The Conservative Political Action
Committee, also known as CPAC, has
officially disinvited one of their
speakers for their goofy annual
conference after it was discovered
that he pushed vicious anti-semitic
slurs and conspiracies.
Now as a result, this man,
Young Pharaoh, has been cancelled,
which is funny because the Florida
event later this week has as its
theme America Uncanceled.
Irony, what are we going to
do about this?
Now, the nature of what this guy
was tweeting and saying on his own
programming was pretty awful.
So for instance, I'm going to give
you just one example.
And this is actually one of
the more tame examples of his
disgusting anti-semitism.
But he says there's no historical
or scientific evidence proving
the existence of Jews or Judaism.
It's all a complete lie.
Go get the best Jewish scholar you
can find and I'll expose religion
as being completely made up for
political gain 100%.
It never happened.
And he pushes all of the typical
tropes that you would hear from
anti-semitic people.
So at that point, CPAC realized,
maybe it's a bit of a liability to
have him on as a speaker, so
they announced that they were
cancelling him.
They did so through a tweet where
they write, we have just learned
that someone we invited to CPAC has
expressed reprehensible views that
have no home with our conference or
our organization.
The individual will not be
participating at our conference.
And then they decided to wipe him
from their website, but they did so
in a really funny way because now
there's just a blank space where
Young Pharaoh used to be.
And Young Pharaoh was not taking
this well.
He argues this is censorship at its
best all because I said I do not
believe in the validity of Judaism
and I'm willing to place $50,000 on
myself to debate the top Jewish
rabbi.
Now I'm no longer invited to CPAC,
and then he claims that they're
being racist and
it's a dictatorship.
And then he hashtags his own name
because that's what cool kids do.
But anyway, the tweet that I shared
with you guys, by the way,
I just really want to reiterate,
that was the tamest one.
>> No, it's crazy stuff.
>> They were so vicious and so
vile that I didn't want to
really repeat them on the show, but
they're awful.
They're so awful that CPAC decided
to cancel him.
[LAUGH] >> Yeah,
once people pointed it out.
They still booked him, even though
all of the research it would take
to realize who this person
was is to literally look at their
Twitter account, which I understand
is a little bit difficult.
You would after all have to go to
his page on the CPAC site
to go directly to his website and
his Twitter account.
But somehow they didn't see any
of this stuff.
It's not like you have to dig deep
back to 2011 to find this stuff.
That's all his stuff is.
I would love for
them to answer the question.
So what of his work was it that you
were okay with?
What was he producing?
What philosophy or
whatever, because they call him
a philosopher, what was it about
his work that made you interested
in having him there for this to
then make you not interested?
How could you have possibly
missed that he thinks
that Jewish people don't exist?
I don't even know what that means.
I get that he's
accomplished a lot for
a person that apparently doesn't
know how to turn off the caps lock
because literally every one of his
tweets is all in all caps.
I don't know if you noticed that.
It's not just that one,
they're all in all caps.
[LAUGH] But this is what they want.
They want people like that and they
want them as extreme as possible.
But maybe specifically attacking
Ben Shapiro, as people pointed out,
that might get you in trouble.
>> It is interesting though because
their keynote speaker is going to
be Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has said some pretty
awful things about pretty
much every group you can imagine.
It is funny.
I mean,
don't get me wrong, cancelling this
speech was the right decision.
But let's not pretend as if
the event is not going to be
littered with all sorts of awful
people who have said awful things
about minorities and women and
people in the LGBTQ community.
I mean, it's littered with those
types of people. >> Jewish
individuals.
>> Exactly. >> Yeah, there's
going to be other anti-semites.
>> 100%, and so let's not pretend
as if this is just going to be like
this great wholesome event full of
wholesome people.
But also can we finally put to bed
the fact that PC culture,
cancel culture, all of that stuff,
everyone engages in it,
everyone does cancellations because
guess what?
Sometimes you come across new
information about someone and
you don't want them to be
associated with your event, right?
There's nothing wrong with that.
That is the right thing to do.
Now that's different from trying to
destroy someone's life over
something they tweeted in 2009,
because I think people
are definitely capable of evolving
and changing, but
I think it's a case by case basis.
This situation, though?
These are the views that this man
holds right now and
he is unapologetic about it.
So canceling his speech is
totally fine.
I just want conservatives to
understand that when the other side
does it,
then they're not bad people.
They're just making a decision to
not associate themselves with
someone who might not really live
up to the values that they want
represented in their event.
>> Yeah, yeah,
forget not being remorseful.
He mentioned debating a rabbi in
that tweet actually.
He's totally not remorseful.
But yeah, look, I would say, and
maybe it's just a wording thing,
when you say that conservatives
need to recognize that everyone
does it, I'm not interested in
conservatives recognizing that.
Conservatives know that everyone
has things that annoy them or
they find offensive.
And if they find it offensive,
they might speak out against
that person, which is also included
under cancel culture, literally
just tweeting that you don't like
something is from the right's point
of view canceling, to literally
canceling something like this trip.
Everyone does that.
Republicans know that.
What I want is for enough regular
people to understand what's going
on and to understand the con that's
being played, that this is just an
evolution of political correctness
conversations from the 90s.
It's the exact same thing and
it is pitched to be some sort of
neutral concept that we should all
be understanding, we should all not
react in a knee jerk fashion.
But that's not what the political
correctness conversation was
about and that's not what
cancel culture is about.
It is leftists and
centrists saying, hey, maybe don't
say hateful things about the LGBTQ
community or something like that.
That is political correctness.
That is cancel culture.
Conservatives attacking you for
criticizing Christianity or
criticizing the Israeli government
specifically or whatever,
there's no protection in that.
This is not a neutral standard.
It is them setting up
asymmetric warfare.
It is uneven terrain that
the rhetorical battle of
American politics and
society will be waged on.
And they already know that,
that's why they're doing it.
We need regular people to
understand that so
that it won't be effective anymore.