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July 13, 2019 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
13:09
They Want To Divide Us
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Most people are susceptible to outside influences.
I mean, that's just the basic reality of the human mind.
We're impressionable.
You know, what language do you end up speaking?
By golly, it's the language you were raised with, right?
I mean, even if your parents have a very thick foreign accent, you will generally end up speaking like your peers, not like your parents.
So we're very susceptible.
And when there are groups that are failing in society, Then there are two types of people, I guess three types of people, who have a look at failing communities in societies.
Number one, they don't care.
They don't talk about it, they don't care.
So fine, take them off the map.
Number two, there are people who say, okay, here's the facts that we know.
Right?
There's this, there's that, there's the other.
Some things are within your control, some things are not within your control.
Let's focus on the things that are within your control.
Let's make sure that we have the incentives aligned in the right way so that what is good for you in the moment is also good for your community and good for you all in the long run.
And let's teach you how to be better parents and let's do what we can with the limitations that we have and the knowledge that we have to make your community better.
And those people used to be a lot more common and they're Well, they're not quite as common anymore.
Now, the third category is a group that we all know very, very well.
What they do is they say, oh, wow, you see, the reason you're not doing well, my friends, is because there are these evil people over there, and they're in charge, and they've been running things, and they're exploiting you, and they're stealing from you, and they shoot your children, and they gun you down like dogs, and they hunt you, and they jeer, and they laugh, and they're grinding you under their heel, and they love it!
Those are the people who are grinding you down and keeping you down and you're gonna have to fight them because they hate you and they'll forever try and keep you down and they'd be keeping you down for hundreds of years or thousands of years and they goad and they provoke and there are people in the not doing well communities
Who reject that and say, hey, hey, hey, you know, don't, don't be pulling your Iago poison into my ear, my friend.
Don't pull a Hamlet's uncle with his father at the poison in the ear.
I don't want to hear that stuff.
I want to know what is practical, what is sensible, what is factual, what I can do.
But then there are other people who usually I think for various traumatic childhood reasons say, yeah, yeah, those people, they're the entire reason we're doing badly.
It's them.
And it doesn't matter what they do.
It doesn't matter what they do.
We'll hate them.
They hate us.
It's war!
And I don't know when we recognize just how evil this third group of people are, how harmful, how toxic this alliance between the division whisperers And the people hungry to blame others because they've done badly or underachieved relative to their own potential.
Incredibly destructive people.
And we need to push back with the facts.
Now, there's a giant market in dysfunctional communities.
There's a giant market for blame others.
Blame others.
It's a lot easier to get angry than it is To grow up.
It's a lot easier to attack than it is to build.
It's a lot easier to break than it is to grow.
So this is the war.
And the war is between those who are bringing facts to dysfunctional communities and between those who are bringing excuses to dysfunctional communities.
Hillary Clinton bought excuses.
And she's not alone in that.
There's lots of people who bring these excuses to black communities, to Hispanic communities, to dysfunctional or under functioning communities.
They bring excuses and they are cheered by some portion within those communities.
And there are other people like me and many other people and many more prominent people who bring facts.
Who bring facts.
And with facts, you get two things.
Two things.
With facts, you get two things.
But they don't occur at the same time, which is why it's so tough.
With facts, you get pain, and you get hope.
But you get pain first, and then you get hope later.
You know, like Pandora's box, she opens the box and all these demons fly out, and at the bottom is a tiny fairy called Hope!
With facts, you get pain, and you get hope.
But the longer you've lived in lies, the worse the pain is, and the more impossible the hope seems.
And I want to bring facts to communities that aren't doing well.
And I want to say, yes, there's race and IQ.
We'll figure that out as we go along, but that's not what we can focus on right now.
What we need to focus on right now in the black community in particular is rebuilding the family.
We know that can be done because it's been done before.
As I've mentioned on the show many times, Black families were more stable than white families as recently as 80, 90 years ago.
Blacks raced into the middle class after the Second World War.
Remember, even if the race and IQ statistics are ironclad, can't be changed, whatever, right?
20% of blacks are smarter than the average white.
There's so many who could do well, really well, and they could help their communities.
Through doing that well.
And I'm not talking like affirmative action well or like this young black man who called in saying well I want to become a doctor but everybody wants me to get into politics basically to get money for my community for the state.
I'm talking like mentoring well, helping people well.
Crime, drug addiction, child abuse.
The coolness of criminality that the single motherhood A huge, single motherhood plus child abuse, plus warrior gene, boom, right there, is producing so much harm in the black community.
Now these are facts, as far as they can be ascertained.
Are they ironclad?
Are they proven beyond a shadow of a doubt?
Well, they're more real than endless white racism being the explanation for everything, right?
So, I desperately want this community to do better, and the only thing that I know to do, as a philosopher, as a caring person, is to tell people the truth.
The greatest act of racism is to withhold the truth from groups.
Because you can't handle the truth.
I think the black community can handle the truth.
Maybe some, maybe not, but I think the black community can handle the truth.
And there is a lot that can be done to improve things.
And this is why, you know, when I fought against the welfare state my whole adult life, And partly it's out of just seeing what it's done to poor communities.
I mean, I grew up in a multicultural neighborhood and I saw the effects of the welfare state on every race and group that could be conceived of.
I know, I've seen it, I lived it, I grew up in it.
It's horrifying what it's done.
So in this battle, Between those who want to bring solutions and those who want to bring excuses.
Those who want to give you self-ownership and those who want to hijack your willpower to serve their own political needs, their own political agendas, to get your vote.
One group is going to win.
The group who don't care either way, they're not part of the equation.
The group who bring facts and the group who bring resentment, we're fighting.
We're fighting over the future of these communities.
And I'm not just talking about blacks, I'm talking about like the everyone who hits their kids, who abuses their kids, who abandons their kids, who dumps their kids in daycare, who neglects their children.
And I'm talking about all of these people.
There is this war between the fact bringers and the excuse givers.
Right now the excuse givers have been kicking the fact givers ass for Decades, but I think that's beginning to turn around.
And morality is objective and it is universal.
But what can change, as you say, what factors can change one's moral compass to where kidnapping and torturing is okay?
Well, if you tell people
That the only reason they're poor, that the only reason they don't have a father, that the only reason there's not a lot of wealth in their community, that the only reason their neighborhoods are so crappy, that the only reason their education and their schools are so crappy, that the only reason there's drugs, the only reason there's criminality in their community, the only reason there's graffiti, there's only reason there's cars up on blocks within 12 minutes of being parked somewhere, the only reason for all of this horror is this particular evil group of people.
You have exploited and preyed upon and enslaved and raped and murdered your people for hundreds and hundreds of years.
You keep hearing that, you keep repeating that, you keep hearing that, you keep repeating that.
Well, everyone cries when the hero dies.
But if you tell a group of people, That they're only wretched because of this endless rows of appropriately white stormtroopers.
How many stormtroopers do you see dying in Star Wars movies?
Do you care?
You don't.
Because they're oppressors.
They're evil.
It's like the Nazis.
Or, you know, the new villain, the Russians.
They've been coordinating this one with Hollywood, I'm sure, for a while.
But the dehumanization.
This particular group, and we talked about this with the first callers, well, you know, racists, you're Nazis, you're, right?
You should see the comments when I do stuff on race, the comments of, I mean, on both sides, I mean, it's not just black, white things, others as well.
Comments are pretty ferocious and racism flies both ways.
But we can only meet and resolve these issues or these differences in reality, in reality, in reality, with facts.
When we abandon facts, we get violence.
When we abandon reason, we get violence.
When we abandon the argument, we get violence.
And everyone is certain, so many people are certain now what the problem is, Evil Whitey, and what the solution is.
No justice, no peace, right?
Lauren Southern was interviewing in the midst of this mayhem that was occurring, Trump's inauguration.
And some guy, I think it was a black guy, turned around and said, well Malcolm X said an unjust law is no law at all.
Okay, well.
What does that mean to have an unjust law?
Would he be able to answer that question?
What is the category called unjust?
What is it?
What does it mean?
Is affirmative action an unjust law?
Is giving preferential test results, upping the scores of blacks in entrance to universities, that unjust?
Is stripping down Asians, is that unjust?
Is the fact that blacks attack whites proportionally far more than whites attack blacks, is that unjust?
I mean, it's just a phrase.
It just means I don't have to obey the rules because I've got this magic sticker called unjust and Malcolm X and I can combine these two in this magical alchemy that breaks me fear of the rules.
I can do I can smash up Starbucks because Malcolm X said unjust laws are no laws at all.
If you have this kind of it's not thinking it's an excuse.
I don't have to obey the rules because Malcolm X said unjust laws are no laws at all.
All right.
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