Michael Moynihan
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842 appearances
21 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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We have to now elevate insanity as some kind of social currency or even pretend that patently absurd things are true. That's pushed by our elite culture. If the boy ever did show any warning signs at school, that cannot be punished. You could probably get the teacher in trouble
if a person of a favored demographic is ever punished, brought to the school counselor, even if it would be for his own good. We're not allowed to talk about any of these things. And so in a very real sense, political correctness, the leftist, especially racial ideology, has created this environment.
And the most insidious part of it all is that the elites who are going to be chattering about this today
will never have to face the consequences of these kinds of behaviors, policies, and ideology because they're going to send their kids to the really fancy rich school where everyone has two parents and an intact family and violence is not tolerated and they will be totally insulated from the effects of their radical social engineering.
Meanwhile, the people who don't live in the gated communities, the people who have to live with the effects of not punishing perpetrators, not looking out for red flags and putting kids into course correction and education.
The people who won't even arrest criminals on the streets, who instead, when you have a case, to use a recent example of Daniel Penny, for instance, on the New York City subway, protecting innocent people from a perpetrator, what is the very first thing that the liberal prosecutors do? They go after the good guy who was protecting the bad guys. Because of all of this, you have real...
victims, in this case a 17-year-old kid had his whole life in front of him, in this case the boy's family, who looks around and the tragedy on top of the tragedy here is that these kinds of incidents are all so predictable.
Are you telling me that there is no warning sign here? That's my question to everyone involved at this school, in this perpetrators, alleged perpetrators community. You're telling me there was no warning sign? I have a hard time believing that. As you say, Megan, the hair trigger to go off because someone says, excuse me. And by the way,
I think a lot of people have seen this kind of thing from individuals where you just know. Often you won't even go approach them on the street. You just know all of the red flags, all the warning signs. But in this culture, we're not allowed to mention that. We're not allowed to condemn certain social arrangements and pathologies. We're not allowed to say that
growing up in a two-family home, for instance, where the virtues are cultivated and the vices are suppressed, that that's better than the alternative. Frankly, we're no longer even allowed to admit that there's a difference between vice and virtue. Certainly, when you add the racial aspect into this, then you're not allowed to say peep whatsoever. And so the people...
who ignored those red flags out of cowardice and radical ideology. They have blood on their hands and not just in this case but in many similar cases around the country. How many more of these kinds of incidents are going to have to occur before we gain the courage and the clarity again to say, you know, Certain social pathologies really need to be suppressed. There are better ways to live.
It's not just you do you and I'll do me. We live in a society. And so when people get married, that affects me. When people get divorced, that affects me. When people have children out of wedlock, That affects me. When people have children within wedlock, that affects me. When the law is enforced, that affects me. When children are educated in a proper way, that's going to affect me too.
Because I live in society, and I as a citizen in this country, and as a person with conscience, as a rational creature, have a right to express how we ought to live for the common good. That view has been so shunned from society, certainly by the left, and it's been tolerated by the right. And this is the... totally predictable result of that.
Of course, of course. You know, the...
The people to blame here for creating these kinds of conditions are not only the ones who look the other way, but yes, as you mentioned, these really bad actors who have pushed terrible behavior, who have encouraged the worst kind of lawlessness that is contrary to the good of the individual and to the good of society, and who have been given grants and prizes and all sorts of plaudits for it.
I remember walking by that BLM Plaza. in DC. This is such another level of social degradation. Not only are we tolerating this kind of disordered behavior, but we're actually exalting it. We're saying this is a great thing. People are going to be led. This is where the hyper individualism of the left and the right just totally breaks down. We are social creatures.
We've known that since good old Uncle Aristotle. And so we are going to, we're going to follow the leader. We're going to behave in ways that our neighbors behave. And so we have a real question before us, which is, what kind of country do we want to live in? What kind of society do we want to live in? That is your business, all right? The society that we grow up in is your business.
You as a citizen have a right to certain standards. And so when you look at all of the risk factors for this kind of behavior, fatherlessness, of course, we've talked about, The soft bigotry of low expectations, as it's called, in education. Exactly.
The encouragement of vice and the mockery and dismissal of virtue on the grounds that we can't be moralized or we have a separation of church and state or whatever kind of ahistorical nonsense the radical left pushes. Well, the consequence of that is that you're going to live in an increasingly anarchical kind of society that isn't good for anyone.
It damages the people that it supposedly intends to help. You certainly saw that with BLM. But let's not forget the innocent people here as well. It also damages the innocent. And that is deeply unjust. And if the government can't do something about that, then the government is shirking its chief responsibility.
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