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Sept. 5, 2019 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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They Could Fire 10,000 People
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the latest episode of Radio Renaissance.
Latest, and who knows, perhaps to be the greatest?
We'll just see.
This is Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me, of course, is the indispensable PK.
And we'd like to talk about YouTube censorship to begin with.
Well, I think that is a great start to ask our wonderful listening audience to stop what you're doing and make sure that you get in touch with us.
Jared, how can they get in touch with you at the AmRen.com webpage?
All they need to do is go to the Contact Us tab at amran.com.
Because we live in perilous times, and one never knows how long a YouTube channel will survive.
That's right.
Shoot me an email.
Because we live here at protonmail.com.
Once again, because we live here at protonmail.com, just in case anything happens to this channel, we want to be sure to tell you where you can find the podcast, which, as Jared alluded to this is episode 147 they fly by don't they?
They certainly do fly by and while you're at it you can also visit our YouTube video channel which too is surviving by a spider's thread due to the fact that YouTube has really gone on I've run the campaign to get rid of what it considers hate speech.
It recently announced that just in the second quarter of this year, that's in a period of just three months, it removed over 100,000 videos and 17,000 channels for what it calls hate speech violations.
This is a five-fold increase over the previous three-month period.
And when you think about it, that's more than 1,000 videos a day.
Getting the chop.
That is chop, chop, chop, chop, chop.
It also removed over 500 million comments.
I didn't realize that they were policing comments.
I suppose they must have gotten rid of some of our comments, but that's about 16 million comments a day.
That is a very large number.
Well, I mean, in some cases, getting rid of comments, that might not be the worst thing.
You'd be surprised at some of the comments people leave.
Well, but it may be, it may in fact be, now I don't know how they count this, maybe the 16 million comments simply disappeared along with the 100,000 videos.
Precisely.
So maybe that's it.
It may not be that they are going through the comments and getting rid of them.
Our comments seem to be pretty much for free for all.
But in order to do this, they have 10,000 censors.
10,000!
That's more than most major corporations in the United States.
How many American companies employ as many as 10,000 people?
And all these people do is censor the idiot.
They censor the internet.
Now, according to their report, 98% of the videos are flagged by their machine learning algorithms.
Now, suppose what happens is, once they're flagged, perhaps a human being looks at them.
They've got to have these 10,000 people doing something.
But, according to What YouTube is reporting since they started using this artificial intelligence method of tracking down and sniffing out heat they have flagged content that would have taken 180,000 people working 40 hours a week.
Yes.
So, you know, I should think that if you were a socialist or a democrat, you'd be up in arms.
Technology is eliminating jobs.
That's 180,000 potential jobs.
But if they believed in the First Amendment, they could get rid of not only all of this AI that is doing the work of 180,000 people, but they could fire 10,000.
And you know, I have this vague idea that perhaps somewhere in one of those organizations there must be someone who is almost hoping for the day when there's a judicial ruling that says, no, no, you cannot discriminate according to content.
Well, you'd think the shareholders would be up in arms when they see these numbers.
Why are you employing this much labor that's unproductive?
You're going to actually silence people who are using your platform.
That actually means more people would be Exactly.
And then they'd see other videos, they'd have access to videos that are monetized.
That's right.
Because I know you lament that your channel is not monetized.
Well, and if they really believed in the First Amendment, they would let you get advertising remedy no matter what your content, as long as it was not illegal, defamatory, some kind of display of confidential information.
But no, they don't do that.
I agree.
It would be so much easier for them, and it would be value for share.
And there's another point.
The idea is that the dissident right uses that a lot of the channels that have been censored and removed from YouTube, we talked about I think a couple episodes ago, they had hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
It probably adds up to tens of millions of subscribers if you added all the channels together.
There is a Need.
There is a want for this type of content out there.
And the more and more you squeeze, obviously you're losing the central focus where you can have everyone, even though you dislike their politics, you still have them on your site and you're going to be able to monetize that data.
If they go to BitChute, if they go somewhere else, you're not going to be able to monetize it.
And yeah, you can think that it's insignificant, but the fact that they're spending this much on labor costs alone, it's not.
And that is a white pill in itself, is it not?
You mean the fact that they're spending this kind of money just to shut people up?
I don't consider that good news.
I don't consider it good news, but they have to have that many individuals employed to do this.
I suppose.
But apparently, without artificial intelligence, they'd have 200,000 people.
Yes, exactly.
No, it's astonishing.
That just goes to show you how important it is for them to keep certain ideas away from the American public.
It's vastly more important than making money.
Having more viewers, more channels, more monetization, more ad revenue, No, it's quite astonishing.
But in addition to all of this artificial intelligence that is on the sniff for hate, they have what they call individual trusted flaggers.
These are people that they trust to tell them, oh, here's a bad one.
And as I think all of our listeners probably know, the Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC, is one of YouTube's trusted flaggers.
And our listeners may recall that back in March, the president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Richard Cohen, fired the founder, Morris Dees, for unspecified crimes, but they sounded suspiciously like racism and sexism.
Now, oddly enough, President Richard Cohen didn't last long after that himself.
He, too, left.
And also the legal director, Rhonda Brownstein, left.
And also Meredith Horton, a black woman who's an associate legal director.
They all cleared out.
Apparently, amidst this increasingly malodorous stink about racism and sexism.
And as it turns out, the SPLC has hired Michelle Obama's former Chief of Staff, Tina Tchen.
You may recall reading about that at the time.
She is supposed to come in and set everything all right.
She is an Asian woman and obviously because she's female, because she's non-white, she will teach the SPLC to adore and value tolerance and inclusion.
Of course now there's a bit of scandal with that too because Tina Tchen is the person who made the phone call to Chicago D.A.
Kim Fox to tell her to go easy on Jussie Smollett.
That's right.
So, all of this sounds very bad.
And you would think that any organization that has had such a bloodletting at the top, all of its top executives, clearing out because they are guilty of the very things they accuse everybody else of being guilty, presumably, that they would lose some credibility.
But they continue to be quoted with great respect.
Now, Tina Tchen, just as a parenthetical note, I looked her up and she is represented by the Harry Walker Speakers Bureau agent, which handles movie stars and politicians of the likes of Stacey Abrams and Al Gore.
So, if you want her to give a talk to your Sunday school class or to your Rotary Club, All you need to do is get in touch with the Harry Walker Agency.
I wonder how much Tina Chan charges?
I don't think any Sunday school or Rotary Club is going to be able to afford her honorarium or her speaker's fee.
Probably not.
I'd actually like to know what Stacey Abrams is going for these days.
Our long-time listeners will know she was in a lot of tax problems when she was running for president.
For governor of the great state of Georgia, but I'm sure she's well in the black now.
This could straighten her right out.
Now, you know, I looked at the Harry Walker Agency website and they list the speakers, but in order to find out how much you're going to charge, you have to put in a request and say what your group is.
I think it'd be kind of interesting to concoct something, really.
But, just to find out, how much does Stacey Abrams make with every shot?
We know that good old Tim Wise, the anti-racist crusader, he's got it right on his webpage.
You go to him directly, not through an agency.
He charges $6,000 at least.
He cuts off the middleman.
That's right.
Smart.
Yeah, very smart.
Very smart.
No middleman for him.
But, now didn't you have some more news for us about our dear friend Jussie?
Well, Jesse's in the news right now because his lawyers, this just broke.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that one of their reporters exclusively learned that Smollett's attorneys have filed a motion responding to the city's claim that he should pay the city more than $130,000 to cover police overtime and other costs associated with the investigations of the claim that he was attacked by two MAGA hat-wearing white Trump supporters during that crazy blizzard.
The city said the costs were incurred in connection with the investigation and police later charged Smollett with staging the attack.
Of course, we all know that Smollett denied the actor made up the attack.
His attorneys did and they noted during this filing that the charges were ultimately dropped by Cook County State's Attorney Kim Fox.
I believe that Trump's DOJ is now investigating the Why the charges were dropped?
There is a judge who is investigating and maybe the DOJ as well.
But yes, it all stinks.
It stinks abominably.
So William Quinlan of the Quinlan Law Firm filed a motion and he said this.
My client from the beginning has maintained his innocence and disputed the city's allegations.
Of course that he made up the attacks.
He noted it's going to be very difficult for the city to prevail in making a case.
My client should pay for overtime for a case ultimately dismissed by the state's attorney.
It's ridiculous and a stretch to require him to do so.
Now, what are the reasons?
What are the rationales in this filing?
Well, here it is.
The latest court filing contends that even if Smollett did make a false report, there is no way the city can assert he would have known Chicago police would investigate and investigate to the extent the cops did.
Think about that for a second.
This is just so hilarious.
Of course, he made the report with the full knowledge that this was going to be a huge sensation.
Yes, that's why they did so much time in prepping.
Think about those hilarious photos of the two Nigerian brothers going to actually buy all of the materials necessary for this hate hoax.
Of course.
He knew this was going to be investigated.
That was the whole point of it.
And now he's pretending that, OK, first of all, there was no lie.
It all happened.
But even if it didn't happen, he would have no idea that the Chicago PD was going to spend all this money investigating it?
Good grief.
Well, I think that's just going to be laughed out of court.
Well, there's one more thing that I'd like to read from the legal brief.
Smollett makes clear that he disputes any and all assertions that he made a false statement and was not a victim of the crime.
He doesn't give up, does he?
No, and then even if he did, the filing of a proofs report in and of itself does not necessitate a sprawling investigation, nor does it as a practical matter usually result in an investigation as extensive as the one the CPD chose to undertake in this case.
Think about how every major media outlet used this as once again an episode To attack, to lambaste, to denigrate Trump supporters and Trump himself.
I think that all of the leading Democrat candidates for president, they put out these heartfelt tweets.
I can't believe this is happening.
This is only happening in Trump's America.
No, and of course, this is exactly what Jussie Smollett wanted and expected and could have anticipated.
And for them to now turn right around and say, gosh, we had no idea.
How many outings?
We're going to do this.
How many hours of police overtime do you think were accrued?
Oh, golly, I don't dare guess.
1,836 hours to investigate these claims.
Well, I hope they squeeze the money out of him, and I hope he's got it, and if he doesn't get it, I hope he is in debt for the rest of his life, swine.
But we have another little incident here that is Kind of, oh, symptomatic of our times.
On Tuesday, September 3rd, Ben & Jerry's announced that they had introduced a new flavor of ice cream.
It's called Justice Remixed.
It is a limited edition pint-sized container and it was created according to an email statement, and I quote, to spotlight structural racism in a broken criminal legal system.
Ice cream flavor is going to spotlight structural racism.
That takes quite a lot of imagination in my view.
But part of the proceeds from each pint will go to something called the Free and Safe Campaign, which is being put on by something called the Advancement Project.
And it defines itself as an organization that works for transformative community-led solutions for ending the criminalization and
mass incarceration of people of color.
Now, if it's really going to be transformative, it's just going to tell black people to stop
committing crime. Because if they want to stop mass incarceration and criminalization of people
of color, there's an easy way to do it. Or there is a clear way.
I shouldn't say there's an easy way, but there is a very, very specific and clear way to do it.
Now, for those who are lovers of ice cream and are curious to know what goes into Justice Remixed, It's made from chocolate ice cream, of course, wouldn't have any vanilla in it, cinnamon bun dough, and spicy fudge brownies.
Now, when I first read about this, I just remember Ben & Jerry's, they're doing kooky things like this all the time, but Ben & Jerry's is now part of conglomerate corporate America.
It's owned by Unilever, you know?
It's not just these goofy guys who make these decisions, Unilever makes these decisions.
I wonder how much they sold out How much of the stuff they've sold?
No, no, no.
How much that it cost when they were bought by the larger corporation.
Oh, I'm sure Brother Ben and Brother Jerry are very well off now.
Very well off.
They're on easy street.
But you know, it makes you wonder.
Should we go out and buy a lot of this Justice Remix?
Should one get fat in the name of Black Lives Matter?
Is Ben and Jerry going to stop selling vanilla because it's going to terrify people of color?
Oh, the mind just boggles at the prospects here.
So, moving along to a somewhat more serious question, and that is the Italian elections.
Well, they turned out to be non-elections, actually.
This is a bit of a complicated, but I think an important story.
It's happening in Europe.
And Europe is where I think some of the most promising political movements are being put in motion for white people who wish to remain in majority white societies.
As our listeners know, Matteo Salvini is one of our favorite politicians.
He was the Minister of the Interior in a coalition government with the Five Star Movement, which is a kind of an offbeat populist movement.
Well, Salvini decided to pull out of the coalition, which brought down
the government.
He was hoping for snap elections in which he would get enough of a vote,
enough of the vote to come back in as the prime minister and form the government.
Very ambitious. Well, it didn't work out that way because the Five Star Movement,
which was his former coalition partner, decided to bury the hatchet with the other party called the
That's the Democratic Party.
They've been at daggers drawn for all this time.
But this lefty party, against a populist party, they decided that they were going to get together and make a coalition government without Salvini.
So he doesn't have any increase in the number of people in parliament, and now he's out of the government.
He doesn't have his position.
None of his people are in government.
And so we now have this coalition that's assembled under the prime minister Giuseppe Conte,
which is part of the Democratic Party.
And they're expected to be sworn in this very day.
Now, of course, part of the key to establishing this coalition government was that the Five Star Movement,
which was the former partner of Salvini's Lega Party, had to promise to abolish the Salvini-drafted security decrees that provided for seizing these NGO busybody rescue boats and provided for fining these vessels that fished so-called migrants out of the Mediterranean and brought them to Italy without their permission.
And this had worked pretty well.
There were dozens of captains of these busybody boats.
Ended up under investigation with at least eight in the last three months and some of them have been fined.
Well, it is with great sadness that I report that we're going to have a new interior minister who is going to take the place of your and my favorite or second favorite politician after Viktor Orban.
He's my favorite.
He's your favorite.
You like him better than Viktor Orban.
I do.
Well, there's no disputing about tastes.
In any case, the new Interior Minister is somebody by the name of Luciana Lamorgesi.
Now, she is a 38-year veteran of the Interior Ministry and has, in recent years, been in charge of planning refugee and migrant reception centers and is known for promoting integration events and policies.
She's also the first female security chief or prefect of the city of Milan.
And she brings a much different point of view to this question of receiving these so-called migrants.
And her appointment is being heralded as a major break from the era of Salvini.
In fact, Carlotta Sami, who was a spokesperson for the United Nations High Commission on Refugees in Italy said, and I quote, There is a chance to carry out inclusion policy towards refugees.
Policies that consider them a resource and not a problem.
There is a lot to do, but we hope Rome will resume the central and crucial role it deserves in these issues.
Italy deserves to be the landing place for who knows how many thousands will come.
Oh dear.
Tens of thousands.
Yes, yes.
An invasion force.
They're going to be paddling and sailing and motoring any possible way across the Mediterranean because Mama Luciana is going to treat them far different from Papa Matteo.
Now, according to a hostile report about all this in Atlantic that just came out a couple of days ago, actually a very in-depth report on just who Matteo Salvini is, this new alliance, though, It risks overshadowing the independent personalities of each of the parties and will intensify Italian sense that they lack any kind of representation.
Exactly!
And this is a sentence that Matteo Salvini will certainly exploit.
He will pounce on every opportunity to remark on how this new government is completely distant from the real Italy And he will capitalize on the inevitable struggles between the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party.
So, I wish him well.
One can argue that it was something of an act of hubris for him to have brought down the government in the expectation of getting a snap election only to find himself elbowed out of power.
But let us hope that when a more right-thinking, well, the next time the elections come around, and I think they're in a couple of years, let us hope that by then he will swoop to power with a large majority, or at least the PLB majority party.
Now, Salvini has really been an anti-elite, anti-immigration, anti-Europe politician for a long time.
At the age of 20, that was when he was first elected to public office.
I think he's 38 years old now, and he's never stopped campaigning.
And we will end with his assessment of the situation.
Matteo Salvini says about this new coalition government, they won't be able to dodge the judgment of the Italians for too long.
We're ready.
And in the end, it is we who will win.
What is that phrase?
A pyrrhic victory?
Pyrrhic victory.
Let's hope that it is pyrrhic for the other side.
That's for sure.
I think that's exactly what this is.
All it takes, as this campaigner Salvini understands, is for one migrant that's allowed in under this new interior ministry, under this new coalition government, one crime against an Italian citizen, and then boom.
So he calls immediately to end this undemocratic government and let's have these snap elections now.
Well, but he can't call snap elections if the coalition holds together.
He's got to find some way to drive a wedge between those two, but he may not have to do much about that because apparently they've hated each other forever and they just came together to try to squeeze him out.
So we'll see.
But anyway, didn't you have something to tell us about San Francisco?
Oh, well, speaking of...
Speaking about leftists trying to squeeze out the good guys.
Yes.
So, San Francisco, the Board of Supervisors, they voted unanimously earlier this week to declare the National Rifle Association a domestic terrorist organization.
The resolution claims that the NRA incites and arms those who would use guns and acts of mass terrorism driven by hatred.
I'm just going to read a couple of the whereas and then we can read the NRA's rebuttal.
Whereas reported hate crimes have increased by double digits since 2015, and whereas there are over 393 million guns in the United States, which exceeds the country's current total population, whereas our elected representatives, including the president, have taken an oath swearing to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Further resolved that the city and county of San Francisco intends to declare the National Rife Association a domestic terrorist organization.
Does this have any legal or practical consequences or is this just pure window dressing?
It's pure window dressing.
Of course the NRA came out and said, quote, this is a reckless assault on law-abiding organization, its members, and the freedoms they all stand for.
We remain undeterred, guided by our values and belief in those who want to find real solutions to violence.
And of course, we know that we live in a country that is allergic to the reality of just who whom is committing the bulk of the gun violence, which leads us to Missouri.
Now, Missouri, like New Hampshire, has some of the best gun laws in the country.
You don't have to go through a concealed weapons training class to get a license.
You can just constitutional carry.
Right.
As a citizen of the great state of Missouri.
Well, in Missouri, you have two of the most violent cities in the country.
I am, of course, referring to Kansas City, which is a 55% white city that they published police stats, Jared.
And in 2018, 89% of known homicide suspects were non-white.
Now, St.
Louis is the other city in Missouri.
St.
Louis, in 2018, they also published phenomenal statistics on gun crime and homicide.
So, St.
Louis is 49% black, 43% white, and in 2018, 89% of homicide suspects were black.
Now, of course, only 42% of suspects were known because the clearance rate is so bad because snitches get stitches in St.
Louis and Kansas City.
Well, Missouri is one of those states that is still about 82-83% white and about 12% black.
So you're looking at still a pre-1965 Immigration Act state.
Well, because the gun violence is so concentrated in black areas, we have a situation where there have been, I think, 12 or 13 young black children who have been shot by other blacks in St.
Louis alone this year.
Really tragic stuff.
Also because so few people have come forward as suspects or the community has been shielding the actual suspects to protect them from the law.
That's a long introduction for a very important point about gun crime.
And here it is, ladies and gentlemen.
Leaders of the Missouri Black Caucus met with white Governor Mike Parson, Republican, to talk about gun violence.
But they left without much hope for stricter gun control.
Now, why would they do that?
Because of everything I just said.
So the gun crime isn't in Columbia, where the University of Missouri is.
It's not in Jefferson City, the capital.
It's largely concentrated where you have the largest populations of blacks and that is St. Louis and that is in
Kansas City.
And so that's why the Black Caucus, you know, you have all these white gun owners
who are carrying guns concealed. They're not doing the shooting.
Well, you know, in a way, this situation refutes a certain point of view,
namely that more guns, less crime.
If you say that Missouri has very, very liberal carry laws, that means anybody who wishes to defend himself can.
Should this not be the solution to all the gun crime in black cities, if the people who are likely to be victims can carry concealed without any trouble at all?
It would make sense, but are they felons?
Are the people who are primarily being shot by, mind you, illegal weapons in these cities, Let's cut to the chase.
It is largely black-on-black violence in Kansas City and St.
Louis.
That's why, of course, these areas are food deserts, because law-abiding people don't want to live there.
It's not redlining.
It's not the history of segregation.
I know all of this, but the NRA's view, and it's frequently my own view as well, that the more guns are in the hands of the good guys, and the easier it is for them to walk around in a way to protect themselves, the less violent crime you're going to have.
Now, of course, the Black Caucus here does not accept that argument.
No, they do not.
They're just going to make it worse, I assume.
But it would be very, very interesting to see what would happen and just how many of these killings are not homicides, but are justified self-defense.
Well, given that it's so easy to carry a concealed weapon.
That's a great point.
And you know what the Black Caucus wants to do is they want to have the governor, you know, the state, which is controlled by Republicans on the state level, to allow municipalities like St.
Louis and Kansas City to be able to require permits to carry a concealed weapon, restrict the sale of ammunition to anyone under 21.
Basically, they want to enact gun control because blacks can't control themselves when they're using guns on other people.
And this cuts the heart of the failure of the NRA when it comes to the debate on guns in this country.
It's not hard to find the statistics for your city.
They're buried a lot of the times on the police department's websites, but for St.
Louis, for Kansas City, it's very easy to look at.
Well, the same for a lot of major cities.
New York City, for example.
I believe Philadelphia.
In any case, if the NRA wanted to find out what the real problem is, they could.
But the NRA does not have the spine to say that murder is basically a black problem.
Gun crime is a black problem.
The NRA is no different, really, from any other politician or any other group in the United States in that respect.
Maybe, maybe, as the truth becomes more and more obvious, and it is broadcast by people like us, maybe they will wake up.
Well, let's hope so, because if not, we're going to continue to see more and more municipalities declare the NRA domestic terrorists.
And we know where that leads when you continue to demonize people.
You're going to have crazy leftists who are going to attack Well, the next thing, of course, is going to be calling the gun manufacturers purveyors of terrorism.
Well, they've already tried that.
Think about how the state of New York is trying to go after the NRA.
Well, the manufacturers, at least so far, I mean, there have been attempted suits against them, but they've all been thrown out as the laughable idiocy that they are.
But if the NRA is a terrorist group, for heaven's sake, why wouldn't Glock be a terrorist organization?
Just to deviate about how crazy our politics are getting, think about how so many of the gun manufacturers are
leaving the states they've been in for centuries.
States like Connecticut, New York, four southern states.
I know that Georgia has a big dental defense factory.
Glock is there.
Tennessee has attracted a number of the gun manufacturers that are fleeing the northern states.
It's so sad when you hear leftists try and claim that the Second Amendment and private firearm ownership is not part of the American heritage when all of these states Dating back to the 1850s, 1840s.
That's where they were based in these now leftist dominated states.
That's right.
That's right.
Time marches on.
But, well, this is what we were just talking about reminds me of what happened in Baltimore over the Memorial Day weekend.
Three people killed, 18 others injured, wounded in shootings that included three quadruple shootings.
Three quadruple shootings.
Which would classify as a mass shooting.
They classify as mass shootings except that there are organizations that refuse to include these as mass shootings.
Apparently they're mass shootings only when a white person with a rifle kills three or four people or shoots at three or four people and apparently these multiple victim shootings are becoming more and more common.
A police spokesman said that there have been 62 such incidents in which there was both a death and a wounding So far this year and that compared to 25 such incidents for all of last year.
So that's a very significant uptick.
We're only about two-thirds of the way through the year and there are 62 as opposed to 25 for all of last year.
And you know I can't really explain why there are more of these multiple shootings but Of the victims shot just over the weekend, over the Memorial Day weekend, five of the victims were under age 18.
These are really very, very sad situations.
I agree.
I agree.
But, and this was an interesting thing that came out in the reporting on this, the PD's homicide clearance rate for this year is only 24%.
You have a 3 in 4 chance of getting away with murder, at least during the year of the killing.
That number does go up to 38% if you stretch it out in time and get a full clearance rate no matter how long it takes.
But 38%?
Just 38%?
That means you've got a two-thirds chance of getting away with it if you kill somebody.
And as you were suggesting earlier, why are these clearance rates so low?
It's because, as you say, We know that it's a certain demographic, to use one of the contemporary euphemisms, that's involved in these crimes, and they believe in stitches for snitches.
They do?
It's really a very sad situation.
Although, again, that's something that people almost never talk about either.
You get reports like this with almost no analysis as to why.
But for a complete change of pace, let's talk about one of my favorite beta males, Beto O'Rourke.
His campaign booted a Breitbart News reporter from campaign stop in South Carolina.
It was at Benedict College in Columbia, the state capital, which is a traditionally black college.
HBCU.
An HBCU, as they're now called, Historically Black College or University.
And they said that they did this because Breitbart, as a news organization, walks the line, quote, between being news and a perpetrator of hate speech.
Apparently, the person who was kicked out is a writer by the name of Joel Pollack.
Alia, or Aliga, don't know quite how to pronounce her name, Cavalier, who is Beto O'Rourke's national press secretary, said this.
Given this particular Breitbart employee's previous hateful reporting and the sensitivity of the topics being discussed with students at an HBCU, A campaign staffer made the call to ask him to leave.
Why?
To ensure that the students attending the event felt comfortable and safe while sharing their experiences as young people of color.
Now, How many of the young people of color in the audience are likely even to have heard of Breitbart?
Much less recognize Joel Pollack and say to themselves, this guy is guilty of hateful reporting.
This is just nuts.
Well, definitely less than the clearance rate in Baltimore.
That's for sure.
And as it turns out, Breitbart's Joel Pollack is an Orthodox Jew who is married to a black woman.
I think he's also from South Africa.
Is that so?
Yeah.
But apparently this doesn't save him.
No.
It gets pitched out because his just presence alone, he must emanate hate somehow.
These auras that are issuing forth from him would poison the atmosphere and it would make these young people of color Unwilling to share their sensitive experiences.
Now, I don't know.
Is this comedy?
Is this tragedy?
Is this absurdity?
Who knows?
Moving on.
Moving on to South Africa, in fact.
I don't think this is all that widely reported in U.S.
news, but there has been pretty serious looting and violence targeting foreigners.
And at least five people have been killed in these riots.
Now, why are people targeting foreigners?
It's because black South Africans say they are losing their jobs to these immigrants, many of whom show up without any kind of visas, any papers at all.
And it all started with mobs looting shops and torching trucks that are driven by foreigners in various parts of South Africa.
Well, at least 189 people have been arrested.
Last time I checked, now some of these riots could still be in progress, but the attacks on foreign stores began a day after the truckers started a nationwide strike to protest against trucking companies that hire foreign drivers.
Sounds xenophobic to me.
It sounds highly xenophobic.
They blocked roads.
They burned down foreign-driven vehicles.
They're really taking this seriously.
And the reason, of course, is because South Africa, despite all its problems, is a magnet for migrants from other parts of Africa because it is one of the continent's biggest and best-developed economies.
Now, the authorities and some of the police are reluctant to say that these latest attacks are against foreigners per se.
They instead just call this usual acts of criminality.
Are they trying to blame it, Jared, on the legacy of apartheid?
That I haven't heard.
Okay.
But that would be entirely possible.
Everything that ever goes wrong is a legacy of apartheid.
But, you know, this isn't the first time this has happened.
South Africa had its worst outbreak of violence against foreigners in 2008, where more than 60 people were killed.
Oh my goodness.
And in 2015, they had unrest in Johannesburg and Durban that claimed seven lives because immigrants were huddled down and attacked by gangs.
In fact, it got so bad that a sports field south of Durban was made into a makeshift refugee camp for all of these foreign Africans who were escaping these violent looters.
Pretty remarkable stuff.
And in March of just this year, three people died after a mob of about a hundred people attacked mostly far-known small food shops.
And you know, when three people die, you can imagine how many were beat up, how many had their shops burnt out.
This is really pretty serious stuff.
So, clearly, clearly, Diversity is not working too well.
Even among blacks.
Even among blacks.
But they really take it seriously when there are illegal immigrants in their midst.
This is the 25th anniversary of when Nelson Mandela was elected, correct?
When the Rainbow Nation took off.
That's right.
The Rainbow Nation.
The Rainbow Nation is turning sort of monochrome, it seems to me.
But there have been retaliatory attacks against South African businesses all across Africa.
Especially in Nigeria.
Some of the people who've been chased and killed, I suppose, must be Nigerian, because in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, police had to fire tear gas at protesters at a branch of the South African-owned supermarket Shoprite.
And meanwhile, the South African mobile phone company MTN closed all of its shops in Nigeria, because there's been so much hostility.
Then, because it's Nigerian, And Nigerian sports stars and Nigerian singers and all, they're vowing never to go to South Africa again until the government is nicer to Nigerians.
Now how do you think the media, again everything on that continent, you think African, you
think that that somehow is a net you can throw across all the different nations, it's African,
everyone there is black.
But obviously this utopia that we saw in the movie Black Panther, Wakanda, Nigeria is supposed
to be one of the more advanced nations in Africa.
Well, yeah, it's got oil.
It's got oil wells.
It's got resources.
Yeah, it's got things that they can trade.
Now, of course, with the collapse of South Africa, I think you're about to tell us about how South Africa's decline is... What is it?
It's pretty precipitous.
It's on par with if there's actually a war taking place.
That's right.
I'll let you go and share.
Roll the ugliness.
Well, you know, sometimes the facts are not pretty.
According to a report by an economic consulting and analysis company called Unomix, South Africa has had a decline in a whole host of social, economic, and governance measures that is higher than just about any nation that's not, in fact, at war or a place like Venezuela that's tearing itself apart.
In 2006, it ranked 31st out of 178 nations.
Not bad, really.
No, 12 years after apartheid, it basically ended and Nelson Mandela came in.
Probably awfully good, awfully good.
Probably top for an African country.
But then, by 2018, it had dropped 57 ranks to 88th out of 178, which is, again, a pretty steep fall.
And this level of collapse has been surpassed only by countries that are in a terrible mess, such as Mali, where they've got sort of an Islamic civil war going on, Ukraine, which has a civil war going on, and Venezuela, where, as you know, they're contesting who's in charge.
The country, despite all this, is still a magnet for other Africans from all around the continent.
Because despite these levels of decline, if you're 88 out of 178 nations, probably you're still ahead of just about every other African nation.
Correct.
So they keep coming.
Now, whenever I hear about these stories, I guess I have a mean streak in me.
Because I'm always tempted to quote from the Washington Post columnist Mary McGrory.
I don't know if you remember her.
I don't.
Well, she was a big deal at the time.
And on May 12th of 1994, that significant year when the switchover was made and Nelson Mandela took office, This is what she wrote in her column.
She said, Nelson Mandela has won what the Washington Post calls one of history's sweetest victories over racial subjugation, and he is going to keep it clean and beautiful so that newspaper readers will think they are reading scripture when they read dispatches from South Africa that cannot be read except through tears.
Now, what I've just been talking about today, would you consider that like reading scripture?
Well, I would not.
That hagiography written back in 1994 is actually, I would say, not tear-inducing, but vomit-inducing.
Because there are still people who...
Look at South Africa through those rosy lenses and they will not allow anything unless it is blamed on the dwindling Afrikaner population or the few whites that are left there that are completely out of power.
It's all their fault.
Whatever is going wrong is their fault.
Power out, it's apartheid.
White people's fault.
But Nelson Mandela is going to keep it clean and beautiful.
And reports were gonna sound like scripture, and they could not be read except through tears.
Well, maybe they cannot be read except through tears, but they're different kinds of tears, I'm afraid.
No, it's, you know, this kind of talk, it reminds me of the things people published about Barack Obama when he was inaugurated.
Oh boy, it was the second coming.
Maybe the third and the fourth and the fifth all at the same time.
Yeah.
It was just extraordinary.
Sorry, Mary.
I believe Mary McGrory is now a ghost, but she no longer writes for the Washington Post.
I've often kind of wished in my schadenfreude way to throw these words back in her face, but I'm a nice guy.
I wouldn't have done that even if I'd met her at a cocktail party.
Moving to a different country, a different country which is impinging more on the United States than South Africa these days, and that's India.
And the bit of news that caught my attention was that two Indians were recently sent to jail for only three years, I'm afraid, after smuggling hundreds of Indians in the United States.
Hema Patel, age 51, worked with Mexican coyotes and charged, now get this, between $28,000 and $60,000 to bring fellow Indians across the Canadian and Mexican borders.
$28,000 to $60,000.
Now, when the illegals were caught, which often happened, she used her Texas bail bond business to spring the clients from detention.
So, these people had dough.
So, Hema Patel and her business partner, Chandresh Kumar Patel, helped these illegals take jobs in retail services and restaurants that served the legal Indian population.
Good.
So, quite a deal.
Now, these are obviously not the dregs of the dregs if they can pony up that kind of dough to show up.
Now, and this sort of got me interested in the whole story of Indians living in the United States.
Do you know how many there are in the U.S.
today?
I would guess...
5 million?
That's pretty close.
There are 4 million.
Okay.
Roughly half are contract workers or are the spouses and children of contract workers.
And at least one-sixth or 630,000 are illegal.
630,000 people.
That's more than the population of either Vermont or Wyoming.
630,000 people. That's more than the population of either Vermont or Wyoming.
Correct. And India is now the leading source of legal immigrants.
I think I'd heard that, but I'd forgotten that.
Of the more than 1 million legals to come each year, the top country margin was India with 126,000, followed by Mexico, 124,000, China at 121,000.
So those three are sort of neck and neck.
And these are legal?
These are legal.
These are legal immigrants.
That's definitely not what the founding fathers had in mind when they went ahead and did the The Naturalization Act of 1790.
I fear not.
No.
And the Pew Research Center pointed out that Indians are the fastest growing group of illegals.
Yes.
The population of illegals jumped from 350,000 in 2009 to half a million in 2014.
50,000 in 2009 to half a million in 2014.
That's 130% growth.
But now, part of the legals coming in, the legals, many of them, the ones who don't have the dough
to pay the Patels $28,000 to $60,000 to haul them across, the poorer ones, overwhelmingly, they march
and they claim asylum based on political and religious discrimination back in India,
And they all tell pretty much the same story.
That is from a Border Patrol report.
Now, the other thing about it is, when Mexican coyotes deliver their immigrants to the border, they have taken their passports, and then the immigrants get caught, asked for asylum, are released because of their enormous backup in the immigration courts, and then, of course, they're released into the system the way they almost always are, adding to that figure, that backlog of approaching a million now, and then they can start working for their traffickers.
Now, their identification documents, their passports returned, only they've paid off smuggling debts, at least in this other batch that haven't been able to spring for that kind of money.
And now, there is a backlog of almost 30,000 migrant Indians waiting for an asylum hearing.
Now, on what basis do you think Indians are claiming asylum?
I can't even comprehend what it would be.
Well, it has to do with the joys and the benefits and the delights of Okay, and the reason it works, now I wouldn't have thought about this either, but as I say I looked into this, but you see we have Muslims and Hindus, they're fighting each other for decades in Kashmir and other parts of India, so you can claim if you're a Muslim or a Hindu that you're being persecuted.
Then there are Sikhs, there are Christians, there are lower caste Indians, apparently they can claim that they suffer discrimination at the hands of the higher classes.
So in this Cast divided, polyglot, patchwork country of roughly 1.4 billion people.
Yes.
That's more than all the white people in the world.
It's easy to make a claim.
Easy to make a claim that you are suffering from some kind of asylum worthy persecution.
Now, Of course, one of the typical things about Indians is that many of them come here with H-1B visas, and according to Jay Palmer, he was one of that famous case of people who worked for the Disney Corporation that were pushed out of their jobs, had to train their successors.
He says, Indian managers hire only Indians because they can manipulate them, exploit them, And young workers take it because any job in the United
States is better than being back in their own poverty-stricken nation.
Makes perfect sense to me.
It makes perfect sense.
And then Infosys, a major Indian company operating in the United States,
one of their employees leaked the fact that we are advised to hire only Indians because they'll work off the clock
without murmur and can always be transferred anywhere in the country,
unlike a local workforce.
And it turned out that Infosys Infosys, of all the 2,900 hires in the United States, 76% were Indian.
In a country that is not yet 76% Indian.
No, I think you just said it's under 5 million Indians in this nation.
So anyway, I'll tell you a little story.
After I moved to Northern Virginia, I didn't realize just what a joyfully diverse place I was until I went to Annandale.
Annandale is in Fairfax County, a little closer to Washington D.C.
than Oakton, which is where I am.
And I was in a shopping center at a moment when a movie theater let out.
And it was a movie theater, I noticed later, that specializes in Indian films.
And the entire parking lot was full of Indians.
I don't think I've ever seen so many Indians in my life.
Of course, I've never been to India.
But really, many of them dressed in saris and the sort of long sort of pajama-like outfits that the men wear.
It was an extraordinary thing.
Here I am in the United States of America and there must, I don't know, I would guess there must have been 500 Indians and not a non-Indian among them.
Bollywood comes to Northern Virginia.
I was bowled over by Bollywood.
Yes, sir.
But, speaking of surprising things happening in our country, weren't you going to tell us the fate of certain mascots?
I am going to, and one of the reasons why the fate of certain mascots is the chopping block is because of this increasing diversity, which no longer reflects America's past.
So why not get rid of it?
Because it has no place in this glorious, diverse future.
Just real quick, it's important that we document what's happening from All across the country, from DC to Maine to Illinois to California.
In Northern Virginia, I guess, George Washington University.
It's close to Washington DC.
They've launched a campaign to replace the colonial mascot.
With one without so deep a connection to colonization.
Now, the university has not officially responded to a student vote to remove the mascot that they say glorifies the act of systemic oppression, but it did rename a building called Colonial Center the Student Services Hub.
How bureaucratic can you get from a wonderful sounding name to Just your typical bureaucratic building.
Pioneer!
Pioneer.
After a failed attempt to replace and retire mascot Denver Boone, the University of Denver now has no official mascot.
I know Denver quite well.
Until recently, the school's Pioneer nickname was the only remaining official unifying symbol for students.
No more.
Amid the controversy, the school has quietly removed the word pioneer from student ID cards and other official university documents and communication, despite insisting that it still embraces the nickname.
Oh, oh, it's just removing it while it embraces it.
That sounds like the embrace of a python.
We've talked about this one before, but it's important to bring it up because he is no more at all.
And I would be referring to Prospector Pete out there in California State University.
Long Beach's long-standing mascot was officially relieved of his duties at the end of 2018 and the start of 2019 because he represented the California Gold Rush, or as the university president put it, a time in history when the indigenous peoples of California endured subjugation, violence, and threats of genocide.
I want to put a plug in real quick.
There's this wonderful book collection, Jared, that we've spoken of before called Landmark Books.
These came out in the 1950s and 60s, and one of the best... These were books written by prominent authors at the time, but they were geared toward children.
And one of the books you can get is actually about the California Gold Rush, the 49ers.
So these were written at a time when we weren't taught to have hatred toward our past and
to erase it, but to embrace it and to make sure that our posterity knew about those who
came before us so that we could continue to fight for our nation.
And last but not least, cowboys.
In 2018, two dozen professors banded together to demand that the University of Wyoming cease
the use of its marketing campaign slogan, quote, the world needs more cowboys.
Because, one professor put it, the word cowboy invokes a white, macho, male, able-bodied, heterosexual, U.S.-born person.
To their credit, the university stood its ground and continued use of the slogan Didn't turn out to not only be a success, it was a huge success because it generated an increase of $38,000 in royalties from the prior year because so many people decided to buy officially licensed University of Wyoming cowboy gear.
A vote of confidence in the cowboy.
Exactly.
But no, that's just typical.
It is masculine.
It is white.
It is heterosexual.
U.S.
born.
Healthy.
U.S.
born.
All the most evil things we can think of.
Wow.
Well, you know, it's always a mystery to me.
If you have the Redskins, for example, or the Cleveland Indians, Those are considered insults.
That's right.
Insults to Indians.
However, if you've got a white person, or if you've got, what, a pioneer, or if some places used to have rebels, that is considered glorifying them.
I mean, so you can't glorify white people, but if you have Indians, you're not glorifying them, you're making fun of them.
I mean, they've got to make up their minds about this stuff.
Well, I happened to regrettably come across the Ole Miss-Memphis football game from this past Saturday, and I saw on the sidelines, Colonel Reb, of course, has been retired.
Ole Miss is still known as the Rebels, but they have a mascot known as the Land Shark, and it is an actual shark That has replaced the great Colonel Reb.
But the team is still known as the Rebels?
Exactly.
It makes absolutely no sense.
Oh my gosh, better not have that.
Wow, well they're going to have to change that.
They're going to call them the Sharks pretty soon.
Or who knows, maybe call them the Turtles.
I don't know, can't be aggressive, you know.
Sharks have sharp teeth.
But I think we have time enough for one question here.
One question, and we have two, but I'm not sure we can get to the second, but the Washington Post recently published an article called, Japan is a Trumpian paradise of low immigration rates.
It's also a dying country.
They go on to say that the shrinking economy and declining birth rates in Japan, and they say that this is a case for the view that homogeneity leads to inevitable decline.
Well, diversity and immigration create prosperity.
And this person wants to know, since I lived in Japan, what did I think about all this?
Well, first of all, it is utter bosh to say that homogeneity leads to inevitable decline.
It's low birth rates.
And low birth rates have nothing necessarily to do with homogeneity at all.
Furthermore, the Japanese, they have been very, very careful about maintaining a low immigration rate, and Japan is not falling apart at all.
It's not a dying country.
It is true that there are more deaths than births, but they are managing their decline in, I think, as graceful and as innovative a way as possible.
It's the sort of thing that Europe should look to.
If the population is going to decline and you wish to remain European or Japanese or Korean, or Hong Kong or any of these places where there are declining birth rates, you have to figure out how to maintain a civilization and a culture despite the fact that there are fewer and fewer people.
Now, you've got to stem that tide eventually, but the idea that somehow Japan, this Trumpian paradise, it's, you know, again, here's the Washington Post.
They have taken the opportunity to write an article about Japan for what purpose?
To denounce Donald Trump.
To denounce Donald Trump.
Even what he wants won't work.
And of course, that's not what he wants.
Donald Trump said he wanted a wall with a big, beautiful door to let as many, many people in as possible.
It's just absurdity.
But anyway, we didn't get a chance to get the second question.
We'll do that next time.
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