Jan. 20, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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| Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance. | |
| The censors really hate my videos, and they're especially going to hate this one. | |
| So if you like it, I hope you'll send the link to a lot of people. | |
| The push is on, harder than ever, not just to ban people like me from Twitter and YouTube, but to make what we say illegal. | |
| Sheila Jackson Lee, congresswoman from Texas for the last 28 years, has been fighting racism all her life. | |
| Just ask her. | |
| And she was at it again last week. | |
| On January 9th, she introduced an act in Congress to prevent and prosecute white supremacy-inspired hate crime and conspiracy to commit white supremacy-inspired hate crime. | |
| The left has ignored it, but conservatives are paying attention. | |
| Breitbart News says the bill would criminalize criticism of non-white people. | |
| I'm sure the Congresswoman would love to do just that, but that's not quite what her bill does. | |
| It does invent a new category of hate crimes, those that are inspired by white supremacy. | |
| And what's white supremacy? | |
| We get this. | |
| Antagonism based on replacement theory, or hate speech that vilifies or is otherwise directed against any non-white person or group. | |
| The bill says hate speech. | |
| But the Supreme Court does not recognize the existence of such a thing. | |
| So the new hate crime would be a crime inspired by speech, plain old speech, directed against non-whites, or a crime motivated by resentment against white replacement. | |
| This is pretty broad. | |
| If I say, Sheila Jackson Lee is a damn fool, that's speech directed against a non-white person. | |
| If I say, I don't want to become a minority. | |
| That's resentment against replacement theory. | |
| If either of these sentiments motivates me to dump garbage on Sheila's lawn, which is a crime, I'm guilty of a hate crime and therefore get added penalties. | |
| Crazy stuff. | |
| If two or more people conspire to dump garbage on her lawn for either of those reasons, they are guilty of conspiring to commit a white supremacy-inspired hate crime. | |
| But what has conservatives angriest is this. | |
| They think that if there are two people, and one just talks about the great replacement, or what an idiot Sheila is, and then the other dumps the garbage, they're both guilty. | |
| They seem to think the talker could be guilty if all he did was post ideas on the internet, a stranger saw them, and completely independently dumped garbage. | |
| I'm sure Sheila would like that, but the bill isn't quite that simple. | |
| There has to be a conspiracy of some kind between the talker and the dumper. | |
| The talker may be completely opposed to dumping garbage, but he's guilty only if there is a conspiracy. | |
| So, what's a conspiracy? | |
| That's the spooky part, and we don't even need this goofy new law to worry about it. | |
| You may remember the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. | |
| Police failed to separate racial dissidents from counter-protesters, and there were fisticuffs. | |
| Worst of all, a man named James Fields drove his car into a group of protesters and killed a woman. | |
| The organizers and speakers at the rally were later sued under a Virginia law against conspiring to commit racial, religious, or ethnic harassment or violence. | |
| The defendants didn't think there was any evidence for a conspiracy at all. | |
| But as presiding judge Norman Moon explained, a conspiracy is often clandestine and covert, thereby frequently resulting in little direct evidence of such an agreement. | |
| He meant what he said. | |
| He told the jury that people don't even have to know each other to be co-conspirators, and sure enough, the jury returned a verdict, finding that plaintiffs had proven that each defendant was a member of that conspiracy. | |
| Certainly, some of the defendants had planned the rally together, but not one had ever even heard of James Fields, and yet they were guilty of having conspired with him. | |
| I guess this means that so long as people have some of the same ideas, they can conspire telepathically. | |
| So if you watch this video, agree with it, and dump garbage in Sheila's yard, you and I could be co-conspirators. | |
| If that really were the law, I'd be out of business. | |
| I couldn't run the risk that some nut who happens to agree with me on something does something illegal. | |
| This is just like the attempts to ban guns, but not actually ban them. | |
| Make the manufacturers responsible if a criminal uses one to kill someone. | |
| That would put them out of business. | |
| There are other approaches to shutting me up. | |
| This incident got nothing like the attention it deserved. | |
| But Kevin McAleenan, who was Acting Secretary of Homeland Security under Donald Trump, spoke at a seminar on countering terrorism and targeted violence. | |
| He said violent white supremacy is an abhorrent affront to the nation. | |
| And then added something hair-raising. | |
| He said the Trump administration was fighting that affront by engagement with the private sector. | |
| As Cloudflare did in the immediate aftermath of the El Paso attack to make a decision to not support a website that's become a cesspool of hate. | |
| Cloudflare is a company that protects Internet sites against denial-of-service attacks, which are felonies. | |
| When Cloudflare stopped protecting the 8chan site, it disappeared. | |
| Mr. McAleenan thinks... | |
| Illegal Internet attacks are fine if they are against sites he calls cesspools of hate. | |
| Mr. McAleenan went on. | |
| That's the kind of decision-making we want to see out there in the private sector. | |
| Well, the First Amendment prevents the government from muzzling dissidents. | |
| So Mr. McAleenan can just tell the private sector to do it. | |
| If he thought my house was a cesspool of hate, would he ask the police to look the other way while Antifa ransacked it? | |
| I don't see any difference. | |
| Of course, thanks to the Twitter files, we know that government employees were routinely telling Twitter to censor people. | |
| They must have been doing that with Facebook and YouTube, too. | |
| It is illegal. | |
| For the government to ask others to do what the First Amendment forbids it to do, censor people. | |
| The Wall Street Journal says that you could file a class action against federal agents seeking an injunction against social media censorship efforts. | |
| But that, of course, assumes we still have a First Amendment. | |
| And the people who want to shut me up are chipping away at that. | |
| The New York Times had it figured out back in 2019. | |
| Free speech is killing us. | |
| The author explains that brutality that germinates on the Internet can leap into the world of flesh and blood. | |
| Yep, you could watch this video and dump garbage. | |
| Or do something worse. | |
| The author adds that appealing to the First Amendment is a cop-out. | |
| Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland is way ahead of him. | |
| He says if you espouse hate, you're not protected by the First Amendment. | |
| He noted that Europe has hate speech laws and I think we have to learn from each other. | |
| He's wrong about the First Amendment, at least for now. | |
| Senators say nutty things all the time. | |
| It's more serious when judges do. | |
| How about this? | |
| Ninth Circuit judge urges Supreme Court not to give any First Amendment protection for racist hate speech. | |
| I'm accused of racist hate speech all the time. | |
| Would he send me to jail? | |
| This, of course, happens in Europe all the time. | |
| I have been banned from Britain for the last eight years because what I say would be illegal there. | |
| And some Europeans are confident that we will learn from them. | |
| Just this week at the World Economic Forum, there was a panel on the clear and present danger of disinformation. | |
| This lady is Veri Jurova, the European Commission Vice President for Values and Transparency. | |
| She talked about what qualifies as hate speech as illegal hate speech, which you will have soon also in the U.S. Arthur Salzberger. | |
| Publisher of the New York Times was also on the panel. | |
| Did he object? | |
| Not one bit. | |
| He said disinformation is an existential threat to society. | |
| Democrat Congressman Seth Moulton was also on the panel and agreed that Europeans are way ahead of us on regulation. | |
| Barack Obama has it figured out. | |
| For him, the Internet is the single biggest threat to our democracy. | |
| Mr. Obama explained to Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic why he fears for our democracy. | |
| There has to be a combination of government regulation and corporate practice to rein in the Internet because if we do not have the capacity to distinguish what's true from what's false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn't work, | |
| and by definition our democracy doesn't work. | |
| What he means is, if you can't tell true from false, he and his pals in government can easily do that, and they will make sure you don't hear anything they think you shouldn't. | |
| But if the Feds are going to say what's right and what's wrong, that pesky First Amendment's got to take a haircut, and Harvard University Press explains why it should. | |
| This book, This is a common view. | |
| A 2019 poll by the organization First Liberty found that 51% of Americans think the First Amendment should be rewritten to ban hate speech. | |
| And 54% of those who thought hate speech should be illegal said there should be possible jail time. | |
| The rest said a fine would be sufficient. | |
| Eventually, it will all be up to this lot. | |
| I have little doubt that Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Katangy Brown Jackson would be happy to put me out of business, and I'm not sure about some of the rest. | |
| But with just two more progressives on the bench, The First Amendment might be elastic enough to accommodate Sheila Jackson Lee's crazy bill. | |
| These are strange times. | |
| These are dangerous times. | |
| And partly it's because Elon Musk bought Twitter and believes in free speech. | |
| If people start going to Twitter for the real stuff, YouTube and Facebook might have to ease up. | |
| Can't have that now, can we? | |
| So, they are even more desperate than usual to tighten the screws on people like me. | |
| I used to think that even if Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and Instagram and TikTok all banned me, even if Amran lost its website, I at least wouldn't go to jail. | |
| Now, I'm not so sure. | |
| They used to call this place the land of the free and the home of the brave. | |
| That's beginning to sound like a bad joke. |
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