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your support. Last hour, we talked about the lawsuit filed
by the former UNC Charlotte DEI administrator against UNC Charlotte
for firing her. I will circle back to that Jen
Pisaki style, but first let me let me circle back
like Pasaki would. Actually she never did circle back to
this stuff. She just said she would circle back anyway.
I'm actually going to go back to something I promised
I would talk about a little bit more in depth.
I'm gonna do that now, which is the DEI industry, okay,
and what this actually is about. And when I say
I'm going to talk about it, I actually mean somebody
else is going to talk about it. A guy named
James Lindsay. He writes over at New discourses dot com
and he was one of the guys that did the
grievance studies and he's a big warrior against the Wolke
left and the woke right. And had him on the
program back in September actually the day Charlie Kirk was assassinated,
he was on the program. So he had written and
this goes back to twenty twenty three. Okay. This is
one of the benefits of covering a story for a
long period of time is that you you build up
the institutional knowledge. By the way, that's why beat reporting
is so important. When you just send everybody out in
a newsroom for general assignment reporting, you become a shower
reporter because and I don't mean like intellectually, I'm just
saying you don't. You don't have a deep understanding of
a lot of issues or any issue, because you're just
constantly running around chasing whatever the story of the day is.
You're not on a beat, developing sources, doing the daily
grind of learning things. And because a lot of stuff
you may learn on a beat, you never put into
a story until maybe a couple of years later. So
being on a be covering a topic for a long
period of time builds you that institutional knowledge. So I've
got files on critical race theory, DEI all sorts of
stuff back at the house, and I went and pulled
out this this script. It comes from June of twenty
twenty three, the diversity, equity and inclusion industry under what
James Lindsay calls woke Marxism. He says, it's easy to
understand this, okay, Equity is a rebrand of socialism, that's
all that is. So when you hear the word equity,
think socialism, what does that mean? And it's an administered
economy that makes outcomes equal. I'm sure you've seen the
graphic where it's like three kids looking over a fence
into a baseball game. Right, they can't afford tickets, so
they can't go. And so you've got a tall kid,
a medium heighth kid, and a short kid. The short
kid can't see anything, right, the medium kid can barely
see over the fence, and the tall kid can see fine.
And so they say, you know, equality is giving everybody
a box to stand on. So now each of the
three kids has a box to stand on, and so
equality looks like the tall kid really not needing the box.
He's now just standing higher looking over the fence. The
medium height kid he can now see over the fence,
and the short kids still can't. So they say equity
would be the tall kid give up his box to
the short kid, so the short kid can now see
over the wall, and now all three of them can see.
Isn't that nice? Right? But who's doing the redistributing of
the boxes? See, there's the key. So in a free society,
the tall kid would be free to make the kind choice,
which would be to somehow you come into possession of
this box and you're like, well, here, I'll let you
borrow my box, or I'll give my box to you
whatever I can already see. I don't need the box,
you have it so you can watch. That's a free choice.
Under equity, somebody takes the box from the tall kid
and says, you don't need to see it, or you
don't need to use the box to see, so we're
gonna take it from you. We're gonna give it to
the short kid. See. So that's why what Lindsay is
saying is equity is a rebrand of socialism. It is
an administered economy, whether the economy is you know, the
larger economy or the economy is of you know, potential
jobs at a UNC campus or something something like that. Right,
program or funding that's available to people, it's administered. Somebody
is calling the shots. Diversity and inclusion then are the
tools used to install political officers and to censor and
remove dissidence. Okay, So diversity is the tool to install
the people that will carry out the implementation of your equity.
And the quote inclusion is actually the opposite, right, it
is censorship. It's to kick out anybody that objects. Hey,
why are you taking my box? Right? Giving it to
somebody else? He says, In other words, the woke Marxist
DEI industry is a racket designed to install commissars for
its ideology. He says, equity is the goal. What is it?
Ery describes it as the rebranding of socialism arias.
Speaker 2: How do you know this? What is socialism? By definition?
If you understand Marxist ideology, and I mean specifically Marxist socialism.
If you understand Marxist ideology, you understand that marx believe
that capitalism would give into its own contradictions, then the
proletariat would rise up seize the means of production, and
they would create an administered economy where they redistribute material, resources, opportunity, etc.
According to Marxist theory, so in particular, people would be
made equal, shares would be adjusted so that people would
be made equal. Then this would be done by the proletariat.
Equity is the same thing. Social equity is defined by H.
George Frederickson as compared against equality, as equality is when
citizens A and B are equal, and equity is when
shares are adjusted so that citizens A, M. B are
made equal. In other words, you're going to have the
seizure of the means of a distrib distribution of resources,
whether those are material or cultural. They're going to be
redistributed to groups, and then within the groups to individuals
within those groups. And so you're going to have a
redistributed economy where groups are made equal and presumably most
individuals within those groups will be equalized by that mechanism.
So equity means socialism. The only thing that's different is
it's not purely economic. It now takes into account things
like racial identity, sexual identity, gender identity, fat status and
so on. All these identity politics.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fat status Okay, So think in terms of Marxism
being about capital, right and equity being about social capital. Right,
they both have value, they both have currency. Here social
capital does you know, carry purchase? And so if you
can take some social capital from some group of people,
because again remember in Marxism it's all about power dynamics,
oppress or repressed viewpoints that everybody is viewed through that lens.
You are either oppressed or oppressor. And so if you can,
if you can take some social capital from your oppressor
right now, because because you are the oppressed, or inversely
you could say I'm oppressed, therefore I'm justified in taking
that capital from you. He talks about how these decisions
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equity inclusion, I said, equity is the is a rebrand
of socialism. It's same thing administered economy that makes outcomes equal.
How do you do that? You got to have people
that make those decisions. Who gets what? How much do
they get a piece, right, and all of those decisions
or the economy, if you will, whether it's actual you know, property,
actual money, or capital or its social capital, it's credentials,
it's standing, its invitations to the hottest parties on the
college campus among faculty, that kind of thing, right, Who
does the administration of this of this equity, Well, that
would be the party, whatever the party is. In a
socialist utopia which has never really been tried, that would
be you know, the socialist party, communist party. And that's
where the diversity and the inclusion parts come into play.
Speaker 2: Diversity is not diversity meaning looking different or having different
backgrounds or different you know, gender, sex, sexuality characteristics. What
diversity means is that those characteristics are spoken to in
an authentic way, which is defined by the neo Marxist
identity theories, whether that's critical race theory, gender theory, queer theory,
or whatever else. So you are, actually, under their view,
not authentically diverse, because you're not representing your diverse perspective
authentically unless you're speaking to it from a position that's
adopted the critical theory. The relevant critical theory we see
in policy documents all over that diversity doesn't mean hiring
for characteristics like sex, gender, race, et cetera. That means
hiring for expertise in diversity, and if people happen to
be of different sex, gender, et cetera, that's even better
expertise and diversity means you've adopted the so called unique,
structurally determined voice of color or voice of your identity,
and therefore you are actually speaking what the critical theory
or the Marxist theory, Marxist identity theory is saying that
somebody who looks like you should be saying.
Speaker 1: Right. So this goes to the argument that you heard
from Adam Gillett from Accuracy in Media last hour when
he was talking about diversity, and he's like, look at
the makeup of the you know, college faculty. It's homogeneous politically, right.
There are no conservatives, you know, among the faculty ranks,
and the amount of political donations that are given, it's
like ninety nine percent for Democrats, right, And that's why
a lot of people on the right throw this argument
back in the face of the left when they say,
you know, oh, we're about diversity, and like, no, you're not,
because you want everybody to think like you. And this
is what Jane Lindsay is talking about in that clip
there is that diversity is essentially a code word that
is used to smuggle in the Marxism. Okay, it's a
way to weed out who is there simply because they
are a member of a protected class, a minority status,
or something right but doesn't agree with Marxism. So you're
not adequately or authentically diverse unless you are articulating the
positions that a Marxist would articulate that would represent your
stereotypical class. This is why you get leftists calling conservatives
and Republicans who are black or who are gay, they
call them sellouts, they call them traders, they call them
not authentic. It's the ideology that makes them an authentic
member of their demographic group. Right, what's the line, not
all skin folk or kinfolk, that kind of That's what
they're talking about. That's what this means. That's how you
end up with this, with these charges, these accusations, these
smears that you're not authentic unless you agree with me.
Hence the uh. The diversity is the diversity and inclusion,
you know, Diversity is the mechanism by which you administer
the economy, and the inclusion is the way that you
censor people who are not quote unquote authentic. This is
what James Lindsay gets to. Now I think let's try
it again.
Speaker 2: Inclusion means that people who are affected badly by the
so called power dynamics have to be made to be included.
Everybody else is believed to be automatically included. So ideas
that might offend somebody who is in a so called
protected class must be excluded to promote an inclusive environment. Idea, pictures, images, rocks,
anything in the world that might make somebody feel like
they can associate through whatever. Master bedrooms, for example, give
people the idea of slavery even though they have nothing
to do with slavery. The term was invented in the
nineteen twenties. And a catalog, a marketing catalog, and so
anything that can give somebody the idea of something that
feels like power dynamics has to be censored.
Speaker 1: And if you aren't awakened or woke to the Marxist
analysis of your own race or gender, sexual orientation or whatever,
then you're not authentic. So it's the installation of political
officers inside the bureaucracy that then administer. These are the
diversity officers, right, which they then lead the censorship, the purges.
That is the quote unquote inclusion just come with the censorship,
even proactively to the mere sight of a white person
at a graduation, for example, means segregating people from each
other to prevent harm or sharing the space. That's why
we saw segregated spaces being promoted as inclusive when they
are anything but inclusive. Right, it's like the upside down World.
That's not a reference to Stranger That was not intentional.
Although the final I guess is it one episode tonight
or is it two episodes? Is it two? It's just
one they're gonna roll, but it's two hours, right, it's
one episode, two hours. Okay, yeah, I'll be watching it.
I mean, I've come this far. It took me ten
years to watch you know, all four seasons? Is that
how many? There were four? This is the fifth season. Yeah, well,
I mean they took like about half a decade off
between like seasons three and four for some reason, and
then they did like a half season season five finale,
a half season finale or something. It was ridiculous. They're
they're all now in the like midlife years, they're like thirty.
They started off but they were all cute. They were
like seven years old, and now they're thirty. It's just nuts. Anyway,
this is why you end up with colleges, and mainly colleges.
I don't know about any high schools that have been
doing this, but you know, holding segregated graduation ceremonies, got
to do it proactively for inclusiveness. It's the complete opposite.
And the party officers, whether that's at the UNC Charlotte
Dei office, right, or it's you know, a political party,
they get to make the decisions for people. That's the
vision of Marx, that's the communist vision. It's the people,
but not really the people. It's the people who are
in control of the party apparatus. And then sometimes you'll
hear the term belonging. The only clue that which is inclusion.
But it's with a positive affirmation. So it's not enough
to not offend. Right, And by the way, you don't
know if you've ever been offensive or not, because if
you're not intending to be offensive, but you are offensive,
it doesn't matter what your intent is. Intention has nothing
to do with it. It's all about how somebody perceives
it right. So yeah, that's a dead bang loser. But
now with the belonging thing, that means you have to
affirm everybody and their ideas. And if you don't do
the affirmation, then you're not being inclusive and helping them
feel like they belong. It's all about control. You know.
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try to, you know, end the year on an upbeat
note or a couple notes, maybe like like a whole verse,
maybe a whole song of upbeatedness. So I've been talking
a lot over the years about, you know, how much
I agree with the environmentalists and the net zeroers, the
no growthers, the leftists about how we want to get
to no carbon emissions because if we don't get to
zero carbon emissions, then we're all going to die because
guya earth is going to kill us. Although I disagree
with that last part. I don't think gaya Earth is
going to kill us. I think the sun is trying
to kill us, and the sooner we can knock that
thing out, I think the better off we're all going
to be. But I have look, I am on board.
You want to get rid of CO two gas in
the atmosphere, You want to starve all the trees and
bushes of their the what they breathe in and need
to grow. Like, I'm on board, let's kill all the
trees and shrubs. I am on board. It'll make the
views a lot nicer when you're driving down the road
up in the mountains, you know, and like all the
trees have now grown so tall you can't see any
of the beautiful vistas, although they probably won't be so
beautiful if there are no trees in the valleys anymore,
but that's side issue, right. Primarily, it's like I can't
see all of the beautiful nature because the nature has
grown up too high along the side of the road. Which,
by the way, if you go up there and you
look at some of the old photos go through the
local museums as I have done, you'll see that they
like when they built all the road system up there,
is for mainly like a lot of logging. They clear
cut the bajeebus out of the mountains up in western
North Carolina. I mean, they just took all the trees, right,
and so it took a long time, but all the
trees have grown back, and now they've grown up alongside
of the roads that they had put in that you
used to be able to look out over the side
of the road and see these beautiful vistas of the
valley and such, but you can't see them anymore because
all the trees have grown up, and the environmentalists up
in the Asheville area they don't allow you to cut
any of the trees down, so now you just can't
see over the side, which my wife is happy about,
because she gets kind of nervous, you know, looking over
the side of the guardrail there and seeing the sheer
cliff drop off. So I mean, look, life is trade offs.
But anyway, the whole point here is that CO two
is is bad. We want to get rid of all
the CO two, right, We want to get to net zero.
We want to have no carbon emissions, and that's gonna
that's going to win the energy race for us. Okay. Now,
in all seriousness, if you're ever in a discussion with
somebody who is advocating for the reduction of CO two
in the atmosphere and nuclear is not part of their equation,
then you know you're not actually discussing the topic with
a serious person, okay, because nuclear energy production must be
part of the equation unless you want us all you know,
living by candle light and burning you know, cowfeeces for heat.
Like there's there is no future with no CO two
without nuclear, Okay, you gotta have nuclear energy production, which
is why I was very excited to see this story
at the at Business NC dot com, a piece by
Ray Groenberg. Duke Energy has asked federal regulators to approve
the idea of using part of its Bellus Creek property
in Stokes County, North Carolina as the site for a
set of small nuclear reactors, or as George W. Bush
and Homer Simpson would call it, nuclear nuclear. The utility is,
by the way, is it pronounced Bellew's Creek or Belleuze Creek, Bellews,
Bellews anyway, it's in Stokes County. The utility on Tuesday
applied to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission or the NRC
for what's called an early site permit, and that entails
the environmental impact studies and site safety factors, so like
you know what happens if an earthquake occurs, a hurricane
like that kind of stuff. So they've started the ball
rolling on what's called the early site permit. Now they're
going to need other permits because it is GOV co.
You got to have like a bajillion permits for this
sort of thing, should it. Should Duke Energy decide that
it actually wants to go ahead with the project, then
Duke would have to go back to the NRC to
get their permits for construction and for operating. Okay, so
they still need those permits approved. But the early site
review process is optional, and it didn't even exist at
the time Duke built its existing fleet of reactors here
in the Carolinas, the newest reactor of which went online.
Do you know when the when was the last time
Duke Energy brought a nuclear plant online in the Carolinas?
Give up? Nineteen eighty seven? Nineteen eighty seven. It's been
what forty years almost since a nuclear plant went online?
Forty years The country's first wave of reactor construction taught
the NRC and the industry that many of the challenges
that delayed the projects come during the site selection phase.
This is according to Chris Nolan, Duke Energy's vice president
for New Nuclear Projects or what they call new news.
I'm just kidding. I don't think that I would call
it that. If I were to Duke in the New
Nuclear Projects, I would call it the new Noops Department.
That's what I would call it, just for fun because
it sounds fun. So by doing the early sit permit
and getting the ball rolling now you can get all
of the challenges because you know they're gonna get sued.
They're gonna be objections by you know, all of the
environmentalist groups that want no CO two emissions produced but
don't want nuclear rights. It's solar farms, wind power only.
That's the only thing that these groups, which by the way,
like you can't build a wind farm without fossil fuels.
It's just absurd. Like everything about that turbine, all of
it comes from everything that comes out of the ground,
you know, So don't take my word for it. Listen
to Billy Bob Thornton in the documentary Land Man. Okay.
Bellu's Creek is currently home to one of Duke's coal
fired power plants, which the left hates the coal fire plants,
hates them with the coal ash pits and the dirty
fuel that it's burning. Right, So you're burning coal and
you're polluting everything, and you're killing all of the babies
and stuff. So okay, well let's take that offline and
let's build let's build nuclear instead. No, no, no, we
can't do that. So the utility is looking at land
which is just to the east of where the coal
plant is located currently, and it believes that the land
that it's identified can accommodate up to six small modular
reactors or SMRs. And I've talked about these things too.
I've been very excited about these things. I have no
idea how they work. I'm not a nuclear scientist, but
they're small as I understand it, they're smaller than the
big ones. I don't know if those are called big reactors,
but these are small modular reactors SMRs, and they will
generate somewhere in the neighborhood of about three hundred megawatts,
which I believe will power a deloreate through through time travel.
So if they eat, if each one can generate three
hundred megawats, then you get six of them online, you
got eighteen hundred megawatts, and I think that's a gigawatt.
That's like one point eight gigawatts if my math is
correct on all of that, and that's usually what they build.
The big ones are the gigawatt producers. So here they're
going to build smaller ones, and they don't know what
kind of SMRs is, like a bunch of different models
that they can use. They haven't decided what model to use,
but they don't have to decide that right now. But
their long term plan is that by twenty thirty seven,
they've got to have an additional six hundred megawatts of
new nuclear capacity online. Within twelve years, that's what they
need to have, six hundred megawats. So two of these
SMRs have to get built, Okay, within the next decade. People,
we need two of them. So they got plans for
eight and if they get their early site permits approved,
those permits are good for twenty years. And they're helping
a project in Canada and one in the Tennessee Valley
in Knoxville, and so they're going to learn all of
the mistakes that get made in those two projects and
then they're going to say, all right, let's avoid those
mistakes for our project. I think it's a great idea.
I am supportive of this effort. Do good job. All right.
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leave it cleaner than you found it. That's the way
I was raised. Yeah, well, I mean, look, you can't
spell conservation without conservetive, can't spell conservative without conserve. It's
all like, it's all part of the same thing. I'm
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And mister x White says for every lawsuit Duke receives
for new nuke construction, they should publicly shut down a
coal plant unit until the suit is resolved. Yeah. That well,
make everybody pay for the wackos. I don't. I would
not support that, mister White, if that is your real name.
Another another piece of good news, we have confirmation that
if you want more housing, which everybody keeps saying, there's
a housing crunch and a crisis, right, and it's too expensive.
So if you want, we have more evidence to support
this idea that if you want more housing, the solution
is is to build more housing. I know it's kind
of crazy, but just stay with me here. Okay, it
may sound paradoxical at first, counterintuitive even, but rent got
cheaper in several major cities this past year thanks to
an influx of luxury apartment buildings that opened. I talked
a little bit about this a few weeks ago. We
have more evidence now, Bloomberg dot com reporting based on
numbers that were put out by Costar, which is the
real estate research firm. The US average rental rate Okay,
the average rental rate across the country fell by zero
point one eight percent, so not a lot, but it
went down in November, it went down. That is the
largest monthly drop in more than fifteen years. Driving the
decline lower rents in cities like Austin, Denver, and Phoenix,
as well as vacation destinations like Naples, Florida, Myrtile Beach,
South Carolina, and Ashville. Now I will put an asterisk
by Ashville because I think that had something to do
with Eleen. I think a lot of rates dropped because
you know, people fled, People were not vacationing there, and
so a lot of the rates came down so Ashville.
And in fact, if you look at the chart, which
I am looking at the chart here, of the amount
of new units that came online, Ashville is not on
this list. So Ashville doesn't. They tend not to want
to build a lot. And I was told last night
during my live stream from folks out in western North
Carol on the county Bunkham County, they do zoning approvals
out there, and they're even worse. They're more restrictive than
the city of Asheville is. So people don't want not
in my backyard. The Nimbi's or the bananas, build absolutely
nothing anywhere, build absolutely nothing anywhere nearby, or something like that.
Banana is another acronym for folks that they know. They
move out there, and they're like, I got my little
slice of heaven, and I'm gonna pull the ladder up
behind me so nobody else can come aboard. I know
I'm mixing metaphors there, But if you build more housing,
you get more housing. And it's almost as if there's
some sort of I don't know, invisible hand at work here.
It lowers the prices why this doesn't make any sense.
You're bringing luxury apartments online, Pete, why would that bring
down the prices? Ah? Glad you asked when more luxury
apartments get built or Class A apartment stock. When you
you build more of those, the people who are in
class B that want to move into a nicer unit,
a brand new unit, they have the ability to move
out of the class B and into Class A, which
then opens up Class B. Now the landlord is like, oh, man,
I got all these vacancies, So what do they do?
They lower the rates on Class B, which then makes
them affordable to people who are living in Class C
apartments and they want to move up into nicer units,
so they move from class C to Class B. So
now you've got the landlords in class C and they're like, oh,
what do I do? I got all these vacancies. That's right,
you can see where this is going. It's kind of
like a cyclical thing, right. They lower their rates new
building openings or bringing rents down as wealthy tenants trade up,
forcing landlords to drop prices for older apartments. Rents for
older apartments have fallen as much as eleven percent. Some
are now on offer at rates as low as homes
that are usually designated as quote unquote affordable but come
with restrictions including rent control and rent stabilization. In other words,
the government regulatory regime that's meant to make these units
quote unquote affordable. They are now more expensive than the
class C private domain rentals because those landlords don't want
the vacancies, they want people in the homes. The changed
I love this line from Bloomberg. The changed dynamic in
the rental market is challenging the idea that luxury housing
doesn't help the broader ecosystem. Okay, who came up with
that stupid idea, because it's really stupid. That's a dumb idea.
It's challenging this idea that luxury housing doesn't help the
broader ecosystem. Of course it would think about it. When
flat screen TVs came out, who could afford flat screens?
Not me. I couldn't go out and get like the
first run of those things. They were like thousands of dollars.
Now you can get a flat screen TV. I mean,
if it's anything like the one I bought, it's going
to break within the next two years. But like you
can go out and buy a flat screen TV for
a couple hundred dollars. Now, why is that? It's because
the first innovations are usually most expensive because the companies
that innovated, they suck a lot of money into research
and development. They have to recoup their investment, and once
they do, then the prices start dropping. Other competitors see, oh,
this is how they did it, We can do that too.
You have more competitors enter the marketplace. That then drives
the prices down again, and before you know it, everybody
has a flat screen TV now, which is super easy
if you have to move, you know, do you ever
have a look, I've moved a lot in my life,
and you could move a lot more flat screen TVs
more easily then you can move a single tube TV.
Those things were murder anyway. Cities that built more new
apartments in recent years largely saw rents plummet. The cities
that did not build more new apartments did not see
rents plummet. On the list number one in new unit growth,
so the cities that added the most Number one was Austin,
number two Nashville, Tennessee, and number three Charlotte, North Carolina.
Give it up, Queens, City, Good Job number three in
the number of new unit growth a five year average
six point three percent that led to a five percent
decline in the rents. Coming in at number six on
the list Raleigh, North Carolina, with five and a half
percent new unit growth, and they saw a decline in
their rents down seven point nine percent. Housing supply increases
equals a reduction in rents. All right, that'll do it
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