Black Lives MAGA | The Roundtable Ep. 30 Segment 3
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
All across America, “Back the Blue” and “Black Lives MAGA” rallies have been cropping up. But mainstream media outlets won’t give them a megaphone. What gives? Our editors discuss these rallies and contemplate what practicing virtue looks like in your daily life. Plus: Spencer engaged in a little civil disobedience over the weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | Temptation hides in the space between. |
| 0:09.6 | Lord help me find, desire for fire. |
| 0:15.0 | Words can cleanse and purify, |
| 0:20.0 | or tear down a pack of lives in your... So James in the previous segment you spoke a little bit about this fascinating |
| 0:38.0 | anti lockdown rally or well actually how to describe it so Black Lives |
| 0:45.0 | MAGA was one of the kind of catchphrases of it it was it was ringlet at least in |
| 0:51.8 | part by Brandon Straca, the famous walkaway fellow, gay guy I think who is, you know, protesting the left sort of ownership over certain demographic groups. |
| 1:03.7 | And so the idea is that this is like the hashtag |
| 1:06.7 | walk away, which means like you can, you really can just, you know, |
| 1:10.5 | wake up one day and leave the movement, right go on with your life in a new |
| 1:14.9 | way and this was coupled with rallies all over the place there was one in |
| 1:19.7 | Cleveland there was one in Fort Worth there was one in Fort Worth, there was one in Sioux Falls, naturally not widely |
| 1:26.6 | publicized in the way that Black Lives Matter has received breathless 24-hour news coverage, but indicative of a certain degree of unrest and dissatisfaction, |
| 1:37.5 | frustration, frustration. So in the same way as numerous sort of disparate leftist causes global warming, systemic racism, economic disparity and inequality have all being sort of amalgamated into one big, you know, |
| 1:59.1 | wear a mask, coronavirus, form of rhetoric that you you know this system of control imposed |
| 2:06.4 | upon people who you know I see billboards all the time that say something along the lines of eating meat |
| 2:14.5 | causes pandemics so eat vegetarian be a vegetarian and no no swine no swine flu |
| 2:19.2 | well there's certain truth to that. Bat meat, is the problem. |
| 2:24.0 | Our, one of our authors, Angelo Cottavilla, |
| 2:28.0 | made the point that it was sort of remarkable |
| 2:30.0 | how easily each of these various factions adopted the rhetoric of the other. |
| 2:35.0 | They all kind of snowball into this one big, you know, Black Lives Matter, |
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