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System Update with Glenn Greenwald

Jasmine Crockett Rejuvenates Identity Politics Apology Rituals from Bowen Yang

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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Politics, News

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Glenn breaks down the controversy over Bowen Yang's comments about Jasmine Crockett. 

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0:00.0

All right, there is a video that we are in the process of uploading that will analyze and report on and dissect what is going on in Iran, as well as the threats from President Trump and other governments to

0:22.0

militarily intervene there ostensibly because the United States cares so deeply about

0:27.0

freedom for the oppressed peoples of the world.

0:29.8

But I do want to cover this event as well.

0:34.9

And I want to assure you it doesn't mean that we're now somehow going to focus on

0:39.0

issues of celebrity culture or even wokeism. But I do think that this is an event that highly

0:46.8

illustrates what is one of the most severe rotting problems within the Democratic Party and has been

0:54.0

for so long,

0:54.9

and it concerns some comments that were made,

0:58.4

mildly critical comments by two gay, very progressive comedians,

1:04.1

very progressive, they care a lot, they're good allies,

1:07.3

but they made some comments about the prospects of Jasmine Crockett and her inability in their view to win the Senate race that she is now running for in Texas and encourage liberals not to donate money to them because it would be a waste of money.

1:25.9

And this prompted all sorts of outburst about how they were

1:30.4

racist and misogynist. And even this term I had previously heard before, which is massaginor,

1:35.7

which is a very specific term invented by a Northwestern queer professor in 2008 to specifically

1:42.5

refer to prejudice and bigotry against black women in

1:46.9

particular. That's the way that you innovate in academia as you invent new ways of describing particular

1:52.4

kinds of bigotry. And this is the reason why I'm interested in this is because this has been

1:57.8

something that has been plaguing the Democratic Party for a long time, this kind of identity politics, which morphed into wokeism, that is still very much alive

2:04.4

as these events demonstrate. And I think until the Democratic Party and American liberalism

2:09.0

free themselves in a very aggressive way, declares themselves unwilling to be captained by this,

2:15.3

the greatest problems in the Democratic Party will, which

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