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No, me neither. Can ExpressVPN right now at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. We have a real problem in the United States. We have a serious shortage. The supply lines are broken on racism. There's just apparently not enough for it for the media. There just isn't enough of it. And the demand has now dramatically exceeded the

supply. See, here's the thing about the United States. The people of the United States are not

particularly racist. By every available poll, the American people are not racist. They don't mind

having people of different races living near them. They don't mind interracial marriage. None of

these things bother the American people in any significant numbers.

And that's true across the nation. There are not significant regional differences between,

say, the South and the North. That is a self-flattering picture painted by the New York Times about its own constituents. But the reality, again, is that Americans broadly read are not

a racist people. In fact, we are some of the least racist people on earth. But in order for

systemic change to be effectuated by the left in the United States, there must always be a

marginalized population to be used as a cudgel against the system, because if the system

basically allows people to succeed or fail on their own merits, if the system rewards hard work,

for example, and punishes people for not doing hard work,

or rewards responsible decision-making and punishes people for non-responsible decision-making,

well, then disparities may arise.

And those disparities may not land equally on every group,

because as it turns out, every group is made up of disparate individuals.

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