Charlie Kirk Dismantles White Privilege Myth in Fiery Q&A With Latino Student

[00:00] i just want to say uh yeah thank you for

[00:02] holding the mic uh thank you for coming

[00:04] champ um just wanna say thank you for

[00:07] being here so i have a question uh as i

[00:08] latino in this in this country

[00:10] i kind of want to ask your opinion on uh

[00:12] white privilege because

[00:13] sure i think i saw something on facebook

[00:14] someone shared like a video or

[00:17] a picture and i kind of want to just get

[00:19] your views on it um

[00:20] if you could please awesome white

[00:22] privilege is racist

[00:23] white privilege is a lie and it is a

[00:25] myth could you elaborate

[00:31] um white privilege is racist let's go

[00:33] through it as soon as you begin to

[00:37] categorize certain individuals based on

[00:39] skin color that that in

[00:40] in of an essence is racism it is

[00:44] if you say oh you're privileged because

[00:45] you're a skin color are you kidding me

[00:47] i mean you don't know about my

[00:48] background or my you know my upbringing

[00:51] all of a sudden you're generalizing an

[00:52] entire group of people just based on

[00:53] their skin color that is racism

[00:55] the definition of racism is putting a

[00:58] specific definition

[01:00] onto a group of people based on their

[01:02] skin color

[01:03] a prejudice just based on their skin

[01:05] color that is racism whether it's a good

[01:07] prejudice or a bad prejudice

[01:08] that is racism is it a lie absolutely

[01:11] it's a lie

[01:12] now do are have caucasian americans

[01:14] generally done better over the last

[01:16] you know 100 years yeah that's correct

[01:18] but there's also other communities i've

[01:19] done much better

[01:20] asian americans for example i never hear

[01:22] about asian american privilege

[01:24] asian americans are the wealthiest most

[01:26] productive

[01:27] least likely to commit crimes members

[01:29] members of the american community

[01:31] um where's their privilege is their

[01:32] privilege based on skin color absolutely

[01:34] not

[01:34] there's privilege based in making good

[01:36] choices

[01:38] when you make good choices those choices

[01:39] are rewarded um

[01:41] asian americans entered mostly in 1940s

[01:44] and 50s fleeing

[01:45] communism and marxism by doing so

[01:49] they came into the american community

[01:50] widely discriminated against

[01:53] in fact if you ask your grandparents

[01:54] what they think of people from asia they

[01:56] won't say very nice things

[01:57] especially your great grandparents if

[01:58] they're still alive um they made very

[02:00] good choices they did the three things

[02:02] you need to do stay out of poverty in

[02:03] america

[02:03] according to ben shapiro which is you

[02:05] got to graduate high school get a job

[02:06] and get married before you have kids and

[02:08] over the last 60 70 years they are by

[02:10] far

[02:11] the richest group that you can point to

[02:14] based on race in america by far

[02:16] so here's the perplexing thing is that i

[02:19] said it's racist

[02:20] and it's a lie what else did i say about

[02:22] it i said something else um

[02:24] it's very divisive extraordinarily

[02:26] divisive

[02:27] because if you're going to start to

[02:28] categorize people just based on their

[02:29] skin color

[02:31] then they're nothing more than that

[02:32] racial group they're not an individual

[02:34] it's not saying that you could rise

[02:36] above your circumstance not saying you

[02:37] can make good choices

[02:38] it's not saying that oh you might have

[02:40] been born behind and you can get ahead

[02:42] um you want to talk about white

[02:43] privilege here's a good question and

[02:45] anyone who

[02:46] who here believes in it please step up

[02:47] to the microphone we can have a

[02:48] discussion

[02:49] it's a little um it might i don't think

[02:51] it'll offend anyone but it might bring

[02:53] someone back here's a really good

[02:54] question to ask

[02:55] are jewish people privileged are jewish

[02:58] people white

[03:00] anyone is are jewish people considered

[03:01] white technically they are

[03:03] if you consider their history uh i would

[03:05] say not

[03:06] oh they're not white then what are they

[03:08] they're semites

[03:09] from the middle east at least

[03:11] historically speaking um okay so we

[03:13] don't have that as

[03:14] a box to check on the u.s census bureau

[03:16] i think there should be there's a

[03:18] okay so they should be semites okay well

[03:20] not semites but well i mean that is the

[03:22] technical def that is the technical

[03:23] definition but

[03:24] for lack of a better term they are

[03:25] considered white i'm white

[03:31] so let's let's go to this i don't think

[03:33] it's a monolith though i mean i think

[03:34] you can definitely identify as white

[03:36] and a jew like that's fine but i know

[03:38] like a lot of people

[03:39] who have a lot of connections to

[03:41] especially like israel

[03:42] yeah so here here's the point here's the

[03:44] point is the question is if you

[03:46] categorize them as white which you don't

[03:48] most do did they really have that good

[03:50] of a 20th century did they were they

[03:51] really privileged over the last 100

[03:53] years

[03:53] really no yeah they had an extermination

[03:55] order put up against them in an entire

[03:57] continent

[03:58] here's the point is that if we are going

[04:00] to try to segregate the american

[04:02] populace based on skin color

[04:04] that is the very definition of

[04:06] everything that we have tried to fight

[04:08] against in this country

[04:08] everything and despite even historical

[04:12] and statistical trends it just it just

[04:13] isn't true there's twice as many

[04:15] white people living in poverty in

[04:16] america than black people do they live

[04:18] at a higher rate absolutely they do

[04:19] you talk in aggregate aggregate numbers

[04:21] it doesn't reflect to that so look

[04:23] here's the point is that it is

[04:25] anti-individual

[04:26] and it is very much this idea of racial

[04:29] group collective

[04:30] that i think is extraordinarily harmful

[04:32] and creates this victimhood mentality

[04:34] that

[04:34] pits one group up against the other that

[04:37] that does not reward

[04:38] what america truly is which is a place

[04:40] where good choices

[04:42] will eventually be rewarded go ahead and

[04:43] say something in response if you want to

[04:45] uh yeah

[04:45] just i guess one follow-up question um

[04:47] so you don't think that

[04:49] uh specifically regarding the united

[04:51] states like the crippling

[04:53] like systematic oppression of like the

[04:54] 60s and before that has like any kind of

[04:56] effect whatsoever on african-american

[04:58] communities

[04:59] great question okay i'm glad you asked

[05:00] that say it again so um

[05:02] say it again because i can i want to uh

[05:03] do you think that the systematic

[05:05] oppressive laws

[05:06] of the sixties and prior to that have

[05:08] any kind of effect whatsoever on

[05:10] african-american communities today sure

[05:12] they did but didn't the

[05:13] internment camps against asian americans

[05:15] in the 40s have something against them

[05:16] they rose above it right

[05:18] so here's the question is america more

[05:20] racist today than we were in the 1960s

[05:21] it's a legitimate question

[05:23] does anyone can anyone possibly say

[05:24] we're more racist today

[05:26] no then why are blacks worse off today

[05:28] than they were in the 1960s

[05:30] it's not because we're a more racist

[05:31] country we're much less racist

[05:34] in every single metric it's because

[05:36] we've incentivized bad behavior

[05:38] over the last 60 years black single

[05:40] motherhood

[05:41] was 18 in 1965. it's now 71

[05:45] what happened is it because we got to be

[05:47] a more terribly racist country no

[05:49] did we get more racist laws no we

[05:50] actually got rid of most of all

[05:52] civil rights act we got rid of almost

[05:53] every single one so what what happened

[05:56] it's because we incentivized really

[05:57] really bad behavior

[05:58] we said to single mothers go ahead have

[06:00] kids and we'll give you a check every

[06:02] single month but don't get married as

[06:03] soon as you get married you lose the

[06:04] check

[06:05] we put we put african-americans in urban

[06:07] areas and how did housing projects

[06:09] that again incentivize bad behavior and

[06:12] that was the advancement of the american

[06:13] welfare scheme

[06:15] probably also coupled with um failing

[06:18] public schools

[06:19] run mostly by teacher unions that were

[06:22] not properly incentivized to try to get

[06:23] the people out of poverty that were very

[06:24] much in

[06:25] by every single metric african americans

[06:28] are worse off today

[06:29] than they were in the 1960s with crime

[06:32] prison rates

[06:32] single motherhood employment wealth

[06:35] capital everything

[06:36] and there's only one possible

[06:38] explanation for that it's not that

[06:39] america got

[06:40] got more institutionally racist none of

[06:42] that stuff it's that there was a set of

[06:43] policies put forth by one president

[06:45] and continually supported by entire

[06:47] political party

[06:48] to keep a whole segment of the

[06:49] population poor and routinely voting

[06:52] democrat that's lyndon baines johnson

[06:53] and the american democrat party

[06:55] which um i think completely punished it

[06:57] so if you want to talk about

[06:58] systemic oppression and racism there's

[07:00] lots of other examples of ethnic groups

[07:02] that went

[07:02] through that too if that's the card you

[07:04] want to play it does not couple

[07:06] almost every single one except

[07:07] african-americans and native americans

[07:08] have not rose above it statistically

[07:11] and the only thing they have in common

[07:12] is absolute total government

[07:14] interference

[07:15] and involvement in their life question

[07:18] i appreciate it thank you so anyone

[07:27] disagrees