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Go to legacybox.com charlie to save 40% while supplies last we got an email here from a listener who listens to our Ask Me Anything episode Amy from Oregon, because we've been warning about how critical race theory is spreading the country at times even quicker than the virus. And it's true. Hi Charlie, thanks for all you do for our country. I'm in Oregon and have kids in high school and we are seriously looking to move to Texas. Our governor is one of the worst, which as you know, you've mentioned on your podcast a few times. It's true. I was listening to your AMA this morning and you were talking about the Illinois State School Board of Education. Well, last week it came out here in Oregon that our teachers are now supposed to recognize how math is a form of white supremacy. One plus one equals two racist and shows that worship of the written word there should no longer be right and wrong as it is a form of white privilege being forced onto kids. The idea of right and wrong, the idea of character development, the idea of ethics, all of it is an idea of white privilege. This is in our schools, in our police departments and our military. I'm sure you can find stuff on it. They are calling it a training for teachers, the Pathway for Math to Math Equity. Last time I checked, math is objective and has to be exact. See, they don't believe that. They don't believe that rational thinking and reason is something that we should consider as objective. You see, it's a very interesting part of your email, Amy. You say it shows worship of the written word, one of the ideas of critical race theory, and one of the things that Christine Cain, a Christian, she had this discussion with this racist last summer about how every, every culture had different ways of communicating their values. And in Western culture, we just tend to write things down. That is a, the Hebrews, from the people of Israel to obviously the New Testament. When the formation of Christianity, the idea of the written, centralized canon was very, very important. Where the critical race theorists would argue, well, in Africa, they didn't write things down. It was oral tradition. This is very, very deceiving because the Jewish people also had oral tradition as well. It just wasn't considered to be as high a threshold of God's spoken word. You write things down for a reason so that they cannot be challenged in the future. Henceforth, the idea of objectivity and irrefutable truth or agreed upon truth. And so in the new Oregon curriculum, which is similar to the Illinois State Board of Education curriculum, it says that you must not worship the written word. And so the idea of math, the idea of science, but math is probably even an easier one where you have the objective agreed upon pursuit of truth, or at least something that you can all say, yes, 2 plus 2 equals 4, 5 plus 5 equals 10. It's pretty easy. They say, no, no, no, no. That's your perspective, even though you can say what the terms mean. And you can show very simply that if you have 5 pencils plus 5 pencils, it equals 10. The critical race theorists say that's a white supremacist practice that you are using and it's been used against brown people and people of color. Now, if this sounds asinine and it sounds dangerous, it is, but it's widespread. And quite honestly, not enough people are pushing back against it because the academics have laced this radicalism under this nice sounding descriptor of the entire country being limitlessly racist. So Robin Diangelo gets paid massive sums of money to teach people that work for massive corporations how racist they are. So in this course at LinkedIn Learning, which is a Microsoft company, go figure. It, says Robin Diangelo, the best selling author of White Fragility, gives you the vocabulary and practices you need to start confronting racism and unconscious bias at the individual level and throughout your organization. By the way, just so we're clear, no one has ever been able to objectively prove unconscious bias. Never. It is speculative and it has never been proven scientifically or clinically, ever. There's no magic recipe for building an inclusive workplace. It's a process that needs to involve people of color and that needs to go on for as Long as your company's in business. Oh, what a great business model Robin DiAngelo has. It's a problem that is going to destroy your company, destroy our world, destroy our civilization, and it's going to go on forever. So keep hiring me to lecture for you every year. It's a wonderful business model when you think about it. She has figured out the eternal tree of guilt. Rahmid DiAngelo has figured out a business model where she offers no solutions. She offers an eternal problem and she's the only one that can communicate it. And if you don't hire her, you're a racist. But with these tools at your disposal, you'll be well on your way. So you'll never solve the problem, but at least you'll start the long, never ending journey of atoning for your sin that you can't articulate. Here's an email we got. Hey Charlie. Currently listening to your radio show. Thank you. Assuming that someone lives in Illinois, can parents pull their kids out of public school and homeschool their children and avoid the critical race theory? That's the only way because many private schools are going to go this way as well. We've been going through the Robin d' Angelo course at Coca Cola publicly traded company out of Atlanta, Georgia. I've repeated that for a couple times, the publicly traded company aspect of it, because this is not some sort of fringe group that is embracing this. This is not some unsubstantiated speculation that we are making. In fact, there is some sound here I want to make from James Lindsay, who is the best on this, by the way. James Lindsay is phenomenal. Cut 15 Washington State Equity Task Force in November 2019 on critical race theory being on time and to do lists. This is before the pandemic is racist. I actually haven't listened to this clip in quite some time. So we'll play tape and I'll do my best reacting to it. Play tape.

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Most white people in Europeans are about agendas and to do lists and tasks and oh, we have 30 minutes for this and oh, time to move on. Where many people of color, maybe it matters, maybe it doesn't. In South Africa, if we were meeting right here, 2:35, if Craig Bill walked in right now in South Africa, what would happen is they would stop welcome him. How was your weekend? You had the plans for Thanksgiving and would bring him up to speed on what he missed.

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Wow, she proved my point. She's an unbelievably racist person. This is Karen Johnson, task force member on health disparities so she's making my point. And look, I've said this before and it's provocative, but I don't really care. All men are created equal by God. Equality under the law and equality under the Lord. Not all cultures are equal. They're not. The American culture is not equal to the Iranian culture. It's not. We do not throw homosexuals or gay people off the top of roofs. You can speak freely and dissent against our leaders. Western society and our constitutional republic is not the same. This kind of cultural relativism. Let me make another. Let me make another one that's not talked about enough. America is a more moral country than China. Not every culture is made the same because cultures are made by people. What makes American culture different? What makes Western society different? It's inspired from the word of God mixed with human reason, which is a gift from God according to Thomas Aquinas. And I completely agree. So, Karen Johnson, I want to play this tape again because I was kind of figuring something out here. I was plugging in something so I could keep on live streaming. She says this, she says that white people and Europeans, by the way, I have no connection to Europe except for the fact that, that my family came from Europe 400 years ago. No connection. So unless she's trying to make some sort of ethnoracist argument that your character means nothing and your DNA means everything, then that is a conversation that you should not want to have because it is evil. You should stay away from conversations like that. Karen Johnson. And then she says, well, if we were in South Africa, we'd have this long conversation with no time and no to do lists yet. You're probably right. Why do you think the Western economies are more efficient and do better? Well, because of market driven principles that were discovered, not created by Adam Smith. And the idea of private property that comes goes all the way back to Abraham buying Hebron to bury his children and grandchildren. You can actually visit it still in Israel anyway. Why is that significant? He bought the land. He didn't conquer it. He didn't take it. He didn't say it's mine. He bought it. Private property. Private property matters why you're able to enjoy the fruits of your labor, your ingenuity, the hours you put in. Well, then when you have private property, you have competition. When you have competition, things improve. So Karen Johnson is critiquing Western society, saying everyone in the west, all you white people, literally what she says, you have your to do list. You're in such a rush to get things done. Why do you think that is? Because a wealthy, vibrant, productive society requires efficiency. Not being a sloth, not being lazy. So the Bible clearly says that when you are sedentary, man does not work, he does not eat. It's a proverb. Paul restated it in the New Testament. That idea of applying what God has given to you to produce, go forth and multiply, occupy till I come is a biblical idea. So Karen Johnson's real complaint is with the word of God. And I'm not trying to overly religious this. Some of you watching might not believe the same religious beliefs I have, but you cannot argue where it came from. That's the point. But Karen Johnson is critiquing Western culture, and she's almost. And by the way, there might be some good to South African culture. What she's saying that all of a sudden she asks, how was your weekend? How is this? And all of a sudden you lose 45 minutes. Western culture. And I think this is a very good thing. I think we could slow things down at times, but that's what the idea of liberty is. You have the liberty to act as you wish. For example, Karen Johnson would love Amish culture. She would. Amish culture is a critique voluntarily of Western neoliberal capitalist systems. So what does the Amish culture do? They live communally. They live off the grid. They make their own food most of the time. They have their own set of values, their own ethics. They choose to have medical freedom. And they can do that under the system of liberty. You see, the fallacy in Karen Johnson's argument here that I just played from Seattle or some crazy thing is you don't have to subscribe to Western culture, even if you're in the West. That's a beautiful thing about liberty. You can go live communally in the woods, in the desert, if you so choose. Let's. I want you to play this again. This is some woman who's a task force member on the Governor's Interagency Council on Health Disparities. She can only believe something as foolish as this because she went to a university. When you naturally go about your life, there's no way you could believe something as foolish, lacking wisdom, as what Karen Johnson believes. Play tape.

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Most white people and Europeans are about agendas and to do lists and tasks and oh, we have 30 minutes for this. And oh, time to move on. Where many people of color, maybe it matters, maybe it doesn't. In South Africa, if we were meeting right here, 2:35, if Craig Bill walked in right now in South Africa, what would happen is they would stop welcome him. How was your weekend? You had plans for Thanksgiving and would bring him up to speed on what he missed.

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So she's almost criticizing how the west views time. This is a deeper point. I could go on endlessly for this. Where does time come from? Why does time matter? So certain she's correct. Certain civilizations do not value time like the west does. Do you notice what we have an over surplus in our society of clocks. Everyone wants to know, what time is it, what's happening, why we go all the way back, who created time? Time is created by God. He created the separation of days. Time is very valuable when you want, when you are, when you believe there's a mandate to multiply. Therefore, you know you have a limited amount of what time. So Karen Johnson is arguing, well, this idea of 30 minutes for this and 30 minutes for that, well, maybe there's a reason for that. Maybe you want to create a maxim, maybe you want to create a space. Maybe. Maybe you want to create a framework not to waste what God has given you. That's exactly the idea of time and why it's so important in Western culture. Now, do we overdo it? I think we can. I think that there might be a valid critique of that. Do I think we don't spend enough time on certain things, like with family, like with church? Absolutely. But the broad societal indictment that Karen Johnson is saying, and by the way, can I just say this, she is the most stereotyping I've ever seen. She says, you know, all you white people, well, if you want to end stereotyping, then why don't you end stereotyping? This belief. And I've gone deeper into it than I think I have in actually any other radio show or podcast. So I think it's important to just the things that we take for granted, such as time and private property and markets and trading, it didn't just happen by accident. It's not an act of randomness. Even an honest atheist would agree with me that there is a point of origination and a tradition and then it becomes normalized. And we don't ever take the time to look backwards and say, where did that come from? And maybe it's important to stay anchored or rooted from the place it came from. And now Ed Markey, who's I think a senator from Massachusetts who successfully beat a Kennedy, which I do appreciate because I'm not a fan, said that we need racial justice in vaccines. Ed Markey is running for the. And this is sarcasm. Media matters. Okay? He's running for the northeast chapter of the KKK. To believe something. That race actually matters. Play cut 16. Right.

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From the onset of the pandemic, the black, the Latinx, the indigenous communities, immigrant communities have suffered a disproportionate burden of COVID 19 cases and deaths. Racial justice and that health care justice, environmental justice and economic justice must be our number one priority as we combat the ongoing pandemic. And that includes vaccine distribution.

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So he wants vaccines to be distributed based on skin color. A very racist thing to believe. Wouldn't expect anything else from Democrats. What about this whole thing of environmental justice and racial justice? It sounds nice, right? That you must favor justice for one person or the other. There is a teaching in Leviticus that you should never favor justice even with a rich man or a poor man in court. That justice must be. What? Blind. What an idea. In our fast paced world, it's tough to make reading a priority. At least it used to be. At Thinker.org, they summarize the key ideas from new and noteworthy nonfiction, giving you an access to to an entire library of great books in bite sized form. Read or listen to hundreds of titles in a matter of minutes. From old classics like Dale Carnegie's how to Win Friends and Influence People to recent bestsellers like Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life. I've used Thinker. I use it almost every single day to digest big ideas quickly and easy to understand. So if you want to challenge your preconceptions, learn something new every day, expand your horizons and become a better thinker. Go to thinker.org that's T H I N K R.org to start a free trial today. Again, that's thinker.org I'm gonna get to Senator Tom Cotton. He's a friend of mine. He's very courageous. Don't agree with him on everything. There are a couple things that I didn't see eye to eye with him recently. However, I always defended him as an honorable and honest person. And I would say that straight to his face. He's been very, very good to me. I have not seen this clip yet, so we'll react together. Play tape.

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Yes. I think discrimination is morally wrong. Absolutely. You're aware that President Biden has signed an executive order stating that his administration. Administration will affirmatively advance racial equity. Not racial equality, but racial equity. Yes. And I. I read, read the opening of that executive order which defines equity as the fair and impartial treatment of every person without regard to their status and including the individuals who are in who. Who have been in underserved communities where they were not accorded that before. But I don't see any distinction between in that regard. That's the definition that was included in that executive order that you're talking about.

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But that's not the definition that is used by liberals, Democrats and civil service bureaucrats. Equity is not what you might think it is. You might think it's. Well, it's the quality of being fair and impartial. No, they mean equity by massive redistribution. They mean equity by changing the entire system to punish one group of people to favor another. Equality under the law is moral. Equality of a starting point is admirable but difficult. Equality of outcome, which equity really means is immoral and it's wrong. So I'm glad that Senator Tom Cotton asked Merrick Garland that question. But even more of a pointed question should be why is it that the Biden administration cares about the color of people's skin? And don't give me this nonsense about how there are certain groups of people that are poorer than others based solely on skin color. If you take skin color out of the equation and you just look at fatherlessness in this country, that is the true metric. So what could be blamed for fatherlessness on fatherlessness is somehow blamed on racism. Thomas Sowell is the leading thinker on this. In fact, I need to reread Discrimination and Disparities. It's been a couple years where basically his guiding thesis is do not blame outcomes on racism. If it could be blamed on human action and human choices. You see, the blanket retreat to racism or blaming things on racism is lazy, sloppy, dangerous and easy. It's easy to do that. Blame everything on racism. It removes responsibility for one's actions. It removes accountability. If you come from the critical race theory standpoint, which our children are learning right now, as I do this broadcast, millions of children are learning critical race theory. What are you doing about it? Most people aren't doing anything. And the critical race theory believes, and they teach young children. You don't actually have to be responsible for what you do. If you steal your friend's backpack, if you take their iPhone, if you beat them up, if you call them a bad name, if you act improperly, you do not have to be responsible for that action because in reality, you're being manipulated by the masters of a white supremacist racist construction. What the postmodernists, the critical race theorists, and the proponents of everything is racist philosophy. The real divide goes back to what I've been talking about on college campuses at Turning Point USA for years, which is victor versus Victim. Are you going to take responsibility for your actions? And if not, why are you blaming somebody else? That's really what it comes down to. And the Democrats in the left, they want to subsidize, they want to underwrite the Oppression Olympics, people that are blaming others for their problems. It's harder to be a conservative. It's harder to look inside and say, I'm going to improve my actions. I'm going to apply myself. It's more tempting. It's easier to blame the external world. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. If you want to support us, go to charliekirk.com support email us your questions. As always, freedom@charliekirk.com. god bless you guys. Talk to you soon.