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July 24, 2018 - Get Off My Lawn - Gavin McInnes
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Ep 159 | Anti-PC Prof Special | Get Off My Lawn
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Live from New York, get off my launch, Gavin, and filling up with gasoline.
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That was Billy Bragg from the album Great Leap Forward, wherein he praises Mao the entire time.
I was a big fan of that album.
I still like Billy Bragg, but he is absolutely mad in that he is a communist.
And to this day, he supports Mao and Marx and all of that crap that you're taught in college to love.
I have a very special episode for you today, folks.
I'm devoting the entire thing to Professor Michael Rechtenwald.
Well, why, Gavin?
That's a little esoteric.
Why are you focusing on some random humanities prof at the college near your house?
Because it is indicative of a bigger pattern.
And the bigger pattern here is that university, college, post-secondary education has become a joke.
Michael Rechtenwald was a commie.
He was a Marxist, but he was a reasonable one who was open-minded and wanted the kids to learn.
He wanted to preach truth.
And he was vilified for this.
All this man did was say politically correct culture is out of control.
And I'm noticing it affect my students detrimentally, affect their learning.
Same as Jordan Lee Peterson, same as Lindsey Shepard, and same as a lot of people in non-academic fields like John Stossel.
Anyone who dares to stray from the liberal narrative is punished.
And the liberal narrative keeps moving farther and farther to the left.
So you know what that does?
It ends up recruiting more right-wingers because they're told, if you're not having sex with a trans woman right now and performing fellatio on her penis, then you're a Nazi.
So people go, I guess I'm a Nazi then.
I'm going to Nazi it up.
Thanks.
Now, I'm obviously exaggerating.
It's not like they become racists or fascists or whatever, but they do become conservative.
They walk away from the left.
So that's why I think Michael Rechtenwald justifies an entire show because he personifies this trend.
And this trend is big.
It is about the left, the far left, politicizing apolitical people and making them right-wing conservative political activists.
And it's also about the death of education.
I honestly think to this day, in this day and age, you are punishing children if you send them to school.
And I know I'm going to have fights with my liberal wife when my kids are old enough to go to college because she still has this attitude that no matter what you want to take, drama, speech pathology, modern dance, you should go to university and get a good education.
So mark my words, my daughter's 10 now.
In eight years, there are going to be some big fights at the McInnis house because I don't want my kids going to college if it's not STEM, science, technology, engineering, and math.
I bet even then, in eight years, all those will be solid.
I bet there'll be like trans chemistry class and there'll be math that is friendly to people of color.
Math for people of color, African math, I bet will be a class.
I bet it is right now.
Crying out loud.
I know they got new math.
Anyway, so you've heard of Michael Rechtenwald.
He was a liberal professor who had an anonymous Twitter account called NYU Prof, doesn't like PC or something like that.
And he got caught.
Well, he voluntarily admitted that it was him.
He was quite proud of the account, actually.
It was not a radical account.
It was nothing alt-right about it or anything really controversial.
He got caught with that.
He was fired.
Then he was reinstated and promoted.
I don't know what happened there.
I thought it was Trump.
And now he is suing the school for basically just abuse.
He's a deplorable NYU prof. There he is.
He's just constantly getting abused at school for he's being treated like a Nazi pedophile.
And he's obviously neither of those things.
So let's get the story from the horse's mouth.
And you'll see why I want to devote a whole show to it.
Michael, are you there?
Yes, I am.
Now, Michael Rechdemwald, you were a professor at NYU, and you had an anonymous Twitter account.
What was it called again?
It's the Anti-PC NYU Prof. Anti-PC NYU Prof. Now, the way I remember the story going is there was a very funny account.
You'd make jokes about PC and, like Jordan Peterson, poke fun at its inevitable demise.
And then you got doxxed.
They got found out.
You were punished by the school.
But then right after Trump was elected, it seemed like the school had to eat crow and rehire you with a promotion.
And I was included in my list of wins.
But is that the full story?
it's a part of the story.
It's, uh, and it's slightly, I was never fired, but I was put on paid leave.
They more or less strong-armed me into taking a paid medical leave.
So, it is even more interesting than this than you suggested because when my interview appeared in the Washington Square News, in which an NYU student reporter interviewed me after finding out about my Twitter account, I decided to go public and to go on the record as myself because I thought there's nothing objectionable here about what I'm saying.
This is an alternate perspective that needs to be heard about these bias reporting hotlines, safe spaces, you know, trigger warnings, the whole nine yards.
And the no platforming of speakers, which you've experienced at NYU yourself.
I was there.
We'll talk about that.
Immediately, a committee after this interview had appeared, a committee called the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Group wrote a condemnation of me in which they declared me, quote, guilty for the structure of my thinking, end quote.
So literally was accused of wrongthink.
Yeah.
And they furthermore said that I was low on the ethical totem poll.
Wow.
And a few other choice things, very nasty.
Then the same day I was summoned by my dean out of nowhere.
I certainly didn't ask for this meeting.
I was summoned by my dean to his office asking me, saying, you know, can you come over?
I have something has come up.
So I said, yeah, I knew what it was.
And I said, yeah, I'm pretty sure I know what this is.
So I get there.
He pulls me real close to himself, like within a few seconds of getting in the office.
And he says, I just want you to know this has nothing to do with your Twitter account or publicity.
And I was like, okay.
And then he goes, but if you don't mind, I would like the head of human resources to join us.
You should have been recording it.
I know.
Well, you know, this Lindsey Graham thing hadn't happened.
Had I saw that first, I would have been, I just didn't think of recording it.
I just didn't occur to me.
It was like you were too trusting of the system.
Absolutely.
I was.
Absolutely.
Because when they got in there, they started to suggest that they went right back to the Twitter account and during my interview.
Yeah.
And said, you know, people think this is a cry for help.
I'm like, what people?
Yeah.
So they tried to make it into a mental illness issue.
Like, there was all kind of suggestions like, you're mentally ill.
You must be crazy to say these things.
Yeah, you must be insane if you don't agree with my ideas of 32 genders and trans.
Basically, I'm the insane one.
That's right.
There's 72 in England, but there's 54 here.
So I guess there's some cultural variation.
Someone's insane even in those two groups.
One of them is wrong.
So, yeah, I mean, that's the kind of things I was talking about.
And, you know, they squeezed me out.
And then immediately, strangely enough, I got a call from the New York Post as soon as that meeting ended as if she had a bug on the wall or something.
And I told her all about what happened.
And I said, do you think there's any relationship between this relieve of absence, the interview, you know, and the interview that I had published?
And she goes, are you kidding?
She said, did you read the open letter against you?
I hadn't seen it yet.
So she points me to this open letter, you know, that had castigated me severely.
And then she said, there is no question.
You are being forced out for your views.
So I had no choice but to go public because I figured it would have buried me alive.
Oh, yeah, without a doubt.
So wait a minute.
Let's go back a step.
How did it, was it discovered that that was your Twitter account?
What happened was the tweets somehow insinuated themselves onto the alerts of one of the NYU's reporters.
And so she contacted me through direct message on Twitter and said, you know, are you really an NYU professor?
And I said, yes.
And then she said, if so, would you please sit for an interview with me?
And I agreed.
I wasn't sure I was going to go as myself.
I wasn't sure that I would actually, you know, become, you know, go out as myself, but I decided to after I did the interview because I thought this is, first of all, I liked some of the things I said.
I wanted to own them, actually, because I thought they were well said and that they were important.
And, you know, I just, I said, you know, this, what they're now calling the control left or the alt left is out of control.
They're totalitarians.
They're driving people out to the far right.
They're producing the alt-right if anybody is.
They're literally deeming you mentally ill if you don't agree with them.
That's Stalin in a nutshell.
It is very Stalin-esque, unbelievably.
And then that committee is completely Orwellian.
You know, everything, I call it the conformity, inequity, and exclusion group.
Because if you don't conform, you will be excluded.
And there's certainly inequity.
And by the way, my brother pointed this out when he was at Ottawa U up in Canada.
A portion of your tuition as a student goes to these groups that then control you and restrict you from getting a full education.
So you are being extorted and forced to pay for your own policing almost.
That's a bad term because somebody guys do that.
Indoctrination and policing, yeah.
Yeah, your own indoctrination, your own restrictions you're paying for.
It's bizarre.
Yeah, I mean, if you talk about, if you look at some of the, for example, just some of the orientation things that are going on at student orientation, freshman orientation, where you can't call a freshman anymore, there's first-year students.
Oh, because man, I see.
Yes.
First-year students.
They have these things called tunnels of oppression.
I don't know if you've heard of them.
Oh, I have heard of these.
Yeah, that's amazing.
Where you go through this tunnel, and while you're going through it, minority students or others scream epithets and swear words at you.
And this is required for orientation.
You have to be utterly denigrated.
And you're paying for this.
But if they just unleash all the requirements and stop, you know, with this racial bias and thwarting Asians.
Aren't these really good schools like NYU and McGill and Harvard?
Aren't they going to be all Asian?
And so you're going to have Asians walking through tunnels with white kids screaming at them.
I mean, they're mostly Chinese students at NYU right now.
I mean, it's predominantly, we're getting so many Chinese students.
It's incredible.
And they're good students.
What do they need to learn about black racism, these Chinese students?
I know.
I mean, they have no clue what's going on.
Or they come over.
I start telling them about some of this stuff.
The whole thing is completely lost on them.
And then I talk about, you know, transgenderism and transgender theory.
And they are just like, are you kidding me?
They just can't believe it.
I said, yeah, this whole culture has gone amok.
Well, you talk about genocide and stuff.
China has mouth statues everywhere you go.
So they don't get the concept of this person committed a war crime.
He's the villain now.
They just go, well, you got to crack some eggs.
It was a rough.
They don't.
Actually, I've talked to Chinese students.
I asked them, what is your history of the Cultural Revolution?
What do you know about the Cultural Revolution?
What is taught?
And I was told there's three sentences that are taught.
Three sentences.
Mao was the chairman.
It happened between 1968 and 1978.
And one other thing, I forget.
You know, that's it.
Three sentences.
Water under the bridge.
It's water under the bridge is the third one.
Yeah, 60 million people.
No, no, no, no.
No 60 million people.
None of that.
They don't hear any of it.
Well, that's, you know, that's the norm, I think.
You hear that in Russia.
You hear that all over the world.
Pull pot, you know, all these purges.
They just go, let's not dwell.
Whereas in the West, not only do we dwell on Hitler, but we ascribe him to everyone we disagree with.
But let's get back on track here.
So where are you now?
Are you still on paid leave?
No, I went back.
I went back after the fall of 2016.
I started back in the spring of 2017.
And that's when the real action began.
You won't believe it.
It got worse.
So first of all, let's just say that.
I want to save my dessert here.
So was your reinstating, did that have anything to do with Trump?
No, but here's the, you said that I got the promotion the day, you know, after Trump was elected.
Interestingly enough, I got the promotion the day before the election.
Oh, wow.
So I was promoted two full ranks from assistant to full professor.
I took a big giant quantum leap to the highest rank.
A great leap forward.
That's right.
And then I went back.
Well, first of all, I was universally and have been universally shunned by my colleagues.
It's as if I'm a Nazi, in fact.
I've been called a Nazi.
I was called a Nazi at the night you spoke.
I could tell you about that in a minute.
Yeah, I've been called everything, but it's as if I was a Nazi and people wouldn't get on the elevator with me.
Wow.
I mean, people acted like I was a moral leopard, like it was a contagion that had to be quarantined.
It's like being black in the 30s.
It's, yeah, it was.
Did you have your own water fountain?
Yeah, that's right.
I mean, not getting on the same elevator with you.
I mean, just unbelievable.
So at the end, on the very last day of that first semester back, the spring of 2017, an email blizzard started from these people, a contingent of them, blasting me like crazy because I mentioned my book and that I was going to get in advance for it.
And they went off.
And they said, you know, they called me everything from misogynist, racist, sexist, short pants, white devil.
I don't get the short pants.
Is that what Nazis were?
I don't know.
That's some sort of code in African American parlance.
I really don't.
I haven't looked it up.
I've heard about it from others.
That short pants is something as some sort of a, it's supposed to be shameful to have short pants.
I don't know.
Galters be damned.
Yes, short pants, white devil.
And drug addict.
They said I was dangerous to have as a professor around minority students, especially women.
Meanwhile, I have higher ratings than all of them.
Well, you're liberal, aren't you?
Listen, Gavin, I was actually a leftist.
Yeah.
I was a leftist till they drove me out.
I was a leftist until I saw what totalitarian monsters they are.
That underneath of this egalitarian rhetoric, you just scrape it just a slight little micro, you know, micrometer, and you find a totalitarian everywhere.
All of America is going through this.
It's the whole walk away movement.
They're going, I thought we were against racism.
I thought we felt bad about slavery, and it's become, no, we're enforcing our ideas on innocent people and terrorizing anyone who disagrees.
And I think a lot of liberals are going, that's not what I signed up for.
I know.
I ran away rather than walk away.
I mean, it was, I mean, because not only was I being besieged by all these colleagues, but thousands and thousands of people on the internet, you know, just attacking me viciously.
I mean, you know, you can always walk away from that, but it gets pretty ugly.
And it got, I was a member of a communist group, a left communist group.
And they actually put me through a cyber show trial, if you will, in which they listed a number of my crimes, which were appearing on Fox News, criticizing the left while Trump was just coming into office, things like that.
In other words, I wasn't part of the resistance, and that was enough to get me condemned.
And I said, and they were about to vote, and I said, don't bother.
I quit.
I want nothing to do with you people at all.
You committed propaganda crimes.
Yes, then they stripped my name from three essays I'd written and published and they put someone else's name on them.
Because after all, everything is collective and can be reassigned at any time.
That's amazing.
Yeah, I had a complete gestalt shift.
And now I could say, I guess I'm a classical liberal.
I mean, I just believe in, you know, individual rights because, after all, there's nothing else because you can't have group or goodwill or good, you know, common good without individual good rights and individual good.
After all, they just use the common common will crush you every time.
Yeah, well, equality means everyone's life is equally shitty.
That's right.
They just reduce every, it's, I call it subtractive egalitarianism.
Yeah, some people get the extraordinary by, yeah, by taking things away and taking privileges, so-called privileges away from everybody, just reduce, reduce, reduce everyone down.
Let the extraordinary thrive.
Let someone invent a printer, a camera, an iPhone.
Let them improve our lives.
Exactly.
Don't hold them back.
All right, so where are you at now?
Well, I said about this email barrage took place on official NYU email for four days, going out to over 120 people.
And NYU did nothing about it.
So I sued them.
I sued the professors that engaged in this defamation of character.
And I sued the university for not doing anything about it.
And that's what's happening right now.
So that trial is going on.
And you're still employed at NYU?
Yes, I am.
Without suing your employer.
Yeah.
And what kind of classes do you teach?
I teach basically academic writing, cultural history, things like that.
I'm a humanities scholar, and I came up to my PhD is in what's called literary and cultural studies.
And so I was trained deeply in the Marxist, post-Marxist, and neo-Marxist, if you will, and post-modernist theory.
I mean, I have a degree basically in post-modern theory.
So I know where all this crap came from.
And that's what I talk about in my book, which is coming out in August.
So you're a Marxist who was a member of a communist group who thought things are out of control here.
Let's slow it down with the PC.
And you got attacked.
You got cannibalized.
And you've survived the mob and are looking back now at all that stuff going, what a waste.
Were you wrong from day one?
Or did they change?
I basically wrote a history of errors, you know, my own and that of others.
That's basically what I just did.
And it's just extraordinary.
I can see what happened to me and why, in fact, I got into, you know, so deeply indoctrinated because they make it a requirement professionally.
You can't advance professionally unless you buy into leftist dogma.
There's no way.
I saw people get thrown out of our PhD program for being conservative.
Thrown out.
Students often ask me, they say, should I just lie in class?
And Ben Shapiro's answer to that is yes.
Lie, be a Marxist, get your degree, and then get rich and say in your face.
I say the opposite.
I say write the truth, write good essays with a strong hypothesis and supporting arguments.
And if you get a D and get kicked out, you died with your boots on.
And that degree wouldn't have been worth anything anyway.
Excuse me.
I agree, because if you just ascent a seed and go along with it, you're helping produce this culture, which is completely, you know, it's completely tilted, utterly, completely biased.
It's worse than biased.
You can't even say certain things.
There are so many things that are verboten.
It's incredible.
Well, I've noticed white men in college, when they stand up to say something, they have this caveat they have to introduce before they open their mouths.
And it says, hi, I understand that I'm a white male and I grew up middle class and I am speaking from a position of privilege, but do you know where the restrooms are?
Every single time.
Which one?
The mask?
The man's room?
The men's room?
Sorry, do you know what restrooms are?
That's what he meant to ask.
Yeah.
I'm at the point now where I think it's child abuse to send your kid to school because he's going, especially NYU with his 40 grand a year or whatever it is, you're going like 100 grand in debt to come out stupider.
It's 75 grand, first of all.
What?
It's 75 grand.
NYU is 75 grand a year?
Yes.
Wow, I need to update my research.
But it seemed like it was 40 grand last time I checked, and that was a few years ago.
No, it's 75.
And that's not counting, you know, your party money, which is, you know, enormous.
But yeah, 75 grand.
There's this thing called progressive stacking.
This is a pedagogical tool in which the professor calls on people only in the order of their subordination.
So the most subordinate get called on first, and it goes up the line until you reach the right male.
Of course, you never reach the white straight male.
They're never allowed to speak.
That poor handicapped black girl in the chair is just like, okay, well, the answer to that question is that the hedgehog, like she must have a sore throat by the end of every class because she's got to answer every single question.
And they don't like this either because this is ridiculously highlighting their – It's embarrassing and it's uncomfortable.
They don't want to talk about this stuff all day.
Nobody wants to talk about, of course, the advocates and the activists do.
That's all they want to talk about.
Yeah, out of the few black people I hang out with, if there's one thing they don't want to talk about, it's how black they are and their blackness and blackety black, black and Malcolm X. Blacketty, black, black, black.
It's the last thing on their mind.
They want to move on.
Yeah.
So I don't see you having a future at NYU.
Thank you.
Like, how could you possibly go on?
Even if they can't fire you, whatever, just the morale of the elevator and everything.
There's more to the story.
They moved my office.
They suggested that my office be moved.
Guess where they moved me?
Next to the bathrooms.
No, this is even more poetically unbelievable than that.
The Russian department.
So Russian, Russian, Russian, you Russian, Russian.
I'm a Russian bot, and apparently I fixed the election.
And, you know, that's what we do over there.
Well, they're going to try to mentally abuse you until you break.
This is a long attrition.
Right.
They wouldn't have anybody help move my books.
You know, as a professor, you accumulate a lot of books.
You should have.
If you don't have a lot of books, then what are you doing?
So nobody would move.
They wouldn't get anybody to move my books.
So they put me in this room with empty steel bookshelves, you know, completely vacant.
And so I'm sitting, that's where I sit.
So there's no sign of, you know, and nobody speaks to me.
That's the other thing.
The people act like I don't exist.
I'm like this person, this non-person.
Do you want to stay there?
I mean, no, I mean, I want to get out of there, but in a good way, you know, obviously.
I only have a the difference here is that I'm, while I have rank in my program, they don't have tenure in my program.
So NYU has a very spotty system in which some programs and departments have tenure and others don't.
So I'm on a five-year contract and it ends at the end of May 22.
And the thing is that I'll never get renewed because the renewal committee will be drawn from my faculty.
In other words, the people that hate me.
So you're right.
There's no future.
That's why I had to sue.
Right.
Well, you might as well go the other, the remaining few years.
Why not?
Right.
I'll fight it out and do things.
And they can't do anything to me unless I do something insane, which I don't do.
I've never been like some sort of a harasser of women.
Listen, I've just been an academic, actually with way more publications than any of my colleagues.
And, you know, just that's another thing.
They just hate me.
In general, they don't like accomplishments.
And, you know, they just don't like white men, mostly straight white men.
And I'm probably the only one.
Well, they especially hate straight white men who are unapologetic because their entire ethos is built on shame and slavery.
And we took it from the Indians.
And if you acknowledge that and you're perpetually apologetic, well, okay.
But when you don't acknowledge that, you're more than just justifying it in their minds.
You're saying our education from kindergarten up was a complete lie.
And that's like telling a religious person that God doesn't exist.
It's blasphemy.
And so you've discredited their entire existence.
So either I'm a liar or you leave.
They'd rather you leave.
And that's what I did wrong when I came out with that interview is I stopped groveling and I started to say things that I said, because I'm a white straight male, I'm deemed ethically very, I'm very low on the ethical totem pole.
And then they verified that and said, yes, you are very low on the ethical totem pole.
Yeah, you say it as an insult and they repeat it back as a fact.
Yeah, exactly.
Okay, we've gone way over time here because you're too interesting, but I think it's important in all interviews to bring it back to what really matters, which is me.
Yes.
You were at NYU the night I was pepper sprayed.
Yes, I was there.
I came to that talk.
I had spoken at the exact same room the week before to the Republican club I had invited.
Of course, I didn't have the draw that you did.
All the students were there, but it wasn't a night of fanfare and madness like it was for you.
And I know you got pepper scrayed on the way in.
I was inside the building.
I had taught in that exact building before the event, and I went to the event.
And after they started into the chants, which really infuriated me, I started yelling at the students saying, you know, you're a bunch of robots.
This is academia.
This is the college.
This is university.
You guys are just programmed robots.
You just keep repeating robotic phrases.
Is this really what you want?
Is this what you want to be?
And then they interviewed me, the New York University student newspaper, the Washington Square News, after, and they started, while they were interviewing me, one student kept calling me, you're a Nazi, you're a Nazi, you're a Nazi.
And let's put it this way, if he hadn't been a student, he would have been on the floor.
Yeah, I was infuriated, you know.
Well, that newspaper is remarkably biased.
In fact, after I got pepper sprayed, I saw this girl.
She looks like a Mong Shi She.
And she took a picture of me.
And she said something about there.
She gave it to Antifa.
And they talked about me crying after I was pepper sprayed, which is pretty inevitable.
It's hard not to cry or at least tear.
And then I saw that she, so I doxed her and I said, this is the woman who took the picture, blah, blah, blah.
And then the Washington Square thing had a thing about, please stop attacking us.
We're not a Nazi.
And then I just saw recently the New York Times was announcing their new roster.
And there was the Moshi Shi, who was a total, you know, everyone's a Nazi bullshit artist, included in the new New York Times.
And you realize where these little student radicals end up is in mainstream publications.
Yeah.
This is right.
And, you know, we'll bring it back to you in a second.
Good, good.
But this is why people say, oh, this is, you know, when I first came out against this, a lot of leftists said, you know, this is just a small phenomenon at, you know, twinky colleges full of blue-haired kids that means nothing.
I said, you're wrong.
This is producing ideology for the whole society.
This is spreading everywhere.
And if it is, it's just taken over.
Look at Google.
This place is a madhouse.
Yeah, Google is hiring the SPLC.
The SPLC is pretty much as radical as Antifa when it comes to deciding who a Nazi is.
So we essentially have Antifa running Google, and we have CNN talking about how they achieve peace through violence, which isn't that literally in 1984?
Wildly.
I mean, you have, if you've looked at the James Damore law case, you know, the claim, the complaint, you have him being fired for saying there's a difference between men and women.
And there are people there at Google who identify as a wingless yellow dragonfly and the side of An ornate building.
That's their identity.
They probably got a promotion.
Are you being hyperbolic?
I never can tell anymore.
This is literally what they identify as.
I'm serious.
This is not hyperbole.
They identify as a wingless yellow dragonfly.
A wingless yellow dragonfly would immediately starve to death.
Okay, that's good.
But unfortunately, this one hasn't.
And they're also the side of an ornate building.
So that's their identity.
And you have to talk to them like they are that, I guess.
But James DeMore gets fired.
And no doubt, someone like that probably gets promoted.
So in other words, you have to be psychotic to work at Google.
He's another guy, by the way, like you, I would describe as essentially liberal, classically liberal.
I would even argue Jordan Peterson is like that.
John Stossel was another guy who's libertarian, pretty liberal dude.
He was also in the exact same boat as you at ABC in the elevator where he was a pariah and no one would look at him.
I mean, these people are basically you're 100% with us or you're 100% against us.
And 100% includes the radical, radical left.
Interestingly, right?
So, I mean, here's people that say there's no such thing as binaries and gender, but they're the most binary thinking people on earth.
I mean, everything is binary to them, except gender, which is a, you know, a spectrum.
And I say that, you know, it's the new, it's the new, you know, it's the new monastic declaration is how many, how many genders can fit on a spectrum rather than how many angels on the head of a pin.
This is the new medieval metaphysics.
Well, I don't believe that any of them believe any of this.
Like, for example, at the NYU talk, I came out and they were like, Nazi, Nazi.
And my first line was, we got three problems in this country.
The woman, the Negro, and the Jew.
And everyone's jaw just went.
And then I said, just kidding, obviously, just kidding.
But isn't it interesting that your jaws dropped?
Because you're accusing me of that.
And then when I said that, you were gobsmacked.
So you clearly don't think I'm that guy.
This is just fashion.
And I took the microphone because there was three.
And I went up to the guys chanting, who's campus R campus?
Who's campus R campus?
I said, here's a mic.
Come on up with me.
And you can say what you want.
And the closer, I call it the radioactive dick mic because the closer I got to their face, the more they go, who's campus Ramp?
And then when I take it away, who's campus R campus?
They don't want to talk.
They don't want truth or resolution.
They just want to yell.
They, in fact, I think they're so unhabitated to actually making an argument that their minds have become completely atrophied.
Yes, I agree.
They can't make an argument.
Chanting and idiotic phrase mongering.
You know, I said that about the committee that wrote that condemnation.
I said all these phrases, plug-and-play memes that they pull off the web, you know, like there's just this, there's this concatenation of idiotic phrases that they grab and plug together.
And they're charged language and it's supposed to mean something.
It sort of vibrates at a higher radioactive frequency than other language, but otherwise it's meaningless.
You know, it's just like, they just plug and play all this stuff, throw it together, and that's voila.
There's your SJW essay or whatever.
Last question, Michael.
In your class, I want a semblance of hope here.
What percentage of your students in any particular class have some sort of genuine curiosity and are not dogmatic and generally want to learn truthful statements?
That's a great question.
I could qualify that by saying in the first year students, among the first year students, the percentage is about 80.
Oh, wow.
Okay, but after they become indoctrinated into the junior and senior years, the minds close and narrow ever so gradually, but quite frankly, dramatically in the end.
And it's about 80% or 20% remaining.
So they indoctrinate a good deal of them.
And we lose them through this.
And they are no longer entertaining ideas or perspectives.
They are now becoming phrase repeaters, phrase mongers.
Year one, 80% open-minded and curious.
Years, say, three and four, you're down to 20%.
20%.
You would lose 60%.
There's a 60% attrition rate.
And then out of that 60%, a good half of them are actual complete ideologues.
They're utterly, they're part of the robotic left, if you will.
What a tragedy.
I mean, it's really the end of secondary, post-secondary education.
It's tragic.
It's a tragedy.
I mean, if anything, I stay around because I think I have to.
I mean, if I don't do it, who's going to do this?
And apparently, there's, I mean, apparently the administration is all behind all this.
It's Social Justice University all the way.
They don't see the problem there.
I do.
I think it's a problem.
No, I remember at my talk, the professor was telling everyone to be quiet, but it was almost like a nudge, nudge, wink, wink, don't be quiet.
And they didn't remove anyone.
In fact, I think they enjoyed it.
And I told the professor as much, that he was encouraging this behavior.
Yes.
And I liked what you said to the administrator at the end.
That was great.
What was that?
You, sir, are an ass.
That was great.
Classic, Gav.
Michael, thank you very much for coming on the show.
I usually only have guests on for like five to ten minutes, but this was just fascinating.
Oh, thank you for having me.
It's great talking to you.
I'm finally meeting you.
And I look forward to further travails down the line as we go.
Yes, best of luck.
Thank you so much.
Speaking of me and the relevant megalomania, I just remembered I did interview Billy Bragg once when he was playing in New York.
That was a geezer who introduced the show.
And he had a bloody bad cold.
And he was using a tincture.
He was boiling water in a tincture and then putting a towel over and a nail in it.
But he's also having caffeine, which I don't think is a good idea.
They're both homeopathic, though.
Let's check it out.
So what you do is you put it in boiling water and you put your head under the towel and you breathe it in and it goes right down into your lungs and cleans you out for an hour or so.
It's amazing stuff.
You shouldn't be having caffeine.
That's brutal.
Everyone has the advice, man.
Give me a break.
Okay.
There we go.
Great guy, Billy Bragg.
Beautiful songs.
The only bad thing is he's a communist and he doesn't see that that is advocating genocide.
Michael Rechtenwald figured it out by getting to know these people, getting to know the ideology and experiencing it for real life.
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