Welcome to Keith's night. Don't tread on anyone today.
I want to make the case that everyone who opposes the Ku Klux
Klan as Dua or the concept of white supremacy, as do.
I should also reject the concept of government.
My argument is going to be twofold.
First. I want to talk about real-world
similarities and second. I want to talk about principled,
similarities. I want to start by citing the
statistics provided by The Archives at Tuskegee Institute.
Lynchings by state and race 1882 to 1968.
So all in all in that period of time, the Ku Klux Klan and white
supremacist, lynched 1297 whites and 3446, blacks, bringing a
total to four thousand seven hundred and forty-three
lynchings. So, in that eighty six year,
period, we have about 4750. Lynchings that does not cover
all of the murders by the, Ku Klux Klan and white supremacist.
Those estimates are around 10,000 at their absolute
highest. Now, if we take this principle,
that it's wrong to kill people who have not initiated violence
against you, so these weren't killings in self-defense.
These were murders. If we take that principle.
That it's wrong when groups do that.
Well, we shouldn't have any different standards for groups
whether they are older or smarter or male or female or
their the church or their the government.
So when we look at numbers like Kim il-sung at one point six
million Pol Pot at 1.7 million, we have the Armenian Genocide,
the Ukrainian genocide known as the holida more.
We have things like the Holocaust.
King, Leopold, the second in Belgium.
Chairman Mao's Great Leap. Forward had Jackie Tojo in
Japan, the Rwandan Genocide, we see that governments have
murdered hundreds of millions of people in and outside of
wartime. So while it is vitally important
that we take a strong stance against groups like the KKK or
any white supremacist organization, not a lot of power
in those organizations. Today.
They're not calling a whole ton of shots in society.
The best indicator is that People really don't want to be
called racist or white supremacists.
Whereas if the KKK had a lot of power people would be bragging
about what white supremacist they are.
Because then they'll be able to work their ranks up in society
where the clan has all this power.
Of course. This is no longer a a really big
deal. If you just look at the number
of deaths in the last 50 years government verse the clan.
It's not even close. Those are mostly non-american
examples written by an American newspaper, but even In America
by the close of the Indian wars in the late 19th century fewer.
Then 238,000 and digitus people's remained, a sharp
decline from the estimated five to 15 million living in North
America when Columbus arrived in 1492.
So, of course, we know things like the Indian Removal Act, the
Wounded Knee massacre All of these injustices done in the
name of government. One of the many reasons we
should oppose the organization of government in principle and
in practicality. In more recent times, we have
things like operation, Ranch Hand spraying agent orange over
civilians in Vietnam or Operation Rolling Thunder, the
indiscriminate bombing of Vietnamese civilians, The
Invasion. And occupation of Iraq, killing
civilians after a decade of a blockade.
Even in the 40s we had something called operation Meetinghouse.
Boasted Curtis, LeMay of his famous raid on Tokyo.
We scorched, and boiled, and baked to death more people in
Tokyo that night of March 9 10, then when up and vapor and
Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. So that is government's
admitting that they murder civilians en.
Masse. This, of course, is no different
than what the Ku Klux Klan is always saying.
Well, you know, government does that because they have to
protect the country. Well, the clan just does it
because they gotta protect the race from the other race and
while they might be doing bad things.
If another race wasn't charged, that race would commit even more
crimes. So there's really no principal
difference between supporting the clan and supporting
government. So the principal question is
between the Ku Klux Klan or between white supremacists and
government which group initiate violence against peaceful people
to achieve their ends. The answer is both because there
is no all difference between the two.
So if you oppose any one of these groups, you have to in
principle also, opposed the other.
Let's look at the concept of white supremacy.
This is when some people have the right to rule over others in
a very arbitrary manner. Not something that's the result
of voluntary exchange or in agreement.
Some people having the right to rule, others is what we say is
what makes white supremacy. This very evil thing which
Couldn't agree more. The problem is we have something
called government Supremacy, which is in principle.
No different. Imagine the following sentence
whites have to regulate blacks because blacks are imperfect and
without whites ruling over them. There might be chaos among the
blacks that is no different than government has the right to rule
over Society, despite their history of mass atrocities
because without the state people would be killing and eating each
other and it would be very chaotic.
First of all, that's not the case.
Second of all, it's still a moral, which of course, is how
we still look at things like, you know, slavery and Jim Crow,
it's never like well, uh, I ran the GDP figures for the
African-American community and it would have been lower.
Had they not been enslaved there for slavery is wrong because of
a utilitarian justification. No, one ever says that they We
need equality. We need freedom.
It's never, let's weigh the costs and benefits of abolishing
slavery and abolishing the Nuremberg Laws and no longer
recognizing Jim Crow. There's the good side and the
bad side. No, they say those things are
wrong. In principle.
All government is is some people having the right to roll others,
that is the essence of the state.
So the fact that they happen to sometimes build schools or build
roads or take up certain projects, all of which could be
privatized that doesn't get to the essence of what this
organization is this. Is some people having the right
to rule others, they issue commands.
Here. We have the current sitting
president. Issuing an executive order.
They write words down on paper. And then you have to abide by
those rules, those Commandments or these people here on the
right choking, Eric Garner to death.
They put you in a cage. And if you resist the cage, they
shoot you. Now.
If you try doing that to them, you're a terrorist.
If they do it to you, they get the medal of freedom that is
government Supremacy. That is something.
No different in principle. Double then white supremacy,
some people arbitrarily violently ruling over other
people and I want to end with a challenge to you.
Imagine. Someone says this to you, think
of how you would respond. Feel free to share your response
in the comments. I support Ku Klux Klan reform
and oppose the bad things they do but they are 99.9% peaceful.
Thank you for watching Keith Knight.
Don't tread on anyone.