Charlie Kirk (14:21)
Point of personal privilege. Yes. Please do not use gendered language to address everyone. Okay, you might have missed it, but right towards the beginning, the offended individual, which we're assuming is a homo sapien and assuming is a male. And it's really important. Just. Okay, you might not understand the joke, but just you understand on a college campus, you can't assume somebody's gender. So you have to actually preface yourself with the correct gender pronouns. And so I know it might seem that I'm being facetious or sarcastic, I'm sort of being sarcastic in some ways, but this is deathly serious. So for example, from the University of Wisconsin, instead of using he, him or she, her, you have to use non gendered pronouns or options. So for example, there are five different variations of this. So instead of saying she, her, her, hers, herself, you would say something such as sie, zem, zer, zer's and zemself, which is ungendered language. I'm making none of this up. Or you say zim, her, her, hers, herself or v ver vis verself. Again, this is, this is what the left is instituting at the University of Wisconsin. Okay, so look, I. There are only two genders. It's very simple. Gender and sex are directly interconnected and directly related. The left makes the argument that gender and sex are two separate things. That sex is your chromosomal structure and gender is a societal norm. You get to choose your gender and your sex is given to you at birth. Those of us that appreciate science understand that gender and sex are directly related. So the chromosomal argument is very simple. You have XX, which is a female, xy, which is a male. So I'm kind of stammering for words because this shouldn't really be a discussion. This is the rule, the exception to the rule of people that are intersex. Intersex is a minority of a minority in America. It's super rare. Intersex are people that are born with both reproductive organs, both male and female reproductive organs, and they are exception to the rule. What happens when you have an exception is you have a rule. The rule is you have to. You have a chromosomal structure that is XX or xy. You fall into one of those categories. This is basic natural science. And in America, just. You understand how rare it is. Just 0.05% or 1 in 2000 people are born intersex. This is the exception to the truth that there are only two genders. Anything beyond that is an aberration, including the hundreds of genders the left forces us to abide by, such as, just for a recap, glass gender, heliogender, cal gender and apk Consung gender. I mean apcon sun gender. I can't pronounce this. I'm sorry. These policies are being pushed most notably on college campuses. So this goes back to our thesis and I'm going to give you Some examples of this is that whatever happens on college campuses will soon happen in corporate boardrooms, which will then happen in the halls of Congress. So it goes from campus to boardrooms to Congress. So these policies are now being implemented on basically every single college campus across the country. Colorado State University, csu, which I'll refer to it as, they have an inclusive language guide which outlines the school's official stance and what language is and is not appropriate to use at their university. So word and phrases you have to avoid are he and she, because that's offensive, because you're assuming someone's gender. Fresh man. Because you're using a patriarchal term or a male term, ladies and gentlemen. Can't use that. Because what if someone is not a lady or a gentleman? What if they are kaleogender, which is an extraterrestrial? You cannot use the term homosexual. I don't know why, Mr. Ms. Or Mrs. They suggest reply replacing the title with MX. So mix Migs, male or female, you cannot say you guys. You cannot say policeman, fireman, chairman, etc. And you can definitely not use the term grandfathered in. This is a Colorado State University, this is a state college that your taxpayer dollars are going to that this absurdity is happening. You understand? This is fascist speech police. If you're listening, this is fascist speech police. So, for example, you have to say, oh, there's a crime. Let's call the policeman instead. All of a sudden wrong, I'm gonna write you up. I'm gonna have someone come after you. Okay, I'm sorry, We'll call the fireman because there's a fire. Wrong. You can't say that. You have to say fire person. American University, right outside of Washington, D.C. actually, in Washington, D.C. american University is seeking to mandate language to be used by faculty when referring to students. Faculty and staff members can be investigated for failure to respect gender identity through its bias reporting system. Now, remember, this is what got Jordan Peterson kind of to be so notorious. Notorious is the wrong term. Notorious means bad. I mean, so actually, what got him so popular? So let me correct myself, it was what got him to be so really is what built his popularity and his virality is when Canada, through a section in the Human Rights code, tried to by force make Jordan Peterson use certain gender pronouns. So instead of using force, here's the really important thing. I just have to make this kind of side note that if I met someone who was transgender and they said, charlie, I identify as a woman and I would like you to call me this name or call Me by this pronoun. I would do that because that's what mutual respect is. And how do we know that civil society would do this? Because people ask us to call them something different all the time. Hey, can you stop calling me this nickname or can you stop calling me this? And generally, as a civil society, we've come to a way to intermediate those differences about government rules. So I'll give you a great example. I know a couple of these people are listening to the podcast, and so they're going to be smiling when they listen to this. I can't stand being called Chuck. I hate it. Growing up, I was called Chuck far too often. And so anytime anyone would call me Chuck, I'd say, please don't call me Chuck. And it faded down. Except for a group of, like, six of my friends who knew it bothered me so much. Every time they see me, they say, hey, Chuck. Hey, Chuck. For those of you that don't know, Chuck is a way that many people name Charlie. It's a nickname for someone with the name of Charlie. And so basically no one calls me Chuck. And it really, really irritates me except my six friends who do it to irritate me. And I don't really care. But that's a really basic example of how I intermediated the differences through civil dialogue. And I said, please don't call me that. I would prefer if you don't call me that. And people generally will respect the lines that you draw. The same can be said for the transgender argument. Why can't we just have civil dialogue and have common respect for each other? Where transgender people would be able to go to me and say, please call me this, this, and this. Instead, these universities like American University or Colorado State University, through soft fascism, are putting in huge repercussions and potential consequences. If you dare violate this kind of language, go to the University of California, Berkeley. I say, quote. This is from the Associated Press. There will be no manholes in Berkeley, California. City workers will now drop into quote, maintenance holes. Instead, nothing will be man made in the liberal city, but instead human made. And students at the University of California, Berkeley will join collegiate Greek system residences rather than fraternities and sororities. Berkeley is supposed to be the beacon of free speech, yet now they're limiting the speech of anyone who wants to use traditional language, like he or she, him or hers. Again, University of California, Berkeley, instead of mitigating differences as civil people do, feels if they have to recalibrate our entire language. Harvard University, which is sometimes considered to be the best university in America. I will push back against that. But some people consider it. Harvard suppresses freedom association in the name of gender equality. So, quote, Harvard students who are members of single gender clubs are barred from leading campus groups, are becoming captains of sports teams. The school also refuses to endorse the students for prestigious fellowships. Prestigious fellowships, including the Rhodes and Marshall scholarships. So what they're saying Harvard University is saying right here is if you dare go after single gender clubs, if you go join an all men's fraternity or an all women's sorority or an all men's group, you can no longer become a Rhodes or Marshall scholar. You cannot get a presiduous fellowship. I thought the whole idea is not to discriminate against people. They're literally discriminating against people if they decide to go into a group that is based on singular gender identity. The left is raising the cost of college. This is really interesting. As the cost of college is rising dramatically, it costs more and more to attend college. So the left is raising the cost of attending college while simultaneously railing against the cost of higher education. So, for example, American University is set to spend $121 million on, quote, diversity initiatives. So while they're complaining that the cost of college is going up so dramatically. So, hey, American University, how about Instead of spending $121 million on diversity initiatives, you only spend $20 million and you spend that $100 million on tuition aid for your students that are going into debt to go study garbage at your university. Columbia University is looking to spend an extra hundred million dollars. This is stunning. On diversity and inclusion initiatives over the coming year. And so I addressed all this kind of mounting gender insanity on Fox and Friends with my good friend Pete Hegseth. I want to cut to a clip of this where I talk and I kind of talk to some of the older audience where I say, you might be so surprised to hear this. Cut the tape. I want your viewers to understand this, though. This is growing. This sort of gendered awareness language is now in corporate America. It is on basically every college campus across the country, including many that are considered mainstream. This is not stopping. The. This is not just segregated and secluded to the radicals and the Democrat socialists, this will soon be in Congress. And this sort of ideology is growing quickly in America who must do everything we can to stop it. So as you heard there at Turning Point usa, we have been fighting this for years and we have been signaling the alarm and trying to pull as many fire alarms as we can along the way. We're the ones that are just, hey, there's something really nutty going on here. And be careful because students are believing it and now they're entering into functioning society and, and now functioning society is changing and really thoughtful people are starting to take notice. So one of my favorite writers, I do not agree with her all the time, but my goodness, God gave her the gift of the pen. She is an incredible writer. The unbelievable writer is Peggy Noonan. And just the way she's able to craft sentences and paragraphs together, it's poetry. She's one of the most gifted writers in American politics. I really believe that. And I encourage all of you to check out this piece in the Wall Street Journal. And she. And I'm going to butcher some pronunciation here, so I apologize. What were Robespierre's pronouns? And it talks about how the French Revolution was led by sociopaths who politicized language much like today's Jacobins. I'm not going to read the whole piece, but the essence of the piece kind of shows that the French Revolution tried to co opt language and the failures of the French Revolution, which was rooted in the tyranny of the minority and mob rule similar to today's left wing mob. So I am going to read one paragraph from this piece which I think is really important. Peggy Noonan says this. The French Revolution was largely run by sociopaths. 1 Robespierre, the messianic schoolmaster, Quote, Messianic schoolmaster saw it as an opportunity for the moral instruction of the nation. Everything would be politicized, no part of the citizen's life left untouched as man was governed by an empire of images and the words of a Jacobin intellectual. The new regime would provide new images to shape new thoughts. There would be pageants and new names for things. They would change time itself. This is actually what the French Revolution wanted to do. They wanted to change time. The first year of the new republic was no longer 1792. It was year one to detach farmers from their superstitions. Their Gregorian calendar, you know, the calendar that built Western civilization. And at Saint Days, you know, the Judeo Christian construct, they would rename the months. The first month would be in the fall, named for the harvest. There would be no more weeks, just a three 10 day periods of each month. I am not kidding. The left is going to try to redo our calendar. I actually think Peggy Noonan is onto something here. But look, the French Revolution was built by narcissistic sociopaths that try to deconstruct everything around civiling and functioning society. Now understand, the left will always operate in patterns. Human beings operate in patterns, and radical far left wing movements operate in patterns. Let me give you three examples. Every single time the left takes over power in a culture or in a country, the first thing they do is try to eliminate all the history. The best example of this is the Chinese Revolution. When they went through the Cultural Revolution, the first thing they did was eliminate, tear down as many statues and burn as much history of Confucius, of Ming, of the Shujiang Dynasty, you name it, they burnt down to the ground every piece of Chinese history they could possibly find. Same in the Russian Revolution, same in the Cuban Revolution, same in all these kind of communist Marxist revolutions. And same, of course, now back in the French Revolution. And isn't that exactly what the left in America is trying to do right now? They're trying to get rid of Betsy Ross. They're trying to kneel during the national anthem, they're trying to call the flag a symbol of white supremacy. They're trying to get rid of certain textbooks. They're trying to change marriage, they're trying to change institutions that work. The left will always operate in systems of patterns. Now, why do they want to destroy history? Well, because any sort of reflection of history actually might make human beings question what is currently going on. So in the French Revolutionist, Peggy Noonan correctly points out, they want to start year one. There is no history before us. There's nothing important that's ever happened. Were the most important thing on earth. Boy, that is the lack of humility. That is the lack of gratitude. I think one of the greatest thinkers in Western civilization was the Roman consul, Cicero. One of my favorite quotes that he had, and I'm paraphrasing, we'll find the exact quote where he said, the greatest virtue is gratitude, which all the others stem from. And we've talked about this on the Charlie Kirk show before, and there's something that we do a lot in the Charlie Kirk show as we talk about the great thinkers that built Western civilization, like Cicero, a little bit like Plato, but some of his stuff that he wrote was garbage, like Aristotle, like Socrates, like Augustine, like Aquinas, like Hume, like Locke. But Cicero talked about, you must have gratitude for what came before you. You must be thankful for what you have. And out of that, all other virtues stem from there. Do you think the American left is thankful? Do you think the Democrat socialists of America are thankful to be in America? Do you think the Democrat socialists of America have gratitude, overpouring gratitude, to be an American citizen. The answer is, of course not. They're driven by the opposite of gratitude, which is unthankfulness. Or the opposite of gratitude is envy. The opposite of gratitude is envy or is destruction. They want to tear down systems that work. That's why they want to destroy what they call gendered language. That's why they want to destroy institutions that have actually proven to work. Now, if there are certain issues of those institutions, we should address them rationally, find those issues, and then pull them out in a way that would work collaboratively for a functioning civil society. The left is a force of destruction. No matter what the left touches, they will destroy. A great example of this is the Boy Scouts of America. As soon as the left started to infiltrate the Boy Scouts of America, it went down. I have a lot of authority to talk on this topic because I'm an Eagle scout. Less than 1% of all people that enter Boy Scouts of America wind up being Eagle Scouts. I worked my tail off to get my Eagle Scout. I got my merit badges required. I'm so proud that I became an Eagle Scout. However, for future generations, I don't think I can encourage those generations to go into the Boy Scouts of America. They have destroyed the Boy Scouts of America. Why? Because they've allowed girls into the Boy Scouts. You might say, well, Charlie, that's a pretty draconian backwards way of thinking. There is so much value in single sex education or single sex experiences. I could tell you when I was at Boy Scout camp, the fact that it was only boys and only men made you more likely to take risks, less likely to be embarrassed of failure, and be able to establish fraternity with people that you have for the rest of your life. There are multiple studies that show that discomfort and discord and uncomfortability comes from mixing men and women at early ages, especially during formative experiences. So for example, when you're trying to climb a rope at Boy Scout camp and you fall, you're going to be ten times more embarrassed if there's a girl looking at you doing that. Social psychologists will agree with this. If it's all men, you'll be embarrassed, but you'll be embarrassed for a different reason. We embarrassed not because you disproved in front of the lady, but instead you want to be the biggest man there and you want to get to the top. These sorts of experiences are now being diluted and deteriorated because the left has taken over the Boy Scouts of America.
