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Welcome to Keith's night. 
Don't tread on anyone today. 

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I want to make the case that 
everyone who opposes the Ku Klux

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Klan as Dua or the concept of 
white supremacy, as do. 

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I should also reject the concept
of government. 

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My argument is going to be 
twofold. 

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First. 
I want to talk about real-world 

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similarities and second. 
I want to talk about principled,

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similarities. 
I want to start by citing the 

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statistics provided by The 
Archives at Tuskegee Institute. 

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Lynchings by state and race 1882
to 1968. 

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So all in all in that period of 
time, the Ku Klux Klan and white

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supremacist, lynched 1297 whites
and 3446, blacks, bringing a 

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total to four thousand seven 
hundred and forty-three 

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lynchings. 
So, in that eighty six year, 

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period, we have about 4750. 
Lynchings that does not cover 

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all of the murders by the, Ku 
Klux Klan and white supremacist.

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Those estimates are around 
10,000 at their absolute 

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highest. 
Now, if we take this principle, 

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that it's wrong to kill people 
who have not initiated violence 

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against you, so these weren't 
killings in self-defense. 

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These were murders. 
If we take that principle. 

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That it's wrong when groups do 
that. 

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Well, we shouldn't have any 
different standards for groups 

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whether they are older or 
smarter or male or female or 

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their the church or their the 
government. 

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So when we look at numbers like 
Kim il-sung at one point six 

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million Pol Pot at 1.7 million, 
we have the Armenian Genocide, 

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the Ukrainian genocide known as 
the holida more. 

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We have things like the 
Holocaust. 

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King, Leopold, the second in 
Belgium. 

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Chairman Mao's Great Leap. 
Forward had Jackie Tojo in 

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Japan, the Rwandan Genocide, we 
see that governments have 

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murdered hundreds of millions of
people in and outside of 

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wartime. 
So while it is vitally important

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that we take a strong stance 
against groups like the KKK or 

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any white supremacist 
organization, not a lot of power

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in those organizations. 
Today. 

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They're not calling a whole ton 
of shots in society. 

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The best indicator is that 
People really don't want to be 

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called racist or white 
supremacists. 

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Whereas if the KKK had a lot of 
power people would be bragging 

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about what white supremacist 
they are. 

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Because then they'll be able to 
work their ranks up in society 

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where the clan has all this 
power. 

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Of course. 
This is no longer a a really big

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deal. 
If you just look at the number 

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of deaths in the last 50 years 
government verse the clan. 

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It's not even close. 
Those are mostly non-american 

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examples written by an American 
newspaper, but even In America 

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by the close of the Indian wars 
in the late 19th century fewer. 

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Then 238,000 and digitus 
people's remained, a sharp 

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decline from the estimated five 
to 15 million living in North 

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America when Columbus arrived in
1492. 

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So, of course, we know things 
like the Indian Removal Act, the

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Wounded Knee massacre All of 
these injustices done in the 

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name of government. 
One of the many reasons we 

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should oppose the organization 
of government in principle and 

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in practicality. 
In more recent times, we have 

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things like operation, Ranch 
Hand spraying agent orange over 

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civilians in Vietnam or 
Operation Rolling Thunder, the 

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indiscriminate bombing of 
Vietnamese civilians, The 

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Invasion. 
And occupation of Iraq, killing 

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civilians after a decade of a 
blockade. 

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Even in the 40s we had something
called operation Meetinghouse. 

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Boasted Curtis, LeMay of his 
famous raid on Tokyo. 

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We scorched, and boiled, and 
baked to death more people in 

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Tokyo that night of March 9 10, 
then when up and vapor and 

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
So that is government's 

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admitting that they murder 
civilians en. 

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Masse. 
This, of course, is no different

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than what the Ku Klux Klan is 
always saying. 

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Well, you know, government does 
that because they have to 

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protect the country. 
Well, the clan just does it 

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because they gotta protect the 
race from the other race and 

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while they might be doing bad 
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If another race wasn't charged, 
that race would commit even more

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crimes. 
So there's really no principal 

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difference between supporting 
the clan and supporting 

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government. 
So the principal question is 

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between the Ku Klux Klan or 
between white supremacists and 

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government which group initiate 
violence against peaceful people

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to achieve their ends. 
The answer is both because there

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is no all difference between the
two. 

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So if you oppose any one of 
these groups, you have to in 

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principle also, opposed the 
other. 

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Let's look at the concept of 
white supremacy. 

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This is when some people have 
the right to rule over others in

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a very arbitrary manner. 
Not something that's the result 

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of voluntary exchange or in 
agreement. 

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Some people having the right to 
rule, others is what we say is 

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what makes white supremacy. 
This very evil thing which 

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Couldn't agree more. 
The problem is we have something

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called government Supremacy, 
which is in principle. 

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No different. 
Imagine the following sentence 

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whites have to regulate blacks 
because blacks are imperfect and

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without whites ruling over them.
There might be chaos among the 

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blacks that is no different than
government has the right to rule

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over Society, despite their 
history of mass atrocities 

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because without the state people
would be killing and eating each

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other and it would be very 
chaotic. 

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First of all, that's not the 
case. 

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Second of all, it's still a 
moral, which of course, is how 

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we still look at things like, 
you know, slavery and Jim Crow, 

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it's never like well, uh, I ran 
the GDP figures for the 

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African-American community and 
it would have been lower. 

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Had they not been enslaved there
for slavery is wrong because of 

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a utilitarian justification. 
No, one ever says that they We 

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need equality. 
We need freedom. 

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It's never, let's weigh the 
costs and benefits of abolishing

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slavery and abolishing the 
Nuremberg Laws and no longer 

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recognizing Jim Crow. 
There's the good side and the 

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bad side. 
No, they say those things are 

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wrong. 
In principle. 

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All government is is some people
having the right to roll others,

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that is the essence of the 
state. 

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So the fact that they happen to 
sometimes build schools or build

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roads or take up certain 
projects, all of which could be 

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privatized that doesn't get to 
the essence of what this 

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organization is this. 
Is some people having the right 

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to rule others, they issue 
commands. 

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Here. 
We have the current sitting 

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president. 
Issuing an executive order. 

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They write words down on paper. 
And then you have to abide by 

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those rules, those Commandments 
or these people here on the 

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right choking, Eric Garner to 
death. 

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They put you in a cage. 
And if you resist the cage, they

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shoot you. 
Now. 

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If you try doing that to them, 
you're a terrorist. 

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If they do it to you, they get 
the medal of freedom that is 

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government Supremacy. 
That is something. 

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No different in principle. 
Double then white supremacy, 

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some people arbitrarily 
violently ruling over other 

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people and I want to end with a 
challenge to you. 

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Imagine. 
Someone says this to you, think 

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of how you would respond. 
Feel free to share your response

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in the comments. 
I support Ku Klux Klan reform 

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and oppose the bad things they 
do but they are 99.9% peaceful. 

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Thank you for watching Keith 
Knight. 

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Don't tread on anyone.