Shapiro: If we ignore truth in favor of woke lies,
we damn to isolation everyone who mentions truth.
Wokeness lies about the nature of truth itself.
So truth is really uncomfortable, right?
It's really ugly.
It makes people feel bad.
Now I say facts don't care about your feelings,
but feelings do care about the facts.
And when you tell people
that certain things are just reality,
they get very angry at that reality.
And so we create narrative instead of acknowledging facts.
You start talking about my truth.
I have to express my truth.
There's no such thing as your truth.
There's just your opinion and the truth.
That's it.
But the idea of my truth has become very predominant
when it comes to the woke.
My lived experience is what matters,
as opposed to, say, statistical data,
or as opposed to the fact
that there might be an alternative explanation
for how you perceive things in the world.
Well, here are some facts.
These are all very uncomfortable, but these are facts.
Income is not primarily a function of racial group
in the United States.
It is mainly a function of intelligence and hard work.
This is why Nigerian-Americans
are the most educated group in America
and Asian-Americans are the highest income group in America.
For a white supremacist country,
we are doing a terrible job at the white supremacy.
[audience laughter]
Here are a few more facts.
Races do not commit crimes at similar levels.
In fact, races don't commit crimes at all.
Individuals commit crimes,
and those individuals can be classified
theoretically by race,
and those numbers might not be equivalent.
People, organized by race,
do not go to college at similar levels.
They do not have children out of wedlock at similar levels.
They do not study a similar number of hours.
They do not have the same ages.
They don't major in the same subjects.
They do not get married at similar levels.
None of this is racist.
This is just fact.
Culture and decision-making can close those gaps.
We know this because these disparities
have vacillated over time.
Notice, by the way,
I have not even named any of the races I'm talking about,
because those numbers can change.
The fact is that in the white community,
the single motherhood rate used to be about 5%.
Today, it's about 40% in the white community
in the United States.
That is a result of a culture
that has been driven in the white community.
Those changes over time do not suggest changes
in the genetic composition of white people.
They suggest instead differences in behavior
that are inculcated by culture.
Here are some more uncomfortable facts.
Men and women are different.
I know this is a tough one.
They are different
in terms of how they are physically constructed.
They respond differently to stimuli.
They are biologically different.
In fact, I hazard a guess to say that the propagation
of the entire human species is a result
of the difference between men and women.
I know this is controversial stuff.
[audience laughter]
But as it turns out,
if men and women are not different biological categories,
it makes it extraordinarily difficult
for children to be produced.
There is no such thing as a menstruating man.
There is no such thing as a woman with prostate cancer.
These things do not exist.
Anybody who tells you differently is selling you something.
But if we ignore truth in favor of woke lies,
we damn to isolation everyone who mentions truth.
We're not going to face up to any of our real problems
or solve them because problems demand solutions.
Bitching about society doesn't demand a solution
other than tearing down all the institutions,
which of course, isn't a solution.
It's its own set of problems.
So here's the bottom line.
Americans hate this stuff and they are done with it.
What we just saw in Virginia is a result of this.
What we just saw in New Jersey is a result of this.
I think that what we've seen in Florida
over the past several years is a result of this.
Last year was the year of wokeness,
in which we learned that a lot of lies
about America had to be taken as truth.
We had corporations pushing the idea
that the police are systemically racist.
We had broad talk about defunding the police.
We heard that the cure for America's racial division
lies in more focus on race,
rather than more focus on individuals
without reference to race.
We learned that all of our guiding principles had
to be ditched in favor of equity.
And you know what?
Americans hate this crap.
They hate it.
The ironic part is that the only people in America
who don't hate this crap are college-educated
white liberals.
Minority Americans are not into this stuff.
By polling data, more black Americans wanted
more police in their communities,
not fewer police in their communities.
There's a reason the Hispanic vote is
breaking away from Democrats right now.
Democrats believed that they were going to be able to double
and triple down on the Obama coalition of 2012,
this coalition of supposedly dispossessed people,
accompanied by some white liberals,
and this would be the going durable coalition for all time.
And as it turns out,
people don't like thinking of themselves
primarily as members of a race.
They like thinking of themselves as individuals.
They like to be catered to as people who enjoy freedom.
And guess what?
Their priorities might mirror
what they see in everyday life,
not the ideas of idiots who think
that the way to appeal to Latino voters is
to call them Latinx-es.