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those who disagree with the woke police and the governor of Kentucky announces illegal

racial reparations. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show. Today's show is sponsored by

ExpressVPN. Protect your data from prying eyes at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. All righty. So everything is canceled, guys. It's very exciting. We've reached a new moment in America. And that is everyone who has ever said anything that the woke police don't like is canceled. They will lose their jobs. They'll lose their career. Now, this had been on the way for a while. We've been seeing this for a long time, this sort of attitude that is pervasive throughout

the media, that true journalism can be found in digging up people's 12-year-old, 15-year-old, 20-year-old tweets, and then shaming them into giving up their jobs or leaving their positions unless they have the proper woke politics. If you have the proper woke politics, you get to keep your jobs. So if you're Jimmy Kimmel and you are the woke pope of late night TV,

then you absolutely get to dress in blackface as Karl Malone and keep your job. If you're Jimmy Fallon and you have bowed the knee to the politically correct police, then you get to dress up as Chris Rock back in 2000, apologize, and everything is okay. If, however, you aren't any of those things, then your wife has to apologize, like Drew Breeze, your second cousin from Duluth has to apologize, and you may not be able to keep your job at all. And this is the new pattern in American public life. So if your politics are correct, then you get to basically say whatever you want historically, and if we find something kind of uncomfortable, well, then, you know, we'll sort of brush it off. If you're Ralph Northam and you dress up in a KKK outfit in the 1980s, well then you're totally fine. Now, I've been consistent on this, which is people sin. People are sinful. People do things that are bad in their lives. And they should apologize to people to whom they have sin. And they should do restitution to people against whom they have sin. People make

bad comments. People should apologize for those bad comments. A bad comment is not the same thing

as doing something deeply damaging to another human being. An assault is not the same thing

as saying something bad to someone. A bad joke is not the same thing as firing someone over

race. But we don't abide by any. And by the way, I hold to those standards right, left and center. I've defended people on the left who have said stuff that is deeply offensive and wrong. To take a perfect example, Sarah I. Rao now works at the New York Times. When she was first hired by the New York Times, people resurfaced old tweets of hers where she was joking about how white people's opinions suck and stereotypical white

people and all of this kind of stuff. And I said, okay, well, I think that those comments are pretty bad, but the New York Times knew what they had when they hired her. And so she shouldn't lose her job over anything like that because guess what? In a society with a lot of opinions and a lot of diversity, you're going to have to tolerate some opinions you don't like and even some nastiness. You're going to have to tolerate all that

if you want to live together because it turns out people are sinful and say nasty and terrible things to one another all the time. And that is not the same thing as ruining somebody's life. That is not the same thing as creating systems of oppression. That is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination. Now, if you're going to hold true to the standard that the left is currently setting up, which is that if you've said something that targets another group,

or you've said something offensive or racially insensitive, then your life is over, well, then that should be evenly applied across the spectrum. And then no one gets to work, because as we will see, the way that this works is that the people who are deemed okay by the woke police get away with anything and everything that could possibly want to say,

including some of the worst racial slurs imaginable. But if you do not side with the woke police on their decision making about policy or about America being a systemically racist and

evil country and about you bearing guilt for the things that ancestors of yours or non-ancessors

of yours did, well, then you are part of the problem, and we will use

every indicator that you once told a bad joke as an indicator that you are a direct ideological

descendant of slaveholders, even if you aren't an actual descendant of slaveholders. That is the way

this will work. So you just have to be on the right side, in other words. There are a lot of people

on the left today who are saying this is the me-to with regard to racism. It's the Me Too moment with regard to racism. Well, if it is, then it's going to end just like Me Too did with a whimper, not a bang. It's going to end the moment that the left realizes that they can't uphold their own standards. And when people expect them to uphold their own standards, they're just going to shy away from it. Because we know they're not going to do that. We know that they want Ralph Northam to keep his job.

We know that they're not interested in ousting Ice Cube for being an anti-Semites. We know that they're not interested in going after LeBron James for his anti-Semitic Instagram comments a year and a half ago. We know they're not interested in going after Al Sharpton for being the worst race baiter of the last 50 years. We know all of that.

And so what that means is that people are going to see right through this and they're going to say,

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