of do you think you're good at judging character? You know we all think we are. I judge that his character is good and so therefore his intentions are good but I could be wrong. I could be wrong about anybody. But here's what he said and how I disagreed. He was talking about the Gaza situation in the West Bank and he says the occupation as he calls it is morally wrong and completely indefensible. Saying the Palestinians cannot be trusted to govern themselves is deeply racist. Would you agree that is racist to say that the Palestinians can't be trusted to govern themselves? Which I think the better way to say that is Israel doesn't trust that they would be safe if it happened. Is it racist? What do you think? Well I would say it would be racist if they were expelling from their country the people who were also Palestinian and looked like them and prayed like them and had the same genes. So clearly there are plenty of people living in peace in Israel. So if it were race that would not be the case. So clearly it's a security problem and the way that they're dealing with the security problem is they don't know who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. They can't tell the difference.

So but what if it was racist? Because you could make the argument. I think it's primarily just risk assessment and politics and what they want is mostly the people who don't, you know the people who want to kill them. They'd like to have less contact with them. Seems normal. So here's what I said. I haven't been double-canceled yet so we'll see how this goes. I posted back to that and I said that racism is morally and ethically acceptable for self-defense. Let me say it again because you might think you misheard it. Racism is morally and ethically acceptable for self-defense because the standard for self-defense is whatever you think you need to do. That's it. It's whatever you think you need to do. Doesn't matter why. Now you could break the law by doing whatever you need to do and then the law will take care of you and I agree with the law. The law must be obeyed but if you're talking about ethics and morality that's a separate domain from the law. We'd like them to be compatible but they're not always. So if you have a choice between staying alive in your opinion, not mine but your own opinion, that you have to do something racist to stay alive then you should definitely do it. But to be clear racism in any other domain outside of self-defense is abhorrent. So if you're being racist in your personal life, your business life, who you rent to, who you hire, all of that stuff completely you know I disavow all of that. That would be a bad way to run a country, bad way to be a human being and bad in every sense. But in the very narrow domain of self-defense yeah you can be as racist as you want and people really need to understand that or they'll die.

The classic example is the, was it Jesse Jackson saying he might cross the road if he saw a young black man in a hoodie or something. You know that classic case. Why is Jesse Jackson a racist? Well yes in that exact example he would be by his own definition I think but he would also say you know I hate it but I'd stay alive. I'm paraphrasing of course. So yes if you have any reason to think you'd be in trouble you get to do what you need to do. Totally. Yeah if you were an Israeli citizen and you were walking down the street of old Gaza and you were just looking like a, you know let's say you were obviously an Israeli citizen, Orthodox Jew, and you were just walking down the streets in Gaza before the war would you feel safe or would you feel all racist because you thought that maybe they would hurt you because they're not big fans of yours? Well it would be racist if you felt afraid wouldn't it by definition because you'd say I think I'm afraid because they're Palestinian and they have a certain, no you it would be racist but it would also be smart to stay away from that town. So the trouble is if you get too hung up on whether it's technically racist or not you're missing the larger point that it doesn't matter. Is everybody on the same page there? We could argue about whether it is or whether it's not but it doesn't matter because you're going to do whatever you need to do to stay safe and to keep your family safe and nobody can tell you that's immoral. You could be wrong. You could be wrong. It's still your choice. Yeah it's not ethically or anything.

So when Elon Musk went with Ben Shapiro recently just the other day, visited Auschwitz and I believe he had a quote I saw that said you know having visited Auschwitz he understands why Israel had to act decisively you know in Gaza. Why they couldn't let that stand. And yeah I think that's where everybody gets when you have that clear question about self-defense versus is this a little bit too much DEI. Yeah self-defense wins.

Speaking of which there are I guess black Democrats in Chicago. One of them is a DEI consultant which is interesting and they're calling for controls on immigration. So even the black citizens of America who are DEI employees, their very job is to get rid of racism and they're saying you need to close this border. Now what they don't say is all these brown people coming in which is not what they're worrying about because they're not thinking about brown or anything else. They're just thinking taking our resources. So if they were not black Democrat DEI consultants we'd be calling them racist but because they are we can see them somewhat clearly as just people who are under threat. So are these black people being racist? Absolutely not. Or better yet what's the difference? What's the difference if they think they're threatened? These are my American citizens be they Democrats or DEI consultants. If I rank them in importance they are at the top of importance because they're Americans. They're on my team should be and we would all like to be safe and I would like these people in Chicago be they black or white or Democrat or Republican or DEI consultants which I'm not a big fan of. I want them to be safe and if they think that closing that border makes them safe does it matter if it's racist? No it doesn't matter at all. Yeah racism and self-defense just shouldn't be in the same conversation so just get it out of there. So I agree with the Democrats and the DEI consultant in this case.

Jordan Peterson he's in a lot of news today. He always is since he does more interesting things than you and I do. He's in the news a lot sort of like Elon Musk but anyway. He did a video in which he did an interview with somebody talking about the German protests, the farmers. Now how many of you even know that there's a massive German protest? How many of you know that? Okay so most of the people watching this are pretty well informed. By the way is anybody also on one of the other platforms because their comments have stopped? Okay if anybody has a minute can you look at YouTube or Rumble or X. The comments stop coming through on the studio. I could see all the comments on Locals anyway. If they start again I'll let you know. Live chat studio. Oh are they back? No yeah it looks like they're, I think I'm still live though right? Right am I still live on the other platforms? Oh y