Tucker: You are watching the death of the future of our country

good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight want to hear an amazing story it has the benefit of being both true and illuminating here it is in 1851 a man called samuel cartwright came up with a fairly sophisticated scientific explanation for why so many slaves were running away from plantations in the american south these fugitive slaves cartwright explained were suffering from a medical disorder it was called drapedomania it was a syndrome characterized by an uncontrollable or insane impulsion to wander so that was the problem it wasn't they disliked being enslaved or yearned for freedom and basic humanity no no no the problem according to samuel cartwright was that black people as a group were inherently defective they were drapedomaniacs they were always running away that's what he said 107 years later it is embarrassing to repeat something this stupid out loud it's so obviously insane but here's what you should know drapedomania was taken very seriously at the time and so was samuel cartwright cartwright was not a fringe character at all he was a nationally prominent physician a former high-ranking army officer from fairfax virginia he went to penn medical school samuel cartwright was a credentialed man of science who commanded the respect of the country 50 years after the civil war one of this nation's leading medical dictionaries continued to maintain an entry for drapedomania so in retrospect of course we would call samuel cartwright a bigot which he undoubtedly was but he was also more than that cartwright was a practitioner of something called scientific racism scientific racism is deeper than simple prejudice it is the use of science to justify the dominance of one group over another group scientific racism has a history as long as science simply because the impulse to dominate is inherent to human nature so it's not really about color though it's called racism instead it's about power martin luther king wrote eloquently about this so did dr seuss by the way you might want to take a look at what they wrote assuming you can still buy their books the point is scientific racism never actually went away it's still with us no one talks about drapedomania anymore instead are medical professionals and law professors and military leaders and politicians and cable news hosts have identified a new disorder they claim explains everything bad it's called whiteness in the universities it has become an article of faith that we're not for the indelible stain of whiteness america could be a utopia only whiteness stands in the way that's why we must abolish it as harvard magazine put it abolish the white race only then can we be happy lots of people seem to believe this they're not all bad people just as not everyone who believed in samuel cartwright in the 1850s was evil some people are just gullible they're looking for meaning in their lives if you hand them a unified theory of everything some percentage of them are going to buy at wholesale they were nice people at jonestown in guyana they just didn't know any better it's their leaders that you wonder about they do know better or they should and when they talk about this new iteration of scientific racism when they talk about whiteness they sound very much like old-fashioned bigots take this guy for example his name is eric michael dyson he's a tenured professor at some stupid college or other he lives in a rich almost exclusively white neighborhood he goes on television a lot watch him as he talks about race and ask yourself honestly if he sounds any different at all from say bull connor or david duke he doesn't only the colors have changed here he is in speaking about you know the maggots i'm sorry the magga um that is so corrosive in this you know political uh moment and we have stood by to see mediocre mealy-mouthed snowflake white men who are incapable of taking critique who are willing to dole out infamous repudiations of the humanity of the other and yet they call us snowflakes and they are the biggest flakes of snow to hit the earth they are incapable of criticism they are incapable of tolerating difference they're scared of oh my god critical race theory is going to kill your mother and they don't even know they're not critical they have no race and they don't understand theory white men they're the problem you hear that so often that you don't pause to consider what a change this is it used to be only a few years ago that the one thing you couldn't do in america was attack people in public on the basis of the race i don't like that group because of their skin color let's hurt them you couldn't say that it was the one unacceptable thing and for very good reason you cannot maintain a multi-racial democracy unless people of every color have exactly the same rights and responsibilities under the law and are considered of precisely the same moral value under god you have to have that that's the most basic prerequisite for a multi-racial democracy all lives have to matter or it cannot work it's pretty clear that our leadership class for whatever reason doesn't want it to work obviously they don't look at what they're doing when you hear people ascribe blood guilt to a specific racial group when you hear them talk about the sin of whiteness what you're watching is the death of our future as a country we can't live in a nation of warring tribes we know very well what that looks like because it's the history of the world it's miserable and vicious and bloody we can't allow that most americans of all colors on some level understand this they don't always have the words to articulate it but they know it when their kids come home with from school with assignments to suggest that all races are not in fact equal that some races are guilty and some are innocent that some groups are oppressors inherently and others are inherently oppressed in the universities this is called critical race theory so that's the term that most people go with critical race theory that's what we so often debate on television that's a clip we just showed you but critical race theory is an inaccurate way to describe what's happening like so much academic jargon the phrase critical race theory doesn't mean anything it obscures rather than illuminates it is designed that way it is designed to confuse you what's happening in our schools that our military and our government is both simpler and easier to recognize than that it's not critical race theory it's racism not neo-racism or reverse racism those are meaningless terms it is race hate it is peddled by the people in charge in the hope that it will make them more powerful that's all it is we haven't said that often enough or clearly enough and because we haven't because we've been tied up in some pointless debate about a concept that nobody can actually define the race hate and that's what it is has oozed from the universities and it has infected the entire country including at the very highest levels mark milley is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff he didn't get that job because he's brilliant or because he's brave or because the people who know him respect him he is not and they definitely don't milly got the job because he is obsequious he knows who to suck up to and he's more than happy to do it feed him a script and he will read it here's millie yesterday the man in charge of this nation's weapons explained that he's working to understand a concept called white rage i do think it's important actually for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read and the united states military academy is a university and it is important that we train and we understand and i want to understand white rage and i'm white and i want to understand it so what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the constitution of the united states of america what caused that i want to find that out i want to maintain an open mind here and i do want to analyze it it's important that we understand that because our soldiers sailors airmen marines and guardians they come from the american people so it is important that the leaders now and in the future do understand it hard to believe that man wears a uniform he's that unimpressive notice he never defined white rage and we should know what it is what is white rage well like drape domania it's one of those diseases that only affects people with certain melanin levels it's a race specific illness that's what mark milley has learned from reading about it that's why he's making his soldiers read about it too they need to know watch i've read miles say tongue i've read i've read karl marx i've read lenin that doesn't make me a communist so what is wrong with understanding having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend and i personally find it offensive that we are accusing the united states military our general officers our commission non-commissioned officers of being quote woke [Laughter] he's not just a pig he's stupid so mark milly reads mao to understand maoism he reads communist to understand communism but it's interesting that he doesn't read white supremacists to understand white supremacy why not go to the source well because mark milley would be fired instantly if he read those books and getting fired is the one thing he doesn't want so he reads about white rage as if it's totally real it's a medical condition and by the way since it's a medical condition at what age can you catch white rage by the way most of us assume that our two-year-olds were just teething now we know it's their whiteness that's making them so angry thanks mark millie we appreciate your contribution to our generation's scientific racism by the way have you read anything recently about winning wars apparently not we could go on and on and on pundit after senator after professor after general each one of them spewing race hate whiteness white rage dressed up as some new academic theory we certainly have the tape will spare you because you've seen it it's everywhere the question is and this is the question that we should be meditating on day in and day out is how do we get out of this vortex this cycle before it's too late how do we save this country before we become rwanda what should we be teaching our children so they can live in the country that you want to live in a country full of many different kinds of people many different but who actually like each other who are happy to work together who are united ultimately by the core fact which is they're all americans that is the question hey sean hannity here hey click here to subscribe to fox news youtube page and catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis you will not get it anywhere else

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Length: 11min 8sec (668 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 25 2021