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July 10, 2021 - The Dan Bongino Show
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The Bongino Brief - Jul 10, 2021

Two tenets of Critical Theory and Critical Race Theory you need to understand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Dan Bongino.
Welcome to the Bongino Brief.
I'm Dan Bongino.
I've never seen it better explained than the two big tenets of critical theory and critical race theory.
Better than this one example, this one piece.
It's in the Hill.
Jonathan Turley.
The rise of a generation of censors.
Law schools are the latest battlement.
Law schools, the latest battlement over free speech.
Folks, this is serious.
The article is a serious article that highlights a very serious problem.
But within the piece is a paragraph that perfectly encapsulates two tenets of critical theory and critical race theory you need to understand and the why.
Why liberals are doing this.
The gist of the piece is this.
That law schools now are censoring any opposing thoughts when it comes to topics they deem controversial.
Controversial, excuse me, like transgender rights or whatever it may be.
Law schools now are banning or outright censoring any opposition.
Well, folks, what's the problem with that?
Well, ladies and gentlemen, where do you think our judges and lawyers come from?
Law schools!
You're gonna have a generation of judges who are never gonna see the pro-life arguments, never gonna see the pro-Second Amendment arguments, never gonna see the religious liberty arguments when it comes to transgender rights or whatever it may be.
They're never gonna see any of that!
They're only gonna get one side.
And when you only get one side, there only is one side.
But that's not the way courts work.
There's a defendant and a plaintiff.
Courts are two-sided.
They're adversarial by nature.
That's why they're courts.
We're gonna have an entire generation of lawyers who have no legal knowledge whatsoever about issues that matter to conservatives.
Religious liberty, the second amendment, freedom, all of it.
So Duke was going to have a debate, a symposium about transgender rights and activism and the legal consequences of both.
Well, a website above the law, like a Steven Seagal movie, above the law said, no, no, no, we can't have that.
And I'm going to read this paragraph and you're going to see two big tenets of critical theory are highlighted, really the sad tenets, but highlighted beautifully in this.
From the piece, the above-the-law criticism of Duke was illustrative of the new anti-free speech movement that's now taking hold in law schools and legal publications.
Academic freedom and free speech are denounced as tools to quote, marginalize others.
Patrice sums up why both the student editors and the Duke faculty must be condemned.
Quote, a vigorous and open exchange of ideas is valuable only to the extent it improves the academic mission of improving the human condition.
Is transgender skepticism within that field?
It shouldn't be, but here we are.
In other words, you're entitled to free speech so long as you cannot be accused of quote, marginalizing others.
There it is.
This piece sums up perfectly two big tenets of critical theory and critical race theory that are being jammed down your throat, and I'll explain to you the why right now.
Tenet number one of critical theory and critical race theory, that knowledge, knowledge, facts, facts, data, that knowledge is a construct of power.
You'll hear me say it now.
You've heard me say it a thousand times.
Why?
Because without that, without that idea of critical theory, it totally collapses.
Because they can't debate on the merits of critical theory.
They can't.
They can't cite specific examples of some white oppressor holding them down, a class and a cabal of white oppressors holding them down.
So what they do is they use these flowery words without specific definitions to never get lost in the granular detail.
And when they do get lost in the granular detail and they try to argue something where the facts say otherwise, they just say, no, no, no, those aren't real facts.
You're just manipulating the facts to obtain and keep power.
Therefore, knowledge is a constructive power.
They don't want, quote, a vigorous and open exchange of ideas because they'll lose.
We believe in big R God-given rights for everyone.
They can't.
So by you asking a direct question, a systemic racism, what system exactly has been racist towards you so we can call it out?
They won't cite it.
Then they say, no, no, no, you demanding an open exchange of ideas, that means you're the oppressor and you're just, your challenge is only meant to solidify your position as an oppressor of me.
You're like, wait, what?
What are you even talking about?
A vigorous and open exchange of ideas is now their enemy.
That's number one.
Number two, Again, encapsulated in this paragraph beautifully.
They need a permanent class of victims.
You see it here?
Academic freedom and free speech from the Hill piece are denounced as tools to, quote, marginalize others.
You get it?
Free speech and the exchange, vigorous exchange of ideas are only, quote, tools to marginalize others.
Well, the marginalized It's what?
Marginalized is a synonym for what?
Victims!
But if you don't have a permanent victim class, you don't have people who are marginalized.
Therefore, there's no tool to marginalize you and critical race theory falls apart.
The only way to prove that the system is racist is to create a massive class of victims who are marginalized through free speech.
You see how the tools all fit together?
Vigorous and open debate has to be stopped because it's only a tool It is a tool, the use of knowledge and debate to victimize and marginalize people and create a permanent underclass.
But for that, you need a permanent underclass.
Union workers, minorities, Asians, Muslims, everybody's a victim.
They can't function without a permanent underclass of oppressed people who are victims.
This is where PC culture comes in, and this is the reason they tell everyone, blacks, Hispanics, immigrants, everyone, the other side's coming for you.
They want you to believe you're the victim because they need a victimizer and that victimizer is the white person in critical race theory.
You get it?
Is it all tied together now?
Not a specific white person.
The general white male patriarchy.
Not a specific white person because they can never point anyone out!
Fear.
Everything is based in fear.
There's always a victimizer trying to victimize you.
The loss of liberty throughout human history, this is why socialists absolutely love critical theory.
The loss of liberty throughout human history has always been preceded first by a fear campaign.
Somebody is coming for you and will protect you.
The nice part about critical theory and critical race theory for the socialist who wants to take away your liberty and they need fear to do it, Is they can constantly pump you full of critical race theory and never have to prove their case because a quote, vigorous and open exchange of ideas isn't valuable and it's just a weapon to marginalize others.
What are the solutions to this?
Number one, get your kids the hell out of public schools as soon as you can.
Folks, do whatever you can.
My mom was very poor.
She worked the checkout counter at Finest.
Finest was a supermarket in Queens, New York, right about 64th Lane and Myrtle Avenue.
She worked there for years.
We did not have a lot of money.
We did whatever we could to scrape together some nickels.
I know it's not easy.
I lived through it myself.
Do whatever you can, like she did, to get the kids out of public schools.
We went to a Catholic school.
There are charter schools.
There are private schools.
There are a number of options out there.
Seek whatever scholarship you can.
Seek whatever you can, step one.
Evacuate the public schools en masse.
They have become nothing more than liberal training zones.
Nothing.
They have become functionally useless in this country.
Second, Mark Levin proposed this a long time ago, June 15th, 2021.
He said, hey, mandatory body cameras for teachers, not just cops.
Why don't we have cameras in the classroom?
Oh my gosh, you can't say that's invasion of pri- It is?
Those are public schools, paid for by our tax dollars.
Everyone's cameras everywhere else.
When my dog, when she goes to doggy daycare, Lucy, there are cameras in there.
We're not allowed to hear what you're teaching our kids with our money, paid for by us.
They're our kids.
The answer is hell to the no.
We will fight everywhere to get those cameras in the classroom.
I want to see and I want it recorded.
I want to see what you're teaching my kids.
Number three.
It's happening right now.
It's an article from May, just about a little over a month ago.
New conservative pact targets school board elections.
There's where it's at, folks.
Both money, volunteerism, time, and activism should be directed towards your local school boards.
There's a bunch of PACs out there that are now starting to figure out we've neglected school board elections for a long time, and the left is taking advantage of that.
No more.
Finally, there should be no government money directed towards anyone teaching racist critical race theory.
Here's a defense contractor, this is from Christopher Ruffo's social media page.
He's saying in his reporting that Raytheon, one of our defense contractors, is teaching this stuff as well, this critical race theory.
That white people should, quote, step aside.
That they should learn about others' disadvantages and identify their privilege.
This is a defense contractor, folks.
If this is true about Raytheon, according to this reporting, those contracts should be pulled or not renewed.
The government should not be teaching people how to be racist under any circumstances.
The Dan Bongino Show.
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