Jan. 27, 2016 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| One of the reasons I like doing long-form interviews is that I can really focus in on important issues with my guests. | ||
| In many cases, the issues are inextricably connected, making it easy to go from topic to topic. | ||
| If we're talking about political correctness, that's a pretty easy jump to free speech, which is then another easy jump to the regressive left. | ||
| Sometimes these jumps just appear when I'm not looking for them, and that's usually when the conversations get really good. | ||
| It's the spaces where you have to think that are the breeding ground to spark new ideas. | ||
| My guest this week is civil rights attorney and legal expert Areva Martin. | ||
| I've done the Dr. Drew show on HLN several times with Areva and always find her to be incisive, thought-provoking, and passionate. | ||
| While we've appeared together several times, this will be the first time we really get to flesh out some ideas in a long-form way without worrying about a commercial break. | ||
| Areva and I are going to dive into a ton of hot topics and big ideas this week. | ||
| We're going to discuss everything from the Black Lives Matter movement, to the war on drugs, to the Oscars So White controversy. | ||
| As a Harvard educated black woman who founded and manages her own very successful law firm, I don't think I could find a better person to tackle so many important issues with than Areva. | ||
| You see what just happened there? | ||
| I just played some identity politics, didn't I? | ||
| Areva happens to be black and happens to be a woman, but in reality, how is that important to our conversation? | ||
| Actually, I don't really think it is. | ||
| I assume some of her views are based on her own personal experiences, but what I care about are her ideas, not the color of her skin or her gender. | ||
| We really have to get over the idea that by looking at someone you can figure out what they're all about. | ||
| I literally could not care less about someone's skin color, their religion, or their sexuality. | ||
| What I care about is their ideas. | ||
| What do they believe? | ||
| Why do they believe it? | ||
| Are they right? | ||
| Are they wrong? | ||
| What kind of world are they trying to create? | ||
| That is simply all that matters to me. | ||
| There are black conservatives out there. | ||
| There are Mexican libertarians. | ||
| There are lesbian Christians. | ||
| And there are cisgendered, blue-haired, video game-playing, bisexual Quakers. | ||
| And if you care about all those labels more than the ideas that the people themselves believe in, then you are actually part of the problem. | ||
| If you truly care about minorities, then you have to care about minorities within those minorities. | ||
| If you truly care about diversity, then you have to acknowledge diversity within diversity itself. | ||
| We should be defined by what we believe, not prejudged by people's assumptions. |
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