Michael Knowles (19:51)
Okay, first of all, say what you will about Rosie, you gotta give her credit. She's basically the only lib who's actually made good on the threat to leave the country if the Republican wins. So you know what, there's a kind of integrity to that. You gotta give credit where credit's due. But the more interesting statement she makes for our politics is when she says, I'm gonna come back when it's safe for people to have equal rights. What does she mean by that, for people to have equal rights? Among Democrats these days, when you hear rights talk, well, they talk about abortion frequently. We'll get to that in one second because Ben and Jerry's, the ice cream company has just come out in favor of slaughtering little babies. But so maybe she's talking about the right so called to kill for mothers to kill their children. I don't. But in the same breath, she says, and I want my child to be safe until we can come back to America. So maybe she's talking about that. But even more commonly right now, when we hear about this rights talk in the Democrat Party, it usually has to do with identity politics, LGBT rights, the rights of transgender people especially. That was a big, big talking point from the Democrats in this last election. And it gets to one of the real sicknesses in American politics that's been building for many, many decades now, which is the really maybe centuries now, which is the obsession with rights talk, that if you went into the ancient world, you wouldn't hear a lot of political debates about rights. In the Middle Ages, you didn't hear a lot of political debates about rights. You heard debates about justice. You heard debates about natural law. You heard debates about obligations. You heard debates about freedom and liberty in the sense of a polity's right to proper sovereignty. But you near all this, like rights talk, and increasingly, you hear all sorts of claims of rights. Which reminds me of a line from the political philosopher John Gray, who says, the rights talk is not really legal. It's not about making a claim that some legitimate liberty has been denied to someone over time. But rather, it is, in his words, quote, political self assertion of collective identities. This is the key here, I think, to understanding all the rights talk. It is political self assertion of collective identities. When we say LGBT rights, you know, the rights of gay people to get married, the normal response that would be, everyone's always had the right to get married. Gay people, this people, whatever people. You want to say everyone's had the right to get married. It's just that marriage was always understood to mean the union of a man and a woman for order toward the begetting and education of children. So to say the right to gay marriage is to change the definition of marriage. But even more so, it's to assert that there is a collective identity known as the gays or the lesbians. Or it's even clearer with transgenderism. Sometimes you will hear pro trans activists say that people like me deny their existence. And then the conservatives respond and we say, no, we think you exist. You manifestly exist. You're right here before me, speaking and breathing and taking up space. But that's not what they mean when they say you're denying our existence. They don't mean you're denying our individual existence. They mean you're denying our existence as a political group. And on that point, they're right in that way. When they say, we want trans rights, you need to accept our existence. They're speaking less from political philosophy than from the kind of brute negotiations of a labor union. You will deal with us. We are a thing. We're a power, we're a force. That's what it's really about. And so they have a point there, because we would say, no, no, there is no such category, political category, as transgender people, because that asserts a false account of human nature, that it's not really possible for man to be a woman or to be born in the wrong body or whatever. So, yeah, we deny the political collective existence of that group. We don't deny your existence as an individual. We just think you're mistaken about human nature. That's what all the rights talk is about. So what it's really about is hiding political disagreement in the guise of legal language. And what it does in practice is it takes legitimate political debates that should be fought out in the legislature or among citizens. It moves them to the courts, and it forces activist lawyers to rewrite the law and pretend that this is a matter of legality and right, when in fact it's just ordinary political debates that are taken out of the sphere of the political, taken away from the people to decide through self government. And when they lose those battles, then I guess people like Rosie O'Donnell are going to take themselves out of the country. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to hometitleoc.com, use promo code KNOWLES250. Did you know that scammers can steal your home right out from under you? The FBI calls it house stealing. It's a growing real estate scam targeting American homeowners. Here's how it works. The criminals forge your signature on one document. That's all it takes, one document. They use a fake notary stamp, they pay a small fee. They file it with your local recorder's office. Just like that, your home title has been transferred out of your name. 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They're saying, hey, everyone, celebrate the people who murder. Specifically our customers. We all know Ben and Jerry's are libs. We can look past the Bernie Simping. They do Bernie ice cream. You know, we can look past all the hippie gimmicks on their packaging because the ice cream is perfectly fine. The open celebration of murderers of the most innocent, vulnerable people in the world. That's a step too far for me. They're not even saying celebrate women and women's rights. They're not even using all the euphemisms that the left usually uses. They're just coming out and saying, we celebrate abortionists. The guys with the forceps and the knives and the poison. We celebrate them because they murder babies. I can't. This is so psycho. This is such psycho behavior from Ben and Jerry's. I can never eat their garbage again. I don't call for boycotts a lot because if you try to call for boycotts all the time, they don't generally work. And I recognize that if you want to participate in the economy at all, often that requires some kind of extremely remote cooperation with evil, at least. This is too much. This is too much. This is complete psycho behavior. No person of good conscience could possibly eat their garbage again. Ben and Jerry's is completely dead to me. It should be dead to you. There should be a nationwide boycott. Their company should go out of business for this, for their missteps. This is horrifying. It reveals a degree of moral depravity on the part of the people who run this company that even I did not expect. And I had low expectations of these people. It is absolutely revolting. And now, because of what they've posted, I find their ice cream, which previously I thought tasted just fine. It's not my favorite ice cream. It's not the worst ice cream. It's perfectly fine tasting ice cream. Previously. I am so revolted by their extreme degeneracy and wickedness that I cannot eat another bite of their ice cream. And there should be a nationwide boycott, and that company should be driven out of business by a lack of customers because of their disgusting and profoundly evil actions. Okay, now, speaking of confusion, there's a lot of confusion in our culture. I mentioned to you the top of the show, there's a big dust up in Congress because a Republican member of Congress referred to a Democrat member of Congress who is a man as a Mr. That's how members refer to it. Well, Mr. And so he does this. Then the. The Democrat member of Congress makes a little snide remark about it, and then another Democrat member of Congress makes up. He starts popping blood vessels, basically because the Republican referred to a man as mister. If you didn't see the clip, take a look.
