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The Rubin Report

My Worst Moment: The Time I Got My Facts Wrong | Andrew Klavan | Book Club Chapter 5

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.513.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Andrew Klavan (Author and Podcast Host) about the fifth chapter of “Don’t Burn This Book”, entitled ‘Check Your Facts Not Your Privilege’. Special guest host Andrew Klavan talks to Dave about the time that Larry Elder destroyed Dave Rubin’s arguments with facts. Dave and Andrew discuss how important it is to know your facts before you form an opinion on an issue. They also discuss how learning the facts associated with a topic can get you to change your position. As Ben Shapiro says “facts don't care about your feelings”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We all know that the left is no longer liberal, but the past few weeks have shown like never before the

0:06.0

Distressing results of our trend towards polarization. The mainstream media has doubled down on their petty hyperpartisan

0:13.3

Mudd slinging in the face of a true crisis. It's more important than ever to be informed, engaged,

0:19.8

responsible citizens who want to follow the facts at more than nonsense and the noise.

0:24.5

That's what Don't Burn This Book is all about. While we faced a lot of pressure to delay the publication of this book because of

0:31.4

Quarantine, I felt it was important to get these ideas out as soon as possible.

0:36.0

I know that free thought, free speech, and patriotism are as important to you as they are to me,

0:41.8

so I hope this book entertains and inspires you during the days and weeks ahead. Order now at Don't Burn This Book.

0:54.6

Hey everyone, it's Andrew Klavin. We're here with the Don't Burn This Book Book Club. We're doing Chapter 5.

1:00.6

Check your facts, not your privilege, which is a chapter after my own heart. I'm very big on facts.

1:05.7

It reminded me of what Ronald Reagan once said, and he said,

1:09.6

it's not that Democrats don't know anything.

1:11.9

It's that everything they know happens to be untrue. And I think that this is something that comes to all of us

1:17.5

when we are, as they say, red-pilled. When we start to realize that all the things we took for granted, all the positions we took for granted,

1:24.4

really aren't based on any kind of facts, based on the kind of emotional brow beating that the left

1:31.4

uses instead of ideas. I mean, this is one of the things about the left. They don't have a lot of ideas,

1:35.8

but they have a lot of techniques for silencing people with ideas and for frightening people with ideas.

1:41.2

And I have to say, one of the things I liked about this, this chapter is packed with facts,

1:45.2

it's packed with information, stuff you can use to beat up your grandmother,

1:48.5

thanksgiving if she has a bad opinion.

1:50.8

But I think the most important part of this chapter is the discussion about the fact that when we talk to each other,

1:57.2

when liberals and conservatives talk to one another, they are talking in different languages.

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