Nov. 23, 2019 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| It's not often that you get to see that kind of rank naked privilege and naked power as you saw very recently when a rather desperate black woman, a mom, came up to Elizabeth Warren after There had been chance from the black community for charter schools, right? For schools which have some more autonomy, that are more responsible for the success of the children in those neighborhoods. | |
| She comes up and she's desperate to try and get Elizabeth Warren's attention for expanding the possibility of minority students, of poor students, of black students, to get a hold of more charter schools, which are Demonstrably better, particularly for poor and minority kids. | |
| In New Orleans, 60% of the schools are charter schools, and 19 of the top 20 performing schools are charter schools. | |
| Charter schools do some great and fantastic and powerful work to close the black-white achievement gap in test scores and so on. | |
| I mean, black parents are desperate to get their kids into these charter schools. | |
| And so they go to the Democrats and they beg for any kind of consideration along this Right now, you know, when it comes to the Democrats being, you know, feminists and focused on black issues and minority issues and the issues of the poor and the fact that, | |
| I mean, it literally breaks my heart thinking of how these parents are on bended knee supplicating, prostrating themselves before the high altars of power to try and get some control over the education of their children, some responsiveness to the needs of their children. | |
| And so this woman, she came up to Elizabeth Warren and basically said, but I read that your kids went to private schools. | |
| Elizabeth Warren turns around and hands clenched and says, my kids went to public school. | |
| Now, they spent some time in public school, but her son, for some time, was in a very elite, very ritzy school. | |
| Private school, $15,000 a year, $18,000 a year, some huge number. | |
| And here's the thing too, this is what's so incredibly frustrating, is that, listen, this poor black woman who's talking about public schools, and then Elizabeth Warren saying, well, my children went to public school. | |
| It's like, yes, but... | |
| But not in the same neighborhoods, not but the same funding, not but the same expertise, not but the same teachers. | |
| It's not the same. You know, it's like saying, well, you know, I have some old jalopy rust bucket, seven different colors, Adam Sandler song style car, and you have a Porsche. | |
| And it's like, hey, man, we both have cars. | |
| It's like, but they're not the same cars. | |
| And this desperation for people in America, particularly blacks, to get a hold of charter schools, to get responsiveness from the schools, to get quality and intensity and consequences from their schools, What was the movie, Waiting for Superman? | |
| I mean, the lotteries they've got to sweat through, and oh man, I mean, it's unbelievably heartbreaking. | |
| It's unbelievably heartbreaking. | |
| I mean, listen, I've never been a teacher. | |
| I had some experience. | |
| I worked for a couple of years as a teenager in a daycare in a pretty poor neighborhood, and then I was a teacher's aide in a class for gifted kids downtown for a while, and Man, it makes such a huge difference whether the teachers are accountable. | |
| You know, it makes such a difference. | |
| If the teacher's salary and security depend upon the success of his or mostly her children, that is such a powerful environment for children. | |
| That is such a powerful... | |
| I mean, children feel... | |
| I mean, I'm sure you had the same feeling in schools as a whole that... | |
| The whole institution is not really there for you. | |
| It's there to house you. | |
| It's there to kind of fire these numbing brain bullets of inconsequential skill sets into your head, but it's not there for you. | |
| It's not designed for you. | |
| You know, like the mall is designed for you. | |
| The movie theater is designed for you. | |
| But the schools, Michael Malice has a great quote where he says, schools are literal prisons for children and the only place where most people will ever experience violence in their lives. | |
| It's terrifying. And, of course, the reason why Elizabeth Warren doesn't want to talk about charter schools is that the schools exist for three main reasons. | |
| One is to indoctrinate children. | |
| The second is to give job security to incompetent teachers in general. | |
| And the third is to act as a massive pipeline of money from forced Union Jews to the Democrat Party. | |
| This massive tsunami of money that just keeps coming in. | |
| So, of course, if the charter schools take over, or if charter schools displace government schools, then what happens? | |
| Well, The kids' needs and the parents' needs become more important, which empowers the single mothers. | |
| It would empower this black woman who was trying to get a word in edgewise on Elizabeth Warren's pompous self-congratulatory while my kids went to... | |
| It would empower her. | |
| It would give them some choice, some authority, and so on. | |
| It would threaten the jobs of incompetent or lazy or abusive or distracted or uninterested or burned-out teachers. | |
| And I assume that it would interrupt the flow of money that goes from the educational unions to the Democrats. | |
| That's a quote. | |
| Randy Weingarten, I think it was. | |
| I think it's misattributed, but it's become famous because it is reflective of a very powerful mentality when it comes to education, which is... | |
| I don't think he said it, but this is what he's supposed to have said. | |
| I'll start caring about the needs of children when children start paying union dues. | |
| It's monstrous. | |
| It's absolutely monstrous. | |
| And the power and the privilege that goes on and the false equivalency to say, my kids went to public school just like your kids. | |
| You know, I'm... | |
| My relationship to anger is complex. | |
| My relationship to hatred is complex. | |
| I think anger is like your body's defense mechanism against a violation of your rights, your boundaries, your values, your interests. | |
| So anger is very healthy. | |
| We don't want to have... No anger, like pure pacifism, is like having no immune system. | |
| You've got to kind of live in a bubble, which I guess is what's happening these days in social media. | |
| You also don't want to be what used to be called choleric, or full of rage and anger all the time. | |
| That's like having an overactive immune system that starts attacking yourself, and that's not what you want. | |
| But you have to have that Aristotelian mean, that sort of balance in the middle between not being angry and being angry all the time. | |
| But I tell you, stuff like this... | |
| It's, you know, the angel, the devil, Palpatine's dark side. | |
| I mean, it really does... | |
| It is absolutely horrible to say, look, basically what Elizabeth Warren is saying to this poor mom... | |
| No, sorry. You know, we need to indoctrinate your kids in leftist tropes. | |
| We need to protect the jobs of incompetent teachers. | |
| And we need that sweet, sweet union do cash to flow to the Democrats. | |
| So, sorry. |
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