the herd rules and the sovereign individual is how did to science speech has been redefined as virtue signaling. political correctness i'm joined by my guess the nail on the back in austin he's a professor of philosophy at the university of texas as well as a contributor at newsmax in new york we have rob how he is a political pundit and journalist contributing to the huffington post and we have gavin mcginnis he is host of the get off my lawn on c r t v dot com gentlemen cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it gavin i'm not on your lawn so you don't have to ask me to get off it we're in the wake of almost in the wake of this whole. spectacle really a disgusting spectacle for the u.s. senate and for the media i would say here. but we learned again through this whole

saga you have to be careful what you say you have to filter yourself about what you say and i'm referencing here of course the me too movement things have only gotten worse or not getting any better gavin in new york go ahead. well it was a trap it was. an allegation that went out there and they were testing the republicans to see if any of us would say she's a liar i don't believe it she's a slut blah blah blah and we didn't take the bait we carefully said let's hear her out we have due process here we started with the magna carta and we took it very slowly because they were dying for us to slip up and disparage this woman ok rob i mean to have the head still left equated self very well in all of this i mean here is this young woman yelling and screaming at senator for the goalpost has to be moved again go ahead gavin in new york yeah i'm not buying this sort of there's bad guys on both sides and there's good guys on both there's bad guys on the left the

left plays dirty pool they use children all the time they're the ones doing the what they hate crime hoaxes every time you hear about a fake me to thing trivializing real rape it's a liberal it's an activist and they've been doing this forever remember remember that mohamed clock nice clock mohamed bring it to the white house no ahmed was his name so i argument and that was some little kid used as upon to sort of. pretend that islamophobia was a major problem at his school there are always using children and women and hoaxes always playing dirty pool and then they just sweep it under the rug and they're on to the next crime like cavanagh is already over they don't care they're unflappable they'll be gone to some other fake pee tape or some other ridiculous fraud and they just keep doing it in an effort to prevent trump from getting reelected and the irony is it's this kind of dirty pool that is going to get him reelected yeah yeah i tend to agree the more the media demonize them him it keeps him in the media here

rob i said in my introduction that you know for freedom of speech is being replaced with virtue signaling i mean it seems that the left can't win on the merits a can't win the argument. then it goes asymmetrical and it's doing it with greater frequency and and the weaponization of the meet me to movement is only made it worse ok and you're a good liberal friend of mine so i'm not saying that's you but it is this is a phenomenon that i think is prevalent on the left go ahead rob. it's just a new terrain and a new territory for everybody involved you know i wonder what would have happened if ten years ago or five years ago we said we would be investigating charges against somebody when they were seventeen years old yet i thought i happen to not like brett brett kavanaugh i don't like his whole tenor and and his his manner in the way he handled himself in the senate and if we wanted to solve this maybe

donald trump could have found a better candidate or the republicans could a lot of us have merrick garland when when we we wanted to nominate him in the first place but be that as it may we're just seeing a whole new world out there right now and it is kind of odd we're allowed to yell. no you don't accept the story just as strong as the right to live. it's.

the speed. of television. and i almost thought i could love me. while i'm somebody doesn't know it's a mask you never know what's happening and what they're shooting with the birds. and mistrust the tibetans are. just thinking of the new but i'm addicted to sit with your middle class and in the muslims well he's going to win the.

you know world a big part of the new law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime tamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you loan to the rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per

second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one business showed you know ford to miss one in only. the ones in the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. just as they would a simple so they want to be cognizant and enter and i've learned that lesson just about but as many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentries sides of the draft used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities how to best present mass panic. mostly to point out that it best not get them in a lot of class and they want that. they can watch as they all choose to stay and

they come. with donald trump in the white house over for the cardinals the both of you what is the to be that the government affairs committee won't. do a check up or to put it was. all of you that put it up to the whole of the. welcome back to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter a belter mind you're discussing political correctness. ok well let me go back to you does the left think this whole identity politics and virtue is signaling me to movement its head in winning strategy because in looking at the senators that we all got to know so well over the last two weeks first of all they seem to all read the exact same bullet points the way the talking points

are getting to call all the way through is is this a message that's getting through to the voter as we approach the midterms here is that a winning strategy in your mind go ahead. no and in fact i should mention and plug myself i have a new column with newsmax and i've written about this now over the last three weeks and i think my last three or four columns have focused on the fact that there is no unified voice in the democratic party there is no leadership and what they do basically is whine about donald trump and their reaction to me saying in writing that has been there and you're not a democrat why because i disagree with you because i don't know the party line if i'm really a true liberal a democrat who cares about his country then he wants to see his party do the right thing and i don't see that now we don't deal with any issues and the big democratic mistake and i think the lack of a blue wave is going to be that just because donald trump may be the worst

president in history doesn't mean that the other party should win in the midterm elections based on that what are you going to do what's your plan what are you going to do for the country what are the what are the policy points and that's not there and they have no actual candidates that i see my god it's an embarrassment especially cory booker prize way too much prize more than joe biden oh i hope i hope he's the nominee although it would be a lot of fun there you know rob i do have a suggestion for you maybe you should be more visible carrying your mouse a little red book and they'll probably cut you a little bit of slack ok on the left ok daniel well the whole thing is this message has been a provocateur were. you know we're told on the left i don't know diversity is our strength but it seems to me that is diversity at the expense of unity and and i think it's the it's actually

a small number of people that are ideologically possessed and are motivated in this and intimidating people just gave an example right there get in line. repeat the party line here that is that is that is the opposite of unity and i don't see much of value in diversity if it is just going to be ideological possession go ahead daniel. we see this on campus all the time people talk a lot about diversity being our strength. first of all since my ancestors came from austria hungary i'm not convinced of that general point but give that aside if they're interested in diversity of skin toll of color and so on but definitely not of political views a few people had signs just the other day on our campus supporting brett kavanaugh saying confirm him and none of these were nasty none of these were attacking forward or saying anything other than support the nominee they were attacked by a large crowd and i saw it together very very quickly that came in was shouting

them down ripping up science and so on there are courses i can no longer teach because those are courses in which i surveyed the arguments on both sides of certain political questions i don't think you can do that on campus anymore and increasingly you're under attack for doing that in the larger culture criticize an open immigration policy and all of a sudden you get accused of racism say wait a minute due process is important and we can't tell who's telling the truth here unless we wait for evidence you're accused of being a sexist in a rape apologist well so i see the owners of this cornwell thinking very yes of course well of course the constitution was written by white slave holders why should the constitution have any kind of value ok i mean you know gavin you know i used to teach at the university of california and even then this was twenty years ago plus. even then it was teaching ideology and not scholarship and that's one of the reasons why i left ok because it wasn't

a place to think and have a debate because that's the only way you're going to get knowledge is debate i don't see it happening anymore and i see the left just come up with their talking points and then they don't want any discussion of that that is a tragedy and it's only a opens up. the possibility unfortunately i think of violence eventually go ahead. should we just throw in the towel on academia i did i do i do i do it's like travel agents i mean you don't use you don't need them anymore so we basically have the common people or it's a con job it's a contact high and they're coming out dumber than when they went in but with more dead and less life skills it's like the opposite of what it used to be i don't know i don't understand how you could be a professor anymore we got michael rectum all who was who was a communist and he was deemed too far right wing they just moved his office into

the russian section of venom are you. getting pushed out this year. ok i'm sure somebody will get explained i want to say here all due respect to daniel ok i know you're a conservative and i know you're a good scholar here but my very point here is with me going to rob is that you know it is in many cases here you have these middle class families they drop their kids at university and then they come back programmed and actually in many things in many cases not really skilled to work in the modern economy and i guess you know you you take activism one o one and you get a degree in it ok and you're fluent in it ok and i guess go to george soros and you'll get a job well that that that's not the the economy needs well skilled people here in the university let you show you the george soros i don't i don't want any is money ok you know what i'm getting at rob you know and that's why i bring out the university yes. here's a big problem with with liberals as

a whole is republicans are ideologues in many cases but they remain true to their particular policy believes democrats act on emotion so a typical emotional response will be do you care about the poor then you have to want to take care of the poor yes i care about the poor i step over them all over the place in the subway in new york city but if i tried to take care of all of them where would i get the money from and too many of these questions and issues are addressed with pure emotion without any realistic response joe biden i saw him cry two years ago when i was at a conference because he wanted to send every person in the country to junior college when why or why are we talking about technology and robotics and what we could do if we train young people now who who may have been

a coal miner earth forty years ago or a plumber and now they want to learn how to fix robots which are going to be running the the world and in another twenty years or so we don't deal with that we just deal with tugging on our heartstrings i'm going to cry because we don't have free education and it's based on selfishness and self aggrandizement from from the democratic party right now they've got to get in step and figure out where the world is really going you know daniel do you come across on campus people promoting the ideas of socialism is that is this the new mantra. first young students at the university absolutely the number of people who are socialists is very high significantly higher than it was five do you think they know what that means. no i think they have no idea what it means in fact when people have come on to campus and ask students so what is socialism they really can't give you any kind of answer and in my courses where i actually talk some

about this and come up with definitions of socialism and a variety of other isms you can tell that people haven't thought this through that they're somewhat surprised to think about it and actually come up with a definition most of them i think consider themselves socialist because they think it's important help other people and that charitable impulse is noble but it doesn't translate into a political program or an economic program and so there's a huge gap in there that they haven't thought through you know there's you know can i interrupt for a second yeah because you know you know a lot of politics based on virtue ok and it turned into doubt tallit airiness go ahead gavin. daniel you need to quit your job you know what it's like a white guy in harlem nobody wants you there. where you got to and you're daniel's god can you tell us. daniel. well that's part of there are places i've got to defend the universally

a little there are places where serious scholarship gets done even within the liberal arts philosophy linguistics maybe a few other departments are still pretty serious and largely a political and when you move into the actual sciences if you're doing computer software or physics or business or engineering most of the faculty members are on the left but it has relatively little to do with what they do in the classroom now there are exceptions i know somebody who teaches organic chemistry and spends most of the time ranting about trump and not teaching anybody about organic chemistry i think that's outrageous but there are so there isn't even similar to him and they are powerful departments ok well you know rob i know i think recently creeping of there too i think that all any all studies programs should just be defunded. cross the country ok every single one of them ok so a waste of time i think you heard about this scandal recently about these three scholars that wrote these fake articles and what they were picked up by gender

studies and identity studies and all of that you know it's nonsense it's just nonsense ok because what it does is it doesn't teach anybody really anything all it does is make you aware in one form or another ok i don't think it makes you a better person and don't think make society any better one minute left goes to the odd man out on the program rob. well you know this is been an ongoing problem for years if you want to talk about gender studies programs and medical is things i did an article years ago where i did research on government grants and i came to find that not the worst thing people don't get the government grants it's that people know how the know how to write the greg i know all about that you pays for things like transferring how you can translate something from swahili into sanskrit and the governor will give you forty thousand dollars i don't know can read that and this this is why we need reform is it ever going to happen i don't know as

a result i think instead you have people's anger that has bubbled over and it's given us donald trump it's you know another liberal mistake is they think that just bad people voted for trump for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction i think i learned that in science class and that's why we have trump and if we don't open our eyes and see that my fellow democrats then we're going to lose in the midterms and he's going to be elected in well they're not all presidential i don't know what i've done to donald trump has it made because the left lives inside his right that's all the time we have for gentlemen many thanks and i guess in new york and in austin thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t.c. next time and remember.

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