1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to vpetclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:33,079 your support. I welcome all callers. I take all of them, 10 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:38,560 except if you've been banned for really galactic levels of dumbassary. 11 00:00:42,079 --> 00:00:43,840 Let me go over or let me go a little 12 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,719 bit more in depth on the caller at the end 13 00:00:46,719 --> 00:00:50,359 of the last hour, Melinda, who I take it doesn't 14 00:00:50,439 --> 00:00:54,479 like Vince Cochley, who is on ten to noon before 15 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:57,960 I come on, and or at least is trying to 16 00:00:58,439 --> 00:01:02,640 score some points by suggesting that he doesn't belong in 17 00:01:02,759 --> 00:01:05,799 the WBT lineup or something, because because that's what she's 18 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:10,200 saying when she says, could in Vince Cokeley be considered 19 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:15,480 a Dei higher and as I told her that viewing 20 00:01:15,519 --> 00:01:20,400 everything through the racial prism is Dei prism or lens 21 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,239 it has so warped the way she thinks in that 22 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:30,400 she sees a black man holding a job on WBT 23 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:35,840 for years and thinks he's only there because of his race. 24 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:42,920 See that's what this way of thinking does to the 25 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:48,120 leftist mind. And again I mentioned the woke right, it's 26 00:01:48,159 --> 00:01:50,799 doing the same thing over there. But with the Jews 27 00:01:51,239 --> 00:01:54,439 it's the same thing. Right. You cease to see the 28 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:59,359 person as the individual because I can tell you without 29 00:01:59,359 --> 00:02:01,799 disclosing a kind of trade secrets here, but I can 30 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:08,680 tell you if Vince Coakley's ratings were not good, consistently good, 31 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:12,520 he would not be on the air any longer. See, 32 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:16,879 this is a meritocracy. Being on the air on WBT 33 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:21,000 is a meritocracy. You cannot be on the air for 34 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:22,960 as long as Vince has been on the air. And 35 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,800 dare I say also just in broadcasting. The man has 36 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:31,199 been in broadcasting for what now forty years? Thirty or 37 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,680 forty years? He was the lead anchor of the highest 38 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:39,560 rated TV news, local TV News in Charlotte for years, 39 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:45,879 for years. But see, Melinda doesn't see past Vince's skin color, 40 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:50,000 and then she weaponizes the skin color to diminish his achievements. 41 00:02:51,439 --> 00:02:56,879 All to score some political point, because the issue isn't 42 00:02:56,879 --> 00:02:59,000 the issue. The issue is the revolution. So she may 43 00:02:59,039 --> 00:03:01,479 think Vince is just a perfectly fine person, he's good 44 00:03:01,479 --> 00:03:03,560 at what he does or whatever. But I have to 45 00:03:03,599 --> 00:03:08,000 now discard that for the moment because I'm trying to 46 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:12,560 advance the revolution by making this argument that you, Pete, 47 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,400 don't know what you're talking about on DEI or something, 48 00:03:15,599 --> 00:03:21,080 because Melinda, she wasn't asking a question. She's making an allegation, right, 49 00:03:21,319 --> 00:03:25,560 She's making an allegation of hypocrisy or something, and that 50 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:28,879 maybe Vince doesn't belong on the lineup. But I can 51 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:32,360 tell you once again that the ratings would not lie. 52 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:39,719 If he doesn't have good ratings, he is out. Okay. 53 00:03:39,759 --> 00:03:42,199 So Melinda called back and said she loves Vince. You 54 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:45,120 misunderstood her. I don't think I misunderstood you if you're 55 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,560 suggesting he's a DEI higher. Also, I would point out 56 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:55,039 that we are owned by urban I, so huh, yeah, 57 00:03:55,039 --> 00:04:00,719 I no, Vince deserves his spot because we are a meritocracy. 58 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,199 The people who are on the air here are on 59 00:04:03,319 --> 00:04:10,439 the air because we produce content that advertisers want to 60 00:04:10,479 --> 00:04:14,840 purchase time during. Because a lot of people listen to 61 00:04:14,879 --> 00:04:19,680 the content. You like the content that the various hosts produce. 62 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:21,800 We all do different things and we're not told what 63 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,839 to say and what to think. We produce different content, 64 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:30,120 we say different things, we have different opinions, and we 65 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,399 do it in a way that people appreciate and they 66 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,879 like to listen to, they like to engage with, And 67 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,319 advertisers see that audience and they say, I would like 68 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,439 my message to be in front of those people. That 69 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,959 audience and the politics of it really don't matter so much. 70 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,439 It's just that they want people to be aware of 71 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:52,160 their product or service, and the moment a host cannot 72 00:04:52,199 --> 00:04:56,560 deliver the audience, then they're gone. That's it. It's as 73 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:02,199 easy and as straightforward as that. So to suggest that 74 00:05:02,319 --> 00:05:05,399 somehow Vince doesn't belong in the lineup, or that he 75 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:09,120 was hired for some other reason than his merit is offensive. 76 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:15,600 But again, that's that's what happens when you when you 77 00:05:15,639 --> 00:05:19,519 go down this path of looking at people as as 78 00:05:19,639 --> 00:05:24,000 groups and classes, and then you start stuffing those classes 79 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:28,879 into oppressor and depressed, and we have to try to 80 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:32,360 squeeze the well. I was gonna say balloon, but that's 81 00:05:32,399 --> 00:05:34,720 not a good analogy. You're trying to You're trying to 82 00:05:34,759 --> 00:05:38,120 adjust the scales to make everything even for the out 83 00:05:38,319 --> 00:05:45,680 for the outcomes. For example, out in San Francisco, did 84 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,319 you hear that they were going to implement equity grading? 85 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:56,639 Equity grading? Equity is not equality. They are different. Right. 86 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:02,519 As Gary pointed out, equality of outcome is not the 87 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:07,519 same as equality of opportunity. I believe in equal opportunities. 88 00:06:08,199 --> 00:06:11,319 Anybody can be anything. You can do. What you set 89 00:06:11,399 --> 00:06:14,439 your mind to do, you can do it. And shame 90 00:06:14,759 --> 00:06:19,639 on those who tell kids, who tell other people, adults 91 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:23,600 to that you can't because somebody is preventing you from 92 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:27,120 getting your dream. They're blocking you. These are the evil 93 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:29,879 people stopping you from doing this thing. If you want it, 94 00:06:29,959 --> 00:06:34,639 you can get it. Set your sights on it. Have 95 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:39,480 a goal. Tell people what that goal is. You would 96 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:44,399 be amazed at how simple it actually is. That's it. 97 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:49,360 Have a goal, a realistic one, but have goals, put 98 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:53,639 write them down. Write your goals down, and then tell 99 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:57,120 other people what it is you want to achieve. That's 100 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:00,720 what a job application is. I want this job. Communicating 101 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:05,360 to the employer I would like that job. Have the goal, 102 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,319 write it down, Tell other people, because when you tell 103 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:12,759 other people, you would be amazed how many people want 104 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:17,839 to actually help you achieve your goal, especially successful people. 105 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:20,759 But we don't tell people that. We don't tell kids that. 106 00:07:22,199 --> 00:07:25,079 Have you ever heard that? In a K twelve education setting? 107 00:07:25,519 --> 00:07:27,240 To have a goal? Write it down and then tell 108 00:07:27,279 --> 00:07:29,079 people what your goal is so they can help you 109 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:33,519 achieve it. Ask for help, seek out mentorship. Right, these 110 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:35,720 are the things that make you successful. And you know 111 00:07:35,759 --> 00:07:39,120 who knows this, successful people, And you know what they 112 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,399 will tell you exactly what I just told you, because 113 00:07:42,399 --> 00:07:46,360 they've told me. They write books about this stuff, seriously, 114 00:07:47,959 --> 00:07:52,959 how to win friends and influence people, how to what 115 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,519 was the one drawing a blank on the name of it, Carnegie, 116 00:07:59,199 --> 00:08:01,240 think yourself rich or something like that. I forget what 117 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:05,959 it was called years ago, but you talked about visualization 118 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:10,279 of the goal. They all do the same thing. It's 119 00:08:10,319 --> 00:08:13,560 the same model. And when you tell people that they 120 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,800 cannot do that because the color of their skin, their 121 00:08:16,839 --> 00:08:22,360 economic background, their sexual identity, whatever. When you tell people 122 00:08:22,399 --> 00:08:25,879 that somehow or another, you can't make it like all 123 00:08:25,959 --> 00:08:29,600 these other people can, so you need help, you're instilling 124 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:34,799 in them what's called a tendency for interpersonal VICTIMOODE or TIV. 125 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,639 It's a psychological thing. You start stuffing their brains with 126 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:43,000 that cancerous view, and then it affects every single thing 127 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:46,840 in their life. It is so damaging that if you 128 00:08:46,919 --> 00:08:49,600 really want to help people, you tell them the things 129 00:08:49,639 --> 00:08:53,279 that make them successful, like I just did. Here's another one. 130 00:08:53,639 --> 00:08:55,399 If you want to stay out of poverty or get 131 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,120 out of poverty. They know the answers to this. You 132 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:01,399 know what the answers are. Nothing GOVC can do for you. 133 00:09:02,799 --> 00:09:11,279 Graduate high school right, graduate high school. Have a job, 134 00:09:11,519 --> 00:09:14,480 any job. Just have a job because it will lead 135 00:09:14,519 --> 00:09:19,080 to other opportunities and skills development. So graduate high school, 136 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:24,200 have a job, and then don't get or don't have 137 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:28,600 kids before you're married and before you are out of school. 138 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,799 That was the Brookings Institution, a liberal think tank. They 139 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:41,960 identified these things thirty years ago. I want to say, 140 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,639 this is not rocket science. But if you don't tell 141 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,120 people these things and instead stuff their minds with the 142 00:09:49,159 --> 00:09:51,960 idea that they are the victim, you are damning them 143 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:56,840 to a life of poverty and grievance mongering, grievance collecting. 144 00:09:58,399 --> 00:10:03,240 It's just poison, absolute poison, and it comes from the 145 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,879 Marxist ideology. I see the roots there. 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I'm an American and I happen to 175 00:11:41,519 --> 00:11:44,919 have black skin, and I'm so glad you're covering this 176 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:49,799 because from my perspective, people like me, what you would 177 00:11:49,919 --> 00:11:53,279 call the African American community, have been destroyed by what 178 00:11:53,320 --> 00:12:00,159 I would call this government heroine, which is packaged in socialism, communism, 179 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:05,039 and Marxism. So when Joe Biden's going around saying build 180 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,600 back better, I said to myself, well, they want to 181 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:15,159 destroy and then build back into this ideology of this 182 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:16,519 Marx Marxism. 183 00:12:16,799 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, at the core of that is the is the 184 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:23,440 uh well Obama called it the fundamental transformation. It's the 185 00:12:23,519 --> 00:12:27,799 tearing down of the existing institutions by any means necessary. 186 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,519 And that's where you get the systemically this and inherently 187 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:34,440 that in order to what to tear them down and 188 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:36,879 then to quote rebuild them, as you said, to build 189 00:12:36,879 --> 00:12:39,919 them back better. It's a it is the it's the 190 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:41,360 project of the left. 191 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:46,200 Speaker 2: Yes, and they're very savvy, and everybody has to watch 192 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,080 the language, and you have to understand the content of 193 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,080 what they're saying, because they package these things in a 194 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:56,639 very nice little envelope, but when you taste it, it's heroin, 195 00:12:56,879 --> 00:12:59,720 it's poison. And they were trying to do that. Not 196 00:12:59,799 --> 00:13:02,960 only they've already done to the African American community, but 197 00:13:03,039 --> 00:13:06,080 they wanted it to do to the whole country. And 198 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,840 everybody should remember because they'll try to go to the 199 00:13:10,879 --> 00:13:14,320 middle now and they'll try to mask themselves. But everybody 200 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:18,720 has to remember going forward, who did this, because they 201 00:13:18,759 --> 00:13:21,600 came very close to destroying this country with their open 202 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:23,919 borders in this DEI crap. 203 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 1: Well, they still might, Richard, they still might. We are 204 00:13:27,879 --> 00:13:33,039 not we are nowhere near past the impacts of the 205 00:13:33,039 --> 00:13:38,279 the illegal immigration crisis, and the and the DEI and 206 00:13:38,399 --> 00:13:41,639 CRT and all of that garbage, all that Marxist garbage. 207 00:13:41,759 --> 00:13:44,399 We're still in that. We're still in the thick of it. 208 00:13:45,159 --> 00:13:48,639 Speaker 2: Yes, and I'm very I'm from New York, I'm retired cop. 209 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:52,679 And god forbid, the next thing that blows up or 210 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:57,559 some building comes down, just remember who opened up those borders. 211 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:00,000 Who's gonna have blood in their hands? 212 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,159 Speaker 1: Yeah there, Yeah, No, I appreciate it, Richard. I appreciate 213 00:14:04,159 --> 00:14:08,000 the call too. Thank you for your service also, And 214 00:14:09,519 --> 00:14:12,879 that's the concern that I played the clips a couple 215 00:14:13,159 --> 00:14:16,600 I guess two weeks ago. Yeah. From Tom Holman, head 216 00:14:16,639 --> 00:14:20,840 of the board's the borders are And that's one of 217 00:14:20,919 --> 00:14:22,840 the things he said that keeps him up at night, 218 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:29,360 is like, we know there are just by numbers, hundreds 219 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:33,320 of thousands of people that got away. We don't know 220 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:38,360 how many more got away. The two hundred thousand is 221 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:42,039 that's just the number we know of. And even if 222 00:14:42,039 --> 00:14:44,679 it's like one percent of the two hundred thousand that 223 00:14:44,799 --> 00:14:50,399 we know of, like that's enough to cause a lot 224 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:55,159 of damage and kill a lot of people. It was 225 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:59,039 a decision that was made by President Auto pen whoever 226 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:05,960 that was. Yeah, it's it's very concerning to me because 227 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:09,799 the purpose is to destroy. That's the point, right, And 228 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:14,919 I mentioned Obama's catchphrase fundamental transformation. You know, you don't 229 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:19,120 fundamentally transform something that you love, that you think is good. 230 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:23,840 The only the only reason you would fundamentally transform something 231 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:28,240 is if you didn't like it, if it was bad, 232 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:32,759 if you, you know, wanted to make something else. That's 233 00:15:32,799 --> 00:15:40,080 why you would fundamentally change it. So over in San Francisco, 234 00:15:42,039 --> 00:15:45,519 apparently you can push those people too far on this 235 00:15:45,639 --> 00:15:49,559 equity stuff. I did not think that was possible full disclosure, 236 00:15:49,679 --> 00:15:56,799 but apparently it is a proposal to experiment with changing 237 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:01,639 the grading system in the city's high schools quickly crashed 238 00:16:01,679 --> 00:16:06,720 and burned. They called it grading for equity because that's 239 00:16:06,759 --> 00:16:10,080 going to prepare kids for their future as an adult. 240 00:16:10,159 --> 00:16:13,360 Right is to grade them on such a curve that 241 00:16:13,399 --> 00:16:16,440 they don't actually learn anything, but they still get their diploma, 242 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:21,799 and then they'll be really prepared to make a comfortable 243 00:16:21,799 --> 00:16:24,799 living for themselves and be productive members of society. Because 244 00:16:24,799 --> 00:16:27,440 they'll have the high school diploma. They won't know how 245 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,120 to read, they won't know how to do any arithmetic. 246 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,759 They won't know really anything else except probably you know, 247 00:16:34,679 --> 00:16:40,000 queer theory and such. But at least they got the diploma. 248 00:16:40,159 --> 00:16:44,679 Homework and classroom participation were no longer going to influence 249 00:16:44,759 --> 00:16:50,840 final grades. Instead, your grades would be primarily determined by 250 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:56,360 a final exam that students could take multiple times. Attendance 251 00:16:56,399 --> 00:16:59,759 and punctuality, which remember, I think is racist according to 252 00:16:59,759 --> 00:17:02,240 this Smithsonian from a couple of years back where they 253 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,079 put out that big chart about what is racist and 254 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:08,720 you know, white oppression and stuff, the DEI. 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Instead of educating kids, the 283 00:18:58,519 --> 00:19:03,160 San Francisco equity play and would have effectively instrumentalized the 284 00:19:03,319 --> 00:19:07,599 children the school system is supposed to serve, making them 285 00:19:07,599 --> 00:19:10,920 an object lesson for educating the rest of society on 286 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,440 what equality should look like. In this upside down reconception 287 00:19:15,559 --> 00:19:20,559 of schooling, instilling knowledge, virtue, and habits for lifelong learning 288 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:25,240 becomes a scandalous distraction from the political project of making 289 00:19:25,319 --> 00:19:32,119 students equal equally uneducated. I put that last part in 290 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:38,480 equally uneducated. That is the thing about communism. Everybody ends 291 00:19:38,559 --> 00:19:41,000 up equal, well except for the guys, the elites that 292 00:19:41,039 --> 00:19:44,200 are ruling over everybody else. But everybody else is equal, 293 00:19:44,319 --> 00:19:51,960 equally poor, equally terrified, paranoid about all their neighbors and 294 00:19:52,039 --> 00:19:54,680 family members that snitch on each other and then get 295 00:19:54,720 --> 00:20:01,039 hauled away to gulags and such. They go on to 296 00:20:01,039 --> 00:20:03,039 say that in some ways we should not be surprised 297 00:20:03,079 --> 00:20:07,160 that schemes like this the progressive overclass guards its privilege 298 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,480 to rule through meritocracy on one side, while on the 299 00:20:10,519 --> 00:20:13,559 other defends its moral right to rule through its commitment 300 00:20:13,599 --> 00:20:19,319 to equality. Some level of cognitive dissonance must be expected, 301 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:24,039 they say. Trying to change the definition of a work 302 00:20:24,319 --> 00:20:30,079 to include b work, so they were making the grading 303 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:34,599 system they're talking about a score of eighty percent would 304 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,599 still get an A. Now in my day, you only 305 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,000 got an A if it was ninety and above. Right. 306 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,319 B's were in the eighties, c's were in the seventies, 307 00:20:44,759 --> 00:20:47,920 and then D was only like five points from like 308 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,279 six sixty five to seventy, and then everything else was 309 00:20:51,319 --> 00:20:53,759 an F. You had to get like two thirds of 310 00:20:53,799 --> 00:20:58,319 the stuff right just to be considered passing with a D. 311 00:21:00,279 --> 00:21:04,279 In this equity grading system, you could get a twenty one, 312 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:10,359 and that's a D for dumb assery. Right, So, trying 313 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:14,519 to change the definition of what is a work to 314 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:19,640 incorporate all the B work just obscures the achievements of 315 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:23,720 the best students and teachers. Passing work that fails is 316 00:21:23,759 --> 00:21:26,839 an even worse thing to do for the middling and 317 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:31,160 poor students and teachers who might otherwise be roused to 318 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,759 do better, Like if you fail, then you should try 319 00:21:34,799 --> 00:21:37,920 to do better to pass. It obscures the need for 320 00:21:38,079 --> 00:21:42,160 dramatic interventions and remedial learning. Right, Oh, look at you, 321 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,920 you got a twenty two. Oh you pass You got 322 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:47,640 a D. Oh, I'm so proud. Now you don't have 323 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:51,960 to do any kind of corrective action. The best thing 324 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,960 schools can do for kids is to raise standards and 325 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,759 then build a culture of support that helps children achieve 326 00:21:59,799 --> 00:22:06,039 to the best of their abilities. Right, the soft bigotry 327 00:22:06,319 --> 00:22:14,319 of low expectations. They scrapped this plan. They did scrap it. 328 00:22:14,839 --> 00:22:21,519 They got such backlash from I know San Francisco parents. 329 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:28,599 They will not be implementing the equity grading yet. I 330 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:34,039 say yet, because these things never they never truly die, 331 00:22:34,279 --> 00:22:37,799 these types of ideas, they don't go away. There was 332 00:22:37,839 --> 00:22:41,240 a movie I think it was called Ghost Chip with 333 00:22:41,839 --> 00:22:45,079 the dude from Fight Club that wasn't Brad Pitt, but 334 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:49,319 Edward Norton. I think he was in it. And yeah, 335 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:53,400 pretty sure he was in it. And it's been out 336 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,039 for a long time, so I'm going to spoil it 337 00:22:55,079 --> 00:22:58,880 for you. But it's basically a ghost Chip. It's a 338 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,119 boat and it's out there and it's like this boat 339 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,359 that like the history. The history is that it sank 340 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:04,960 and it was like a luxury liner. So there were 341 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,359 all these riches on it, and they entice these scavengers 342 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:10,680 to try to go find it. He's like, I know 343 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,759 where the boat is, we can go get it. And 344 00:23:13,839 --> 00:23:21,960 basically it's a ship that lures people in and it's 345 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:28,319 satan just trapping souls, luring them in with riches and 346 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:32,519 greed and all of this other stuff. And it's just 347 00:23:32,559 --> 00:23:38,519 a cycle. And it never ends. This argument it's called 348 00:23:38,519 --> 00:23:43,160 the Great Debate. It never ends because it is inspired 349 00:23:43,799 --> 00:23:48,960 my opinion, only it is inspired from Hell. Then I 350 00:23:49,039 --> 00:23:51,640 know how that sounds. I absolutely know how that sounds. 351 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:58,119 But if I were to construct a religion dressed up 352 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:03,680 in any different form of economics or equality, right, you 353 00:24:03,759 --> 00:24:06,960 can just take the parts and put them into anything, 354 00:24:08,599 --> 00:24:11,759 this would be it because it breeds the very kind 355 00:24:11,799 --> 00:24:17,519 of chaos and animosity and envy and greed. It creates 356 00:24:17,599 --> 00:24:22,359 all of these things that destroy people's bonds and their 357 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:27,200 civility and their societies. So yeah, that's why I call 358 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,319 these things as I see them. I say that this 359 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,079 is what I think it is because I know of 360 00:24:32,079 --> 00:24:38,079 no other word to describe what I'm seeing. Let me 361 00:24:38,079 --> 00:24:40,200 see here. This is from Philip. In all of the 362 00:24:40,599 --> 00:24:43,559 hubris over DEI I have yet to see a list 363 00:24:43,599 --> 00:24:49,000 of characteristics that qualify for diversity. Well, I think it's 364 00:24:49,039 --> 00:24:53,519 like porn. You know it when you see it. Short, fat, bald, blonde, 365 00:24:53,519 --> 00:24:56,880 facial jewelry, long fingernailed, shoe size, country of origin or 366 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:58,920 any other items that might be in the human race. 367 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,039 Tell me, do you know of any visually impaired commercial pilots? 368 00:25:02,519 --> 00:25:02,880 Speaker 3: I do not? 369 00:25:03,759 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 1: Why not? What's the limit on diversity? Right? 370 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:07,079 Speaker 3: Yeah? 371 00:25:07,079 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: I mean this, This is part of the problem. When 372 00:25:13,279 --> 00:25:17,640 you implement these things, you start down this road of 373 00:25:18,079 --> 00:25:23,920 replacing merit with some other false metric, and that can 374 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:32,279 get people killed. Jan says, you don't understand DEI. I 375 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:35,480 have to disagree. I started listening to you in Ashville 376 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:37,720 and have been listening to you for years. Thank you. 377 00:25:37,799 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 3: Jan. 378 00:25:38,279 --> 00:25:41,079 Speaker 1: There is a long list of things you obviously don't understand, 379 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,240 but you seem to have a very good grip on DEI. 380 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,279 Thank you, Thank you very much. I appreciate that. On 381 00:25:46,319 --> 00:25:49,720 a completely separate note, I had no idea Vince was black, 382 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:52,920 and I couldn't care less even if I were willing 383 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,599 to try. I enjoy his show, and that pretty much 384 00:25:55,640 --> 00:26:03,880 sums it up. So yeah, Dennis says, as a unc 385 00:26:04,039 --> 00:26:06,640 Charlotte alum from sixty seven to seventy one, I remember 386 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:09,839 a history course whereby we studied that Karl Marx and 387 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:15,119 Friedrich Engel's book The Communist Manifesto preached against capitalism and 388 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,720 the working class was to revolt and to overcome back. 389 00:26:18,759 --> 00:26:21,720 Then we were taught basically that philosophy was a bad thing. 390 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,519 Fast forward fifty five years to the present, and it 391 00:26:24,559 --> 00:26:27,359 seems like our institutes of higher learning are teaching just 392 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:34,680 the opposite. Yeah, yeah, I mean when you start injecting 393 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:40,559 this stuff in, or you're smuggling it in under different ideas, 394 00:26:42,519 --> 00:26:49,119 you know, masquerading as you know, morally superior, and then 395 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,519 you get no pushback because you've cleansed all the ranks 396 00:26:53,079 --> 00:26:55,759 of anybody that would say whoa, whoa, whoa. Let me 397 00:26:55,799 --> 00:26:57,519 tell you what the other side of the story is, 398 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,440 you know. Yeah, this is why people call K twelve 399 00:27:01,559 --> 00:27:06,079 education and you know, colleges and universities what they call 400 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:14,079 it indoctrination. Bill says, wasn't mistreatment of slaves anecdotal as well? 401 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,200 I just heard your call with your socialist buddy Mike. 402 00:27:17,559 --> 00:27:20,240 He could apply his reason to about any situation. So 403 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,319 only a few women get raped, So is it really 404 00:27:22,319 --> 00:27:25,079 that bad? Like, don't get me wrong, I enjoy my 405 00:27:25,319 --> 00:27:29,200 calling up and you point him back in the other direction. 406 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,279 You're right, it's all to tear down society. Thanks. That's 407 00:27:33,319 --> 00:27:38,799 from Bill in uh Huntersville. Yeah, that's look. I welcome 408 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,079 challenges to my ideas. I say it all the time. 409 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:47,640 Unchallenged ideas are easy to hold. Right. Resistance to pressure 410 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,559 build strength. And it's one of my criticisms of the 411 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,200 left and the media, which is because the media doesn't 412 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,200 challenge the left like it does the right, the left 413 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:03,359 has gotten intellectually flat and they are unable to defend 414 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:07,200 their ideas because they don't have to. And so I 415 00:28:07,519 --> 00:28:13,400 offer that service. I'm a giver. You're welcome, all right. 416 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,240 If you're listening to this show, you know I try 417 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,039 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 418 00:28:17,079 --> 00:28:19,119 I know you do too, And you've probably heard me 419 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:23,400 say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because 420 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,079 it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've 421 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,440 been so impressed with ground News. It's an app and 422 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,559 it's a website and it combines news from around the 423 00:28:32,599 --> 00:28:35,240 world in one place so you can compare coverage and 424 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:39,200 verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, 425 00:28:39,519 --> 00:28:42,559 dot news slash Pete. I put the link in the 426 00:28:42,559 --> 00:28:45,799 podcast description too. I started using ground News a few 427 00:28:45,839 --> 00:28:48,559 months ago and more recently chose to work with them 428 00:28:48,559 --> 00:28:51,359 as an affiliate because it lets me see clearly how 429 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,880 stories get covered and by whom. The blind spot feature 430 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,599 shows you which stories get ignored by the left and 431 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,680 the right. See for yourself. Check dot org, dot news 432 00:29:02,039 --> 00:29:05,160 slash Pete. Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen 433 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,279 percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to 434 00:29:08,279 --> 00:29:11,759 get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription then not 435 00:29:11,799 --> 00:29:14,799 only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground News 436 00:29:14,839 --> 00:29:18,720 as they make the media landscape more transparent. Let's talk 437 00:29:18,759 --> 00:29:21,319 with Dave now. Hello Dave, welcome to the program. 438 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 3: Hello Pete, Hey, thank you for taking my call. Sure, 439 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,480 I just had a few comments. One is, if you 440 00:29:30,559 --> 00:29:32,680 really want to know what this lops like down the 441 00:29:32,759 --> 00:29:38,759 road in regard to socialism or communism, take a look 442 00:29:38,799 --> 00:29:41,759 at the book called Atlas Shrugged. 443 00:29:42,079 --> 00:29:45,319 Speaker 1: Oh I've read it. Yes, if you. 444 00:29:45,319 --> 00:29:48,319 Speaker 3: Reread that really is a picture of where these people 445 00:29:48,359 --> 00:29:48,920 want to take you. 446 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,839 Speaker 1: Yeah. You have the productive that the productive that are 447 00:29:54,039 --> 00:29:59,200 beaten down and restrained at all in all manner of 448 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:03,920 ways in order to not make others feel bad about 449 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,319 not contributing, and so you end up with the moochers 450 00:30:06,359 --> 00:30:09,680 and the looters and you know, versus the producers. And 451 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:13,480 the society crumbles. 452 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,559 Speaker 3: And none of the ills of the regular non communist 453 00:30:17,599 --> 00:30:23,160 society still remain because it's part of human nature. Additionally, 454 00:30:23,759 --> 00:30:29,000 hit the nose on the head there regarding the responsibility 455 00:30:29,119 --> 00:30:34,319 side of this, Nobody who is a member of the 456 00:30:34,359 --> 00:30:38,720 Communist party jumps up front and tries to take control 457 00:30:39,279 --> 00:30:44,960 or be responsible for anything. That book also points that out. Yep. 458 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's also like the person I forget who 459 00:30:49,359 --> 00:30:51,519 it was that called you know nobody shows up and 460 00:30:52,359 --> 00:30:56,319 is selling communism with you know, one hundred million deaths. 461 00:30:56,759 --> 00:30:59,880 But that's not the pitch, right, The pitch is always you. 462 00:30:59,839 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 3: To exactly and it is far from it. Right, you're 463 00:31:05,759 --> 00:31:09,920 mentioning about it coming from hell, You're absolutely spot on. 464 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,960 It absolutely is because in every way, shape and form, 465 00:31:15,359 --> 00:31:19,400 it is a contradiction to Judeo Christian values. Yeah. 466 00:31:20,359 --> 00:31:24,279 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a there's a book. Uh, And I've watched 467 00:31:24,279 --> 00:31:27,440 an interview with the authors The Devil and Karl Marx, 468 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,079 and I have I have the book. I have not 469 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,000 read it because I'm kind of scared to because like 470 00:31:34,039 --> 00:31:37,119 it's one of the things I don't like entertaining. What's like, 471 00:31:37,119 --> 00:31:39,400 like like Vince Cochley is all into the horror movies. 472 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,200 I don't watch any of that stuff. I don't like. 473 00:31:41,279 --> 00:31:43,960 I don't even want any of that stuff in my head. 474 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,440 I just I don't. I don't want to give it 475 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:50,720 any kind of an opening. And absolutely, yeah, So it's 476 00:31:50,839 --> 00:31:53,920 I kind of worry about trying to read the book, 477 00:31:54,039 --> 00:31:55,759 but I wanted to. I wanted to learn about it. 478 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,200 So I watched an interview with the author and he outlined, 479 00:31:59,799 --> 00:32:03,160 he outlined, like the book and these connections and they 480 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,279 are they are quite quite strong. 481 00:32:06,599 --> 00:32:11,640 Speaker 3: Oh boy, well, Marxism has proven itself to be an 482 00:32:11,759 --> 00:32:18,480 end a rotten man. Nobody who practices Marxism is a 483 00:32:18,519 --> 00:32:24,480 strong country. Everyone is mediocrity. And that's what they're selling 484 00:32:24,839 --> 00:32:29,599 is mediocrity. Every one is equals. Therefore everything is mediocre. 485 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 1: Well, and that's but it's always being sold by people 486 00:32:34,079 --> 00:32:36,880 who are either the useful idiots to quote Vladimir Lenin, 487 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:41,400 or they are they they they are of the belief 488 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,480 that they will be the ruling class, that they will 489 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,000 be the elites. So that's why they want everybody to 490 00:32:47,039 --> 00:32:51,000 buy into this beautiful system where everybody you know, gets, 491 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,640 you know, seven days a week off, nobody has to 492 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,480 work somebody else will do everything else for you, and 493 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,440 but they will rule and they sell it to you 494 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,440 one way. But of course that's not possible. You can't 495 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:06,000 have a society where nobody does anything. It will collapse. 496 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,799 And so then they then force everybody to do stuff, 497 00:33:09,799 --> 00:33:13,160 but obviously not themselves because they know better than everybody else. 498 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 3: But you are all over this subject, man, you are 499 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,599 all over it, and I really really appreciate it. Well. 500 00:33:20,599 --> 00:33:21,039 Speaker 1: Thanks. 501 00:33:21,839 --> 00:33:24,920 Speaker 3: We have to get an education out there for everyone 502 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,559 to know what it is they're dealing with. Yeah, well 503 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,079 we're not getting. 504 00:33:28,759 --> 00:33:32,000 Speaker 1: That, no, I agree. I think anybody who watched the 505 00:33:32,039 --> 00:33:35,759 fall of the Berlin Wall, like, yeah, and I'm gen X, 506 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,839 so I saw it. I was in high school at 507 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,880 the time, and I remember like, we thought we had 508 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,799 beaten Communism and that was such a great thing because 509 00:33:45,799 --> 00:33:50,079 communism was so evil. And give it a couple of 510 00:33:50,119 --> 00:33:56,119 decades and people turned over the institutions to the Marxists. 511 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,599 And this is precisely and has been precisely the plan 512 00:34:00,759 --> 00:34:02,799 for a very long time. This is the long march 513 00:34:02,839 --> 00:34:09,239 through the institutions. You're talking media, law, academia, government, right, 514 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:14,039 And when you control the culture, politics is downstream of 515 00:34:14,119 --> 00:34:16,639 that culture. That's what Graham she talked about. And so 516 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,480 that's how you end up in a position where people 517 00:34:19,679 --> 00:34:25,519 grow up never knowing that this this ideology is really 518 00:34:25,599 --> 00:34:29,119 bad and there's a reason why it has been defeated 519 00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:32,320 and people fight against it because it is so evil. 520 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,199 Speaker 3: Absolutely, I couldn't agree with anymore, sir. 521 00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:40,159 Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I appreciate your call. Good chat. I have 522 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:43,440 a great weekend, all right, take care. This is from 523 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:48,840 good Wahoo who says Marxism and by extension is I 524 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:53,039 don't know, is nothing more than envy with power behind 525 00:34:53,079 --> 00:34:55,880 it to exact revenge by force. Right, This is the 526 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,960 whole in Marxism. You know, power dynamics is always sent 527 00:35:01,119 --> 00:35:04,000 because that's how you gin up the envy and whether 528 00:35:04,039 --> 00:35:09,480 you're talking power dynamics between economic classes, right. And what 529 00:35:09,559 --> 00:35:14,199 Graham she realized was the economic class warfare that Marx 530 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:20,840 was pitching wasn't terribly well received in capitalist nations because 531 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:24,920 they had the opportunity to actually advance. People want to 532 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:28,599 be rich, people want to succeed, right, and so that 533 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:33,360 wasn't something that was particularly useful as a messaging tool. 534 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,039 And so this then turned into the cultural side of things, 535 00:35:37,039 --> 00:35:40,599 where It's like, Okay, take control of these institutions, and 536 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:48,480 you will then teach the proletariat to be envious of 537 00:35:48,599 --> 00:35:52,320 the oppressor and to overthrow the oppressor. But you have 538 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,039 to do it through these institutions. You have to deconstruct 539 00:35:56,079 --> 00:36:03,119 through that, through those cultural institutions. Back to the tweet 540 00:36:03,159 --> 00:36:07,719 here from Goodwahoo. Just take a look at Carl Marx himself. 541 00:36:08,119 --> 00:36:11,280 He was from a wealthy family living in London. Oh, 542 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,679 he was a freeloader too. Do you know that the 543 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:19,480 dude was a freeloader. He abandoned his wife and kids, 544 00:36:20,039 --> 00:36:23,639 and he had like some really disgusting medical thing going on. 545 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:27,239 But yeah, he was by all accounts, a lazy glutton 546 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:32,480 who desperately wanted to be accepted into the English higher 547 00:36:32,519 --> 00:36:36,920 class system. And when he was rejected, he dreamed up 548 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:42,639 communism with the influence of Hegel, who saw the state 549 00:36:42,679 --> 00:36:48,079 as the highest moral authority. Hegel did oh by extension 550 00:36:48,119 --> 00:36:52,119 dei Marxism and by extension Dei's nothing more than envy. Right, 551 00:36:52,159 --> 00:36:57,000 So the power dynamics always central. You see this in 552 00:36:57,039 --> 00:37:01,599 the CRT stuff when it was you know, blown starting 553 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:05,000 probably what a decade ago, and when that was being 554 00:37:05,079 --> 00:37:08,119 used to infiltrate everything. The power dynamic. Who has the power? 555 00:37:08,119 --> 00:37:11,840 And this remember the old blind you know, Uh, black 556 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,280 people can't be racist because they don't have the power. 557 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:19,440 It's Marxism, right, because that's not true. Everybody could be racist. 558 00:37:19,639 --> 00:37:22,599 Every single person can be a racist. That's not something 559 00:37:22,639 --> 00:37:25,559 to aspire to. I'm just saying everybody can be a 560 00:37:25,639 --> 00:37:27,480 racist towards somebody else. Have you ever seen some of 561 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:31,800 the ads that they have on TV in China, Holy 562 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:39,519 Smokes racist on their state run Commy TV Racist. Anybody 563 00:37:39,559 --> 00:37:44,559 can be racist, but Marxism frames everything through power dynamics, 564 00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:49,800 oppressed versus a presser. I don't I didn't make this up. 565 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:54,599 Marx did. Maybe Satan I didn't make it up. All right, 566 00:37:54,599 --> 00:37:56,960 that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much 567 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,000 for listening. I could not do the show without your 568 00:37:59,079 --> 00:38:01,840 support and this support of the businesses that advertise on 569 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,679 the podcast, So if you'd like, please support them too 570 00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:06,400 and tell them you heard it here. 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