 All right, let's see a few of these You're assuming a universalistic worldview that comes from Christianity and Plato. I'm assuming of a universalist universalistic worldview I don't think it only comes in Christianity and Plato. It certainly comes from Aristotle It comes from anybody who believes in human nature and believes that we have a nature and we leaves that We have their absolutes and believes that those absolutes apply to all people Reason is man's basic means of survival applies to all human beings. That's not from Plato, believe me And that's not from certainly not for Christianity But I am a universalist in the sense that I believe that The same morality the same basic principles about apply to all human beings. They don't apply to animals. They apply to all human beings We're not apes when our monkeys we're human beings. There's a big evolutionary leap between Monkeys or apes and human beings and human beings have free will We create our own souls. We create our own destiny We are who we are as individuals We're not a product of our genes Wow, do you think Iron Man's depiction of Arabs as savage on Donahue was consistent with their anti-determinist stance? Yes It was within a context It was in a context of the struggles in the Middle East It was the context of the struggles between Israel and the Palestinians the Arab nations around it It was in the context of culture not of genes I Let me say now. I think lots of cultures in the world are savage barbaric Primitive, but I don't differentiate those by race. It's by culture Arabs in a different era with a height of civilization were the most sophisticated people in the world for hundreds of years It has everything to do with ideas and culture not genes Those same Arabs in a different circumstances could achieve great things and Iron Man certainly wouldn't have denied that All right answer that one lots of questions so hold on on the question for a little bit. Let me let me catch up Oh another one. All right, but that's all that's a good amount of money Let's see you mentioned several several throughout the show But it would be great if you would summarize the challenge question Rational people can ask others who speak in terms of race the challenge questions. Wow I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that. I mean I would ask them Why it's important to them What it actually means Yeah, let me think about that I don't have a list of questions although I've obviously Said so I'm sure if somebody did a quick kind of scan of the thing They could pull out the things that would challenge somebody about racism But the main thing is is do you believe this is the key question? I think that do you believe people have free will If you don't then I kind of understand racism We're just product about genes and it's important to figure out where the genes come from and what's the origin of them And then that'll determine who my character is but if you believe in free will then on what basis would one even be What would value race? Part of it's part of the historical records so we never forget evils of the past Is there a case to be made for keep us status up just like we did for Holocaust statues up? Yes, it depends on where I think I think you put up statues in museums And if you're gonna put up statues to remind people of the history you don't put up statue of general Lee writing a horse Victoriously You know put up a statue of a slave struggling to be free. I love I mentioned this on a show and I showed a photo of one of my favorite sculptures is in is in the Louvre of Spartacus a slave Breaking his chains and struggling for freedom that is the kind of sculpture that is the kind of celebration That is the kind of Memorial you want to have to remind you of the past But sculptures of Lee and other Historical figures put them in a museum stick them in some historical museum You don't put them out in public to celebrate sculptures are celebrations when they put out in public The things to commemorate the things to commemorate in a positive way or to remember an injustice But not by portraying of the the the person who inflicted the injustice It's it's it's by portraying the person who Was suffered the injustice so memorials to the Holocaust Don't have Hitler writing a horse or writing his Volkswagen What you have is the victims you portraying the victims so That's how I think monuments or memorials should should be viewed, right? Let's see How much worse to see racial violence? Getting before it begins to settle down how much how much water I think it's gonna get a lot worse Because I think you haven't yet seen The white racism Reach it's apex. I think it's I think it's gonna grow. I think black lives matter is gonna make it worse I think it's gonna it's becoming more and more and more of a part of A whole segment of American society and I think when though when that gets big enough and strong enough to confront The the racism of the black lives matter movement then you will get real Racial violence it's starting a little bit and you'll get much more of it It's a you know in in in Portland before all of these riots and everything happened before the demonstrations happened you had White supremacists clashing with Antifa almost every weekend. There was a period a few years ago almost every weekend And I think that is gonna scale up and become much much worse Unfortunately what we need today what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think Meaning any man or woman who knows that men's life must be guided by reason By the intellect not by feelings wishes women's or mystic revelations Any man or woman who values his life and who does not get want to give in to today's cult of despair cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist Using the super chat and I noticed yesterday when I appealed for support for the show Many of you step forward and actually Supported the show for the first time. So I'll do it again. 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