Victor Davis Hanson
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2,022 appearances
16 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 23 Mar
Victor Davis Hanson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It has zero effect on me.
I'm sorry.
There's so many different characteristics that we all have that can hurt or help us.
I think it would be a lot easier to be Michelle Obama than Governor Abbott in a wheelchair.
What he had to overcome or her middle class existence in Chicago was a lot easier.
more conducive for her success than J.D.
Vance's was with a dysfunctional drug-ridden family in Appalachia.
You got that right.
So everybody comes to the table with individual debits and pluses.
But once you do this race thing and you think it supersedes every other consideration of individuality and your race is essential rather than incidental to who you are, to your persona,
then it's not going to work out.
And you can see it puts enormous pressure on people.
If an immigrant... Part of our problem with immigration is that we have no civic education, assimilation, acculturation, and no appreciation.
So you get Ilyan Omar coming here, and she blasts this country as garbage, and it has dictators, it's racist, or you have second-generation AOC, or you...
You have Mondami and immediately their parents or they come here and they're faced with a choice.
If you play the race victim card, this is one trajectory.
If you don't and you say you're really happy to be in this safe, prosperous, secure country and that's why my parents left Puerto Rico once.
or Uganda, or Somalia, and I was so lucky to get where I am because of these opportunities, then that trajectory is going to be a lot more difficult.
And so our society, because we've got so pathological, offers these choices, and most people take the easy way out.
All you have to do is say that you were a victim, your parents were a victim, your color, your religion, it's oppressive, and that...
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