Quotes from Dave Rubin

I'm not a huge parade guy myself.

We voted for Obama on rhetoric of 'hope and change.' We voted for him because of some idea that he was beyond politics and certainly beyond partisanship.

I'm not even proud to say this, but I've never voted for a Republican in my entire life.

I would rather stand for what I believe in than bow down and be loved.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." In other words, today's progressives have now become the sexists and racists they've claimed to hate.

Harvard University has chosen to make it harder for Asian applicants to be accepted into the university because they outperform their peers. So yes, systemic racism is real . . . at America's top university.

I've reluctantly reached after years of watching my old "team" transform into a baying mob of hysterical puritans—a feral gang that sows division through identity politics and encourages societal tribes to rank themselves in a pecking order of "oppression.

This is because outward virtue signaling is separate from being a considerate, moral person. Whereas the latter is central for common decency (and is something we should all strive for), the former is just a display of faux morality. One that's designed to offer protection from the mob ever turning on them. It's a protection racket—a form of insurance. You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.

The black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life." T

Suddenly, out of nowhere, rationalizing Islamic terror had become a progressive position. According to progressives, it was another 2-D argument: brown people = good, white people = bad.

It's no coincidence that social justice warriors are frequently out of shape, poorly dressed, and have messy hair, along with their overall disheveled appearance. If some dress for success, they dress for failure.

Trust me, beaut fades, but dumb is forever.

Worse still, they implement all of these things with brute force: violence, censorship, character assassination, smear campaigns, doxing, trolling, deplatforming, and online witch hunts. Tricks that are deliberately designed to leave people down and out. Ideally, jobless and without the resources to push back.

So yes, saying "I don't know" is a good thing. Bullshitting your way through life is not dignified and over time it can never really work. Eventually people see through it and then are very likely to second-guess everything else you say going forward.

Free-thinking is the new counterculture, which makes it cutting-edge and subversive, like punk rock or hip-hop in the early 1980s.

Segregating Americans into identity groups—the very essence of bigotry—has been fully embraced by modern progressivism, which has absolutely nothing to do with classical liberalism

I'm black—not African American. That's a term I don't like. I was born in America and I've never been to Africa. It's an absurd term. A term that Jesse Jackson crammed down the throats of the media. It's ridiculous.

As he noted in The Daily Signal, children from fatherless homes are likelier to drop out of high school, die by suicide, have behavioral disorders, join gangs, commit crimes, and end up in prison. They are also more likely to live in poverty-stricken households. Conversely, nuclear families—whether black or white—are richer in all ways.

Behind every screen on your phone, there are literally a thousand engineers that have worked on this thing to try to make it maximally addicting

literally designed to keep us trapped in a constant state of conflict, suspense, and panic: social technology.

According to Aza Raskin, the smartphone's infinite scroll feature (which allows us to swipe down continuously without clicking) was deliberately built to be habit-forming. He should know. He's the engineer who created it.

To them, he was just an inconvenient black dude who needed to be taken out.

In fact, they're total hypocrites when it comes to opposing American exceptionalism (or whatever you want to call the belief that living here is the ultimate privilege).

For her, it's profoundly absurd that people—specifically, fellow Americans . . . many of them educated, middle-class millennials who've never experienced anything like real hardship—can hate a country that frequently does so much good, both domestically and internationally.