Hey guys, what's up? Welcome to relatable. It is Tuesday, January 15th. And today we are going to do a special kind of episode. I think in the future, I'll make it just a segment of the episode. But today it's going to be the whole thing just to see how you guys like it. And it is called this ain't it. So what we're going to do is we're going to go through some of the cringe,

fantastic things, people on the right in the left have said over the past two weeks, break it down and analyze why this is just not it. This is not a thing that someone should be saying. It's not logically correct. It is not morally right.

And we'll kind of talk about the implications of that. So like I said, this is from the right and the left. We are going to start with the controversial statement that was made by Iowa representative Steve King.

So Steve King, I know him a little bit. I was invited in the fall to speak at a group with a group within Congress within the House of Republicans called conservative opportunity society. I was asked to come to DC and speak at their breakfast and talk about how do engage millennials in the conservative cause.

Which is something I do a lot to various groups and organizations around the country. I thought, hey, this is a good opportunity to speak to Republicans in Congress. These are very influential people.

Why would I pass this up? People from Heritage Foundation were there, which is an organization I really trust. And so I said, yes, I made a trip out of it. I did a few other things when I was in DC.

And I spoke to this group. It was great afterwards.

Representative King and I got a picture, which is now on Twitter, which is now haunting me. So apparently, Representative King has kind of been sketchy for a little bit in his views on race.

And you can call me ignorant. You can call me naive, which maybe is something to blame me for. I really did not know this. Like, I don't know if I should be admitting this, but I didn't know who

who really who representative representative King was. I mean, I knew who he was, but I didn't know him. I didn't know about his controversial statement. So he's retweeted people who identify his neo nazi, so identify his white nationalist white supremacist. He's kind of been

labeled as part of the alt-right or at least sympathetic to the alt-right. And I know a lot of you listening are like, oh, that's just a made up progressive term to demonize conservatives. No, that's not true. There is actually a real faction of the alt-right within the conservative movement who really aren't conservative at all. They're really more concerned with preserving whiteness than anything else. Just trust me that those people exist. And they identify as on the right, even though they're kind of this whole other world that it of themselves.

Steve King has whether it's deliberate or not has kind of been a part of that or has sympathized with some people in that movement, like Faith Goldie, for example. Now again, you could have different opinions on her, but the general consensus. I personally, I don't know her. I only know a little bit about her, but the general consensus is that she is kind of part of this white nationalist alt-right movement.

So Steve King supported her when she was running for office in Canada and his most recent statements are what people are saying are extremely controversial. He said to a New York Times reporter, white nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization. How did that language become offensive? Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?

This ain't it representative King. This ain't it. So part of this statement is correct. Western civilization. How did that language become offensive? Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?

True. True. And some people would call me a bigot for saying this Western civilization is the best civilization that exists. Absolutely. That is why America is number one in medicine and education and technology has been the number one economy forever has buoyed the world economy forever has created freedom almost virtually wherever we have gone. We have been a good force in the United States. That's why our founding documents are so unique and so wonderful.

Have created such an amazing society for the most part. He has right about that. That is not big a tree. That is just true. That's why we have people immigrating here and emulating us every day. That is not to say that other cultures are bad that other people that live in other countries are not good or not made in the image of God and are not equally valuable.

But Western society and the culture that it has created is the best is the most equal is the most prosperous in all of the world. So that part is correct. Where representative King is wrong is conflating Western civilization with white nationalism and white supremacy. No. That is not Western civilization.

Being a part of the West and this is where the alt-right would seriously disagree with me being a part of the West has nothing to do with being white has nothing to do with being white.

In fact that contradicts exactly what this country was founded on. So our declaration of independent said says that all men are created equal. We're endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.

I know that throughout our history we have not always lived up to that perfectly that would be the contention that well America has had slavery we haven't given women the rights that they deserve that they inherently have we have allowed discrimination and racism to flourish in this country.

And you're right there has been seasons of American history where we have been deeply entrenched in racial discrimination in in sin and gender discrimination all of these things that I believe are are wrong.

But the seasons of our history where we have been steeped in racism and destiepped in different kinds of injustices and discrimination they have all been steps away from the ideals of our founding documents not towards them.

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