 Will the debate of critical race theory determine the next president of the United States? Maybe, but should it? Welcome everybody to the Hot Pop Boys. David and Andrew here. Critical race theory is a really hot debate right now. Governor DeSantis of Florida just banned it from being taught in schools because he said it was going to be divisive. It was going to make people feel really bad, make them feel guilty and just be destructive to the overall unity of the kids. David, why are we talking about it? We are talking about it because CRT has been a big debate for a few years, but also a lot of people think that Ron DeSantis is going to use anti-wokeness or inverse wokeness to become the president of the United States, whether that's in two, six or 10 years. And I would say Governor, I'm not like promoting him at all obviously, but I'm just saying like I think a lot of people like him because he seems like a conservative guy who has a lot of the same policies and beliefs as Trump, but minus all the dirtbag crazy attitude-ness. Right, yeah, he's sort of just trying to catch the upside while mitigating the downside. He has a clean record as of now from what I know. Right, seems not as scummy. Seems sort of just like a stoic baseball player, lawyer type, which all sort of fits. By the way, guys, I would never move to Florida. I like living in New York City, despite my complaints about it, just letting you know where I do or do not stand. Okay. Should these issues and I think critical race theory kind of falls in with the gender identity issues such as like the Leah Thomas thing, which Governor DeSantis spoke up about, which kind of made him like a star in the conservative world. That's how he's like winning right now by going against smoking. But so I guess like these are kind of the issues that it seems like people are most emotional about about. And do you think these issues will be the reason why people will win the next election? Yeah, I think there's always emotional issues, whether it's abortion, capital punishment, gun rights. You know, they rank two, three, four, five, number one, depending on who you are as a voter. But honestly, do I think that the election should be one on these type of issues? No, because I think that a lot of these issues are just kind of emotional markers for other things. But a lot of people don't want to talk about the other things. I will say this. I don't think they're emotional in the way. Like I don't want to write them off. Like they're not significant. These are still significant, but they're more symbolic of something else where the people take the issue that they can understand them the best or they think they understand, to be honest, because I think a lot of people don't fully understand critical race theory. I'm not even a hundred percent sure on it. But I'm saying like, I think a lot of people, they just think they understand something very simply, and then they just act, they just vote on that because, because the other issues are too complicated. I think that other policies and stuff like that, you know? There's been a lot of scientific studies to show that the more complex something is, the more likely people are willing to paint it white or black and very polarized, which is funny, because that's human nature, because you're putting your head in the sand to hide from the complexity and nuance and gray zones of the issue. But like we said, it's very nuanced and Kim, I mean, Kanye versus Ski, you know, because it's such a stupid simple issue. But the more complex the issue is, the more nuanced and complex you have to look at it as. So by you simplifying it, it's actually like taking the most away from that. Right, right. And you're stripping it down to like almost something where it's not even that. Yeah. And I think that if you look at CRT from what I've been told, I did a little bit of research guys. I try to be very balanced when I do my research. I read this perspective, that perspective, centrist, moderate, out of left field. And basically, you know, there's two schools of thought in it. One is like a little bit more hardcore. One is less hardcore. It's about how white people are the more dominant group in this country and how did that come to be, whether it was taking maybe stolen Indian land or Native American land, I'm sorry, depending on how you identify that word. But then the enslavement in African Americans and why the generational wealth accumulation numbers are like wildly, wildly different after all these hundreds of years. These are all like true things. Those things all happened in history. But how do we perceive them? Do white people need to feel bad every day about it? If they do feel bad about it, Andrew, on the more extreme, and do they need to be like work to equalize it every day and take their privilege and like go let out to all the people who are like lower than them on this pyramid or that pyramid. You know what I mean? There's a variety of pyramids in the game, you know? You guys let us know in the comments down below what you think and if you got opinions on this. I heard someone describe critical race theory as oh, we're not trying to teach critical race theory because that's something that you learn in grad school and law school because that's an old theory from the 80s. But we're trying to teach race critically to students. And I was like, that doesn't sound as extreme. That makes a lot of sense to me. I could see that be more implemented on maybe like a high school level. I don't know about like the third grade level. I think that's, you know, that seems a little early. But yeah, I mean, things like that. And what I mean to get at is that it's a lot about labeling and marketing because I remember when people were saying like defund the police and then people were like, what, you want to abolish the police? And then people were like, no, I just want to like reallocate the funds of the police and do that. Death tax is death panels. I mean, both sides do it to each other. I tend to think that the right tends to be a lot better at the branding game or misbranding game than the left. You know, obviously just on a political tactical scale, generally weaker than the right. I don't know if they're just spitting an L on the consultants or the executions out there. What I mean is like, it comes down to marketing things too, which is weird because it's a political issue. Why should you have to market a political issue differently? I'll just take us out of this video by saying my perspective on it, being Asian American, I definitely think that I have a little bit more of an outside perspective on CRT. Of course, when you know our family, Andrew came to America, both our parents and about like around 1970, all this like beef between different sides was already existed. It's been existed for hundreds of years. And there's obviously a side that economically much came up on the better end of that beef or that whatever happened that was terrible. You know, obviously it was white people, okay? And then black people got the shorter end of that stick. Now, how do we try to equalize it? I think for me, maybe if CRT is being used against the people who want to push it, they might need to go back to the drawing board and retool it and maybe think of universal basic services with more culturally targeted deployment. That's like something that I would be like, hey guys, this is just me being on the outside, not really having a dog in the fight. Yes and no, I do, but not really where I'm just like, yo, let's just try to come up with something. Yeah. So that's what I would say where I'm not, yo guys, the left, you might need to go back to the drawing board because the right, they jujitsu this one. I think it's a lot easier to just say no to something than to figure out how to implement it if it's said yes to. You know, and I think that it is on the left to figure that out and implement it in a correct way because you know, it's easy to just be like, no, I don't want it, leave it alone. And then the other people are like, oh shoot, but if we do get yes, like we got to figure out how to execute it. Also, being on the outside, you know, we took a DNA test, David, and I, we're 0% black or white. Right. We have 0% of any sort of like, I'm like 99.999% Asian. Right. I don't know. I do think that, let me, you know, I don't know if people might view this as too self-interested. Think about what the Asians are saying, man, because we got a pretty good like third eye, like outside of the game perspective. You know, hey, you guys, leave it in the comments down below. I think I'll say this, man. Sound off. I'll say this. Listen, guys, I think sometimes a lot of stuff with CRT and you're changing sort of like, the narration of the game. And you know, if we're going to talk about life, being this race up this mountain, but then there was coaching in base camp, and then you got shot in a cannonball jump, and then you hit the mountain at different points, and everybody had different qualities of bicycles and different coaching. CRT is going to change the narration of that because we're going to look at Lance Armstrong and winning 70, 100 years in a row or whatever for live team Livestrong. We're going to be like, oh man, they cheated. Oh man, they need to dole out some of the earnings back or something like that. But we have to structurally change like systemic base camp and what bike people get and what kind of coaching. And you know what I mean? I just think that CRT is like, it's just like avoiding the actual changes that would need to take place because a lot of people don't want to take their brain there. Yeah. And that's maybe where we're at as a society. People like to argue about this thing and that thing. It's so trivial, but it's like, it's not more complex feelings wrapped up in there, but they're not actually going to the court. It's not to say that it's not a significant issue, but it might not be the main issue you want to focus on concerning everything else that's going on in the world. I don't know guys, let us know. It's a little confusing too. Yeah, let us know in the comment section below what you think about this CRT issue. What do you think about the debate? What do you think? Do you know, do you think Ron DeSantis will probably become the president within the next 10 years? Probably using tactics based off this issues. And you know, it's just politic talk guys, but we got to talk about it because this is a life we're living in. Until next time, we're the Hop Hop Boys. We out. Peace.