Antisemitism and/or/as/vs Multiculturalism.

i'm going to begin this discussion by reading you aloud what i would consider the single most ancient and influential anti-semitic conspiracy theory in the history of europe in the history of the western world and i'm going to ask you to reflect on your own education in primary school in high school in as much as your formal education even mentioned judaism and jewishness in the history of europe the united states or what have you to what extent your own instructors were themselves also victims of or purveyors of this peculiar anti-semitic conspiracy theory i'm going to quote you something from the 13th century quote if a man dies owing money to jews his wife may have her dower and pay nothing toward the debt from it if he leaves children that are under age their needs may also be provided for on a scale appropriate to the size of his holding of lands the debt is to be paid out of the residue reserving the service due to his feudal lords debts owed to person other than jews are to be dealt with similarly the text i am quoting to you is the magna carta what is normally referred to as the first and perhaps only constitution of england or the british isles if you read the magna carta from beginning to end you might expect the issue of multiculturalism or shall we say relations between different ethnicities to at least mention the scottish the people of cornwall the welsh the difference between yorkshire men and southerners the myriad ethnically and linguistically distinctive groups that at that time the british isles were separated to if you don't know in the year 1215 people in wales the people in cornwall spoke very different languages within walking distance of london england you were dealing with mutually unintelligible dialects this is well attested for history there is no discussion of there is no mention of any ethnicity other than the jews and yet the jews this infinitesimally tiny minority within england are mentioned emphatically again and again and throughout the magna carta as you heard in that passage there is this notion that jews are the people who invented banking in europe there's this implicit assumption that when speaking of banking of debts of transactions of this kind of loans and of collecting interest one would be speaking of the jews now i'm asking you to reflect in your own education in primary school in high school in university in as much as your parents told you anything about the history of europe the history of judaism or the history of anti-semitism per se within the history of the western world this might be the only thing anyone ever told you it might well be that you grew up being told that the reason for anti-semitism was in fact that the jewish people had this unique and powerful connection to the charging of interest usury and banking between the year 1200 and 1600. what was the greatest center of banking in europe who were the great innovators in the economic history of europe was it jerusalem was it um the overseas jewish community of athens i mean where were these great banks that the jews as they're called in the magna carta were operating in fact from the year 1200 to the year 1600 the great center of banking in europe was italy the single greatest center of banking was genoa and genoa was in direct competition with venice and florence there's more than one really strange source of bias here one is simply this propensity to be fascinated with jews and the roles of jewish people in the history of europe which we're going to talk about further in this video and the other which seems more strange to me as i get deeper into my middle age years is this strange tendency to delete and diminish the historical significance of italy it's as if we only want italy to be important in the period of ancient rome and then for italy's importance to suddenly end and disappear without a trace thereafter right uh i don't know this sense that in rome everything good is dead and everything dead is good and that i don't know shortly after the death of julius caesar there's nothing more to be said about say anything in italy uh rome specifically or more broadly including places like genoa the less said the better well guess what you know if you make a list of the crucial innovations in the history of banking in europe when they were first done and where it was that the millions of dollars were being moved that the really big money happened genoa is going to be number one on your list but it's not the genoese it's not the christians of italy of of florence of you know venice and so on that's not who's named in the magna carta in the in the constitution that's not who they're concerned about right there's this great sense of othering the jewish minority of naming them as this threat to the national identity ethnic coherence and so on of the nations of western europe and it's already well underway in the year 1215 the irrationality of it the extent to which it's fictionalizing economic and political reality within europe right it's already well underway here now let me just ask you also who was more of a threat to the political destiny of england in the year 1215. in the year 1215 when the magna carta is read england is not a terribly powerful nation it's really not and if you're comparing it to any of the countries on the mainland of europe whose influence does england have to worry about and curry favor with and send you know who's really a threat to whichever decisions the petty dukes and lords and kings of england might engage in for say the century after italy yeah rome the vatican and generally speaking again all of those great emporiums of international trade on the mediterranean those are the powerful cities in europe in this period right and yet already we have this conspiracy theory mentality written into the constitution of england into the magna carta into one of the most influential the most commonly read texts in the british tradition this video is going to talk about the origins of multiculturalism it's going to present my own critique of multiculturalism and it's going to talk about anti-semitism and this video is recorded at a time when we have just had another mass shooting in the united states of america a mass shooting from a white male who wrote a manifesto put it on the internet declaring why it was he was carrying out this shooting uh stating and explaining his racist beliefs and you will note that without feeling he needed to explain this in any way he treats it as a self-evident fact that multiculturalism itself is a jewish conspiracy there's no footnote there you know his fear this part has been well documented in the mainstream press his fear is what's called the replacement theory or great replacement his fear is the so-called genocide of the white race and so on and so forth but it's not that he's afraid this is happening accidentally it's not that he's afraid this is happening because for example for example he might believe that white women are more attracted to black men than they are to white men on the on the spectrum of crazy conspiracy theories that would be a lot less crazy than blaming the jews okay some white women prefer black men and it's a well-documented it's some let's not get into percentages here it's not because he thinks that white men prefer japanese women which is documented to some some some not all white men not all okay i think it's not that he just thinks this is a result of the fact that people in their sexual predilections and preferences are naturally once they have the option to travel around the world and date people of any given ethnicity are going to intermarry with various exotic and foreign ethnicities in terms of conspiracy theories that would be a lot less crazy even if you stated it in a racist and crazy way no he doesn't think this is happening accidentally he doesn't think it's coming about due to economic circumstances in an unplanned and unforeseen way he thinks this is a conspiracy and for this conspiracy he blames who the same people who were blamed by the magna carta the jews [Laughter] and it's not the topic of this video but i would remind you if you have actually read the new testament if you have just read the four gospels of the new testament it's important to emphasize that anti-semitic conspiracy theories begin right at the core of christian doctrine with the insane tendency to blame the jews within a work of fiction that is supposedly but not actually the work of jewish authors so anti-semitism is also baked into the bible or i might say it's written into the bible and baked into the whole history of the christian church and if you leap forward just a few centuries did you ever hear this guy martin luther yeah he had a hit book called the jews and their lies you don't have to google it you don't have to look it up on goodreads to figure out that that's an anti-semitic tract um so christianity from its inception paradoxically was an anti-semitic religion it's very comforting for christians to think that their religion began as pro-semitic and that the anti-semitism crept in as a form of corruption later on i do not think that theory endures even the slightest scrutiny that comes about from simply a critical reading of the gospels as primary source text i'm happy to have you join me tonight this is a completely unannounced spontaneous live stream unscripted no bullet point notes i would just note the two things you can help pardon me there are two things you can do to help other people see this video one is hitting the thumbs up button however many or a few of you see this but the other is if you know someone interested in these subjects copy and paste the link and actually send them the link in an email i'm not telling you to spam people at random it is only by you sending this video to someone in a facebook message in an email that they will ever see it i have now uploaded thousands of videos on controversial topics i have uploaded videos that were censored for racism when they were completely clear that they were anti-racist i have had videos that were censored for anti-semitism and then google the youtube corporation mysteriously changed his mind when i sent them evidence that i am myself a jew so there is a bizarre and unequal censorship process that goes on here this video may disappear completely but more likely it will go into a strange sort of gray area and is neither blacklisted nor whitelisted but gray and those things change over time i had one video that was really impossible to get by searching within youtube about autism and a couple years later it looked like they changed their standards that was no longer gray listed or or hidden that way on the other hand i did some videos criticizing the culture of pornography put it that way um i'm not by the way it's a nuanced critique it's not that i'm completely against pornography or completely for it i haven't kind of yeah i have a moderate position but there's a lot of critical thinking there and thinking about what the impacts of for example starting your own only fan start site and making your own pornography will be in your life uh several of those videos have now disappeared from youtube entirely whereas they got a huge number of views for for several years so the standards are always shifting but i can tell you i think i've challenged youtube's decision to censor demonetize or de-list over 100 of my videos for racism or anti-semitism i have had to write in again and again again saying this video is anti-racist not pro-racist this is a critique of anti-semitism it's not pro-anti-semitism uh if you do not actually share the link with a friend so they can see it nobody is going to see it that is the deal in the year 2022 here on youtube and guys i think we should be positive motivated we should say hey look if we care about this content i mean in the old days if you wanted a friend of yours to read a book you had to buy a copy of the book and give it to him no it's not it's not too much to ask if you care about the content copy and paste the link somewhere and let other people know what it meant to you um i have never heard anyone really critique multiculturalism as policy even reading in newspapers is a very insincere game being played by both the left and the right at the moment and this is reflected in the mass shooters manifesto from boston so just to be clear this fellow was 18 years old yeah melissa's off camera she cried wrong oh right right right i'm sorry i misspoke 18 year old from sorry 18 year old and the shooting was carried out in buffalo new york not boston i missed i'm canadian i i i confuse buffalo and boston i should yeah sort of mistake i think [Laughter] um two very different cities very different history sorry so this is a mass shooting carried out in buffalo new york by an 18 year old and he is not a particularly intelligent or well-read 18 year old however what he is responding to is the most shallow and i think insincere critique of multiculturalism from the right wing which goes as follows the claim is that the left wing and in the united states the democrat party they are only supporting multiculturalism they're only bringing in all these different foreign ethnic groups religion so and so forth because they are confident that those foreigners once they're in the united states will vote for the democrat party that they won't vote republican they won't vote in canada or in the united states what percentage of new immigrants are hispanic what percentage of new immigrants are eastern european of the hispanic and eastern european immigrants what percentage believe abortion should be legal and what percentage believe it should be the reality is look i grew up surrounded by all these immigrant groups right it may be that there are people in the democrat party who are so delusional that they think immigrants from south america central america even spain europe european spain if you're hispanic that includes spain not just latin america and south america there may be some members of the democrat party who are delusional and thinking all those people will vote for the democrat party by default or because of the color of their skin they won't a lot of hispanic people a lot of latino people are conservative in every sense of the word specific issue like abortion a lot of them would be associated with the republican party not the democrat right now those people those people oh sorry and i could repeat myself verbatim about eastern european immigrants telling people from russia people from ukraine got a lot of people coming from ukraine this year right i think i think those are real liberal free thinking people who are where you think they're not christian you think they're not anti-semitic at all for that matter we could get into the and again i grew up really surrounded by all these people i grew up in a totally multicultural neighborhood in downtown toronto i saw these uh new immigrants coming in and got to hear their their political outlook uh on the world so look i mean i don't need to go on and on about this but um tell me something these new immigrants do you think they're pro-war or anti-war like one of the distinctive traits of the american left is being anti-military anti-war pro-peace regardless of the regardless we're talking about vietnam or iraq or afghanistan or frankly uh the current war in ukraine there is this anti-war agenda on the left is that have you met nicaraguans have you met one of them i mean you know i don't know what we want to talk about the whole hispanic part of the world for the whole east champion part of the world now i could go on in depth about what chinese immigrants are like so i speak chinese i speak read and write chinese i've lived in china for a couple of years wouldn't want to add it up exactly how much it is i've lived in cambodia laos thailand i know a lot about east asian culture um new immigrants from china have you ever talked to them about abortion have you talked to them again it's deceptive new everyone's from china regardless of their religious beliefs you might be surprised at just how conservative they are so there are several different ways in which this particular conspiracy theory um is counterfactual is fictional can be challenged or exploded and it may be that people both on the left and on the right believe it or participate in these assumptions they work with these assumptions but the theory is that multiculturalism is coming about as an intentional ploy supported by the left wing in order to replace conservative white voters with these other ethnic categories of voters and then the next step into madness is to blame who it's to blame the jews it's the point that somehow for some reason this is in israel's interest or this is in the this is in the interest of jewish people you don't think there are a lot of conservatives or right-wingers in israel what percentage of people in israel are pro-abortion what such people in israel are [Laughter] jewish voters in america and jewish political action committees in america are they really left-wing are they have you have you looked at this i mean again it's sort of fictional and incompatible with political reality in like six different ways simultaneously but people really believe this stuff and again it's worthwhile to point out some of these things the um the writer of that manifesto and like the writer of the christchurch manifesto before the manifesto those written in in new zealand some things he feels he has to explain at some depth or length but some things he feels he can just state as self-evident facts very quickly without demonstrating them and i think it's really important to point out the extent to which deep-seated anti-semitic assumptions are built into our current cultural discourse they're built into our political discourse they're built into what we think is a neutral appraisal of of history and then they shape the way we think about the future going forward you know so i'm going to speak more about that in a moment if anyone has anything tremendously intelligent to say in the audience i will read your comments and i will respond to them if not i'll carry on with uh with what's what would otherwise be a monologue i notice how hesitant you are to hit the thumbs up guys i noticed maybe some of you don't know where this is heading maybe some of you think if you hit the thumbs up now it's going to be on your record it's going to be traced back to you um so rasmus says about the um the censorship my own channel quote i think it's fair to assume a lot of those bands were caused by automatic processes so machine interpretation of the use of language based on keywords so erasmus the particular instances i'm talking about they've already gone through several stages of human review so the reality is more pathetic is that people who don't understand english very well have reviewed them it has long been theorized that the bulk of youtube's censorship employees are in india now when they speak english a second language you can imagine how hard it is to distinguish like if if all you see is a few key words you know like a video mentions adolf hitler it's very easy for them to click through and ban something they just know it says something about it what if you're actually making quite a nuanced statement you're making a critique what if you're quoting a text you're quoting what someone else said and then before and after you criticize it so no in the instances i'm talking about it's not uh the work of machines it is the work of remarkably incompetent people and look i sympathize to some extent i've studied so many languages i couldn't do that job in cambodian i couldn't do it in lotion i couldn't do it in chinese i said earlier i speak read and write chinese not remotely fluent in the chinese language stay tuned and you will see in the next few years how fluent i get in how many languages part of the action-packed plot twist coming up here uh season two of of alicia so erasmus says now i'm quoting i'm not this is not my opinion i'm quoting erasmus quote i am against multiculturalism because i don't believe it's possible to mix all these conflicting values and cultures peacefully close quote i don't think peace is the meaning of life you know i think conflict is an important part of life and society you know i don't think that's a good enough reason to be opposed to multiculturalism i don't and i'll say this we now live if you live in any city anywhere in the world we live in a world where we can take multiculturalism for granted to such an extent do you know what it's like living in a place where nobody has ever tried chinese food where there are no chinese restaurants where there were no indian restaurants until recently that was very common throughout throughout europe throughout america people would live and die their whole lives and never see a chinese restaurant once unless they went to wait in new york city or they went away to paris or something he's one of the marks of one of the great capitals of the world and indeed very often the actual foreign cuisine you get there would not be uh not be uh authentic at all it would be some white man trying to present you with his idea of what chinese or food was supposed to taste like uh so on and so forth because that kind of labor was so so scarce so hard to get a chef uh sent over from from china and indeed whenever you're reading historical attacks from the past it'll it'll mention oh we went to the russian tea room and for the first time in my life i had borscht how exciting oh people used to live lives that were very narrowly monocultural so i just caution you now you know i don't think peace and conflict i don't think um i don't think this is sufficient to challenge or overturn the advantages of multiculturalism which exists um so all of our comments uh and this is not ods it's someone else called over we have more than one person called oliver in the audience um oliver says quote there seems to be a way bigger anti-war in ukraine sentiment coming from conservatives in the united states well you know um american politics is full of extremely entertaining contradictions i would recommend taking a look at the absolutely horrible youtube channel democracy now i despise that channel but if you look at democracy now you will see the stereotypical left wing the sky is falling anti-war sentiment stereotypical blaming american corporations for whatever is wrong in venezuela like that is really the loony left uh in america today so yeah anyway but look i i completely admit there are the contradictions that exist today are very very peculiar including in the elections that just happened in france the extent to which the right wing was pro vladimir putin and the right wing was discredited by its positive connections to vladimir putin in the past okay brett anderson says quote the left used to be anti-war and they used to be in favor of free speech but lately many democrats many people on the left are going away from those values this is what brad anderson says um i remember a quotation from a stand-up comedian his name was alexi sales or alexi sale something like that he was a famous comedian in england many decades ago and he said that he was raised by communists and these people communists and far left-wing socialists and so on he said they they talked about peace they said they were members of an anti-war movement but what i learned with time was that they simply wanted russia to win the war they simply wanted to have wars that their side could win not that the other side would win and to be fair is the right wing so much better can we say anything good about conservatives to contrast to this but yes um there is unspeakable hypocrisy on the left when it comes to matters of war and peace and foreign policy and and as unspeakable as it may be i try to speak about it i've grown up completely surrounded by left-wing people so that's mostly what i criticize but you know now on the internet you can look up lectures from the political science departments at the really weird christian colleges in the states i've seen a few of those just a few so there will be a youtube channel for the college of jesus incarnate or whatever the hell it's called in the states and they'll have lectures on politics and special guest speakers and someone put up there um if you think the left is bad take a good long look at what's going on on the right you may you may have to recalibrate your your assessment but yep so these days both are bad um another another great question be cuba what what does what did the left and the right have to say about cuba in 2022 just as a litmus test as a sign of how much things have changed since the 1970s or even the 1980s or what have you fascinating comment from from wicked energy quote how come you don't join the cathedrals with other political commentators like yourself i wonder if that was an autocorrect error if there was some word other than cathedral was meant in that sentence yeah so william mcgehen says he has said it himself most of the new people coming in from south of the border are anti-abortion they are conservative in many ways not just that but it's a telling example i continue the quotation quote however the democrats will change what they say on abortion once they see which way the voters are a suitably cynical member of my audience gee do we have no idealists among us do we have do we have no one to represent the raw optimism of youth in this group [Laughter] oh and we get a shout out for noam chomsky let me tell you something me and noam chomsky were the same age you look hold up a photograph of noah shopkin next to me who's better looking okay vegan diet vegan diet zero alcohol 200 push-ups a day do you want to look like me do you want to literally know chomsky that's that's how i win my political debates when i get on stage with noam chomsky he's at his podium of mine i let him speak first and i sit there and go me and this guy we're the same age [Laughter] i'd also like to say that i uh my my writing about the political history of cambodia is very much superior to noam chomsky i just like to take this moment to plug my own past work on the history and politics of cambodia and contrast it to gnomes chomsky's and say that i'm the i'm the better master i'd like to think my work on linguistics is better than chopsticks too but you know it's topic for another view [Laughter] yes okay if you read primary source historical material from the dark ages in europe which is not my special area of expertise but i've just read a lot of primary source historical and political sources generally when you really read sources from the dark ages one of the most remarkable if subtle features is the extent to which these people did not even perceive biological race they did not see people that way now some of you will say oh this is so left-wing it's observed do you think people were blind do you think they couldn't see the difference between a turk and an egyptian can you this is 2022. think about all the photographs you've been exposed to in your life even just passively you read newspaper articles you watch the news on tv you're constantly being given contrasting images of different ethnic groups where the cues the hints as to which ethnic group they won't do are quite subtle but you're shown them again and again and again and over decades you develop an awareness a subtle sense of perhaps what someone from iran looks like and what say jerry seinfeld looks like and many people based on appearance they might think i'm from iran rather than being from jerry seinfeld you build it up over decades of exposure to photographs and contrasting examples a type of exposure to ethnic differences that people in the dark ages did not have and still i ask you how confident are you that you can distinguish a turk from an egyptian how confident are you that you can distinguish a greek from a kazakh a man from kazakhstan all right any any of these groups we get into all right i grew up in downtown toronto i basically met every ethnic group of mankind and we can again we can say this is one of the advantages of multiculturalism i really did grew up with contrasting the faces of people from all over the world and sometimes to really subtle differences i met people from india and i met people from the caribbean who really looked like they were from india i have met native americans people indigenous to north america i have met people from spain and italy who very much look like north american people all right so let's just begin by recognizing the nature of the problem and if you've had friends who were born and raised in china you will have had them take you aside and say look i can't tell the difference between these different you how is it you americans and you europeans you can see all these categories and someone who grows up in china they'll say look from my perspective you know they they can distinguish different types of chinese people but they don't have this refined sense of these ethnic categories so the first point is no people in the in the middle ages they were not blind but they were hypersensitive to religious difference and they were remarkably insensitive to ethnic difference now the reasons for being sensitive to religious difference are to some extent obvious people were being tortured to death because of their denominational affiliation which side you were on in a given war had everything to do with your denominational affiliation the main and most fateful decision you made in life was of committing to a religion and you know who it was you could marry who you're who was you worked with everything about your social life was defined by your religion however uh for example when jewish people migrated into these places right the difference was religious the difference was political the difference was ethical in a sense they answered to a different code of ethics different scheduled beliefs or who gets into heaven who gets into hell and precisely why that was a challenge to ideas of ethnic nationalism but the difference in their actual appearance the difference in the physionomy or skin color or face it would really not be something a medieval person could reliably discern now i remember uh saying to a friend of mine who's greek we were talking about the possibility of this time melissa and i were considering learning greek and and living in greece permanently and this friend of mine from greece everyone's going to think it's kristin leo it's not christianly a friend from grace and she insisted to me she said no no people there they will assume you're born in greece and will talk to you as a greek she said just because the greek people are ethnically so mixed there is no recognizable set of facial features you they can't tell who is and who isn't greek by looking at them they're they're such mixed features but they have no sense the greek people themselves can't identify who is remember saying this you know um is there one face that is what what an italian person looks like again italy is a long thin country is there one face is there one set of of ethnic characteristics for through the dark ages through that period what was emphasized what was fetishized was religious difference religious difference ran deep and ethnic differences were relatively shallow and trivial have you heard of the crusades when europeans went to fight the crusades so these are christian armies armies representing christendom fighting against armies representing islam the people in the christian army were of every color and every shade and hue right everyone they could gather together including people from north africa right now i'm not saying the composition was exactly the same but both when they fought wars with the ottoman empire with what i want to call them with with the saracens with the enemies of the crusades right and in negotiations with them the europeans were surprised to sometimes find themselves face to face with a white man who looked totally european still today with turkey you can still there are turks who look like white europeans just ethnically they're appearance right sometimes they would sit down to negotiations and be face to face with someone who was a black african completely you know was the opposite extreme in terms of skin tone and of course a lot of the time they'd be looking at someone who was a mediterranean-looking person where you really couldn't distinguish where from the mediterranean you they looked like they could be from anywhere around the great circle of the mediterranean coast you know person of uh they could be spanish to look at them but you you really wouldn't be able they could be italian they could be uh sorry still today if you know i used to have a i used to have a friend from syria can i tell you what syrian people look like really i mean these are this thing okay but in this context the difference between christian and muslim christian and jew was deadly deadly serious whereas those ethnic characteristics were not taken too terribly seriously all right now i'm just taking a moment to glance at your at your uh comments you guys again i see you're still afraid to hit the thumbs up you don't know where this discussion is going if you hit thumbs up now you can change your mind later and you can undo this um the origins of multiculturalism in the european tradition that were very directly transmitted to the united states of america australia to european colonies of this kind around the world the origins have everything to do with the unique historical experience of anti-semitism and the arguments for tolerance that counteracted anti-semitism now this has its own history in england that's very easy to look up and read about by the way the passage of the laws for the tolerance of the jews it was much more dramatic and much more sudden in the context of the french revolution in france these were broadly similar i'm going to choose not to narrate the british history for the purposes of brevity in this video and i just mentioned uh you can see this in the writing of voltaire shortly before the french revolution at the time leading up to the french revolution one of the inspiring geniuses for the french revolution was simply the awareness of france that they had to catch up with england that england was more advanced in a variety of ways including parliamentary democracy right and the early stages of the french revolution both the writing before the events themselves and the events leading up to the tennis courthouse those those first relatively non-violent stages of the revolution they were very much framed in terms of catching up with the first law debated and passed by the revolutionaries the revolutionaries uh in versailles right was an addict on the tolerance of the jews it was an addict to end the legal bigotry the officially sanctioned anti-semitism that had carried on since the dark ages and to normalize the political and economic status of jewish people in france and with this came the creation of the first modern form of anti-semitism in the history of europe we had the first anti-semitic conspiracy theories because there were royalists there were traditionalists many of them of course catholic right what was their theory to explain who were the dark forces who would who were the puppet masters pulling the strings behind this revolution it became incredibly convenient to blame the jews to claim that the french revolution itself was the result of a jewish conspiracy theory now the reality of what was going on there was simply that the enlightenment intellectuals again partly just wanted to catch up with england partly wanting to set aside and overcome the darkness of the dark ages this was simply part of their agenda to have more of a religiously pluralized society to end i don't know how am i going to put this to end the era of witch hunting at the era of um uh spanish inquisition style government-enforced uh orthodoxy and to enter into a more modern pluralistic era such as england already enjoyed now yes in that period am i claiming there was total freedom of conscience and freedom of religion in england no but they were several steps more advanced down that road than france was and the type of french intellectual who went and took the tennis court oath and was involved in the early stage of the french revolution they were intensely aware of that now french revolution goes through a violent period and then long story short who comes into power napoleon bonaparte it is very interesting to look at the unique anti-racism of napoleon when it comes to jews he was anti-anti-semitic he was a proponent of the jews of treating the jews well and treating them equally and so on and so forth he was totally racist against black people at the same time napoleon was a terrible person but again the positive connection between napoleon and judaism this provided yet more fuel for the anti-semitic conspiracy theory fire that in some ways went on unabated ever after taking on new permutations and and targets what have you right now um it's also interesting i mean i think in every instance you want to talk about anti-semitism one part of it is blaming the jews anti-semitic conspiracy theories specifically but then there's also a question of kind of who are you letting off the hook who are you not blaming by redirecting interest towards uh you know this anti-semitic conspiracy theory this type of theory allows the people of france um to ignore the extent to which the people who were crying out for the destruction of the catholic church were themselves catholics that actually kind of 99 of the energy and intensity of the french revolution came from christian people who were pissed off with christianity we're fed up with who didn't like the status quo with christianity now for the members of my audience all of you are willing to hear that say oh yeah well makes sense the french revolution primarily fought by french people yes the people looting and pillaging catholic churches at the time the people it did happen the people raping nuns yes pretty much all of them themselves christians not catholic and this at this period of violent that people yeah um it seems to be much easier for people to live with this this issue of blaming a foreign entity and as i say there can be no doubt that in the development of modern european national consciousness the the first paradigm for multiculturalism only involved two cultures christendom and judaism and the assumptions about how multiculturalism would work completely developed out of frankly the oppression of jews by christians so a fascinating case study for this is the city of prague prague is in the czech republic is it now called czechia you tell me and would you even know where i'm talking about if i say czechia instead of the czech republic formerly known as czechoslovakia before anyway prague um in the dark ages the city of prague had a jewish ghetto the word ghetto today does not mean what it meant then okay there was a law that every night all of the jews would be placed behind bars there was literally a gate with metal bars there was fence and every night the mayor himself was supposed to put a chain with a big ornamental lock on the bars to lock away the jews within this one neighborhood their ability to leave that neighborhood briefly this was a this was ghettoization this was a ghetto in the true sense of the word and periodically there would be outbreaks of hysteria where people would blame this jewish neighborhood this this ghetto for all the problems in their own society so um one this is a real historical example there was a theory you know i'm sorry in every culture every so often people go missing whether they're murdered or they run away or what have you there was this theory that whenever a small christian child would disappear and i mean you know some of these tragedies are the same as what we have today but you know it could be they ran away to join the circus it could be um their parents got divorced and they ran away to be with their father about their mother you don't know what the story is but it could be some horrible terrible thing out of this child could just be they were killed or whatever but when a child would disappear there was this widespread theory this is in prague in case you think talk about the darkness of the dark ages that this was because the jews had a ceremonial need for human blood preferably from from young virgin children um and this is this makes even more absurd but they really believe this why to produce matzah to produce this special sacred kind of bread the show bread used in uh in jewish rituals if you have ever seen or eaten mutton it's a white cracker there's like there's nowhere like how you could believe of all the food if it was pudding or something if it was some it was a sausage or something you could think there's human blood in there but this was a type of flat bread right ceremonial flatbread i don't think it has any ingredients other than water salt and flour i mean maybe you know it's a very it's a very simple cracker-like flatbread but even if they were making it more like a pita bread at that time which is possible historically like it's really this is really crazy and they there would be violence they'd go and kill jews and reprisal killings they'd go and you know try to try to burn the ghetto down kind of thing to get to get revenge against them all right so you could say this is phase one of multiculturalism in the history of europe now again prague is a great example and i am not saying prague is unique you will find throughout the whole of western europe and central europe the same pattern plays out mutatus mutants now i do i do think when you get into the far east of europe further east than prague things are a little bit different you could argue whether they're better or worse uh i do think in the history of greece also things would be different we're talking about western europe it's pretty much the same pattern that plays out here with prague the remarkable thing about jews as immigrant communities in these cities is that they didn't really have a powerful connection to some kind of external home country right it's not as if they were still involved in the politics of israel a place that really only existed as an abstract idea not as an actual not as a place you were sending postcards to right israel was something from the ancient past you know the land mass was still there but these were people living in in prague or wherever they were in europe who really in terms of the language and politics were quite committed to living in europe even if they were somewhat more cosmopolitan than uh than other europeans even had connections between the different jewish diaspora communities this sort of thing you know it wasn't the case that there was some other language and the hebrew language itself really was a dead language many people will say oh well they continued reading and writing hebrew for the sake of the bible when you look into it the jewish community in greece would read the bible in greek the septuagint have you heard of it it's kind of historically significant it's kind of the single most historically significant thing in the history of europe is that actually the jewish people of greece did not read their scriptures in hebrew they read it in greek in fact not only did they read and write greek they did so to such an extent that there is a separate dialect of greek that's called jewish greek and it's not hebrew it's just the jewish style of view there were so many centuries with so many thousands of jewish people living continuously from greece and greece is geographically not that far removed from egypt israel however you want to put it the middle east they're close enough to be in in contact right jews became part of the history of greece right and yeah in case you haven't heard the jewish people and their religion had a transforming effect on greece on rome and on every other corner of europe so the influence was mutual to say the least right um so what happens in a city like prague is that you go through a series of stages where at the beginning total isolation quarantine fear of contagion um hysterical conspiracy theories all right supernatural fear of jewish people this other culture of this other religion which again is not based on ethnic characteristics but it reflects a society where also different forms of christianity are actively persecuting each other really it's the death penalty for any kind of free thinking and christianity very slight differences between uh so look at the persecution of the cathars the cathars are not catholics the catholics killed the cathars on and on it goes very very small differences in doctrine could justify you being massacred um not even the knights templar were orthodox enough for the catholic church sooner or later they had to go you know um this constant killing of people over minor doctrinal differences but here in the midst of your city was a ghetto defined with gates and fences and chains where there was a totally different ethical system totally different religion and and it was tolerated but just barely then you go through a series of steps it's happened in prague very discreetly you know okay should we take down the chains should we take down the fences should we give these people the right to buy rent our own property or operate shops outside of the ghetto should we allow them to intermarry with the rest of the population should we allow them to attend the same schools should we allow them to train for the same professions hold the same jobs step by step this foreign culture is accepted and normalized and very significantly in prague i know this because i've seen the text myself you actually get an intellectual counter current where there are jews writing and saying look we're going to lose everything that's special about this community we've had if we if we go down this road of assimilating if we embrace this if we start intermarrying and going to the same schools as these people and eating their food and so on and so forth right and that there were jews and there were jews who wrote and published pamphlets and i think in some cases books you know normally pamphlet for this kind of political statement is what survives history who really felt something special been created frankly by this kind of oppression and that it was going to be lost and it would be lost and it is lost and it's gone step by step in each of these ghettos cease to be ghettos and the frankly insane fear of jews as the definitive other the definitive resident alien right again down to and including the british magna carta it's the other nationality it's the only other nationality or ethnicity mentioned in the magna carta the scots the corn corn wall welsh no that seems to matter is this mono mania for this one other no matter how tiny this ethnic minority because it's such a challenge to orthodox notion of what society is supposed to be in the dark ages and then out of this comes a fascinating form of optimism because when the chains came down when the gates of the ghetto opened up what did the bumpkins of christendom discover they discovered that in fact the the jews were no different from you and i that in fact we could live together that in fact in so many ways we were all the same which is hardly surprising because you already had centuries of assimilation that had taken place right but it's assimilation that was to some extent masked by this incredibly intense you know racism that created a veil between the two communities okay we jump forward to the aftermath of world war ii and uh the creation of our modern multicultural doctrine all right there was this thing that happened in world war ii right and at the end of it there was a political consensus if any of you know of any document where the leaders of the western world actually debated this i'd be interested to see it there were sorry to give an example uh the peace treaty that was signed with italy was debated for an unbelievable length of time after the end of world war ii there's this gap where world war ii is over but the political status of italy remains unresolved another example i've just been reminded of by i listened to the news from japan uh the political status of okinawa but actually for i think more than 10 years or so sorry for eight years the court of views okinawa was simply an american colony it was nowhere part of japan the americans conquered it and ruled it directly it's american territory and then at a certain point it was gifted back to japanese so all kinds of weird gray area situations that didn't get resolved that took a long time to negotiate and detail exactly what they wanted to do but you know the experience of world war ii and the you know unspeakable persecution of the jews by the nazis and then the positive experience of the host countries receiving these people as refugees the perception was that what refugees meant were people like einstein coming to live among you that there were these brilliant scientists brilliant artists brilliant intellectuals who were being persecuted in germany and this was more difficult to deal with also there were a lot of jews being persecuted in the soviet union under joseph stalin now that was inconvenient because the western press the western very much under the control of the u.s government in america it was really a government plot they were saying all these positive things about joseph stalin because stalin was supposedly your ally in fighting against hitler right there was a little bit difficult to admit this yeah it's totally immoral totally evil what uh what roosevelt did um with uh with stalin that way the plot to anyway have this alliance with stone okay but this is a pure this is a period of unbelievable optimism about refugee policy and multiculturalism and unbelievable horror at the opposite nobody wants to be like the nazis nobody wants to be like joseph stalin and everyone recognizes that when you rescue these people when you just let them move in for one thing during that period a lot of the jewish people who were fleeing for their lives they brought with them a high level of education some kind of profession a fair bit of money and here's the point again no particular attachment to a home country like israel the israel they were connected to was an abstract idea there was an it's like my connection to athens i have no connection to athens doesn't exist today there's an ancient idea of athens there's an idea of democracy you know what i mean but i have some good the athens doesn't actually exist today i have no connection to right so they were connected by an idea of israel there's certain cultural ideas that come out of the jewish tradition that still powerfully you know united jewish people which i could wax philosophical about right but there was no comparison between the jewish experience of being a refugee in the aftermath of the holocaust and the experience of someone who now in 2022 packs up their bags and moves the united states of america from china as it exists today okay the vast majority of people who move from china to america or who moved from india to america today i'm just gonna use two examples they will remain committed to politics in china politics in india politics in their home country they will continue listening to the news about politics and india politics and china politics and their home country they will remain passionate about the political questions that are determining the future of india the future of of china right now the people who are escaping ukraine due to the war temporarily or permanently let's say they immigrate to canada do you think they're going to become fascinated by canadian politics by canadian culture no it's completely understandable they are going to remain deeply committed to and emotionally involved with the politics the questions of their home country even if it is a home country they are fleeing and i would point out this is another community and language i've really studied and put years into this is true even with cambodia cambodia is one of the most extreme disasters in the history of the world i mean if we're going to make a top 10 you know it's somewhere in the top 10 guys even people who were fleeing starvation and persecution from communist cambodia some of them ran away to paris some of them ran away to long beach california they really powerfully remained connected to cambodia committed to cambodia and in some ways it's a beautiful thing i'm sorry you know i'm kind of a fan of cambodian politics and cambodian people i've studied the campaign lived in cambodia i've lived in work there are ways in which i can appreciate this right but the political leaders who were part of this i think unexamined consensus about immigration and refugee policy at the end of world war ii after the nazis had been defeated on a very deep level they assumed that we were taking the final step out of the dark ages out of the attitudes of the the ghetto and the chains around the jewish neighborhood into this modern era where we embrace all communities the same way that the people of prague had eventually embraced the jewish minority right there are a few bumps along the way there right where we learn the lesson oh it's really for the best if you open up the gates let everyone get married to each other let everyone rent houses wherever they want to rent them let's all just live together and things work out splendidly right and there is this profound asymmetry between this asymmetrical relationship between oppressive christendom judaism as a minority culture within it right and the current so-called mosaic strategy of inviting in immigrants from china from india from cambodia all simultaneously if you have relocated from cambodia to paris the cambodia you are connected to in your mind in your heart is not an abstract idea it is not the ancient israel of the bible it is not the ancient athens that i in my heart i'm connected to right it is a real place and you send emails back and forth every day and you can still you can watch their tv shows i've known so many i've known so many immigrants do that i've known so many runs in canada and they never learn english because the minute they get home from school they're watching tv in korean uh you know if they're a korean family the minute they get home from school they're watching tv and their their parents native tongue they're talking their parents their tongue that's what the tv they watch i'll always remember being on this this airplane with a woman who was coming back to canada from taiwan and she had a stack of all of the gossip magazines now these are the really crappy gossip magazines it's just about the sex lives of the actors who are in soap operas in taiwan and she had it like like sir she's sitting in the airplane seat it's like it's this huge stack of i'm not kidding she was not she was a taiwanese woman she wasn't a huge woman she had this huge stack of these gossip and i'm assuming that she didn't want them to get messed up in her luggage like i don't know she wasn't going to read them all during the flight and you know i was saying they're oh so you got you're reading for the next five years once you're back in canada you're going to watch all the soap once you get back to canada you're going to watch taiwanese soap operas in chinese you're going to read these magazines right they remain utterly immersed in and committed to that language that culture that that political reality and now you know there's more than one side of this where's our book on on china uh china within canada maybe we can't find it do you remember i have that book about uh the panda has claws i think it's on that huh we can't find it because we're reading it all right it's okay don't worry about it there have been several books written about the fear that immigrants from china remain loyal to china once they're in oh there it is okay sorry it's underneath the camera so i can't move it anyway if the panda has claws is a better title it's not that [ __ ] the panda has claws um [Laughter] also a great name [ __ ] oh i won't say i was i used to get complaints saying that my laughter is fake i was like how could you possibly fake that i may be laughing for reasons that are stupid but it's not fake okay there's sincere stupidity on my part all right so you guys have probably heard especially lately i just shared a link on patreon where there was actually a fear that the communists within the black lives matter movement were connected to communists and communist china and there's this fear that immigrants from china remain politically loyal to the communist party in china there's this kind of thing that's kind of espionage yeah well you know my fear is actually much more simple is that you grow up in a city like toronto and you have an unequal mutually unintelligible society where a very small percentage of the population is really committed to the political future of toronto same for vancouver same for every other city that you have a whole lot of people for whom toronto is just a place they earn money and their real life their real emotional life their real political life everything they care about right is back in india is back in china that their influence it's not really that i'm concerned that they're working as uh secret agents for china or secret agents from india or anything else it's just that they are not really participating in the democracy and the debates and the contention for the future of canada which by the way may not even require assimilation i don't think it does i think it requires a type of commitment right and that commitment i mean it's not like the jewish people of europe it's not like with some of some kind of virtue they had no choice you're talking about jewish communities they've been in paris for 300 years been in athens for a thousand years and they their connection to israel as i say is you know largely an abstract one that's not what's happened with uh with multiculturalism so my concern is about the hollowing out of democracy the lowering of intellectual standards in our society which i'll explain in just one moment it's not really any of the more um uh conspiratorial theories about uh about multiculturalism as such and the great irony i want to draw your attention to in this in this video is that we live in a time when a series of mass murderers including the christ church shooter the christ church shooter in new zealand and the buffalo new york shooter just uh just a few days ago they both treat it as an unquestioned fact that the problem of multiculturalism is created by and for the jews for this jewish conspiracy a jewish conspiracy we can already see brewing in the writing of the magna carta and the choice to basically blame the development of modern banking on the jewish minority and to refuse to see its real origins in italy specifically and especially in the city of genoa um i would point out shakespeare's the merchant of venice is set in venice this is one of the most influential sources of anti-semitism i mean it's an incredible it's a it's an anti-semitic manifesto uh shakespeare's merchant of venice and it doesn't occur to shakespeare that there are bankers in venice and there are bankers in genoa and there are bankers in florence and in fact the flourishing of the banking industry eventually throughout all of europe but beginning in italy and the in the mediterranean that in fact this is not a jewish conspiracy it's in fact the genoese and the florentines themselves so on and so forth and oh yeah you know not too much later just a few steps behind within those centuries who was it that was developing banking in uh in holland and in the netherlands in the local in amsterdam the great banks so again the extent to which these things are uh you know there's a mono mania in this period for for for blaming the jews um i've said several times to several different people recently that when i was a boy it was rare and remarkable to have a taxi driver who was erudite and well-read and i have several memories of this in england when i was in england with my father and my father would strike up conversation with the taxi driver and the tax driver would turn out to be a well-read intelligent opinionated person they'd talk about politics so they talk about whatever the subject was during the ride and anyway this often challenged my father's opinion of himself as a highly intelligent well-read person and you really felt the dynamism of british democracy that's where does democracy exist it exists in the pubs it exists in the coffee shops it exists in the taxi cabs or else it doesn't exist at all democracy isn't something that only exists on a chalkboard in a university classroom right you have to have these kinds of people participating you know this is the you know harnessing of imagination and interest and energy from the population as a whole now when i was in toronto as a boy or when you're in toronto now um it's not remarkable to have a taxi driver who is well read and intelligent it's remarkable to have a taxi driver who speaks english at all what you struggle with is what you live with is the expectation not just with your taxi driver we went to a bank recently not my regular bank it was for difference it was a bank other than the one i normally go to and every single person we dealt with at the bank spoke english very poorly and was struggling with a with an accent and each person's had a completely different accent whether it's at the bank it's at the grocery store it's with you know you're you're taking a taxi right the expectation for the level of conversation of discourse right it's lower and lower and lower in the aftermath of world war ii when there was this tremendous enthusiasm oh yeah yeah jewish refugees jewish immigration like uh einstein and mark rothko and you know it's kind of oh yeah there seemed to be all these great luminaries all these great intellectuals all this potential and all these entrepreneurs all these wonderful people who were again some of them escaping hitler some of them escaping joseph stalin some of them escaping other countries in europe where they were just meant to feel uncomfortable made to feel uncomfortable you know maybe they weren't quite as anti-semitic as as germany but nevertheless people had reasons to get up and move to new york or montreal or move somewhere they could they could move to you know this great great re-scattering of the surviving jewish population in the world after the holocaust you know if you had a jewish taxi driver in new york in the 1930s what are your expectations and then again what are your expectations for how society works as a whole i don't think it's as simple as talking about assimilation i don't i really think it has to do with commitment to a place you know by the way uh let's be fair noam chomsky i've seen him describe growing up i i think in the 1930s if i'm off by a few sorry growing up many many decades ago he's very elderly i don't know if he's mad elderly sorry maybe the 1950s let's let's change our estimate but i remember him describing growing up in a jewish neighborhood and the intensity of the debates about politics around what was then a newspaper stand there was a newspaper stand that had some cheap wooden chairs and you know people would buy the newspaper and they might buy a magazine i forget if they also bought uh cigarettes and this kind of thing you know forget but predominantly newspapers and magazines and old jewish men would stand around and really seriously talk about politics they'd really take time out of their day there was no internet you know and and he credited this he said you know so he was a child looking at this i think even if this was a few decades later this was really the old culture of the 1930s okay let me ask you which country's politics were they talking about so passionately they were talking about american politics they were reading american newspapers they were committed to and debating and concerned about the future of the united states of america all right now again partly so my own family contains jewish immigrants probably they had no choice so when my jewish grandfather left russia and came to canada he had no way he could continue participating in politics of russia russia was a communist dictatorship at that time also intensely anti-semitic he's cut off from it there was really no way he could participate in the politics of israel israel ceased to be an abstract idea and became a very real political entity but one he's totally cut off from he didn't speak hebrew probably nobody in his family had spoken hebrew for a thousand years how far back would you have to go to find a hebrew speaking person and that lineage of my of my family other jews in my family came from poland once they arrived in canada do you think they gave a [ __ ] do you think they could even name the prime minister of poland could they tell you anything about were they reading newspapers where they go again the internet didn't exist they weren't they weren't reading magazines before or watching movies from poland you know it's true some of the food continued some of them continued eating some polish style food but that's the last echo politically the politics they cared about the politics of canada the palestinian states they were really committed to the place and that is indeed why yourself one thing you saw of course the jewish people joining the armies and all these conflicts jews including you know my own ancestors fought in the canadian army fought in the american army right but they were also involved in urban planning and you know getting elected at city hall or lobbying city hall and so on you know the intense culture of concern and by the way if you don't know jewish people were massively overrepresented in terms of black civil rights as a movement it's not hard to figure out why there were a lot of jewish people who saw the injustice of how blacks were treated and they simply were not part of the culture of compromise that developed you know for white christians who've been in america for a few centuries longer they were more uncomfortable with it and more jews were involved in that struggle so you know i mean this kind of thing the question is not politicized versus depoliticized i've met sri lankan immigrants who are very politicized the politics they hear about are the politics of sri lanka and they would go and talk to their member of parliament in canada about sri lanka like when they go and talk to canadian politicians they're saying hey the canadian government should do more to help sri lanka i you know and i'm sorry every immigrant group today the modern immigration phenom the modern refugee phenom this same pattern plays out and i don't blame them i i don't vilify them for it right the problem i point to it's not conspiratorial in nature it doesn't have to do with espionage or undermining the uh the politics of the status quo right what i'm really concerned about is the hollowing out of our already hollow democracy i don't look back to some golden age of the pastor guys i don't think democracy was better in the 1930s i think it was terrible in the 1930s and i think it's even worse now it's like okay it was terrible then and it's terrible now in in different ways what can i tell you we barely had any claim to be a democracy in the past and i see it further hollowing out and emptying okay look i myself went to multicultural schools okay some of you you have a sense of this you have a poetry writing assignment okay did you go to a school where everyone spoke english as their first language fluently and there was actually a competition for who could write the most brilliant poem the most clever poem where someone got patted on the head by the teacher and said good you did a good job okay i went to school with a whole bunch of chilean refugees at that time there were a lot of refugees from chile there were kids from jamaica there were i remember very vividly one korean guy who couldn't speak a single word of english when he joined her class he could do the math couldn't do any of the other lessons and even oh i remember a pretty russian girl in my class but still she spoke i saw her speaking russian she still spoke russian as a first language her parents only spoke russian not english and she was growing up trying to speak both languages i remember that came up in class several times okay i had all the advantages of a multicultural upbringing and a really intensely multicultural school in a multicultural part of town and by the way most of the cultures were white greek people count as white okay but let me tell you something the greeks they're from another culture they speak a different language they do greek people their parents spoke greek like that was the reality oh yeah and i remember that i remember a friend of mine telling me um so this is maybe an interesting contrast to noam chomsky's experience i remember where the shop is too i forget if i showed it to you melissa there's a particular shop around the corner from my my school very much the neighborhood i grew up in and this friend of mine told me i didn't witness myself he said you know a couple weeks ago he told me he was going past here there was this group of old greek men standing here and there was still it wasn't a newspaper stand but it was a convenience store that sold newspapers and other things and there were these old greek men and they were angrily shouting at each other and cussing each other out he said i wanted to know what the political debate was about what it was that we're discussing so he asked his dad and his i remember this guy's dad was an interesting character his dad went over and stuck his nose in like you know what are you guys debating you know and what the greeks were debating so angrily was whether alexander the great was a macedonian or a greek that's what [Laughter] might be they're greek they're white they speak another language they're from another culture and they are still committed to the politics of greece the russians were still committed to the politics of russia the pattern we have today these people they're not committed to the police place and in the classroom when i'm sitting there okay i cannot have a poetry reading competition with the new immigrant from korea with the new immigrant from russia with the new immigrants from chile we can't all right instead of developing really sophisticated discourse you have a situation where the people who speak english as their first language are in a situation of perpetual privilege like it's really easy for me to get an a plus on this book report right and where it's an enormous struggle for the children of the new immigrants and when you're in a situation where they're the majority or even just a plurality they're a significant percentage of the kids in the classroom right all of the education has to come down to their level right the same way when you take a taxi ride with a driver who can just barely speak your language you can just communicate where you're going on the map and go this way now that then that's it right the quality and caliber of your conversation right it's going to have to come down to that minimum level teachers and teacher may have 40 students now they've got a struggle not with teaching you more sophisticated and erudite concepts but the simplest level of concepts that those kids can handle and then if you do anything more advanced still so much of the teachers time and energy is going to have to go to helping those weakest students and what happens if you don't what happens if you have an education system that's pitched to the most talented 10 percent the main talent we're talking about here is fluency in the english language that's what's really differentiating these people so then you'd have lessons that are more sophisticated and erudite and that only the kids who speak english as a first language can really understand and the others are left behind it doesn't end in primary school it doesn't end in high school this is a massive problem at the university level and for many of us because the universities want to make money inviting in foreign transfer students the universities are more multicultural the level of english being spoken is lower the percentage of students who speak english as a second language or who barely speak english at all is tremendous and i have been in those situations again and again i mean i'm sorry my whole life i've been in university in indiana university for so many years when i say between 1997 and 2021 or something right i've been in university classrooms all the time where you know it's meaningless for me to be brilliant it's meaningless for me to be erudite or well-read i'm competing with people who are just struggling to read the book at all i'm competing with people who put up their hands and are asking in broken english sir i don't understand why i got this wrong on the test all right and we don't have philosophical debates we don't have political discussions we have plotting low-level discussions with students who can barely can barely write an essay in english that's the real test this can you write essays in english where they're trying to scrape out a few extra percentage points because you know they don't have they don't really have the minimum requirements to attend high school in english but here they are now in university okay it doesn't stop in primary school it doesn't stop in high school it doesn't stop in university it continues in parliament and it continues at the police station i've been interrogated by cops who can't speak english i've been interrogated by cops who can't speak english in foreign countries or i'm making the effort to speak their language you know what's scarier being interrogated by a cop who can barely speak english who is right here in canada in this way you know multiculturalism has undermined the assumptions that made our barely functional society barely function i don't have any of the delusions that go into the make america great again anti-immigrant movement i don't think america was great in the past i don't think canada has some golden age that we can return to i think the golden age is in the future i think america really can be something great i think america doesn't have democracy yet but i think that it is uniquely well positioned now to achieve