Should You Dare Criticize Kamala Harris... | Piers Morgan

I was just watching a congressman from the US today claiming that the critics of Biden after the last debate are ablest yeah I mean well I I don't even know what to think about that it's like I see so now here's your theory your theory is that it doesn't matter whether the president of the United States is able because all discrimination between being able and unable is a form of prejudice and that even applies with regards to the president of the United States and so that means that all the people who are concerned that there

might be something astray with him cognitively that we're being lied to about at a at a level that's almost inconceivable are now equivalent to like KKK racists from the 1940s that's your argument and by the way in relation to the same critique of his vice president should you dare to criticize Kamala Harris you are de facto a racist that the only reason yeah the only reason that you would feel the need to criticize this black woman who's vice president is not that she's been completely incompetent in her job which any impartial Observer would conclude but

it has to be because of her skin color and her gender and even though that's why she was put in the damn position to begin with Joe Biden said publicly I want a black woman right and then he gets a black woman who is massively underperformed which hasn't helped him at at all but no one's allowed to criticize her because if you do you'll be called a racist and I find I find that one of the laziest tropes out there in modern society it's a way of I think we've discussed it before but it's a

way of stifling honest debate it's a way of sensoring legitimate criticism a way of asserting moral superiority that's unearned that's a and actually none of them really mean it I mean it is the it is the genuine epitome of virtue signaling what they're really I mean I remember the you know for example I remember um when the George Floyd uh murder happened and it was a horrific incident of course but I remember that soon after that there was a black Square day announced on Instagram where everybody had to Signal their virtue about this by doing

a black Square now I'd spent the entire morning on Good Morning Britain hosting a debates about the George Floyd killing and showing enormous empathy and support for black lives matter and what happened this was very early stages before a lot of stuff came out about the organization black lives matter which put a rather different gloss on them but the principle that you know this had been a terrible uh killing that this man should never have been killed that it was possibly racially motivated all that kind of stuff I I was debating this with a absolutely

open mind and being very empathetic to all these arguments but I didn't do my black Square on Instagram and my son got in touch with me and said dad you got to do your black Square Square I went why we're getting criticized because you haven't done it and I actually had posted a picture of uh a bottle of rosé wine because I was having one in my local square and I hadn't given any thought to the rule that I had to Signal my virtue about this thing and I then got absolutely annihilated by people saying

how dare you do this where is your black square and I remember thinking but all of you are going to go right back toor morning to posting inan self-aggrandizing photographs of yourselves on beaches or in nightclubs or in Ferraris or whatever none of this means anything to you whereas tomorrow morning I'll be back on air doing another three hours of debate about this to try and get the society in uh in the world in relation to this issue back to a place of better racial Justice now which one is going to have a better effect

on influencing people go be an ableist again right and that's the point is that I found it such a TR and kind of pointless example of this this Cult of virtue signal it's worse than that so I just finished a book which is going to be published in November and I walked through a a sequence of biblical stories trying to explain what they meant psychologically and I spent some time on the book of Exodus for obvious reasons and there's a commandment in there that people misapprehend so I think it's the third commandment um don't use

God's name Thou shalt not use the lord's name in vain and people think that means don't swear or curse and it sort of means that there's peripheral meaning that is associated with that c casual use of the Sacred let's say but that isn't what it means it means don't claim Divine virtue when you're working for your own purposes and the same thing happens in the gospel accounts he because the Pharisees who are Christ's primary enemy me are the people he accuses of utilizing the sacred the deepest so you could say compassion even given its proper

place for their own self-aggrandisement they're praying in public they're trying to occupy the best seats in the marketplace they want the best seats in the synagogues Etc that's the accusation and so that virtue signaling it's not it's not merely it's it's an expression of an unbelievably deep and ignorant narcissism right it's part of the victim victimizer narrative first of all which explains all of history with no cognitive effort and then it's these performative gestures that make you morally virtuous right and and one of the consequences of that too is as soon as you're morally virtuous

like that you get to specify the victimizer who's your enemy and tear them into shreds and that's actually a moral act and I mean you saw a bit of that said with the black Square yeah but it's it's an unbelievably pathological but it was fascinating to me that my own children all in their 20s at the time that they were being contacted by friends saying why has your dad done this picture of a bottle of wine where's his black square and they were kind of damned by association yeah and and were Keen for me to

rectify this problem and I had to say there's a tribal signaling there yeah and I say guys I'm not going to do it I'm sorry I'm just not going to feel bullied into doing something that I think actually is pointless and trite and that all the people doing it don't really care much about this cause and will be very quickly back to their normal work on Instagram which is pumping themselves up and showing off and all the things people do on Instagram I said I'm just not going to play this game well there's no cost

to doing it right to putting up a black Square you can indicate commitment that's exactly right there's no sacrifice there's no hard why you use sacrifice is that well because I think that to really support a cause whatever that cause may be at some point you have to show a bit of sacrifice to that cause you have to you have to commit time or money or resources or whatever it may be to support reputation put your head over the parit there has to be an element of risk and an element of sacrifice now if all

you're doing is following the hashtag trend of the day there's no sacrifice There's No risk-taking in fact it's the opposite it's actually more courageous to say I'm not going to do that what I'm going to do is I'm going to do this and it's a far more tangible and effective way of trying to get racial Injustice to a better place which everybody should share that desire and I I just feel that it's that it comes back to what you said earlier about the the victimhood generation the one common theme of the people who play that

victim card all the time is they almost never show any sacrifice for anything it's all about themselves it's all about how can I get pity how can I be showered in sympathy how can I come become Almost Famous for failure and celebrated for it rather than the way I was brought up which is you celebrated success you drowned your sorrows with failure and you didn't let it take you down or destroy you and you dusted yourself down and got back on with it but the idea of celebrating failure the idea of celebrating coming last at

the school sports day you know the idea that everyone had to get a particip ation prize even if they were terrible at something no you know I wasn't very good at Athletics at school I was very good at Cricket I was one of the best cricket players age 12 in the country and my dream was to be a professional cricketer I never made it um my other dream was to be a journalist I made that but I was terrible at Athletics my two brothers were brilliant at Athletics they used to win everything but I used

to always win the non-finalist race and I was very happy about that because what it I said to my what is that well so everyone who didn't win a race got put in the non-finalist race so you were the kind of lepers with the most fingers right for one of a of a crash phrase and the point was that you you were competing against other losers but you could still win something and I was thought yeah I'm going to be the best loser because I'm I'm crap at this I can't really run or hurdle or

throw javelins or anything like that but I can beat this lot and I was proud of that um but I never mistook it for actual Glory or winning and I think people that you know I see people on on social media they say I'm so proud of myself I just passed my driving test at the 11th attempt and I'm like why would you want anybody to know that why would you want anyone to know that you're so completely clueless at driving it took you 11 attempts to pass your driving test and what do you want

me to do do you want me to to send you champagne do you want to you know do you want to be trending number one around the world for being the worst driver in the world what are you celebrating here if you passed your driving test 11th attempt I'm pleased for you but I'm not proud of you this is not something that should instill pride in you um and I think that that's that's where Society is so warped now we celebrate failure we we also celebrate pride and and pride like formally right exactly and we

also um we've we've started to feel bad about Winners we don't really feel comfortable with winers anymore you know especially if they're a little bit self-confident and yet I think they're the best possible Role Models out there people that can perform in The Cauldron of great sport or entertainment whatever it may be you know I watched all the sort of jealous sniping about Taylor Swift for example and then I went to her concert at Wembley absolutely mindblowing experience it's not because she's the best singer in the world or the best dancer or the best actress

or the best pianist or the best guitarist even though she does all those things it's just I've never seen an audience so what one with the performer where she gave them what they wanted 3 and 1 half hours of banging hits on a massive stage with huge theatrics every kid there including my 12-year-old daughter had a fantastic time but the sniping she doesn't sing every song Live she's this she's that she's written all these songs herself she's grossing $2 billion dollar on this tour pra the biggest tour in the history of Music bigger than the

Beatles when they played Shay stadium and yet the natural reaction of a lot of people is to snipe whilst pretending you can almost bet they all have hash beind in their ex bios in other words I'm a really kind person I'm a tolerant person I'm a nice person and I'll destroy any of you fascists who deviate from my woke world view but when it comes to Taylor Swift I'm going to all over her I'm going to trash I'm going to be envious and resentful and jealous and all these things which flies completely in the face

of what they're pretending to be and it's that complete double standard that I see with so many of the what better phras the woke Brigade as I call them but it is is a as Elon mus said it's a it's a mind virus and they are actually leading lives and behaving in a way that is completely the opposite of what they are masquerading guys [Music]