your innocence heard 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 year 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 i mean have they still left to quit or did self very well in all of this i mean here is this young woman yelling and screaming at senator flake and then it's comes out that she's really a highly paid operative could go into ad guys on the left the left played dirty pool they use children all the time they are the ones doing the what they hate

crime hoaxes every time you hear about a fake me to think trivializing real rape it's a liberal it's an activist truth we're going to have one attitude about his reaction but if you think in the end he's innocent of these charges of course he's going to be outraged and i too was really please i think it's absurd to think that all of the change in the tone of our discourse has been due to donald trump i think he's through reaction to this letter has been out of control for really almost twenty years now the attacks on george w. bush were outrageous comparing him to hitler and so forth. i think there was a huge amount of real nastiness there coming from the left exclusively and it wasn't until trump's candidacy that someone on the right started punching back so.

welcome back to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter a belter mind you are discussing political correctness. ok well let me go back to you did this to let's think this whole identity politics and virtues signaling me to movement its head in weening strategy because and 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 talking points are dentical 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 a 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's 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 and 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 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 he will rise way too much prized 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 get 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 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 there it's actually a small number of people that are ideologically possessed that are motivating this and intimidating people and rob just gave an example right there get in line and repeat the party line here that is that is that is the opposite of unity and i don't see much 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 tell 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 together very very quickly they came in was shouting them down ripping up signs and so on there are courses i can no longer teach because those are courses in which i surveyed 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 subtlety of this cornell. thinking very yes of course of course the constitution was written by white slave holders or 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 it's one of the reasons why i left ok because it wasn't a place to think and have to bait 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 only a opens up. the possibility unfortunately i think of violence eventually go ahead

go but. should we just throw in the towel on academia. 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 have con 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 walsh who is 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 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 the new 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 like george soros i don't i don't want to be is money 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 been 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 talent airiness go ahead gavin guy and daniel you need to go with the person you will have seen. you know i do know what that. is the latest news in the progress. that arsenal boys and you know you have probably just was going to say. lyricists recently stewart yeah. it does. was. was was.

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