under group identity,
1677
01:21:04,226 --> 01:21:07,025
then we will perish painfully,
1678
01:21:07,062 --> 01:21:09,107
and God only knows what'll go
along with us,
1679
01:21:09,131 --> 01:21:10,408
maybe everything.
1680
01:21:10,432 --> 01:21:12,010
I mean, look what happened
in the 20th century
1681
01:21:12,034 --> 01:21:13,912
when people put
group identity first.
1682
01:21:13,936 --> 01:21:16,147
I mean, how much
bloody evidence do you need?
1683
01:21:16,171 --> 01:21:17,482
The Communists did it
for good reasons,
1684
01:21:17,506 --> 01:21:20,034
and the Nazis did it
for bad reasons.
1685
01:21:20,075 --> 01:21:23,723
Tens of millions of people
died horribly as a consequence.
1686
01:21:23,879 --> 01:21:27,975
Is the individual sacrosanct,
or is the group?
1687
01:21:28,016 --> 01:21:31,024
Do we have freedom to speak
what we want to say?
1688
01:21:33,455 --> 01:21:37,915
58% of Americans
hold opinions
1689
01:21:37,960 --> 01:21:41,191
that they don't feel
comfortable sharing publicly.
1690
01:21:41,230 --> 01:21:42,561
- Oh.
- Wow.
1691
01:21:42,598 --> 01:21:46,044
Man, oh, man. So I don't
believe that this new tyranny,
1692
01:21:46,068 --> 01:21:48,901
this new politically
correct tyranny
1693
01:21:48,937 --> 01:21:50,949
is changing anybody's behavior.
1694
01:21:50,973 --> 01:21:52,317
- No.
- And it sure as hell isn't
1695
01:21:52,341 --> 01:21:53,618
bringing anybody together,
1696
01:21:53,642 --> 01:21:57,088
but it's creating an atmosphere
of fear and repression,
1697
01:21:57,112 --> 01:21:59,324
and you know what happens
when that happens.
1698
01:21:59,348 --> 01:22:00,628
It's gonna bust.
1699
01:22:03,185 --> 01:22:05,230
The University of California
at Berkeley
1700
01:22:05,254 --> 01:22:08,155
is said to be bracing-
that's the quote-
1701
01:22:08,190 --> 01:22:09,901
bracing for
conservative speaker
1702
01:22:09,925 --> 01:22:11,336
Ben Shapiro's
upcoming appearance
1703
01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:12,604
at their campus.
1704
01:22:12,628 --> 01:22:15,689
Many are comparing
to hurricane preparations.
1705
01:22:15,931 --> 01:22:18,643
The barriers are up.
Officers are out in force.
1706
01:22:18,667 --> 01:22:21,466
Taking extraordinary
security measures
1707
01:22:21,503 --> 01:22:24,473
costing around $600,000.
1708
01:22:30,446 --> 01:22:33,472
A large swathe of the campus
will be closed off,
1709
01:22:33,515 --> 01:22:36,995
including the plaza where
the Free Speech Movement began
1710
01:22:37,019 --> 01:22:38,180
in the 1960s.
1711
01:22:38,220 --> 01:22:40,665
If Ben Shapiro is not
allowed to speak,
1712
01:22:40,689 --> 01:22:44,648
the First Amendment will have
lost a tremendous battle today,
1713
01:22:44,693 --> 01:22:48,493
a very important event
in the history of our rights.
1714
01:22:48,530 --> 01:22:51,500
The Constitution
is absolutely clear that,
1715
01:22:51,533 --> 01:22:54,195
particularly
as a public institution,
1716
01:22:54,236 --> 01:22:57,729
we cannot and will not
discriminate against speakers
1717
01:22:57,973 --> 01:22:59,317
because of their perspectives
1718
01:22:59,341 --> 01:23:02,086
or because of the beliefs
of those who wish to host it.
1719
01:23:02,110 --> 01:23:04,155
There's no free speech
for fascists.
1720
01:23:04,179 --> 01:23:06,079
Their words are violent,
1721
01:23:06,114 --> 01:23:10,018
and for every action, there is
an equal and opposite reaction.
1722
01:23:19,428 --> 01:23:23,387
Administration rolls out
the red carpet for fascists
1723
01:23:23,432 --> 01:23:26,888
to come and spout their
white supremacy and xenophobia.
1724
01:23:52,094 --> 01:23:55,573
And to the dismay of the
People's Republic of Berkeley,
1725
01:23:55,597 --> 01:23:56,741
you get to see him live.
1726
01:23:56,765 --> 01:23:59,564
Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. Ben Shapiro!
1727
01:24:11,246 --> 01:24:12,790
He came. He gave his talk,
very conservative.
1728
01:24:12,814 --> 01:24:14,492
I thought it was a great talk.
1729
01:24:14,516 --> 01:24:16,728
I didn't agree with a single
thing he said, but who cares?
1730
01:24:16,752 --> 01:24:18,696
It was a great,
interesting talk.
1731
01:24:18,720 --> 01:24:21,466
The reason that I am here
is because fascism
1732
01:24:21,490 --> 01:24:23,390
does not own this university
1733
01:24:23,425 --> 01:24:26,604
because there are students who
do want to hear differing views,
1734
01:24:26,628 --> 01:24:30,340
who don't want to be told that
they can only hear one view,
1735
01:24:30,365 --> 01:24:33,177
who don't believe that
the First Amendment should die
1736
01:24:33,201 --> 01:24:35,179
under the jackboots
and Birkenstocks
1737
01:24:35,203 --> 01:24:38,216
of a bunch of anarchist,
communist pieces of garbage.
1738
01:24:41,610 --> 01:24:44,422
He gives his talk, and he
says afterwards when he's done,
1739
01:24:44,446 --> 01:24:45,790
"Everybody who has questions,
1740
01:24:45,814 --> 01:24:48,760
line up at the microphones on
either side of the auditorium."
1741
01:24:48,784 --> 01:24:50,395
Well, we're gonna do a Q&A
after this,
1742
01:24:50,419 --> 01:24:52,096
and I love taking questions,
my favorite thing,
1743
01:24:52,120 --> 01:24:53,831
and I have a rule, which is
if you disagree with me,
1744
01:24:53,855 --> 01:24:55,767
you raise your hand, and you
go to the front of the line
1745
01:24:55,791 --> 01:24:58,526
because discussion
makes the country better.
1746
01:24:58,560 --> 01:25:00,605
Half the hands go. "Good,
come to the front of the line."
1747
01:25:00,629 --> 01:25:03,496
I'm like, "Ah, my man."
1748
01:25:03,532 --> 01:25:04,795
Guy gets it.
1749
01:25:04,833 --> 01:25:07,145
That's what university's
supposed to be all about.
1750
01:25:07,169 --> 01:25:09,647
And finally,
America is the greatest country
1751
01:25:09,671 --> 01:25:10,671
in human history.
1752
01:25:10,672 --> 01:25:12,350
You are not a victim.
1753
01:25:12,374 --> 01:25:13,551
If you are a victim
of something,
1754
01:25:13,575 --> 01:25:15,086
you need to show me
what you are a victim of,
1755
01:25:15,110 --> 01:25:16,387
and I will stand beside you,
1756
01:25:16,411 --> 01:25:18,623
but do not blame the freest,
most civil society
1757
01:25:18,647 --> 01:25:20,224
in the history of Planet Earth
1758
01:25:20,248 --> 01:25:21,659
for your failures...
1759
01:25:21,683 --> 01:25:23,515
because that's on you.
1760
01:25:27,489 --> 01:25:29,167
Now, was that so rough?
1761
01:25:29,191 --> 01:25:33,594
I mean, did we need $600,000 of
security to hear all of that?
1762
01:25:40,502 --> 01:25:42,480
[ Think we underestimate
the heroism
1763
01:25:42,504 --> 01:25:44,905
of our own cause as Americans.
1764
01:25:45,140 --> 01:25:46,618
We are trying to do something
1765
01:25:46,642 --> 01:25:49,373
that nobody told us is
almost impossible.
1766
01:25:51,513 --> 01:25:53,191
If you look at human history,
1767
01:25:53,215 --> 01:25:55,616
we've got every kind
of human being
1768
01:25:55,651 --> 01:25:58,382
ever born in one country,
1769
01:25:58,420 --> 01:25:59,697
and we mostly get along.
1770
01:25:59,721 --> 01:26:01,401
Nobody points that out.
1771
01:26:02,824 --> 01:26:05,691
Where it gets hard...
1772
01:26:05,727 --> 01:26:07,195
takes real work.
1773
01:26:07,229 --> 01:26:09,173
I still don't understand
what's going on.
1774
01:26:09,197 --> 01:26:10,308
Hopefully you can explain it.
1775
01:26:10,332 --> 01:26:12,577
Are you testifying
in front of Congress?
1776
01:26:12,601 --> 01:26:14,712
- I am.
- Why are you testifying?
1777
01:26:14,736 --> 01:26:16,295
What have you done?
1778
01:26:35,724 --> 01:26:37,669
Thank you.
It's an honor to be asked
1779
01:26:37,693 --> 01:26:39,821
to speak in front of you all.
1780
01:26:39,861 --> 01:26:41,239
First, just a quick piece
of business.
1781
01:26:41,263 --> 01:26:43,197
Do we get to keep these pads?
1782
01:26:44,533 --> 01:26:46,210
We're talking a lot
about the kids,
1783
01:26:46,234 --> 01:26:48,828
and I think they're
just that, kids.
1784
01:26:48,870 --> 01:26:51,430
They grew up dipped in Purell,
1785
01:26:51,473 --> 01:26:54,185
playing soccer games
where they never kept score,
1786
01:26:54,209 --> 01:26:55,486
and watching
"Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!"
1787
01:26:55,510 --> 01:26:59,310
Studies have shown
that if you take people
1788
01:26:59,347 --> 01:27:02,260
and you put them
in a zero-gravity environment,
1789
01:27:02,284 --> 01:27:04,629
like astronauts,
they lose muscle mass.
1790
01:27:04,653 --> 01:27:06,348
They lose bone density.
1791
01:27:06,388 --> 01:27:07,565
We're taking these kids-
1792
01:27:07,589 --> 01:27:09,734
in the name of protection,
we're putting them
1793
01:27:09,758 --> 01:27:12,386
in a zero-gravity environment,
1794
01:27:12,427 --> 01:27:16,227
and they're losing muscle mass
and bone density.
1795
01:27:16,264 --> 01:27:18,710
They need to live in a world
that has gravity.
1796
01:27:18,734 --> 01:27:20,278
From helicopter parenting
1797
01:27:20,302 --> 01:27:22,369
through safe spaces
in colleges,
1798
01:27:22,404 --> 01:27:23,648
if that's what
you've been exposed to
1799
01:27:23,672 --> 01:27:25,883
and therefore you haven't
experienced any physical risk,
1800
01:27:25,907 --> 01:27:28,586
any emotional risk,
any intellectual risk,
1801
01:27:28,610 --> 01:27:29,954
of course you are fragile.
1802
01:27:29,978 --> 01:27:31,656
How could you be anything but?
1803
01:27:31,680 --> 01:27:33,944
Children are the future,
1804
01:27:33,982 --> 01:27:36,952
but we are the present,
1805
01:27:36,985 --> 01:27:38,783
and we're the adults.
1806
01:27:38,820 --> 01:27:41,380
Could we just
bring back order,
1807
01:27:41,423 --> 01:27:44,290
and could the faculty
and administration
1808
01:27:44,326 --> 01:27:46,385
on these campuses
1809
01:27:46,428 --> 01:27:51,025
act like adults who are
in charge of these kids
1810
01:27:51,266 --> 01:27:54,497
who need some gravity
in their life?
1811
01:27:54,536 --> 01:27:55,536
Thank you.
1812
01:27:55,570 --> 01:27:57,014
Thank you all for your
eloquent testimony.
1813
01:27:57,038 --> 01:27:58,382
We appreciate that,
and, frankly,
1814
01:27:58,406 --> 01:27:59,917
I think Congress broke
some new ground today,
1815
01:27:59,941 --> 01:28:01,419
first reference ever
to "Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!"
1816
01:28:01,443 --> 01:28:03,869
In a congressional hearing.
1817
01:28:03,912 --> 01:28:05,957
So there was talk earlier
about a speech code.
1818
01:28:05,981 --> 01:28:07,291
Seems to me the speech code's
1819
01:28:07,315 --> 01:28:08,993
the one that's right behind me,
right?
1820
01:28:09,017 --> 01:28:10,795
Isn't that the speech code
in America,
1821
01:28:10,819 --> 01:28:12,530
the First Amendment itself?
1822
01:28:12,554 --> 01:28:15,266
Speech code and common sense,
as Mr. Carolla's talked about.
1823
01:28:15,290 --> 01:28:16,934
This is about individualism
1824
01:28:16,958 --> 01:28:19,325
and fighting
for your own capacity
1825
01:28:19,361 --> 01:28:21,606
to think and create a society
that you want to live in,
1826
01:28:21,630 --> 01:28:24,395
not one that's just thrust
upon you.
1827
01:28:24,432 --> 01:28:26,544
The best thing you can do
is sometimes realize
1828
01:28:26,568 --> 01:28:29,168
that you have to pick
a moment to fight.
1829
01:28:31,373 --> 01:28:35,019
According to the settlement,
the $123,000 will go to pay
1830
01:28:35,043 --> 01:28:38,343
the legal fees for
the U-Dub College Republicans.
1831
01:28:38,380 --> 01:28:40,324
We have reached
a settlement deal with them.
1832
01:28:40,348 --> 01:28:41,459
We've gotten everything
we wanted,
1833
01:28:41,483 --> 01:28:43,027
plus our lawyer's fees
paid for,
1834
01:28:43,051 --> 01:28:45,730
and the school can't charge us
security fees anymore.
1835
01:28:45,754 --> 01:28:48,466
This is a massive victory
for free speech on campus,
1836
01:28:48,490 --> 01:28:50,501
and I think it's going
to prove to be that way
1837
01:28:50,525 --> 01:28:52,837
for not just this campus
but other campuses.
1838
01:28:52,861 --> 01:28:54,305
The University
of California Berkeley
1839
01:28:54,329 --> 01:28:56,957
paid conservative groups
$70,000
1840
01:28:56,998 --> 01:28:59,865
to settle
a free-speech lawsuit.
1841
01:28:59,901 --> 01:29:01,879
This is important not just
for conservative students
1842
01:29:01,903 --> 01:29:03,481
but for all students,
1843
01:29:03,505 --> 01:29:05,383
and one of the things
that our clients try to do
1844
01:29:05,407 --> 01:29:06,751
is bring important speakers
to campus
1845
01:29:06,775 --> 01:29:08,653
that they don't usually get
to hear from on campus,
1846
01:29:08,677 --> 01:29:11,544
and even liberal students
benefit from that.
1847
01:29:13,348 --> 01:29:15,326
I prefer clarity
to agreement.
1848
01:29:15,350 --> 01:29:17,648
These are fellow students
of yours,
1849
01:29:17,686 --> 01:29:19,831
if you're a student here
at Berkeley,
1850
01:29:19,855 --> 01:29:22,756
and they are a left of center.
1851
01:29:22,791 --> 01:29:25,123
I am right of center,
obviously,
1852
01:29:25,360 --> 01:29:28,472
and my hope is that we can
clarify where we differ.
1853
01:29:28,496 --> 01:29:30,763
So, Dave and John,
please come out.
1854
01:30:23,885 --> 01:30:26,085
This journey that we've
been on-
1855
01:30:26,121 --> 01:30:28,647
What has struck home with me
1856
01:30:28,690 --> 01:30:33,423
is the fact that there's so many
people that are on our side,
1857
01:30:33,461 --> 01:30:37,074
that you should be able to share
ideas with other human beings
1858
01:30:37,098 --> 01:30:40,466
without fear of being fired
from your job
1859
01:30:40,502 --> 01:30:43,870
or kicked off a campus
or shouted down.
1860
01:30:43,905 --> 01:30:48,741
Anybody who comes to speak
to you and you disagree with,
1861
01:30:48,777 --> 01:30:51,088
you should have an argument
with them,
1862
01:30:51,112 --> 01:30:54,104
but you shouldn't silence them
by saying,
1863
01:30:54,149 --> 01:30:57,676
"You can't come because,
you know,
1864
01:30:57,719 --> 01:31:01,121
I'm too sensitive
to hear what you have to say."
1865
01:31:01,156 --> 01:31:03,423
I'm wondering,
how do you propose
1866
01:31:03,458 --> 01:31:05,002
that we as the future
of America
1867
01:31:05,026 --> 01:31:08,354
can begin to actually fight
against these challenges?
1868
01:31:09,164 --> 01:31:11,929
How do we turn the tide,
Dennis?
1869
01:31:11,967 --> 01:31:13,799
So the way out...
1870
01:31:13,835 --> 01:31:15,997
is start saying
what you believe.
1871
01:31:16,037 --> 01:31:17,615
I know that sounds so simple.
1872
01:31:17,639 --> 01:31:19,984
There are many,
many people out there
1873
01:31:20,008 --> 01:31:22,186
who are similarly
feeling silenced.
1874
01:31:22,210 --> 01:31:25,236
Find courage and speak.
1875
01:31:25,480 --> 01:31:28,159
I really don't regret
anything that I said
1876
01:31:28,183 --> 01:31:29,660
or anything that I did,
1877
01:31:29,684 --> 01:31:31,796
because I know that the names
that I've been called
1878
01:31:31,820 --> 01:31:33,531
around campus really
aren't true
1879
01:31:33,555 --> 01:31:34,966
and that they really don't
define me
1880
01:31:34,990 --> 01:31:37,668
and that I can be
and I should be who I am.
1881
01:31:37,692 --> 01:31:39,537
And I know that
I did the right thing
1882
01:31:39,561 --> 01:31:41,962
in love and respect
and in truth.
1883
01:31:41,997 --> 01:31:45,042
If you truly are not racist,
if you're not a bigot,
1884
01:31:45,066 --> 01:31:46,795
if you're not a homophobe
1885
01:31:46,835 --> 01:31:49,480
or any of these other
nonsensical buzzwords,
1886
01:31:49,504 --> 01:31:51,836
if you're none of those things,
1887
01:31:51,873 --> 01:31:53,751
you'll realize the water
isn't so cold
1888
01:31:53,775 --> 01:31:55,052
when you jump into the pool.
1889
01:31:55,076 --> 01:31:58,171
All the good intentions
in the world
1890
01:31:58,213 --> 01:32:01,774
amount to nothing
without one thing.
1891
01:32:01,816 --> 01:32:04,649
It is the single
most important thing
1892
01:32:04,686 --> 01:32:08,020
in doing good on Planet Earth-
courage.
1893
01:32:08,056 --> 01:32:13,051
You cannot do good if you
are afraid of being attacked,
1894
01:32:13,094 --> 01:32:17,793
but the first thing is to
decide, "I will be courageous."
1895
01:32:25,807 --> 01:32:28,219
Tonight's concert
featuring Dennis Prager
1896
01:32:28,243 --> 01:32:29,653
kicked off a couple
of hours ago,
1897
01:32:29,677 --> 01:32:31,689
but it looks like
a planned boycott
1898
01:32:31,713 --> 01:32:33,579
of the event has backfired.
1899
01:32:33,615 --> 01:32:35,960
I'm told that inside
the concert hall
1900
01:32:35,984 --> 01:32:38,043
there's not one empty seat.
1901
01:32:38,086 --> 01:32:40,077
It's a total sellout.
1902
01:32:58,706 --> 01:33:00,117
It's hard to deal
with all that love.
1903
01:33:01,309 --> 01:33:04,279
It is, actually.
I'm overwhelmed.
1904
01:33:04,312 --> 01:33:05,992
Thank you all for coming.
1905
01:33:15,890 --> 01:33:17,735
I've seen the world;
I've been abroad
1906
01:33:17,759 --> 01:33:20,626
every single year
since [ was 20.
1907
01:33:20,662 --> 01:33:24,599
This uniqueness of America,
the "so what"...
1908
01:33:24,632 --> 01:33:26,010
So you're a Turk
and you're a Jew,
1909
01:33:26,034 --> 01:33:28,846
and you're a this and you're
a that, it doesn't matter.
1910
01:33:28,870 --> 01:33:29,996
Why?
1911
01:33:30,038 --> 01:33:33,838
Because we celebrate the human,
not the group.
1912
01:33:36,344 --> 01:33:40,144
America was built on ideas,
1913
01:33:40,181 --> 01:33:43,879
and I built a living for
myself talking about ideas.
1914
01:33:45,353 --> 01:33:49,950
The only way we separate the
good ideas from the bad ideas
1915
01:33:49,991 --> 01:33:53,120
is to be free to say
whatever we want about them.
1916
01:33:54,996 --> 01:33:56,964
We're not all going to agree,
1917
01:33:56,998 --> 01:33:59,660
but that's what makes us
individuals,
1918
01:33:59,701 --> 01:34:01,863
and we can't lose that,
1919
01:34:01,903 --> 01:34:05,134
because this car is
too much fun to drive.
1920
01:34:07,375 --> 01:34:09,173
America's not perfect.
1921
01:34:09,210 --> 01:34:11,042
Liberty's not easy.
1922
01:34:11,079 --> 01:34:13,104
It's not always comfortable,
1923
01:34:13,148 --> 01:34:14,912
but liberty is the flame
1924
01:34:14,949 --> 01:34:17,782
that lights the path
of human progress,
1925
01:34:17,819 --> 01:34:20,811
and we find our way
by raising our voices
1926
01:34:20,855 --> 01:34:23,187
in debate and dissent.
1927
01:34:24,359 --> 01:34:26,953
For ideas, for disagreement,
1928
01:34:26,995 --> 01:34:30,158
for being who you want to be,
1929
01:34:30,198 --> 01:34:34,226
America is the true
safe space.
1930
01:36:55,009 --> 01:36:58,309
I don't care if have
to climb a mountain
1931
01:36:58,346 --> 01:37:00,212
Cross a desert or an ocean
1932
01:37:00,248 --> 01:37:03,513
I am open to a different
point of view
1933
01:37:04,952 --> 01:37:07,216
Thinking out of the box
1934
01:37:11,259 --> 01:37:14,820
It don't matter if you're
suffering a broken heart
1935
01:37:14,862 --> 01:37:16,140
Don't just sit around
1936
01:37:16,164 --> 01:37:20,601
Watching your life
fall apart
1937
01:37:20,835 --> 01:37:22,997
Think out of the box
1938
01:37:26,174 --> 01:37:28,233
Your life is not your own
1939
01:37:28,276 --> 01:37:32,611
God owns your very bones,
and we all turn to dust
1940
01:37:34,148 --> 01:37:36,093
Close your eyes
and look inside
1941
01:37:36,117 --> 01:37:41,317
Wake up to the wonderful
feeling of being alive
1942
01:37:42,924 --> 01:37:47,555
And with love in our hearts,
joy in our souls
1943
01:37:47,595 --> 01:37:49,359
Life's way too short
1944
01:37:49,397 --> 01:37:51,388
So let's rock and roll
1945
01:37:51,432 --> 01:37:53,400
To the farthest star
1946
01:37:53,434 --> 01:37:58,270
Down the deepest,
darkest hole
1947
01:38:14,222 --> 01:38:18,022
I feel the same way
about this as I feel about...
1948
01:38:18,059 --> 01:38:21,552
terrorism, which is...
1949
01:38:21,596 --> 01:38:23,928
Huh, something just-
1950
01:38:23,965 --> 01:38:26,059
Oh, there's a bee up there,
1951
01:38:26,100 --> 01:38:29,297
just pooped on me,
or whatever that thing-
1952
01:38:29,337 --> 01:38:32,015
- You have bee poop on you?
- I swear to God, I just did.
1953
01:38:32,039 --> 01:38:34,351
I've never been pooped on
by a bee.
1954
01:38:34,375 --> 01:38:37,504
Yeah, well,
maybe it pollinated me.
1955
01:38:37,545 --> 01:38:39,104
Oh, my goodness.
1956
01:38:42,083 --> 01:38:43,227
- You're good.
- You got the bee?
1957
01:38:43,251 --> 01:38:47,017
- That was great.
- That's nice.
1958
01:38:47,054 --> 01:38:49,166
But you realize
you cannot say,
1959
01:38:49,190 --> 01:38:52,956
"No animal was killed
in the making of this film."
1960
01:38:56,364 --> 01:38:59,026
I'll tell you what
1961
01:38:59,066 --> 01:39:02,559
I will tell you what,
I'll tell you what
1962
01:39:02,603 --> 01:39:06,198
I will tell you what,
I'll tell you what
1963
01:39:06,240 --> 01:39:11,337
I will tell you what,
I will tell you what
1964
01:39:11,379 --> 01:39:13,541
I'll tell you what
Tell us what
1965
01:39:13,581 --> 01:39:15,959
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1966
01:39:15,983 --> 01:39:17,348
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1967
01:39:17,385 --> 01:39:19,663
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1968
01:39:19,687 --> 01:39:21,348
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1969
01:39:21,389 --> 01:39:25,553
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1970
01:39:25,593 --> 01:39:27,652
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1971
01:39:27,695 --> 01:39:29,288
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1972
01:39:29,330 --> 01:39:31,008
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1973
01:39:31,032 --> 01:39:32,376
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1974
01:39:32,400 --> 01:39:34,511
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1975
01:39:34,535 --> 01:39:36,230
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1976
01:39:36,270 --> 01:39:40,366
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1977
01:39:40,408 --> 01:39:42,570
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1978
01:39:42,610 --> 01:39:45,022
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1979
01:39:45,046 --> 01:39:46,445
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1980
01:39:46,481 --> 01:39:48,692
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1981
01:39:48,716 --> 01:39:50,241
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1982
01:39:50,284 --> 01:39:53,686
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1983
01:39:53,721 --> 01:39:58,750
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1984
01:39:59,727 --> 01:40:01,388
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