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July 8, 2017 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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The Soul Of The Left, Revealed | Ep. 335
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For centuries, one of the great fears from racists was the specter of interracial relationships.
Racists in the post-Civil War era worked strenuously to enshrine anti-miscegenation laws.
The 1921 Constitution and laws of the KKK, for example, called for adherents to, quote, avow the distinction between the races.
The infamously racist birth of a nation was based on the fear of rape of white women by black men.
Modern era KKK flyers complain about the ultimate abomination, miscegenation, which decrees the death of a race.
Race mixing is against God's law.
This sort of disgusting propaganda has, thank God, fallen out of common fashion.
Except on the left.
Today, over at Jezebel, this headline actually ran.
This is a direct quote.
This is pretty incredible stuff.
Why in the world would it be so terrible for a person with one skin color to fall in love with a person of a different skin color?
In fact, the left has been generating trumped-up headlines about supposed conservative objections to Cheerios commercials and Old Navy commercials and State Farm commercials involving interracial relationships.
The left can't come up with any legit sources who actually object to these commercials, so instead they find random Twitter followers and then build a story out of them.
But Jezebel is a relatively mainstream left outlet.
There, Aditi Natashakini writes, quote, The Big Sick, which is a new show.
has been roundly lauded in the press lately, including here at Jezebel, and not without good reason.
It's a funny, heartwarming love story based on the true-life experiences of co-writers, married couple Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon.
But as much as I liked it, and I did, I also found myself exhausted, yet again, by the on-screen depiction of a brown man wanting to date a white woman, while brown women are portrayed, alternatively, as caricatures, stereotypes, inconsequential, and or the butts of a joke.
So the story is actually based on a true real-life relationship, but it's still annoying to this lady.
That's because even using a white woman as a romantic lead means, quote, in the complex hierarchy of power and race in America, paying, quote, lip service to the one notion that has shaped the history of South Asian and American culture alike.
Whiteness as the ultimate desire, the highest goal in defining oneself as an American.
So, racism against white women who have sex with brown men is fine, but racism against brown men who have sex with white women is terrible.
As Keeney says, quote, representation like this furthers white supremacy and does not engage with critiques of white allyship.
The only disagreement between Keeney and the KKK isn't on the appropriateness of interracial relationships, but on whether such relationships advance or inhibit white supremacy.
This seems weird, but intersectionality is basically the flip side of white supremacy.
Interracial sex is a no-no, because it might imply that separateness for non-white races is taboo.
The only strange element here is that many people on the left fail to see their own hypocrisy when they don't stand up to racism emanating from their own side of the aisle.
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All right, so Trump was in Europe.
Linda Sarsour makes an idiot of herself and says some pretty awful things.
We'll get to all of that in just a second, plus I will explain why I am wearing this magnificent hat.
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Okay, so the last 48 hours have been very, very rough for the left.
The entire week has been very rough for the left, actually.
President Trump was in Poland and, you know, first I should probably, before I jump right into the news, I should explain why I'm wearing this hat.
I was in Texas.
The last couple of days I was in Texas.
Texas is just a wonderful state.
It's a wonderful state.
We went to a little town in the middle of nowhere and we were talking with some of the people there and they were talking about how they were basically just able to build their houses without any state permitting, without any local permitting.
They just go out and build a house.
Like, that's America, man.
I mean, that's awesome.
In California, you have to get a permit to retile your bathroom.
I mean, legitimately, you have to get a permit to retile your bathroom.
In my house.
It is an amazing state.
It's why everything looks brand shiny new over in the state of Texas.
And so in honor of the great state of Texas, I am wearing this hat.
We took a picture yesterday of me standing next to a truck wearing this hat.
It does look like I'm about to release a really bad country album.
And I do understand, we'll talk a little bit more about this later, but I do understand that me in a cowboy hat is a little bit incongruous.
But, um, I have a piece of music that I will play that I think will help fix all of that.
Okay, so, back to the news.
So, President Trump is over in Poland, and he gives what is a very, very good speech.
His speech in Poland is, I think, the best speech of his presidency.
I think it was much better, actually, than his speech in Saudi Arabia.
I was not a big fan of his speech in Saudi Arabia.
I thought it was weak tea.
I thought it didn't really focus in on the issues that needed to be talked about.
But his speech in Poland I thought was really quite good.
I thought the Trump speech in Poland Really called out the clash of civilizations that is happening.
He is not shying away from the fact that Western civilization is in a Samuel Huntington style battle with other civilizations that are attempting to rise and take its place.
So Trump had this to say.
He said that we are going to have to ask whether the West has the will to survive.
The defense of the West ultimately rests not only on means, but also on the will of its people to prevail and be successful and get what you have to have.
The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.
Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost?
Do we have enough respect for our citizens to protect our borders?
Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it?
We can have The largest economies and the most lethal weapons anywhere on earth.
But if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive.
And everything that he says there is 100% true.
You know, I think the values that he talks about preserving, I would like to see him talk about a little bit more.
Explicate.
What are those values that are worth preserving?
And it's not just the value of being able to do whatever you want.
It's Judeo-Christian moral systems that suggest not only that you have rights, but that you have responsibilities.
And I'd like to hear Trump talk a little bit more about what personal behavior looks like in that context, what political behavior looks like in that context, why it is that government was instituted in the first place.
Like, foundational principles need to be retaught.
Trump obviously can get eyeballs whenever he wants, and I think that that's a wonderful quality in a president.
I would like to see him use it for good.
I think he did that in Poland, and so I thought that that was a really first-rate speech.
Naturally, the left hated it.
Trump also went hard at Russia in the speech.
He actually talked about Russia invading Ukraine.
He said that he opposes Russian action in Syria.
He's talked about instituting missile defense in Poland, which is something that Obama withdrew from.
And, uh, and, you know, all of that the media ignored because that cuts against their narrative, which is that Trump is in Putin's pocket.
Here he is speaking very proudly to the Pogols about the fact that they need missile defense, about the fact that Vladimir Putin on their borders is not a good thing.
And he is, uh, and he's being scoriated by the media nonetheless.
So here is Trump talking about Russia a little bit during that speech yesterday.
We urge Russia to cease its destabilizing activities in Ukraine and elsewhere, and its support for hostile regimes, including Syria and Iran, and to instead join the community of responsible nations in our fight against common enemies and in defense of civilization itself.
Okay, so he's trying to draw a useful line here, and I think that it is useful.
So it's funny, when it comes to Russia, a lot of people on the left have a very different story than when it comes to Saudi Arabia, for example.
So they'll say about Saudi Arabia and members of the Islamic world, we need them as allies in the war on terror, so you have to make overtures to them.
When it comes to Russia, they'll say you can never make an overture to Russia, because if you do, you're just emboldening them.
These positions are somewhat inconsistent.
I think what Trump is doing here is he's saying to Russia, listen, You go any further and we're going to stop you, but why don't you join us?
Now, do I think that's delusional?
Do I think Russia's actually going to join us in our battle on behalf of Western civilization?
No.
Unlike a lot of the people at sort of the alt-right, I don't think that Russia is part of the common cause for Western civilization, nor have they really ever been.
I mean, Russia has always had its own interests at heart.
Trying to convert them into modern-day Germany or modern-day France or modern-day Britain is just silly.
It's not happening.
What Trump says there is just fine.
There's really not a huge problem with it, and it's not any different than anything that Bush said or anything that Obama said.
The media went nuts on all of this.
So, as always, the media decided that this was racist and sexist and Nazi.
Okay, so, Vox has a piece today called, Trump's speech in Poland sounds like an alt-right manifesto.
And here's what it says.
This morning in Warsaw, Poland, President Donald Trump issued a battle cry for family, for freedom, for country, and for God in a speech that often resorted to rhetorical conceits typically used by the European and American alt-right.
Wait, what?
So, um, family is something I talk about a lot, freedom is something I talk about a lot, country is something I talk about a lot, and God is something I talk about a lot.
I think the alt-right are a bunch of crap bags, okay?
So, I was unaware that the language of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln and And every great American thinker of the past two centuries, all of which focused on family and freedom and country and God, I'm not sure what is... that's not blood and soil.
Like, the alt-right focuses on blood and soil.
In fact, the alt-right basically says that freedom is not even something that is necessary, that freedom can be quashed by a powerful central government.
On behalf of the quote-unquote civilization, right?
The alt-right is not a small government group.
And the alt-right, large segments of the alt-right are not pro-God.
I mean, a lot of the alt-right thinkers actually think that God, Judeo-Christian values are weakening.
They're sort of Nietzschean thinkers in many ways.
So it's a very weird critique from the left.
They're trying to fit an ideological square peg into the round hole of the alt-right.
It says, drafted by Steve Miller, the architect of the travel ban, Trump's speech used the type of dire last chance warning often utilized by the far right on both sides of the Atlantic.
The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.
JFK said very similar type stuff in the 1960s.
And when Trump says, do we have confidence in our values to defend them at any cost?
Can we protect our borders?
Will we preserve our civilization?
Why is that a far-right thing?
This is not a far-right thing.
This has been typical American rhetoric, again, for two centuries.
And it is the central question for any country.
is whether you have values you are willing to preserve, and will you preserve those by internal action in order to preserve freedom, and will you preserve those by outward-facing action.
But the left is so concerned with labeling Trump a Nazi that they are willing to take language that is eminently non-Nazi and then try and pretend that it's Nazi.
So Peter Beinart, who is just an intellectual sinkhole.
Peter Beinart is a Hamas apologist.
He's respected on the left because he's anti-Israel and he's Jewish.
He has a piece in The Atlantic In which he says, the racial and religious paranoia of Trump's Warsaw speech.
He says, in his speech in Poland on Thursday, Donald Trump referred ten times to the West and five times to our civilization.
His white nationalist supporters will understand exactly what he means.
Why is that white nationalism?
Like, I'm Jewish.
I'm part of our civilization.
The West is a Judeo-Christian one.
A Judeo-Christian one.
The West is not just a location as Beinart notes, but it is an ideology, and it's an ideology based on Judeo-Christian values that undergird a system of constitutional freedoms.
That's what the West Was, right?
I mean, that's what we're talking about here.
But Beinart redefines the West and redefines our civilization to make them racist, sexist.
I mean, honestly, if you can't use the word our civilization, the phrase our civilization, or the West, then I don't know what you're talking about.
Like, is Aragorn a racist in Lord of the Rings when he says men of the West?
Was Churchill, when he talked about the West, the defense of the West, was he a racist, sexist?
I mean, what is this nonsense?
You know, Beinart says the West is not a geographic term.
Poland is further east than Morocco.
France is further east than Haiti.
Well, so what?
It's a culture.
I think everyone acknowledges that.
No one says it's West on a map.
The West is not an ideological or economic term either.
India is the world's largest democracy.
Japan is among its most economically advanced nations.
No one considers them part of the West.
Well, that's actually not super true, actually, now.
I mean, Japan is largely considered, if not technically a part of the West, then an outgrowth of the West.
I mean, Japan is in the Far East, but their government is much closer to the West than it is to what we would typically term, you know, the quote-unquote East.
This is the thing.
When we talk about the West, the polar opposite of the West in geography is the East, but the polar opposite of the West in political terms is not the West.
It's Islamic civilization, Islamist civilization, right?
That's what we're talking about.
The West is a series of values.
He says, the West is, but Beinart says, the West is a racial and religious term.
To be considered Western, a country must be largely Christian, preferably Protestants or Catholic, and largely white.
Where there is ambiguity about a country's Westernness, it's because there's ambiguity about or tension between these two characteristics.
That's, that's nonsense.
Israel is a Western country.
Israel is pretty far East and entirely Jewish.
It's all Jewish and Arab.
I mean, what?
But again, the left is so extreme now, they've really boxed themselves in because they are so extreme that they have to, and they're so interested in getting Trump, that they actually have to promote radical, insane rhetoric in order to get where they want to go.
They're defending such an untenable position that they feel the necessity to pretend that mainstream rhetoric is now alt-right rhetoric on the part of Trump.
Now, what's weird about this is that there's plenty of stuff that Trump has done that you can label alt-right friendly.
I mean, during the primaries, he was routinely retweeting and associating with members of the alt-right.
I mean, his White House chief strategist said that Breitbart was an outlet for the alt-right.
Like, you don't have to stretch to get here.
But the left is so out, they're so insane now, they've lost their minds so much, they've lost their moorings, that any reference to the West is considered fascist or alt-right?
Goodness gracious.
I mean, Winston Churchill spent his life opposing fascism and communism, and he talked about the West incessantly.
And I guess that would make him, according to Peter Beinart, a racist and a bigot.
The left is so far left now that they are embracing... I mean, the left was unmasked over the last 48 hours between their attacks on Trump for using the terms the West and our civilization, and them going after Mark Penn.
Mark Penn is a consultant, a Democratic consultant, who wrote a column saying that the Democrats should move back to the center if they wish to win elections again.
Which makes a lot of sense.
If you want to win all of the states that Trump just took from you, then you're going to have to abandon the intersectionality garbage that you've been pushing for the last several years.
Mark Penn is getting just excoriated by the entire Democratic Party.
Here's Mark Penn on Fox News getting destroyed by another member of the left.
Look at what happened in the last two years of the Obama administration and what happened in that primary.
I think the Sanders campaign and its strength also, I think, pushed Hillary Clinton to the left.
The Democratic Party got fundamentally repositioned much farther to the left and out of touch with working class voters.
Working-class voters really want to see the values of hard work, family, religion as a strong part of a party that they could support for economic progress.
And I think they got left behind in the shift that occurred at that time.
Well, you know, I have breaking news for Mark.
It's not the 1990s.
You know, the administration that he served in locked up more black African-American men than those enslaved in 1850.
So everyone doesn't have fond memories of the fallout of the 90s administration.
Right now, it's not about the Democrats losing their identity, the party.
It's about the identity of the messenger.
not the message.
I'm not talking about going back to the past.
I'm really saying it's time for us to look at new issues.
Hey, let's look at the concentration of wealth and power in the tech industry.
Is that working out for working people?
Let's look at gig economy jobs.
Do they have the kind of… I mean, you can see he's saying reasonable things about the Bill Clinton era.
The Bill Clinton era was the most successful era for Democrats in the last 20 years.
More successful than Obama.
Obama got a lot of things done in his first two years, and then he destroyed the entire Democratic Party wholesale across the country.
Bill Clinton actually got a bunch of things done that ended up paving the way for a more successful country because he was willing to move to the center.
I mean, for all of Bill Clinton's myriad flaws as a human being and as a political thinker, He was at least willing to move to the middle in order to get some good stuff done, like welfare reform.
I mean, he actually, after his massive tax increases, he actually lowered the capital gains tax.
But the Democrats are so crazy, they're so far to the left, they're so ensconced with intersectionality and Bernie Sanders socialism, that they are destroying their own party.
And I'm going to get to Linda Sarsour in just a second, because Linda Sarsour's speech that came out yesterday is perfect proof of this.
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Okay, so the greatest proof that the left has completely lost its moorings and is just pandering to the most radical constituency on every side came out yesterday.
So yesterday, Linda Sarsour, who is just an egregiously awful human being.
Linda Sarsour is the Women's March organizer, and the left loves her.
Bernie Sanders tweeted out that he loved her and he wanted her support.
President Obama gave her an Agents of Change Award at the White House.
So I'm going to give you a little bit of background about Linda Sarsour before we play the clip that's got everybody buzzing, right?
So she actually said on Sunday, she called for a jihad against Trump, right?
She used that word.
And we'll talk about whether she meant that peacefully or non-peacefully.
But first, I think we need to set the stage for who Linda Sarsour is, because the left keeps saying, well, don't take that quote out of context.
Okay, well, I don't want to take the quote out of context, so I'll play it in context and explain it.
I also don't want to take Linda Sarsour out of context, okay?
She's not just some rando who used the word jihad to mean a moderate Muslim struggle within themselves for greater spirituality, okay?
She's not Dr. Zudi Jasser.
I mean, she's not any of these people.
She is a very, very extreme person.
For example, Here's what she tweeted about Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a victim of female genital mutilation at the hands of Muslims.
She is now an atheist and she speaks out against radical Islamism.
And Linda Sarsour tweeted out about her and Brigitte Gabriel, another ex-Muslim.
Brigitte Gabriel equals Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
She's asking for an ass-whippin'.
I wish I could take their vaginas away.
They don't deserve to be women.
This is Linda Sarsour, the leader of the Women's March.
She's a feminist icon.
This is what she tweeted about the Honor Diaries, which was a movie about honor killings and how they are now endemic in parts of the Muslim world.
She didn't like that, so she tweeted, So she can't argue with any of the content.
She's just gonna label anybody who funds a movie about honor killings a hate group.
Okay, here's a tweet about Sharia law.
Linda Sarsour is a big fan of Sharia law.
Here's what she had to say about Sharia law.
And I'm not talking about Sharia law like the internal governance of the Muslim community when you have a financial dispute and you and your fellow Muslims go to like an Islamic court.
We have that in Judaism too.
It's called Beit Din.
It's not that big a deal, right?
It's an ecclesiastical court.
But that's not what she's talking about.
She's talking about the governance of a country by Islamic law including areas including criminal law.
She says, you'll know when you're living under Sharia law if suddenly all your loans and credit cards become interest-free.
Sounds nice, doesn't it?
Well, I mean, number one, it doesn't sound very nice because you can't buy anything in countries that have only interest-free loans and credit cards, because who in their right mind would provide such things, right?
Interest actually happens to be... I'm writing something about this now, biblical takes on interest.
Interest happens to be a rather crucial part of the financial markets, but she's tweeted worse things about Sharia law.
She's tweeted with regard to women's driving in Saudi Arabia, for example.
She was asked about, well, if Sharia law is so great, why can't women drive in Saudi Arabia?
And here's what she tweeted, right?
She tweeted, She tweeted, 10 weeks of paid maternity leave in Saudi Arabia.
Yes, paid.
And you're worrying about women driving?
Puts us to shame.
I mean, just ridiculous.
Just ridiculous, right?
I mean, she's defending Saudi Arabia because they have paid maternity leave?
Well, maybe that's because women in Saudi Arabia aren't working very often.
Okay?
And not allowing them to drive is still a rather large problem.
Okay?
Saudi Arabia is not famous for its women's rights.
She also happens to be a close associate of many groups that are associated with terrorism.
The speech that she actually gave, which she gave at the Islamic Society of North America, which has been linked to terror funding groups for years and years and years and years.
And when it comes to terror incidents, she has a long and unpleasant history.
of saying ridiculous things about terror incidents.
So for example, here's what she said about the underwear bomber.
You remember the guy who tried to put a bomb in his underwear and then bomb a plane coming into Detroit on Christmas Day during the Bush administration.
She said underwear bomber was CIA all along.
Why did I already know that?
Shame on us, scaring the American people.
Okay, the underwear bomber was not CIA gang.
He was a radical Muslim who was attempting to bomb an American plane.
So this is who Linda Sarsour is.
She's also posed next to people who are convicted of crimes in association with Hamas in photographs.
She has bragged about having relatives in jail in Israel.
She has tweeted out, I believe, photos of people getting ready to stone Israeli soldiers.
She's a really egregious figure, and the left has embraced her.
Now what they embraced now, what they've done now, is they've actually embraced her talking about jihad against the Trump administration.
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