WEBVTT - The GOP's New Boogeyman 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:04.680 You were listening to Winny on reparations and production of 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:12.520 My Heart Radio. Hey, hey, party people, what is happening? 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:18.599 My name is Dope Knife Franco and we are waiting 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.599 on reparations. Cut us our check? So what is going 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:25.760 on with you? Didn't you just get out of a meeting? 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:30.240 I did? I did. We talked about redistricting. That's interesting. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:32.120 I feel like it's less interesting at the local level 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:35.959 than it is at the state and like federal but um, 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:38.720 sort of learning the principles of you know, the Voting 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.040 Rights Act and like how that must be translated into 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:42.880 how this out of work, what different people are trying 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:44.920 to get out of the process. It's fairly new to 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.360 me because this only happens every ten years. So oh no, man, 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.400 I thought it was I but yeah, just a bunch 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:58.280 of other pretty mundane things. So that was the big one, yeah, 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:02.400 I mean, yeah, it's just redistricting. Redistricting is about to 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.960 be like a big I mean I'm not that it's 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.960 not a big issue now, but it's about to show 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:12.200 its weight coming up soon in the elections, right, Yeah, 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:17.280 I for sure it will probably make a big difference 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:22.520 in some places. Um, the Republicans will try everything possible 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:26.600 to fuck working people and brown people and black people. Um, 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.320 which is why it's it was like so interesting and 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:33.000 yet so frustrating to discuss redistricting here because what we're 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:36.600 discussing is the local commission maps that we wanted to 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:40.120 send to the state legislature to ask for approval. Like, hey, 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.400 we did this work to figure out how to redistrict 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:45.840 here you go. You know, we have this intimate knowledge 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:47.520 of our own community, and this is what we think 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.800 to happen, and you know what they're gonna do, Like 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.600 they're gonna just ignore the ignore, completely ignore it, and 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:58.480 find some way to screw people over. Um. Like I've 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.120 talked through a lot of the nightmare scenarios in which 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:05.200 they could possibly just turn. They could just renumber the 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:09.480 districts and make it so that every all the incumbents, 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:13.080 everyone currently representing these people it's no no longer live 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.000 in the district number that they are, which means that 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.120 everyone who just got elected would have to fight for 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:25.600 reelection in the spring. Like they could just do that 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.200 and screw everyone if they wanted to. And so it 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.239 was just like, wow, this is fascinating and also so 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:35.720 useless because no, they're not gonna listen to us. Where 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.200 the concept of redistrict can come from. So it's to 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:43.840 get the districts back into within I think ten of 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.560 each other so that everyone is representing, you know, so 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:53.600 that let's say, um, here, I'm my district gained three 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:59.400 thousand people and maybe another district lost three thousand people. Um, 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:04.000 And so that means fewer people are getting represented by 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.880 one person in one area where I whereas I have 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.520 to represent more people in another area, which means their 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:12.680 vote counts less technically because they're represented by the same 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:17.760 amount the one person people. Yeah, I think I'm explaining 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.600 this terribly. And so it's getting the districts back in 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:24.800 alignment so everyone has equal representation. People in one district 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:29.280 one representative four d fifty or fourteen thousand and fifty 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:33.920 in another one representative. So getting the maps back into 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:38.920 shape so that everyone has equal representation supposedly, um, but 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.480 there's a lot of tricky ways to do that where 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.200 you can break up I mean, you're technically not supposed 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.160 to break up minority communities like literally the Rights Acts 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.760 as you're not supposed to do. But if you can 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.040 get technically not supposed across the street when the lights 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:58.760 were at exactly exactly, yes, exactly, technically not's supposed to 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:04.080 smoke weed. However, I don't know how we're still beholden 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:08.680 some of these like archaic weirdo rules that were made 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.040 like a hundred and fifty years ago that totally don't 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:16.080 apply to the modern world. And like that, I mean, yeah, 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:22.320 the Second Amendment. You know, I'm not I'm definitely sure. 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.560 I'm not the first person to suggested, but I don't know. 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.240 Maybe like every like fifteen years, we should go look 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.359 at all that ship and kind of reconsider what we 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.159 need or what we don't need and what needs to 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:38.040 be checked. The Senate the most democratic institution, like codified 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:42.839 in law, like what and here we still are, Oh imagine, 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.320 please don't let me die in the climate induced fire. 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.880 And then you know, I don't know, on the board 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.880 of me. Yeah, something out quick, because like you said, 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.800 the Republicans are definitely going to use that ship to 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:01.760 their advantage. Speaking of to NS using stuff to their advantage, 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.279 It's kind of like what we're gonna be talking about today. 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:08.760 So last week's election results seem to have like the 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:13.440 whole Democratic Party and a little bit of disarray. Republicans 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:17.960 claimed all statewide offices in Virginia, and they were likely Yeah, 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:23.080 they took all of them all for election. I made yeah, sorry, sorry, okay, No, 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.159 it's fine, yah. I mean because it's equally possible that 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.360 the ones that were not weren't up for re election. 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:32.040 They went and like, it's looking like they're going to 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.359 take control of the state's delegates to um. Two of 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.520 those races. Two of those races are pretty tighten or 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.800 in recount right now, but it's looking like they're going 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.599 to get that. They gave a scare to uh New 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:47.719 Jersey Governor Phil Murphy. Um. That one didn't get called 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:52.159 to like the next day and by much dinner margin. Yeah, 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.120 being a little nervous about that one, but you pulled 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:59.279 it off. Um. So not. You know, like anyone who's 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:03.640 been following the in particular the Virginia election, you know, 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.880 at the near the tail end of that, the election 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:08.840 kind of took a turn. I think there was like 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.120 a something stupid. There was like a like twenty or 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.839 thirty point swing or something like that where mcculloff was 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.159 up by like ten points and then over the course 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.040 of like a week and then it was down by ten, 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.200 you know what I mean. And it kind of centered 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:27.560 around the whole concept of critical race theory, which is 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:33.520 the academic legal concept that we'll get into later UM, 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:38.240 but using that in kind of having a laser focus, 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.480 almost droning approach to hammering that in critical race theory, 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:44.520 critical race theory, they're gonna be teaching that in school. 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.520 Critical race theory workness is bad. Critical race theory workness 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:51.119 is bad. He managed to get you know, white people 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.679 to get into a little bit of a race panic 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.400 over weird black stuff being taught to their kids in 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:00.720 the school. Suff new name of this pot Cats Actually 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:07.800 we're branding UM now in the wake of all of this. 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.600 You know, you know how like whenever these motherfucker's be 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:14.960 losing elections, they like to do the whole campaign autopsy 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.440 the same. So they've you know, like you've been having 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:25.280 Democratic operatives and other elected officials and they've they've been 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.720 looking back at what's been going on, and their conclusion 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:35.480 is not that Terry McCullough uh fed into the fake 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:39.960 debate about critical race theory and wokeness and didn't concentrate 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:44.480 on a strong economic message, and they're there. Their conclusion 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:48.120 is not that Joe Biden and the Senate and the 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:53.560 House didn't give politicians like Democrats like Terry McCullough anything 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.440 to really run on other than Trump is bad. Trump 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:01.280 is bad. So they're they're can inclusion is that it 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:07.080 is critical race theory. And you know, even more broader 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:12.400 than that and more vague wokeness, the concept of wokeness there. 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:17.200 That is what there wanting to attribute blame for their 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.920 losses last week too, is the concept of wokeness, that 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:24.120 Democrats are being too woke, that the left has a 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.880 wokeness issue. So that's what we're gonna be talking about today. 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:30.360 We're gonna talk about critical race theory, wokeness, what it is, 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.679 what it isn't, and how the right wing is using 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.719 both to essentially radicalize half the country and a lot 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.520 of smart people to a lot of people that you 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.080 think are smart that you might hear them talk about 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:46.360 wokeness like it's an actual, like like a thing like 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:50.000 at the issue. You know, that's that's something that's got 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.559 me shocked. But we're gonna we're gonna get into that 0:08:53.679 --> 0:09:02.440 and more after the joke, all right, we're back, and 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.320 so let's talk a little bit about First of all, 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:07.360 let's let's let's set the record straight about what critical 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:12.479 race theory is UM and a little of where it's 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:16.760 where it's resurgence and repackaging as this boogeyman um has 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.520 come from. So critical race theory I've started a little 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.000 bit in graduate school. It's like a framework of analysis 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:26.160 and an academic movement of civil rights scholars activists who 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.640 seek to examine the intersection of race and law in 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.760 the United States and challenge mainstream American liberal approaches to 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:36.000 racial justice UM that examine social, cultural, and legal issues. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.880 Keeywere legal issues primarily as they relate to race and 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.839 racism United States. And the maintenance of CRT is that 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:46.400 racism and disparate racial outcomes are the results of complex, 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:50.440 changing and often subtle social and institutional dynamics, rather than 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:56.200 explicit and intentional prejudices of individuals per Wikiediam. But so 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.400 it's like it's about the law. It's about upholding of 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:02.400 these systems of its institutions that give rise to disparate 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:06.600 racial outcomes rather than like Kyle in fifth grade called 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.560 me an African beast when I held the door open forehand, 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.760 which is a growth thing that happened, but like critical 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.840 race theory actually looks at more of the institutional systemic 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:20.480 causes and effects. So it's very important that we started 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.400 it off with that, because what Mariah just read is 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:28.720 the very first paragraph on the Wikipedia page for critical 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.120 race theory. Pay attention to like that last bit when 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:37.240 it says that UM racism and disparate racial outcomes are 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.080 the result of complex, changing and often subtle social and 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:47.640 institutional dynamics rather than explicit, intentional prejudices of individuals. Now, 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:51.600 if you ask any right winger in the country right now, 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.320 like what is critical race theory, why is it bad? 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.240 And what is your problem with it? They literally would 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:03.200 tell you the opposite of what it says. What the Wikipedia, 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:10.520 they're trying to paint it as this, as this thing 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:15.240 is like a critical race theory is about UM saying 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.760 pretty much critical they're a little bit like to paint 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:24.240 a caricature that critical race theory is about UM streaming 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.480 about racism all the time and saying that people are 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.640 racist and know this person is racist and that's racist, 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.800 and that's racism. You should feel bad as a personal 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:34.839 individual for racism when like literally little people. Really I'm 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.600 not saying that's that is a separate issue, that's like 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.720 a separate discussion, but like the actual thing that critical 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.319 race theory is like literally like it says a tenant 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:50.559 is that it's not about like putting like the onus 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.600 of racism on the personal actions of people, and it's 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.920 more about the systems and stuff like that. So the 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.040 way it's codified into law, on the way the law 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:03.240 is enacted, um, and there's like this, yeah, this institute 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.480 I used this term too much, this institutional inertia of 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.880 like the way things were is the way things people 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.160 always do things and the way things will always be. 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.320 So if it was like constructed by racist people hundreds 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.240 of years ago, the systems they set up, or that 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:19.880 you know what we were talking about the Senate earlier. 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:24.200 We're talking about all of these arcane legal institutions that 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:28.000 we still live by. And it's like, though that, let's 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.160 look at that. Let's look at that instead of like 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:34.080 a little timmy, hate yourself. Why don't you You're five 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:35.800 years old. You should have learned to hate yourself by 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:41.040 this point. Yeah, So okay, So I wanted to to 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:46.520 put a little like historical context on not only like 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.320 how CRT is being used right now, but also how 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.840 this pertains to the results of the election in Virginia, 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.280 and just historical trends with regards to the swing from 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.920 the left to the right that I have noticed. I mean, 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.160 I've only lived there tears in this world, but for 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.840 my entire life, every time there's a been a Democratic elected, 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.800 the NXT person is a Republican, and then they get reelected, 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.280 and then it is a Democrat again, it gets relaxed 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:15.959 and then's Republican and so um, like I think maybe, 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.800 I mean, and maybe people who have not touched upon 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.559 this have more historical context than I and that's why 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.200 the time can come up. But I haven't seen enough 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.560 people saying that this is just how the swing goes. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:31.360 Democrats take power, Republicans freak the funk out, and anger 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:35.680 is such a motivating emotion, Like anger is such a 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:37.439 motivating emotion to go out and vote. And so the 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.720 Republicans are angry at the Democrats right now because they 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.880 don't hold power. So they come out and drove and 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.400 they elect someone like Glenn Yonkan or whatever the fund is. 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:48.920 It's glenniuncan right, Youngcan sounds like I don't know, he 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.800 belongs to the Lollipop Guild or some ship. But so 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.640 it's just like, of course this would happen, like this 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:57.880 always happens. I don't know what you're trying to. Oh, 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.880 you're in CRT. Oh it's wokeness. Oh we went too 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:04.560 far left. Oh there wasn't economic message, Like, no, you 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:08.080 just can't beat people who are angry. And we're not 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.040 angry right now because we're in power. We are the 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:11.920 Democrats are in power, so no one's angry, so they 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.920 don't come out and vote. That's one historical trend that 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.480 I think applies to the situation, and I think it's correct. 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.960 I just I think that I think if we were 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:24.760 just talking about CRT, like if CRT was the only thing, 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.120 then I would agree with that. But I think that 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:31.440 the broader concept of wokeness is what makes the whole 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:36.520 situation a lot more insidious and potentially like dangerous and vibly. 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.120 But well, we'll get into that later on. What was 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.040 the next thing you're gonna say? So the next thing 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:42.640 I was gonna say is that this is not the 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:46.120 first time that dog whistles haven't used to reclaim the 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:50.320 moral high ground. Um, you know, for reactionaries to reclaim 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:54.280 the moral high ground and repackage white supremacy and racism 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.320 in a way that's latable to the people in suburbs, 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.400 so they can keep doing the same project that they've 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.920 been doing since Jim Crow. CRT is now being used 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.760 as a dog, which was all much like law and 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.760 order was being used by Reagan in the nineteen sixties. 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.080 It was a response to white fears about losing their 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.479 status in the racial order and to ensure continued subjugation 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.840 of people of color. They couldn't come out and say 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.720 we hate the niggers anymore. And even there's there's the 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:24.640 documentation of like politicians at the time saying that like, well, 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:26.960 you can't call go around and call people the in word, 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.000 so what are we gonna do? So what they did 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.960 was start focusing on cracking down on crime and reinstating 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.840 law and order as a coded way to talk about 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.600 people of color. And so at the time the civil 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.560 rights movement had gained the moral of her hand on conservatives. 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.800 They had marched the streets there, you know, we're on 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.440 the news stations getting beaten in fire host and attacked 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.760 by dogs, and sudden people were like, maybe racism is bad. 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:58.280 So conservatives had to make up a way to reframe 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.760 things in order to make white superman see attractive. So 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.200 they started talking about locking up criminals. What do they 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.360 made by criminals black people? Um talking about cleaning up 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.760 our streets? What's the trash on the streets black people? 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:12.400 And and you know what ultimately came out of that 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.520 is it was so effective the Democrats then took on 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.840 the same framing of you know what, I'm gonna be 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.800 tougher than the Republicans on crime if that's why you 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.600 had the crime bill in next any four passed under 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.680 Bill Clinton's administration to be like, oh, we can play 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.680 that game too. Which is the part of the story 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.360 that I'm not sure how this is going to turn out, 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:37.440 because Okay, the same thing happened George Floyd uprising last summer, 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.440 Republicans and Conservatives concreasingly losing their footing and arguments for 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.600 upholding racism in the face of video footage of black 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.440 people getting murdered, and so conservatives had to find a 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:53.720 new fight teaching about racism in schools. So here we are, um, 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:55.320 it remains to be seen. How I mean, like, I 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.440 think we could speak somewhat to the way that the 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:03.360 left has responded to the UM. I yeah, polling for 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:09.000 the Virginia election has definitely I mean, you know, take polls, 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.360 take poles as you want them, but I mean, from 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:15.600 a polling perspective, the ship is working. And and like 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:21.400 if like, if you have a concern about democratic electoral politics, 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.600 then yeah, you should be scared because it's looking like 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.800 it's gonna be a blood bath that probably gonna gonna 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.760 take over everything. And it does seem like these you know, 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:35.560 two people like us what seemed like ridiculous you know, 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:41.919 ridiculously argued cultural issues. It's working on people, on a 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:43.960 lot of people. Here's what I have to say about 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.440 the polling is that up in the two that's since 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:50.240 seen election, everyone thought Hilly Clinton was gonna win because 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.560 the polling showed that she had the most support. And 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:56.760 it has been surmised that that was the case because 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:01.640 conservatives were because of their distry, institutions, and perhaps even 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:06.520 embarrassment about supporting Donald Trump. We're not responsive to polls now. 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:11.680 We are in an era I might guess where Republicans 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.760 feel like they have been validated because everyone's feel like 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:16.720 in my premast and Baptists feel like they have been 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.800 validated by the Trump administration, like, oh, we're the silom majority, 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.840 and so perhaps now in the polls they are more 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.880 comfortable with speaking their opinion. They think it's more important 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.720 to speak out about how they really feel. But well, um, 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.840 because they think that they are the majority, perhaps they 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:37.119 trust the institutions more in that they had institutional power 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.119 for four years, and so maybe that's what we're seeing 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.600 and like, oh, it's working. Like well, maybe people are 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.840 saying they're scared of CRT, but they weren't saying that 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.000 they're going to vote for Donald Trump at that's sixteen 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:50.120 and something has changed with regards to how they are 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:55.280 responding to inquiries into their political beliefs. Possibly, I don't know. Again, 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:59.639 I think the CRT is just like the CRT is 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:03.240 just like a specific aspect of it. Though, like, for example, 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:07.560 all right, so um, along with the rush for them 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.080 to change all these voting laws and stuff like that, 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:14.479 the Republicans have been doing the same feverish work on 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:19.360 local and federal level for the last year. Getting this 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:23.960 brought this vague concept of what they interpret critical race 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.520 theory to be. They've been working feverishly to get books banned, 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:32.520 to get curriculums changed, to get fanatics in in Q 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:35.679 and on weirdos elected to school boards and stuff like that. 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.880 They've been working hard to do all of this ship 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:40.880 and I just think that there's like a more insidious 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:45.800 reason why than the the usual same old like dynamics 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:48.399 that that that have been playing out for the hundred 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:55.080 years some so Republican rep. Steve toth Um is an 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.640 example of like where Republicans are going with this. So 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.320 he was I wanted to respond to something you do said, 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:04.440 because I think the CRT panic has an interesting parallel 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:08.520 with the abolitionist movement that you know really took off, 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.560 had been seated for decades, but like really took off 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:16.480 last summer, and that abolitionists consider how we plant seeds 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:19.080 that grow into a society where we don't depend on 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:22.199 police in prisons. We know that world is not going 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:25.680 to happen overnight. Another election result that came out last 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:29.200 week was you know, Minneapolis voting down a measure to 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:34.120 um abolish and created abolished a police department and create 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.399 a new agency. Like you know, it's we we're not 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:41.040 gonna win tomorrow, but like, if we start seeding these ideas, 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:43.520 one day, we can create that world. Why I think 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:47.080 this is a parallel to CRT is that perhaps they 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:50.640 are seeing that we can reclaim the social order if 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:53.600 we make sure kids don't learn about racism. And if 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:56.040 those kids don't learn about racism, they will grow up 0:20:56.600 --> 0:21:00.080 to not to stop fighting. They can't fight racism. I 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:03.200 don't know how it has been enacted historically, and so 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:07.480 the same idea of seating, the seating, the planning the 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:11.080 necessary seeds for a world that continues to be racist, 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:15.520 And you're one that's exactly what I'm getting at. And 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:20.800 I think that you know, I think unfortunately, because they're 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:25.560 they're able to link the stuff in with this other 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:30.040 vague term of wokeness and what that means, I think 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:35.359 that they're being more successful in these ideas than in 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:40.359 the past. So so yeah, I mean, like like you mentioned, um, 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:43.280 like corporatist Democrats are already seizing onto oh we were 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:48.080 too woke, taking on their framing and the same way 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:50.119 the Democrats previously were like, oh no, we can be 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:54.080 tougher on crime but let's all the people. Even that 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:57.840 is just like a cultural I mean, even that's like 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:00.199 a political thing. Like if you just look at from 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:06.280 a cultural standpoint, how many how many uh like athletes 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:10.600 or celebrities or rappers and musicians or comedians especially do 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:15.160 we hear now talking about woke? Oh I hate woke, 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:19.160 woke woke? This this thing is woke. The fucking quarterback 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:24.120 Aaron Rodgers in football got caught lying about his vaccination status. 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:26.800 He told everybody that he was vaccinated when he wasn't 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:29.440 really vaccinated. When they found out that he wasn't vaccinated, 0:22:29.440 --> 0:22:31.359 do you know what he said? I see that I'm 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:34.280 getting canceled by the woke mob. You see what I mean? 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:38.159 It's like this is like there, this is their opportunity 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:42.160 to have something that they can sweep everything that they 0:22:42.200 --> 0:22:47.040 don't like into that shuts down the conversation and that 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:51.600 can trick otherwise I guess I don't say, well attention, 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:55.080 but otherwise gullible people into their ship. So like you know, 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:57.600 they're they all of these Republicans are bringing up Martin 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:01.440 Luther King now when they're talking about it, so about 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:07.040 pursuit of banning books in Texas. Um, you got this 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:11.440 Republican rep. Steve Toth And he said, Um, this book 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:14.280 band is what he's saying. It echoes Dr King's wish 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:17.720 that we should judge people on the content of their character, 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:21.719 not the color of their skin. Critical race. I hear 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:26.440 a single other Conservatives this line. Okay, go on, He said, 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:30.639 critical race theory is a Marxist doctrine that rejects the 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:34.879 vision of Martin that they're King. Now, what did there 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:39.119 Martin Luther King back in the communist and of Marxist 0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:45.000 because he was critical of capitalism. This is about this 0:23:45.080 --> 0:23:48.159 is about changing the direction of ship. This is like 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:53.600 a long term game. And I mean it, it's just 0:23:53.800 --> 0:23:55.959 like I just I just think that because I know 0:23:56.080 --> 0:23:59.240 how many people who I think are cool or who 0:23:59.280 --> 0:24:01.400 I think are smart, who have like a good head 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:03.640 on their shoulders, that I find myself talking to them 0:24:03.640 --> 0:24:08.399 about political things, and these motherfuckers bring up wokeness like 0:24:08.600 --> 0:24:11.840 a if wokeness was an issue, that it even cracks 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:15.040 like the top hundred of stuff that motherfucker's need to 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:20.360 be worried about is it's just simply not a thing. 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:24.520 So the fact that they're successfully like roping in a 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:26.200