The Oscars are predictably irritating. Joe Biden stumbles, even as he correctly diagnoses his own party.

And the other Democrats open up the circular firing squad. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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47. Okay. So last night was the Oscars. Ooh. Ah. And the Oscars are a wonderful window into what

the cultural left really thinks of America. The Oscars every year do more to help President Trump than any other cultural events in America, truly, because it's finally when the American people get to see what all of the people on the coast truly think of them.

And as I say, I don't think that everybody on the coast really thinks the way the people at the Oscars think, but enough of them do. And it is amusing, I will say, to watch the Oscars outwoke themselves. Basically, the Oscars writ large are the story that I talked about on the show last week. There's a show I talked about on the show last week where a bunch of liberal white women. We're hiring a couple of women of color to lecture them about how unwoke they

were. They were paying them like $2,500 a session in order to have malice struggle sessions where they

confessed how secretly racist they were and how they were insensitive and couldn't identify

microaggressions and all of this. And the real reason you do that is so then you can go tell

all of your left-leaning friends that you are the kind of person who is so

woke that you paid $2,500 to a lady to explain to you how you are not, how you are not woke

enough.

I mean, this is the idea here.

It's really, because the impressive level of subversive racism that exists in the left-win

community, it truly is incredible.

It truly is incredible.

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