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June 15, 2021 - The Michael Knowles Show
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Ep. 785 - Just Say No!

The comedian Jon Lovitz incorrectly compares “cancel culture” to McCarthyism, CNN tries to mainstream another pervert, squishes defend CRT, and the Fed cancels the Founding Fathers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The comedian John Lovitz is joining a chorus of entertainers speaking out against cancel culture.
And while his heart is in the right place, his argument is weak.
In a recent interview, Lovitz said that cancel culture is no different than McCarthyism.
But that isn't true.
There are lots of differences between cancel culture and McCarthyism.
Most notably, the fact that cancel culture is bad.
That would be a big difference.
Conservatives have spent a long time saying yes to the left, to the libertarians, to the libertines, to the foreign nationals, to the multinationals, to other nations, and worst of all, to the radicals who want to upend our entire way of life.
If we want to win, if we want to at least stop losing, Conservatives need to learn to say no.
CNN is trying to mainstream another sexual deviant.
The Squishes are defending critical race theory.
And the Federal Reserve is trying to cancel the Founding Fathers.
What do we say to that?
Just say no.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is The Michael Knowles Show.
Just say Knowles.
No.
Knowles.
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I don't know.
Maybe there's a relation.
My favorite comment yesterday from Josh Kelly who says, Man, I bet Putin is steaming.
Biden just called him a worthy adversary.
I'll give Biden one thing.
He sure knows how to hit a man below the belt.
I know.
Thank you for picking up on this.
This is one of the most preposterous claims of the left amid many preposterous claims.
They claim that babies aren't babies.
They claim that men are women.
And yet one of the most preposterous claims they make is that they're the ones that are tough on Russia.
They just spent a century sucking up to Russian communists at every turn, covering up for Russian communists in their newspapers, trying to create alliances with them politically, trying to pursue detente with them.
And now Republicans are the ones who collude with Russia.
Absolutely preposterous.
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Cancel culture is just like McCarthyism.
No, it's not.
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That would be one big difference.
Obviously, cancel culture is different than McCarthyism.
For one example, the people who are being canceled are very different.
The views that are being canceled are very different.
One view, pretty pro-American.
One view, pretty anti-American.
John Lovett says...
We can't do that.
He says, quote, But there's a
difference between making jokes and being outright mean.
So he's saying, even for him, even for a comedian, there are limits to what he will say.
Of course, there are always limits.
Every society has taboos.
The question is not, do you have taboos or do you not have taboos?
That's a stupid question, because we're always going to have taboos.
We're always going to say some things are off limits.
I know that there are some idealistic, utopian, libertarian, I don't know what term you want to use, who say, no, there's no limits whatsoever, but it's just silly.
That's not true.
That has never been true.
That never will be true.
Even the comedians are admitting there are limits.
So what are those limits going to be?
Over in Iowa, the governor has just banned critical race theory.
There have been multiple bans.
You've seen it in Florida.
You've seen it in a lot of places right now.
Critical race theory.
Kim Reynolds, governor of Iowa, signed that bill that says that if you teach in such a way as to assign fault, blame, or bias to a racer sex or to members of a racer sex because of their racer sex, you can't do that in the classroom.
Good stuff.
I strongly support that.
Critical race theory, of course, a derivation of critical theory, which is a huge part of the politically correct slash woke project that has brought us to our current state of censorship, which you can read about in my upcoming book, Speechless Controlling Words and Controlling Minds, which is available now for pre-order.
The point here is...
We need to dig in.
It's not enough to say, yes, you say this.
Yes, you do that.
Yes, whatever you want.
We're the party of freedom.
Freedom, much like poetry, requires limitations.
That's where the freedom and the flourishing comes from.
Now, there are some misguided conservatives and former conservatives who are saying, this is terrible.
You've got to be very careful.
You shouldn't be banning critical race theory in the classroom.
The founding fathers are rolling over in their graves.
First of all, the founding fathers banned all this sorts of stuff, okay?
Let's not forget, within just a few years of the existence of our republic, our second president and one of our most conservative presidents, John Adams, passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which criminalized making false statements about the federal government.
Parts of those laws still exist today.
A lot of it was gotten rid of, but some of it still exists today.
There are all sorts of laws.
That have prescribed this kind of speech.
But now we are to believe that critical race theory is just the sort of thing that Americans must defend.
Of course you're hearing this from people such as David French, who are former Republicans or former conservatives who are now...
I don't know how David would describe himself now, but he spends most of his time, you'll notice, criticizing people on the right.
You're also hearing this, though, from quite serious conservative professors.
I'm thinking of Robbie George at Princeton, who has been a conservative leader for many years.
He's done very good work.
I don't agree with him on everything, but he's done very good work.
He tweeted out, quote, And it would seem that this is in direct response to the critical race theory bans.
He tweeted out, That is simply not true.
That is not true.
I can't tell if...
If Robbie George knows that this is not true, but is trying to carve out some space in the university for conservative points of view, he's done a very good job of that at Princeton, so maybe he's trying to pretend that what he just said is true so that the liberals are more likely to give him some space to run, for instance, the James Madison Party.
I don't know if that's the case.
Tactically, it's probably smart.
But as an objective matter, what he just said is not true.
There are plenty of views that are completely off limits.
There are plenty of views that are given a monopoly, actually, in various institutions.
And those views tend to just be derivations of the broader leftist ideology.
Many of them, some are immunized from criticism, and some are prohibited.
As Bill Buckley famously stated in God and Man at Yale, the Yale Department of Sociology would never hire an Aryan supremacist to teach about the glories of white people in the university, nor should they.
The university would not do that.
They should not do that.
That view is prohibited.
Many, many views are prohibited from the university, as they must be.
The university has a mission.
All classrooms have a mission.
They teach some things, and by teaching some things, they exclude other things.
If you teach that 2 plus 2 equals 4, you are necessarily teaching that 2 plus 2 does not equal 5.
This is true of history, philosophy, religion, ethics, science, everything.
Okay, now, interestingly, I think David French makes the more sophisticated criticism here of the critical race theory bans.
He's saying, look, some of these critical race theory bans are so broad that you're going to end up shooting yourself in the foot and banning speech that even you would support.
Some of the critical race theory bands are creating protections from criticism in the classroom for religions, for other things that are creeds, whatever that means.
If you have a protection for a creed, is that protecting communism from criticism?
Obviously, we wouldn't want to do that.
I actually agree with David French's criticism there.
You want to be very specific.
We're not banning from the classroom all sorts of criticism of all sorts of things.
We are specifically banning this radical, stupid, ugly, false theory called critical race theory, which is a derivation of the broader critical theory project.
What is critical race theory?
We all use this term, and yet people don't seem to know what it means.
Well, you can read the academic literature on it.
It's developed by this woman, Kimberly Crenshaw, or a number of other people who have contributed to this particular subset of critical theory.
But it's probably easier just to watch a video on what critical theory looks like in action.
Here is Ashley Shackelford, a quote, critical A queer, agender, black, fat, femme writer, artist, and cultural producer.
She is giving a lesson through the analytical lens of critical race theory to a group of deluded and poor white people.
I think it's sort of a mixed crowd here.
This is what CRT looks and sounds like in practice.
White people are racist.
So I put this up because I really want any white person in the room to know up front that this is what we're dealing with, that it's not going to be this coddling of white tears and what that looks like.
We're not going to discuss, oh, maybe some of us have worked it out.
No, you're always going to be racist, actually.
So even when you're on your path to trying to figure out how to be a better human being, because I believe that white people are born into not being human, Like, that actually, instead of people of color and black folks being dehumanized, that actually everyone is dehumanized off rip within white supremacy, that y'all are born into a life to not be human, and that's what y'all are taught to do, to be demons.
So, in this particular way, white people are all racist.
There you have it.
There's the lesson.
Did you take notes?
I hope you took notes.
So that you can crumple them up and throw them in the fire.
This sort of stuff is not just valueless.
This sort of woman doesn't just have nothing of value to say.
This sort of stuff is...
Bad for your brain.
It's bad for your mind.
It's anti-education.
It's making you dumber and less well-behaved and less sophisticated.
It needs to be banned from the classroom like you would ban poison from your recipes.
It is so, so stupid.
There is no free marketplace.
First of all, There is no free marketplace of ideas in the classroom.
Period.
That's a hoax.
That's a farce.
Another insight of William F. Buckley Jr.
People set the curricula.
The Harvard Law professor, Adrian Vermeule, just pointed this out the other day.
He said, for the love of God, people, the high school classroom is not the free marketplace of ideas.
It's a place to convey certain information and to convey education.
A coercive act with curricula that are set by school boards and by politicians and by administrators.
It is not this free-flowing place of debate.
It's not how it works in practice.
It's not even how it works in theory.
You need to say no.
I know we only want to say yes and be the nice, inclusive guys.
To something like critical race theory, to all white people who are racist and they're demons, you have to say no.
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What is being taught in our classrooms, not just elementary, middle, high school, not just certain kooky universities, What is being taught in the Ivy League, what is supposed to be the pinnacle,
the elite of American education is so radical that a defector from North Korea has been scandalized by the brainwashing in those classrooms.
So I went to Columbia University in 2016.
I transferred from South Korean University.
So when I was at school, though, you know, I was excited about, like, learning about history and, you know, how the people thought back then.
And one of the person at the orientation was asking who is, like, you love Jane Austen.
And who reads these classical books?
And I was like, I love those books.
I just thought it was a good thing, right?
And then she was like, did you know that those writers who had a colonial mindset were racist and bigots who wrote their books?
So they are subconsciously brainwashing you.
And that's when I realized, wow, this is insane.
I'm like, I literally thought, I thought America was that different, and I just saw so much similarity that I saw in North Korea, and I started worrying about this country.
Mainstream education is purposefully designed to not make, resent this Western democracy.
So, pretty startling observations from a Korea from the most repressive regime on earth, who says, good grief, man.
This place is pretty bad at the university.
This woman has survived the most deluded brainwash regime on the planet.
And she says, man, this brainwashing at the university really gives old Kim Jong-un a run for his money.
And that's true.
Now, what she, I think, fails to recognize...
It's the same mistake that so many conservatives, they tend to be the squishy types of conservatives, fail to recognize.
Which is they say, this typical expression, we shouldn't teach students what to think, we should teach them how to think.
Sure.
But you can't teach someone how to think unless you teach them what to think.
You can't teach them how to think about calculus if you don't teach them that 2 plus 2 equals 4, to get back to our earlier example.
You can't teach them how to think about history until you teach them that America declares dependence in 1776 and the Civil War breaks out in 1860 and Ronald Reagan gets elected in 1980.
You can't Tell them how to think about these things until you tell them certain facts about it.
When you tell them facts, you're stating this is true and this is false.
Here is what you should think.
That's a fact.
Figure it out, get used to it, or keep losing ground.
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Oh my gosh.
There is always going to be a perspective.
There was always going to be a bias.
Now, sometimes that perspective is closer to the truth.
Sometimes that perspective is farther away from the truth.
Sometimes there are different perspectives on the same event and they have considerable or comparable value.
Sometimes one perspective is correct and one perspective is incorrect.
I'll give you an example of bias.
Because it's not just in some classroom at Brown University.
It's in the Federal Reserve, for goodness sakes.
The Federal Reserve has now discouraged the use of offensive words, such as, wait for it, founding fathers.
No, not the N-word, not the this word, not the that.
I mean, I assume those are banned too.
But no, the F-word, the two F-words, founding fathers, the Federal Reserve, Now says, no bueno.
Quote, try to avoid words and phrases that may be considered offensive, pejorative, or prejudiced.
Whatever that.
The transformation of the word prejudice from something that is actually quite good and reliable in the sense used by Edmund Burke to this awful, evil, terrible thing is an amazing transformation in and of itself.
But they say these words can distract your audience from the ideas or information you're trying to convey.
The biased terms to be avoided include blacklist.
Can't do that.
It's offensive to black people.
Grandfathered, that you can't do that.
That's a racist term, too.
We would need some more time to describe that silliness.
And founding fathers.
Also, instead of that, you should use terms like denied instead of blacklist, legacy instead of grandfather, and founders instead of founding fathers.
Because if you said founding fathers, that would imply that virtually all of the founders were men.
And that's true, but it's offensive apparently, so you're not allowed to say it.
The Fed also says that the terms white-listed, it's bad, it's racist.
Manpower, sexist.
Man-made, sexist.
Even though man is a gender-neutral term.
In the beginning, God created man, both male and female.
He created them.
Nope, not allowed to say that.
Singular generic pronouns are to be avoided.
So if you say, hey, I like John.
He's a nice guy.
Boom.
Nope.
Sorry.
Time to come in for re-education.
You should say, according to them...
They, to refer to one person.
I like John.
They is a nice person.
You're supposed to say that.
Unless you speak like somebody who has never taken an English class in his life, you are apparently giving offense.
Why?
So that you don't convey bias in your language.
You know, when I read these terms, these new terms that the Fed wants to use, they seem pretty biased to me.
The bias, especially on the singular use of they, the bias being against grammar.
It's anti-grammar.
It's nonsense supremacist.
The bias being in favor of radical gender ideology that says that there's no difference between men and women.
The bias being in favor of this radical idea that America is a wicked, awful, terrible, sexist, racist, awful, whatever place.
That's a bias.
That's a radical bias.
So let's try to get the bias out of that language.
How could you do it?
You're not allowed to use the one term because it's biased.
You're not allowed to use the other term because it's biased.
There's always going to be, it would seem, some kind of perspective conveyed.
There is no such thing as neutrality.
That is the worst error that the squishes have foisted on us over the last 15 or 20 years is the lie that secular liberalism is somehow a neutral playing field on which conservatives and the left and the right and the left, they can just sort of equally duke it out.
No, we're playing on the left's ground.
We're accepting all of their most important premises.
So no wonder that we're going to lose.
And unfortunately, many of the squishes I think would prefer to lose.
They feel much better about losing with dignity, they say.
They're very undignified.
They feel better about that because they don't need to take on any moral risk because they don't exhibit courage.
But there's always going to be some kind of bias and it's never going to end.
The revolution is going to eat itself.
Even Tom Hanks, Tom Hanks, once the most trusted, best-liked man in the country, according to polls, is canceled.
He is, or they're at least trying to cancel him.
Tom Hanks is a super-lib, super-duper-lib.
Raises money for Democrats.
He just recently, just a couple of weeks ago, wrote a neurotic essay for the New York Times about the Tulsa race riot and how white people need to feel bad or something.
But he's not anti-racist, the left contends.
He's not racist, but he's not anti-racist.
And frankly, if you ask me, that's just as bad as being a racist.
I don't even know what that means anymore.
Now, In the author's defense, the author who accused Tom Hanks of not being anti-racist.
Tom Hanks is the father of Chet Hanks, and Chet Hanks did formally declare White Boy Summer.
Hey guys, look, I just wanted to tap in really quick.
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You know, take it how you want.
I'm not talking about, like, Trump, uh, you know, NASCAR type white.
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If I can be vibing with you and Mr.
Harlow, then absolutely sign me up.
Watching that video, I do wonder...
Have Chet and Tom Hanks ever spoken to one another?
Can you imagine?
Can you just close your eyes and imagine a situation in which Chet and Tom Hanks have a conversation?
Because I can't imagine that, but I would very much like to.
It would be a very funny conversation.
So anyway, okay.
Chet Hanks, the founder of White Boy Summer, is Tom's son.
But that's not why.
That is not the reason.
That the left is angry at Tom Hanks for not being anti-racist.
The reason is that in his career, his gigantic, long-lasting film career, Tom Hanks has played white people who do the right thing.
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This article going around saying that Tom Hanks is not an anti-racist.
That is why the left is upset with him right now.
This is the thesis.
This is his big transgression.
Quote, He is a baby boomer star who
has built a sizable part of his career on stories about American white men doing the right thing.
And that's the problem, apparently.
Apparently, right now, in our culture, it is not permissible to believe that white men can do the right thing.
Because this apparently erases, that's the verb they like, it erases black voices and the voices of women.
Do you remember some years ago now, not that long ago, there was the Daniel Day-Lewis Lincoln movie.
And this was protested by people on the far left because it suggested that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.
Which, obviously, he did.
But they didn't like that.
Because the far left said, no, no, no, the slaves freed themselves.
You're erasing the contributions of black people and women and, I don't know, whoever.
Tibetans, I don't think they were involved, but it's got to be everybody other than a white guy.
And it's just not true.
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.
He did it.
It was him.
It was basically only him.
It was him and all the soldiers, overwhelmingly white, who he called into battle.
That's what happened.
That's a nice thing, isn't that?
In a society...
Where we think about our past, we think about our future, we're bound together as countrymen.
Isn't that a nice thing to say one group of people did a thing for another group of people?
But we're not allowed to believe that anymore because everything has to be focused only on, one, the tyranny of our own will and our own ability to save ourselves without accepting grace from anybody else.
And everything has to be about vicious racism and division.
And no group of people can ever do anything for another group of people.
Tom Hanks canceled, at least according to the far left.
He'll probably survive it.
He's powerful enough, but the thesis, I think, is much more widespread.
Kevin Hart pointed this out.
How silly this is.
I guess on the topic of cancel culture, because Kevin Hart famously was going to host the Oscars, and then they dug up some gay joke he made 10 years ago.
And apparently, Kevin Hart, you know, is the only comedian who ever made a gay joke.
I mean, I know that statistically, 100% of everyone who's ever lived has made a gay joke, but Kevin Hart, a professional comedian, not allowed to do that, so they axed him from the Oscars, and he was a victim of cancel culture with that question.
And he said, if people want to pull up stuff, go back to the same tweets of old, go ahead.
There is nothing I can do.
You're looking at a younger version of myself, a comedian trying to be funny, and at that attempt, failing.
I don't When did we get to a point where life was supposed to be perfect?
Where people were supposed to operate perfectly all the time, I don't understand.
I don't expect perfection from my kids.
I don't expect it from my wife and friends and employees because last I checked, the only way you grow up is effing up.
I don't know a kid who hasn't effed up or done some dumb stuff.
Of course.
Of course he's right.
We got to the point where everybody had to be perfect when we abandoned Christianity as our motivating religion in this country.
All societies have religious views.
That also is inevitable.
Just like the inevitability of standards in our speech, the inevitability of some kind of religious view is an eternal fact of society.
You can take that one to the bank, okay?
And when we gave up on the Christian understanding of human nature and of society and of our eternal selves, then everybody had to be perfect.
Because then we couldn't make sense of original sin.
We've transformed the idea of original sin into this idea of white supremacy or racism.
Which is just a very stupid way of talking about original sin.
I mean, you hear this, people will say this explicitly.
The President of the United States will say, slavery and racism is America's original sin.
And that's just not true.
Original sin is America's original sin.
And slavery is a bad thing that happened, that was rectified.
Sooner here than in most other places, and it existed here for a shorter period of time than virtually anywhere else on Earth, and it continues to exist outside of Western civilization.
But we are told this is a uniquely American prize.
It's just silly.
The reason that we think that, though, is because we no longer have a way of grappling with the fact that we are not perfect.
We are flawed.
The things we want to do, we do not do.
The things that we don't want to do, we do.
Because of sin and temptation and the fallenness of man.
We keep trying to deny that.
We're trying to deny death, which is the consequence of sin.
We're trying to become, first of all, we've all become neurotic health nuts.
But we're also trying to deny the possibility of death.
You hear all of these futurists talk about how we're going to upload our brains to the clouds and live forever and massively extend our lives.
I think it's a fool's errand.
But even if you could do it, even if you could find immortality on earth, I wouldn't want it.
Because my view is still that old Christian view, ever ancient, ever new.
But because we've lost that now, everybody's got to be perfect.
And yet, you'll notice, while everybody can get cancelled, and a great many people do get cancelled, some chosen few, the anointed, the elect of the liberal ruling establishment, get a second life.
They get a whole new career, a whole new life, such as Katie Hill.
So just this week, CNN is rehabilitating two sexual deviants, two of the most prominently exposed, as it were, sexual deviants in the country.
Jeffrey Toobin, that was yesterday, and Katie Hill.
Katie Hill was caught in a throuple.
So Thruppel, you know, she was in a kind of menage with her husband, then-husband, and one of her staffers.
And it wasn't, we talk about a totally consensual thing.
First of all, if it were a man having an affair with his staffer, that would be massive news, especially if that man were a Republican.
Huge abuse of power, it would be called, intrinsically sexual harassment, intrinsically compromising violence.
But because it's Katie Hill and she's a liberal woman, she gets a pass for it.
But then the staffer woman was apparently really hurt by this whole thing, especially when Katie Hill broke it off.
It was very, very ugly, even by the standards of ordinary affairs and sexual impropriety.
So Katie Hill got booted.
She had to resign from Congress.
Now she wants to run again.
She's trying to cast herself as the victim, and CNN is helping her along.
You have been leading an effort since you left Congress to deal with the issue of revenge porn and on the Violence Against Women Act and really these issues altogether about what women endure and should not endure.
Will you run again?
Listen, I haven't written anything off.
The last two years have, well, year and a half have been really, you know, tragic and important for my family and for me in terms of figuring out what the next steps are.
And right now, I need to figure out my role in making sure that this gets passed, helping women run for and get elected to office.
But doesn't that make you want to get back in the arena?
You know, I... Sometimes, but sometimes I wonder, you know, maybe my role is more important on the outside.
So I'm still definitely on that kind of, you know, figuring it out.
So Katie Hill is making herself out to be the victim of some great injustice.
The injustice she says that she was a victim of is being exposed for committing injustices.
It's an amazing trick.
You've got to be a pretty slick politician to pull this one.
We need to stop this revenge porn, whatever revenge porn is if your boyfriend has photos of you or your husband, I guess in this case, has compromising photos of you that they shouldn't be released.
Of course, it's very wrong to release these sorts of things.
But we have to recognize you shouldn't be doing these sorts of things either.
The injustice is not just that the husband exposed Katie Hill, in many ways, for having this affair with her staffer.
The injustice is that she had the affair.
But that's her private life, Michael.
Now, it's the same issue with Jeffrey Toobin.
The problem is not just that he did it in public.
The problem is that he did it in private, too.
And we need to be willing to say no to certain kinds of private behavior that are destructive and that harm individuals and that harm society.
I know we're not allowed to say that anymore.
The simplest one, the lowest hanging fruit, would be porn.
Not just revenge porn, not just child porn, not just other forms of illegal porn that are currently illegal.
Porn in general, the sort of stuff that Jeffrey Toobin may have taken a look or two at.
In this country, we have always had laws against porn.
We still have them.
There are obscenity laws.
As recently as 2009, a federal judge sent a pornographer to the clink for four years almost just for obscenity.
That's it.
He didn't commit any other crime.
He wasn't convicted of any other crime.
Just for being so obscene, he got sent to the clink.
That's good.
The people who are clamoring To regulate or ban porn outright.
You'd think it's some old fuddy-duddy, right?
It's not.
It's Gen Z. It's not even the millennials.
It's Gen Z. It's this younger generation where the millennials at least got to grow up at least for some period of time without internet porn all over the place.
Gen Z did not.
Gen Z has had devices in their hands since they were three years old.
And many have written into this show.
I mean, you've heard it in the mailbag and elsewhere of people saying, Michael, I'm 18 years old and porn has ruined my life.
They're the ones calling.
They have an experience of it.
The private actually has some role.
And the squishy, very often boomer conservatives, will say, well, look, we're just the party of yes.
We're the party of yes, do whatever you want, just don't make me pay for it.
You can do whatever sick, crazy, Katie Hill, Jeffrey Toobin-style stuff you want to do to yourself.
Just don't make me pay for it.
But that's a very shallow political philosophy.
It has very little to do with the broader conservative tradition.
And it clearly has not worked.
It's just a purely political matter.
We've lost ground.
On basically every major issue in my lifetime, maybe the answer is to start saying no.
I'll show you how crazy this is, speaking of girls of ill repute.
There's a high school in Sacramento, California, the Performing and Fine Arts High School.
They apparently had something of a dress code.
It wasn't like you have to wear these uniforms.
It was just a little bit of a dress code saying you can't wear clothing that is too provocative and you can't be exposing yourself all the time.
That's wrong.
So, a TikTok has gone viral.
We won't play the TikTok.
I might have legal issues if I play this TikTok.
I don't know why.
I haven't seen it.
The cops are watching.
I haven't clicked any links.
I don't want to watch this.
But this sort of thing is going viral.
The protest leader says the school principal was going to have an assembly on dress code.
So in response, we wore crop tops to protest.
It was a day-long process.
We showed up in crop tops and they started dressing, dress coding people.
The dress code is sexist toward women and perpetuates rape culture.
It makes us very uncomfortable.
We as students feel like what we wear is not distracting toward others or affecting anyone's learning environment.
So I'm being only slightly hyperbolic about what these girls were wearing.
They weren't wearing anything that would be considered illegal.
They weren't totally exposing themselves.
They were just wearing clothing that is distracting for high school boys.
I say this as a former high school boy.
And so the school came in and said, no, you can't do that.
You've got to cover your midriff.
You can't do that sort of stuff.
What this girl is saying here...
We as students feel like what we wear is not distracting toward others.
Her perception is just simply false.
It is.
Okay, I actually remember this.
Yoga pants were really popular when I was in high school.
And I remember I was sitting there taking some standardized test.
And I... Women were wearing...
The girls were wearing...
I thought, this is an unfair advantage for women on this test.
They're going to do better on this test than men, because all the boys are going to be distracted by the girls wearing clothing.
It's very provocative.
And the girls aren't going to be distracted by us.
We're not exactly attracting their attention right now.
That's an unfair advantage.
And of course this is true.
It's just like the free speech issue.
No, what these girls were wearing is not against the law, but there are standards, and you have the right to enforce standards.
This is true of clothing.
This is true of what you say.
This is true of how we live.
We need certain boundaries.
Those are inevitable.
There's always going to be some kind of boundary.
The question is, who is going to set them?
The consequence of the radical sexual ideology is not just the radical race ideology that you see in critical race theory, but there's a radical sexual ideology on campus.
The consequence of that It's not clarity.
It's not discovery.
It's not education.
It's confusion.
There's another sad TikTok going around of a gal with dyed hair covered in a rainbow flag who's got a bullhorn and who knows, looks like the middle of nowhere with some friends around her, saying that she has just discovered, just this month, that she is actually a boy.
This is kind of scary because I only realized this a couple of days ago and I've only come out to a few people.
I'm a guy.
I use he, they pronouns and I'm going to go by Theo.
Yes!
I called my mom today and I have to go home every day and be called my dead name.
And have she her pronouns used every time I go home and no one realizes how hurtful it is.
It's like a slap in the face.
And I dyed my hair last night so I could feel more masculine and I was afraid I was gonna get thrown out of the house.
We love you, Theo!
I'm a guy now.
Yay!
What a strange...
I was just thinking, what a strange fact of feminism.
That feminism has convinced high school girls, you know, the ones with the dress code, to just wear really skimpy outfits.
That'll show the patriarchy.
We're just going to wear skimpy outfits.
Yeah, take that, boys.
Oh, you got us.
Wow.
Ouch.
Stop it.
No, please, no more!
But it's also convinced women that the greatest way that they can express the I am woman, hear me roar, is to just become guys, is to just take on this idea that men have the only virtues and Men's behaviors and identities are the only things of value.
That's what they're suggesting.
This actually happened with feminism.
Feminism told women in the 1970s that the male traits, the masculine values, were the only ones with any worth.
And all of the specifically female traits, being nurturing, motherly, rocking the cradle that rules the world, that's actually completely valueless.
Which is outrageous and not true.
But now you're seeing it reach its apotheosis, which is that now the girls are actually pretending to be boys.
What this girl is participating in is a cult, right?
That is just a cultish behavior where she's saying, no, I'm actually, my spirit is actually different.
Myself is only my spirit, not my body.
Kooky stuff.
Needs to be taken out of the classroom because it's confusing people.
You know, an eighth-grade girl just bashed a school board over this, over the transgender policy, because she said this is harmful to women, specifically because now we have to change with boys in the locker room.
Two years ago, I was told Policy 1040 was just an umbrella philosophy, and you weren't going to allow boys into the girls' locker rooms.
But here you are doing just that.
Everyone knows what a boy is, even you.
Your proposed policies are dangerous and rooted in sexism.
When woke kids asked me if I was a lesbian or a trans boy because I cut my hair short, it should tell you these modern identities are superficial.
My guidance counselor's response to my concerns about bathroom privacy and safety was, well, there are stalls in the bathrooms.
Now boys are reading erotica in the classrooms next to girls, and you want to give them access to girls' locker rooms, and you want to force girls to call those boys, she.
You do this in the name of inclusivity while ignoring the girls who will pay the price.
Your policies choose boys' wants over girls' needs.
So, totally right.
Great stuff.
I hesitate from playing these viral clips of children and teenagers, because I think, generally speaking, I don't care what children and teenagers have to say.
By definition, they're not particularly wise or educated.
This, however, because it was at a political event.
It was at a school board meeting.
And she happened to be right on the issue.
Then, I think it's worth playing.
However, it goes further than that.
So much of this trans issue is being argued on the right as a matter of the rights of women.
The women are losing their bathrooms, they're losing their locker rooms, and now little girls have to change in front of grown men just because Husky Hank decided to call himself Helen last week.
That is insane and it's a good place to begin, but that's not really the argument.
Really, the problem here is not that one group's rights are being infringed by another group's It's not that, well, yes, men have the right to pretend that they're women in the privacy of their own mind, but not in the locker room or whatever.
The issue is the reality.
It is simply the case that men who put on dresses are not women.
You know, there was a clip from Jimmy Kimmel the other day There's this clip from Jimmy Kimmel, and he made a joke about Bruce Jenner.
And Bruce Jenner was very offended.
Here's the joke.
If you've been keeping up with Caitlyn, you know that she is running for governor of our state.
Caitlyn Jenner Karkashian appeared on The View today to promote that, and right off the bat, it did not go great.
Welcome back to The View, Caitlyn Jenner.
Well, thank you very much.
It's always a pleasure to be with all the ladies, and especially you.
Whoopi, we've been friends forever.
Ha ha ha ha!
Let's hear that noise Whoopi made one more time.
Yeah.
And that's just how the interview started.
Are we sure that isn't Donald Trump in a Caitlyn Jenner wig?
Because, I mean, look at this.
The resemblance is uncanny.
They've got all the same kind of moves.
Okay, so there's the joke.
I'm calling Caitlin Bruce now, not to be mean, because I want to be cruel or anything.
I think it's cruel to pretend that this guy is a woman, and I think it's cruel to indulge that delusion.
And Caitlin's a girl's name, and Bruce is a boy's name, and he's...
He's Bruce Jenner, and he might be confused about that, and society might be confused, but I don't think it's good for anybody to play into that confusion.
So Bruce tweets out, Last night Jimmy Kimmel called me Donald Trump with a wig.
He obviously believes that trans women are simply men with wigs on.
Where is the outrage from the left or the LGBT community?
Being woke must be optional if you're a Democrat.
That's true.
It is.
They don't care about the double standard.
And wokeness is not a standard that I want to go along with.
The fact is, trans women are men in wigs.
And that's just the fact.
And that's the reality.
And this is part of my fear of a Caitlyn Jenner candidacy.
The right is going to be saying that Democrats are the real transphobes and we're going to adopt this into ourselves.
It is not simply a case of rights and one's private matter not infringing on one's public rights.
Reality is the point here.
Some things are real, some things are true.
We will have standards that either accord more with that truth or do not accord with that truth.
But there will be some kind of standards.
There will be language that we all speak.
There will be, or you'll have total social breakdown.
There will be things that we all do and recognize.
I would like those things to be more in line with reality.
And sometimes that means saying no to craziness.
I'm Michael Knowles.
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