Courage Against Critical Race Theory from Governor Ron DeSantis
Charlie presents even further proof—as if it were needed—that Ron DeSantis is truly the best governor in America. Following his courageous decision to ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory in Florida schools, Governor DeSantis provides a roadmap for every Republican Governor in America to do the same. As Charlie wonders why they won't, he explains, in-depth, what CRT is and why it's one of the most dangerous threats to our republic in many, many years.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey everybody, Ron DeSantis impresses again with his fight against critical race theory.
Where are the other Republican governors?
It's time for us to understand the threat of this ideology rooted in postmodernism, rooted in critical theory.
We dive into it with the specifics on critical race theory and how it's impacting our country.
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Critical race theory, we are pushing back.
Thanks to Ron DeSantis.
Buckle up.
Here we go.
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I remember the first time that I was able to go to a five-star hotel.
Almost every single vacation I had after that was compared to that five-star hotel.
It was a great experience, of course.
You're able to see the level of service.
You're able to see the quality of food.
And almost everything from that point forward is compared to that.
Every vacation you take, you say, yeah, that was a nice vacation, but it wasn't as nice as the four seasons in Philadelphia.
And the same can be said for politics.
And it also makes you ask the question: why aren't other hotels at that level?
Now, of course, that metaphor might seem somewhat unrelated to politics, but the more I see Governor Ron DeSantis, I ask myself the question, first of all, how incredible his leadership is right now.
But also, I ask the obvious question, why is he the only Republican governor in the country saying these things?
Why is he the only Republican governor that has an open state, that does not have a mask mandate, that has open schools?
Now, other states have opened their schools, but he was on top of the Chinese coronavirus and against lockdowns in May of last year.
He is suing big tech.
In fact, passing a piece of legislation that allows the citizens of the great state of Florida to challenge big tech in the courts and possibly even fine them.
He is an anti-rioting piece of legislation.
He has the most secure elections in the country.
They had all of their election results in by 9:30 Eastern, despite being the third most populated state in the country, the second oldest state in the country, yet some of the lowest hospitalization rates, the lowest virus rates in the entire country.
And we've been warning for some time here on this program the virus of critical race theory.
Critical race theory comes from critical theory, which is an extension of post-modernism, a theory that is built on complete garbage from Jacques Derrida, Michelle Foucault, and others around the basic idea that the only thing that matters in the world is the power dynamic of oppressor versus oppressed.
Critical race theory brings that viewpoint, and I'm oversimplifying it.
I could do a five-hour podcast on this.
And most of what I have learned, by the way, is from my friend's book, James Lindsay, Cynical Theories, who he wrote with Helen Pluckrose.
And they bring that view of power struggle, of class struggle to race, that all white people are in charge, all black people are being oppressed.
This is a very serious problem.
And it's not just a fringe viewpoint in the academy, it is in our military, it's in our civil service, it's in our corporations, it's in most schools.
Now, what an amazing opportunity for Governor Brian Kemp to come out in front of something that is a big concern for the conservative base.
Brian Kemp in Georgia could be coming out and saying, I think critical race theory is wrong and has no place in Georgia, or even Governor Greg Abbott.
Instead, it's all quiet on the Western Front.
And it seems as if there's only two governors in the entire country that are worthy of recognition.
And it's either that the other Republican governors are confused, they don't have courage.
I'm really trying to understand it.
Either that or Governor Ron DeSantis has the unique combination of a high IQ and lots of courage, something that is missing in far too many people in the Republican Party.
Listen to Governor Ron DeSantis go head on with the threat of critical race theory.
Play tape.
Florida civics curriculum will incorporate foundational concepts with the best materials, and it will expressly exclude unsanctioned narratives like critical race theory and other unsubstantiated theories.
Let me be clear: there's no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory.
Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money.
It's phenomenal.
Standing ovation is what he deserves for that.
And for every moment that we dedicate on this program, applauding and supporting and encouraging Governor Ron DeSantis, I can't help but think: where is Governor Ducey doing this?
You know that it's the curriculum in the Arizona State Board of Education to teach teachers that babies are racist, that white supremacy is something that every white child has within them from the moment that they are born.
That we should judge people based on their skin color.
And yet Florida, which is supposed to be a battleground state, is courageously leading on this issue.
Governor Brian Kemp, who is completely worthless.
He is not smart and he has no courage.
He's nowhere to be found on this issue, on voter integrity, on the lockdowns, nothing.
How about Governor Lee from Tennessee?
I've heard nothing from him on this.
Governor DeWine from Ohio.
The point is that Republican governors, if you want to actually gain support in your state, what a great issue.
And you might say, well, Charlie, critical race theory, I've heard you talk about this a little bit.
How does it actually apply?
Isn't it just some sort of esoteric academic theory?
No.
This is the instruction of your children, if they happen to be white, when they're 12, 13, or 14 years old, or even younger, that they are racist merely because they exist.
Theroot.com, which is a website full of very angry writers.
It is the angriest website on the planet.
And in fact, it is the most bigoted website.
It is, the KKK would have found a wonderful home at theroot.com.
The only difference is that the root is mostly black writers, so it's the black equivalent of the KKK.
The headline of their article yesterday that they wrote is, Whiteness is a pandemic.
Damon Young wrote this.
He's also an opinion writer for the New York Times.
And he argues that whiteness is, I'm reading, per quote, this is quote, this is what Governor DeSantis is fighting against.
Whiteness is a public health crisis.
It shortens life expectancies.
It pollutes air.
It constricts equilibrium.
It devastates forests.
It melts ice caps.
It sparks and funds wars.
It flattens dialects.
It infects consciousness and it kills people.
Oh, is that all?
Are you sure it doesn't also cause hurricanes, natural disasters, earthquake?
He almost said that.
He said, white people and people who are not white, my mom included, there will be people who die in 2050 because of white supremacy-induced decisions from 1850.
Now, mind you, there is no evidence to support this whatsoever.
There is no empirical research to show that the legacy of slavery has any sort of significant impact on blacks in America right now.
And I could prove it to you.
But here is what, this is what Ron DeSantis is fighting against.
And if every Republican was smart and if every Republican had courage, which is a very rare combination, because either they're very smart and they have no courage and they're bought by the big corporations, which are part of the woke industrial complex, or they have tons of courage and they have really very little wisdom.
And so they're just all over the place.
And God bless those people because we need them to.
But Ron DeSantis is articulate, he's focused, and he has phenomenal courage.
And the article continues, and we are going to keep on going through this by Damon Young.
Get this.
Whiteness, white supremacy is a virus like other viruses that will not die until there are no bodies left for it to infect.
Is he calling for a genocide?
Sure sounds like it.
But this is perfectly acceptable scholarship in our schools.
And this is what Ron DeSantis is fighting against.
Okay, this is a guy that writes for the New York Times.
It's not some fringe, black supremacist blog.
Well, it kind of is.
It's the root.
But this guy is allegedly within the mainstream of the zeitgeist of our country, the zeitgeist, which means the spirit of our times.
It's that which is acceptable within discourse.
I'm going to read a direct quote from this piece.
And all under this idea that why isn't every Republican governor in the country speaking out against critical race theory like Ron DeSantis?
Why does Ron DeSantis have to lead on the tech issue, lead on the rioting issue, lead on the voter integrity issue, lead on the lockdown issue, lead on the school issue?
And it really actually goes to show that you only get a couple courageous people per generation.
It really goes to show that you have these other Republicans that quite honestly, they want to be a very mediocre governor and get a highway named after them and retire.
That's basically what their idea of success is.
Where Ron DeSantis actually believes in the Constitution.
Ron DeSantis understands the ideas behind it.
Ron DeSantis has Churchillian courage.
And I do not say that lightly.
Unlike Brian Kemp, who I don't know if he'll get a highway named after him, maybe a garbage dump in northern Atlanta.
Okay.
So I'm going to read, quote, white supremacy is a virus that, like other viruses, will not die until there are no bodies left for it to infect, which means that the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it.
I guess a vaccine could work too, but we've had over 400 years to develop one.
So I won't hold my breath.
He is a contributing opinion editor for the New York Times.
Now, I want to just reply, I want to read this sentence again.
And imagine if it didn't say white supremacy, but if it said blackness.
Blackness is a virus that, like other viruses, will not die until there are no bodies left, which means the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it.
If that were to be said, Damon Young would rightly be called a bigot and a racist.
But the way that they view racism is not that racism is a mindset, which it is, and an evil mindset, but they view racism as a description of a power structure.
Remember, this comes from postmodernism, critical race theory.
It's all tied together.
And the name of this article is Whiteness is a pandemic.
Understand that a majority of school children right now, as I am doing this broadcast, are learning this.
This is not some sort of fringe theory.
And while you catch your breath or pull your car over to the side of the road as I share this with you, understand if you teach a generation that whiteness is a pandemic, where do you think that is actually going to lead?
What do you do to a pandemic?
You crush the virus.
Well, then you crush whiteness.
Oh, that's what Damon Young says.
Locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it.
These ideas are now at the top levels of the United States military.
The people that control our drones, our aircraft carriers, Tomahawk missiles, our corporations, our surveillance state.
The only way that we successfully push back against this is by courageous, Churchillian-like leaders like Ron DeSantis.
It's the only way where we call it out for what it is.
And Ron DeSantis said it clearly.
He said, not one red penny or one red cent of Florida taxpayer dollars will go to subsidize something that makes Florida children hate their country and hate each other.
What a great summary of critical race theory.
And that is precisely the type of curriculum and the type of ideology that is prevailing in our country.
And what's so funny is that the liberals and the leftists that have their BLM incorporated yard signs, they think as if they're going to be immune to this sort of mob eventually coming for them.
Of course not.
For them, everything when it comes to politics is the politics of identity, not the politics of ideas, not the politics of dialogue and discourse, dialogue coming from the Greek word through reason.
They don't want that.
They don't want to actually go to the exploration of truth.
They would rather be in charge by making you feel bad about your existence than ruling with an iron fist.
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Most Americans don't walk around every single moment thinking about race.
They don't.
The truth of the matter is that in the 1990s and early 2000s, when I grew up in America, most people were thinking about their own personal conduct, their character, their future, how their decisions will impact their ultimate goal, their aim, their purpose.
And that sort of a society was a very decent place to grow up in.
There is a small snapshot in American history that will be written from 1988 to 2008, right up until the election of Barack Obama, where racial tensions were going down, violent crime was going down, where young children were being taught that character matters a lot more than skin color, that bigots and racists only care about the melanin content in your skin.
And then Barack Obama became president and the critical race theorists started to get a platform.
And this has grown steadily over the last 12 to 13 years.
And I remember in 2017, one of our turning point USA groups at Texas State University and also producer Connor, who helps us out tremendously here on the Charlie Kirk show, was fighting this at Texas State.
So this is not anything, nothing new.
Let me read this story in Texas.
And of course, Greg Abbott and all of the Republicans in Texas were MIA, right, Connor?
They didn't really do anything.
This is in our schools.
And you just kind of shrug it off when it happens.
It says that white DNA is an abomination.
Not whiteness.
Your DNA is an abomination.
This is in Texas State University.
It says, and this is from a couple years ago.
Whiteness will be over because we want it to be.
And when it dies, there will be millions of cultural zombies aimlessly wandering across a vastly changed landscape.
And I quote, white death will be the liberation for all.
And that whiteness, quote, is a construct used to perpetuate a system of racist power.
And then the academic paper continues to say, until then, remember this, I hate you, white people, because you shouldn't exist.
This was published in a school newspaper at Texas State University.
You are both the dominant apparatus on the planet, not true, and the void in which all other cultures upon meeting you die.
So that's what young people are learning when they go to college.
And then they get to read the New York Times from Damon Young, who reads, quote, which means the only way to stop it is to locate it, white people, isolate it, extract it, and kill it, calling for the murder and massacre of a large portion of the American population.
But that's considered scholarship in the American Academy.
So all this ties together with the only Republican who seems to understand the threat of the lockdowns, of school closures, the mental health issue, rioting, voter integrity, Ron DeSantis.
I feel as if maybe the other Republican governors across the country, there's almost this disinformation loop that they're not seeing the same information Ron DeSantis is seeing.
And so for every Republican governor out there, why are you not like DeSantis?
He's not doing anything that difficult for, I don't know, the governor of Kansas.
Oh, she's a Democrat, actually, I think.
Bad example.
The governor of Wyoming, the governor of Texas, Arkansas, Iowa, Kim Reynolds, DeWine in Ohio.
Step up.
We need you right now.
The more noise, the more voices of people that in duly elected positions start to speak out.
And Governor Christy Noam has been great.
She's been terrific.
Governor Gianforte in Montana is a friend of mine.
He's been speaking out.
I'm going to see him, I think, in about a month and a half.
But largely, it has been silent, especially when it comes to this lie of critical race theory.
And so this is what your children are learning right here.
And it's worth deconstructing because that's what they do to us.
It's actually the school of philosophy.
It's called deconstructionism, which is that anything that came before me was a mistake.
Let's pick it apart.
Let's find the problems with it.
Let's invalidate its narrative.
And so the big claim of postmodernism is they do not believe in meta-narratives.
They do not believe that there's a right way to tell a story.
A great example of this would be: you could use the King Arthur story.
You could use the biblical narrative.
The short summary of the biblical narrative would be that God created you in his image.
He told you not to do something.
We rebelled.
We fell.
Sin is the distance from God.
He gave us another shot to come back into connection with him through ultimate redemption.
And if we accept that gift through the sacrifice that we cannot earn, we do not deserve, but it's a free gift, then you're able to be back in connection with your creator in eternal life.
That is the short summary of the biblical narrative.
They would reject that.
Instead, the postmodernists would say that is a white supremacist way to read the Bible.
Instead, the correct way to read the Bible is, what about the displacement of the Palestinian people through the conquerors of Israel?
What about who is Mary Magdalene?
Really?
The point is that they would deconstruct the text, right?
They would not take the actual reading of what the intent of the text is or what it says.
They would find ways to try and delegitimize it.
And so this is one of the claims in this article that says that whiteness is a pandemic and that we must kill white people by Damon Young.
It says, quote, whiteness extends back 400 years and has tentacles clawing everywhere.
White supremacy exists here in America, which is everywhere.
Thomas Sowell has some phenomenal scholarship on all of this.
And if every college student and high school student was required to read Thomas Sowell, our country would be a more decent, logical, and reasonable place.
And I encourage every single person watching and listening to this to go seriously read Thomas Sowell and understand his ideas.
He's, of course, a black economist.
He grew up in Harlem, studied under Milton Friedman, and his scholarship on race in particular is among the best.
And so Thomas Sowell makes the argument that the legacy of slavery, which is the core point of argument for the critical race theorists and the bigots that write for the New York Times, is that black people are suffering today because of the legacy of slavery.
And Thomas Sowell makes the argument, which I completely agree with because the data is there, is that black people were getting richer at a higher rate than white people before the Great Society Act passed, before Lyndon Baines Johnson passed the Great Society program.
In fact, black poverty was plummeting far before the welfare state was ever implemented.
In fact, blacks were more likely to be married in two-parent households before the Great Society Act in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, more so than white families.
This idea of the legacy of slavery, the question is, why is it then that once slavery was ended, black life or the black quality of life was improving dramatically.
And then we passed the Great Society Act, and the farther away we get, the further we are from slavery, the worse off blacks get.
Doesn't that sort of delegitimize the argument?
Why is it that blacks that were closer to the actual action of slavery were doing far better in relation to the times that they were in than the blacks of today?
Thomas Sowell makes the argument that racism is an attitude in people's minds.
Discrimination is an action.
Racism is not something that you can feel or touch.
It is an attitude.
It is a belief system.
And if you look at the fundamental issues in the black community, the number one issue is absent fathers.
Now, you read this Damon Young piece that says whiteness is a pandemic.
Almost no college, no professor, and very few students are being exposed to this.
So he makes the argument here that white supremacy, which is a, by the way, it's an undefined villain.
Do you notice that?
They're never able to specify exactly what white supremacy is.
Is it a person?
Is it a cause?
Is it an organization?
Is it a region?
Is it a people?
It's just very vague, and it's intentionally vague.
It's intentionally vague because once they start to be more specific, well, then we'll be able to either agree or cross-examine or delegitimize their argument.
So the less specific they're able to be, the more power they're able to assume under that narrative.
It says white supremacy is a virus.
Remember, this is a New York Times columnist.
This is not some Black Panther member in Georgia that, like other viruses, will not die until there are no bodies left for it to infect.
So basically, we either have to go abolish all white people or we have to go fight white supremacy in our time.
Basically, calling for the genocide of white people is what Damon Young is arguing for.
Whiteness is a pandemic.
This is where this is headed.
Our education system is creating the most racist generation since the KKK and Jim Crow.
Most Americans do not walk around obsessed about other people's skin color.
They want that to be the case.
And the obvious question that we get emailed us all the time at freedom at charliekirk.com is why?
It's because once people start organizing themselves based on tribal group, they become a lot easier to command and control, more likely to obey.
You see, multicultural pluralism, which for a brief moment in American history we actually enjoyed, made us the least racist country in the history of the world and the most decent country.
I still think we're there, but we're losing it because of our intentional actions and intentional steps that we are taking.
And you look at this Texas student newspaper column from a couple of years ago.
Where were the parents in Texas doing anything about this?
They didn't.
They just shrugged it off and they laughed at it, where it said, white death will mean the liberation for all.
It says, until this, remember, I hate you because you shouldn't exist, white people.
This was an article written in the Texas State School newspaper a couple of years ago.
And this is one of hundreds of examples that we have.
And so this racial reckoning that we're supposed to be told because of George Floyd's death, which more and more looks like a drug overdose, not a police officer that murdered him, but the jury will decide that.
We have a video completely on that topic.
And there's so much misinformation around that.
It's stunning.
Because of that one specific incident, we're supposed to unravel all the ties that bind us together.
This is the most important fight that's happening that most Republicans are afraid of.
The reason why the Democrats and liberals have been able to assume so much power so quickly is because most decent people are afraid of being called the R-word.
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And you know what that means.
No more invites to parties.
You'll lose friends.
You'll lose jobs.
You'll be blacklisted.
So people say, okay, I'll go along even though I know it's wrong.
And the broader point is, if that continues, this beautiful gift in society we've been given will crumble.
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All of this critical race theory, the hyperracialization of America, caring about people's skin color, not character, is now right in the news cycle around the tragic killing of eight people in Georgia.
Now, this story was very slow to surface to the top of news.
Usually when there's a mass shooting, immediately it gets politicized for gun control.
However, the Democrats and the activist media, including the New York Times, have realized that there's a better way to get power.
You see, I remember growing up that whenever there was a mass shooting, Democrats immediately went to gun control arguments instantaneously.
Now they realize there's something that sells papers better and is able to get public support, and that is the race war that they want to see happen in America.
Remember, the critical race theorist Damon Young, who says whiteness is a pandemic, and all the education of our children, they are focused on making America more racist, caring more about people's skin.
And so the front page of the New York Times says rampage in Georgia deepens fears of rising anti-Asian hatred in the United States.
So Trevor Noah, who's a very irresponsible person, and he's just not funny.
He isn't, but he's an angry man.
Let's play Cut 79.
Here's what he had to say about the tragedy.
And yes, it is a tragedy.
Play tape.
This is truly horrifying.
Eight people dead, six of them Asian women.
And soon we'll learn all about them and who they were in life.
But all we know right now is that they are dead and a 21-year-old white man with a gun killed them.
We saw it coming.
We see these things happening.
I mean, I'm so done with this.
Trevor Noah, where were you two weeks ago when a black man killed an Asian immigrant in San Francisco?
Did you even cover that?
He was profiled for his Asian American race by a black man.
Do you know that most of the anti-Asian American hatred in the country has been black on Asian American, almost all of it?
So this is the latest in the narrative that they're trying to push.
But the vast majority of all these conflicts, according to The Guardian, according to the BBC, according to The Washington Post, has been black on Asian American.
But Trevor Noah, that doesn't fit your narrative, does it?
And by the way, there is no evidence, and there might be evidence that presents itself, but there is no evidence to show that this was racially motivated.
One more tape of Trevor Noah making a fool of himself, Cut 80.
Why are people so invested in solving the symptoms instead of the cause?
America does this time and time again.
A country that wants to fight the symptoms and not the underlying conditions that cause those symptoms to take effect.
Racism, misogyny, gun violence, mental illness.
And honestly, this incident might have been all of those things combined because it doesn't have to be one thing on its own.
America has a rich tapestry of mass shooting motivations.
Yeah, you know, like the 727 black-on-black murders that have happened in Chicago the last couple of years.
Where have you been on that, Trevor Noah?
700-plus black people have been killed by other black people in Chicago in the last couple of years.
Cut 81, the officer debunks everything Trevor Noah says.
Remember, Trevor Noah is supposed to be a comedian.
Play tape.
The suspect did take responsibility for the shootings.
He stood that early on once we began the interviews with him.
He claims that these, and as the chief said, this is still early, but he does claim that it was not racially motivated.
He apparently has an issue, what he considers a sex eviction, and sees these locations as something that allows him to go to these places.
And it's a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate.
So the activist media is quick to hyper-racialize all of this, yet they were silent when a 75-year-old Asian man, part of this trend of anti-Asian violence, was murdered in Oakland's Chinatown by a black man.
Now, the activist media didn't hyperly racialize that, but they're quick to racialize this.
This Asian man was killed by Keonti Bailey.
And yet there was complete and total silence.
Nothing.
You see, the skin color, when it comes to these sorts of things, is irrelevant to me.
A crime is a crime.
Death is a tragedy.
Murder must be met with the full force of the American legal system.
But the moment that the people that are tasked with communicating to you about what is happening start to act as if this is simply and solely an act of white supremacy, like Trevor Noah does or the New York Times does, they are lying to you.
And it will only further bring us into the race war that they so desire.
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