Just attaching yourself to voices that don't fall in line with the current dynamic happening in so many areas of societal foundations, whether that be in government, education, or our work environments, well done both Heather and Lawrence for being non-compliant, and for sharing your time, work, knowledge and experience in an open media environment, peace
non-compliant lol Heather supports powerful institutions like the police and is against criminal justice reform. How is that outide of the "current dynamic"
I agree with Heather. I went to "The Yale of the Midwest," where we also studied "Deconstructionism," as part of the English program. I instantly put the whole enterprise aside, once decapitation and phallic symbols were somehow incorporated into great works of literature. I went on to read the classics (and other fine writing) as mere works of art and enlightenment... and I wish Ms. MacDonald had done the same earlier.
Science and God go hand in hand as the real god established all scientific principles and laws of physics and biology. God created science and all things. Mankind created debate.
I work for a company that builds the railroads in Kentucky. We had a whole meeting to talk about respecting gender pronouns. You know the woke people have taken over when 60 year old men building the railroads in Kentucky have to hear about it. They did not take it well and the HR lady looked like she regretted bringing it up. It was interesting to see.
I love how she doesn't have to explain the historic _drop_ in crime in the post-pandemic years. The "George Floyd effect" was thoroughly discredited years ago. Police weren't defunded. The pandemic was the primary factor and that's abundantly clear now. But, you know, it's more fun to say "blacks" over and over.
The drop you cite is relative to recent highs, which is expected. You wouldn't expect crime to keep rising forever, or staying at a high, without people demanding change. Crime in multiple categories is still elevated relative to pre-BLM years. I've never found the "pandemic" explanation convincing, as it wasn't replicated in other countries. One major difference was the race row we had in the US over crime and law enforcement.
There may well be a need for a reasoned discussion on this topic but this wasn't it. I've never seen Lawrence take such a subservient back seat to the frantic, hyperbolic filibuster of the guest.
Heather Mac Donald asserts (at 26:24) that the result of an alleged refusal by judges and prosecutors to enforce the law so as not to send Black defendants to prison is "an incredible crime spike following the George Floyd race riots." According to the F.B.I. report released on Sept. 23, 2024, "murder and non-negligent manslaughter recorded a 2023 estimated nationwide decrease of 11.6% compared to the previous year"; they also note that rape dropped by 9.4%, aggravated assault dropped by 2.8%, and robbery dropped by 0.3%. I doubt that any judges or prosecutors have actually come out and said -- as Ms. Mac Donald tells us they have -- that they are not going to enforce the law, but I'll give her a pass on this and assume it's a rhetorical flourish. But the "incredible crime spike" she cites is flatly contradicted by the data. So, then, how much of the rest of Ms. Mac Donald's claims is accurate?
There's no contradiction between these claims, in fact it is expected, as the decreases you cite are relative to recent highs. If you have a large increase in crimes of various types over a year or two, it's likely that in subsequent years there will be less crime than the year before, because the year before was higher than it should have been.
Yale remonds me of a fried at a party who introduced me to his coworker. Afterwards my friend asked me if his coworker told me that he went to Yale and questioned how quickly he offered this tidbit to me. We laughted about how some people seem to be arrested in thier development ar some period of the past. Preppies we called them where I was from and many were great people but many were just preppies.
Very true! Almost everything that was discussed. However, as the true base and foundation of this matter actually is "stupidity" of humans, it will inevitably show itself in subtle ways or otherwise. Hers was feminism! Even one small touch on the subject was dismissed by her, although very cleverly but not to any experienced listener. And of course, Lawrence didn't press on! Just that simple thing shows how the matter is getting looked at from any side. Ironically the exact thing she was complaining full heartedly! This is the exact reason the whole matter exists. No one really looks at it objectively, hence leaving room for a lot of same level people, who usually are very animated, as their psychology is built on, to call the flaws and discredit the crédible main part! Until that day, we'll all suffer one way or the other!
The Death of our tech-driven country is the dismantling of our educational tracking programs. Some students can run fast, some can think fast; we don't apply equity in track & field. Public High school is a total waste (or worse) for students pursuing STEM (or MUSIC) in the US. DEI is destroying virtually all professions, but of course all gov. agencies are systemically affected, so when you see FEMA, or NASA not be able to do some minimum performance, you can google the admin for confirmation. It's hilarious that progressives push diversity in Scotland....
Civil Rights is about much more than race, though many focus on that. Would you prefer government employees be allowed to gift their family members with cushy jobs? The problem here is selective enforcement by entirely the wrong people. The "family business" people aren't going to break up their own aristocracy!
If conservatives would accept climate science and support a rising price on carbon to mitigate the global warming, then they could be not an enemy to me or to humanity.
@@stewartmoore5158 agreed. In general, stop digging trenches and hyping our differences and us vs them. Instead, try to get to know people that are different from you. Instead of dehumanizing them. We all breathe the same air and we're all mortal.
why does Lawrence keep referring to his Canadian origins as if it's an excuse for his left wing beliefs. We are responsible for the ideas we accept as true and our nationality has nothing to do with it. He should know better. It sounds like a crude rationalisation for his sympathy toward some illiberal ideas.
Lawrence has gotten horrendous with his “scientific reasoning” he fails so massively at times and particular when his political biases get involved it’s like he loses all ability to think. This entire conversation is full of total noscientific crap. He talks so much of human intellect and appears to have very little of it. Its demeaning to even let such Joe Rogan style nonsense go without an ounce of the critical analysis it deserves. “Your problem is you think racism must be malicious before it can be racist.” Somehow Lawrence achieves this mindless state of unscientific conversation.
Jeather said that largely racism does not exist any more on America. She is very far removed from the real world. I hate to say it but race and color are still a big obstacle. There is a famous video of a bkond child all alone in a busy street corner and the attention this chold gets from black good Samaritans whilst a black child is completely ignored.. We have a long way to go. We should be spending a fortune in the inner cities to give these children a break.
We’ve been “spending a fortune on inner cities” for generations and it’s not working. Why do you think that is? Talk about being removed from reality. You don’t sound like you interact with the inner cities of this country whatsoever.
The US got first place in the 2024 team based math Olympiad. On individual scores, a chinese student won. There are asian americans and not too long ago, a black American on the math Olympiad. What is this lady talking about??
@@barakcherniak3168 no but Jamaicans disproportionately represent the top sprinters in the world. Terrible example to make your case honestly. Also the US produces a lot of top tier math and physics Olympiad teams. Not to say we don't have an education problem of course. But that's largely due to class differences in school funding. That must be fixed. But the highest level mathematical students are trained by top tier teachers like Po Shen in the United States.
@@AP-pk6mkno amount of training can substitute for raw iq talent. The class funding nonsense doesnt make any sense either. people that are wealthy have high iq for the most part. so they have children with high iq and thats why their children are sucessful. it is not because "training"
@@supersuperbakano while natural talent exists, you have no clue what you're talking about if you think there's no amount of training that can compete with natural talent. A prodigy kid in a ghetto with terrible schools for his formative years cannot magically outcompete a moderately talented wealthy kid who has been supplemented from birth up with tutors and training for competitions like math Olympiad (this is a norm among those children).
The use of the term “blacks” is not an indication of racism at all. However, it is apparently a dog whistle to you. You know what is said about that: if you can hear the whistle, you’re the dog.
More so, the vitriol in her voice when she said it. I felt she started off fine with reasoned arguments against real problems. Around 20 minutes in though, the mask began to slip and by the end she just came across as an emotional wreck with an axe to grind. She's just as crazy as the extreme left . The other side of the same coin you could say.
They have earned the racism. Have you seen any flash mobs lately? Looked at Haiti, South Africa, Zimbabwe, any of inner cities, Croydon, those parts of Paris? Keep calling people racist.
Just attaching yourself to voices that don't fall in line with the current dynamic happening in so many areas of societal foundations, whether that be in government, education, or our work environments, well done both Heather and Lawrence for being non-compliant, and for sharing your time, work, knowledge and experience in an open media environment, peace
non-compliant lol Heather supports powerful institutions like the police and is against criminal justice reform. How is that outide of the "current dynamic"
Non-compliment with reason and logic.
Great episode. Kudos to Heather for being so brave and speaking the truth.
Really? Bipolar and off her meds. Republican and racist as …k! And she dished out a load of gossip. No opera for me.
Thank you for speaking with Heather MacDonald. I have read her two most recent books and I am more informed for it.
I agree with Heather. I went to "The Yale of the Midwest," where we also studied "Deconstructionism," as part of the English program. I instantly put the whole enterprise aside, once decapitation and phallic symbols were somehow incorporated into great works of literature. I went on to read the classics (and other fine writing) as mere works of art and enlightenment... and I wish Ms. MacDonald had done the same earlier.
"Religion is where you follow everything. Science is where you challenge everything."
~A.S Rana
Science and God go hand in hand as the real god established all scientific principles and laws of physics and biology. God created science and all things. Mankind created debate.
I work for a company that builds the railroads in Kentucky. We had a whole meeting to talk about respecting gender pronouns. You know the woke people have taken over when 60 year old men building the railroads in Kentucky have to hear about it. They did not take it well and the HR lady looked like she regretted bringing it up. It was interesting to see.
She’s extraordinarily based
I love how she doesn't have to explain the historic _drop_ in crime in the post-pandemic years. The "George Floyd effect" was thoroughly discredited years ago. Police weren't defunded. The pandemic was the primary factor and that's abundantly clear now. But, you know, it's more fun to say "blacks" over and over.
The drop you cite is relative to recent highs, which is expected. You wouldn't expect crime to keep rising forever, or staying at a high, without people demanding change. Crime in multiple categories is still elevated relative to pre-BLM years. I've never found the "pandemic" explanation convincing, as it wasn't replicated in other countries. One major difference was the race row we had in the US over crime and law enforcement.
There may well be a need for a reasoned discussion on this topic but this wasn't it. I've never seen Lawrence take such a subservient back seat to the frantic, hyperbolic filibuster of the guest.
Heather Mac Donald asserts (at 26:24) that the result of an alleged refusal by judges and prosecutors to enforce the law so as not to send Black defendants to prison is "an incredible crime spike following the George Floyd race riots."
According to the F.B.I. report released on Sept. 23, 2024, "murder and non-negligent manslaughter recorded a 2023 estimated nationwide decrease of 11.6% compared to the previous year"; they also note that rape dropped by 9.4%, aggravated assault dropped by 2.8%, and robbery dropped by 0.3%.
I doubt that any judges or prosecutors have actually come out and said -- as Ms. Mac Donald tells us they have -- that they are not going to enforce the law, but I'll give her a pass on this and assume it's a rhetorical flourish. But the "incredible crime spike" she cites is flatly contradicted by the data. So, then, how much of the rest of Ms. Mac Donald's claims is accurate?
There's no contradiction between these claims, in fact it is expected, as the decreases you cite are relative to recent highs. If you have a large increase in crimes of various types over a year or two, it's likely that in subsequent years there will be less crime than the year before, because the year before was higher than it should have been.
1:18:21 Heather’s enthusiasm for classical art and music gets me fired up. Here, she’s getting emotional over the beauty of Beethoven’s Fidelio.
Ms. MacDonald is a Light in the wilderness
I would very much like to see Dr. Krauss interviewing great film directors of this age like Christopher Nolan or Denis Villeneuve.
Ms. Mac Donald certainly does *not* pull any punches!
Yale remonds me of a fried at a party who introduced me to his coworker. Afterwards my friend asked me if his coworker told me that he went to Yale and questioned how quickly he offered this tidbit to me. We laughted about how some people seem to be arrested in thier development ar some period of the past. Preppies we called them where I was from and many were great people but many were just preppies.
Nice. This is what I was needing for the day.
Interesting to hear her point of view, thanks ! The 70's was a strange time in visual arts theory thanks to deconstruction as well!
Very true! Almost everything that was discussed. However, as the true base and foundation of this matter actually is "stupidity" of humans, it will inevitably show itself in subtle ways or otherwise. Hers was feminism! Even one small touch on the subject was dismissed by her, although very cleverly but not to any experienced listener. And of course, Lawrence didn't press on!
Just that simple thing shows how the matter is getting looked at from any side. Ironically the exact thing she was complaining full heartedly!
This is the exact reason the whole matter exists. No one really looks at it objectively, hence leaving room for a lot of same level people, who usually are very animated, as their psychology is built on, to call the flaws and discredit the crédible main part!
Until that day, we'll all suffer one way or the other!
a cop-lover who is against criminal justice reform? Pass.
what an amazing episode! Thank you both!
"Once you've lost credibility by making ridiculous claims, then the claims that aren't ridiculous aren't listened to either."
Okay. Now do the Right.
The Death of our tech-driven country is the dismantling of our educational tracking programs. Some students can run fast, some can think fast; we don't apply equity in track & field. Public High school is a total waste (or worse) for students pursuing STEM (or MUSIC) in the US. DEI is destroying virtually all professions, but of course all gov. agencies are systemically affected, so when you see FEMA, or NASA not be able to do some minimum performance, you can google the admin for confirmation. It's hilarious that progressives push diversity in Scotland....
Civil Rights is about much more than race, though many focus on that.
Would you prefer government employees be allowed to gift their family members with cushy jobs?
The problem here is selective enforcement by entirely the wrong people.
The "family business" people aren't going to break up their own aristocracy!
Krauss is getting more based in his older years. Good to see youre not hanging out with chomsky any more
Wow! What a woman!
Hey Lawrence maybe you could inform your liberal/progressive listeners that conservatives are not the enemy.
And conservatives that liberals are not the enemy
Then stop using silly labels. People fit into more categories than just 'liberal' and 'conservative'.
If conservatives would accept climate science and support a rising price on carbon to mitigate the global warming, then they could be not an enemy to me or to humanity.
@@stewartmoore5158 Yeah like commies. There are only three categories: demons, minions and normals. Which are you?
@@stewartmoore5158 agreed. In general, stop digging trenches and hyping our differences and us vs them. Instead, try to get to know people that are different from you. Instead of dehumanizing them. We all breathe the same air and we're all mortal.
why does Lawrence keep referring to his Canadian origins as if it's an excuse for his left wing beliefs. We are responsible for the ideas we accept as true and our nationality has nothing to do with it. He should know better. It sounds like a crude rationalisation for his sympathy toward some illiberal ideas.
Lawrence has gotten horrendous with his “scientific reasoning” he fails so massively at times and particular when his political biases get involved it’s like he loses all ability to think. This entire conversation is full of total noscientific crap. He talks so much of human intellect and appears to have very little of it. Its demeaning to even let such Joe Rogan style nonsense go without an ounce of the critical analysis it deserves.
“Your problem is you think racism must be malicious before it can be racist.”
Somehow Lawrence achieves this mindless state of unscientific conversation.
You say all that without providing any evidence of the claim. You're just name-calling and finger wagging. The thing you accused him of. Too funny
Jeather said that largely racism does not exist any more on America. She is very far removed from the real world. I hate to say it but race and color are still a big obstacle. There is a famous video of a bkond child all alone in a busy street corner and the attention this chold gets from black good Samaritans whilst a black child is completely ignored.. We have a long way to go. We should be spending a fortune in the inner cities to give these children a break.
We’ve been “spending a fortune on inner cities” for generations and it’s not working. Why do you think that is? Talk about being removed from reality. You don’t sound like you interact with the inner cities of this country whatsoever.
Agree. Heather is a clarion voice of reason. Thank you for featuring her!
The US got first place in the 2024 team based math Olympiad. On individual scores, a chinese student won. There are asian americans and not too long ago, a black American on the math Olympiad. What is this lady talking about??
Usain Bolt ran a hundred meters in 9.58 seconds in 2009. Does that tell you anything about the average speed of Jamaicans in the 100 m run?
@@barakcherniak3168 no but Jamaicans disproportionately represent the top sprinters in the world. Terrible example to make your case honestly. Also the US produces a lot of top tier math and physics Olympiad teams. Not to say we don't have an education problem of course. But that's largely due to class differences in school funding. That must be fixed. But the highest level mathematical students are trained by top tier teachers like Po Shen in the United States.
@@AP-pk6mkno amount of training can substitute for raw iq talent. The class funding nonsense doesnt make any sense either. people that are wealthy have high iq for the most part. so they have children with high iq and thats why their children are sucessful. it is not because "training"
@@supersuperbakano while natural talent exists, you have no clue what you're talking about if you think there's no amount of training that can compete with natural talent. A prodigy kid in a ghetto with terrible schools for his formative years cannot magically outcompete a moderately talented wealthy kid who has been supplemented from birth up with tutors and training for competitions like math Olympiad (this is a norm among those children).
So people can get first place in the math Olympiad without a basic understanding of statistics?
The only thing worth an identity politics is people crying about it
Good interview.
Wunderbar
Let's hope Trump will win and will put an end to this woke nonsense.
👏
The clue to her racism is her repeated use of the word "blacks".
The use of the term “blacks” is not an indication of racism at all. However, it is apparently a dog whistle to you. You know what is said about that: if you can hear the whistle, you’re the dog.
More so, the vitriol in her voice when she said it.
I felt she started off fine with reasoned arguments against real problems. Around 20 minutes in though, the mask began to slip and by the end she just came across as an emotional wreck with an axe to grind.
She's just as crazy as the extreme left . The other side of the same coin you could say.
They have earned the racism. Have you seen any flash mobs lately? Looked at Haiti, South Africa, Zimbabwe, any of inner cities, Croydon, those parts of Paris? Keep calling people racist.
@@markmoz Touché to your every word!
Yawn
Desperate for guests?
Ahhhh someone disagrees with your worldview, you poor thing how are you going to be able to cope?
@@kimbruns2084 I'll be just fine.
You're in the wrong echo chamber. Here we are free thinkers, not beholden to any moth-bitten ideology.
@@MrLcowles Nobody is a free-thinker.
@@MrLcowles You keep on telling yourself that.
Krauss : jazz was primarily a black tradition.
Her: I wouldn't say primarily.
Me: Turn off .
You were desperately looking to become offended 😁
I suppose I should feel sorry for you 😁 but I am just laughing.
Piano trumpet saxophone every music instrument was invented by white people. Even music theory. And i am a person of color lol
@@charlesstoeng9166 No, not offended. If someone denies an obvious fact, what would your reaction be called? Would you listen further?
@@charlesstoeng9166You're not offended by the outright rejection of truth? Of course not, you're a conservative.
@@AlexDrums482 Conservative? We leave those terms to dumb americans