Candace Owens - Teacher PROVES that J.K. Rowling Is NOT a Bigot Aired: 2024-02-13 Duration: 05:09 === Psychological Battle for Students (05:09) === [00:00:00] 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. [00:00:06] But I do also want to shine a spotlight on the teachers that do amazing work. [00:00:12] 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. [00:00:19] But definitively, we are recognizing that there is this sort of psychological battle for our students. [00:00:24] 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. [00:00:32] But now those things have been updated, so I'm not allowed to say that anymore. [00:00:36] But there is this one teacher that I want to show you, in case you haven't seen him. [00:00:39] He is going viral. [00:00:40] He is a teacher from Massachusetts, and his name is Warren Smith. [00:00:46] And he had a student who was talking to him about J.K. [00:00:51] Rowling. [00:00:51] Now, J.K. [00:00:52] Rowling used to be a woke warrior. [00:00:54] I think she has since changed her mind, even if she won't admit it. [00:00:57] She was such a voice against Trump people, and we were evil and racist and backwards. [00:01:01] 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. [00:01:07] And she got eaten because she said, I am a woman. [00:01:10] Really, that's kind of the short and the thick of it. [00:01:11] J.K. [00:01:12] Rowling was like, a person can't wear a dress and be a woman. [00:01:14] I am a woman, and it matters to me. [00:01:16] 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. [00:01:26] So yes, this is a thing in the classrooms, obviously, because you have a lot of students who are convinced of the LGBTQIA agenda. [00:01:32] And they now know, they know, quote unquote, that J.K. Rowling is bigoted because she says [00:01:38] she's a woman. How could she say that? Well, Warren Smith, when he was challenged about why [00:01:42] he still likes the author's work despite her quote unquote bigoted opinions, flipped the script on [00:01:48] one of his students. And I just want to let that play so that we can acknowledge how wonderful [00:01:53] what he did was. Take a listen. Do you still like her work despite her bigoted opinions? [00:02:01] So let's get specific though. [00:02:03] Let's define bigoted opinions. [00:02:04] What opinions are bigoted? [00:02:05] We're going to treat this as a thought experiment. [00:02:08] I'm not going to say what's right or wrong or what way to think. [00:02:10] She has had a history of being extremely transphobic, I've heard. [00:02:15] You've heard. [00:02:15] Can you give me an example? [00:02:18] If you look at her Twitter, I think you can see a few things. [00:02:22] One of these tweets that she came up with in 2019, she said, Dress however you please, call yourself whatever you like, [00:02:31] sleep with any consenting adult who will have you, live your best life in peace and security, but force women [00:02:40] out of their jobs for stating that sex is real. [00:02:45] Do you find that transphobic, yourself? [00:02:47] I don't really have an opinion on it, but I'm just going with what a lot of other people have said. [00:02:53] So let's pause it. [00:02:54] Let's not go with what other people are saying. [00:02:56] Let's try and learn how to critically think. [00:02:58] So let's analyze the tweet ourselves. [00:03:01] So that statement, do you see anything problematic? [00:03:04] She did try and pin some things on a specific group of people. [00:03:15] Where does she do that? [00:03:16] Can you read that? [00:03:17] But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real. [00:03:22] 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. [00:03:32] Is that transphobic to you? [00:03:34] So, to me, no. [00:03:38] Stating that sex is real is not transphobic. [00:03:41] It's just a fact of life. [00:03:43] It exists. [00:03:44] So is there anything you disagree with in that tweet? [00:03:48] Uh, in that tweet, I can't really see anything that I myself disagree with. [00:03:55] Uh, there's an apology tweet. [00:03:57] Let's read that. [00:03:58] What does she say there? [00:03:58] I haven't read that. [00:04:00] I respect every trans person's right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them. [00:04:07] I'd march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans. [00:04:13] At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female. [00:04:17] I do not believe it is hateful to say so. [00:04:20] 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. [00:04:31] Rowling is transphobic, how do you feel about Harry Potter? [00:04:34] Now, retroactively looking at that statement, do you think that that was the best way to phrase it? [00:04:39] No, I feel like an idiot now. [00:04:41] It's okay though, but this is why we do this, to learn how to think. [00:04:45] In my view, that guy is a hero. [00:04:48] 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. [00:04:54] It's not every teacher in America. [00:04:56] That is insane and trying to upset your children and make them more angry or anything like that. [00:05:01] 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.