 Now, this is how Ilya Shapiro got in trouble because Ilya Shapiro put out a tweet that basically said look The most qualified liberal appeals court judge Who should be nominated to the Supreme Court? is a woman and her name is sorry Srinivasan Srinivasan, sorry Srinivasan and Ilya Shapiro, who is a column a libertarian, I think said if you are progressive liberal The judge that is most qualified That has gonna be the best for you as a liberal Democrat would be Srinivasan and she happens to be Indian of Sri Lanka and in terms of skin color pretty dark, but She doesn't count. She can't be nominated to the Supreme Court. She will not be placed on the Supreme Court Even though she's the most qualified candidate not by skin color not by sex but by ideology and objective qualifications for legal scholars She won't because she's not black enough She won't because she's not black from the right side of the world She won't because her people Were not enslaved at least not in America who knows what was done to them in previous generations in India Or wherever it is she comes from but this is the insanity insanity of Racism she is Shalinese So off the coast of India Shalinese I'm not sure I'm not sure Shalinese is I'm sure that I'm sure the I Don't know what culture I mean culturally. They're probably very much like India. I don't know that would be interesting I don't know much about the people in Ceylon, Sri Lanka, but My point is who cares Who cares where exactly she come from What matters is her qualifications Okay, Sri Lanka is Ceylon Thank you under Freeman. I appreciate that. I I suspected that but it I'm glad I wasn't gonna say it. I'm glad you Qualified that Tamil culture. I'm told is the culture of South India, which is Sri Lankan, but it doesn't matter She's an American. I don't know if she was born in America But she's an American and a enormously qualified judge and she won't go to the Supreme Court now because of her anything She has done said written now because she's not qualified. She's the most qualified at least according to Ilya Shapiro But because she's not from Africa Well, it's not even true because their ancestors are not for Africa. We live in a sick culture that produces this kind of results Now unfortunately for Ilya And Ilya, you know is a just to give you a sense of who Ilya is He is a legal scholar He has worked for the Kato Institute for many years He has just been appointed the executive director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution Which is a very prestigious position Georgetown is a top law school and of course in a heart of dc and You know Ilya is a great guy. I follow him on Twitter. I follow a lot of his stuff He's a he's a good guy. He's super smart. I don't agree with him on everything, but he's super smart And and really interesting So he said say in a series of tweets he criticized Joe Biden's pledge to consider only black women for the soon vacant Supreme Court and in the course of arguing That This judge judge siri whose name I can't pronounce would be far and away the best pick for biden Shapiro tweeted and this was his big This is how we got into trouble Shapiro tweeted, but alas He doesn't fit into the latest intersectionality hierarchy So we'll get less a black woman Now what he means here is I guess siri is a is a man So he it is I thought he was a woman. Okay, so it's a black. It's a it's a it's a Man from Sri Lanka is this bell in court judge. I thought it was a woman for some reason anyway What got him in trouble was we'll get Alessa black woman Now Ilya is not arguing that black women Alessa He's arguing here. What he's saying here is That the best candidate of all of any color skin, which is a bizarre way to put it For a progressive leftist is Sri this guy Sri right And as a consequence of that You're gonna get somebody Alessa Who's a black woman not because black women Alessa But because Biden has said he'll only choose a black woman, but you can see How this is easily misunderstood and Shapiro knew this and deleted his tweet quickly and apologized for it and all Did all the right things, but it was too late too late the dean of the law school flipped out Students flipped out You know, they piled on Shapiro They called him a racist, which is if you if you know anything about Ilya Shapiro and you followed his work You know that is ludicrous He was placed on the day today. He was supposed to start yesterday No, sorry on Tuesday. He was supposed to start as executive director of this new center. It was placed in administrative leave There's going to be an investigation about whether he violated the policies and expectations of professional conduct and so on All because some people chose to read a tweet that he wrote in a way That he's clearly not intended And that he criticized Biden's choices Now this is Georgetown University Georgetown University University. It took no discriminatory action in 2018 When a feminist professor said And I'm quoting right quoting That entitled white men Who supported Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, but the entitled white men deserve miserable deaths While we castrate their corpses and feed them to the swine Indeed when some students demanded something to be done about this professor Georgetown went out of it their way To defend that females professors free speech rights So you can call white men You can You can claim they deserve death And you can describe how you're going to castrate them and feed the corpses to swine And that's okay But to argue for a colorblind supreme court To argue for a president to choose The most qualified candidate rather than the candidate who has a particular color skin And even there a particular heritage worth a particular color skin because Who knows if if if swine is more black or less black than whoever Biden ultimately nominates That Deserves condemnation. I mean this is just unbelievable and this is not Idiots, this is the dean of the Georgetown University Law Center. It is absurd And ridiculous By the way, just to give you a sense of the students who are demanding that Shapiro be um fired They're claiming that they've been hurt And they've demanded catered food And they want a space in which to cry While conducting a sit-in demanding that he be fired The dean has told them that he's gonna find a place for them to cry. Don't worry And uh, whatever food they order in the school of reimbursed them I mean we've gone So soft as a culture Sit in should be illegal Never mind giving them a safe space to cry and providing them with food Amy wax is not good. Amy wax is a racist of the right They are racist of the right and wax is a pen law And she is horrible She is horrible And this is the problem That if you're gonna have racist of the left you're gonna get racist of the right Until I stand the racist of the left I'll response to the racist of the right And generally you have racist on all sides Amy wax's attitude towards immigrants the way she talks about immigrants what she says about immigrants is disgusting and despicable and yes deserves the title of racist I I would have nothing to do with her I wouldn't fire her But I wouldn't have anything to do with her Let me show you this segment from Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson I mean, this is just this is the the crazy world in which we live. This is the kind of stuff that We're getting to the kind of attitude the kind of Stuff that we're deteriorating to because Of the succession with race that appears to be on all sides All right, I'm gonna play you. This is uh, it's one minute long. So we're gonna play this oops No, we're not we're gonna it's of intolerance and bigotry and anger and hateful Sexual oppression. What if Michael Dyson call you and mean mean white man? Yeah, and and a mean angry white man Hilarious. Yeah. Yeah, you're not mean at all. That's what's dumb about that statement. It's you're not mean at all I am white actually that's a but that's part of the problem once you start calling people angry white people Identifying them by their skin color And and and making a deal out of people's skin color Well, they're gonna respond And now skin color becomes a thing It gains importance It gains currency And now you get into stupid discussions like this A lie too. I'm kind of tan So am I white? How tan am I? Am I more tan when I'm in Puerto Rico than when I'm in Toronto, Canada Does tanning count? How dark is dark? What is white? He was actually not black. He was sort of brown. And he's not black now. So Dyson's not black. He's just brown Is black just a figurative to coming from from some ancestry in Africa? How much blackness counts as black? Because I'm I'm darker than you. Yeah. Yeah, that's ridiculous. Yeah, now Joe is dark. So Maybe Joe's not white, but what is white? Who qualifies? Where do we set the criteria? Is there pigment meter? Is there a meter that defines who's white? Who's black the whole thing? Is stupid You know in Brazil For a long time if you I think to this day if you have one They talk about blood right one ounce of white blood if you have one white ancestor You're considered white In america if you have one black ancestor you consider black But all of that is bullshit We're all mutts To some degree another and it doesn't matter It makes no difference. It's insignificant It has no meaning Neither of us are white. Well, I'm italian and he was bright. Yeah, italian whites Suddenly the british didn't think so They categorized them as a different race And they were dark skinned and they will look down upon Down not black. Well So jao says it's not exactly like that, but that you know, it's somewhat like that It's not exactly like that, but it's somewhat like that Where do you define? Where's the boundary? What defines you on what side? Isn't that weird? Yeah, it's really weird black and white thing is so strange because the shades and brown There's such a spectrum of shades of people unless you're talking to someone who is like 100 african From the darkest place where they're not wearing any clothes all day And they've developed all that melanin to protect themselves from the sun You know it's even the term he got into trouble with that from the darkest place and he could all day He got he got into trouble for saying that but It's about me. I'll tone it. I mean not me. I'll tone it It's about sking pigment That's all they matter that all it is It's skin pigment And yet we're taking skig pigment And we're turning it into something important Something significant something that we evaluate people based on something that gets you or doesn't get you into the supreme court Melanin, thank you That's the deciding how much melanin do you have in the skin? Categorizes you the whole thing Is absurd I mean And it comes from the days of Slavery and bigotry and Jim Crow laws And we should be bigger than that and better than that and more grown up than that and more rational than that You know, it's even the term black is weird. It's a it's a and when you use it for people that are Literally my color. It becomes very strange. Yeah. Yeah, you know, this is true A voice of So anyway, they got into big trouble for that one Um, you can probably see why even though You know, they're absolutely right And again, I get the sensitivity of people who Are discriminated against because of the color of their skin So they make the color of their skin a big deal because they've been discriminated based on that their whole life But the rest of us It's just inexcusable It's logically absurd to place a precept a percept about color About skin pigmentation as your standard for evaluating people It's racist And it's despicable. It's despicable when Joe Biden does it. It is despicable when Students at Georgetown do it. It's despicable when whoopee does it whoopee only counts racism When it affects black versus white Well, it turns out that other people have different views of racism whoopee and she's suffering the consequences of that Now there's a sense in which people Goldberg is right Since there isn't such a thing as race. It's a made-up thing And nazis were Anti-Jewish they hated Jews. They killed Jews. They slaughtered Jews They also hated blacks If there were more blacks in the environment, they would have slaughtered them too They hated gypsies. They killed gypsies left and right, you know, the the the this these arguments about a concept That has ultimately no legitimacy Is horrific and the more we emphasize it the more we get away from Martin Luther King's vision of a colorblind society The more we get away from a society of individualists The more we get away from Intermarriage, which is I think the best thing that happening in the world today the rise of intermarriage So Joao says You're an actually light brown skinned people with slightly black facial features. The class fight is black over here It wasn't always like this. I know it wasn't But it's the trend in brazil right now again copying the us brazil was Better than the us with regard to this I think in the past and it's people are copying the us We're becoming More racist not less racist More focused on this and again, you're getting it from the right From people like richard who want to make a big deal out of group differences. This is what's important in life And you're getting it from the left black lives matter We got to elect a black woman to the supreme court I mean our what matters is our genetic makeup and that matters almost entirely For our health not for anything else. It doesn't determine our moral character. It doesn't determine our productivity. It doesn't determine The choices we make The kind of persons we are It determines elements of our intelligence, but even there. I don't think the most important ones And there's just no such thing as race in genetics There's lineage there's a place where you came from and if you do a 23 in me You'll find that you come from a lot of different places a lot of different places Thank you for listening or watching the iran book show If you'd like to support the show We make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching Show your appreciation. 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