Why Can't We Talk About Transgenderism? | Konstantin Kisin

our team went to a protest about trans rights they went over to one of the people who was most profoundly present let's say shouting and whatever and they said can you tell us what this is about what it what do you I said no so how if you're protesting for something why wouldn't you want to persuade a single person what you actually believe in it's become very kind of so tribal and so you know here's my placard and here's your placard that it doesn't feel like there's a lot of Battle of ideas going on and so much Battle of power but I wrote a piece on my sub stack uh actually on the plane back I couldn't sleep so I just typed it out on my phone which is called the American anti-woke Coalition and I talk about the split between the conservatives uh and the old school liberals about some of these issues and it's a very interesting dynamic because I think the the the path to uh addressing many of these Progressive radical Progressive ideas lies through uniting conservatives and the old-school liberals around the things that they all agree on the problem is you know the the conservatives in America you know America is a very radical country there's a very radical country when we spoke to Ben Shapiro actually he made this point and I think he's absolutely right people there are pretty you know pretty intense about what they believe and so it makes them difficult makes it difficult for them to work with others where there's disagreement you know and the trans debate for example is a very good example of this where the conservatives many conservatives have taken the position the I think alienates a lot of people which is you know the libs are transing the kids and everything else follows from that and a lot of the old school liberals who also are concerned about gender ideology in schools the transitioning of children the medicalization of children all the stuff they're quite uncomfortable with some of that rhetoric and so what you see is a rather precarious temporary Alliance that's not really as strong as it could be and and some of the fishes that come from that um but America is a beautiful place uh it's a beautiful place I think I am really inspired by um the mindset there you know that there is no tall poppy syndrome in America you know if you say to somebody in Britain you know I want to build a great business so I want to create a massive YouTube channel or I want to be you know hugely successful in this or that there's a sort of like who do you think you are kind of looked that you get in America it isn't like that at all it's like great go for it what can I do for you how can we work together and that's inspiring you know that is this for someone like me who always wanted to do great things and build things and employ people and create opportunities for others and make an impact on the world is it's fascinating it also has a shadow as anything does there are no Solutions only trade-offs uh but it's it's a wonderful place in many ways I I really when I'm in America I am it gives me like fuel for the rocket in in a way that no other country I've ever been to does foreign [Music] foreign

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Length: 3min 20sec (200 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 06 2023