March 28, 2016 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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3242 The Failure of The Regressive Left | Islamic Terrorist Attacks
In the aftermath of the Brussels Terrorist Attacks, the European Migrant Crisis and acceptance of Syrian refugees into Western Countries again took center stage. As the regressive left makes claims of Islamophobia and the horrors of collective guilt, Stefan Molyneux pushes back with facts, figures and rational arguments. Freedomain Radio is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by signing up for a monthly subscription or making a one time donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate
Hi everybody, this is Stefan Molyneux from Freedom Main Radio.
Hope you're doing well.
So I got some questions yesterday that came out of a report that I did on the terrorist attack in Brussels.
This is from a leftist, and I talked about how the mayor of a sort of Terrorist-ridden district in Brussels had been given a list of people who were suspects in terrorist activities, and she did nothing with it.
And he said, so just because an authoritarian has the name of someone on a list who has yet to do something wrong, that gives them the right to be arrested slash punished?
Do you also approve of the thought police?
Now, first of all, We're good to go.
Leftists demand that university heads get fired for even a whiff of politically incorrect speech.
So Larry Summers was forced out of his university tenureship in early 2005 because he said this about women in science.
Like, why aren't there more women in science?
He said, So what he's referring to here is the fact that statistically women tend to be more clustered around the center of the IQ curve, and there are fewer women at the extremes of ability in terms of very high levels of ability.
Men outnumber women 10 to 1, and also at very low levels of intelligence, men outnumber women, which is why there are more men who have Nobel Prizes and more men who are homeless or mentally challenged and so on.
Now, this is a fact.
It is a scientific fact.
It's been well reproduced in many, many different studies, and people went hysterical and demanded that he be resigned, and women were screaming and fainting and running from the hall wherein he made this relatively innocuous, off-the-cuff remarks.
I think it was in a Q&A session, thus showing the robustness of women in debates about facts.
And James Watson, one of the co-discoverers, along with Crick, of the DNA, DNA's double helix nature, and he talked about ethnic differences in IQ.
Again, well-established.
Over 100 years, the American Psychological Association has validated this information after the bell curve came out.
And everyone just screamed.
He was forced out of his positions.
He was fired from all his boards, and he ended up having to sell his Nobel Prize.
And no leftists came to his defense.
In fact, they were leading the charge.
You know, when Ben Shapiro or Milo Yiannopoulos go and do talks in universities, there's regularly disruptions.
When Donald Trump wants to hold a rally in, say, Chicago, people threaten violence, and he has to cancel the rally.
So the idea that I'm somehow promoting thought police and punishing people merely for being on a list, boy, that would be a huge step up from what the left is currently doing.
Now, I'm not accusing this person of doing that, but he's from the left, and I don't know the agreement.
Maybe he can email me and show me all the posts he did over the past couple of years attacking the left for its intolerance and politically correct attacks upon people's very lives and livelihoods.
So I find that just a little bit precious.
Now, he said, too, extremists are only from the left.
I think he's being sarcastic.
Boy, never met a lefty who's sarcastic, he said.
Sarcastically.
Extremists, he said, are only from the left because we uphold a democratic slash social ideology.
I don't even know what that means.
A democratic ideology.
Well, um...
If the majority of people want to reinstitute slavery, is that okay?
Democracy is an ancient enemy of freedom, well recognized by the Greeks and the Romans and so on.
And democracy is basically mob rule by those of average to below average intelligence.
Who tend to become more dependent on the state because they have less to gain in the free market, at least in the short term.
So I don't know what a Democrat...
What is a social ideology?
There's such a thing as society, and that's my belief system.
This man must have gone to quite a lot of college.
So he said extremists are only from the left because we uphold a democratic slash social ideology, but the quote right believes in an authoritarian solution to extremists as the only answer.
Sorry, do you live in a democratic state?
Well, if he's...
In America, America is supposed to be a republic, which is where democracy is supposed to crash like futile waves up against the edifice of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and so on, and the separation of powers.
So this fetish of democracy is ridiculous.
Democracy has just become one of these feel-good...
Words.
Democracy is a good word, so I'm going to...
Socialism is terrible, but I've got democratic socialism.
It's like, I don't know, rape with flowers.
Flowers are nice, so let's see if we can cover up the rape.
It's just one of these silly things.
I'm going to attach positive words to my ideology and thus hope it's a good thing.
Now, the right does not believe in authoritarian solutions whatsoever.
The right is about the free market in general.
And there is certainly religiosity on the right, but there is religiosity on the left.
They just tend to worship the state.
It's just they're not exactly statheists in that they don't believe in the state or the power of the state.
So on the right, they don't have authoritarian solutions.
They say that the market should choose.
So, for instance, on the left, they want to force people to hire underrepresented groups in particular industries.
On the right, they say, well, you should be free to hire On the left, they're usually fine with compulsive union dues going to leftist politicians.
On the right, they say you should have the choice.
So there's the idea that the left wants government schools, the right wants vouchers, which can go to private schools or public schools so that people have more choice.
So the idea that the right is authoritarian, it simply shows me that this person, and you can see these clues very, very clearly when people talk to you, this person Just doesn't consume anything outside of his confirmation bias sources.
That's all.
The right is, like they say, oh, the extreme right, the far right parties.
It's like, okay.
But that just means nothing.
All it is is an ad hominem.
Far right equals Mussolini, equals Hitler, equals fascism, equals a guy who wants to limit third world immigration into his country because of high We're good to go.
When someone says, the extreme right...
I mean, it means nothing.
It means nothing.
It's just a way of smearing a particular position by associating it with Nazi totalitarianism, which, funnily enough, they were the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
And if you look at the not-safe-for-work platform of the German National Socialist Workers' Party, it is all standard socialist stuff, and you can have a read of it.
But...
The other thing, too, is that hundreds of millions of people want to immigrate into the United States.
The United States has borders.
It has a country.
It has a government.
It has a tax system.
And nobody has the right to move there.
Nobody has the right to move there.
Now, this is far from sort of my ideal ideology, so I'm just sort of speaking within the paradigm that exists.
But if you look at the government as a house with people who live in it, well, you have the right to say to people, come to my house.
I'm happy to lay out a spread.
I want to get to know my neighbors.
Here is a potluck.
Let's all get together, and that's fine.
And then if someone comes along and starts peeing into your kitchen sink, you have the right to tell him to not come.
You have the right to expel him.
And if lots of people who say, I love peeing in kitchen sinks, want to come to your house, you have the right to say no.
It is not an extreme authoritarian solution to...
To maintain the integrity of your geographical environment.
And of course, the vast majority, he says he's into democracy.
The funny thing is, the people on the left, if you're into democracy, the vast majority, sorry, a significant majority of people in Europe and in America have for decades wished to push back against third world immigration into their countries for reasons we'll get into in a sec.
So, if you're into democracy, these programs should absolutely be put on hold.
But you're not into democracy.
You're into importing people who are going to reliably vote to the left.
The left has lost the argument in the public sphere, and they have ever since the 1960s, when the evils of communism and other forms of socialism were finally revealed, after the left spent decades trying to cover them up.
So, they lost the argument with Europeans and European-derived people, and...
So they turned to third world immigration in order to stack the deck in democracy so they didn't actually have to win an argument.
They just had to import people who naturally leaned left because they came from a more third world country.
So the idea that the left is into democracy is nonsense.
They're absolutely not even close because this is why Donald Trump is so successful.
Is that for a generation or two, actually, but basically since the massive immigration transformation in 1965, the Americans have been, or European-derived Americans, and a lot of the blacks, too, who don't want competition for the jobs they want to get.
They've been saying, let's put a hold on immigration, let's put a pause, let's slow immigration down, and the majority of Americans have been wanting that, but the left doesn't care.
So don't give me this democratic stuff.
Even if it was a good system, you don't care about it.
Now, he says, number three, a percentage of Muslims do illegal things, like rape women, so that makes them all guilty, but why aren't we all pedophiles after the Catholic Church's recent settlements?
That makes no sense, but I think what he's saying is that, well, we can't judge the majority by the actions of our minority, and given that there were some pedophiles in the Catholic Church, and the Catholic Church had some role in covering up pedophilia and relocating the...
Pedophiles to different dioceses.
Why don't we view all Catholic priests as pedophiles?
Well, okay, so what are the facts?
Let's start with the facts, then we go to the principles.
Empiricism followed by reasons.
Not a bad one-two combo.
So the Pope says 2% of priests who are pedophiles.
SNAP, which is a survivor's group, says it's higher.
That 5% to 6% of priests have been accused.
Now, innocent until proven guilty.
They have been accused.
So...
That is a small percentage.
This doesn't mean, of course, that the Catholic Church wasn't monstrous in covering this up and that the pedophiles and abusers weren't monstrous for their actions.
Absolutely.
But we're talking about 2%, 3%, 4%, 5% probably towards the lower end after it would go through a fact-finding court of law.
But that's a pretty small number.
Let's have a look at some other numbers, shall we?
and try and figure out whether we can look at any similarities in equivalencies.
So Sweden, 77% of rapes are committed by the 2% Muslim male population.
And sources for all of this will be below.
77% of the rapes are committed by 2% of the Muslim male population.
81% of Muslims surveyed support Islamic State slaughters.
That's from Al Jazeera.
81% of Muslims support the Islamic State slaughters in the Middle East.
In Germany, 80% of Turkish Muslims claim welfare payments.
Now, for those who don't know, there's been a huge dysgenic movement since the 1960s where you get smart people to worry about things like overpopulation and climate change and environmental predation and peak oil.
And you raise taxes, which is going to hit the smarter, harder working, more intelligent classes more.
And so you've had a dearth of...
Babies born to smarter people.
You know, it's the idiocracy thing.
You can watch the intro to the movie.
It puts it in a more entertaining fashion than I could even imagine.
So smart people have stopped breeding.
People as a whole in the West have stopped breeding because of high taxes and hedonism and a lack of purpose and the general wasting away of late empire decadence.
And so that's not normally a huge problem, except that governments have got these massive unfunded liabilities of retirement benefits.
They taxed everyone for retirement benefits, spent all the money, and now there's nothing in the kitty except some dusty IOUs.
And so they thought, well, people aren't having enough kids, and we can't lower taxes because we've got this giant welfare warfare state.
So what we're going to do is we're going to import all these laborers from the third world, and they're just going to make us a fortune.
And they didn't.
And what they did was generally clung to the welfare state and pulled the economy of the host country down even further.
Because Turks were supposed to come to Germany as guest workers.
They were supposed to provide some necessary cheap labor.
And then, ah, the moose they were supposed to leave.
It didn't really, really work out that way.
The guest worker plan, you know, the Gang of Aid and all that stuff that happened in the States.
The guest worker plans are complete disastrous.
And the right, big business corporations love those plans because it gives them cheap labor.
And the left loves them because it gives them voters because these people often end up staying and so on.
And so, you know, it's a usual government program, which is they say, well, let's replace the...
The kids who aren't being born to the native population with immigrants who are going to be just the same, right?
Because there's no such thing as ethnic, cultural IQ, intelligence, nationalistic differences or religious differences.
So everybody's, you know, to the rulers, we're all ants, right?
We're just completely interchangeable, although even ants have their classes.
So, they said, well, we've got way too many unfunded liabilities.
We can't afford to pay the old people.
Old people vote, so let's bring in young people from really opposing cultures.
They'll provide the tax base to pay off the old people, and I'm sure they'll just assimilate, and it'll be just finey, oldie, hunky-dory.
And it turned out that it actually is in the process of destroying the remnants of the welfare state, and it's going to provide the exact opposite of what the government intends, rather than shoring up the finances of the Country, they are going to be dragging it down.
In Sweden, just in 2015, the cost of the Muslim migrants was 14 times the national defense budget.
I put those two together for a reason.
I'll let you puzzle that one out.
In Sweden, among the 16.5% foreign born, there is 10 times higher welfare dependency.
Ten times higher welfare dependency.
In Denmark, 46.1% of Muslims surveyed feel that Danish law must be based on Sharia law.
In Holland, 50-70% of former Muslim asylum seekers live permanently on welfare.
Permanently on welfare.
In the UK, there was a survey of Muslims and 76% of prominent Muslims strongly support jihad.
In Britain, 80% of London's Muslims support ISIS, the Islamic State.
In Britain, 24% of Muslims have zero qualifications, and 21.3% have never even held a job.
According to Dr.
Farouk Salem, out of the 1.4 or so billion Muslims, I think it's a little higher now, maybe 1.6, but out of 1.4 billion Muslims, 800 million of them are illiterate.
Not?
Hugely literate.
Illiterate.
And now, Pew did a poll of Muslims in just 11 countries, and the range is that between 63 million and 287 million Muslims in just 11 countries support ISIS, you know, the beheading, burning people in cages kind of thing.
In the UK, there's a 5% Muslim population, but...
In high-security prisons, 44% of the prisoners are Muslims.
So out of a 5% Muslim population, Muslims fill 44% of high-security prisons.
In the USA, Muslim refugees, 91.4% are on food stamps, 68.3% are on cash welfare.
This doesn't count the people who are then living in the households where other people are on cash welfare and just getting that stuff going.
So...
Again, what we're talking about here is numbers just a little bit higher than 2-4-5% of Catholic priests potential pedophiles.
In Germany, there's statistics that have been ground through by some academic who I guess loves setting fire that it was on Korea.
He shows that the majority of Muslim refugees will never work.
Will never work.
They don't speak the language.
They don't have cultural values that match.
They are trapped in the sticky honey trap of welfare, the permanent underclass that welfare creates.
And of course, we all heard, oh, Syrians, highly educated.
Boy, they're going to be their future doctors and engineers and all kinds of great stuff.
No.
65% of Syrian refugees can't even read or write.
How's that going to work out?
Wildly incompatible ideologies.
Insurmountable, to some degree, language barriers.
Like, if you can't even read or write in your own language, how's German going to go for you?
There's an old saying that says, life is too short to learn German unless you happen to be born in Germany.
And I think if you can't even read or write in your own language, learning German is going to be just a little tricky.
Why can't they just pick one?
And even at a young age, this is a quote, a Syrian eighth grader in middle school is five years behind their peers at German schools.
So, hey, isn't that great?
You know what's fantastic about all of this?
Is that Germans, very, very intelligent group on the whole, I think their average IQ is like 103 or something like that, versus Syria, which is in the 80s, which is more than a standard deviation below.
That's not good.
And, um, what's great is the degree to which German kids now have to have their curriculum dumbed down because of an influx of kids who've barely got any education, most of whom can't read or write even in their own language.
And what's going to happen?
Well, massive sucking sound of resources moving away from German kids towards migrant kids.
And, um...
Sorry, I gotta tell you, maybe I'm just a biological mammal imperative made flesh, but I actually care a little bit more about my own children than the children of foreigners.
Call me crazy!
Call me case-elected!
Call me Darwinian!
I still help.
I provide charity, and I give money and provide resources, and this education that I provide is generally free, although I request donations at freedomainradio.com slash donate all over the world.
But I care more about my daughter than the daughter of somebody in Saudi Arabia.
And I would assume that they're doing the same thing.
I've got no problem with that being universalized.
So this is from a study.
He says, we have to prepare ourselves for the fact that the majority of young refugees will fail a three-year full-time training course with a high proportion of theoretic content.
According to the Chamber of Commerce of Munich and Upper Bavaria, 70% of trainees from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq who started lessons more than two years ago have already dropped out.
Oh, I can just taste the integration, can't you?
Tastes like exploding chicken.
in.
The federal government has estimated that some 80% of migrants had no qualifications whatsoever, and only 8% had academic qualifications.
So, comparing this, if you're not alarmed, please rewind.
Sorry, that's dating me to the VHS days.
Beta, all the way, baby!
But...
So, first of all, you don't want to compare these numbers.
You're just somebody who's never studied these numbers.
And, of course, as a leftist, you bring up anti-Christian examples.
So, naturally, you just don't know these statistics, which means you're an indoctrinated idiot.
Sorry.
I mean, I hate to put it bluntly, but you are an indoctrinated idiot.
And until you start reading sources other than the ones that already confirm your biases, you're going to have nothing whatsoever to add to any intelligent discussion of these matters.
Now, the second thing is, you know, if you say to me, well, Steph, My God, you know, we can't judge Muslims as a group because individual bad behavior within that group can never, ever conceivably be applied to the group as a whole.
You've got to judge people as individuals, and even if some individuals are doing bad things, you can't possibly judge the whole group.
Oh, leftists, you're so very playful.
So, growing up as a white male, White male.
What do they hear?
Oh, white males are racist.
It's a racist system.
It's a racist culture.
Systemic racism, which just means white racism, white male racism.
Oh, Steph, as a white male, not only are you racist, you are a sexist.
You have white privilege.
You know, the kind of white privilege that completely forbids you from ever being accused of having white privilege.
That's what real privilege would be.
I have white privilege.
I, as a white male in particular, I represent a rape culture.
I am part of a rape culture.
I am a misogynist.
Because I've got some twigs and berries.
I am part of the patriarchy.
Yeah, I really noticed that when I was being raised by single moms, funded by mostly working men, raised by teachers, almost all of whom were women until I got to high school.
So, racism, sexism, white privilege, rape culture, misogyny, patriarchy, you name it, this shit all comes out of the left.
So don't tell me that you're offended by collective judgments.
Are you fucking kidding me?!
People on the left saying you're offended by collective judgments regarding Muslims?
A very tiny percentage of men are rapists.
Actually, not the case in Africa, where a lot of the migrants are coming from, where a third of men have admitted to raping someone.
That's a pretty high number.
Pretty high number.
That seems to me a little bit more of a rape culture.
That leftists who claim to care about women should do something to oppose coming into Europe a rape culture which comes out of Africa where a third of men...
A third of men have admitted to raping.
The number is higher.
In reality.
So, leftists, for God's sakes, for the love of all that is holy, for all these squirry, worm-based, intestinal fortitude hypocrisy that seems to power your jetpacks of indignation, for God's sakes, do not even think of coming to me!
And telling me it's evil to judge people collectively, when as a white male, the left has been judging me collectively, viciously pouring torrents of verbal abuse on me, and they're going to try and get at my daughter and tell her, oh, your dad is a white male, is part of a racist, sexist, misogynistic, patriarchal, white-privileged culture, and he's a bad...
No.
I'm going to keep her away from you thieves of love.
As much and as strongly as I can, I feel embarrassed to introduce the world to my daughter.
Hey, Dad, what did you do your show on today?
Love to tell you.
Hate to tell you.
Can't tell you.
So, the idea that leftists are somehow opposed to collective judgments when, like, what is it?
Three or four or five percent of men rape, but somehow it's a rape culture.
A third of Africans rape, but it's covered up by the left.
And the numbers about Muslims, we're never supposed to judge 80% of Muslims and say anything about Islam as a whole, but, you know, you can extrapolate a couple of percentage points of white males raping and then say it's a rape culture!
So as somebody who's been on the, like, you've been on the delivering end of the verbal abuse of leftist viciousness, so you don't.
You don't see it, right?
You clearly don't have the empathy to understand what it's like to be on the receiving end of these things because you've conformed to all of this verbal abuse and you're on the throwing rocks side rather than on the receiving rocks side.
But as somebody who's a free market, Aristotelian rationalist, individualist, and so on, I have been on the receiving end of this stuff because I don't conform to the leftist narrative or to the rightist narrative, but that's neither here nor there right now.
We're talking to a leftist.
Because I've not conformed to this, the arrows have been...
Thrown at me.
So, yeah, if you're delivering the arrows over a wall and you've got no empathy for the people on the other side, yeah, seems fine.
It seems like, where's the hurt, right?
But then when you step over the wall, you see the bodies on the other side.
And the anger, and this is what people are pissed off about.
You know, you all, on the left, you collectively judge Christians, you collectively judge white people, you collectively judge men or male white people.
There's apparently no rape culture in the black communities.
But, um...
So the idea that now that these numbers are available and the ideology of Islam is available and has been, of course, for a long time.
People can go and read the arguments and facts of this belief system.
So given that the...
Ideology is available, given that these statistics are available, the idea that now, with 80% of a group wanting X, we can't possibly collectively judge the group, whereas when 2-3-4% of a group is doing X, we can totally collectively judge that group, no matter what, even though the white males don't hold the rape ideology.
They oppose, right, the majority of rapists are arrested by white males, and rape has been a punishable offense in...
White Western societies since before the days of Socrates, don't give me this collective judgment, is evil bullshit.
If that had been the case, you'd have kept your verbal abuse off me when I was a kid growing up, and off me as an adult, and you'd have been pushing back against that.
So I'm sorry, leftists, you have played your card.
You have shot your wad, your bolt is empty.
There's no more ammo for you to even remotely, conceivably, criticize any soul, living, being, brain on this planet!
