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<\/p>\nTODD: Rush guided us through times of tumult, and we — myself — as one guest host, are guiding us into this era as we use Rush\u2019s wisdom and bravery and decision to go engage in tough decisions and tough conversations to talk about what\u2019s happening today. There is… Do you guys know what “woke supremacy” is? I love this phraseology from Senator Tim Scott, who…<\/p>\n
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What was it the Democrats called him? A token? Oh, sorry. No they said his legislation was token legislation. Did they use the filibuster to stop his legislation, this man who happens to be black and a Republican, speaks about woke supremacy — and I\u2019ve been looking at this from a perspective of mental energy. We have finite mental energy.<\/p>\n
So when we spend a lot of time, let\u2019s say, in mental energy worrying about the future, that\u2019s bandwidth from a brain-processing perspective that we can\u2019t apply elsewhere — let\u2019s say to dealing with today\u2019s problems. It is emotional energy. It draws from our reserves of emotional energy, draws down on our patience and our kindness when we\u2019re spending our time worrying about the future.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s one example. One thing, I think, that the left and the party — when I say “the party,” I expand the left beyond Democrats, and I include technocrats like Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, and I include opportunists like Tony Fauci. Because they\u2019re all clearly working towards a goal of control for the party — ad crony capitalists, like some of the companies that are just married to government.<\/p>\n
One of the things I think they\u2019re really good at is flooding the mental zone. So they flood people with such a large array of absurdities. You can study every bit of data, for instance, on mask usage and come up with one conclusion: It has not stopped or saved a life. Saved a life, it\u2019s one-tenth of 1% maybe. Maybe.<\/p>\n
Lockdowns have taken more lives, and yet it\u2019s such mental energy to fight against that. Now, what was Rush\u2019s model of mental energy? Stay to the principles. If you stay to the principles, then you don\u2019t have to have to have the mental energy of going back and changing and morphing your principles. With wokeism, it\u2019s an assault on everything.<\/p>\n
Racism is not racism if it\u2019s the right racism. Harvard making it nearly impossible for Asians to get into Harvard. That\u2019s not racist, even though they have a personality test, basically a personality test at Harvard — kind of a likability test as it\u2019s been described by lawyers. Although the people doing the applications, reviewing them, never meet the Asian people.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re determining their likability from a piece of paper or a submission online. But that\u2019s not racism, and they admit effectively, “Yeah, we\u2019re trying to stop Asians from getting in. We\u2019ve got too many Asians. But that racism is good!” They\u2019re teaching racism, teaching racism, saying that if you\u2019re white, you are racist and there\u2019s nothing you can do about it because it\u2019s in your DNA.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s racist, but it\u2019s such mental energy to say, “Oh, now I need to fight that. So let\u2019s see. I\u2019m fighting wokeism on this front and that front, and I\u2019m fighting it on the gender front, and I\u2019m fighting it on the COVID front,” and wokeism and COVID-19 works like this: We\u2019re supposed to ignore Nancy Pelosi not wearing a mask when we are told that we have to wear masks at all times.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re supposed to ignore the changing, ever-changing COVID rules that always seem to advantage the elites or the clients of the elites. We\u2019re supposed to ignore these things. In Seattle and in other, like, really woke cities there are separate trainings for race, literally in government offices. White people attend one training; black people attend another.<\/p>\n
Black people are literally taught that they are victimized to this day by systems… I want to get to that in a second. White people are taught they are victimizing people. Systems. Let\u2019s say that the banking system is racist. Let\u2019s say that it is. I\u2019m not saying it is. It was. Redlining was racist. That happened. That\u2019s real. But let\u2019s say that the banking system is racist.<\/p>\n
Does the banking system run itself? Is it a self-aware computer system? No. It requires people. But when the woke crowd says it\u2019s systemic, then we don\u2019t have to name the people — and “woke supremacy” means that the new theory of race (which is “racism is good if it\u2019s good racism”) is making certain people supreme to others.<\/p>\n
Absolute racism! Tim Scott just nails that. Let\u2019s talk to Rebecca in Georgetown, Texas. Rebecca, you\u2019re on the Rush Limbaugh program. Todd Herman your guide today. Welcome, Rebecca.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi. Thank you very much. I would like to extend my most sincere comfort and condolences to the Limbaugh family. I\u2019m a nurse, and I work with patients with terminal diagnoses, and it\u2019s just so hard when it\u2019s that someone who\u2019s so close to you. So the Limbaugh family and our listening family as well, my deepest sympathies.<\/p>\n
TODD: Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that. You wanted to talk about systemic racism. We got about a minute on that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. If you could explain to me what they mean when they say “dismantle the systemic racism,” and can\u2019t we do that without substituting another group in place of the community which is now the focus of said discrimination?<\/p>\n
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TODD: What they mean depends on who they are. I think what the instructors of this mean is everything is racist, and if you go to the Black Lives Matter, Incorporated, paperwork in their website, what they want is we need to dismantle the family. And if you go talk to Jason Riley — a black man who wrote the book Please Stop Helping Us — the destruction of the black family, the intact black family through the Democrats\u2019 welfare scheme is probably what destroyed black society.<\/p>\n
That was systemic. Was it intended to be racist? We don\u2019t know. It had that result. But they\u2019ve not changed things like that. So I think if we were really to dismantle systemic racism, we\u2019d have to go and say, “Wait a minute. Where are maybe even unintentionally racist things, like telling black kids, ‘You can\u2019t make it\u2019?” Like exploding the fact that, yeah, sometimes “unarmed black people” doesn\u2019t necessarily mean “undangerous” are killed by cops?<\/p>\n
The numbers are monumentally smaller than what people been led to believe. Democrats on average think it was 10,000 unarmed black men killed in 2019. The number was 27. So an honest conversation about this is one thing. The way the left wants to have it is another. It\u2019s a good topic and we\u2019ll get further into that later in the show. Rebecca, I appreciate you calling today.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
TODD: Rush admired a number of African-American scholars like the late Walter Williams (who was a guest host on this program, part of the EIB family), the economist Thomas Sowell, and author Shelby Steele who Rush cited often. I want to revisit a passage here from 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n RUSH: I mentioned Shelby Steele. I\u2019ve quoted him often. He is a scholar at the Hoover Institute on the campus at Stanford. He is African-American, a very brilliant man, and — very much to our benefit — a conservative. One of the most recent pieces of his that I\u2019ve come across is headlined: “The Perils of Political Correctness.”<\/a> And here\u2019s how he begins this piece: “Societies have many of the qualities individuals have. America is a particularly great society. There\u2019s been no country like this ever before in all of human history.<\/p>\n “America is a particularly great society. There\u2019s been no country like this ever before in all of human history. And all of the sins that America has committed in its past are nothing that\u2019s new. Many countries around the world had slavery and so forth,” in many places. The U.S. never gets any credit for eliminating it, for defeating it, for wiping it out. You ever ask yourself why that is? Never!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n