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There is no way that his daughter had been sexual and sexually assaulted, and then he became a poster boy. For you alleged legit a Threatening nature of these ministrations and vocal Let s go more meetings. Would you make it looks like the the. Alleged offenders just been found guilty, and in the past couple of like ours before you recorded at least that's that the headline I'm seeing now And also the students in schools are staging a walk out, a kind of in solidarity with the assault victim. But what we saw here and in some of the reporting on this was little circular it at first and seemed to be little incident on specific. At times, But what we saw overwhelmingly was

Super high handedness of the school district in school officials, and we were seeing it at a time when the number one issue in the Virginia race was between was about education and high handedness, view that parents don't deserve a say in what or even a look in it were and at schools. So this is natural. concentrated everyone's attention. You know it felt like four: it's been a few months since there is the big flare up concern about critical, raise theory, curriculums in public, high schools and middle schools, or even in primary schools like that had stopped

a kind of daily subject on Fox NEWS and talk radio and then all of a sudden it comes up, and suddenly everyone is concentrated again and London. How many schools seem to be going forward, in every direction because also stay There was a headline that this I'm coming rules requiring parents to sign a non disclosure agreement before they were shown the proposed curriculum A non disclosure agreement that demands that Parents who do see this curriculum, don't make it copies of any materials of it and don't spread it around. These are pretty on are enforceable in normal times anyway, but that the level of intimidation and high handed

This is really stunning and it's really brought into conflict. This very fundamental view that a lot of public educators have that parents are. The problem. and that public schools and school officials and councillors. actively exists to intervene into the presumably dysfunctional life of american families in orbit save and liberate children from the press It is and arm and ignorance of the american home, and Durham, I'm not surprised, it's it's become, a source of national controversy. So then it would be hard to invent a story. would be more damaging to the other side.

To have a school district come up with one. It is insane. Trans bathroom policies have some horrible kid dresses, skirt too gain entrance to the woman's room then said the assault, a girl, and then have the the Father desperate to try to get some attention to this case and then smeared as domestic terrorist, but every single one of those items is is ticked off on the story which are friends of daily wire, first broke in and gotten the attention that, if the facts for just such a little different it it would from the mainstream media it's absolutely astounding. I mean it's the kind of story that, of course, no conservative relishing in or happy about that such a thing would have happened, but you really could not have invented a better situation too. exactly how damaging

these policies are when it comes to public schools in many different ways you with the father being silenced and the school board, about what happened, covering up what happened, even though we know that they were told about it, you know showing how unfortunate as how ridiculous and absurd it is that they're trying to keep parents as much out of education as possible with big elections coming up by the way. But Finally, this is the kind of thing that people who are opposed to- I guess is, as they would transgender bathroom policy. This is the kind of thing we are always talking about right when we say that girls privacy, Fifty rights are at risk here. This is the kind of worst case, scenario people are thinking about were always told. Oh, it's it's transposed to bring that up right. Nobody would ever pretend to use the rest of the opposite sex. For this purpose, your trust making up your fearmongering because you dont like trend, people you're attacking transgender students and then something like this does happen and no one, says anything right. I used to live in one country where I grew up and

current solar there, the house I lived in and a while back out when I covered this transgender bathroom policy is part of it. A more wide ranging policy that required. You know, Pronoun used in all sorts of things, but I M out the school board member who response for the district, where I grew up and thankfully did not go to school- and I said you know this policies concerning to me as a former constituent and as a woman right. This is not a safe situation for girls. What about their privacy and safety rights? She response to me saying: don't worry, we have a plan in place for making bathroom safe and she had her assistant, attach a slideshow of slide showing how they were going to raise the wall. on either side of the star in the bathroom. This was there spots to sit serious sincere concern about girls, safety and restaurants, because this policy and their responses to make that the stall doors and walls taller. Ok, these people are not.

Taken seriously, and I hope this has really exposed for just kind of not politically where people how bad the stuff really is so in just four frame of reference and county, its northern but is it not inner northern Virginia? It's not the people's republic as it's called of a violent, and this this kind of an outer suburb released in recent memory when you are growing up their Zan was was fairly conservative area. Yet was I try not another aspect to this controversy. Is the National Scoreboard Association wrote this a couple weeks ago that immediately complaining about protest at these meetings. People coming and making really forceful statements and. saying this? Is intimidation, tactics and threats and the administration has to do think about it and Merrick Garlon attitude was ok. You know it he's a job. I asked how high releases is totally

ridiculous babble, saying that district journeys FBI should should meet too discuss what to do to address this threat inside any federal crime that had been, it didn't site any Federal law that was justifying this intervention, An incredibly enough, the national scope, Association has now backed off that initial letter was torn apart by various outlet. mention the daily wire went around where's it at our went through every single case that date, this site, add and explain how it was the very least saturated and

the backlash in there in the states proud the state chapters. Nineteen in them are very uncomfortable. With this you ve had some now states. I believe a high is the latest that have dissociated from the Scoreboard Association, so that this this looks like a complete debacle. I think it's the products. Elite presumptions meeting the rural world That I mean you have here a number of issues, areas under dispute in which progressive thinkers right is political leaders have decided that things are true that are not true and have proceeded accordingly.

other words, you have progressives hair being held hostage by their own misconceptions and because progressives. Ah unlikely to the challenge, store called out too frequently by the press they often genuinely there remain unaware of the potential consequences. The first topic is, of course, transgender ism, irrespective of what one thinks of the question of gender ism. There are obviously circumstances in which the institutions and customs that progressives have established could be abused. For example,

putting biological males in two prisons meant for biological females. You can't say that if you say that progressive your transfer progressive, say you are exaggerated, progressive Sayer venting problems, progressive question, your motivations. This is a good example of why that is a foolish thing to do, and I think they were somewhat caught unawares, because I think they have convinced himself that nothing could go wrong here, Second presumption is that all opposition to school curricula is fake. Faster tat is the product of the Coke Brothers or Tucker Carson.

Republican phony culture was, is black Obama that it when it's not here The same is lower and can't you have seen the surrounding country Jane Mayor, of course, immediately assumed that discomfort over some of the innovations in the curriculum were contrived they're, not. But if you believe that then you're going to push yourself down a pretty damaging road and the last presumption- and this relates to merit Garland the letter to which he responded- the actions, the unconstitutional actions he tried to take is that conservatives are intrinsically violence. That

There is something sinister about conservatives protest, unlike progressive circles, protest with the best of intentions and protest in medically innovative ways, ways that, for example, magically incapable of transmitting infectious diseases. Conservative protest is intrinsically undemocratic. It is akin to assault and attack and undermining it is sinister and all of these false presumptions. Combined here to the point at which the vast majority of people can clearly see what was going on

And why was going on and yet progressive elites could not, and I don't know whether they will pay a price for it in Virginia still suspect, Irma Colorful pull it out, but the fact that they are fighting tooth and nail now in places such as loud and county should at least wake them up and remind them that in most cases when people say that upset or concerned they really are so every day we have another pour out. Maybe today were yesterday. Suffolk USA today has erase essentially tied if you round up its four thousand six hundred and forty five Mccall's ahead of y'all can but it's it's less than one one percent lead when you

do it by the decimal points and just just another sign. This thing is, is really close Terry Mccall's isn't a really bad place and a plus ten Biden State yeah I mean listen. This is potentially design Esther for Democrats and maybe a weaker in some ways everything leading up to this moment has reminded me of the first year of the Clinton administration right like ahead of the ninety. Ninety or republican Revolution where suddenly with a Democrat in the White House, it seemed, like liberals, felt comfortable YO letting letting themselves speak. Unwilling themselves say what they really think. Anything like every week

Joscelyn elders, was saying something incredibly gross and disgusting early like choose the surgeon general. She sang like. What's wise drugs or, let's talk a lot more about I don't know whether catholic priests would call in the convention self abuse and then That's not conflate those Michael. A lot of people do legalizing. Drugs are a lot of people who are a lot of people de conflate them in that's. Why we ever fertility issue the United States, but ass distract versus and how do we get there? I don't know I don't know, but anyway, I think you'll, like Democrat, started, to fly their freak flag. as the Trump years were seated in memory. That was a mistake for Fur Clinton. To use your, maybe it's mistake, forbidden

I don't think it's just these Virginia specific issues, obviously all the media coverage. just on education, but I don't think that alone would pull Mcculloch down at far if it weren't for the fact that my colleague is part of an unappealing slimy character. In a kind of a long term, apparatchik and functioning democratic party. And if people want sort of depressed about the Biden administration in its first year that its it hasn't pass these big plans. Yet it's in all its major agenda items. Look in trouble we're not beyond the pandemic, the disease hasn't been shut down and the country remains kind of turtles by this all that's contributing to this result, and if young composite off it's gonna, be a political earthquake for

Kratz and down maybe it'll be excused stately. They used it to push through these. These bills would have been bouncing around for months, but Right now it looks it looks bad and even like finishing this close, if Mccall pulls it out by just one point, I think it's still gonna scare Democrats nationally the from one thing out say: envy D, that term coffers nodded unappealing, slimy character. actually in appealing slimy caricature in some ways he's a real natural politicians mentioning two you off line the other day, one, the democratic elections I forget, which the contingent we had covering it in that way various democrats in time a cough was one of them, and this is just when he was a stop. Couldn't fix it hadn't run actually him himself and

Jane ordinary so to start disgusted by Clinton and everything related to Clayton. He hears hasn't come to this meeting with the cause, but but he did. You know I was sitting solemnly there at the beginning and that Benda society loved the guy is is a huge about a fine and, as we are talking late last week on the package with with Geraghty, but the fact that he seems so unappealing, I think, as a function of justice, his desperation at them but a notable findings and in this Poland, as well as distracted for a second while things are brief, I think I got the rails between Italian, an embassy there trying to on these and Charles myself, but I couldn't but the there's a part of this poor and the hill that says on this of jobs which is hugely important to people. The issue of education, which is hugely important to people young is leading Mccall of by thirteen points. And just to be a governor democratic gubernatorial, can

in Virginia, whose losing on jobs and on education on education is a really bad spot to be yeah. I think I'm a bit of an outlier out and are and how confident I'm about young kids chances, but I think if you're Macao S pretty much every The trend is going against. You re not pretty much from the moment. He made that comment at the debate. I guess a month ago, now saying parents essentially should be kept out of the closet, room and have no say in the curriculum. Everything is spiralling pretty much out of control, everything that Biden has been bad, which has not good from a cause everything in Virginia has been that, if you're a Democrat any hasn't done much, I think to risk onto that effectively to sort the flow of the blows. His campaign and taking on, and I think, Jenkins, been making. most at me immediately hesitate to education, has been talking about it almost constantly. It's a big issue for voters, especially moderates who might not want both for a publican ordinarily or might generally shopper

I'm a garden and not for a publican end You can see it too, because knockoffs ads are also focusing on education, like how often do you hear a Democrat doing closing the campaign by feeling like yes to defend himself on advocate So I think you certainly on the ropes, because that is the kind of key issues where people typically want I think a democratic, better are not his issues anymore. I dont know what he really has to run on other than trump pushers, It's been a long time talking about that too, and I don't think it's working so truly blessed thing on this. You cited Obama's line when his campaigning down down there from a call that we have these fake culture war issues, one pretending as though he wasn't a cultural warrior himself quite effectively. Unfortunately, for his electoral purposes into like we should all just be fine with your trash,

gender bathrooms and fine, with curriculum that teach children to be ashamed of their race, and this is all a Fox news sites up every time. I forget why the slight backup, so much he pops up and makes a speech somewhere reminds me speech, was assiduously designed to remind me why I dislike him so much what Brok Obama means there is that the culture? Why do you want to call it that issues that are currently At people in the United States are, unlike during most of his tenure hurting his party. Brok Obama remember mastered this. He invented from whole cloth

The so called war on women he deliberately and successfully conflated opposition to contraception mandates Remember this is somebody who said that little sisters of the pool with opposition to contraception, this guy who came out is a debate with Mitt Romney talking about binders full of women, because Mitt Romney had said what progressives wanted him to say. Which was the he searched for women candidates for positions of responsibility. No one to this day, incidentally, can explain to me what that was about what that meant meaningless. The phoney cultural, you might say, but.

the current culture war topics, especially it seems in the Virginia race, are hurting Democrats, critical, re serious, not popular people, don't like it. Transgender ideology is not popular people, don't like it Taking parents out of classrooms is not popular people, don't like it and the state of the southern border is not popular and people like it is odd that it took Joe Biden to turn America information of immigration, hawks behaviour, and black Obama understands this. and so he is trying to attempt down on these elements. And its cynical and unpleasant, but it is also really off the mark, because there is nothing particularly

intrinsically culture. War is about debating the role that parents should play at bay, state level in their own kids, education. I think it does show certain desperation and desperation that is well, and yet you know they are such that they can ever imagine themselves aggressors and in the culture war though, they they obviously schools aid. They are so Emily Ex question to you. If Glenn yanking pulled it off next Tuesday, it will, and you can choose more than one option-

Here it was shave significant dollars off the reconciliation bill. It would delay the reconciliation bill. It will kill. The reconciliation bill will make no difference to the shape or prospects of the reconciliation, though it will make no difference. I think it wash out. I think the argument that they need to pass it in that Mccall offers hurt by the fact that they haven't passed. It yet will seem just as credible to Democrats as the opposite that it's too ambitious Because everyone knows that a lot of the american people don't know anything about this bill, except it costs Billy dollars are trillions of dollars and also costs zero dollars, so yeah. I don't think I make a difference.

Certainly we Nancy places Argument- is that they needed to pass the reconciliation builder. They helped her Mccall. Then I think it s probably won't change, I suspect, I will go down if they eventually gets past, but I dont think it will be because of the qualified Democrats. Don't seem to be in a particularly self reflective mood these days Josie to look up. I think you might have a profound effect for two reasons. The first is that it will further embolden Kherson Cinema in German. The second reason is that there are probably some people who are on the fence about this bill.

Maybe in Virginia and Senator Warner. Certainly one of them is up in New Hampshire, another stringy stage and about them talking about Hassan who has said nothing about the reconciliation believe the way thus far, and I think that, if the call, if does lose, you might start to see. Those two Senate is possibly a few more and maybe five or six people in the house. They were well and, if not cover thing, entirely restricted. Much further, even then, we ve currently scene, yeah, I don't know of it if it all to my passes whether the dollar now be that different, but think, if european wines will delay the reconciliation bill, certainly radically Greece, the odds that the wreckage The bill goes down in its entirety

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so then with you, we? Finally, after two hundred and fifty years, no one having this idea. No one thinking was necessary. No one, Realizing the just stupendous potential of having the federal government issue national gender strategy. One has finally arrived. What do you make of it well? I? I can't believe that this is a document the White House not only produced, but produce as if it was the answer to a question anybody was asking as if the document way means anything or will do something and as if this is something presidents or the White House, or the executive branch ought to be thinking about or doing anything about at all. Now that we ve been hearing out for several decades. I guess about the famous gender pay gap and gender

equity and places of employment, and this is a Democrats favorite thing to talk about what I would like to point out and the context is the bigger problem, is we have employers who you know what women? to be pregnant, that they can stay in the workplace and and help produce for the gdps, both are much bigger, from then having the same number of men and women in every room everywhere understood Strain of feminist who think that, as long as we have fifty percent when and in every you know, boardroom across the country in every corner offers across the country suddenly will have equality, our equity special caught now. It's obvious they ridiculous idea, but even more audacious, as is the idea that this is something president's ought to be thinking about. Work have the power our authority to do something about this document changes nothing, nor should it and big. I think it's a way of calmly Harris who is a failure of the GPA who can't even got the Senate get her own party in line to vote on big priorities.

giving our something to do and make it look like she's useful, make lectures involved in the administration and some kind of productive capacity when she's and distracting from the various other failures at this administration is engaged in so MD couple things particularly notable one, as we pointed out in our editorial Men are the losing end of so many proposition now, whether its its education work, longevity I mean that's, not something new, but Making women and a whole host of other people refer to in this strategy into an inherent victims is kind of ridiculous also it just goes to. One unfortunate is a constant theme and our national life intersection out It is a word we just mention it in our pockets. Read but a five years ago, or so was was a laughable word was a complete joke, was a watch.

Heard of fanatics in a French, and now you have it in India cited in the aid. A national strategy of the federal government of the United States yeah. This is it's interesting and how much of a contrast this says, because what the Trump might ask, but lots of these like strategy document You know there was one on China or another one on like many, factoring in and developing America's technology capacity and this one is about. You know a war between the sexes, that is basically around already just as you were saying, without basic. The affirmative action and heavy fresh Mary admissions policies, weed already beata. Basically, two thirds of college matriculate would be women versus a third would be men. I mean that

we have the gender gap is now. The other way around in everything except eggs did he pay and You know professions where men are paid more mostly because they work longer hours or they do more dangerous work. When you you really shake out these stats and you know gaps, maybe closing very soon, as women take over professions like layering and dust in medicine. So this is. This is based quickly, a document that feeds ideology to the base right. This is like affirming that the administration is with all the lingo right, like that. It's gonna site

black latino, indigenous and native american persons, Asian Americans, native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, right, like native wines, has to be singled out and other persons of color. And then we get all the way down. Teach transgender, queer and intersects persons with a plus sign, as we keep adding algae. Be teach you I plus that says the plus just mean at their other letters to palm yeah basic it's like. I think I mean it's a blanket to make sure I'm missing anybody and we want to be in trouble sleeping along here. We haven't quite descended to kill. this level of citing to spirits at the front of this year. See the hilarious video just eat you doubtless a couple weeks ago. You use a guess again trouble through some inadvertent microgram or something so carbon apart, decimated,

They then try to go out through all the letters and didn't quite may get look a panic and his eyes yeah. But oh my gosh. What is Rumbling to me, though, is the document makes explicit something that I think we ve seen in other controversy this year, and even in the the Netflix stuff, with Dave Chapelle right. There is a section in this strategy memo. That's a whole of government implementation of gender equity inequality and in what we really seeing outlined in that section and in that idea, is that this is the highest law right that then every department of the federal gun when you know, may have been built for and it may have been authorized and it may be funded for some discreet purpose, but it

also must serve this higher purpose that transcend. Every other function of the United States government. and it's the same thing you're seeing in private institutions, which is that. Intersection reality woke miss equity in inclusion and equality These ideas are held to be so sacred that employees and executives. Can break every other normal rule of their institution if they are serving this higher law and for inner. Frankly, I find that basically terrifying and alienated reopening this is. Is integral is right. This is the idea of like having basically a state religion, interrupts everything else. That's the normal business of republican self government that I feel afraid it

Sherry thoughts on the gender strategy will want to get you on this. Other idea is floating around out there, so Christian Cinema has said she objects to increases in the corporate tax rate, the individual tax rate and, I believe, also the capital gains tax rate, which absolute blows enormous hole in their revenue plans to lease partly pay for the reconciliation bill, save you had this idea revived that run widen has worked on a lot of attacks on unrealized gains so ways would work. Supposedly you just bitter he did at billionaires seen another seven hundred people in the country.

and every year it would go and see how how much their worth through somehow valuing all these assets, including bill liquid assets like real estate and tax them, on the the basis of that now that that, obviously, That's just administrative nightmare. To begin with and there's a question: what do you do when the value the stuff goes down? Are he got it these people you, the way you do with capital gains would, in which case you know that they're gonna kill the use that their credit to avoid taxation in the Eu sure some doubts whether this idea is actually getting going. where legislates alive, proposition for now, they're, so desperate revenue. What you make it.

The first in size is unconstitutional, because the federal government is not explicitly permitted to tax. In this way, the federal government can tax in the manner it did prior to the passage of the sixteenth amendment. Clearly that doesnt cover this or contacts income. This is an income. This is a potential income, proto income, fetal income, the clump of cells of income and, as such, a state would be within its rights to try it. But the federal government is not

If the federal government does try it and assuming that it survives the courts which it shouldn't, they will quickly be abandoned, because it is absolutely ridiculous and not only is it ridiculous, an almost impossible to administer ass, you say, but it will lead to perverse outcomes and perverse incentives. Clearly the income tax. What everyone thinks it s, not a big fan, makes sense. Intuitively people want to have.

more money. Therefore, they want to generate more money, and even if you take a portion of it, they will end up with more than they would have had if you had not shaved it on the side, but that's not quite how this would work. People invest in stocks in property in companies, all sorts of different reasons and on different timescales when Amazon's a good example of this Amazon tried for quite a long time not to make a profit Amazon wanted market share. It would be deeply deeply destructive and it would have caused Amazon in its

early years, a great deal of of pain to have looked at its theoretical value. Looked at me theoretical, radical gains that its investors and early employees and see had made and said we will take this out at a moment about choosing Rather than in a moment of your choosing- and people have pointed out when pushing back against this idea, that the arbitrary deadlines that would be necessary are unfair and that's, of course true. They also pointed out that is quite difficult to come up with an red upon value for things. For example, if you sell a work about four hundred million dollars and then your taxed on the capital game, the market is decided its value. You ve, taken that value out. Mcgovern's gonna take its piece of it.

What do you do if somebody who is a billionaire, buys it because of painting and then just keeps it? Who decides this market that to do it? But I think the biggest problem is now that the biggest problem, as I say, is that this would corrupt the way that businesses are grown and stopped in America and unless you think there is a problem with business is being grown. That way, unless you think that Silicon Valley and Fortune five hundred are a problem there. Should be very, very nervous about interfering with it in this way, because we know what very rich people in very successful people do when they are faced with silly taxes.

more regulations, they find ways to get around them, but often they find ways to get round them in ways that transfer resources from the productive parts of the economy to the unproductive parts of the economy. The like a lot make a lot of accountants and lawyers very rare and that actually don't do. Anyone in the long run any favours in terms of the general strategy. My objection, TAT is the city. It doesn't go far enough in Harris said that it was bold and met the moment, but it as an old gender strategy would include the creation of a strategic pronoun reserve and if we are capable of keeping seven hundred and thirty million barrels of oil. We can absolutely especially with

hygiene problems on the way construct, salt cabins that are full of new genders in case. case we run out, and I see no long term strategic thinking, I'm in Paris seems to be satisfied with a number of gender is that we have, as she seems to be, Willing to stop here, but this is America and Joe Biden were true to his Pennsylvania roots he'd, be he began lying baby drilling Zan execution to you? How much political trouble is Joe Biden in your asked me Jeanne mild, moderate deep now, I think, he's in pretty deep trouble, I don't think, there's been really any good news from I find this administration you came in promising to deliver uncovered. That's basically the

Thank you shirt ass. He was going to do hasn't done that and has messed up several other large things online and believe yes seconds in means it's it's been pretty bad turgot yeah that plus he's now a joke attack that normal people get. You can't recover from that's fatal, so its deep make. Maybe there's some chance. It Bob said the moderate. They get the infrastructure, the reconciliation the calf hangs on. He has some quarter called success in our abroad with it,

climate staff, but you can really much much easier to see how the deplorable gets deeper and there's a notable I'll, come in Nepal. The other day were people want him. I think majorities in both cases, one him to pay more attention to inflation. and poor pay more attention to the border, and then these are just two things. There is not interested in the course created the border crisis and there answer on inflation is just and cut it explain. explain, away and shame people for being so ridiculous to complain about this first world problem of having trouble getting certain goods and having pay more for them. So even deep and it's is more likely to get deeper rather than get better. With that when we do a quick and our plus Plug Hammett done one in a while and our plus a digital subscription service at for you that calm, your team

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and joint abbot and the New York Times story about this ongoing controversy and just had this extraordinary statement from a woman named Fogey Cohen, whose budget who is a GEO Sciences, professor at Williams, college, who supports the the cancelling of have it and she explained what the problem with our current conception of academic freedom is quote. This idea of intellectual debate and rigour as the pinnacle of Intellectual ism comes from old and which white men Domini, yeah, I mean backing Charlie. had one earlier in the Sir Pike has recently that's the most racist thing. You could say right at lake intellectual excellence is white, supremacy, mean name in Richard spent There were some grand kriegel of the clan. Could you know

say the same with us: a grin across their face, yeah it's an insanity is weird that people who were capable enough to advance up what has become like a slimy, Greece, pole, of academic life in the last twenty years, are willing to say this moral panic stuff about whiteness about achievement and excellence, particularly where two, when just at the beginning of the pandemic, It was considered possibly this is due to expire, in any way or to offend in any way the sensibilities Chinese scientists, right who I am we couldn't hold the governments,

policy against them, even if they were in fact working for their government. We couldn't we had to pay like this very strict attention to to what China wanted in out of the World Health organization. We exclude Taiwan because science is such an important enterprise that we need to hear from everyone, no matter how hateful their views because sciences, reality and give reality. Anyone can speak to it or can make their case based on it. You can hear it from communist and otherwise means was also them throughout the cold war. There is lots of art, meant that we needed not just competition between scientists in the free world and the and from behind the iron curtain, but also collaboration to that. That would advance humanity in some way. A now you just have one a garden variety view that is associated with concern.

Because I'm in the United States in the union? have to be a conservative. You just have to have one view that is coded this way. And its legitimate to exclude you and, like I said this, is the problem of the higher law right, like the higher law of diversity, equity and inclusion trump. The scientific enterprise, trumps academic conventions, trumps normal. Behaviour among professors and normal dignities, given between two many universities nearest to Chicago MIT, so that's where we are now we have this religious mandate from Heaven, and we have to follow it. No matter

stupid it makes us look in reality. There is an obviously many many problems with this line of thought. Wine reasoning is a basic human qualities son. I wrote a call about her comments today and in some fire me to this passage. and Steven pinker Newberg rationality where he points out the the oldest surviving people in the world that the sand, people these hunter gathers and the desert and in southern Africa they just randomly, You run after animals that they have these. These methods honed over thousands of years, that are based on reason and rationality, and they they judge your tracks, based on evidence and and logic, and have debates. You know that

the seem like a female algorithm or a male whatever it is, it is, it is, and should it can we actually track down or not if he chance are good, tracking down: let's not track down waste or energy, so they're using reason. Zephine. If you told these these people Sorry, this is a white male thing and we should be doing this fate of course, think you're, a crazy and then reasons not related late is not out of a western phenomenon. He held out. All sorts of other civilizations have have engaged in a tremendous critical thought in an invented, a things and responsible for enormous intellectual advances and then disappointed The french government has said while the other day that that I I borrowed dishonest cell, there was like one white male take on questions around the enlightenment or the scientific revolution over their white mails on both sides. So wasn't I

you might and was like a white male thing, any meaningful sands, obviously thousand I'm when society was done by white male Sue through law and through custom, but the beauty of reason is that it's open to anyone Gonna tell Susan, be Anthony or Frederick Douglass. No sorry should engage in really rigorous, thought, an argument and attempt to persuade People of your point of view, because that's what white nails do they would have been an insulted and also that you're insane. Yet as they should be wretches, not only major an absolutely illiterate point, but she's back handedly insulted the people that I seem she was trying to set out to defend or to speak in favour of right. Like reason as well, Makes us human it's? What distinguishes human beings from animals sets out. You know the reason. The intellectual well he's a distinctive human capacities, this is what sets us apart as a creature from from animals

The idea that this is a capacity that belongs to white men is another. you're, saying only white men are human beings or hit, and everybody else is somehow some kind the lesser form of of creature. Jesus so saying. Ok, intellectual debate is the province of white men. So anybody who is not a white man is incapable of this or has never done this or I don't know obviously does not with you is intending to say, but it's not. The sort of thing anybody thinks about before they're saying user that the silly slogans we now hear from liberals. Think that all their spouse talk about is how everything bad comes from white man. All of history is a story of white men oppressing everybody else that this is a ridiculous notion of history. Yeah flawed in very many ways, and it also ends up. You know insulting the very people that you think you're you're, trying to help its not visit she's, not actually saying anything through anything useful, its divisive, unproductive and

insulting the people she, I guess he's trying to defend, and also, as far as I can tell, and Charlie she's, a paleontologist in seems quite a serious academic commission. Also, a sociologist she's, not a woman studies. Professor hurt her entire field is, is based on scientific rigour and scroll through them the list of her publications and candid dipped in and that their all, based on evidence and logic are things that no one was around to experience there there so all that, but she has no problem using these supposed tools of the racist, patriarchy and, ultimately, I think what is this game is about. Is if you, if you can't catch decide disputes by reason and reasoning with one another. Well, then, what we're left with you? No superstition and personal preference, and then just at the end of a sheer power, sheer power. I think the likes of her

banking on the fact they'll be the ones wielding that power and during an added, as we worry seated to some extent, will be at the losing end. That proposition, I think, there's something to that. I also think that, just because somebody is area scientist or a good historian, all excellent plumber, it doesnt mean they're not susceptible to faddish nonsense. This is racism. Is racism of the barest I find there is no other way of looking at it. she has done is decided that certain people, as a result of for at least inextricably linked to the color

There's more than national origin, a certain way, smart, damn rational, irrational, punctual unpunctual, its nineteenth century racism. You could come straight out of the confederacy. Now. Why is she? a spouse. This she's presumably not a great fan of Alexander Stevens, but she may not be especially bright outside of her realm, These people remind me of college students who come back after the first semester and they extrapolate out the new ideas. They have learned to the breaking point and lecture everyone about them. I can remember, being at university, studying history, and it being pointed out to me that what people choose

For heritage sites said something about them, the heritage sites do not spring up from the ground. unbidden that they are the result of culture. Its an interesting point. It's worth we into the patchwork quilt that we use to examine history. This is one guy? I know immediately decided this meant that all heritage sites were bunk, terrible, wouldn't go to one again. Awful english heritage should change its name gothic this, because this nonsense is this: this factory, this sat synthetic For culture, let's not the lesson, is it the lesson is that. Sometimes the way things, are the product of choices, but we maiden, it's good to know that and when I hear

people like this woman and pretty much everyone else in the world now talking about race, I feel ass if they ve taken the wrong thing away from the discipline. There is at the margins of value to the insight incorrect grace theory, and that is that at certain points in here, three certain people wearing charge and the laws and norms and institutions and cultures that they created, reflected them and at its extra that was extremely insidious. For example, in the host bellum. So many of the laws that were put on the books and states, such as Alabama, Mississippi, were obviously the product of what we used to call with some horror, white supremacy,

but they ve taken so far now, but it's unfolds survival. Everything is white, supremacy and so every difference has to be explained by a cultural phenomenon and it has to be equal in its pernicious. Next to the laws of Mississippi are all about my in eighteen sixty eight, and these are the environments in which many of our economic, who don't spend their time wilfully willingly think about this stuff spend. That is where they spend the time and the universities, Terrified of it said they bring in these diverse consultants in these people who would otherwise spend the time in a

since I am, I guess, that's that, then they start shouting about it to an end. It is pathetic. It's ready pathetic, it's no less an intellectual application. Then you get from a first year. Student who reads: marks or Hobbs, lock or more serious is that that is the whole world, that's what I believe and tries to squash this huge complex, difficult nuanced world into the one book, but he just read that his parents probably haven't read, and so he can wax lyrical about a dinner without too much push back I think that is one reason why we're in this strange, strange environment, in which ninety nine percent of Americans think this stuff is absolute guff, but came out. Everyone in the media and academia and increasingly in politics, uses it

they're starting frame of reference such that the White House so there were lacking acts, even though no hispanic person side of an insane asylum uses. It so, and I think it's pernicious, but I also think that it is the result of a capture Valley institutions with which people who were otherwise disinterested have been happy to go along anybody S, question for becoming style. Thinking is the future. Yes or no, I mean listen. Help thinking leads to horrible outcomes in horrible outcomes. Need change so this this rain can't last forever, but may not be covered comfortable. It could become much more common for

rest of our lives. It may become a kind of state orthodoxy imposed on all institutions, including ours, by the force of law, and so things can become more common, but if it's not forever, as the hopeful Michael thank you that occupies my kind of a generally being one of the more optimistic people on this past. I think I don't think it's gonna last the long and I am- sure always seen in some form from people like her, but I don't think it's gonna get much

that then, that nice people are generally in an average person, is exhausted of seeing at from anyone more prominent tenure, random intellectual here and now I think people absolutely hate it and with good reason, and while there will be little pockets in which it can flourish. I think the more that people become aware of it, whether that's in UK, through twelve schools or whether that's in colleges, whether that's in their workplace, for their now being lectured by drift, is and whether that in politics directly, I think, there's gonna be a push back, a price to pay. And now, after a point that the people in the middle I going to say, I don't want to sacrifice everything else that I care about you're a that lady ology and I think we're getting closer and closer to that everyday. I said

right, I say yes, it is a future, at least for the interim here. I think it is operates in Rome. Where public opinion just doesn't matter marches on regardless I am not saying, is ultimately gonna to be the the winter, but I do think it is a future for five. Ten years with that, let's hit a few Other things before we go and we so of the rain, I noticed that rain reference. You just made him in your exit answer there. You I've been working with a wet drive back, yeah well before and presently after we record, I hope I will be mighty spent with the Red I'll be were have deep Oh bailing out my basement from the store in nor MR, were facing in in the northeast

And that's about how exciting my week has been that the the pleasure of filling up this tool with about six gallons of water before dumping yet and Phil Get up again is my task for the rest of the day to save on our belongings it's doing the job and I'm very grateful that off the floor, you belongs as much as anything anything they could get damaged by waters off before about where we still want to keep it love. We can hear the lack of that Charlie in keeping with the ongoing theme in this high costs. With with the dam starting off, yellow squirrel store again, and I think, Alexandria thrilled by this story. On Sunday, I decided I would take my kids to the park, the playground, and saw a loaded them into the golf cart and why staff in search of swings and slides

and I was no further than about a hundred feet from my house when in true suicidal fashion, this square all came flying out of a bush and in front of the golf cart. Now, I'm probably the only golf cart drive on this point, Goswell explain this. You do not want to swerve a golf cart at twenty seven miles an hour because they will flip. So I didn't. Instead in the interests of keeping my chosen safe, I kept going. I break, but I going straight and the squirrel didn't move and it got hit by the golf cart and well. Let's say it will spend no

happy days since then it has your trade, but but I looked at my kids and I thought, oh, my god, I just murdered- destroy massacre the squirrel in front of my kids and they were completely sanguine. so I thought fantastic I've got away with it, they didn't see it, they must have thought I did it manhole cover or something so I take into the park and there's no mention of it. The play for about half an hour, no mention of it. Getting the golf cart to go home, no mention of it. Ass. We get pretty close to my house. I notice my thoughts, you're out sat looking around rubbing his head around and there lie in the road. Is the squirrel and he says oh look, there's the squarely, he killed on the way to the park. He had seen everything we got into the house and he starts explains my wife.

The two squirrels and they were fighting and then one of them came out of a drain and one of them stop at the other didn't and then it went in front of the whale and he wondered if that he was going to stop within daddy, didn't stop you just run over and they got all square and- and I realized my goodness- she just cannot stop kids from seeing absolutely everything I would have sworn on my life that I've got away with it, but unfortunately I am no one in the house, the squirrel killer, but the as I only what their dad stand a paradox this in fact, but the upside is, but afterwards I thought I thought you know, though, by at least one person in the world was very proud of my private, in murdering squirrels and that's Alexander DE facto server. Alexandria you're welcome one, as for all the world. It is always a good thing. Congratulations and you were right about this. This district you're out the ring round

I was young, I figured I was finally save with a light item that couldn't be made. Fun of them is its mockery proof I am. I got to go out California to give a talk for this foundation and found out action, the day on the Reagan ranch now that the federal state governments declined to preserve the properties of that important, I was taken on by ass, we got to go out for a tour of the register. Absolutely beautiful. for place. I've always loved Ronald Reagan, but I think I understand I'm in a whole new way. After seeing it it's just a beautiful property and the fact that he built much of it with his own. Two hands is just amazing to me. also you I walk through the bathroom and I think you're desert, like maybe they ve, been replaced, but you know hold on to Russia's. Now it's all his. They left the house exactly the way had its other soaping showers, the one they're using when they moved out some kind of all, so

I re read the great re bribery novel something wicked. This way comes, I believe, I read it high school and that there is a nice movie based on it in eighteen. Eighty two You just got picked by a John, nor pod asked around this time of year. Last year we had some went on talking about it and made a note. I gotta wanna go back as really a tremendous peace work where nothing at all about for a start, start recording neighbour, of overwritten. Its fantasies? They have to spend a lot of disbelieved but beyond attitude. A wonderful story about the youth had a profound meditation about the eternal struggle between good and evil, and is just a tremendous story- Russell Kircher was ended. So go stories endowed

is now the rested. It love this book and loved re Brad, Bracer, first folks to go back to it. If you read it before of you, you haven't ever dipped in said to take a look, it's it's a wonderful thing so its time in the pot Casper editors picks envy day what you're my pick is peace by Jim Dirty earlier this week, which was eight, how many coincidences does the natural spillover theory require and just re alarm bells. It's basically Jim collating all the latest information that we have from the age and others about the amount of funding going to the one we Institute of Royal, to do experiments on making bat for any viruses, more infectious in humans and

just kind of goes through. Like all the things you have to believe to believe. This was just a coincidence that this outbreak started. In war Han, and you know, I'm basically already convinced of auctions spike protein here, but I am you should read Jim for yourself. Then what's your book. I take as actually also Jim dirty peace at the recent morning, George, an old some reassurance for covered, anxious, Americans and which Jim, who, as we all know, has been following this closely and accurately from day. One says that the pandemic is all, but over a slight figure, as Jim Dirty says, so it must be true. throw you have another Jim Gary peace. I don't have a piece by piece No ten rare, oh God, Biden, capital gains tax grab, would wreak havoc diagnosis correctly. This is among the most wrong headed poorly designed tax proposals in recent memory

and I can say that, having discussed this morning with Daniel on the morning call he was barely able to contain himself when describing what a bad idea. This was, in fact he said if it were to pass, it would demonstrate that we were Not a serious country, so my pig is the cover story and initiate coming out later this week by the great a charming master on how to preserve the warrior those in them what area which is under assault from all sorts of directions and hr, who knows whereof, he speaks to make her a really compelling case about how important it is to maintain its efforts and how to do it. So that's it. Veracity never seem to an Africa. Gas in Iraq has returned Mr Kallas Game without the express written permission, naturally amazing, strictly prohibited,

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