Wilfred Reilly is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University and the author of the books Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About, Hate Crime Hoax, and The $50,000,000 Question. His research interests include international relations and the prevention of war, contemporary American race relations, and the use of modern quantitative methods to test “sacred cow” theories such as the existence of widespread white privilege.

In this episode, we chat about Wilfred’s books Taboo: 10 Facts [You Can’t Talk About], Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War, Black Lives Matter, family law, privilege, identity politics, the Will Smith Oscar incident, and much more!

“For the past four generations in the USA, I think many in the upper class have realized that a very useful technique for controlling the anger that used to burn as brightly against the rich here as anywhere else is focusing people onto kind of ancillary bullshit. That would be my sincere answer. 

• Wilfred Reilly on Identity Politics 

Top Takeaways:

• The current “black elite” campaign for the idea that lynching is not an out of fashion practice.
• The majority of people killed in police shootings in the United States are not black.
• Many issues that are seen as inherently “American” are actually global issues, i.e fatherlessness.
• Privilege does exist in society, but it takes many different forms, such as: attractiveness, IQ, social class, sex, etc.

Show Notes: 

• [0:00] Intro
• [0:22] Wilfred’s background 
• [3:00] Charities and their dark sides
• [7:40] Wilfred’s time working as an executive 
• [8:40] Transition to becoming a college professor
• [12:00] The left’s labeling of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Jussie Smolett incidents  as “modern day lynching’s”
• [15:40] Wilfred’s book Taboo
• [17:00] Black Lives Matter, where all the money went, and it’s ties to transgender advocacy organizations
• [22:10] Police shooting and killings
• [24:50] Family Law and Fatherlesness 
• [27:40] Wilfred’s thoughts on the family legal system
• [31:30] Issues seen as “American” that are actually global
• [35:10] Are some of these familial problems fixable?
• [37:05] Child support
• [45:00] Privilege 
• [47:10] America’s obsession with identity politics
• [53:20] Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the majority of our leaders being geriatric 
• [55:40] Will Smith’s Oscar incident
• [59:20] Question: Where does Wilfred find meaning?
• [1:03:35] Question: What is the most meaningful moment of your life?
• [1:04:30] Question: Where do you go to find peace?
• [1:05:30] Question: If you could write your own epitaph, what would you want it to say?
• [1:06:00] Question: If you had one wish, what would it be?
• [1:07:10] Greg wraps up the show
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