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May 2, 2022 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Ask Charlie Anything 103: Is a Recession Coming? Discovery+ Child Drag Queens? Must Read Books? And MORE
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Is A Recession Coming 00:01:49
Hey, everybody.
Today, the Charlie Kirk Show.
Happy Monday, by the way.
And Ask Me Anything episode.
We start with the most important question on a lot of your mind: Is there a recession coming?
We dive into it.
I tell you why I think there might be a recession coming.
I build it out for you on this episode.
If you have bonds, stocks, investments, or worried about the economy, pretty in-depth economic episode here.
And we talk about Discovery Plus with Generation Drag, some books I hope that you'll read, and so much more.
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Here we go.
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So, Ezra from Michigan says, Charlie, do you think we are headed towards a recession?
Very simple question with a not so simple answer.
Yes, I do believe we are headed towards a recession.
I'm not doing this to scare you.
I wish that was not the case.
The Inevitable Economic Storm 00:14:15
We will not celebrate a recession.
We do not do that.
That is what the left did when Donald Trump was president.
They wanted a recession.
In fact, I believe there was somebody who said, I can't remember her name.
It was Gloria Steinman or someone that said that COVID was God's gift to the left.
That the fact people are dying, it's a gift that they have it.
So then they'll be able to destroy Donald Trump.
So we're starting to see negative economic growth.
The economy is now shrinking, despite the ingenuity of the American entrepreneur.
It turns out when you create six to seven trillion dollars out of thin air, pump it into the economy, things aren't going to work out rather well.
Cut 93, CNN tries to explain this.
Play Cut 93.
Surprising new numbers from the government today.
The U.S. economy shrank in the first quarter of 2022.
The nation's gross domestic product declined at an annual rate of 1.4%.
Most economists were expecting a positive growth number.
Instead, the numbers show the worst quarter in two years.
Worst quarter in two years.
So here's what happens: right?
So we locked down our country unnecessarily, never should have occurred while we had a booming economy.
So a good rule in economics is state intervention, especially dramatic state intervention, has unintended consequences.
So economics is the study of incentives.
We're constantly studying what drives one person to behave a certain way.
So those of us that believe in markets and we believe the greatest way to flourish is through markets, not through central control, not through Marxist or socialist economic planning, but instead through the protection of private property rights and through the proper elevation of the individual entrepreneurs and taking risks in a market.
That's the best way to organize society.
And if you were to have government intervention, the local is preferred to the federal.
But we did the worst possible thing.
We shut down the entire country.
And so when we shut down the entire country, we immediately subsidized the technology companies without realizing it.
It was a massive subsidy for people that did not have to meet in person to be able to sell their product.
It was also a handout and a subsidy to the major big box stores, Walmart, to use an example.
So we locked down the country unnecessarily when we could have never, we should never have done that.
And even if we locked down for two weeks reopening, we would have survived it rather quickly.
So we locked down the country and immediately the impulse of all of Washington, D.C., Connor, if you could get the vote tally for me, I don't think it received one opposition vote, not a single opposition vote.
It was a unanimous consent in the United States Senate.
And it was Jane Fonda who called coronavirus God's gift to the left.
So back when the stimulus package was being debated, the stimulus package had multiple aspects to it.
There was the PPP provision, which was free money for businesses that continues to stay open.
There is a constitutional argument that if you make people, if you lock down the country and they can't do business, it's almost like the confiscation of property.
Okay.
But then there was the paying for people to stay at home and do nothing, the stimulus checks.
And then there was the just general graft, the $75 million to NPR, the $50 million to the Kennedy Center, just the just completely inexplicable intervention of cheap money into the economy.
So you put all of that together.
Basically what we saw in a short period of time was one state intervention after the other.
And this is another rule of economics, which is when you massively intervene with the state, it almost necessitates another state intervention, unless you're willing to pay the price of that intervention.
What do I mean by that?
Which is when the government all of a sudden says that we're going to lock down the country, well, then you must all of a sudden now have a stimulus package to compensate for the damage of locking down the country.
So then you have the stimulus package and they say, well, we need another recovery package because the growth is not what we want it to be.
So that's what we did.
So we kept on passing these stimulus bills, one after the other, after the other, $1.2 trillion, $2 trillion.
We then bailed out blue states and blue state pension funds that were broken and corrupt for all of that.
And we were warning this entire time, like bad equation of being non-productive and locking down a society, paying people not to work while simultaneously inflating the money supply in an unprecedented way that will only result in a massive spike of inflation.
And so in the last year, you then see the reopening of the country as Omicron came and people became more comfortable to leave their homes.
And you started to see the reopening of the country with all these dollar bills.
And so the only way that this could have worked out, the only way was that if they would have timed it perfectly, that the amount of dollar bills they would have created would have correlated perfectly with the amount of economic growth.
And therefore, if growth would have outpaced inflation, it wouldn't have been felt as bad.
Now, of course, we're dealing with central planners who will mess up everything.
It's inevitable that they were not going to be able to do this correctly and they would not be able to do this precisely.
Of course, they didn't.
And growth did not hit the expectations that they would have had.
And inflation in certain cities like Phoenix and Dallas and Atlanta is anywhere between 20 to 30 percent.
That's right, 20 to 30 percent.
So we had the worst possible combination of a scenario.
Locking down America shouldn't have happened, creating all the thin air, money out of thin air shouldn't have happened, doing it again, and then not having pro-growth policies in addition to all those things has created what is now the worst of all scenarios.
So it goes from a sugar high to a crash.
And if you remember when you were young, when you go eat a bunch of ice cream or you eat a bunch of Twizzlers and you're on that high, you feel like you could do anything, you could run around.
And when you crash, oh boy, do you crash.
If you have a bunch of sugar on an empty stomach, you feel as if you could just do anything you want, and then you just hit a wall and you like need a nap, you collapse, you get very crabby.
That analogy, that metaphor is perfect to what we are about to experience in our country.
We had the sugar high the last year.
Have you all of a sudden been offered a job 20 or 30% more than you're earning?
Have you all of a sudden seen like, wow, I'm earning more money, but I'm actually not richer because prices are going up everywhere.
But at least you were able to stay afloat.
What's about to happen is the next worst chapter of all of this, which is the pullback, which is all of a sudden, if you're now realizing, wait a second, I was earning $60,000 last year, but now I'm earning $67,000.
But it used to cost me $50,000 to live my life, but now it costs me $60,000 to live my life.
I'm actually poor.
Then what do you end up doing?
You end up trimming.
You end up trimming your budget and you start prioritizing.
The early indicator of this was Netflix.
This is the canary in the coal mine.
And yes, Netflix has gone woke in all of this, but I guarantee you out of the 200,000 people that have decided to cancel their subscription with Netflix, not all of them have a political problem with Netflix.
A lot of them have a financial problem with Netflix.
A lot of the people that have canceled Netflix are like, it's actually not worth the, what is it, $15, $25, $30 a month?
I don't know how much Netflix costs anymore.
It's not worth that anymore to me.
I'm canceling them.
Now, you're going to start to see this.
And I believe that because of the high prices, people are going to say, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, time out.
I don't need that.
And I don't need to go there.
And I don't need to buy this.
And then you're going to see the worst of all possible economic outcomes.
High prices, low economic growth.
Otherwise known as stagflation.
The economy is not growing, yet everything continues to get more expensive.
So how do you get out of that debt spiral of stagflation?
Reagan did it rather profoundly.
You cut taxes, you inspire people to spend again, you empower entrepreneurs, and you deregulate the economy.
It's really not that difficult.
It's not.
And so, but what we're about to experience, though, is people that believe that their dollar is getting cheaper and that it's not worth continually to engage in the economy because they feel as if that sort of Damocles is going to fall at any time.
This time, it seems like it's by design.
That's a separate issue.
But to answer your question, yes, I do believe that we are heading towards a recession.
I don't want that.
I pray that does not happen.
I pray for all of you that will be losing your jobs.
What you're going to see, what you're going to see is that these companies that have just hired dramatically are then going to have to scale down.
For those of you that are employers and have to deal with kind of the smug, snarky attitude of people that are showing up late and you're like, I got no leverage because I can't find anyone to work.
The only benefit of a recession, which is hard to even believe there would be one, the only benefit is that employers are now going to kind of get some of their leverage back because everyone's going to be begging for a job soon.
Everyone.
So you go from like, where are all the workers?
Because they have all the leverage to the workers will be pounding down your door for a job.
One of the reasons why we are heading towards a recession is our war on energy.
If we had abundant oil and natural gas exploration, it would be a hedge against inflation.
When it costs too much to transport things, everything gets more expensive.
Everything.
Meanwhile, you have the Biden energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, saying we are committed to reducing the use of oil and natural gas.
Play Cut 75.
We're committed to securing the clean energy supply chains needed to reduce our reliance on unabated fossil fuels and increase our energy independence.
Saying that we are committed to making it harder and more expensive.
Now you might say, well, Charlie, that's not what's being said.
Oh, really?
How about this one?
Cecilia Rose suggests that in an ideal world, gas prices would be even higher.
Who is this person?
A top Biden economic advisor.
So now you have a top Biden economic advisor who is saying, honestly, in an ideal world, it's even more expensive than it is right now.
Play cut 94.
We know that when we're consuming fossil fuels, we're not paying nearly the cost that is generating from the social perspective.
So the private cost I pay even at the pump is not reflecting the social cost of the emissions from my car.
The private costs I pay even at the pump is not reflecting the social cost of the emission from my car.
These people don't care.
They want it to be expensive.
They don't care that you have to take out a mortgage when you go to the gas station.
They couldn't care less.
Cut 97, when the energy secretary is asked about a pipeline in Michigan that could create thousands of jobs, she laughs it off.
Like, I don't care.
So understand that this is a recession of design.
Yes, Republicans shouldn't have voted on that stimulus bill.
Yes, we should not have locked down the country.
But even so, the American economy is so resilient that after all of that, when we get into a recession, we still have to ask the question, why?
It's because of the green energy ideologues, thanks to colleges that have persuaded people that climate change is some sort of existential threat to humanity, which it isn't.
We have the energy secretary laughing off the fact that energy independence and jobs, like that's hilarious.
Play cut 97.
Let me ask this question because having been the former chief executive of your state, would you say that line five plays a massive economic impact on the state of Michigan?
I'm not going to.
I beg your pardon?
I'm not going to respond to that one because you're not going to respond to that question.
I'm not going to get into that because it's incorporated.
When I talk to people in the state of Michigan, the state of Ohio, they say it does have a major economic impact, but you're not going to respond to it.
Yeah, it's just, again, I'm not going to get into that.
I find that for the administration.
She doesn't care.
Obviously, she'll go sit on some board of some green energy company.
What's amazing with all of this, though, is that the push towards green energy had an unintended consequence.
The unintended consequence is making Elon Musk really rich.
So then he buys Twitter, but they don't want that to happen.
So the left really can't get their game together.
It's like this relentless push towards electric cars.
Well, it's made Elon Musk the richest person on the planet.
In fact, they loved Elon Musk until they hate him because he's no longer useful to them.
In fact, he's an opponent to them, a creature of their own making, a billionaire of their own desire to try to make green energy the dominant energy policy of America.
Cut 78, Fox report on the economy shrinking for the first time since the pandemic hit, play cut 78.
Markets opening after an alarming new GDP number and the U.S. economy shrinking for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
GDP contracting by 1.4% in the first quarter of 2022.
I'm afraid it will get even worse.
We have all the, unfortunately, we have the necessary prerequisites for a coming economic collapse.
Too many dollar bills, not enough value, supply and chain issues.
We're not making our oil and natural gas nearly quick enough.
Entrepreneurs are afraid of their own shadow.
Not good economic indicators.
It's terrible for the country.
Now, of course, Democrats are now going to use this and parlay this into a way to try to blame corporations because they're doing too much profit gathering.
Play Cut 22.
We also need to push back against the giant corporations that have decided not only are they going to pass along costs, they're going to take a big dollop of extra profits.
And those are things that get our economy.
I think the way to describe it is they get it out of whack.
They get prices too high.
We've got too many corporations that are doing too much profit gathering.
I don't agree with her here, but guess what, American corporations?
I'm not going to defend you.
I'm not.
I disagree with her.
I would vote against it if I was given an opportunity, but I'm not going to go advocate for American corporations that were just giving all this money to BLM.
The corporations are so dumb.
You think Democrats would actually defend you when it mattered most?
Of course not.
The very same Democrats you've been in bed with now all of a sudden want to raise your taxes.
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Someone says, Charlie, do you have a reading list of all the dystopian writings that Charlie Kirk mentioned in the podcast?
One is Orwell's 1984.
Read this already as required in schools and many years ago.
Yes, I recommend rereading it.
Okay, yes.
So there are five dystopian authors, all of whom were somewhat contemporaries of one another.
You've heard of all of them.
Probably one you probably haven't heard of.
They're all worth just refreshing.
As Christians, I encourage us to pursue whatever is true.
And I think these five books will bless you about what really drives the tyrant, what happens when the tyrant meets technology, and how technology brings out the worst impulses of our human condition.
So the five books, of course, the first is George Orwell's 1984.
The second is C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters.
You can read that alongside Mere Christianity, which was actually first delivered as radio broadcast during the German Blitz in the early 1940s, late 1930s through the British Broadcast Corporation.
The third is Elvis Huxley's Brave New World, which is a terrific book and addresses a lot of what we're living through when pleasure becomes the ultimate goal of a society.
The fourth book is a lesser known one by Winston Churchill and his only novel.
It's called Savrola.
I've actually not read it, but I'm familiar with it.
I took a course by Dr. Larry Yarn from Hillsdale College on Churchill, and he talked about it.
So that's the fourth.
And then the fifth is probably the least known of all five.
In fact, I plan to finish this book.
I started it, but I got a little distracted during my mini sabbatical coming up in a couple of weeks here.
It's called Darkness at Noon by Arthur Kessler, which is a terrific book.
And so I haven't finished it yet.
So those are the five books.
Arthur Kessler was a dissident.
And producer Connor says, I would include the fountainhead in there as neoliberal dystopian.
And Connor says, Darkness at Noon is phenomenal.
Great.
I look forward to finishing that by Arthur Kessler.
In fact, Dr. Larry Arn from Hillsdale has insisted that I finish Darkness at Noon.
So I will finish that under his orders.
I'd be a fool not to listen to what wise men have to say.
I'm also rereading Atlas Shrugged.
Halfway through, and I stopped for a variety of reasons, but I'm going to resume sometime soon and finish that up.
Okay, so a question here from Eric in Kentucky.
Charlie, I have canceled my Disney Plus subscription.
I've canceled my Netflix subscription.
Raising Kids Against Ideology 00:15:26
What other streaming services should I be wary of for my six, nine, and 11-year-old?
Thanks so much.
Love the show.
Okay, they're almost all garbage.
Now, some of you might have this new one called Discovery Plus.
Discovery Plus has come out with this hatchet job going after Hillsong Church.
Very dishonest documentary.
Hillsong obviously has had its problems.
I know a lot of people that have been through there, some wonderful people that have worked for Hillsong in the last couple of years, but it's a largely just a propaganda piece trying to indict all of Western Christianity.
And I don't like it.
That is on Disney Discovery Plus.
But Discovery Plus has this new one.
We're going to play this entire tape.
What is this new one now that you might, your kids might stumble across?
It is glorifying, glamorizing, platforming kids that become drag celebrities.
Kids that become drag queens, or they go through drag contests, basically, which is pseudo-transgenderism, but that is now platformed at Discovery Plus as like the coolest thing ever.
I really wonder at Discovery Plus, how many people, and this is a legitimate question.
How many people in Oklahoma would be more likely to get a Discovery Plus subscription after they're about to hear this trailer?
Or Kansas or Montana.
The framing of the parents' party versus the perverts party has never been more clear.
Listen to this.
It's about a minute-long tape.
I intentionally had them cut it at a minute because this is the trailer.
What is the name of the series, by the way?
Is it called Drag Kids or something?
It's something like that.
Play cut 117.
Welcome to the Pink Palace, my lovely friend.
I first discovered drag at 13.
I didn't know what it was, but I knew I wanted it.
Put on the wig and the makeup, and I'm someone completely different.
I'm so proud.
What do you think of taking this photo's democracy?
Constant reminder that we had to pretend I was a boy.
Making friends has been a hard thing for me to do when I'm the coming Nemo.
Whoa.
Become more confident.
Let me make sure you are appropriately fluffed.
This transition has been difficult for them, but they try, and that's all you can ask for.
It's important for kids to understand that they're not alone.
So my mom started Draguton.
Kids and their families are coming from all over the country where we get to be our true selves.
So the name of that series is called Generation Drag.
It is produced by Tyra Banks, who I think used to run America's next top model.
I could be wrong, just kind of drawing from memory there.
She also used to be a Dancing with the Stars host.
So Tyra Banks is now the producer of Generation Drag, saying that this is a beautiful thing for kids.
They just need to be who they really think they are.
Cancel Disney Plus, cancel Discovery Plus.
It's hard to watch.
I mean, for those of you, you just had to listen to it.
It's hard.
Imagine having to watch this thing of just seeing these 12-year-olds and having these parents go along with it.
Well, yeah, my kid, he wants to do drag, which actually goes to a legitimate question.
And I want to answer it here.
We always take the tough questions here.
Where is this question here?
It's very short question, actually.
Where is it right here?
I'm just going to paraphrase it.
I don't remember who asked it.
We can find it.
Basically, Charlie, what happens if my kid is trans?
That's basically the question.
We can find the exact wording and who asked it.
Look, I would first ask other people that have been parents exactly how to do that, how to encourage their kids.
But let me just take you some very basic principles.
Okay, that's it.
Bill from State Paul.
What do you have to say to conservative parents who have a child who thinks they're trans?
Fix it, correct it.
So, what do you have to say when?
Look, here's what you got to do: you have to find the person that has been putting these terrible ideas into their life, and you say, No, you're not trans.
If your child comes forward with a mental delusion, you as a parent have a moral obligation to correct that delusion.
Kids want to eat dirt sometimes.
Should you let them do it?
No, you should not.
This all goes back to the question of what is education.
Education is not allowing the child to determine what is best for them.
You must establish guardrails.
You must get them into alignment what's best for them.
You could do so lovingly and compassionately.
But this idea that an eight-year-old, you know, is thinking that they should take puberty blockers.
And look, you should validate them and love the child.
You're not going to resolve it in one talk, but find out if there are external factors implicating impacting that, then identify them and try to neutralize them.
And also, don't I wouldn't turn them into the, you know, I wouldn't get angry at them, but I would address it very, very seriously.
Introduced order and natural law into the understanding of the world.
NBC says, How to talk to trans youth and their families from 2018.
I'm not even going to read it.
I'm sure it's all garbage.
Just a bunch of propaganda.
Okay, next question here: Charlie, Joe Biden is really unpopular.
What do you think that means coming into November?
We get kind of these questions every so often.
I chose this one in particular.
It's Andrew from Arkansas who's asking the question.
Well, first, let's kind of set the table here.
Cut 105 CNN report on Joe Biden, Play Cut 105.
Havana, we will come back to this in the weeks ahead.
Celinda Lake, veteran Democratic pollster, focus group, cited in Politico's playbook today.
What's the word Democratic voters use?
How things are going in the country?
Look at it.
Frustrated, disbelief, aggravated, discouraged, unsure, worrying, resigned, frightened.
Democrats need those people to vote in November, or else their majorities are toast.
So you would think they would get a little urgency, kick in the boots, if you might say.
Frustrated, disbelief, aggravated, discouraged, unsure, worried, resigned, frightened.
Can't imagine this is all kind of part of the cards for the Democrat regime.
But the question was: how do I think that is going to impact the midterms?
Not favorably.
I think the Democrats are running out of time to pull out stocks.
They're running out of time to pull their tricks.
Okay, next question here.
Let's go to one here that I think is rather applicable.
Jersey girl, how much longer do we have to wait until Hunter Biden is to be indicted?
I don't know.
I do think that they're going to continue to dangle the indictment of Hunter Biden as a way to try to entice them, entice Biden to do what they want him to do against his wishes.
Not just entice.
I think they're going to hold him hostage, blackmail him, basically, to do whatever they possibly can to push back against any sort of inclinations that Biden might have to go to the middle.
They're going to say, hey, if you step out of line, Hunter could get 10 years, 20 years in prison.
So when is he going to be indicted?
I'm not sure.
Kevin says, if America truly is an idea, didn't it die long, long ago?
It seems to me the founding fathers would have stopped recognizing this nation by the Civil War.
I'm concerned that America we all know and love is just so far removed from any semblance of what it is meant to be, if this is true.
And then what?
Well, America is not an idea.
It's partially an idea, but it's a home.
It's a nation.
It's a culture.
It's a people.
It's a history.
So it's not just an idea.
If it was just an idea, then anywhere could become America.
We know that's not true.
Western values can be applied anywhere, but not always successfully.
And we certainly have seen that in Middle Eastern countries and in African countries, is that you need the proper cultural prerequisites to be able to embrace self-government and liberty.
And I think this is underestimated in the teachings of neoliberals who think that you could just kind of turn on a switch and all of a sudden the country can become embracing of self-government and checks and balances, separation of powers.
The part of history we don't talk about is the colonial Christian heritage of America that was the slow yet steady buildup going into the 1760s and 1770s that encouraged preachers like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield and Jonathan Mayhew, to name a few, to then be able to spark the light of the Reformation, not the Reformation, the awakening that led to the founding fathers writing the Declaration of Independence and separating from Great Britain.
So we're more than an idea because there was this historical buildup.
We are a people.
It is a home.
It is a nation and a country.
I'm concerned that America, we all know, is just love so far removed.
Look, in some ways, you're right.
In some ways, I'm seeing Americans fight harder for their liberty than I think we've seen in quite a while.
And so I'm much more optimistic than that.
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Here's a question from Marissa from Buckhead.
Charlie, I heard private schools are better options for children than public school system when it comes to woke indoctrination.
However, I'm hearing things bubble up about a school in Westminster in Atlanta.
It's funny you mention this.
I'm familiar with this.
An elite private school in my community, and they're being done by organizations like NIIS, the National Association of Independent Schools.
Are private Christian schools like this still a viable alternative to public schools?
Or is homeschooling really the only option?
Thank you, Marissa, from Buckhead.
So look, there's actually some people that are doing this to expose this.
There's a website called educationveritas.org.
That Veritas means truth in Latin, which is all about education, not indoctrination.
Now, Westminster in Georgia is a great example of a macro trend that is happening, which is once great private schools that have become completely and totally woke.
There's another website you could go to for those of you that are familiar with this, or just to see kind of how bad these private schools have become, wokeminster.com.
That's W-O-K-Eminster.com.
And it goes through in detail exactly what is being taught.
For example, small activists, big impact, cultivating anti-racists and activists in kindergarten.
All right, Play Cut 116.
Kindergarteners, I want to say too that kindergartners are natural social justice warriors.
Like I mentioned before, I see this all the time on the playground.
That's unfair.
And this is why it's unfair.
This is the reasons that it's unfair.
And I think if we just build upon the mindset of a kindergartner, that it is fantastic.
You can get them to do fabulous things, fabulous things in the social justice realm.
I want you to think about how insane that is.
Let's build upon the instincts of a kindergartner.
Would they ever eat vegetables?
This is the type of insane ideology.
Look, kindergartners, they have a heart for justice.
Who taught them that heart for justice exactly?
Who taught them what was right and what was wrong?
You heard there, that's from the National American, that's from the National Association of Independent Schools, NAIS, which very well might be over your school, like Wokeminster or Westminster in Atlanta, saying that kindergartners are natural social justice warriors.
They're naturally inclined towards being a social justice activist.
How about this one?
Cut 115, introduction for the Randolph Center, co-founder of, I don't even know what that stands for, POCC, and NAIS's current director of equity and inclusion programming, PlayCut 115.
Many years as head of the NAIS Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Randolph was co-founder of the People of Color Conference, which we are now attending, as well as the Student Diversity Leadership Conference.
And then the personal thing for me is he's a former Black Panther.
And I think you need a little bit of that attitude to do this kind of work.
So former Black Panther is now in charge of education, curriculum, and diversity training for private schools across the country.
So again, the website is educationveritas.org.
I've got to know the people behind it.
They're wonderful.
Also, Wokeminster.
This could be happening anywhere at any one of the private schools.
So I have lost all faith in private institutions.
I've lost faith in public institutions.
I am a homeschooling advocate.
There are some good private schools.
There's some good faith-based schools.
But just be very careful, parents, before you put your name and your trust and your children into the firing line of some of these schools.
Be very, very careful.
You very well might be learning from that woman saying, kindergartners make natural social justice warriors.
This is exactly what's wrong with education.
Remember, education comes from the Latin word, which means to lead forth.
Who's leading whom?
If you say that kindergartners have the wisdom and you don't.
Who's in charge?
Whose children are they?
Education properly done is having a desired outcome, an appreciation of beauty and truth, beauty, that which is perfected in beating, truth, which is something that is true at all times, not just temporarily true, and getting children to go on that journey to get their working boots on and to find out what that means.
How?
Through reading the Western canon, doing a little bit of study and scholarship of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, and things that were written a long time ago that have stood the test of time.
Probably more important than learning about how kindergartners can be social justice activists.
Never heard anything.
So insane.
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