and there's nothing going on in the sky, we can't see it right now, I mean, you just can't just get inside.

Good afternoon, Michael Malice here. Let that be your welcome for the next hour. We have with us.

I think probably our most requested guest, James Lindsay, who is the co author of how to have a possible conversations, author of co author of cynical theories, co author of what's the third one?

I didn't co author anything else. I wrote a book back in 15 called Everybody's Wrong About God.

Okay, those are the three. So you are the probably biggest point man right now in our culture, taking on critical race theory, which has permeated from the universities, it's into media, corporate America, politics.

Most people do not have a good understanding what it is. They are being explicitly lied to about what it is. My very simple example of this was during the presidential debate between President Trump and Joe Biden and Chris Wallace from Fox, Fox, the crazy right wing lunatics, where he says what's wrong with critical race theory, they're just teaching people to be polite.

And if you tell someone we should encourage people to be polite to immigrants or those different cultures, 99% people would say, yeah, I agree. I don't want to step on someone's toes if they're an immigrant and they're hard working. I don't want to make those mistakes. What is wrong with that being the claim?

You have an hour, sir, you have the floor.

Yeah, that actually happened recently. I actually was invited to have like a dialogue. And then we were doing kind of like the pregame there on the zoom. And the guy was like, no, just talk for an hour. We changed our mind. And I was like, about what? He's like critical race. He's like, okay. And so if we want to do that, we can.

But no, I mean, that is like the trick, right? So I'll just jump straight into some nasty. If we could look back at the 1953 testimony of Dr. Bella Dodd, who was a member of the Communist Party USA. And then she defected and then she confessed everything or testified everything to the House Committee on un-American activities. Now known as the House Judiciary Committee, which is not McCarthy, by the way.

McCarthy was. Yeah. But anyway, she testifies and she said, oh, yeah, when communism comes, it always comes in high-minded sounding terms. So what it'll do is it will lie about itself. And it will say, for example, at the time, what they were literally using is the line was that the communists are the true anti-fascists. So if you oppose communism, you must be pro-fascism.

Just logic. Yeah. Perfect. I mean, like we haven't seen that trick ever tried again and worked completely worked on half of the polity. But they did the same thing. They just copied this literally with anti-racist. They literally just copied the same mentality with anti-racist. And it just tricks everybody.

You know, the framing that the critical race theory is, is racial sensitivity training or is diversity training, not even that it's one approach to it. They won't even say that because they say that all the rest of them are somehow corrupted with white supremacy or something.

So it is the one and only approach. That's the thing that that that lets the life go by, right. They say that it is the way if you're going to have diversity training, you have to use critical race theory or else you're not actually doing diversity correctly or you're not actually looking at racial sensitivity correctly.

You're usually they'll say some awful thing like recentering the needs of the privileged. If you don't use their completely crackpot method to do it. So first thing out of the gate, you know, you hear these, these distortions. And it is, I guess, very vaguely true that critical race theory could be construed as racial sensitivity training, but it's really racial hyper sensitivity training because it's first hypothesis is that race is relevant to everything and therefore you have to think about race all the time.

And it's relevance to everything, which seems to be hyper sensitizing rather than, you know, I get it. You got to be careful around certain cultural issues or certain, you know, sensitive buttons.

Certainly, certain language is going to be inflammatory to various people for various reasons, some of which are actually good. And you do want to kind of be sensitive about this.

You don't want them to be making jokes and make people feel uncomfortable, whether you knew better or not. And so a little sensitivity training even could be useful.

But to start as critical race theory does with the fundamental assumption, its first assumption is that race is the ordinary state of affairs and society. So it is not a question of whether or not racism took place, but how did racism take place in that situation, because it's going to be there.

You're already way off the rails. Right. So what it is is one way to do this. I would say a very bad way to do this. We can talk about lots of its other scary core assumptions.

But it denies the fact that there are others. And so that lie right out of the gate should have people much more suspicious of this ideology than they are.

This kind of ports to bet what happened in the 30s were installing told the left part of the Communist parties in Germany to go after the liberal or the socialist parties call them social fascists and basically refuse to work with them.

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