Welcome to Ten Blocks, the podcast of City Journal. I'm Seth Barron, associate editor of City Journal, and your

host for today. I'm joined by Heather McDonald, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a

contributing editor to City Journal. Heather's published widely on public disorder, policing, opera,

and many other topics. Her most recent book is The Diversity Delusion,

how race and gender pandering corrupt the university and undermine our culture. Heather,

welcome back to Ten Blocks. Well, thanks for having me on, Seth. I appreciate it.

So there was a minor scandal last week when a video of you talking about police brutality

against black men was removed from YouTube on the grounds that it violated community standards.

Now I gather the video was put back up, but what was so controversial about it in the first place?

Well, it was put back up with age restrictions.

The institution that sponsored my speech,

the center of the American Experiment,

Minneapolis managed to sneak another version back up

that has not yet been age restricted.

But what was controversial about my speech

in the eyes of Silicon Valley's overlords

is that I tried to present clear data,

federal data, uncontestable facts

that demolish the Black Lives Matter narrative

that show that policing in this country is not in fact

systemically racist, that law-abiding residents of high-crime communities beg for more police

protection, and that the narrative that law enforcement in this country is on some white supremacist

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