Nov. 19, 2015 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| All right, naturally I have to start this week by talking about the horrific attacks in Paris a few days ago. | ||
| Sadly, it seems to me that these attacks are becoming all too common these days, and each event continues in the path of carnage and absolute savagery these Islamic extremists want to impose on the Western world. | ||
| Yeah, I did say Islamic extremists there. | ||
| I know that upsets some and makes the politically correct crowd uncomfortable, but unfortunately the more we ignore the very set of ideas these people tell us that they're using to attack us, the more we actually strengthen them. | ||
| This is what my former guest Majid Nawaz told me he refers to as the Voldemort effect. | ||
| J.K. | ||
| Rowling described this idea in the Harry Potter books as, quote, fear of a name only increases fear of a thing itself. | ||
| Are there any other ideas we should be afraid of talking about? | ||
| I can't think of any, and I refuse to treat this one idea differently. | ||
| We can't be afraid of scary things, especially in idea form, because that's how they will grow and morph right in front of our eyes. | ||
| And of course, by saying these people who committed these specific horrific acts were Islamist extremists, it obviously doesn't condemn all Muslims. | ||
| If at this point you can't understand that distinction, perhaps there's a cat video out there better suited for you than what we're doing here. | ||
| I mentioned a couple weeks ago how I'd like to move a bit away from talking about the regressive left. | ||
| While I still want to do that, I feel like the regressives are a lot like the mafia. | ||
| The more I try to get out, the more they pull me back in. | ||
| Case in point, the response by many of the regressives immediately after the attacks was to blame US foreign policy, rationalizing we ourselves are to blame For the people who chose to murder over 100 innocent civilians. | ||
| After talking to my last two guests, Douglas Murray and Faisal Saeed Al Matar, I've come to believe this is an incredibly dangerous and egotistically driven view of the world. | ||
| To the regressives, everything revolves around us. | ||
| People only do things as a reaction to us. | ||
| So even though these terrorists say they're doing this in the name of religion and point to the actual texts that prove it, well, according to the regressives, they just don't know what they're talking about. | ||
| That said, as Majid mentioned, and as I've been saying repeatedly, two things can be true at once. | ||
| It can be true that there is an ideology out there, a book written by men a long time ago that gives plenty of reasons to kill all infidels. | ||
| And at the same time, it can be true, our Western foreign policy created massive instability in their part of the world, and perhaps if we left Saddam in power, ISIS never would have arose. | ||
| Every action leads to consequences, often unintended ones. | ||
| Sometimes America does good things, sometimes America does bad things, but thinking it's all about us, all of the time, seems more like how a child would think of the world than how an adult would approach the problem. | ||
| Of course, none of this will stop the regressives from laying blame solely on America and its allies, thus emboldening both the extremists themselves and those on the far right. | ||
| I've been trying to have discussions on this show so people can see that there are others out there who understand the nuance and complexity of these very difficult issues. | ||
| We don't have all the answers, but we aren't afraid to have the conversations that most people won't touch. | ||
| Let's pretend for a second that all of the world's issues were 100% because of America and we did exactly whatever it is ISIS would want us to do. | ||
| Would that make us any safer? | ||
| Actually, I'm pretty sure it would do the exact opposite by holding the Western world in a perpetual hostage crisis with the same people who have an old text to justify just that. | ||
| Final thought on this. | ||
| I'm really not trying to score cheap political points here by constantly calling out the regressives. | ||
| I'm trying to lay out a case to show you guys that the left is in real danger because of the regressives' misguided, head-in-the-sand, politically correct brand of demagoguery. | ||
| At the end of the day, I blame these attacks on nobody other than the sick, twisted people who committed these horrific acts of violence. |
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