Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - What Happens When You Apologise to a Leftist
Aired: 2025-10-18
Duration: 12:47


=== Apologizing Politically (12:03) ===

[00:00:00]  We have here a good example of why it is frankly fruitless to apologize to the left.
[00:00:06]  And I know what you're going to say, but don't worry, we'll get to it at the end of this video.
[00:00:10]  So Chris Calgi is a chap who works for the Daily Express, a right-wing newspaper in Britain.
[00:00:17]  And he had posted on Twitter, cannot wait until my taxes no longer fund Zahra Sultana's salary, because, of course, she is an Islamo-leftist who is deeply partisan for her side against the native-majority population and always has and always will be.
[00:00:35]  And Wasted replies to him saying, cannot wait until my taxes fund deporting Zaras.
[00:00:41]  And Calgi says, even better.
[00:00:43]  Now, this was picked up by Zara Sultana, not because she is personally offended by this, but because she realized this would be a political weapon to use against the right.
[00:00:56]  She could use this to attack right-wingers arguing for deportations and try and make deportations an unpalatable thing to have in British public life.
[00:01:06]  The thing is, this is a very mainstream position at this point.
[00:01:11]  She says, a mainstream journalist calling for a British MP to be deported.
[00:01:15]  Is it because I'm Muslim?
[00:01:16]  Next time, just say it with your chest.
[00:01:18]  They'll tell you fascism in this country is a working class phenomenon.
[00:01:22]  That's a lie.
[00:01:22]  It's the ruling class and they're sniveling lackeys like Christian here who want us divided.
[00:01:27]  Don't let them win.
[00:01:28]  Okay.
[00:01:29]  So instantly, she makes it political and what they would argue is racial because of the term Muslim being a racialized term in Britain, even though it's not really racial.
[00:01:43]  But that's beside the point.
[00:01:45]  What the point is that she sees this as an angle of political attack and is taking it.
[00:01:51]  And it basically went nowhere.
[00:01:53]  So she kept ginning this up.
[00:01:55]  She says, the silence of the Westminster lobbyist, one of their own backs, calls for me, an elected member of parliament, to be deported, is telling.
[00:02:02]  No condemnation.
[00:02:03]  Just bootlicking of their proprietors and jostling for Zone 2 dinner party invites.
[00:02:08]  Our media class is rotten to the core.
[00:02:10]  Well, I won't argue with that, but yeah, there's many Westminster MPs that I don't think should be in this country.
[00:02:17]  You're one of them, Zara, by the way.
[00:02:20]  And I don't think that should be off the table because she does seem to just hate this country.
[00:02:26]  She considers it to be an evil fascist white supremacist state.
[00:02:31]  She hates the British people.
[00:02:33]  She doesn't like us at all.
[00:02:34]  And everything she does is towards the end of advancing her native ethnic interests against ours.
[00:02:43]  So yeah, I mean, sorry.
[00:02:46]  I actually can see why Chris would say, look, I'm not really a fan of that.
[00:02:50]  But this started getting attention.
[00:02:52]  Now, despite the fact that Zara Sultana is in a rival political party, the Your Party party, assuming she's still part of that, it's been a bit of a controversy with that.
[00:03:04]  You have, say, here, Bridget Phillipson, who's the Secretary of State for Education, a Labour MP, part of the Labour government, saying, well, calling for a British Muslim woman to be deported is appalling and unacceptable.
[00:03:16]  Shame on you, Christian Calgi.
[00:03:18]  You should apologise now.
[00:03:19]  This only serves to inflame division and intolerance.
[00:03:22]  A remarkable statement to be said about Zara Sultana.
[00:03:26]  One of the most bigoted, divisive and intolerant MPs in the country.
[00:03:33]  And a person who only has her seat in Parliament due to ethnic loyalty of her constituency for her because of her race and religion.
[00:03:42]  So remarkable.
[00:03:43]  Absolutely remarkable.
[00:03:45]  But Chris said nothing for quite a while, but eventually just posted this today.
[00:03:52]  I wish to apologise to Zara Sultana MP for my inappropriate response to a message on X.
[00:03:57]  It was wrong of me to do so, and I am sorry.
[00:04:00]  Taking a break from X to prioritize my mental health.
[00:04:02]  Now, of course, you have people on the right who are saying, well, don't apologize.
[00:04:06]  What's the point of apologizing for this?
[00:04:09]  And I think that Chris here is apologizing because his boss has told him to apologize.
[00:04:15]  I think that the whoever the editor of the direct boss at the Daily Express is has said, look, this is just a bit of a storm in a teacup, and it could escalate now that the government is involved.
[00:04:28]  Who knows how much further this could go?
[00:04:30]  I mean, it could well be that they report you to the police or something because you know how these things are in this country.
[00:04:38]  And so apologizing is the safest way to cover your ass.
[00:04:42]  And so that's what he's done.
[00:04:45]  Now, one might say, okay, well, he's apologized.
[00:04:48]  They've got everything they wanted.
[00:04:49]  Surely they accept the apology.
[00:04:51]  And of course, they do not accept the apology.
[00:04:55]  Zara replied with this, inappropriate.
[00:04:58]  I think the word you're looking for is racist.
[00:05:02]  Well, I thought you said it was because you were a Muslim.
[00:05:04]  Wouldn't that be religious intolerance from Chris Calgi?
[00:05:09]  But again, the term Muslim for them is a race.
[00:05:13]  If you're going to apologize, don't do it meany mouth.
[00:05:17]  Go and educate yourself.
[00:05:18]  Well, there's nothing meany-mouthed about what he said.
[00:05:21]  It was completely clear, completely straightforward.
[00:05:25]  And your employer, the Daily Express, could start by actually apologizing and providing you with some anti-racism training.
[00:05:32]  So the thing to note from this is that, as you can see, no personal offense was actually taken by Zara.
[00:05:39]  She didn't argue that she was deeply shocked about it.
[00:05:43]  She argued that this was a political problem.
[00:05:46]  You're doing this because you are racist to me because I am a Muslim.
[00:05:50]  And the first thing she does is accuse him of not apologizing for being a racist.
[00:05:57]  She hasn't taken personal offense and she's not showing any kind of acceptance in any way.
[00:06:04]  In fact, what she has done here is to go on the attack, which reveals to us that this was merely a political stratagem.
[00:06:11]  This was a ploy.
[00:06:13]  This was something that she did because she views it expressly as a way of attacking the concept of deportations in British political life.
[00:06:24]  Otherwise, she just wouldn't have responded to it.
[00:06:26]  She probably didn't notice it.
[00:06:27]  It was probably that someone brought this to her attention and she realized, ah, yes, I can use this as an avenue of political attack.
[00:06:35]  In sum, this was a nakedly political event for Zara.
[00:06:40]  And everything she does online is nakedly political.
[00:06:43]  And so what she advances here are solutions that will solve strategic goals for the left, for the cause of anti-racism.
[00:06:53]  Imagine getting the Daily Express to do anti-racism training.
[00:06:58]  Just remarkable.
[00:07:00]  But it's completely inhuman, completely politicized.
[00:07:04]  And that's the reason that there's no point apologizing because, of course, it's not like anyone's going to accept it.
[00:07:10]  This is just some activist, but he says he's sorry he was caught, not that he said it.
[00:07:14]  Yeah, that's true.
[00:07:16]  And I imagine Chris still believes that Zara Sultana should be deported.
[00:07:21]  And yet here we are playing this game, engaging in this fiction.
[00:07:26]  And you've got to remember, as I pointed out on Twitter, there's just no point apologizing over stuff like this because they despise you for your strength.
[00:07:38]  And if you show weakness, they'll despise you for that too.
[00:07:42]  They don't want you existing in their world.
[00:07:47]  You are a pawn to be taken, a stronghold to be conquered.
[00:07:52]  You are someone for whom to be rendered powerless.
[00:07:56]  They do not respect you and your right to exist in their world.
[00:08:01]  And so apologizing to them is like apologizing to the queen that you've just taken in check in a game of chess.
[00:08:09]  And you've just taken in a game of chess.
[00:08:11]  There's no point.
[00:08:12]  They're not going to forgive you.
[00:08:14]  They want to just remove the power you have and annex it to themselves.
[00:08:20]  There's nothing that is going to be gained by that.
[00:08:23]  And they'll never accept you because you don't agree with them on everything entirely.
[00:08:28]  Now, there are going to be people saying, hang on second, didn't you apologize to Jess Phillips last year on GB News?
[00:08:35]  And that is true, I did.
[00:08:37]  But I actually do think that the situation between Jess Phillips and myself was different.
[00:08:43]  First things first, I think she was personally offended.
[00:08:48]  I do think she was genuinely personally offended.
[00:08:52]  She actually seemed a bit bothered by it.
[00:08:55]  And her brother actually phoned me up.
[00:08:58]  I don't know how he got my number, but her brother phoned me up and was outraged in, I think this is like 2017, 2016, 2017, when I said I wasn't going to apologize.
[00:09:11]  And so I sat on that for the better part of a decade, which is quite remarkable.
[00:09:20]  And the political environment changed.
[00:09:23]  And when Jess Phillips managed to scrape by her election in Birmingham Yardley with a great deal of violence coming from the Muslim community, I decided that I thought it was best to actually bury the hatchet in this way.
[00:09:36]  Jess never responded to this.
[00:09:38]  I don't know whether she saw it or anything like that.
[00:09:40]  Feel free to tweet that GB News segment out her.
[00:09:43]  It's had 100,000 views so far, so that's pretty good.
[00:09:48]  Because I don't personally hate Jess Phillips.
[00:09:52]  I politically disagree with her, but I politically disagree with a lot of people.
[00:09:58]  But I did personally hurt her.
[00:10:01]  And actually, I don't really enjoy personally hurting people.
[00:10:05]  At the time, we were a lot more fringe, and I didn't know how to actually get their attention, frankly.
[00:10:13]  And the situation has changed a lot since 2016.
[00:10:18]  And that's why I apologized.
[00:10:19]  And you'll notice that I did it on my terms.
[00:10:22]  I apologized, and I did it for the reasons I think are the right reasons, not because it was demanded of me.
[00:10:29]  And I think that that's the only time you should ever apologize for something if you think you did something wrong.
[00:10:37]  And the coarsening of the political discourse in this country and the rise of political violence against every faction is definitely something I think I would like to be considered to be trying to reduce.
[00:10:54]  I'm fully committed to the idea of democracy.
[00:10:58]  I'm fully committed to the idea that everyone in this country should be able to politically organize without fear of their lives.
[00:11:06]  And I think actually at this point, we are in a position where there are people who are afraid for their lives.
[00:11:12]  And I think that actually someone like Zara Sultana knows she's putting a target on someone.
[00:11:21]  I think she knows that her community has a fringe of radicals in it who will take extreme action when they feel that they are morally justified in doing so.
[00:11:35]  And I think what she's doing here is creating the moral justification for someone to do something crazy.
[00:11:41]  And I didn't want Jess Phillips thinking that I was doing the same thing because I wasn't.
[00:11:47]  But it was a different time and we're where we are now.

=== Who Belongs Here? (00:58) ===

[00:11:52]  But anyway, the point of this is just to say if it's a nakedly political attack, which it clearly was, from Zara Sultana, there's no point offering the apology.
[00:12:04]  But in Chris's case, I think he offered the apology merely to save his skin and satisfy his bosses and make sure that there's no reason that this could go any further, which is fair.
[00:12:19]  But Zara Sultana did definitely capitalize on this as much as possible, trying to take deportations off of the table.
[00:12:28]  I don't think we should permit that, because there are many people in this country who should be deported, who shouldn't be here.
[00:12:34]  And we should be free to express that opinion, because at the end of the day, the question really does boil down to, to whom does this country belong?
[00:12:42]  And is the answer to that Pakistani Muslim communists?