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Weekly Family Roundup April 5th-1: Hey, what's up everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with some of my kiddos. Kelsey Gall is in the house. Alisa Hope, there she is. Jackson Pryor is without a video today. What's up Jackson? Hey guys. And then Sydney, Sydney Grace. Hello up in the attic. Awesome. Welcome guys. So, all right, this is the place where I like to inflict, uh, videos that, and topics that I'm, um, thinking through on my children and, uh, process them and see what we come up with. Weekly Family Roundup April 5th-1: Hey, what's up everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with some of my kiddos. Kelsey Gall is in the house. Alisa Hope, there she is. Jackson Pryor is without a video today. What's up Jackson? Hey guys. And then Sydney, Sydney Grace. Hello up in the attic. Awesome. Welcome guys. So, all right, this is the place where I like to inflict, uh, videos that, and topics that I'm, um, thinking through on my children and, uh, process them and see what we come up with.

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And, uh, he was having a conversation on a podcast and I was like, man, he's saying things I don't know if I've ever heard anybody articulate it this way. So I wanted to play with you guys a couple of clips, um, and just get your reactions to what he's saying here. So he's, he's just, first of all, he's kind of telling his story. He started out as pretty left wing, um, and then he was concerned about where it was headed and has kind of changed his philosophy, but it's going to describe a little bit more about his personal story. Because that means that someone who does no work at all is entitled to exactly what I have. Exactly what you have. Uh, which is not fair. See, I like Hanlon's Razor and maybe to the point of being naive, but I'm just sticking to it. The, the idea that it's not necessarily out of evil, but maybe stupidity. I mean, you said yourself, you were quite left wing.

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And if we're all the same, then there is no diversity. And this is the problem with liberalism. It is a great homogenising force that seeks to turn everything into the same thing. And they don't know when to stop. What do we do then with the idea that there's 8 billion people on the planet, there's a whole bunch in the UK, some were born in a bin, and I went to a private school and had a nice life. There's two more I want to share with you guys. Um, but his his first kind of critique there which I think is so important to say is that um, I really think that it's the, it's the responsibility of the government to, to make sure that people, um, to ensure justice and that, that is that we all are equal before the law and that it's not the, the job of the government to attempt to balance the scales and that's not the same as justice.

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against its citizens in order to ensure justice, their version of justice. And so, um, I'm curious what this, you know, kind of gives this example of, it all comes from this idea that, okay, there's, um, the government has a need to enforce equality or equity. And, you know, one of his critiques there is that it actually destroys diversity. Um, that, that's just the realm of freedom that, that it needs to provide for its citizens. And, and the only time, you know, for the government to get involved to rectify an injustice is when there's something unfair happening between two parties, essentially, that needs to be adjudicated. Any thoughts about, like, I think that's a really interesting description of, of really the problem of, Well, I think it's wild that those are two things that they claim to uphold, like the two of their biggest values are equality and diversity.

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Um, I've heard this said, this criticized about the, the left party a lot, um, is that they try so hard to get a certain place only to end up right back where they started. And I think that's, that's what happened with the communists, the socialists, and that's what they're trying to push now. And if they keep going down that rabbit hole, then they're going to end up right back where we started. Um, and so like in a hundred years they're fighting the exact same fight, but for the opposite group because they realize like, and it's just like a cycle, I don't know. Right. It was interesting when he was describing how this there's something evil about this because I a lot of what people call social justice which are the kinds of laws or movements that that would be enforced by the government to ensure that people Begin to experience better equality because of maybe historic problems that have occurred.

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And I do think that there's, there's lots of cases in which that, um, That needs to happen. And I think that that is justice. Um, but, but oftentimes these very broad scale movements to say, well, there is sort of a historically disadvantaged, uh, group. And so we're going to take a historically advantaged group and just start stealing from them and give it to the, like, like, I think there, there is a need for kindness to those who are disadvantaged, but I don't think that it's, it's not helpful to call it justice. Uh, the same, um, outcome based on not, not, not having anything to do with, with who they are intrinsically, but because of the laws of themselves are equally applied to both parties. All right. I want to keep going because he's had several other things to say. Um, and I'm curious what your guys thoughts are about this next clip here.

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So I get that. That's very, so he's going to describe kind of where this left, right thing occurred. I kind of wanted you guys to understand the history of this. Why is the left called the left? Why is the right called the right? You what happened. And so what, what happened is there was a certain vision of justice that was being promoted in England. Um, but there, it's, it's something that. We know kind of flows out of our unique tradition and therefore applies to us uniquely. The French had a different vision. Theirs was, um, there, there's was a project of trying to understand a much more universal idea of human rights. And so, and so once that got, that sort of took over the world, this didn't become a question of tradition about like, how, how do, how do we generally see this in our country or with our set of values or our faith?

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And things like this. And so in the French Revolution, you see the seeds of what comes after it. You see the seeds of fascism. It's excessive nationalistic tendencies. You see the seeds of communism and its excessive leveling tendencies. You see the seeds of liberalism, um, in its design. So the, the idea that this, we're, we've discovered the universal, uh, idea of human rights creates a re reactions and counter reactions, which results in this right left world of fascism and communism. We've got to change Germany, we've got change Spain, we've got to change all of these things, and this is what we're seeing to this day. And so the question of left and right comes from the French assembly and the question of left and right. The reason these things are left and right is it was a question of should the king have a veto over us.

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Um, they began to sit on the left. So Margaret Thatcher is now a far right figure. It's like that shows you how much further to the left things have gone. And now we're literally at the point where we only discuss minority issues. We're not allowed to discuss majoritarian issues because that is some form of racism, that's some form of oppression.

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And because they're a minority, they're always going to be disadvantaged. Because they have less of a voice. Because they're a minority, just by the nature of who they are. And because the whole idea of liberalism is equality, the only way that you can rectify that imbalance is to over represent the minority. group's always going to be bad. And so that's why in this country all we ever talk about minority issues and we can't talk about what the average English working family's concerns are. We're not represented anywhere. Can't we say if, if, if I believe I'm liberal, can't I say that when it was, where it was 15 years ago?

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If there is one person who's just left out for no reason, then you go, oh, whatever reason, then you go, okay, this is actually wrong. There's something wrong with this whole hierarchy. We can't just say, oh, now we're in it, it's fine, and then all the sort of white people who are not Jewish don't get to have, you know? Um, and, and he's about to explain, um, why there's something hidden about the ideology that's inevitable. That's that creates these problems. It's logic dialectic. So you get the two, you get the liberal and the illiberal position, liberalism synthesized into the new liberal position. This continues on. And so because liberalism values, it makes two fundamental promises, which are liberty and equality, right?

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That means they're not equal. That means you're lying. And everyone was like, well, I'm not, I'm not a liar. And they say, well, The reason you do this is because you're a racist, you're a sexist, you're a socialist, and every liberal says no, no, no, I'm not that. I believe in the abstract, undifferentiated, universal maths of humanity. Well, you've got the LGBTQ. I, A, double plus, blah, blah, blah, blah, all of these things are getting tagged on. They're just smaller divisions of minority identity. And eventually, almost everything will be on there. And so this, I don't think there's any signs of stopping. And in fact, I think that if you go, um, back to the philosophers who first invented this, part of it is a kind of, um, Heideggerian constant destruction.

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Um, you know, I'm curious what your guys thoughts are, because I, I think he's unveiling the, um, that there's something innate in, in the promise. And I love, my favorite thing about his framing is that liberal society promises two things, freedom and equality. Freedom is easy. Pass the Bill of Rights and enforce it equal under the law, and you'll get freedom. Which is you keep creating another letter for a different minority group and you think they're all, what they all have, they all have something in common, which is they're all underrepresented minorities, and then you find smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller versions of these underrepresented minorities, and then your entire movement that represents, you know, almost half the country is You.

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And then there was left and right. Like stay. Like far right stayed right here, but far left kept moving. And so what used to be the center is now right. And then what used to be old liberal is now right center. And like, is that basically what he's saying? Right. So like, okay. And that, and that, that's an inevitable feature of the liberal project because the project itself is to create equality for everyone. into smaller and smaller and smaller representative minority groups all the while. And he's saying, one of the things he's sort of, you know, saying is like, look, the problem is there's still, there's still real issues that the majority has. Like there, there are, there are huge problems, you know, that the traditional society still has to face.

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Like, oh, you wanna just, like, let women die who need abortions? And it's like, that is a very small percentage of the people who need abortions. And, um, they also talk about intersex when talking about, like, transism, um, which is such a different problem than gender dysphoria, and so it's so odd that they feel a big need to bring up the minority every time you want to argue against the majority, because that's just their mindset. Cause we're just going to keep adding letters and keep it. So nobody's offended. Nobody's left out. And it seems like a problem of like trying to make sure everybody's included in this small group. I think one way to, you know, resolve this is to, you have to have. a really clear articulation of the limits of what a government's responsible for.

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And in England, this is causing such problems like he's describing. It's it's, they're much more advanced in some of the issues they're dealing with, just with regards to the amount of. Um, the, the amount of, of problems that are, that are, that are being created, you know, uh, on the majority, um, the people who are historically majority, um, because of, you know, immigration, a lot of the Brexit kind of debates and things like that have occurred in England, have, have occurred because of this sense that it's a racist to, uh, represent the majority in any way. I'm picturing right now in my mind, a white male, when you're saying that, how dare you, they have, they have too much power already. Um, and so, um, and so you don't create this equal playing field where it is important to negotiate the different needs of each group, um, and to allow for that equality. But now that's become.

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Like, I think it was a Ivy league school, some elite university. And she was saying how she worked hard her whole life to make sure she could get into like a good school. And then she was accepted and feels like she didn't deserve it because she was accepted for diversity. And. I, I just, it made me think, like, man, that means that the, like, universities who are purposefully seeking minority groups, um, and letting them enter without actually deserving it, the only people that that serves to, like, the only people that actually want that are people who are not willing to work hard to get there. And so like, those are the people who should have gotten in without the whole DEI agenda. And they're like, it's like a disservice to them. So it's kind of, Yeah, it's kind of crazy. Sorry. That's what I was gonna say. The same thing's happening with immigration nowadays where Immigrants who got in legally years ago and like worked hard for their green card and like all these things Are so angry now with the new way that they're accepting immigrants over the border I saw a crazy video of new york Like there's a lot of people I guess coming in through new york and they they started arresting people You know for like after they come back from vacations or whatever and they find squatters in their house they started arresting people uh that own the house because um the squatters should have taken over the house therefore they have a right to it and so that's been a thing that started happening in new york and i was blown away and like this video that i saw in particular this lady was an immigrant that owned the house she's like there's squatters in my house like can you please get them out and they arrested her and she's like i'm being arrested On my own property and like she was an immigrant and so that that really painted the picture for me Of how backwards this is all get gotten right?

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I think I think that this is this is why I find it's so important to Um understand the roots of why that's happening You know, I I had a friend of mine who's who's very strongly on the left and he said to me once I I always I always Will take the side of the oppressed And I'm like, that, that's an interesting articulation, but that, that sort of, that's, that's perfectly what Carl Benjamin's describing because, um, because basically what the trick is that the society has said that the minority is always the oppressed and therefore always take the side of the minority.