The recent tide of bills in state,
after state,
that seeks to cancel any teacher,
who teaches about racism, who says
things about American history that
are true, and unfortunately,
politically incorrect for that.
That's not going away anytime soon.
And why do I know that?
Because Donald Trump has now become
personally invested
in the critical race theory debate.
He decided that Juneteenth would be
a great day to publish an op-ed
calling for effectively the banning
of any discussion about racism in
public schools.
And no, he was in favor of
Juneteenth becoming a national
holiday when he was president.
But now it's a great day to say
things like this.
For decades the America-blaming
left has been relentlessly pushing
a vision of America that casts our
history, culture, traditions, and
founding documents in
the most negative possible light.
Yet in recent years, this deeply
unnatural effort has progressed
from telling children that their
history is evil, to telling
Americans that they are evil.
We have more.
Let's just pause for one second to
note that Donald Trump didn't come
within a mile of writing one single
word of this.
But it does have his name
attached to it.
[LAUGH] >> He definitely didn't
write it.
>> I thought the exact same thing.
>> It's coherent. >> Yeah. >> Yeah,
it's abhorrent but coherent.
Anyway, he goes on,
in classrooms across the nation,
students are being subjected to
a new curriculum. Yeah, he uses
the word curriculum. [LAUGH]
>> Definitely, dude's always ready
to whip out a curriculum.
Anyway, designed to brainwash them
with the ridiculous left-wing dogma
known as critical race theory.
Instead of helping young people
discover that America is
the greatest, most tolerant, and
most generous nation in history.
Screw you Scandinavia,
it teaches them that America
is systematically evil, and
that the hearts of our people
are full of hatred and malice.
Indoctrinating generations of
children with these extreme ideas
is not just immoral, it is
a program for national suicide.
Yet that is exactly what the Biden
administration endorsed recently in
a rule published in
the Federal Register,
aimed at inflicting a critical race
theory-inspired curriculum
on American schoolchildren.
This is what
the Biden administration wants
to teach America's children.
That is not in any way true.
But it is now fact that is dogma
for millions of Americans,
conservative Americans,
who see Trump is now involved in
this conversation.
And if you're a Republican
politician, if you're running for
some state
office here in the legislature,
how fast do you want to try to
ban critical race theory so
that Donald Trump will notice you?
>> Yeah, so
I think that Republicans of course
have dropped the dog whistle.
Now it's a human whistle,
we can all hear it, and
so- >> They call that a whistle.
>> Yeah, I think so.
[LAUGH] >> That's the other word
for it, I looked it up.
So this is just like,
can you believe they're teaching
about slavery and
racism in America?
We should go back to
covering it up.
[LAUGH] And
from the same exact people who told
you we can't take down
the Confederate monuments, because
it would be erasing history.
So you're allowed to erase history
if you talk about slavery being
yeah, evil, right?
But you're not allowed to erase
history if you're putting up
a beautiful statue of a Confederate
general, and celebrating him in
the middle of your town, okay?
So you guys
see the hypocrisy there.
But what I found to be interesting
in this is that they think that if
you teach history, both the upsides
and downsides of any place, that
means that you're calling everybody
in that country evil, right?
And that makes no sense at all,
I know they're right wingers,
logic not required, right?
But I want to ask,
what is the alternative, right?
Because look, honestly,
every country does propaganda, and
I get it, right?
So I grew up in Turkey until I was
eight years old, and I came here.
And then I remember when we're
doing Turkish-American Day parades
and stuff, we used to have this
hilarious chant that I've told you
guys about a couple of times.
Turkey is the biggest, there's no
other country that's even big.
[LAUGH] >> And I remember,
thinking even as a 10 year old,
12 year old, I'm pretty sure
America is pretty big.
And I'm pretty sure we
moved to America because it was for
good, okay?
[LAUGH] Now so I love America,
and I say that unabashedly.
Now, does that mean that's it,
everything America did is gold?
[LAUGH] Everything we did in
the past, it's over.
Congratulations, America,
you're perfect, and
you've always been perfect.
I mean, come on,
how absurd is that?
Part of the reason I love America
is we try to fix ourselves.
In fact, it's in our founding
document.
In the Constitution, it says,
you should amend this thing, you
should do political revolutions.
You don't pick up a musket like we
did, okay, or an AR-15.
[LAUGH] Pick up a convention or
a constitutional convention or
it's actually not exactly
a constitutional convention to
amend the Constitution, etc.
Whatever process you have,
a democratic process that we built
into the Constitution, we gave you
several different ways to amend it.
That's how you do it to get to
a more perfect union.
And these guys are saying, no,
let's not do that.
Leave it alone,
don't touch anything, don't fix it.
Whatever you do, don't fix it.
And by the way, go back and pretend
that everything was hunky dory for
all of it.
If you can't see that that's
absurd, you're trying super hard
not to see it.
>> And for me,
it's a little bit different for
me as the child of two immigrants.
Oftentimes, and I know child of
immigrant people out there going to
hear me, oftentimes my mom would be
like, Haitian people are the best.
There's so pure of heart.
My God, if you go to a Haitians'
house as a guest, they're
going to give you their bed.
They're going to make
you breakfast,
Haitian people are just so amazing.
Then out the other side of her
mouth, she's like,
I can't stand Haitians.
[LAUGH] >> They so jealous,
you know they talking stuff behind
your back, they don't work,
I can't do Haitians.
Why can't we do this with
America in understanding that yes,
we have some great things and
we have some BS as well?
Why can't we do that?
I don't understand.
I think there's just
something intrinsic
to feeling like a white person,
that you just got to hold on to it.
We're just perfect,
we're just the best.
And this we've never done anything
wrong ever, it's so
ridiculous to me.
>> No, I know why.
First of all, let's note for
the record that was hilarious.
[LAUGH] >> And 100% true,
same thing with Turkish immigrants,
right?
Turkey is the best, we are
reconstituting the Ottoman Empire.
Just like Louie Gohmert said, okay,
we are going to win,
we are the best, best, right?
And then you say hey,
maybe we should ask fellow Turks in
America for help.
Do not ask them,
they are bums and losers.
[LAUGH] >> They will never
help you.
They will never help you, okay?
Turks never help each each other,
they don't learn nothing, okay?
[LAUGH] But but
it's not because of that.
The question is whether
you're in power or not, and
so when you're in power,
you want to hold on to power.
So the Turkish government does
the same thing as, and
it's right-wing, and it's does
the same thing as the right-wing
government in America, right?
When, I was going to say when right
wingers [LAUGH] are in charge.
[LAUGH] Which is kind of perpetual
here, but anyway,
depending on how you look at it.
So yeah, they say Turkey is
the biggest, there is no other big,
blah, blah, blah, right?
And so they don't do nuance either,
but that's because they're in
power.
Whereas when you're an immigrant,
you step out of power and
you're a minority in a new country.
Then you could be more nuanced and
go, we're have we have downsides,
both of your home country and
of your previous country.
And by the way, today, Josh Mandel
running for Senate as a Republican
said that Ilhan Omar shouldn't be
supported, she should be deported.
Ilhan Omar is of course
a United States citizen, of course
you cannot deport United States
citizens because you would deport
them back to the United States.
[LAUGH] And not only that she's
a United States congressperson,
but to them they think black,
Muslim, non-American.
It's deeply ironic, because if
you don't believe in equality and
justice, which is in parts of our
founding documents, [LAUGH] and
certainly that was the stated
goal of our founding documents.
Well, you don't believe in America.
>> Yeah. >> And so Josh Mandel and
Donald Trump, in their actions
are deeply un-American.
>> Yeah, Josh Mandel almost
couldn't be more explicit that
he prefers, he values skin color
over the Constitution.
He'll say that he loves
the Constitution.
Apparently doesn't count because
she's a citizen, you can't deport
her, except that she's black.
So I guess you can.
So which of those does he value?
It's pretty clear.
>> Yeah, why are we even having
a conversation about deporting or
why don't we deport Josh Mandel?
>> I'll allow it.
>> They're both 100%
American citizens, right?
But if you said that,
the right wing will go, [LAUGH]
where are you going to deport him?
You can't deport him,
he's an American and
because he's white.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah, that's what I thought.