Feb. 13, 2024 - Candace Owens
05:09
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| You know, we talk a lot about the education system and how it has failed Americans, and obviously that was the point of my entire monologue, as we know so little. | |
| But I do also want to shine a spotlight on the teachers that do amazing work. | |
| And I think today's battle in the classroom has a lot to do with psychology, forgetting about world history, which I think we are failing. | |
| But definitively, we are recognizing that there is this sort of psychological battle for our students. | |
| There's so much woke awareness in the classrooms trying to recognize things that I would argue, at least I learned when I was in school, were mental illnesses. | |
| But now those things have been updated, so I'm not allowed to say that anymore. | |
| But there is this one teacher that I want to show you, in case you haven't seen him. | |
| He is going viral. | |
| He is a teacher from Massachusetts, and his name is Warren Smith. | |
| And he had a student who was talking to him about J.K. | |
| Rowling. | |
| Now, J.K. | |
| Rowling used to be a woke warrior. | |
| I think she has since changed her mind, even if she won't admit it. | |
| She was such a voice against Trump people, and we were evil and racist and backwards. | |
| And then she got eaten, of course, by the woke mob, because eventually they get hungry, you know, and they're going to eat you too. | |
| And she got eaten because she said, I am a woman. | |
| Really, that's kind of the short and the thick of it. | |
| J.K. | |
| Rowling was like, a person can't wear a dress and be a woman. | |
| I am a woman, and it matters to me. | |
| And then everybody attacked her, including the people that she made relevant, the people that she cast in, or the people that were cast by Warner Brothers in Harry Potter. | |
| So yes, this is a thing in the classrooms, obviously, because you have a lot of students who are convinced of the LGBTQIA agenda. | |
| And they now know, they know, quote unquote, that J.K. Rowling is bigoted because she says | |
| she's a woman. How could she say that? Well, Warren Smith, when he was challenged about why | |
| he still likes the author's work despite her quote unquote bigoted opinions, flipped the script on | |
| one of his students. And I just want to let that play so that we can acknowledge how wonderful | |
| what he did was. Take a listen. Do you still like her work despite her bigoted opinions? | |
| So let's get specific though. | |
| Let's define bigoted opinions. | |
| What opinions are bigoted? | |
| We're going to treat this as a thought experiment. | |
| I'm not going to say what's right or wrong or what way to think. | |
| She has had a history of being extremely transphobic, I've heard. | |
| You've heard. | |
| Can you give me an example? | |
| If you look at her Twitter, I think you can see a few things. | |
| One of these tweets that she came up with in 2019, she said, Dress however you please, call yourself whatever you like, | |
| sleep with any consenting adult who will have you, live your best life in peace and security, but force women | |
| out of their jobs for stating that sex is real. | |
| Do you find that transphobic, yourself? | |
| I don't really have an opinion on it, but I'm just going with what a lot of other people have said. | |
| So let's pause it. | |
| Let's not go with what other people are saying. | |
| Let's try and learn how to critically think. | |
| So let's analyze the tweet ourselves. | |
| So that statement, do you see anything problematic? | |
| She did try and pin some things on a specific group of people. | |
| Where does she do that? | |
| Can you read that? | |
| But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real. | |
| So when I hear that, I'm interpreting that as meaning if a woman says that, you know, saying that there is a difference between men and female and then being attacked as transphobic. | |
| Is that transphobic to you? | |
| So, to me, no. | |
| Stating that sex is real is not transphobic. | |
| It's just a fact of life. | |
| It exists. | |
| So is there anything you disagree with in that tweet? | |
| Uh, in that tweet, I can't really see anything that I myself disagree with. | |
| Uh, there's an apology tweet. | |
| Let's read that. | |
| What does she say there? | |
| I haven't read that. | |
| I respect every trans person's right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them. | |
| I'd march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans. | |
| At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female. | |
| I do not believe it is hateful to say so. | |
| Do you think it's fair that there's a, that she's being attacked by a large group of people and people are calling her, like you said at the beginning of this conversation, you said, given the fact that J.K. | |
| Rowling is transphobic, how do you feel about Harry Potter? | |
| Now, retroactively looking at that statement, do you think that that was the best way to phrase it? | |
| No, I feel like an idiot now. | |
| It's okay though, but this is why we do this, to learn how to think. | |
| In my view, that guy is a hero. | |
| That teacher is a hero, and he did that brilliantly, and I'm sure that you agree with that, and there just needs to be more of that. | |
| It's not every teacher in America. | |
| That is insane and trying to upset your children and make them more angry or anything like that. | |
| Some of them are trying to get them to use their own logic to recognize that a lot of what they learned has just been propaganda. |
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