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	Good afternoon, folks.
	Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Monday the 17th of October.
	I'm joined by Connor.
	Good afternoon.
	And we're going to be talking about how...
	It's falling apart.
	How the Conservative Chancellor, the brand new one, Jeremy Hunt, is of course a Chinese asset.
	We're going to be talking about blackness and why nobody seems to be able to define it.
	Should be mildly controversial, that one.
	And how, of course, anti-abortion activism is simply being banned in the UK. Can't be against abortion if you live in the UK. It's part of our British values.
	I was actually unironically told that once on Twitter.
	I said, it's not very English of you to critique abortion, Connor.
	So I was taking the most ridiculous position I could take to make a joke out of it.
	And an actual Conservative Party activist told me that.
	Goddammit.
	Wonderful.
	Let's begin then.
	Well, speaking of compromise and Conservative Partage.
	So six weeks into Liz Truss being Prime Minister, a sentence which I still can't believe I'm really saying.
	It's been six weeks already?
	It's been six weeks already, yeah.
	Obviously, the Queen's death put a spanner in the works of the start of her tenure, and that's all we were talking about.
	But it also doesn't quite seem real that we refer to her as Prime Minister, because she's not very statesmanly at all.
	She's a non-asset.
	At least with Boris, you knew he was in the job.
	This trust is kind of a non-entity.
	Increasingly a non-entity, because...
	She's been forced to sack her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, over the bad optics of his corporation and top-rate tax cuts, and also revoking the cap on bankers' bonuses.
	So the media basically cajoled her into axing her trussonomics.
	So just as a quick pause on that, I think the bankers' bonuses are the only thing that really hit them.
	I didn't like it either.
	And the rest of it, I think they could have just stood on them and been like, no, get bent.
	Yeah, I think if they did more than a slight tax rate cut for the lower echelons, they would have gotten away with it.
	And also, they just need to be able to double down.
	But it's a lesson on Conservative Party optics, and don't be an apologist to the media, which you once accurately characterized as dirty, dirty smear merchants.
	Yes.
	They still haven't learned that lesson.
	Instead, twice-failed Prime Ministerial candidate and former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has now taken the job.
	Oh, great.
	Yeah, but his career history and his home life, of all things, actually paints quite a disturbing picture for the prospect as to whether or not he is a captured Chinese asset, so I thought we'd go through it today.
	Speaking of something that hasn't been captured by the Chinese, given it's our, what, two year anniversary?
	For the next week, This video is free, we will get to choose a piece of content over on the website, and I chose my discussion with John Wheatley on Studio Ghibli, and it's the first part of two, so hopefully that tantalises you enough to subscribe for the second bit, because that's equally as good, but we discuss things like Spirited Away, Mononoke, and my favourite Howl's Moving Castle, so go over and watch that for the week that it's up, because I know plenty of people like the YouTube clips.
	Anyway, so, starting off first, Quasi Quateng resigned.
	Yeah, this is his letter in it.
	He's saying, you asked me to stand aside as Chancellor, I have accepted.
	When you asked me to serve as your Chancellor, I did so in the full knowledge that the situation we faced was incredibly difficult, with rising global interest rates and energy prices.
	However, your vision of optimism, growth and change was right.
	As I have said many times in the past weeks, following the status quo was simply not an option.
	For too long, this country has been dogged by low growth rates and high taxation.
	That must still change if the country is to succeed.
	I mean, I agree with him, but that's hardly the...
	Complete some of the problem.
	No, as we were talking off air, it's an entirely, and I understand he's the Chancellor, but it's an entirely materialist economic dimension.
	It speaks nothing about how the cultural fabric decaying means that people cannot adopt better economic conditions if we're infighting about fundamental truths.
	The interesting thing is as well, after we put this out, Liz Truss in her address to the country said that he had taken the decision to resign, but at the top it says, you've asked me to stand aside as Chancellor.
	Yeah, so there's a bit of infighting within the cabinet as to who wields the blade there.
	So if we can pop on to the next one.
	So, just before I discuss this bit, I just wanted to articulate that King Charles obviously approved Jeremy Hunt to be the new Chancellor, Edward Argar to become Chief Secretary to the Treasury, and Chris Flip, MP, as the Paymaster General.
	So the reason that he was ousted is because of press stuff like this.
	And thank you, John, for forwarding this about a week ago.
	In Fortune, this was an article saying, Liz Truss would be so bad for the UK, a former central bank official says that it's time to bring back George Soros' classic and short the pound.
	Because, of course, that's what he did in the 90s, wasn't it?
	Yeah.
	So openly endorsing to circumvent, I suppose we call it the democratic will of the people.
	We've been through so many prime ministers at this point that it's a uniparty state.
	And just...
	Just openly crashing the economy to get the desired result.
	It's like when Bill Maher once said, I hope there's a recession when Trump comes into power.
	Yeah.
	But as I recall, I remember looking into Soros shorting the pound a while ago, and he literally just made off with a huge amount of money at the expense of the rich tax.
	Yes, he also did some immoral things that allowed him to enrich himself when he was younger, according to his own autobiography, but I suppose we shouldn't discuss that here.
	There's also a movement within the Conservative Party itself, and this isn't mentioned in this article, but it's been floating around, that the Conservative Party are attempting to interchange trusts, and now Jeremy Hunt, I suppose, with Rishi Sinek and Penny Mordent?
	Just sneak her in.
	And the plan is, as Tobias Elwood has said, is to change the rules with the 1922 committee so that rather than Trust being unable to be challenged for the next 11 months of her prime ministership, unless she resigns, she won't go anywhere, it's to make it so that members can't choose the prime minister or the leader of the party, de facto.
	It's that only the MPs would, and that's something William Hague said as well.
	So you're seeing, like, sedition by the elitists.
	And Tobias Elwood actually has already said, I want to rejoin the EU. But it just feels like fighting over who gets the nicest deck chair on the Titanic.
	Yeah.
	This is obviously a sinking ship, filled with mediocre people.
	Yeah, well we sit off air, again, we can see the dominoes lining up to be fallen.
	So if they try and do that, if they supplant that, what will happen is people will be outraged both within and without the membership, there'll be a general election, and they'll lose.
	And even at the Tory party conference, the prevailing air was, a defeat is impending, and either they were going to get drunk and cope, which Penny Mordent did herself, or Screeching like a wine aunt, or a bunch of MPs, even like Lee Anderson, for example, are kind of taking it on the chin and going, well, we kind of need some time in exile to regather and point to the neolibs and say, you did this, let's be actual conservatives.
	But it's going to take five years of very bad Labour governance to do that.
	One thing I think that future conservatives might want to think about is how many of your conservative leaders don't have kids?
	Conservative leaders don't have kids.
	Penny Mordaunt doesn't have children.
	How are these people in any way treated seriously as Conservatives?
	Do they have an investment in the continuity of the country?
	Exactly.
	What's their investment in the future?
	None.
	Speaking of defiling the continuity of the country in bad optics, maybe one of the reasons Quasi Quotang didn't handle the job all that well, we're not going to play the video, is this.
	Have you seen this before?
	He was laughing at the Queen's funeral, wasn't he?
	Yeah, this was during the moment of silence, and he genuinely looks like he's on something.
	Yeah.
	I've seen other politicians at Tory party conference be on suspected substances, but it's very weird to be cackling during the moment of mourning for our monarch.
	It's just unbecoming.
	I mean, it's really bad.
	Yeah, and again, the optics weren't so great at the dispatch box either, so he has been axed for more than just the perception of his financial policies.
	So if we can go on to the next one, what is a Jeremy Hunt chancellorship shaping up to be?
	So he just did a little Twitter announcement, which you can go and watch on Her Majesty's Treasury, but it's basically the same thing in here.
	This is all speculative at the time of publishing, but it's basically turned out to be true.
	He'll also have a press conference this afternoon at time of recording on Monday.
	Basically, the 1% income tax rate from 20% basic rate to 19% that was due to be in next year has been suspended indefinitely.
	All the other planned tax cuts, including the VAT-free shopping for tourists, has been cancelled.
	Why?
	Why?
	Oh, by the way, we're conservatives.
	We're going to oppose a tax cut.
	That's going to go down well with the electorate.
	His argument is that there's about $60 billion in fiscal tightening that needs to be sourced from increasing taxes and reducing spending.
	So, more quote-unquote austerity measures that can be hit on by the left.
	Brilliant.
	As you've said off-air, he's a Cameron Tory.
	Are we shocked he's making the same mistakes?
	Also, the energy price cap has been extended only until April.
	So we've got no long-term plan yet because the Treasury Ledge Review is meant to, quote, design a new approach to reducing energy bills, which basically means more net zero policies by the back door.
	The National Insurance Rise is the only thing that has been scrapped, like the Rishi Sunak's plan to hike it.
	They've said, OK, we'll keep that scrapping plan.
	Same with the corporation tax rate.
	They're going to increase it again.
	Good news for British business.
	Yeah, so if we go on to the next one, the interesting thing about that is actually this was a SUNAC policy conspired by Janet Yellen.
	I wrote about this for a while ago for the American Spectre and a lot of people read it in their own time.
	But basically it was agreed to be a 15% minimum to a corporate tax rate and now they're incrementally increasing it as they go along.
	I think Ireland was the only country that dissented and saying, no, we want to race to the bottom to encourage people to come.
	But then they whipped them back in line and it seems some very conspiratorial global strong-arming happening there.
	And ironically, now the corporate tax rate in this country, and I know a big fan of big corporations, but it's going to be higher than what Jeremy Corbyn proposed on the 2019 campaign trail.
	You know what?
	There's a strain of thought in the distant right.
	It's like, well, maybe it would have been better if Jeremy Corbyn was in charge.
	And I hate it that facts are conspiring to prove them right.
	Yeah, it seems that we wouldn't have had too many different results, would we?
	I mean, we were all under house arrest and had a state-planned economy for how many years?
	And it resulted as it does in many other socialist states.
	But I don't think we should be too tentative on just talking about Hunt's economics because he is holding the second most, at least public-facing, powerful position in the country.
	And so let's look at Jeremy Hunt's public policy endorsement record.
	Let's look at this video, shall we, John?
	I very much agree with The central point in Gabriel's paper that we should be aiming for zero infection and elimination of the disease because that is basically the approach taken in countries which have a SARS strategy as opposed to a flu strategy and those are the countries that have overwhelmingly been the most successful in tackling coronavirus.
	And, you know, I just, my sister lives in Beijing and she flew back to Beijing in the middle of lockdown.
	And just to give you an idea of the contrast, she was escorted from the airport in Beijing to her home by Ministry of Health officials and then put into her home for two weeks quarantine.
	The door was sealed and And she had a police car sitting outside her house periodically.
	And I'm not saying we go that far in this country, but I just think it's an indication of how serious they are in the countries that have had to deal with SARS about stopping at the root every possible source of infection.
	That little disgusting lies smirk he has on his face.
	I'm not saying we get the fact that you are saying it, otherwise you wouldn't be bringing any of this up.
	Yes, yeah.
	So he's saying that basically we should treat every single citizen with the same contempt and house arrest measures that we used to apply to actual sex offenders, but now they're more lenient, to eliminate infection, which has been abandoned since by many countries other than China.
	Yeah.
	And even then, that's caused a lot of trouble, even in China, because people are starving to death.
	And this was at the same time at the start of the pandemic, when there were videos of Chinese people who had been welded into their homes.
	There was leaked police body cam footage where they were going around Chinese apartment blocks and people were just passed out and died in the middle of their kitchen.
	So that was what he was endorsing at the time and knew it.
	If we go to the next one, a year later, he was still calling for it.
	Time to act, thread on why we need to close schools, borders, base, and ban all household mixing right away.
	And he's saying the NHS is going to be overwhelmed and bodies are going to be piled in the streets, which thankfully did not happen, of course, as we know.
	Boris's policy of taking it on the chin was vindicated.
	Yes, very much so.
	And it turns out that Jeremy Hunt agrees.
	If we go to the next one, he said when he was trying to be leader recently, I would have avoided all lockdowns.
	Oh, really?
	Don't let him forget this lie.
	This is what we have to do.
	We have to dredge up all the receipts for your total nonsense, because otherwise lots of people will get news headline inertia and memory hole this stuff.
	No, he is a fetishist for lockdowns and the totalitarian measures practiced by the Chinese government.
	Isn't it weird that his sister lives in Beijing?
	That's weird, right?
	No, it's not.
	Right, okay.
	Would you like to know who his wife is?
	Yeah, I would.
	Let's go next, shall we?
	His secret weapon.
	Who is Jeremy Hunt's wife, Lucia Gu?
	G-U-O. And how many children do they have, according to The Sun?
	Jeremy Hunt's wife, Lucia, was born in 1978 in the city of Xi'an, China.
	She moved to the UK prior to meeting the Tory MP and holds British citizenship.
	Lucia recently regularly appeared on Sky TV's China Hour.
	We'll get onto that later.
	And presented her own show.
	Why does Sky TV have a China Hour?
	Well, we'll get onto that.
	Called Signature Flowers of China.
	Together, the couple formed a real estate business called Mare Pond Properties Limited.
	We'll get onto that later as well.
	In 2019, Lucia watched her husband launch his bid to become the leader of the Conservative Party and was dubbed his secret weapon, so she's the puppeteer behind his policy positions.
	Jeremy and Lucia met at a Hot Courses event in Warwick in 2008.
	She worked at the University of Warwick, helping to recruit Chinese students to study at the university.
	The MP asked for her email address.
	After swapping contact details, the pair began a relationship.
	So we can go on to the next one, John.
	Let's see the consequences of Lucia's outreach efforts, shall we?
	So, this is the Sunday Times.
	that demand for university places will rise 14% in the next four years.
	Teenagers will face unprecedented competition to get into university over the next five years, with more than a million applying in 2025, a 40% increase the emissions service UCAS has warned.
	The projected boom over the next few years is driven by a triple whammy of a 20% rise in the number of 18-year-olds in the UK by 2026, more 18-year-olds applying to university, and a surge in overseas students led by China, whose numbers are expected to outstrip those from the whole of the EU by 2025.
	This year, 28,490 youngsters from China applied.
	Certainly because there's almost three times as many people in China as there are in the EU. Yeah, but there's also an incentive structure for universities in this country to overcharge the amount of money that foreign students get, and they pay all up front.
	So for example, I recently stayed when I started working here in a student apartment complex in Oxford, just because they were renting rooms to non-students over the summer.
	And I was working at the university as well.
	And there were lots of Chinese students who'd already moved in for the next academic year, paid in full in advance.
	And my dad, for example, has worked to fit vents in the Docklands apartments and things like that, which lots of Chinese students have bought.
	And when they leave, they leave behind all the things they've bought, like Hamley's teddy bears, flat screen TVs, whole gaming PC rigs.
	Chinese billionaire kids.
	Yeah, that's what's being attracted.
	So we're basically the sort of Singapore overnight stay for the future world leaders at this point.
	And Jeremy Hunt's wife has played a crucial role in encouraging that during her time at Warwick University.
	Also, UK universities are ideologically captured as a result of this.
	The number of Chinese students are set to soar, according to this.
	Almost 29,000 candidates from China have applied to start undergraduate degrees at British universities this autumn, up from 25,800 last year and 21,215 in 2022.
	The UK is a popular choice, the report says.
	The report is by Synorbis, a digital marketing group.
	It predicts by 2030, about 1 in 700 Chinese in their mid-20s will have studied in Britain.
	Tories mounted defence against this has come from Tom Tugendhart of the Bilderberg Group himself, and he said it was encouraging that there was such strong demand for British universities.
	But like any industry, we need to be careful that we don't become financially over-reliant on one country.
	Dependency creates weakness.
	Again, you're just talking about financials, not culture.
	The Chinese know about cultural colonisation because if you go to the reporting from the iNewspaper, all the Confucius Institutes in the UK recently are apparently part of China's propaganda system.
	What a shock.
	Yeah, exactly.
	If you allow a fifth column to fester in your country, it undermines it.
	Just as a quick side, how many spies has America found from China?
	How many secrets have been sent back?
	It's unbelievable.
	A ridiculous amount.
	There's actually a stat in this that the Americans have shut down 104 of the 118 Confucius Institutes.
	There we go.
	Yeah, because they were open sedition factories.
	The exact quote actually is this, is the Confucius Institutes in the UK are, quote, formerly a part of the propaganda system of the Chinese Communist Party.
	So the Henry Jackson Society have said there are no offshoots of the Chinese state that are integrated more closely into British society than Confucius Institutes.
	Open to the general public, Confucius Institutes supposedly promote the Chinese language and run classes in culture from calligraphy to cooking to Tai Chi.
	They also sponsor educational exchanges and hold public events and lectures.
	But Henry Jackson Society's report found that just four out of the 30 Confucius Institutes in UK universities stuck to their alleged purpose.
	They were instead conducting other activities like trying to shape how China is understood in the UK and attempting to forge links with British business and technology.
	The report also highlighted concerns that institutes are exercising an increasing interest in British politics and lobbying.
	It said the UK have hosted pro-China receptions in Parliament, organised diplomatic events and flown politicians to China.
	It also claimed that some British politicians received funding from Confucius Institutes without naming them.
	Isn't that interesting?
	We do know that one Labour MP got 500,000 from a Chinese asset, but we don't know how many others.
	The Department for Education also recently tightened its position on Confucius Institute.
	This week it said the government was committed to doing more to adapt to China's growing impact and encourage people with concerns about any Confucius Institute to report them.
	Liz Truss has apparently adopted an increasingly hawkish position on China in recent months, with a country to be formally designated a threat soon.
	But I do wonder if it's going to be turned around, because of course if you remember Jeremy Hunt himself was part of the George Osborne Cameron doctrine of creating a new golden age for Sino-UK relations in 2015.
	And it seems that's coming to fruition now.
	Everything about this country disappoints me.
	Well, it'll continue, I'm afraid.
	Let's see how deep the rot goes, shall we?
	China has opened unofficial police stations in this country.
	Yeah, I've heard about this.
	What's the deal?
	So, they've opened unofficial police stations in, like, take-out restaurants and things like that, in the back rooms, but they're formally linked to the Chinese government, and they police Chinese citizens on British soil.
	Well, all of this should be banned, obviously.
	I agree, but...
	The Confucius Institute should be banned, I mean...
	Yeah, but they're also denying it.
	So, like, the Telegraph actually went to these locations and asked them, and they just got, like, told, not here, officer.
	They're like speakeasies.
	So, about 54 overseas police centres have been opened up in around the world.
	110 stations were named after the National Police Emergency Phone Number in China, were established by local security bureaus in China, initially as a part of an effort to target telecom fraud abroad, but they found, obviously, 54 more.
	The police service centres are run from innocuous locations such as Chinese restaurants or convenience stores.
	One of the two police service stations in London is registered as an estate agency.
	Another one in Glasgow is a Chinese restaurant.
	The Telegraph visited the estate agency in North London, which denied any links.
	They said the office is also used by a legal firm.
	Its website says it deals with predominantly Chinese immigration issues.
	Another food delivery office in Croydon is said to be part of the network, also denied links when visited by a reporter.
	The stations are ostensibly meant to help Chinese people abroad with paperwork, such as extending Chinese driver's licenses and official documents.
	But the Chinese state media shows that some of the centers have been involved in collaborating with Chinese police to carry out operations abroad.
	Such as detaining people for wrong think, I would think.
	So we've got a parallel policing system at work in our country.
	So, what's Mrs Hunt doing now after she's sort of opened the door to all this sort of corruption?
	Well, Jeremy Hunt recently faced a probe in the last couple of years about money laundering to do with his company, and that is the Marais Pond Properties, which is registered to his wife.
	So if we go to their company check page, obviously we can't authenticate all of this information, but some of it does look quite suspicious, because if you just scroll down to the table, John, where they report their liabilities...
	It's just one.
	Keep going.
	There we go.
	Yeah.
	If we look at the current liabilities for each year, in 2018 and 2019, they had nearly 4 million each year in stated liabilities.
	After the probe in 2019, it drops off to 47,000 and 17,000 in 2021.
	Where did the millions of pounds of liabilities go?
	That's an amazing question that has yet to be answered by our sitting chancellor.
	And it's still registered to his wife, who has Chinese interests.
	How interesting.
	And when I say she has Chinese interests, I'm not being facetious there.
	She runs a Chinese, well, ran, I suppose, a Chinese state-funded TV program which denied the Uyghur genocide.
	She's the host.
	Yeah, wonderful.
	So, Zhu, who has three children with now the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, appears on China Hour, a series broadcast on Sky TV that showcases Chinese culture to a UK audience.
	It is made by the state-owned China International TV Corporation and British-based Dove Media in partnership with the Communist regime's tourist office in London.
	And Sky will just take whatever money they offer to make sure it's broadcast.
	Well, the climate hour, I think, should also be regarded as an act of subversion because they're openly trying to propagandise the UK and sabotaging its energy security.
	Meanwhile, China's opened 252 coal-fired power plants to exceed capacity, which is going to increase global emissions about 16% alone by 2030, whereas we're 1% of emissions.
	I just take Sky News entirely as Yeah, as a sedition arm.
	Well, so would I if anyone watched it.
	The programme featured reports on the effectiveness of China's post-pandemic response, hence why Jeremy Hunt fetishises it so much, about the beauty of Xinjiang, and failed to mention its site of re-education camps for persecuted Muslim Uyghur population.
	Miss Gu, who is originally from the city of Xi'an in central China, hosts a feature on the show called Signature Flowers of China.
	The programme was praised in Beijing for its viewing figures, and its reports on the pandemic were credited with, quote, playing a unique role in communicating the Chinese narration of the epidemic to the world.
	Five years ago, when Mr Hunt led a delegation to China, the visit resulted in a deal that included UK-China Media Production Treaty and the launch of China Hour on Sky Channel 191.
	So Jeremy Hunt secured that for Sky and his wife explicitly while on the job and in office.
	And for this article, both Hunt and Gao decided not to comment.
	It's just open corruption.
	So I can't believe I'm saying it to conclude this segment.
	I agree with Ed Miliband.
	Go to that, John.
	Don't agree with Ed Miliband about much, I'll tell you that.
	Well, David Cameron just tweeted out, Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice.
	Stability and strong government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband in 2015.
	And Ed Miliband, the other day on October the 14th, just tweeted a clown.
	Well, I mean, how's he wrong?
	Accurate.
	So, yeah, I guess expect a Chinese-style social credit system being proposed soon.
	Aren't we just delighted?
	God, I hate this country.
	Which is why we're going to talk about America.
	So...
	I'm not American and I have to deal with American culture on a daily basis.
	This is how effervescent American culture is.
	And so as a foreigner, I look into what we are shown from American culture with some perplexity because I hear whiteness a lot.
	White supremacy, white this, white the other.
	And we hear black a lot.
	Anti-blackness, in fact, being used.
	But no one ever takes the time to define blackness.
	And I find that interesting because I think it's actually something that it's got this kind of central perspective in American culture and no one feels that they can talk about it.
	So I'm going to try and have a sensitive conversation about this.
	We're going to be trying very, very delicate about this conversation.
	I defer to Lizzo's judgment.
	She says twerking is in black people's blood and bones.
	Well, this is why we're going to try and be more sensitive.
	Because I think that actually, this is what the Democrats are enforcing on black people in America.
	Whereas I think the, shall we call them the Republican or conservative blacks, are actually trying to take a proper place among just normal people.
	And the Democrats are, in fact, in some way keeping the knee on the neck of the black community by imposing their view of blackness on them.
	And the reason we, of course, have to talk about this is because America is the most powerful country and the content is everywhere, which is what Beau and Josh discussed in the latest episode of Contemplations, just how America became the most powerful country, how have we been led to this unbelievable position where we have to talk about Black American culture, non-stop.
	It's on TV all the time.
	Well, it is, and we have to.
	So I thought we would.
	And so, anyway, America seems to be trapped in this racial sludge.
	And so, as a foreigner, I'm looking into these murky depths.
	I think I can see places that Americans aren't really comfortable with.
	And so I'm going to make my position on all of this very clear.
	I don't believe in racial politics.
	I don't think that a person's skin color is actually very germane to anything.
	Many more differences within a race than there are between races.
	And you get people of all kinds of inclinations in any walk of life.
	Yeah, you can't involuntarily conscript people into your revolutionary cause just based on their melanin content.
	Also, there is a massive chasm between Thomas Sowell and a gangbanger.
	And if you don't have eyes, I guess you can make that assumption.
	But on the flip side, also, saying white, I don't really identify as a white person.
	No, I don't feel any kinship with the Albanian people traffickers or the Germans.
	Yeah, or anyone.
	And in Europe, calling yourself white is kind of irrelevant.
	It's like, okay, but what if that guy's Irish?
	What if that guy's Spanish?
	It's about ethnic identity.
	And so race, skin colour means nothing.
	But of course, in America, you can understand why it has been compressed into a conflation of race and values.
	And so these things become...
	Interchangeable, in a way.
	So someone who is in favour of a European standard of architecture is now said to be enforcing white supremacy.
	But there's actually nothing racial about it, and in fact, this kind of architecture, for example, can be found all over the world, because anyone can appreciate the beauty of classical architecture.
	Yeah, the concept of a melting pot has now been corrupted by race activists and turned into a crucible instead, and they dichotomise it as, oh, America is the fire and furnace in which the impure part of the metal is burned off, but actually we feel like we're being treated as that impure part of the metal, and you've just set the standard as the arbitrary metal you want to keep.
	So it is always about conceptualising it as a distinction, just because it's a visual distinction, because of the cultural inheritance, rather than the long-standing geographical and ethnic lineage distinction.
	Yeah, and so just to be clear, the Americans therefore conflate race with values, which I don't, because of course I look at, say, the values of the French and And they're just as white as we are, but they're also disgusting.
	Yeah, and I get on far better with the Nigerian granddads who drive my Ubers that say, Sadiq Khan?
	Moron.
	Than a German leftist, for example.
	Which are disgusting in every case.
	Anyway, so the Americans have been struggling with this for quite some time.
	This is just an article in the New York Times from 2015.
	What is whiteness?
	It's like, who cares?
	Matt Walsh's next documentary.
	Exactly.
	I would say there's no such thing, and that's because I'm not an American.
	But they say this, right?
	So in the mid to late 19th century, the existence of several white races was widely assumed, notably the superior Saxons and the inferior Celts.
	Each race they were called races had its characteristic racial temperament.
	So we would call this cultural.
	So Thomas Sowell in Race and Economics documents how the N-word was used for Irish people.
	And then we all remember the hierarchy of exclusion.
	Watch it!
	The hierarchy of exclusion of the signs which reprehensibly said, no black people, no dogs, no Irish.
	And my grandmother, who was an Irish immigrant, was subject to those.
	British propaganda against the Irish was pretty harsh.
	Yeah, and so the distinction is not purely skin colour.
	It, again, is culturally discriminatory.
	In the 19th century, the Saxon race was said to be intelligent, energetic, sober, Protestant, and beautiful.
	Celts, in contrast, were said to be stupid, impulsive, drunken, Catholic, and ugly.
	I resemble that remark.
	By the early 20th century, the descendants of the early Irish immigrants had successfully elevated Celts into the superior realm of Northern Europeans.
	Well done, Celts.
	You get to be Northern Europeans.
	Fantastic.
	We made it, Mum.
	As a European, this is just ridiculous.
	Yeah, well, my membership card arrived in the post.
	It's a proud day.
	By the 1940s, anthropologists had announced they had a new classification.
	White, Asian, and Black were the only real races.
	So these are the Negroid race, the Mongoloid race, and the Caucasoid race.
	This is actually based on anthropology, actually.
	Things like the shape of the orbital sockets of your eyes, they actually broadly correlate.
	So the Europeans have got a kind of ovoid one.
	I can't remember which way round it was, but...
	The Negroid has a square and then the Asian has a spherical, like, oculus socket and stuff like this.
	It's like, okay...
	Yeah, that observation has no moral content.
	Exactly.
	It's...
	Okay, fine.
	You know, but that...
	And so race has been compressed purely into a biological term, and so obviously there's very little difference between, you know...
	Any European races, if you can say that.
	So white just became all of Europe, and then take that over to America, and now you've got the cultural attachment of white, and that becomes all of Europe.
	And then you bring that back to Europe, and it seems ludicrous to say that the Italians have got the work ethic of the Germans.
	Yeah, the implacable homogeneity.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's just preposterous, and anyone who's spent any time living in Europe will know this.
	And so they end this by just saying, look, the monolithic definition of whiteness is antithetical social justice.
	Perhaps we should encourage a rebellion against it.
	Just as blacks and whites joined together as abolitionists to bring down American slavery in the 19th century, anti-racist whites in the 1990s called themselves race traitors, believing that social justice for all demands treason against white supremacy.
	What are you talking about?
	But how naive of you to think that the tool with which to beat white people over the head would actually be dispensed with and that race colorblindness is the goal rather than the perpetuation of racial division.
	How silly.
	Anyway, so I carried on.
	I mean, for example, this perspective has carried on.
	And we saw it in 2020 when the Smithsonian decided that they would try and be helpful.
	If you can scroll down on this just so we can get the graph up.
	The graphic.
	The table, the graphic.
	There we go.
	So you've got this.
	And this, I think, proves my point rather nicely.
	And everyone got really offended by this, right?
	Because this felt prescriptive because it uses the term white.
	It's assuming that an entire race holds to these values.
	You've got things, if you can scroll down through it, you've got rugged individualism, family structure...
	With the photo of John Henry Irons there.
	Emphasis on the scientific method, the history, which I think is particularly interesting, the Protestant work ethic, the religion, status, power, and authority, time, but then aesthetics, but also justice, and of course, various other things.
	And one thing, communication in particular, the King's English...
	White.
	Yeah.
	The King's English.
	You can scroll back up, it's English common law.
	Yeah.
	Obsession with the British Empire.
	White.
	White.
	No, no, no, no.
	Okay, what you're saying is that the only white people on earth are English people.
	That's what you're saying with this, Smithsonian.
	Yeah.
	Now, that's fine.
	Yeah.
	I don't care.
	It's an intensely American perspective because of the roots of your legal and political tradition in England.
	What you were talking about here, what you call white culture is English culture, British culture, which is why it's based on English common law, it's why you speak the King's English, and it's why you're obsessed with the British Empire.
	But it's funny because, I suppose, in certain areas of Britain, the culture is far closer to contemporary black American culture than it is this.
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	The...
	This is why the Protestant work ethic, the focus on politeness, broadly speaking, but it's not universal in England.
	No, it doesn't always apply to Liverpool, for example.
	But this certainly doesn't apply to Europeans.
	No.
	This is very clearly a description of English culture.
	This is not a prescription that white people have to follow, unless you're saying the English are the model of white people and All the other Europeans are failing in their duty to be as English as possible.
	By that standard of homogeneity, you could call the entirety of Latin America also European white culture, because they come from the Med.
	Yeah, you made it Argentina.
	Exactly.
	But the thing is, in England, we don't think that the Spanish have to be like us.
	We don't think that the Italians have to be like us.
	We don't think the Greeks have to be like us.
	This is...
	This is what we are like.
	It's not a prescription for what they must be like.
	They have their own culture.
	And they don't say, right, you need to be as lazy as a Spaniard, for example.
	We wouldn't go abroad otherwise, which I suppose actually is a limiting factor on many Americans' world perspectives, because lots of them don't even own passports.
	That is completely true, actually.
	But everyone took a great offense to this.
	But the thing is, I didn't find this particularly offensive because it's just the description of the WASP culture of the United States and the values of it.
	And it's like, okay, that's true.
	And if you look at the values, I mean, as an Englishman, I'm looking at these values and going, well, there's nothing wrong with these.
	You know, take responsibility for yourself.
	Be on time.
	Care about justice, protect property, you know, English common law.
	I mean, all of this seems like common sense to me because there's nothing wrong with it.
	But everyone took it to be unique to rather than characteristic of, right?
	And so that's why people are saying, well, are you saying that black people can't work hard?
	Are you saying that Italians can't work hard?
	I mean, maybe in the latter case, I am saying that.
	But just teasing, furious.
	But that's the point.
	No one's saying, and this isn't saying, that black people can't work hard.
	What it's saying is this is just characteristic of the WASP population of the United States.
	And this is what the European immigrants to the United States integrated into.
	I mean, in the 18th and 19th centuries, there was a real concern about the Germanization of America because they took lots of continental Europeans and they were essentially forced to anglicize, become English speaking and adopt English values.
	I mean, look at Scalia, you know, Judge Scalia.
	Judge Scalia.
	Scalia, yeah.
	However it's pronounced.
	Like he was, he's obviously an Italian, but he went to England and was like, oh, I feel like I'm home.
	So exactly.
	You feel like you're in a place that you recognize, even though you're an Italian.
	Andrew Clavin said very much a similar thing of where he liked the parochialities of England, but he adapted very well over there because they shared lots in common with America.
	Exactly, exactly right.
	And so that's the concept of whiteness explained for us.
	And it's Englishness, really.
	The English character of America because, of course, it was founded on a bunch of English colonies.
	So what's blackness?
	Now, this is something that appears to be weird and indefinable.
	It's this just haze that's in the discourse, but nobody can actually define it.
	And the thing is, if you start trying to define it, you run into a problem that is actually not very complementary.
	Because, of course, the polarization of America is between black and white, as in the white settlers and the black slaves, or ex-slaves, of course.
	And the concept of black and blackness has been used as, and they talk about this, as a kind of form of resistance to the white population.
	I can understand why they would want to.
	We have been mistreated by you.
	Even after we were freed, you still had Jim Crow laws.
	You definitely had views on racial superiority, and the black population was generally stigmatized.
	And so, come World War II, when blacks came over to Britain...
	We didn't have that.
	And the Americans, as Callum loved pointing out, would put out propaganda saying, look, they'll allow black into the home lads.
	You know, this is unusual.
	Strange country.
	Yeah, this is normal over there.
	They treat them the same as the whites.
	And it's like, yeah, because we didn't have that cultural history.
	I'm not, like, trying to get an Americans, and I'm not trying to make excuses or anything like that.
	I'm just saying that's what has happened.
	I just looked through a bunch of papers, basically, with people talking about blackness, and no one seems to be able to properly define it.
	But it's not, like I said, it's not very complimentary.
	And I'm not saying that this is something that is intrinsic to black people either, because we have lots of black people who are examples of the opposite of this.
	But of course, those black people are stigmatized as being black.
	Yeah, you have internal community policing.
	I wonder if, I don't want to preempt the conclusion of the segment, but is it basically that it's the academic instantiation of the soft bigotry of low expectations?
	That's a very kind way of phrasing it.
	I think it's actually imposing the abolition of standards on the black community.
	That makes sense considering Lyndon B. Johnson is probably the main case you could make for existing systemic racism because he literally debilitated intergenerational wealth in black communities by targeting women to become single mothers to say, we'll get N-words voting Democrat for the next couple hundred years.
	Yes.
	And so anyway, in this, the main issue that I drew out of this was blackness is still the main criterion of a lower racial origin.
	The ancient environmental meaning of black skin being caused by sunlight is diffused together with the meaning of black as negation, death, bad nature, and even illness.
	And of course, he's talking historically.
	How has black been considered as a black-hearted person?
	It's the Othello conception.
	Yes.
	And this in combination with the sort of biblical curse of Ham.
	Yeah.
	So you've got this general view.
	And it's like, okay, that's fine.
	And so we go to the next one, which is just an article, a think piece, just the elusive concept of blackness.
	There's an artist called Hank Willis Thomas, who's a black artist, and he looks into this in 2007.
	It's an old article.
	It's one of the few things I can find, because there's actually very little out there that actually tries to explain what blackness is.
	And that's First one is the sort of historical sort of way that the concept of black is used in the English-speaking world.
	But, of course, he's going through ancient history, basically.
	And so this is long before European contact with Africa that these people are writing.
	And so it doesn't really make sense in a modern context.
	Anachronistic, yeah.
	Yeah.
	And so Willis Thomas is a photographer.
	And they say, at 31, Thomas had his work published in numerous books and featured in exhibitions across the country.
	He has received prestigious fellowships and awards, including a New York Foundation for the Arts in Fellowship and Photography.
	His work largely deals with some aspect of blackness in this new age.
	And so he's done a project called Branded, a series that uses popular advertising images to highlight the myriad ways that blackness has been commodified.
	In a piece called Branded Head, the ubiquitous Nike swoosh is emblazoned onto the side of a young black male's bald head.
	Hmm.
	Jordan and Johnny Walker in Timberland, circa 1923.
	The Timberland logo has been altered to show the lynching of a black man whose body takes the shape of the classic Air Jordan stance.
	This is very interesting because he says, stripped of their logos, the images appear like caricatures of corporate notions of blackness and are blunt in their use of stereotypes about blacks.
	For example, drawing upon stereotypical depictions that infantilise blacks in the media images.
	This is what Kanye West did with his song New Chains.
	He literally said that we're trading out the subservience to a slave master to subservience to a materialistic culture which is like a bastardization of the American dream where now we obsess over a new jacket, a new pair of shoes, a new Jesus piece without creating intergenerational wealth and opportunities.
	That's why he's abandoned that and he started building schools.
	And I think the phrase infantilise is actually really interesting and important because that is the perspective of a child.
	What gift am I going to get this Christmas?
	Not, what am I going to build for next year?
	Yeah, and that's the position of you're being handed something rather than you building something.
	You are a dependent.
	Yes.
	Is what that means.
	And I've long noticed this, in fact.
	When you go to the next one, you see there's just a list of black rappers who just have the name Baby in some way.
	Yeah, you're right.
	And it's really weird.
	Or Little, like Little Nas X. Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	It's these childlike sort of appellations and epithets that they have for themselves.
	Yeah.
	As if they're perennial, like, adolescents.
	And it's...
	Who has encouraged that?
	For example, do you remember DaBaby's controversy where Dave Chappelle was like, I've come to negotiate the...
	Don't abort DaBaby.
	Yeah, I've come to negotiate the release of DaBaby.
	It's like, why the hell would an adult man call himself DaBaby?
	If you go to the next one, you see this guy, right?
	Scroll down so you can see the guy's picture, right?
	There's nothing childlike about this man.
	He looks like 50 Cent in the Indiclub.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	That's not saying black people look alike.
	It's saying that he's tattooed and shredded.
	Yeah, exactly.
	This guy looks like a statue.
	Yeah.
	This is getting a little homoerotic, but yeah, he's in solid shape.
	He looks like a Greek statue, you know what I mean?
	Like...
	This guy spends all his time at the gym, and he calls himself DaBaby.
	Well, he was also, it's funny, linking to your point, the reason for his cancellation was because in a crude and crass manner, was imposing...
	We'll get to it.
	Okay, alright, there you go.
	I've got the exact quote, because that's exactly what I'm driving at, right?
	This bizarre infantilization thing is he's obviously someone who holds some sort of standards and a standard means that you are creating a space in which some things are appropriate because they improve you and they make things better and other things are inappropriate because they reduce you and make things worse.
	He said this, and this is very crude and crass, and I wouldn't frame this.
	If you didn't show up today with HIV, AIDS, or any of them deadly sexual transmitted diseases that'll make you die in two or three weeks, put your cell phone lighter up.
	Ladies...
	If you're hygienic, I'm going to frame it as, put your cell phone lighter up.
	Fellas, if you're not engaging gay acts in the parking lots, put your lighter up.
	Now, he's appealing to standards of purity and cleanliness.
	Low bar, admittedly.
	Sure, but that's people taking responsibility for their actions.
	Yeah, not many cell phone lights on in the Labour Party.
	Exactly.
	And so the culture...
	He got in immense amounts of trouble for this.
	And so the culture...
	He's viewed blackness, I think, in general, that surrounds him as a thing that generally adheres to low standards.
	And so when someone called DaBaby is like, hey guys, it's good to have some standards, he has to apologize.
	And the way that this is approached is if cleanliness, chastity, and not being infected with an STD are all things that gays and blacks can't achieve or shouldn't be expected to not achieve.
	It's like, that's disgraceful.
	That's a horrible, horrible way to approach any community.
	Because none of these things are good.
	No one wants these things.
	They're only good if you have the Margaret Sanger position of accelerating the demise of said community as fast as possible.
	Absolutely.
	And so I found this other article, which is a lady called Sarah Abel, who went to Brazil, I think it was.
	or somewhere else and uh when and she was investigating with uh like french and american scholars through this period and she says i frequently encountered antagonisms manifested by each side towards the other's conception of blackness for instance african-american academics who spoke knowingly of black french scholars being brainwashed by their national ideology of colorblindness and french scholars who complained that black american scholars compulsion to racialize everyone
	the united states where the logic of the one drop rule has been successfully recuperated by african-americans to ensure continuing salience of blackness as resistance identity as in i'm not white i'm black and therefore i'm the opposite of what you declare whiteness to be the sean king position and as we saw from the smithsonian yeah english culture is about the adherence and promotion of standards
	This is what makes England a good country, as in we do not tolerate things that fall out or we used to not tolerate, things that fell outside of these standards.
	And so this is based both on biological ancestry and a transmitted cultural heritage, a definition of the Israeli question in the US context.
	She says thus, when Henry Louis Gates Jr.
	was attributed 50% European genomic ancestry in the first series of African-American lives, he was able to joke 50% European.
	I never expected that.
	I mean, do I still qualify for affirmative action?
	Can I get a reparations check?
	Half a reparations check?
	I have the blues.
	Can I still have the blues?
	It's like, right.
	That's very interesting, isn't it?
	I mean, don't worry, he's joking.
	Yeah, but he's phrasing it as like a colour swatch chart for cultural participation.
	Many a truth told in Jess.
	Yes.
	And so it's like, can I still get reparations?
	Can I still get affirmative action?
	Yeah.
	It's like, right, because what you're saying is reparations and affirmative action are an abandonment of standards.
	Europeans don't give affirmative action for other Europeans.
	You know, they don't give reparations, so you don't get any money for free, or you shouldn't anyway, for being European.
	If you're a young man...
	Exactly.
	If you're a young man, anyway.
	And so, I mean, if you're 50% European, well, shouldn't you be thinking 50% standards, maybe?
	I don't know.
	But the point is, what responsibility is being talked about in that joke, right?
	And again, it's just a joke.
	But I think there is something that underlies it.
	It's about taking responsibility.
	It's about growing up.
	It's about being an adult.
	And I think that the culture of blackness that the left promotes in the United States...
	It's specifically designed to try and make black people not take responsibility, to keep them in a position of perpetual infantilization.
	I know I'm going on, but I think this is important.
	Cardi B is interesting, because she's quite light-skinned, but she claims to be black.
	Very interesting position.
	Kelvin Robinson's had the same conversation with me and also people who tried to put him in the black conservative box.
	He said, well, I'm half white, so I don't not only adopt your prescriptions due to my skin colour, but I'm just going to call myself mixed race because I'm split down the middle.
	I don't identify more to you just because you can script me as a visual marker into your cause.
	And he's very obviously an Englishman.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	So, Cardi B has had to, more than once, explain her ethnicity because she's quite light-skinned.
	So Americans are like, you're a Mexican.
	She's like, I'm not Mexican at all.
	I'm West Indian and I'm Dominican.
	I speak Spanish because I'm Dominican.
	And it's like, so what's the difference between Dominican and Mexican?
	And it's like, everything.
	Because of course, they're different countries, different peoples, different histories.
	Ah, American geography.
	Exactly.
	People don't be understanding S, she says.
	It's like, Cardi's Latin, she's not black.
	And it's like, bro, my features don't come from white people, as in Northwestern Europeans.
	They always want to race bait when it comes to me.
	I have Afro features, but your parents are light-skinned.
	And she says, all right, but my grandparents aren't.
	I mean, it's just one of those things about...
	Genetics.
	But the point is, so she's claiming, look, ancestrally, these are the things.
	But then there was a lot of outrage when she said that she doesn't let her children listen to WAP. And I was like, well, she shouldn't.
	No.
	Shouldn't have made it in the first place.
	There is that, right?
	But I love the way that Vulture.com framed this, right?
	There's only one whore in Cardi B's house, and she plans on holding on to that title, Frank.
	Thank you very much.
	So...
	That's a standard, isn't it?
	Or is that the abandonment of standards?
	But also, why would a child qualify as being a whore vulture?
	Yeah.
	When her two-year-old...
	Yeah.
	Entered the room.
	Someone's hard drive needs checking.
	Yeah, well, they're leftists.
	But the point is, I think Zoe Haylock here, who wrote this, doesn't really understand what she's saying there.
	To say that Cardi B's a whore is to say that she has no distinctions between the men that she'll sleep with.
	Again, the lowest possible standard.
	It's just, it's disgusting.
	But Cardi B actually does uphold some standard and says on Twitter, I don't make music for kids, I make music for adults.
	Parents are responsible on what their children listen to or see.
	I'm a very sexual person, just not around my child like every other parent should be.
	I agree with that statement.
	That was impressively articulate.
	And impressively adult.
	Yeah.
	In one way, I think racial activists would say that was a very white statement.
	Yeah.
	Unfortunately so.
	That was a statement of standards and exclusion.
	A statement of taking responsibility.
	It was normative.
	And this is why someone like Larry Elder becomes the black face of white supremacy.
	And this is literally what they called it.
	Well, Larry Elder was actually one of my catalysts in my political journey.
	It was his interview with Dave Rubin that sent me about questioning narratives.
	So I very much like the gentleman.
	Yeah, I think he's great because all he's preaching is personal responsibility and essentially growing up.
	So he's rejecting the concept of blackness, which is not taking any responsibility, not having any standards.
	And he's saying, no, I'm going to, and this is good for us.
	He ran for the governor of California and didn't Win, obviously.
	But he's not gone away in, I think, next time, maybe.
	He has said he may run in 2024.
	Well, I'm hoping he will, because I think he's right.
	Perfect VP for Orange Man.
	That would be fantastic.
	That would be amazing.
	And then DeSantis afterwards.
	Make it happen, guys.
	But anyway, this is the way the Los Angeles Times frames this.
	I love this so much, right?
	It's that perhaps out of spite or perhaps out of an insatiable need for attention, Elder opposes every single public policy idea that's supported by black people to help black people.
	How has any of this helped black people?
	How has the position of the black community improved in the last 30 years?
	It was demonstrably designed to debilitate black people's entrepreneurial independence.
	Exactly.
	So Larry Elder is helping black people with some bitter medicine.
	Exactly.
	You can't just give people prosperity.
	You have to make them earn it for themselves.
	That's what Larry Elder is saying.
	And so they hate it.
	And they're like, well, there are some black people who agree with him.
	We're not a monolith.
	It's like, okay, well then you can't just say blackness is, right?
	Then this abolition of standards that apparently blackness has become, it's not really a thing.
	In the same way that we, the Europeans and Englishmen, are like, no, you're whiteness.
	That's not whiteness.
	It's Englishness.
	This isn't just what Europeans think.
	It's all different, right?
	And so this is exactly why Xi Jinping is actually not a champion of whiteness.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Not even joking, right?
	Literally.
	I'm quite speechless.
	Yeah, you'll love this.
	If whiteness is power, Xi Jinping is its champion.
	Right.
	So, you can see where the seeds germinate for the idea of blackness being revolutionary consciousness, can't you?
	I guess so.
	Because even if the current form of blackness were to overthrow whiteness, there would be...
	A dynamic where there are some people that are more black than the other black people, and they become the new oppressed class.
	Because, of course, what comes from standards is excellence.
	And from excellence comes power.
	And since they're only concerned about power, then that's what they see.
	And so Xi Jinping is actually now the leader of the KKK. Grand Wizard Winnie the Pooh.
	Yeah, exactly, because he's interested in increasing China's excellence.
	I will just make a demarcation as well for anyone who's going to hound us even after the last 30 minutes of us delineating race from standards.
	We believe that Englishness is excellence, not whiteness, as we've already said, because the French, the Spaniards, etc.
	have an inferior culture and work ethic, we believe.
	Yes.
	Which is why we had the biggest empire and they didn't.
	This is just not a racial question.
	It's a question of culture and values.
	And it's why Clarence Thomas is always in the crosshairs.
	Because Clarence Thomas is like...
	King.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Absolute king.
	All these black conservative managers, they get it.
	Did you see the Supreme Court Justices' listings of the amount of words used?
	All of the female Supreme Court Justices have words in a thousand.
	And he had 12 words per ruling.
	LAUGHTER Refuses to elaborate, leaves.
	But then it's the Einsteinian dictum, isn't it?
	If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand a problem.
	Exactly.
	And he obviously can.
	So they're concerned about this because one of Thomas' concerns for the black community is white paternalism.
	As in Democrat paternalism.
	Again, if you're going to be a parent, you need a child.
	And so it's not that he disagrees that English standards are baked into the American Republic, what they call white standards.
	They are, of course, because it's an English-speaking country, obviously.
	He is concerned, and he says this, right?
	Well, they say this about Clarence Thomas.
	He thinks that they perpetuate conditions of black weakness and black victimization by making black people dependent.
	Thomas doesn't object to dependence as such.
	He thinks that depending on white people means depending on a force that is arbitrary, as women's close to the weather and very dangerous and ends up weakening black people and destroying the kinds of habits, skills and virtues that black people depend upon and have depended upon over the centuries of subjugation and oppression.
	Yeah.
	That's exactly right.
	Why would you want to be dependent on the Democrat Party?
	That's Eric July's brand of libertarianism.
	He says, I'm not going to wait for a handout from white folks.
	I'm just going to build my own business.
	It's not just exclusively for black people, but if people want to be racist to me, then okay, I'll exist separately to them and be excellent in their absence.
	Yeah.
	And they say one thing to understand about Thomas' conservatism is that there's a strong belief in patriarchy.
	He has said quite plainly the salvation of the black race depends on black men.
	This is one area where his conservatism and black nationalism converge.
	Yeah, and it's about black men taking responsibility.
	About not calling yourself DaBaby.
	And actually taking some responsibility, and then just not saying sorry.
	And we can see this white paternalism of black people in America.
	I forgot to add this for you, John.
	But you've seen the number of...
	There are loads of Twitter threads where a black kid will kill a white kid, and...
	Yeah.
	child who breaks something in my house or something.
	It's disgusting.
	It's not a vase, it's a life.
	It's not exactly.
	And what you're saying is, those people are not my moral equals.
	They do not exercise the same moral agency as me, and therefore I'm going to treat them as if they're moral and fairies.
	And, I mean, if you're going to treat them as moral equals, you demand they be hanged.
	They've murdered your child.
	Agreed.
	Yeah.
	It's an agreement against the moral community, not the white community, when these people go unpunished.
	Yeah.
	But it's just terrible for everyone.
	And so anyway, you end up...
	And this is the article that stemmed this entire inquiry into this whole thing.
	If we get rid of white people, then what happens?
	Say, is this the...
	Sorry, you can go to the next one.
	Yeah, LA, New York Times, right?
	The complaint here, I have a theory about the future of America that I don't want to come true.
	It is a theory that worries me, and I have written about, that the browning of America, white supremacy, could simply replace by or be buffeted by a form of light supremacy in which fairer-skinned people perpetuate a modified anti-blackness and are eliminating it.
	Well, there are non-white people who care about standards, who want things to improve, because one Latino Democrat made racist comments about people who behave in bad ways, basically.
	And so he literally says, right, instead of allying herself with other disadvantaged groups, the Latino community diminishes them.
	Their discussion was anti-black, anti-indigenous, anti-Jewish.
	They were doing the work of white supremacy.
	All of these people are just saying they will take responsibility for their actions.
	They want to improve things.
	They have standards.
	And so this, I think, is the most revealing part.
	The fallacy is to believe that every person in the community that has been oppressed by white supremacy will reject it.
	So what they're saying is we are being oppressed by standards, by self-control, by taking responsibility.
	And in a way, I see what you're saying, right?
	It's tough.
	It is difficult to take responsibility for yourself and for other people.
	This is difficult.
	You could characterize it as a form of oppression, but what you get from that is, of course, self-improvement, from the self-imposition of these standards.
	You become a better person for it.
	You do not simply become the lowest common denominator, as worse and as bad as it can be, which is how the Democrats would have it, so you keep voting Democrat for the next 200 years.
	That's what I think blackness is.
	Wakanda forever, I suppose.
	Alright.
	Let's talk about how abortion's been criminalised in the UK, shall we?
	Because since the Roe v.
	Wade ruling was repealed during the Dobbs v.
	Jackson decision in America, pro-abortion articles and protests have been exponentially increasing over here.
	I've seen them in outlets, as we'll see later, like The Economist.
	Oh, what pro did you say?
	Yeah, pro-abortion.
	I heard that as anti-abortion.
	Oh, great.
	No, we get some hopeful examples, including someone I even spoke to at Conservative Party conference, who's a total gentleman, that they've reported on and demonised later on.
	But the efforts are really ramping up.
	And it's gotten to the point now where we're having not only...
	Like local buffer zones that suppress free speech or drawing to do with abortion protesting, but entire national efforts to criminalise criticism of abortion as misogyny.
	And they are looking scarily likely, including being actually implemented in Scotland.
	If you'd like to hear about the reason why we should have moral prohibitions on abortion, you can subscribe to our website and go and see Josh and I debating the morality, scientific legitimacy, and a little later on, but not very much, of the theology of abortion.
	And it was a very cordial debate, and I think I'm going to win Josh over eventually, because he's grappling with the origin of consciousness, whether or not, not only geographically, where it's located in the brain, which we haven't found yet, or the neural pathways, but also is it implanted as a metaphysical dimension at some point, and...
	The general morality of abortion is something that I actually struggled with myself, to be honest, for a while, because the liberal perspective on it is actually not very moral, and seems to be a kind of justification for a necessary evil, which is fine.
	And okay, in some cases you are on the horns of a dilemma where you've got to choose Yeah, an excellent video where you articulated exactly how the safe legal and rare dictum does not work because if it is it's not safe for the child and sometimes not safe for the mother results in sterility
	if it's legal then why should it be rare and exactly yeah and and the idea of rarity well that that implies standards of virtue on the part of a woman exactly So if that is a problem, then why should it be legal?
	So if we'd just like to go over to the first piece, I'm covering this because it's not only ongoing and utterly evil, and that sigh is warranted, Well, I'll reach my conclusion at the end after I read the details out.
	But in the UK at the moment, we've got a case of a nurse who has been accused of attempting to murder multiple babies while on shift in a maternity ward.
	I heard she was allegedly successful in murdering.
	Yes.
	We'll get into the details, I suppose.
	Nurse Lucy Letby attempted to murder a baby three times before killing her on the fourth try and then sent the bereaved parents a sympathy card, a court was told yesterday.
	In a police interview, Mrs Letby was asked about the card and she said sending a card was, quote, not normal, but it was the only time she had ever done it.
	She also accepted she had kept an image of the card on her phone.
	She's said to have been smiling after the death and persisted in talking to the girl's mother about how much the baby, referred to only as Child 1 in the document, had enjoyed her first bath.
	Letby, 32, denies all of the 22 charges against her for murdering seven premature babies and attempting to murder 10 more over 12 months.
	The deaths occurred at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.
	Letby was arrested three years after the death of her first alleged victim.
	The ICU nurse is alleged to have injected babies with insulin, air, or pumped them with milk to kill them during night shifts when parents were less likely to be there.
	Letby allegedly targeted twins on more than one occasion, and in some cases one was murdered and their siblings survived.
	In some cases Letby is alleged to have tried to kill babies on up to four occasions, including two times on a single shift." She was actually caught because Dr.
	Ravi Jayaram walked in on her as she was attacking a baby girl.
	So, good on him for exposing it.
	It was the Labour Party, a communist in the Labour Party, who abolished the death penalty in this country.
	An immigrant Labour communist.
	It was like, oh, we can't have the death penalty, that's terrible.
	And I'm just sat here as an Englishman thinking, no, it's terrible that we don't have the death penalty.
	I'm just thinking, I'm gutted, I can't carry out myself.
	I'm going to be honest.
	be honest this person should be swinging from a noose with a little assuming she's guilty of all this but she had a diary in which she documented them yeah and and we should have just a little sign underneath saying you know baby murderer yeah that's it that's what we used to do yeah i'm not even joking we used to do that and england was a better place when we did the alarming thing is though yeah the conclusion and takeaway i have of this article is not only um
	is it disturbing that even if your child survives the pregnancy and the increased rates of abortion and miscarriage they still might be at risk of attack by these sorts of people or just hospital failure like Like, I was a case study, actually, in the hospital trust because they left my mum, where I was suffocating during delivery, for multiple hours because there were no doctors on shift.
	She had to have an emergency seren and we nearly both died.
	That's why I actually have that little bump on my lip.
	It's like, you know, in Deadpool when he goes and his skin bubbles up.
	Yes, that's me.
	The worst thing is, though, what is the case for pro-abortion advocates against this woman other than the parents didn't consent?
	Yeah.
	So, why in a...
	Other than the babies were wanted by their parents, what would be the actual moral prohibition that pro-abortion people could use against this evil murderer?
	I mean, I suppose they would say, well, the babies were conscious, and they had a consciousness, because they often do about formation of the brain and stuff.
	They had a heartbeat.
	This is...
	But they have a heartbeat within the womb.
	Yeah, I know.
	They can resist the abortion instruments.
	And Ralph Northam's standard of afterbirth will have a conversation.
	Yeah, I know.
	I mean, I don't agree with them at all.
	I know you're attempting to steal, man.
	It's nearly impossible.
	I think their arguments are really bad, actually.
	Yeah, I agree.
	But it turns out criticism of those arguments are going to be criminalised.
	If we can go on to the next one, a buffer zone...
	Has been set up outside a Bournemouth abortion clinic.
	This is a Conservative council.
	And what this basically means is, as passed last week, quote, anyone failing to comply with a prohibition against protesting, sketching, praying and preaching within the buffer zone itself could incur a fixed penalty notice of £100 or face a court action, according to the council.
	This is a product of a petition written by pro-abortion activists called Sister Supporter Bournemouth and signed by 2,800 people.
	Sister Supporter Bournemouth claimed protesters handed out leaflets, offered prayers and hung baby clothes in bushes leading up to the building.
	Oh, God forbid they pray for the unborn that are getting killed.
	Anti-abortion campaigners said their gatherings aimed to offer help.
	So much for informed consent, I suppose.
	So, a sister supporter told BCP Council, Bournemouth Council, to take all measures within its power to not allow anti-abortion protesters in the area immediately outside the BPAS clinic in Opere Road, Bournemouth.
	I spoke with the head of BPAS, actually.
	She came to University of Kent to debate it, and she said that abortion up until birth is a moral imperative.
	And when I raised the question of...
	For who?
	Satan?
	Satan?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Sacrificing to buff vomit.
	I raised the point of, well, the babies resist abortion instruments, so would that not cross your threshold of its conscious?
	And she went, oh, if you're telling me that they're resisting, you think the baby has any kind of resistance because it wants to avoid death, then you're just being facetious.
	So by that logic, animals are open to fair slaughter, so she's upset all the vegans, I'm sure.
	Yeah, vegans, BCFO'd.
	Yeah.
	Tragic, isn't it?
	So, Councillor Bobby Dove, member for Community Safety, said the authority worked hard to understand the difficulties and experiences of people either visiting or working at the clinic.
	The consultation was launched for this after attempts to find, quote, a negotiated position which could be agreed upon by all parties involved failed because you cannot negotiate a moral case like this.
	There is, there is, this is why that might be the catalyst for civil strife in America.
	Much like the slavery issue was about 150 odd years ago because you can't say they're humans so we can kill them.
	It's either they're your property and we can dispense them at will or they're humans and we cannot kill innocent human beings.
	The council said it received 2,241 responses to the consultation with 75% being responded for buffer zone.
	Note, if you ever get a consultation on the government website for your local council, flood it.
	Because these activist groups are paid to do this.
	It's the same thing the cycling lobby did with the road safety rules.
	And they said it's for the economy and the environment, not actual safety.
	So be sure to contribute to this.
	So what's happened is, let's call a spade a spade, they're state-sanctioned censorship zones.
	If we go onto this image, a viewer sent in...
	An actual photo of the buffer zone.
	The following activities are prohibited Monday to Friday between 7am and 7pm within the shaded area defined by the red line.
	Protesting, namely engaging in an act of approval, so that's disapproval, or attempted act of approval-disapproval, with respect to issues related to abortion services by any means.
	This includes, but is not limited to, graphic, verbal, or written means, prayer or counselling.
	So even if you're consoling a woman who is distressed going into the abortion agency, and you're saying...
	Well, are you sure this choice is right for you?
	Asking the question could get you slapped with a public order offence.
	Interfering or attempting to interfere with a verbally or physically with a service user or member of staff at the BPAS Clinic.
	Intimidating or harassing or attempting to intimidate or harass a service member or member of staff at the BPAS Clinic.
	Recording or photographing a service user or member of staff at the BPAS Clinic.
	Displaying text or images relating directly or indirectly to the termination of pregnancy and or playing amplified music, voice or audio recordings.
	Well, that's only because it's hideous, and showing them it might make them think twice.
	They had large images of unborn children outside the Conservative Party conference to the anti-abortion protesters we spoke to, and the police were asking them to take it down, but didn't interfere with Steve Bray or the Extinction Rebellion activists who blocked the exits.
	Also, they've banned vigils, the sprinkling of holy water, the recitation of scripture, or if you make the sign of the cross at yourself within the vicinity.
	So even if you're...
	They should ban Catholicism as well.
	Watch it!
	We'll get there eventually.
	Remaining in the safe zone when asked to leave by a police officer, or a community support officer, or any other person designated by BCP Council, so anyone in Hive is, or returning to the safe zone before 7pm on the day you've been asked to leave could result you in a fine.
	So, you are not allowed an opinion in this specific place.
	This is amazing.
	Yeah, it's awful.
	I didn't realise they could do that.
	It's absolutely awful.
	So if we can go to the next one, please.
	The scary thing is, as Callum has already reported, and you'll be able to find his Labour Party conference videos in the description, because we made him sit through that.
	Sorry, mate.
	There was a fella who passed a motion at the conference who said that criticism of abortion is misogyny, and also we should criminalise misogyny.
	There are loads of women.
	Yes, but like in your blackness segment, that's a false consciousness, of course.
	Yes.
	So, if we can go to the next one, it's already going to be banned in Scotland.
	So, the abortion buffer zones are going to be nationwide.
	And again, I'd like to point out, this is The Economist.
	So, you know all those articles that said the fossil fuel industry will take a toll after Roe v.
	Wade?
	Yeah.
	Why is there this sort of eternal materialist angle on sterilising yourself and not having kids to be an eternal worker drone?
	It also coincides with transhumanism and the efforts to make yourself immortal, but we can't draw any conspiratorial conclusions on that.
	The only way to liberate women, you see.
	That is the authentic opinion of Simone de Beauvoir, who wrote the, quote, feminist Bible, who said we need to end three Ps, which is patriarchy, property and parenthood.
	Evil.
	We will cover that at some point.
	I'll subject you to that.
	Scotland may introduce laws to keep protesters away from abortion providers.
	The presence of hard-praying anti-abortionists, oh, God forbid you pray, from 40 Days for Life, a group based in Texas outside Scottish hospitals and clinics has prompted Nicola Sturgeon to back legislation that would allow no-go buffer zones around abortion providers.
	Introducing it.
	Hang on, like it's a holy site.
	Like, this is a sacred place of child sacrifice.
	Like, sorry, this is gross!
	It's a counter-religion.
	It's a literal death cult.
	Introducing to England in 2010 and Scotland in 2017, 40 Days for Life holds 40-day vigils twice a year in more than a dozen places across Britain.
	Then they also complain about...
	40 Days for Life being one of several American pro-life organizations that are stepping up activities in Britain.
	CBRUK, an affiliate of the Centre for Bioethical Reform, a Californian anti-abortion outfit, has grown from 50 a decade ago to 500 members, and we've spoken to their members as well.
	Stanton Healthcare from Idaho, which operates clinics that try to dissuade young women from terminating pregnancies, opened in Belfast in 2015 and will do so in Edinburgh this year.
	How are they doing anything wrong with it?
	We're trying to persuade you not to kill a baby.
	Yeah, God forbid we hate the abortion.
	Right, we need to make sure they can't get anywhere near the abortion clinics, what?
	Yeah.
	So then, if we go to the bottom of this...
	Do you guys have a fucking quota or something?
	See, that opinion, where you have been exposed to the advocacy and consequences of leftist activism, has made you take a stance against abortion.
	Yes.
	They actually acknowledge that happens in here.
	and they say claims that buffer zones criminalised free speech have begun to influence anti-abortionist arguments more widely according to Lucy Greve co-founder of Back Off Scotland we'll talk about those in a minute she set up the group in 2020 to oppose protests in Edinburgh where she is a student she noticed a shift she says away from the moral objections to abortion to talk about free speech that is good news for Mr Carney of 40 Days of Life even pro-choice Britons agree with him about its importance he says freedom of speech is being butchered in Scotland
	They can ban us, but they cannot do that and call themselves a free democracy.
	So they're complaining that you are making hay out of your silencing of them because you are saying, well, you might want to reconsider killing a child.
	Yes.
	I mean, claims of free speech are always for the oppressed because, of course, the people oppressed and you have all the free speech they could ever need.
	So, I mean, you can see how the...
	This power is flowing against the anti-abortionists, and all they're doing is saying, look, can we just talk to you about not doing this?
	Yeah, and those that cannot speak are the unborn children themselves, meaning they are the most oppressed, and so we have a duty to defend them.
	If we go to the next one, this is the women in question who were complaining, part of Back Off Scotland.
	Lily Roberts thought protests outside abortion clinics only happened in the US until she was targeted.
	Roberts was in her first year at university in Glasgow when she needed an abortion.
	Oh.
	No elaboration as to why.
	I would suggest it's...
	No need to further speculate.
	Yeah.
	Irresponsible campus culture, possibly.
	Act of God, I imagine.
	Yes.
	Immaculate conception.
	She wasn't yet familiar with the city when she made her way to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital to take the second abortion pill at the maternity ward.
	When I got there, there were 15 to 20 protesters with big placards calling me a murderer, saying, Jesus loves you and your baby, we can help.
	Those two statements seem a little bit juxtaposed.
	I was petrified, she said.
	It was like crossing a picket line to get to the appointment.
	She was worried throughout the 12 hours she spent on the ward.
	All I could think about was the fact that I have to go past them.
	It gave me a sinking feeling in my stomach.
	That's called guilt.
	Roberts, 22, is now a campaigner with Back Off Scotland, the grassroots campaign to implement a national buffer zone outside the country's abortion clinics.
	The plan would ban activity aiming to prevent women from accessing abortion care within a certain distance.
	If I can't abort my baby with a clean conscience, I'm being oppressed.
	Yeah.
	Well, all women are apparently oppressed by this, because Scotland is going to push ahead with a bill to criminalise misogyny, if we go to the I newspaper.
	A bill is being planned in the wake of a landmark report which urged the Scottish government to create a new series of offences outlawing misogyny.
	It's called For a Misogyny in Criminal Justice Scotland Act, which would create three new offences and a new statutory aggravation of misogyny that could apply with other crimes.
	So obviously we won't be broadcasting in Scotland anymore.
	The new offences would be public misogynistic harassment, stirring up hatred against women and girls, and issuing threats of rape or sexual assault towards women and girls, which I would have thought is already a crime.
	Yeah, that's surely a crime.
	Yeah.
	But it would also cover someone telling a woman she is fat, ugly and sexually loathsome within the hearing of others.
	Lots of other women are going to jail.
	Literally, women hate women so much.
	I refer you to your recent segment with Harry about women giving advice on how to steal other people's boyfriends.
	Oh, there was a study done about Twitter misogyny a few years ago that found that 50% of The women online being told they were fat, ugly, and sexually loathsome was being done by other women.
	Yeah.
	Other women aren't too kind to each other, as I've learned.
	So also pro-life protesters are being persecuted in America.
	We'll just briefly go over this stuff.
	Oh, this is actually, sorry, I've gone ahead of myself, but this is actually the fella that we met at the Conservative Party conference.
	If you can just scroll down, you'll see the banners that they had.
	We actually interviewed Christian Hacking, so you'll be able to see that in our coverage coming out soon.
	He's employed as a public engagement officer for CBR UK, a group that opposes abortion using apparently shock tactics imported from the US.
	The shock tactics were he had conversations with people and handed out leaflets, and he was very polite.
	In recent years, members have protested outside abortion clinics and targeted Labour MP Stella Creasy, who has campaigned to extend abortion rights during her pregnancy.
	In her Walthamstow constituency in northeast London...
	Yeah, it's evil.
	Yeah.
	It's like Lena Dunham having kids and saying, I wish I had an abortion.
	Yeah.
	So, CBR put up billboards that featured her face alongside the picture of a fetus aborted at 24 weeks.
	A quote from Christian here, He is absolutely right, and that's why they're censoring people like me, like Christian, who would like to raise awareness of this to the women that are going to make a horrible choice.
	Speaking of America, just two brief stories.
	Violence is ramping up over the irreconcilable abortion issue.
	One elderly pro-life volunteer was shot.
	So, she was walking around Michigan, canvassing a neighbourhood to discuss an abortion proposal, according to Right to Life.
	The woman was canvassing in Lake Odessa to discuss the state's vote on Proposal 3, which would protect abortion access in the state after the Roe v.
	Wade overturning.
	The state will vote on the proposal on November 8th.
	The woman did not know her shooter, but she was shot in the shoulder in the back.
	What a coward!
	Sure, but like, how does an abortionist possibly say that they're against murder?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Also, there was a pro-life activist recently arrested during FBI raid at his Pennsylvania home where guns were pointed at his wife and children.
	How dare you oppose us murdering?
	Yeah, so more than two dozen FBI agents came to arrest Mark Hoke shortly after 7am.
	Federal prosecutors said the charges that he was done under were stemming from two incidents on October 13th, 2021, in which Mr.
	Hoke is accused of assaulting a 72-year-old man who is a volunteer escort at the Planned Parenthood Elizabeth Blackwell Centre in Philadelphia.
	But Hook is claiming he was acting in self-defense because the guy came up and started yelling at his children who were at the rally.
	Apparently, the U.S. Attorney's Office says Hook faces a maximum sentence of 11 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and fines up to $350,000 if convicted.
	So even the state is cracking down very hard with very harsh charges.
	So I thought we'd just go finally to a friend of the show, Lauren Chen, who has decided to give an idea on how to convert the leftists if they aren't persuaded by the free speech arguments.
	There's a video from Harvard Children's Hospital who says that babies know in the womb if they're transgender...
	Oh, good point.
	And we won't watch it.
	You can go and watch it in your own time.
	But she said, it does raise a question for progressives.
	If there were a test to reveal whether your baby would be trans, or I suppose gay, in the womb, how would you feel about people systematically aborting all trans people before they were born?
	Unfortunately, about 42% of them have taken that upon themselves.
	But I would say the dark part of this is that Margaret Sanger's own words, saying that she wanted to, quote, weed the human garden of black Americans, still haven't convinced progressives.
	So I just suppose the pro-abortion, pro-climate cultists have recognised that you are the carbon they would wish to eliminate.
	And I suppose godspeed for all our colleagues and allies with CBR and the like trying to raise awareness of this.
	Let's hope the government doesn't crack down on us too hard.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	Tony D and Little Joan with another Legend of the Lotus Eaters.
	This one comes from Atherline in Victoria, Australia, and it's about the Kangaroo Hotel.
	The Kangaroo Hotel was built in 1856.
	It originally started out as a tent.
	It became a brick building, which also served as the town morgue, a butcher shop, the doctor's office, a theater, and many other functions.
	The ghost in question Ah, horse ghosts.
	All the shared jobs reminds me of the island of Pitcairn, right before most of them were arrested for abuse.
	Yeah, that's horrific.
	Go to the next one.
	Concluding my stay in Devon, I passed Bloody Corner, where a Danish king, Hubba, was slain by Alfred the Great, and is commemorated by a simple poem marking the occasion.
	I returned to Reading, where I used to live, and stayed in a hotel next to the Abbey Ruins, which is the place where King Henry I was buried.
	You're never far from history in the UK. There's a plaque on the hill up to the University of Kent that says, stop and rest a while to reflect on man's injustices to one another.
	So it's a nice little find in an alcove in a hole in the wall.
	Yeah, that is nice.
	Ignacio says, Carl, I just want to tell you, I picked up miniature painting because of you, and it's a wonderful hobby, but my wallet and my girlfriend hates me.
	Well, that is fair.
	Edward says, not going to lie, chaps, but I've been taking a lot of black pills.
	This might end up with me just looking to friends and family and keeping my head out of politics.
	Best case scenario, it looks to be shaping up that we get four years of labor.
	It's five years, I think.
	Followed by a Kemi-Badnock administration.
	I really miss the days of Brexit where it felt like we couldn't stop winning.
	Yeah, me too.
	Snowdog says, why am I not surprised that our government has China pulling the strings in the background?
	Yeah.
	We're still committed to building a joint venture with the Chinese nuclear power plant on our soil.
	And Bradwell and Hinkley have like 22% and 33% shares owned by Chinese General Nuclear, respectively.
	Yeah, I just don't know why we do it to ourselves.
	Yeah, it's great that we have enemies invested in our critical infrastructure.
	Colin says, I'd be interested in knowing what sort of courses the Chinese are going for.
	Somehow I doubt they're signing up for gender studies and the like.
	What we should be doing is ensuring that foreign students in general are taught British values when studying here.
	The long march through the institutions may go both ways.
	Did you see that they banned fruit-flavoured vape pens and e-bars and that in China, but they're increasing their exports to here?
	Oh, sure.
	Colin says, maybe we should actually decolonise our education system.
	Hmm.
	Dear Tories, could we please have a Conservative government?
	That'd be lovely.
	No, but that's why they're dying.
	Yeah.
	Screwtape says, speaking from experience in the top engineering universities, today's Chinese student bodies are toxic.
	They no longer integrate with English-speaking students.
	They simply lack our cultural norms around cheating and integrity, and the professors tend to prefer them since they are willing to grind on any problem that advances the faculty's career without question or creative contribution.
	The effect has been to shift Western University graduate programs away from creative crucibles to mass production of faculty career-driving marginal research.
	Yeah.
	If you try and live in a student apartment block with these Chinese students, they treat it like garbage and they use all of the communal spaces for large-scale poker nights and they just leave their food everywhere.
	And it's been in multiple student apartment blocks I've stayed in.
	Not good.
	Thomas says, when I returned to uni to do my PhD, my best friend was from Singapore and was a diehard, unapologetic communist that I was slowly corrupting with discussions about anarchism, libertarianism, and telling him about Tiananmen Square.
	He is one of the cleverest and richest people I ever met, and he's still working in Europe.
	Worrying.
	Mental.
	Robert says, why are our universities being treated as Chinese students' rump springer?
	No idea.
	William says, I
	don't know.
	Yeah.
	Kevin says that Jeremy Hunt clip about his sister in Beijing, question mark, is still going on.
	I have an ex-flatmate who's been sealed in his apartment with his Chinese wife and his stepdaughter for three weeks.
	Initially, they were only told to remain in the apartment complex, but then someone in their building tested positive.
	They have daily tests.
	So now the building is sealed.
	Good God.
	Jeremy Hunt's like, yeah, so we need to look at that as a shining example.
	It's like, dude, you were a maniac.
	That was also to the SAGE committee, who have now transitioned to talking about climate change.
	So that's Sir Patrick Vallance.
	He's now gone on to head up a climate advisory body.
	So look for the next lockdowns, folks.
	Callum says, how much British or English culture is left in England?
	Because as far as I can see here from Free Scotland, we have commie LGBTQ culture, Islamic culture, Chinese culture, and WEF culture.
	And he won't see any cultural conflicts yet.
	not very much to be honest I would say we saw them in Birmingham you'll see in our Conservative Party conference coverage that opposite the Chinatown Asian Quarter Square there's an intersection like four ways right there's a holiday inn with the Irish flag the Chinese flag a Union Jack and Pride flag then the floor is painted with rainbow pride colours the street signs are in whatever language they use in Bangladesh because it's the Bangladeshi centre and then in the middle there is a black globe with gold writing on it sponsored by Sky News
	it says this is what the world would look like if the transatlantic slave trade had not happened?
	you It's just like cultural vomit everywhere.
	Alexander says, Carl, you are 100% correct when saying the concept of whiteness is a uniquely American retardation.
	There is an online personality I follow called American Krogan who is a white identitarian, and he falls into this idiocy completely.
	He acts like white culture is a thing, as though English, French, Germans, etc., all just the same thing, and you don't all see each other as massively different from one another.
	No, all you see each other is as my fellow whites.
	Can you even imagine that?
	The funny thing is he's named himself Krogan.
	That's after Mass Effect.
	The Krogan were a race that was sterilized because they were giant, warmongering rhinos that wouldn't stop killing things.
	So he's named himself after a belligerent idiot who's got his balls chopped off.
	I don't know anything about this guy, obviously.
	But if he's identifying as a white nationalist, then that's hilariously apt.
	Yeah, I saw AA speaking to a white nationalist a while ago, and he just keeps referring to Europe, and it's this American perspective on Europe.
	Painful homogeneity.
	Yeah, it is.
	Actually, it is.
	Like, look, these are just...
	These places are very different.
	Yeah.
	Europe?
	Tell me more about the Hundred Years' War.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Honestly...
	There is no fellow whites, man.
	I'd actually really enjoy to see what you guys would say on his views, because sadly, I think as time goes on, that point of view is going to be more and more appealing to more and more people.
	Maybe.
	That is the worrying thing, yeah.
	But it just...
	I mean, I guess if what it is is to impose English culture on the entire continent of Europe, okay, well, maybe.
	Well, I'm suddenly for it.
	Yeah, yeah, but that's not what it's going to be.
	Paul says, White culture doesn't exist.
	Now, here's a list of things I associate with whiteness.
	Well, exactly, but they're mischaracterizing it.
	Free Will says, The disaster really began when Boris was bitten by Carrie and turned into a born-again wokest.
	This is a different section, I think.
	The Populatory Manifesto of 2019 was thrown aside with creeping authoritarianism, a woke social credit system and collusion with China, guided from behind the scenes with powerful and rich globalist financial interests, became the dominant force across the West.
	We even accepted the CCP's nonsense views about the origins of COVID. Yeah, I'm deeply skeptical about the origins of COVID these days.
	I just think it was intentional.
	Well, so was Matt Ridley.
	He's literally written a book and presented it to the Conservative Science Committee, and they accepted his findings as the likely probable cause, but have they taken any action?
	No.
	Unbelievable.
	Lord Nerevar says, Sorry, Spain.
	I'm not wrong.
	No, they're siestering.
	They're not watching the broadcast.
	Exactly, yeah.
	That's a great point.
	Therefore, blackness must certainly be opposed to those aspects.
	It's also swathed in a victim mentality Thus the focus on the abolition of white institutions Like police and border control I don't know, after my little run with the police I'm kind of pro-abolition They all look like tenfold Kevin says Blackness can't really exist You just have to look at the BLM riots And how many whites were involved Does that make them black?
	Yes, actually That makes them adherence to blackness If Clarence Thomas ain't black Then surely Antifa and the BLM rioters must be black Yeah, because this is why I described it as a sludge, because it's racially coded, but it is not racially necessary.
	As in, you can have people like Clarence Thomas and Larry Elder who appreciate the Protestant values of white America, and then you have the anti-farm BLM rioters who may well be white, but of course appreciate the blackness of black America.
	So I have a stomach-churning question.
	You know Vulture tried to revoke Cardi B's black card by saying she doesn't want to make her daughter a whore.
	Does that mean that Rachel Dolezal has now regained her black card by going on OnlyFans?
	No, I don't think being a whore is unique to black people.
	I don't either, but they do.
	So under the concept of blackness, Rachel Dolezal is now black.
	Moving on.
	He says, therefore, the concept of blackness and whiteness should be replaced with a more encompassing civilized and animalistic based on behavior.
	That won't stick, though.
	It won't stick.
	Colin says, they seem to be unable to tell the difference between color and culture, which is precisely what I'm trying to get at here, and think there is no real difference, say, between an Algerian and a South African.
	Hence, such ideas as Cleopatra being black or Jesus being white.
	Yeah, well, that's the thing, isn't it?
	It's like, you know, African just means black and European just means white, but it's just not how it works.
	Caribbeans have a bone to pick with you.
	Yeah.
	Supreme Duck says, I think when considering people's races, we should either go all the way, as in there is only one race, or go down with the details to the point where individual races all have positive negatives.
	Generalizing Europeans as a monotone white culture is just wrong, just like as if we looked at Africa as just being black.
	Well, that's true.
	Wait for our video on Black Panther to come out, which we have recorded.
	There's two hours of shouting to understand why they do actually conceptualize Africa as a continental culture and why they, well, the American race activists hate white people because they truly believe they would be Wakanda if it weren't for us.
	Why wasn't it Wakanda before we arrived?
	I don't know.
	I just didn't invent the wheel.
	Some parts had the wheel.
	The parts that were run by Egyptians.
	Those are the parts the Italians couldn't conquer, I assume.
	Right.
	Which is all of it.
	Robert says, blackness is simply a self-destructive resistance to a perceived whiteness.
	Yeah, it seems that way.
	And it's hanging on the idea of a perpetual white guilt in America.
	But of course, if the white people get replaced, then they don't carry the white guilt because they're not the same people.
	We didn't enslave you.
	What are you talking about?
	It's those people who are now non-existent.
	But we uphold the standards because we came here because we like the standards.
	So you get no Gibbs and we don't care.
	Yeah, whiteness is just a sin for bourgeois.
	Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what it becomes.
	Vermillion Ford says, Honestly, over the last six to eight years, I've heard more and more about America this, America that, America everything.
	I get why America, their leaders and their people are talked about a lot, but still, bloody hell, I'm sick of America, despite how much I do like aspects of certain places there.
	I'd rather learn more about the UK and local rather than all the rest of the world when going about my day-to-day interactions.
	Well, yeah, me too, and that's why I had to preface it by going, look, we've got to talk about it.
	So we're over here.
	And it comes over here as well.
	That's the problem.
	If it just stayed in America, that's a weird American pathology and we don't have to worry about it.
	But we hear about blackness in England.
	We hear about white supremacy.
	Well, the head of the Labour Party and its deputy, the incumbent Prime Minister, knelt for BLM. Like, 20 years ago, before Twitter, we wouldn't have even known what the US President said that day.
	Yeah, and we'd be better for it.
	Yeah.
	We're better for it.
	Lord Sverig says, Kanye West gave a fascinating interview on the deliberate control of black America.
	Well worth the watch.
	Perhaps the most based interview since Colour TV. My Holocaust Museum is Planned Parenthood.
	Yeah.
	Kanye's...
	I haven't seen the interview yet.
	Watch it.
	Watch it.
	It is incredibly articulate.
	I believe Harry is covering it tomorrow, but I don't want to.
	Right, okay.
	Because this is the thing that Kanye's basically saying, is I don't want to be black.
	I want to be Kanye West.
	I want to identify myself, take responsibility for myself.
	And the thing is, he constantly talks about his kids as well.
	He's like trying to protect his kids from being debauched and debased.
	By his own ex-wife, who...
	Faked a scene in the recent series of the Kardashians where her son finds her sex tape on Roblox even though that chat room didn't exist.
	Yeah.
	And finally from George Happ, the pro-abortion position is women getting away with murder and it works because of gynocentrism.
	Perhaps the counter should focus on the negative effects of women rather than protecting the children, since in our society women come first regardless of what they do, which in all fairness is not a bad strategic piece of advice, is it?
	Abortions can be negative and harmful for women.
	You end up sterile, you will end up with depression and guilt and That's the Louise Perry mechanism for waging war on sexual revolution.
	And women take advice best from other women.
	If that's literally the only thing we can appeal to, as if the lives of the children don't matter, then fine.
	Well, the pub would not exist if women listened to men, because we wouldn't have to go somewhere to complain about them.
	Fair point.
	And on that note, I think we're out of time.
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