Andrew Klavan and Michael Knowles were confronted by protestors when speaking at Loyola Marymount University, so they did what any self-respecting conservative American would do, dished out some truth to the students.
Andrew Klavan said, “Being in a single-parent family is one of the greatest indications of risk for suicide, for crime, for drug use, for everything that there is. When you go into a prison, and I’ve visited a lot of prisons, you can walk down the cell — single family, single mother family, single mother fatherless family, the Left created that situation by giving people money to have kids out of wedlock, and they were told it would happen and it did happen. The illegitimate birth rate among African Americans is worse today than it was when Democrats were selling them down the river as slaves, it’s worse now!”
He added, “So they finally succeeded by means of welfare, to accomplish what they couldn’t do by means of force. They have been a tsunami of destruction on people, these are our fellow Americans, and the Democrats have sold them dependency. You can do this to anybody, pal, it has nothing to do with the color of people’s skin, you can buy anybody, we are all corrupt, we’re all sinful people, and they have pulled this off through their stupid intersectional racist policies. They’ve just been a tsunami of destruction, that’s how they did it.”
Knowles agreed, “There’s a currency to victimhood, you’re right that the color green matters, there’s a social currency to victimhood as well. The evidence is that there are people in this room who are making a statement by putting tape over their own mouths to pretend that they’re being censored, when they’re not being censored at all.”
He continued, “It’s because that carries a social currency, and this is true for a multitude of races, this is true with intersectional sexual and gender theories, this is true across a wide variety of the people that the left has divided and pitted against one another in this country for an extraordinarily long time, and ramped up in recent history.”
Knowles explained his misgivings about how “culture continues to give currency to that victimhood.”
He concluded, “If we get past that then you can realize that you’ve got a hand, you can take the tape right off your mouth and it turns out you put it there yourself in the first place.”
Video and transcript below:
Andrew Klavan: Being in a single-parent family is one of the greatest indications of risk for suicide, for crime, for drug use, for everything that there is. When you go into a prison, and I’ve visited a lot of prisons, you can walk down the cell – single family, single mother family, single mother fatherless family, the left created that situation by giving people money to have kids out of wedlock, and they were told it would happen and it did happen. The illegitimate birth rate among African Americans is worse today than it was when Democrats were selling them down the river as slaves, it’s worse now! So they finally succeeded by means of welfare, to accomplish what they couldn’t do by means of force. They have been a tsunami of destruction on people, these are our fellow Americans, and the Democrats have sold them dependency. You can do this to anybody, pal, it has nothing to do with the color of people’s skin, you can buy anybody, we are all corrupt, we’re all sinful people, and they have pulled this off through their stupid intersectional racist policies. They’ve just been a tsunami of destruction, that’s how they did it.
Michael Knowles: There’s a currency to victimhood, you’re right that the color green matters, there’s a social currency to victimhood as well. The evidence is that there are people in this room who are making a statement by putting tape over their own mouths to pretend that they’re being censored, when they’re not being censored at all. It’s because that carries a social currency, and this is true for a multitude of races, this is true with intersectional sexual and gender theories, this is true across a wide variety of the people that the left has divided and pitted against one another in this country for an extraordinarily long time, and ramped up in recent history. People can be duped – I’ve been duped many times – people can be bought, anybody can be bought and it’s a real shame, and it’s a real shame that our culture continues to give currency to that victimhood, into that faux-victimhood. If we get past that then you can realize that you’ve got a hand, you can take the tape right off your mouth and it turns out you put it there yourself in the first place.