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Oct. 30, 2017 - Get Off My Lawn - Gavin McInnes
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Get Off My Lawn #20 | Hell Is The Subway
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Promises we were in love.
They're from Sweden.
And that's the knife.
Swedish duo there.
And the song is Heartbeats.
Beautiful jam.
Great jam.
I don't know if you're on a date, you want to take a lady dancing, you should know how to dance.
Just get some basic moves, guys.
You know, when I was a young party machine, I fraternized with a lot of ladies and got up to quite a few hijinks.
And then I found the one, and I had my party torch, and I handed it to the previous generation and said, have fun, boys.
And they went, oh, that's hot.
And it spilled on the ground.
And then the kerosene came out and started a fire.
And I go, guys, guys, guys, what are you doing?
I passed you the torch.
Of course, tiki torches in Charlottesville have ruined that analogy, but you get what I'm saying.
Look at this chick.
That's Ariana Rowlands.
She's on the show today.
She's, what, an 8?
8.5?
I mean, in this picture, she's drifting perilously into nine territory.
Doesn't have a man.
Talk to the hand, because you ain't got no man.
What the hell is going on here?
But the reason I chose that song is because not only is it a great jam for courting chicks, all women love that song.
Guaranteed.
If you get a girl to come home with you and she's sort of like, oh, so this is where you live, kuk clunk, press play on that, and it'll help sort of vibe her into the house, get things groovy, take the tension out.
Better than cocaine and shots can.
But here's another Swede, Jose Gonzalez.
I think Sweden had a far-right party take over in the 70s.
And so the Gonzalez family, I don't know what they were doing in Sweden, fled to Argentina and made this guy.
And he obviously has an allegiance to the knife because they're his hometown boys.
And so he covers their song.
And it's an interesting example of how when a song is brilliant, you can cover it and play it in any format and it retains its beauty.
It's sort of like they say, well, comedy, you know, you have to be aware of the time it was in.
I don't know if I agree with that.
I think funny is funny.
Lenny Bruce is still funny to me.
And if it doesn't age well, it wasn't good.
And if a song doesn't cover and you can't play it in another genre, then it doesn't have a good spine.
But Heartbeats has a beautiful spine, as evidenced when covered by fellow Swede Jose Gonzalez.
Let's check that out.
One night to be confused, one night to speed up truth.
We had a promise made for hands and then a wind.
Both under influence.
We had divine sense to know what to say.
He should sing it.
I am a trip.
To call for hands over.
Boy, I bet that guy's drowning in ladies.
Your name's Jose Gonzalez, and you live in Sweden and you're Swedish and you are a band?
Poor guy.
I almost feel sorry for him.
That's too much lady love.
So yeah, today's episode is relatively serious.
I am a dad, and I'm going to be sending my kids to college eventually.
Not for a while, actually, eight years.
But I look at it now.
Look, I'm developing that sort of British affectation.
You pause before you make a point.
I'm at the point now.
I have to admit, I'm not sure I want to send my children there.
I mean, it becomes more insane by the day.
And we'll get to that shortly.
But before we do, I'd like to discuss Halloween.
Now, there's my Ariana.
I feel like I'm being caught with porn on my computer by having Ariana's picture there, but it's relevant.
Yeah, today is Halloween.
No, sorry.
This weekend is Halloween, basically.
And the fascinating thing about Halloween is that it becomes a good gauge on how crazy we're becoming.
This Halloween is a pagan custom where you dress up like the dead, and it predates Christianity.
So if you have a problem with it, I have a problem with you.
And if you want to talk about cultural appropriation, isn't everyone appropriating Western culture by participating in this pagan ritual?
But every year, the backlash against Halloween gets more insane.
And we'll be discussing this over the next few episodes because we have three left.
Today's, Mondays, and Tuesdays before the actual day.
But everyone's partying this weekend.
Every year, it gets more insane.
And this regimenting of the costumes is a great example of the left's hatred for fun.
They hate art.
Dressing up in a costume, that's you being an amateur artist.
Even if you dressed in blackface with white gloves, hello, my baby, hello.
What are you saying?
It could just as easily be a parody of blackface.
You're just representing a figure.
Dressing up as Hitler doesn't mean you're a Nazi.
Dressing up as an Indian, What's the matter with that?
I always say this to Indians.
You want all the interest in your culture you can get.
And I thought an interesting example of this was this little kid's tea party.
So she, this Japanese, this kid dresses up as a geisha, which has sexual implications, I believe.
I'm not sure.
And she has a Japanese tea party.
And all these moms come down on this little kid for having a tea party.
Now, go back to the picture, Dave.
Japanese tea in and of itself is appropriation.
Them doing tea parties, they got tea from the Chinese.
It's not indigenous to Japan.
And then, so all these women are crapping on this girl's tea party as racist, because everything is racist in this day and age.
But luckily, a sane Japanese woman made a comment on this, and I thought it sort of sums up the way we should be treating these people.
Both Japanese and the PC police.
I am Japanese.
In Japan at this very moment, the only people who think that culture shouldn't be shared are racists like you.
And then scroll down a bit, she goes, to top it off, 80% of Japanese customs, traditions, and food came from other countries.
Japanese is an integration of different cultures like America.
Japan takes influences from places like Korea, China, Russia, Europe.
If Japan stuck to itself, there'd be no tempura, Japanese tea, tea ceremonies, kabuki, Japanese bread, Japanese curry, J-pop, anime, cars, or modern fishing techniques.
The picture is not yellow face.
They're not making fun of Asians.
In fact, it looks like they put extra care and research into their work.
Now, for the record, Halloween people, you don't have to put any care into your work.
You don't have to worry about any sensitivity.
Yes, there are very few female chiefs of tribes, and it's usually only men who wear the Indian headdress.
You can wear the Indian headdress.
You can dress up as an East Indian and say, bardi namnam, what's going on, buddy?
It's Halloween.
How do you not appropriate other culture if you don't just dress as yourself?
And if you dress as yourself, you're not dressing up.
You people are insane.
And the fact that people lose their jobs for this crap is just infuriating.
Now, I'm a Halloween buff.
I love Halloween.
I'm going to make my front entrance of my house so scary, it's going to deliver heart attacks.
Last year, I had a little sign that said, sorry, you're not here.
Go ahead and take some.
And then I was a cadaver lying in a coffin in the front room.
And then I could see out of the crack.
I could see kids getting greedy.
And I just come out of the coffin.
My face was all white with a black mustache and a top hat.
And I go, that's getting a bit greedy, don't you think?
And about half the time, the kids would scream blue murder.
But sometimes you just have, often a girl, actually, like a six-year-old girl would just stare at me after I jumped out of the coffin, not phased one iota.
One little spoiled brat was dressed as Deadpool with the two swords.
And I scared him.
I'm sure he peed his pants.
And then I saw him outside my house saying to his mama, I told you I didn't want to go in there.
And he hit her with one of his swords.
I thought, I'm doing a service here.
I'm showing parents that their kids are brats.
But if you are dressing up this Halloween, I would recommend you dress up as a thing, dressing up as a thing.
Now, one of my favorite costumes I ever did was I dressed up as a woman, dressing up as a man.
So I had a wig stuffed into a fedora.
I had my wife's blazer on, black slacks and flats and a cigar.
And I talked the way women see men, which is like, I love tits.
Yeah.
Hey, you guys watch the game?
Yeah, football is totally awesome.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was fun.
And I got to do that guy, that chick, all night.
But my friends, Blake and Josh, back in Ottawa, Canada, they almost ended Halloween by coming up with such a brilliant costume.
Now, these two are called the Chappelle sisters, I believe.
And they're conjoined twins, touched, connected at the head.
You got a picture?
Can you zoom in on this?
Not zoom in on it, but show it full screen.
Yeah.
So they have an unfortunate scenario where one has to be in a chair because they're connected at the head and she has funny little legs.
So Blake and Josh dressed up as them, dressed up as Cheech and Chong for Halloween.
So first they got the faces correct and everything.
And then Blake stood in a box with fake legs coming out of a chair that the other Chappelle sister, Chappelle sister, Shrapnel, I don't know what she's called.
Look at their kitchen, by the way.
You still got all those wrestling figures.
I grew up with Blake.
He was in my band, Anal Chinook.
He was the guitarist and wrote most of the songs.
But I remember when we were kids, we were about 15.
And his mom said, you know what?
You're 15.
No more wrestling figures.
I'm not giving you those for Christmas anymore.
He would get toys when we were adults.
We were 16.
We wanted a car, and he would get wrestling figures, and they still festoon his home.
All right, we're out of time.
Let's have a brief look at our guests here.
So we've got Lauren Cooley coming up.
She's on a brilliant Make Campus America Great Again tour.
And do I have any video of her?
I don't think I do.
Whoa, my ghetto blaster's fighting back.
That's my ghetto blaster telling me that we've got to move on.
But this is a brief look at Ariana Rollins.
Well, because we only had 200 seats available and 1,000 people showed up, we wanted to bring Milo back so more people could come see him.
So 17 days after the conclusion of the event, I went to the administration because they wanted to do a debriefing session about the previous Milo event.
And at that debriefing session, they told me, well, I said, well, I'm going to bring Milo back right before the election.
We're going to do a little rally for Trump.
And they said, well, Ariana, I'm not very happy to hear about that.
And I said, well, sorry, but it's happening anyway.
Four hours later, I get an email saying that my club has been suspended for An entire year because we had failed to file a certificate of proof of insurance.
That's what they do with these conservatives.
They bombard them with lawfare.
Oh, yeah, I do have Laura Cooley on.
This is her talking to Dana Lash about life as a conservative.
And by the way, liberals, look what you've done.
You've created ninja warriors who want to kill you.
You kept giving all these parameters and antagonizing all these non-liberals.
I don't even like calling them conservatives.
And eventually, you made someone who can take you on, who is going purely on the offense.
What did you think was going to happen?
So students that are independent thinkers are absolutely scared to be going to, whether it's college libertarian meetings or college Republican meetings.
And we saw this at Amherst College.
Now these posters were actually posted across the campus, but they were specifically targeted where the college Republicans were meeting because they turned them inside out so they'd face into the window so the students could see the message.
So, I mean, it just shows that if you break from the mold at all, if you're not a part of that hive mind, that collective thought, they're just going to marginalize you and try to make you basically shut up and go away.
What is the goal of...
You know, this happened in the Bronx where they shut the Bronx down.
Robert Moses isolated the Bronx and built a highway through and demolished all these buildings, ruined an entire neighborhood, ruined an entire culture.
And what happened to the Bronx?
They turned into savage gangs.
They've turned us into savage gangs.
Okay, I know I'm way over here, but I just want to show you the universe that these college Republicans, and not even college Republicans, just college non-social justice warriors.
I'm going to show you the hell that they live in, and then we'll cut to Ariana Rowlands, okay?
And we'll jump right after that to Lauren Cooley, and you'll see two women fighting back against these lunatics.
But before we do, I just want to show you what these lunatics are like.
I'll hate an intolerance report.
That's something that I would encourage.
I'm just going to describe the whole entire incident.
And that is something that I would also ask you guys to do.
There's been no disturbance.
Your existence is a disturbance.
My existence is a disturbance.
There we go.
That's a crucial detail.
Your existence is a disturbance.
Let's go to Ariana.
Ariana Rowlands.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm great.
Now it's quite early over there.
You're still in school.
You're still a senior at Irvine?
Right.
I'm a senior at Irvine studying political science.
I see.
And the last time we spoke, a lot was going on.
You didn't have a man yet.
You were taking a break from courtship.
And you had been banned for a year from college campus, your organization, because of some made-up technical glitch in a contract that wasn't even there that said you didn't provide enough security for Milo Yiannopoulos.
Right.
And so after a week of negative articles every single day, and I sort of rejected every single sort of term of compromise from the administration until they did a referral reversal on that ban.
And then from there, I started helping other College Republican chapters who are facing similar things across California.
Now, didn't you, this sounds like lawyers are involved.
This sounds expensive.
Right, yes.
So especially in California, a lot of lawyers are needed for College Republican clubs because the students and the administration don't really like the students very much, the College Republicans.
So they try and infringe upon their rights.
And so I just got elected as state chair of the California College Republicans.
And one of the new policies that I'm going to enact is I'm going to create a California College Republicans legal defense team that's going to provide pro bono lawyers for the College of Republicans that need it.
You know, you sound like a revolutionary beatnik in the 50s.
I bet that the, you know, the radical hippies of the early 50s had to go through similar things at their colleges.
You're the new rebels.
We absolutely are the new rebels.
We were rebels with a cause, and it is not a leftist cause.
It is the cause of the Constitution and the cause of conservative values.
I'm glad you brought that up because that's a good segue into what's happening with you now.
So you just won as the head of the California College Republicans.
And the woman that you were up against, her motto was that we have to bridge the gap between right and left and try to befriend Democrats.
But that's never been your idea.
You've given up on befriending them.
Yeah, absolutely.
You know, these people hate us more than ever before.
No matter what we do, they're always going to hate us.
No matter how many times we concede, how many times we help them out with a policy and compromise our values, they're still going to turn around the next day and call us a racist or a bigot and try to shut us down.
So I'm trying to reach out to moderates.
I'm trying to reach out to people who are already Republicans and get them involved in our cause and champion it.
Well, we've got Lauren Cooley on the show today, too, and she's doing a Make Campus Grade Again tour.
And the thing I say to every college Republican is it's not safe anymore because the right has been so dehumanized by the left that it's okay to spit in their face.
It's okay to push them downstairs.
If my kid, I've said this a million times, my kid was conservative, if my kid was a gay conservative, I wouldn't feel safe about sending him to a college, especially in California.
No, yeah, you're absolutely right.
And, you know, I think the worst of it is at Berkeley.
That's absolutely for sure.
You know, I was just up there, you know, last month.
And, you know, I hear stories all the time from the college Republicans about how they're stocked, how they're walking around, and people are taking videos of them, watching them, posting their locations all over social media, wherever they are.
You know, that is terrifying.
Just because you disagree on a sort of ideological scale that you're stocked and threatened and physically in danger, I think that's a new level of ridiculous.
Well, what they've done is They've made the right Nazis.
So now if you beat up a Republican or spit in his face, you're spitting in the face of Hitler as a teenager, so it's morally justified.
It's cool to hate Republicans.
And that is a story sort of perpetuated by the mainstream media.
And over the last 20 years, they've sort of bred this distrust in conservatives.
And they've said that you shouldn't trust conservatives and all our ideas are terrible.
And so now those people who've grown up mistrusting, fearing, hating conservatives are in college.
And that's why you're seeing over the last few years, it keeps getting worse and worse.
And it's not going to get any better.
Well, I think that's what you and I have in common.
We both say punch back.
We both say let's fight fire with fire.
And the attitude of the right for so long has been this, don't stoop to their level.
Remember when Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluck a slut or implied that she might be a slut?
And everyone on the right was saying, oh, that was terrible.
He used that language.
That's leftist language.
We don't resort to that.
No, we should resort to that.
We should get petty.
If they punch us, we punch them in the face.
We have to get tough with these lunatics because they're like feral animals.
They're like rabid dogs.
You've got to kick them in the head.
Well, a lot of the times people who disagree with me, they'll tell me, you should just, this is just the way the world is.
This is just how the system is, and you need to accept that.
And I say, absolutely not.
You know, this is wrong, and I'm going to try and fix this wrong.
And even on our own side, you know, when the establishment says, oh, sorry, you know what?
I'm not going to make things fair because this is just the way that I want it to be and you should accept that.
And then suddenly it's my fault if I stand up and say, no, what you're doing is wrong and I disagree with it and I'm going to fight back.
And it's sort of the a lot of the times the establishment right falls into the same sort of idea and problem as the left.
And it's that you need to stop standing up to authority even when they're wrong because they're the authority.
Yeah, it's like when City Khan says that terrorism is just something you have to accept in a big city.
So get over it.
Get over acid in your face.
But you know what they're doing with you is they're accidentally training a ninja.
I had this with my little brother.
I'm 14 years older than him.
I beat him up every day of his life.
And then one day when he was 16, he got me in this hole that I couldn't get out of.
And I realized, oops, I've accidentally trained the greatest fighter.
And now he can beat me up with one arm tied behind his back.
And we saw this with Trump, too.
They said, your candidate has to be perfect.
We gave them Mitt Romney.
We gave them Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz has the Constitution memorized.
And they go, no, he's ugly, and he's a wimp, and he doesn't fight back enough.
So we got this pit bull, this Trump pit bull, and we said, how about this?
And he went in there and just started ripping people to shreds.
And now no one can fight him.
I mean, they try the Russia thing, they try everything, and he's like RoboCop.
And I feel like the same thing's happening with you.
The nice girl didn't win this CCA thing, CCR, because she was too kind.
So the left has created monsters like you and me.
Well, yeah, you know, if they wouldn't have infringed upon my rights or my peers' rights so many times, then I wouldn't have had to have fight back.
I wouldn't have had to kick their ass, basically.
And every time we kick their ass, we only get stronger because we learn more about how to kick ass.
So, you know, if they just left me alone, I'd probably, I don't know, maybe I'd be in a sorority or something and be dealing with that drama.
Yes.
Just let us have a talk and don't make up some BS about the contract.
Okay, last thing.
When this whole election was going on, it sounds boring, right?
There's people voting.
The other girl that you're up against is pro-Democrat in a sense that she wants to bridge the gap.
You say, screw it, let's get tough, let's fight.
They're our enemy.
Communists are dumb, as it says here on your Facebook page.
But it wasn't boring.
I can't find any video of this, but there was people screaming wherever you were, and then someone yelling, you're not going anywhere, are you?
And running back in when you were about to be torn out.
What happened there?
So there were two conventions, and the first convention ran out of time because the establishment ran down the clock because they realized I was going to win.
So they hadn't prepared for the fact that I was going to win.
Even though they tried to cheat and invalidated like a quarter of my delegates.
So they ran down the clock.
And then that was postponed six months until the CRP convention in October.
And then they also tried to prevent people from voting.
And when I was trying to get people to vote again, and I was trying to remove the person who was running against me from chairing the meeting, which would give her pretty much ultimate power over decision making, she threatened to throw me out.
And she tried to call security on me.
And she said, leave.
And I said, no, I'm not going.
And then all my delegates stood up with me to make sure no one could get to me.
And then RNC committee man Sean Steele for California runs in the room and he's like, you're not going anywhere.
And pretty much you can't disagree with Sean Steele.
So she tried to stall for like 10, 15 minutes and then eventually ended up voting again.
And then when they were voting again, there's this thing called the proxy card, which basically means like you're a super delegate.
So you are voting with two votes.
And so she gave all of her voters this proxy card to make them super delegates and then denied my voters their proxy cards and I still won.
That's Trump all over again.
Their side cheats and our side wins.
Yeah, yeah.
That sounds like something out of Serbia or the Congo or something.
That sounds like the other side of the world's politics.
People yelling and fighting.
Wow.
That's exciting.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, the people won.
The people won.
The people won again.
So you've got this legal defense fund to help college Republicans fight back legally because you keep getting bogged down with all this bullshit, with all these made-up stats and these contractual lies.
And what I find more inspiring is your general message, which is the time for negotiation is passed.
It's time to fight.
And that's inspiring.
Right.
No, absolutely.
We're not going to win unless we fight.
You know, keeping the status quo, keeping the same strategy that we've had for The last 20, 30 years isn't working.
And so we have to try something new.
And we found something that works.
And it's to fight back and stand up for what we believe in.
Well, you've just, I mean, you're beautiful on the outside.
You've turned out to be beautiful on the inside.
You're an incredible catch.
How, are you in a relationship yet?
No, I am not.
What is going on there?
Is there something you're not telling me?
Do you play for the other team?
I do not.
Well, what's going on?
Is it men's fault?
Do you not have enough suitors?
No, it's not that.
It's not that.
I'm just kind of picky.
And then the people that I choose aren't always the best.
Wow.
Ooh, that alludes to some gossip.
Was there some infidelity recently?
No, not infidelity.
No.
What happened?
Oh, my goodness.
I don't know if this is appropriate to say.
Well, I can delete it.
Is it a sexual thing?
Are the details too raunchy there?
No, no.
It's just, you know, people are immature at my age, and I feel like I'm a little bit more mature for my age than the men are.
You know, when I talk to women like you and Roaming Millennial and Lawrence Southern, I just get mad at men.
It makes me a misandrist.
Hey guys, if you're watching and you're remotely near Irvine, go get a ring on that thing.
What the hell is the matter with you?
Ariana, thanks for coming on the show and this is an exciting time for you.
The last time I spoke to you, it was like you're under a pile of wet blankets bogging you down in bureaucracy and you just threw them off and now you're free.
Still a ton of wet blankets, but less.
Beautiful.
Well good luck in the fight.
You're an inspiration.
Now Lauren Cooley here, you're on a Make Campus Great Again tour.
You're a Red Alerts contributor, correct?
That's right, yeah.
What are you trying to achieve with this Make Campus Great Again tour?
So basically what it really came down to is I had a lot of college students reaching out to me and saying, you know, we worked really hard during the election to get Trump elected.
We worked really hard because we wanted to help make America great again.
But now that the election's over, what can we do on campus to actually be successful, to actually move the ball forward, to help President Trump here on campus?
And so I had to sit back and think about it for a few minutes because for so long, I know, at least all my adult life, we were playing defense, right?
We had Democrats in the White House.
And so the question was, what exactly can we be doing?
And all of a sudden, I realized we need to be playing offense.
And so that's where the Make Campus Gradigan tour came from.
Instead of sitting around and waiting for the liberals or the left on campus to do something crazy and then having, you know, us, the conservatives or the Republicans, say, oh, no, and fight back, why don't we start spearheading our agenda?
Who cares what the left's doing on campus?
We're the ones in control now.
Beautiful.
Yeah, I was just talking to Ariana Rowlands about that.
And she said, you know, we're done bridging the gap with Democrats.
They're always going to hate us.
They're mentally ill would be my addition to that argument.
And the idea of having an open discourse, I don't know, I'm of two minds about it because I like the idea of, you know, bringing people together.
But on the other hand, I think, when do you give up?
Well, I mean, here's the thing.
There's always the people that you're going to be able to convince.
There's the ones that you want to have a discourse with, a dialogue, because you're going to bring them to your side.
But then there's the ones that they're not out for a conversation or civil discourse.
They're the ones like the Antifa squad at Berkeley.
They're the ones that are rioting.
And so at that point, you know, you got to understand who your audience is.
If you want to engage with them in a debate because you know other people are watching and gonna hear what you have to say, that's great.
But otherwise, yeah, I wouldn't even waste my time on people like that.
Milo was saying that the other day.
He said that the thing about a debate is when you both go in, you both need to have common ground in that you both want to get to the truth.
But when you debate a liberal these days, they just want to win, they want to cheat, they make up stats, and you go, it's sort of like playing pool with someone where every time you turn around, they're sinking a ball.
Well, I don't want to play pool with you.
That's not what the game is.
You just ruined the game.
Right.
And that's where the left has gone because it used to be where we had this common denominator where we wanted to see our country succeed.
But now the left really wants to see, you know, our country fail, wants to see our system of government fail.
And it's the same type of thinking no matter what topic you're talking with the left on.
So like let's talk about diversity for a second.
It used to be we want a diverse group of people, whether that means skin color or gender or what have you, because the ultimate goal was different experiences and different viewpoints.
Today, a room of leftists would rather everybody had the same exact viewpoint as long as they hit those different categories, which used to bring us to the real diversity, which was diversity of opinion and thought, but now they're just checking off those boxes.
So no matter what topic you're talking about, yeah, we're not starting from the same point and we're definitely not looking to end at the same point.
So it's hard to have that conversation.
So when it comes to campus activism, let's just, you know, take it for what it is and say it's time for us to push our agenda forward.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I'm fascinated by college Republicans because, you know, my kids are getting older and it's time to start sending them somewhere.
And I'm not sending them there.
Like, what's it like for you being a conservative walking around campus on a typical day?
I mean, so here's the thing.
If you don't really speak out, if you're just kind of doing your thing, you want to go to class, you're going to hear your professors oftentimes talking about these different leftist policies.
They're going to try to indoctrinate you.
You may have to regurgitate some of it in class to get a good grade.
But for the most part, you can make it through okay.
The problem is when you're conservative and you speak up and you speak out.
And that was definitely my experience when I was an undergraduate student.
You know, I protested liberal speakers that came to campus.
Automatically, people wanted to call me racist.
I remember one time I'm sitting in the dining hall and this girl walks up to me and says, so can we talk for a minute?
I said, sure.
And she goes, well, why are you racist?
It's ridiculous.
This is the kind of behavior that the left treats conservative students on campus just because they hold different views.
I mean, you do a good job talking about how let's not fall into this trap of talking about I'm not a racist, I'm not a racist.
But at the end of the day, I mean, these are definitely the tactics that are being used for college Republicans, conservatives on campus.
And obviously, it couldn't be further from the truth.
Well, it's effective because since World War II and the civil rights movement, it's a given that Nazis and racists are bad.
We all agree on that.
So now all you have to do is sort of shove someone into that box, and then you're done with the argument because that box then gets shipped away to Nazi town.
And I think it's made the left really lazy because when you actually confront them and say something like, how many illegals are in this country?
Or what do we spend on education per student per year?
And their answers aren't even in the same realm as reality.
I had a woman, a lesbian, once tell me that there's 70 billion illegals in America, and that's enough.
That doesn't matter.
And I go, it's not quite 70 billion, but that would be too many if it were 70 billion.
I mean, they've forgotten math and they've forgotten facts because they're spoiled rotten.
Yeah, well, you make a great point because people always tell me, is there any plus side to being a conservative on campus?
And my argument is if you can get through it, it really makes you stronger because the kids that show up on campus and they already are, you know, left-leaning, their professors tell them what they already believe or what they want to hear.
They pretty much just regurgitate their own opinion on these tests.
Everybody pats them on the back when they, you know, do a great job protesting the president and they call it a day.
They may act like it's so difficult and they need to have these like safe spaces and mass screaming events, which is ones coming up where I guess a year from the day the president was elected, everybody's going to scream to the sky.
I mean, these are bizarre things, but they really have it pretty easy.
But the conservative students on campus, they're the ones that actually have to have critical thinking and sharpen their views and be able to actually debate and hold their own against their professors.
They're the minority thought leaders on campus.
They've got to be sharp and on top of things.
But I think that type of pressure really makes you stronger in your beliefs.
I know it did for me.
It helped me really understand what I was willing to fight for and what I thought wasn't really worth the battle.
I know, I know.
You're right, you're right.
That's why Ann Coulter says our gays are better than their gays.
But it almost sounds like you're describing, say, being an atheist and going to a Catholic school like DePaul.
You would have to endure a lot of rigor and you'd probably be better at your atheism or converted or something.
You'd be better at the end of the day.
But this doesn't seem like that.
Like every time I check social media, I see another professor has said that all white people need to die.
I've heard that Trump is Hitler, that there's some assistant professor who's talking about genocide, and he's got his black power fist in the air.
I mean, it seems like, I saw one the other day.
It was a group of College Republicans meeting that got stormed by Antifa and these radical lefties who said they were going to prosecute them for hate crimes.
And then one of them, one of the guys at the College Republican thing, was a registered Democrat, but he was still guilty of a hate crime.
And then one of the kids said, your mere existence is a hate crime.
And to that, I say, have we gone past the point of no return?
Yeah, I mean, so obviously it's not something that we would prefer that these conservative students on campus have to deal with things like this.
I would prefer that both left-leaning students and right-leaning students are challenged on a daily basis.
I think that's the point of college.
But what you're bringing up is actually becoming the norm, and that's not okay.
I know this has happened at many colleges across the country, just in this semester alone.
I reported on a story the other day about how Antifa in New York City is putting up posters of students' faces and names and saying, if you see these students, they're the college Republicans, tell them what you think.
Meaning, obviously, tell them that you think they're fascists, they're terrible people, and they deserve, you know, X, Y, and Z. So that's becoming the norm.
That's definitely something that's heightened in the last, I'd say, six months to a year with President Trump coming in.
But that just shows the difference between how the left behaves when they're in power and the left behaves when they have to play defense.
We played defense for eight plus years, and we were never posting pictures and names of the college Democrats on campus and saying, oh, tell them how you feel, go beat them up or whatever else.
And so, yeah, there's definitely a difference, but I think that's where you get the moral high ground with the right versus some of the crazy leftist tactics that we're seeing today.
Yeah, I think the answer is a balance.
It's a balance of retaining our morals and retaining our integrity and also fighting dirty.
I'm not going to pick a fight, but if someone punches me, I'm going to finish that fight, and that's going to include kicking in the balls.
We're going to go to the next one.
Well, you know, so one thing that I tell students a lot is they need to read Solinsky's Rules for Radicals.
And I think it's a great book, not because I endorse everything in there or the fact that it's dedicated to the devil himself, but I think, one, we need to understand the tactics that the left is using.
And two, a lot of these political tactics are philosophically neutral.
And so when it comes down to it, yeah, we have the moral high ground and we're not going to post pictures of leftist students and humiliate them.
And I mean, we're going to win on ideas.
But at the same time, I think there are some really edgy, forward-thinking activism ideas that students can be doing that right now a lot aren't just because we're so not used to being in the position that we're in.
So that's really the whole point of my tour with Make Campus Great again is just we've got to change the way that we do activism on campus.
And if we're not planning out our goals and our activism projects and we know exactly what we're after, the left is going to continue to hound us.
And so just because we won this one election, President Trump's in the White House, we've got to be doing a lot more on campus to succeed.
Well, I wish you nothing but the best.
It's an inspiring story.
This whole episode has been an inspiring story of college Republicans, both female in this case, standing up for themselves and fighting.
And I guess you're not learning anything in the classroom, so you might as well get something out of this experience.
And it sounds like you're learning valuable lessons.
Yeah, that's right.
Absolutely.
Thanks for coming on, Lauren.
Let's have you back again soon.
Thank you.
You know, when I did this talk at NYU, they kept yelling, whose campus, our Campus?
Whose campus?
Our campus.
They didn't mean our campus.
They meant liberals' campus.
They meant we don't have a diversity of thought here, and we don't want you here if you don't agree with us.
And I think what we're learning here from the new right, the offensive right, the young new right, is it's not their campus, it's everyone's campus, and that includes the non-liberals.
So the next time they say, whose campus our campus, say, get off my campus.
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