We've been hearing a lot about how democrats and
particularly liberal educators are indoctrinating schoolchildren with evil,
evil, critical race theory.
One of the people who typically makes that point is Ben Shapiro who is
featured in a new ad campaign for a conservative publisher for Children.
And the ad is fascinating because it features him out of school library,
indoctrinating kids with his own ideology.
Let's watch.
All right, so, I'm supposed to teach you about things today.
So, get ready.
Yeah.
>> I've seen my mom, look at him on Facebook.
She said he was a very smart guy.
>> Do you think he is?
>> Well, now that I've met him, maybe.
>> A lot of people kind of think that freedom is you get to do what you want,
if you wanna run into a tree, that's freedom.
Yeah, exactly.
You shouldn't eat people like that.
You don't have freedom to eat
>> [LAUGH] >> [INAUDIBLE] bad.
>> What's that called?
>> It's called cannibalism.
Government is what takes all of your money and gives you very little in return.
>> No, it's not true.
>> Okay, that's kind of, I mean, it's kind of true.
It depends on the kind of government.
Yeah, that that is what taxes are for, but taxes are theft, Children.
>> Okay, maybe you do know a lot.
>> [LAUGH] >> And talk fast.
>> He's the best.
>> [LAUGH] >> Don't insult the president
because he will come and attack you.
>> [LAUGH] >> Yeah he's way off base stuff.
>> I come from a state called California where where monsters roaming
the streets and garbage is strewn everywhere.
It's it's a horror escape.
So guys,
you just learn more than you will in all of college about how the government works.
>> So, this is part of an ad campaign by a conservative book company.
And we have a video explaining what they're doing in just a moment.
Originally, I thought this might be at a public school,
but no, it's an ad, it's at a school library.
I don't even know if these are paid Children actors, right?
Because if it's an ad, I mean it could be, who knows?
But I appreciate that they included some fun moments with a kid pushing back
against his talking points.
That's fun.
>> Yeah, that's real.
That's an awesome kid because not only is he correct and
pushing back against Shapiro, but apparently he didn't get it from his mom.
Like his mom apparently is a Shapiro fan and this kid is tiny and
he still figured out, no, I don't think mom knows what she's talking about.
[LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
>> No, you pay taxes and
then the government gives you stuff like roads, bridges, schools, etc.
That's true, [LAUGH] right?
But okay, so, there's two elements of this that are interesting.
Number one, conservatives don't mind indoctrination of young kids.
They love it.
>> They wanna do it.
>> Yeah, I mean, there it is.
I mean, he just did a giant video saying, let's hear I'm indoctrinating kids.
Watch me indoctrinate kids.
The government is evil, California is filled with monsters.
Don't let them take your taxes and by the way,
it's indoctrination in favor of the rich, right?
Do remember taxing the rich is the worst thing you could do little kids.
You remember, everybody remember, do not tax the rich,
have we brainwashed them enough yet?
High five, right?
So, now, the other aspect of it is the uneven playing field.
He says all this and it's not overly remarkable, right?
Now, imagine if I did a video where I went in to talk to little kids and
I was like, now remember everybody, people in Alabama are monsters.
They're terrible people down in Alabama, you shouldn't like them.
And remember republicans are the worst.
Okay, and we should tax the crap out of them.
>> We should eat the rich.
>> [LAUGH] I mean, whatever.
But of course, I wouldn't say that because I don't believe that about eating
the rich, but I do believe the other stuff not tax the crap out of him, but
a fair tax system, etc.
But even saying things that are benign would get you like,
my God would be a national story.
I can't believe he's doing it.
That's outrageous, let alone criticizing the right
wing in a way that they criticize us on a regular basis.
>> Yeah, look, overall, this is to promote a conservative book company and
it's not at a public school.
And so, whatever, you know, like it's an ad.
So, what it doesn't bother me as much, if it were in a public school, first of all.
Especially in the context of this political climate with well funded
billionaire conservatives funding these organizations that go in and
harass the crap out of these school boards.
To get what they want to ban certain books they don't like, that is the problem.
And it's just incredible because with that backs drop your right, you have this ad,
it's just like, wait,
isn't this what you're claiming you're supposed to be against?
I don't know.
Now, with that said, we don't have to imagine what the conservative response
would be Jake because we have a history to point to,
a specific case study involving a former president of ours, Barack Obama.
Apparently Obama back in 2009 when he was president announced that he wanted to or
had plans to give a speech to students and
it was just meant to encourage them to stay in school.
There's no political message they're, it's just, hey, stay in school,
we don't want you to drop out and conservatives lost their minds over that.
The president is trying to indoctrinate America's Children to a socialist agenda.
>> You're staying in school socialist.
>> I guess so, President Obama has turned to Americans Children to spread
his liberal lies indoctrinating Americans,
youngest Children before they have a chance to decide for themselves.
And, let's be clear, the book company that Ben Shapiro is
doing an advertisement for has that one goal and one goal only.
So, here's the conservative book company.
This video explains what conservatives is trying
to do through their series of conservative books.
>> Questions that I frequently get asked is how do I talk to my
own Children about conservative values and the things that matter?
And my answer is conservakids.
Conservakids brings you books like Home of the Brave for example,
in which they discuss things like American values and American history and there's so
many forces out there that are seeking to twist what kids think.
There's so many people out there who want your kids to believe things that they
really shouldn't believe,
you wanna take control of your child's education away from you.
Not so with conservatives, they just make great materials.
They're safe for all your kids, not just safe, they're their virtuous for
you to get for your kids.
>> Let's talk about who's trying to twist history and
basically decide what kids get to learn and what they don't get to learn.
We've been talking about various books that have been banned
from school libraries by conservatives recently.
There's other examples that I'd like to share with you in Oklahoma for instance.
A bill was introduced in the state Senate that would prohibit public
school libraries from keeping books on hand that focus on sexual activity,
sexual identity and gender identity pretty broad categories there.
In Tennessee, the McMinn County Board of Education voted to remove
the Pulitzer prize winning graphic novel Maus from an eighth grade module
on the holocaust because of nudity and curse words.
>> Wow!
The Maus being nude is a problem.
>> I mean, who hasn't been >> [CROSSTALK]
>> Naked mice?
It's sick and by the way, that's not an isolated incident.
There's so many other cases, parents, activist, school board officials and
lawmakers around the country are challenging books at a pace not seen in
decades.
The American Library Association said in a preliminary report that
it received an unprecedented 330 reports of book challenges,
each of which can include multiple books last fall.
>> By the way, this is literal indoctrination.
You think they're teaching actual history.
They're not teaching actual history.
They're teaching white wise version of it, right.
America was awesome.
We never did anything wrong.
Don't listen to anyone who's complaining about things that America might have
done wrong.
It's a pure propaganda.
[LAUGH] Imagine again, if we had books that said the things
that were completely factual, but we just called it lib kids, right?
Indoctrination.
And then imagine if we lied like they did, lib kids said America is only evil.
[LAUGH] >> Yeah,
there was like a caricature of what they think liberal indoctrination is.
>> Exactly, but they do the caricature.
They're not joking.
That means rich people are great.
America has never done anything wrong.
All these old remember kids, government taxation is wrong.
The rich should never ever have to pay taxes.
It is theft.
Remember that kids, gee, I wonder what kind of indoctrination you guys are doing.
Hey, I'm cool with it.
As long as you shut up pretending that when we actually teach
science that that's indoctrination.
>> Listen, I don't want any political bent in public schools, okay.
I don't think that liberals should get, have a monopoly over what Children
learn in public schools and I feel the same way about conservatives.
But that's the difference between,
I think most people on the left versus what we're seeing from the right,
the right does wanna have a monopoly over what Children learn.
They do wanna indoctrinate kids.
I want kids to decide for themselves.
I want them to have a robust fact based education.
Yes, that includes history as well.
And let them mature into adults who have their own perceptions and their own views.
>> And let's not treat them with kid gloves,
keep it real there against a lot of the topics that we teach in school.
Science, we didn't politicize science.
Science is science.
We just want you to teach science as it is.
We don't want you to change a word of it.
They're like, well,
it's inconvenient as it goes against some of our political points.
Change the science, change the science.
History, but we want you to teach all of it.
The good, the bad, the Marshall plan was fantastic.
There's great parts of America.
That's why my family came here.
I want you to teach all of it, nah, we don't like that.
We want you to teach, just erase parts of the history, etc.
So you don't actually wanna teach them facts.
You wanna teach them propaganda.
Just be honest about it.
And we're all good.
But they never ever going to be honest.
Ben Shapiro and all the rest of them will lie forever and ever and
pretend they're against indoctrination when they love it.
That's the main thing that they do was so called education from their perspective.