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Ep. 1715 - Libs Defend Ancient "Non-Violent" Child Sacrifice
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Michael Knowles
Breaking news this morning. A new leftist euphemism has dropped. We can credit this one to an ancient altar recently discovered in Guatemala. The altar is pre Aztec. It dates to between 100 BC and AD 750. We all know the Aztecs sacrificed humans to the tune of 80,000 a clip. Well, this pre Aztec altar seems to have been used for human sacrifice as well. And in the words of the archaeologist who discovered it, it was used in the sacrifice quote, especially of children. But the archaeologist and the liberal media outlets reporting on the archaeological find want you to know that I'm quoting directly here. It's not that they were violent. It was just their way of connecting with the celestial bodies. Fiery but mostly peaceful. Protests are out. Nonviolent child sacrifice is in. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Are we going to war with Iran? Are we going to war with Iran? We seem to be inching ever closer. There's so much more to say. First though, go to tryarmra.com knowles ever wonder what gives elite athletes, business moguls and high performers their edge? Many are turning to armor Colostrum. This remarkable superfood is nature's original whole food supplement. Containing over 400 bioactive nutrients that work at the cellular level, ARMRA helps build lean muscle, speeds up recovery time, and enhances overall performance without relying on artificial stimulants or synthetic ingredients. Whether you're running a company, pushing your limits in training, or simply looking for a natural advantage in your daily life, Armra Colostrum optimizes your body systems for peak performance and sustained energy. I really, really like Armra a lot and I'm not even a big buff athlete guy. You want to talk to Mr. Davies about it? Mr. Davies has worked Colostrum into his regular workout routine for me. Forget about the workout routine. We've worked out a special offer for my audience. Receive 15% off your first order. Go to tryarmra.com knowles k n o W L e S you will love the armor Colostrum. Whether you are like me and don't exercise all the time or whether you're one of these big buff guys, go to triarmra.com knowles get 15% off your first order. That is T R Y A R M R A dot com Kanna W L E S I guess it's kind of fitting to talk about colostrum as we talk about child sacrifice. I think that this one might take the cake. Non violent child sacrifice that is. You know, the libs always have these Euphemisms that don't make any sense. Like undocumented American is an American without documents because they're foreigners, because they're not Americans. You know, it's a contradiction in terms. Justice. Involved person is a criminal, you know, so he's not involved in justice. He's involved in injustice. And they always do this. We've talked about it for years. Fiery, but mostly peaceful. Those things don't go together. And then nonviolent child sacrifice. Just a reminder, despite what you learned in public school, the Conquistadors are among the greatest men who ever lived. Even pre conquistador, starting with Christopher Columbus, really one of the greatest men who's ever lived, followed by men like Hernan Cortez, who ended these barbaric societies that would just slaughter tens of thousands of people at a time. And in this case, especially little children. There were multiple bodies found around this altar under four years old. Okay? These people just had a totally demonic society. Of course, we sacrifice over a million babies a year in our country, so a little bit of an indictment of us, too, but good grief. Our civilization, when we actually behave in a civilized way, has absolutely nothing to apologize for whatsoever. Conquistadors vindicated yet again. Okay, speaking of babies, this one was a little bit surprising. SNL just took on the relatively recent phenomenon of homosexuals going to the baby store to purchase the eggs of a woman and rent the womb of another woman to acquire babies, which is obviously gravely disordered because two fellas can't make a B together. So it involves all this extra stuff and commoditizing human life and picking babies out of a catalog and killing a bunch of the extra embryos that were created to find the exact perfect baby. But SNL is super duper lib, so you would expect if SNL takes on this issue, it would be very sympathetic to the homosexual baby purchasers and the non homosexual baby purchasers for that matter. You would think it would be very harsh on the critics or the people who have questions about this. And yet the SNL sketch was exactly the opposite.
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Taylor Lorenz
Oh, my gosh. Whose baby is that?
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Michael Knowles
Excuse me? It's ours.
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Taylor Lorenz
Wait, but how?
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Michael Knowles
Okay, I'm sorry, but gay people can't have a baby.
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Taylor Lorenz
Yeah, but like, where did it come from?
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Michael Knowles
Excuse me. Excuse me. Wow. You are not allowed to talk like that. That is so, so invasive. Okay, but like, we were with you last night and you did not have a baby. Yeah, and you guys said that after dinner you were going to go to a rave called Bulge Dungeon. And now today you have a baby. What we're asking is, how did this happen? Okay, I'm sorry. Why is it, when it's us an interrogation, I don't ask you why you're poor. You can't ask this question. It goes on. It's really funny. The gay guys are the clowns in this sketch. The straight people are the straight men in this sketch, which is fitting, I suppose. The joke is that two fellas can't make a baby. And it's super weird that multiple, many pairs of two fellas have babies. And it's morally dubious and everyone's suspicious of it, and they should be, because it involves bioethically suspect practices. Let's just call it what it is, downright immoral practices to commoditize a human being. Go to a baby store, purchase an egg, rent a womb, and pick a baby out like you'd pick out a designer handbag. It's wrong. It shouldn't happen. Also, one of the jokes is that babies need their mothers. So the straight group asks, well, where's the mother? And then the guys in the clown position in the sketch say, oh, well, you know, I'm a little more emotional and I'm not as good a driver or something, so I guess I'm sort of the mother. That's the punchline. This is the most pronounced vibe shift example I've seen, I think, period, full stop. I think more than the election, more than the public polling after the inauguration, more than the shift in how the liberal media and liberal institutions are treating Trump and Republicans. This is Saturday Night Live. This is the liberal comedy show par excellence. And they are mocking the idea of gay rights, of gay marriage, of surrogacy, of ivf, of the whole baby industry. Huge, huge vibe shift. And all of those examples that I just mentioned are obviously related. The fact that CNN and MSNBC and all the liberal networks are now starting to have to cater to conservatives is a direct reaction to the 2024 election. The fact that even SNL, even the entertainment comedy popular media are having to shift their political tone is a reaction to the election because Trump not only won the election, he won the popular vote. And he not only won the white guys, he won plenty of white guys, but he also won half of Hispanics, almost one in five black guys, 40% of women under 30. He just won a lot. And he ran on mass deportations, and he ran on cutting out the excesses of the sexual revolution, and he ran on normal, really good stuff. A reminder, too, during the real high point of social especially sexual liberalism of the last, I don't know, maybe about 10 years ago, redefining marriage, opening up baby stores, pushing transgenderism, all of that kind of stuff. Those of us who resisted and said no, not just to no transcendent kids, but no to the redefining marriage, it's not possible. No to the baby industry, no to all of these social experiments. We were called idiots and rubes and passe and on the wrong side of history and all the rest. And look who's laughing now. The reason that I can feel confident, and you should be able to feel confident that innovations such as baby stores and gay marriage and all the rest of it are not gonna last forever is that they are so out of accord with reality, they are so ultimately indefensible that it's like a castle built on sand. Okay? It can't last because logic is eternal. Human nature is eternal. We can have all sorts of experiments, societies can go downhill, we can sacrifice babies on altars for hundreds of years, but eventually reality is gonna kick back in. Okay? Really, really good stuff. On this very same point, there is something that I called for in a viral clip about two months ago that is now. People laughed at me. They mocked me when I said it. And it is now national policy in a major western country. There's so much. First though, go to goodranchers.com use promo code knowles. Have you taken a look at your grocery bill lately? I try not to look at my grocery bill. Those meat prices are likely going to go crazy with all of the tariffs. Makes you wonder if you can still serve the good stuff to your family, right? Luckily, goodranchers.com delivers 100% locally sourced American beef, chicken, pork and more straight to your door. So you do not have to worry about any tariff pricing or grocery store mystery meat. While everyone else is dealing with those unpredictable imported meat prices. Good Ranchers is completely tariff proof, 100% American supply chain for me. I've always liked that it's American meat and I really like the company. 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Tuesday, I guess it is. Okay, so that means Good Friday's coming up. Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Easter Tuesday, Easter Wednesday. You're gonna want your home to smell like a beautiful monastery. Smells and bells candle. Then we'll move on to the next candle. Hungary's parliament has just moved on from the rainbow mafia, from the LGBT Pride Day. That became Pride Week. That became Pride Month. That became Pride two months that became Pride Year. Hungary's parliament just passed an amendment to the Constitution that allows the government to ban Pride and really all public LGBT displays. This is so beautiful. We'll get to exactly what it means, how it passed. But I was on the Jubilee show surrounded a couple of months ago, and we filmed it even earlier than that. And I was surrounded by 20 or 25 LGBT elementop activists. And one of the prompts that we were debating was that we should ban Pride. Of course we talked about get rid of transgenderism. Of course we talked about all of the issues that you usually hear about. But one that even some people on the center right told me was too far, too crazy was the notion that we should ban Pride parades. But to me, it seems so obvious. I'm a citizen. I have the right, at least some right to set standards in the town square. And the Pride parades are not things that happen in people's backyards. They happen in the town square. They happen on Main Street. And I should not be expected to. To walk my little kid or to walk my elderly grandmother through the town square when they're weird fellas wearing leather costumes, smacking each other around, doing gross stuff. They don't have the right to do that. I have the right in part to my town square. And even people on the center right, they mocked me for this. How could you possibly ban pride? Well, I'll tell you how Hungary just did it. The vote passed along party lines. 140 votes for it, 21 against it. Pretty good victory. The amendment declares that children's rights to Moral, physical and spiritual development supersede any right other than the right to life, including that to peaceably assemble Love. This. This is great. You don't have a right to obscene, weird stuff in the public square. Now, in Hungary, kids are not going to be exposed to and propagandized with LGBT nonsense in kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade. This is common sense. One reaction is going to be, well, Michael, that's Hungary. And Hungary is a far right authoritarian government. We would never tolerate that here in America, we have our constitutional rights. Until very, very recently, we had in practice the exact same policies in America. And in principle, we still do. There is no free speech, right to obscenity. Pride parades are not as American as apple pie. Benjamin Franklin didn't show up to the Pride parade. Okay? Pride parades are a relatively recent phenomenon that come about as a result of the weakening of American laws against obscenity, that come about as a weakening of the American political right to set community standards and a strengthening of the individual license to autonomy and libertinism and all the rest of it. We made more sense before that. We have political rights. We have the right to an exalted freedom beyond the degraded pseudo freedom of the individual license to do gross stuff in public. Really, really good stuff. And it reminds me of that line from Cardinal Manning. There is a day to come that will reverse the confident judgments of men. People who say, oh, there's no white look. It's the same people who said Roe v. Wade will never be overruled. And I was one of the people who was skeptical of Roe v. Wade getting overruled. How quickly things can change. Settled precedent. The most sacred Supreme Court decision ever for the American left, overturned by President Trump, a guy who for much of his life was a kind of Democrat, socially liberal New Yorker. These things can flip. The pushback against transgenderism, which even five years ago we were told is the way of the future. Now it's a punchline. Gay marriage, we were told, here forever. Now it's a punchline on Saturday Night Live. Pride parades in public. I don't know that they're all that long for this world, even in America. Now, speaking of family, new report at the Wall Street Journal that young people increasingly are turning away from cutting their own path from going to work for some corporation somewhere else in the country. Young people increasingly are working for family businesses. They write. The share of small businesses that employ a young adult child of an owner has doubled since 2018 and is up 13% year over year as of January to roughly 1200, according to an analysis by payroll provider Gusto. Mark Valentino, the head of business banking at Citizens, sees this moment as a reversal from recent decades in which the children of business owners tended to stigmatize, returning to the family firm in favor of striking out on their own. For the first time in a generation, there's more excitement and interest in taking over a business that already exists. So for pretty much all of my life, there has been this sense that there's something wrong about taking over the family business. There's something kind of unmanly about it. You know, you're not really free. You should cut out on your own, do whatever you want, go work for some other corporation, that it would be better to go work for some guy you never heard of, doing some business that you've really got no experience in than it is to work for the family business. A similar kind of reasoning, I think, to the idea that women must go out and work in some corporate environment. Not that they can go out and work, but they must, that it's somehow wrong. They're not liberated. If they stay at home and raise children and homeschool and bake cookies and do all the things that women once did, it would be wrong to do that. And I think that judgment, too, is being reversed here. There's a popular sense that it's wrong to go work for your family business, but really it's just natural and reasonable. I didn't grow up with a family business or anything like that, so obviously I didn't work for one. But I was thinking about my own employment history. I've had all sorts of crazy jobs going back to when I was 14 years old. And it occurs to me, I don't think I've ever gotten a job by submitting a job application, going to some kind of random recruitment website, and just submitting a blank application. I've submitted job applications, but it was to people I knew or to people who knew people that I knew. And it's not like I came from money. It's not like I came from connections. But even my first job, I worked at a Subway sandwich store. But it was a store that we would go into a lot. And, you know, I would talk to the owner. My mother kind of knew the owner said, hey, you know, maybe you could give my kid a job. Other jobs I've had in politics, it was kind of people that I knew or people that I knew that I knew, or someone heard about me from some campaign that I worked on, and we kind of were aware of Each other, obviously, the Daily Wire, we were all kind of friends. We were all in the same social circle before this company even existed. And I think that's the way it works. When young people, I go to these universities and young people ask me for advice. How do I break into politics, how do I do? One joke I say is, well, the best way to break into political media is to be friends with Jeremy Boring. That's the first thing I would recommend. But there's a lot of truth to that. You know, humans are social creatures and so we're not just clinical, you know, independent robots floating through outer space with no connections to each other. It actually makes sense to work with your friends or at least to work with people who know your friends or people that you can trust in a way that is sometimes inarticulable and goes deeper than just the terms of a contract. Businesses actually work better that way. There is a reason that there is such a thing as a family business that isn't wrong. It isn't wrong to follow your natural inclinations and the relationships that you've cultivated in all other areas of life in your professional life as well. Everyone knew this for all of it. So much of our time is just rediscovering things that people have known intuitively for all of history. Now, speaking of business and businessmen, you remember that lunatic, that young guy Luigi, who murdered the healthcare CEO in New York some months ago in an act of cold blooded murder? Well, a prominent left wing journalist has just gone on a prominent left wing cable channel to explain how that murderer is clearly obviously a morally good man. There's so much more to say. First though, go to PureTalk.comKnowles as Doge continues to cut the fat surgically from decades of bloated government spending and corruption, PureTalk, the cell phone company that I use, is cutting the fat from the wireless industry. That's right, PureTalk says I don't think so. 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PureTalk Wireless by Americans for Americans. Taylor Lorenzo, one of the more eccentric figures from the left wing media space. She is a totally mainstream left wing journalist. She's worked for the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Daily Beast, the Daily Mail, Business Insider. She's worked for everyone. Now she's going on CNN to explain why the young man who murdered a healthcare CEO in cold blood and deprived that man's wife and children of, of a husband and father, why he is obviously a morally good man.
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Taylor Lorenz
Hilarious to see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching their pearls about someone stanning a murderer when this is the United States of America. As if we don't lionize criminals, as if we don't have, you know, we don't stan murderers of all sorts and we give them Netflix shows. There's a huge disconnect between the narratives and angles the mainstream media pushes and what the American public feels. And you see that in moments like this. And I can tell you I saw the biggest audience growth that I've ever seen because people were like, oh, somebody, some journalist is actually speaking to the anger that we feel.
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Michael Knowles
The women who, that are outside court in New York.
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Taylor Lorenz
So you're going to see women especially that feel like, oh my God, right? Like, here's this man who, who's revolutionary, who's famous, who's handsome, who's young, who's smart. He's a person that seems like this morally good man, which is hard to find.
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Michael Knowles
You can tell in the eyes. You can tell in the eyes and the mouth. And Taylor Lorenz is exactly the kind of woman who would have married Ted Bundy. You know, she's got, and she's always had that in the eyes. So I'm not denying that she seems a little, little bit kooky. However, this is the view of the mainstream left. This is not just a fringe view. She's not a fringe journalist. She's worked for all the major outlets. She's here on CNN and she's laughing with the interviewer. He's a morally good man. It's kind of hard to find. He's so hot. Oh, yeah. And we lionize murderers all the time in America. Correction, hold on, interjection here. No, you do. I don't lionize murderers. You do. The American left does. No, but we give them Netflix shows, right? You run Netflix. Conservatives don't run Netflix. Yeah, but just, I mean, I don't know. He's just so hot, you know, and he's so obviously morally good. Why is he morally good? Because he murdered a husband and father in cold blood. A husband and father who is probably richer than him, I guess. Although, I don't know. Luigi was a rich kid too, apparently. Or is a rich kid. He's still alive for now. Oh, he, he, he, he's so and so. I'm sure many on the left would like to say, oh, no, this is not representative of us. She says, I had the largest audience growth during the period in which I talked about how hot and wonderful he is. But second of all, we have that survey that came out a week ago, that survey that showed that 55% of Americans who identify in the left say that it would be justified to murder Trump. Then we have all the statements from the mainstream liberals, Biden, Kamala, all the rest of them, justifying the murder of Trump, calling him an existential threat to America. We have all the statements of the mainstream leftists saying that you shouldn't be civil with Republicans, as Hillary Clinton said of Maxine Waters, saying, you gotta push back on Republicans in public where you see them of people justifying this stuff. So, you know, she seems totally nuts and what she's saying is repulsive and deeply immoral. That is the mainstream left wing position. She says it in a particularly kooky kind of way with that wacky looking, that wacky look on her face. But that's it. There is no equivalent on the right. There might be some fringe lunatics on the right who would be condemned by every serious person on the right. For her, that's the mainstream view. Now, speaking of men and women, my friend Sour Patch Lids, you know, Sarah Patch Lids from. She was on Tim Pool's show. And you might know her from various places on social media. Now, she made a really great point the other day on Men and Women, did not involve Luigi the murderer. She said, what is an example of a third space for men? A third space, not work, not home, somewhere men can go in their free time, that is majority completely occupied by men. Seems like a lot of male frustration could be traced back to this third space disappearing. I think this is totally, totally right, because this space did exist. It is One of the reason that you're seeing explosive growth in cigar bars right now. It's one of the reasons I like to go to cigar bars. I know there are women who smoke cigars. I'm very grateful to them. I'm glad that they keep buying Mayflower cigars. That's great. But generally cigar bars are men. And I like that. I like cigars just in themselves. And I've been a cigar enthusiast since I was 15 years old. But another reason that I like cigars is that when I go to a cigar bar, I'm just hanging with guys. And sometimes I just want to talk to guys. I talk to women plenty of times in my life. Sometimes I want to just talk to guys. And furthermore, if I go out and I have a drink, if I'm on the road, if I'm doing a public event, I don't even want the risk of a scandal for someone to take a picture of me getting a late night drink with a young woman. I don't even wanna see that. I like the fact that the cigar smoke is a kind of woman repellent. Not cause I don't love women, I do love women, but because it is appropriate for men in certain occasions, certain times to just be around men. There used to be such a thing as a gentleman's club. Now we use that expression just to refer to strip clubs. But there used to be a thing as a gentleman's club. Some people were responding to sour patch lids over there and they said, oh, these male spaces, they never really existed. Nostalgia's history. After a few drinks, you're just imagining that. No, no, no, they really did. I was in New Orleans for the Premium Cigar association trade show over the weekend where we had a great time seeing a lot of friends in the industry. We won the best booth, our great ship booth of the Mayflower, for our size of booth. So anyway, thank you to pca. It was a great time. On Saturday night. I went out to one of these old Southern gentlemen's clubs. You know, you put on a tuxedo for dinner and you go, you have a nice time with the fellas and you throw some drinks back. And it was such a throwback. And it used to be a lot of private clubs were like that. And women had their own spaces too. And that's appropriate sometimes. Okay. Even going back to Aristotle, who comes up on the show at least every other day, Aristotle pointed out the importance of friendship. Friendship not just of the networking kind, friendship of utility, friendship not just of convenience. You guys both happen to Be in the same place. Friendship, not just of pleasure. You both like pinochle, but friendship of virtue, friendship of the good, where you can really sit down and have a proper conversation. This is in large part why people, why men, and young men in particular, really love cigars, why there's cigar bars opening. It's because of this point. And I think there's one group of men that doesn't have to deal with this. And it's the incels, weirdly enough, because the incels intentionally are never around women. They just exclude themselves from female life. And that's bad for them in many ways too, because it means that they probably can't grow up and they can't get married and they can't have kids and they can't do the things that men want to do. But they, they do at least have their male only spaces, which is why they don't need to go to cigar bars or whatever, join some gentleman's club. But for those of us who really want a full human life and are fine growing up, getting married, having kids, being in society, being a normal person, sour patch lids is right. And the incels can have a point too. Men need their own spaces. We need that is appropriate. And liberalism in the form of feminism is really leveling. And this is where the gender dysphoria really begins. The claim that men and women are exactly the same for political purposes, for social purposes, is the beginning of that gender dysphoria. And you gotta fix that or just head to a cigar bar and have a mayflower. Now I wanna go back to co ed spaces for a minute. You know about the University of Austin? It's that university that was founded in Texas to oppose wokeness. It's a non woke university. They believe in free speech and merit and none of this coddling and none of these safe spaces. Well, the University of Austin has just announced its new admissions process and it is revolutionary in higher education. And a lot of conservatives are cheering this on. And I can't give it three cheers. I can give it one cheer, maybe two cheers. I can't give it three cheers because I think conservatives are getting tripped up a little bit and we're falling for liberalism again. I'll get to that in one second. First though, becoming a member of Daily Wire plus is not just a subscription, it's a statement. It means you're joining millions of Americans who share your values, respect our history and are committed to building a stronger future. Members get ad free uncensored access to our daily shows from the most Trusted names in media, in depth. Investigative journalism, entertainment that reflects what you believe. Movies, documentaries, series, reshaping the culture in real time. Join right now. Go to dailywire.com subscribe My favorite comment yesterday is from Will G.D. who says Michael's best defense of daylight saving time is that when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time. Okay, I think there was a little more to my defense than that. But look, maybe Kamala Harris has a point there. She was right about the coconut tree. She was right. We didn't just fall out of a coconut tree. And there is in fact great significance to the passage of time. Maybe this woman, she's really growing. In my estimation, the University of Austin is not one of these safe space woke affirmative action kind of universities. No, no. University of Austin is getting back to meritocracy with this admissions process announcement. No extracurriculars, no personal essays. No personality scores. No nepotism. No gpa. University of Austin just unveiled our new admissions policy. It's all in this kind of 90s like VHS format to bring back merit to higher education. Sat 1460 automatically let in Act 33 plus. Automatically let in no correct opinions, only correct answers. Automatic admission. If you get or classical learning test 105 plus you get in. Students pay zero dollar tuition. That's cool. Merit over mediocrity. Intellect over identity. Excellence over equity. Education over indoctrination. University of Austin, come here and conquer the world. Nothing is in your way. Okay? And it's all for those of you who are only listening. It's very pointedly done in this 90s kind of VHS format. Because the ideas behind this kind of a university come from not a kind of deep conservatism, but a non woke liberal nostalgia for the 90s. The 90s are the new 50s. Back in the 70s, the good old days were the 1950s. Now in the 2000s, the good old days are the 1990s. Do you remember how great that was when we were kids and everything was cool? Truly, I think this is history. After a few drinks. I really don't want to counter signal the University of Austin here because the University of Austin is so preferable compared to many of the institutions of higher learning today. But what the University of Austin is describing in its admissions policies is not really conservative. It's in many ways hyper liberal. That says all we look at is test scores. If you get a relatively high test score, you get in merit over mediocrity. But what do we mean by merit? It says no extracurriculars what if a kid doesn't do that well on a standardized test? Or he doesn't get a 1460, gets a 1450. But he started a business when he was 16 and he's the class president and he's the captain of the football team and he's got a lot of leadership potential and he's got a lot of discipline and he's balanced and he's a well rounded person. Isn't that the kind of person you would want at your school? Aren't those qualities good to have in your student body? I'll go further. It says no nepotism, meaning no legacy admissions. Okay, I was not a legacy admission when I went to college and we didn't have money and I wasn't captain of the football team, I'll tell you that too. But one of the reasons that one goes to an elite university is because there are legacy admissions there. Because there are people who come from means, who come from established families, who come from different walks of life than you. And one can pick up some of the habits of the old blue bloods or something. One can hobnob with people who in a really kind of crass way might be able to help you out down the road. If you go to school with, I don't know, the descendants of JP Morgan and the Rockefellers and Carnegie and I don't know who else that actually can help you out a little bit down the road if you're trying to get a job. One wishes also to have friendships for the good, virtuous friendships. But that can help you go to an elite university in part for that kind of networking. You go to an elite university in part for the kind of finishing that, that gives one for manners, political behavior, how to socialize, how to move among elites in society. Especially actually, especially if you come from circumstances that are less privileged. That's one of the benefits of it. So for the school to say, no, no, we don't want any of that. All we want, no GPA even. What if a student, what if a student is really, really good at history, has a deep interest in history, could be one of the great historians of his generation, but he's not that good at math. I don't know, maybe his SAT is 1450, it's not 1460, but he really specializes. To me, that's the kind of person you should have in your school. It's kind of like the IQ bell curve meme at the lower end. The Philistines of the culture say that the way you get into college and the way you succeed at college should be based on everything but standardized test scores. It should be based on your identity and what you do and all these intangible things. And your true self, man, that can't be quantified. And then in the middle of the cultural bell curve mean, they say it's all just about merit, standardized tests. But when you get back up to the top again, I don't know. I actually do think that students benefit from a little variety on campus. The problem is not the notion of taking into account extracurriculars and even identity. It's how that is being done right now. Right now, you gotta be part of all the liberal clubs and you gotta come from some socially favored or politically favored racial group or sexual group, and that's how you get in. And so if you're just a regular old white kid who's good at his schoolwork, you're in a bad spot. If you're a regular Asian kid who's good at his schoolwork, you're in a bad spot. But we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater here. Right now, the system selects for leftism and favored races, but this kind of thing is not ideal. So I say one or even two cheers for the University of Austin. I like the idea. I get it. This is kind of the 90s nostalgia ideal of merit. But even if this is a refreshing improvement over the status quo, there's more to it. There's actually more to the idea of merit than just how you did on your sat. And I did do. I wasn't captain of the football team, but I did do well on my sat. But there's more. There's more to life than how you do on your sat. Okay, back to racial politics. You know the guy, the young man who murdered Austin Metcalfe, his black kid, and he murdered this white kid who was a football star, had a bright future ahead of him, stabbed him in the heart as the white kid, allegedly because the white kid asked him to move out of his seat. So the alleged murderer was being held in jail, $1 million bond. And that bond was just reduced to $250,000. And now the kid's walking free. And he was able to pay the bond because There was a GoFundMe set up immediately after this black kid allegedly murdered the white kid. A GoFundMe was set up. And it's raised something like $400,000. So not enough for the million dollar bond. But don't worry, the judge is going to lower it to reach the still absurd huge amount of money that the black kid was able to raise because he allegedly murdered a white kid. Regardless of this alleged murderer's guilt or innocence, he raised that money as a reward for being a black teen who killed a white teen. That's why he raised that money. We all know if it were the other way around, he would not have raised that kind of money. No one would have donated. GoFundMe would have shut it down. The bond would not have been lowered, it would have been raised. He might have been executed already in a fast tracked capital punishment. We have a social and political incentive in this country undeniable from this case to reward a black teen. Not just for being arrested, not just for being misunderstood by society, specifically for allegedly murdering a white teen. And the reason for that is we have all been told through our schools, through our popular media for decades, for many of us, since we were kids, that white people are bad and black people are good. And it's as simple as that. And when black people are bad, it's actually because of white people and white people are so bad that whiteness itself needs to be abolished. There are university, speaking of the university, university classes on the need to abolish whiteness. So when a young black kid takes it into his own hands to abolish at least one instance of whiteness that is rewarded. None of this should be unexpected. This is all perfectly predictable if you understand the incentives in our culture. Speaking of death, a woman has just been accused of selling human bones on Facebook for as little as $35 and she was arrested for this. And I just gotta ask why it's wrong. I think I might have to start a segment on this show, why is this Wrong? Where you take an example of something that's obviously wrong, but according to the popular understanding of morality and pop culture, it would not be wrong. Why is it wrong? We'll get to that story tomorrow. We've run out of time for today and it's Teehee Tuesday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Noleskin at wles at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.