Jonathan Leeman Said What?!? -(9 Marks)

A Lord’s Day Update and the Plan for Today

Can't believe it. All right, let's get started today. Hope you had a good Lord's Day yesterday. I definitely did my pastor preached a great sermon. I'll link it in the the description of this video and on gab.

Really good stuff. So a wonderful time to be with the people of God and and just worship God. And it's just amazing thing amazing thing when you think about how many people were worshiping the Lord Yesterday in spirit and truth.

What a what a fantastic thing to think about. We're not alone not by a long shot. But even if we were alone We still wouldn't be because God is for us. God is for his people. That's something that we need to remember all the time, but there's a lot to talk about but I wanted to get right to this.

Jonathan Leeman’s Article on Deconstruction and Evangelicalism

This is an article by Jonathan Lehman. That is pretty decent in my opinion now. Don't think I'm getting soft. I'm definitely not getting soft. In fact, I spent yesterday. I was you know outside, you know, kind of just no enjoying life and Smoking a cigar and I was listening to some of my old content about Jonathan Lehman there's some really good stuff back there and I was asking myself was I too hard on Jonathan Lehman and my Conclusion is definitely not it was definitely not too hard on Jonathan Lehman.

And you know out of all the people in Big Eva, I may have done the most content on Jonathan Lehman. Which is interesting because he's not in my opinion like one of the lead guys like one of the main main guys.

He's definitely a soldier probably a probably a capo if he was in the mafia He'd be a capo, but he's definitely, you know boots on the ground kind of guy. So interesting that I've done a lot of content about him.

I don't know I mean, I kind of like Jonathan Lehman. I kind of have a lot of hope for him in fact the last video that I did I was saying he could be such a great ally and After reading this article, I think that he really could be this is a good Illustration of why that is now this article is not perfect.

And I don't mean like I agree with everything like that kind of perfection. Obviously, it's gonna be very rare to find an article that's perfect in that regard but what I do mean though is that there's some either naivete or Subversive stuff in here now naivete if you're assuming that Jonathan Lehman's got his heart in the right place.

Subversive if you think he does not but either way the result is the same it actually there's let me start with some of the Criticisms he's way too soft on post-modernism. I think that that's very clear.

In fact a lot of people when I said that I like this article Responded in that way and I totally agree with that way too soft on post-modernism gives it way too much credit. And I actually think that in along in the in the process He actually betrays that he doesn't really understand post-modernism as well as he thinks he does.

Still there's a lot to praise in this article and I'm gonna you know, we're not gonna read the whole thing. It's actually pretty long and thorough. So I'm not gonna read the whole thing. But I do want to call out a few of the points here because this is praiseworthy stuff in my opinion.

We need to see more of this. This is a humongous step in the right direction. And I kind of felt better about myself when I saw that woke preacher clips also thought that there are some good stuff in this article.

So let me just start off with you know, the first thing as I'm as you read the article. This is about defending sound doctrine against the Deconstruction of American evangelicalism. There's an entire movement afoot that is seeking to deconstruct evangelical theology biblical theology and He explains it pretty decently here.

What is the deconstruction project? He says Jonathan Lehman says this the basic charge of the deconstruction project. Is that evangelical doctrine or what we might even call Christian doctrine is more culturally conditioned and self-interested Than we realize.

One advocate of this project liberal ethicist David Gushy observes and then he quote tweets David Gushy talking about how yeah, you know, it's really no official Bible interpretation you know the interpretations are always gonna be culturally conditioned and all that kind of stuff and He's a liberal obviously and then he also quote tweets here Dante Stewart.

Now this is important because listen to what he pulls out of these tweets. This is this is such this is such a good Observation. It's nothing new if you watch this channel. But that Jonathan Lehman is saying this while quote tweeting specific people including Dante Stewart.

Who was a rising woke star in evangelicalism? That's a big step in the right direction listen to what Jonathan Lehman says here this is key. He says the indictment here is universal as if to say everyone is culturally embedded and self-interested in their exegesis and theologizing yet.

Really the project's indictment focuses on white evangelicals. White evangelicals center their Doctrine and treat it as the norm or standard of Christian orthodoxy. So you see he this is critical guys.

He says that often what you'll hear from these people is that we all do this. We're all kind of centering our culture and stuff like that. But when you read them a little bit, you know that their target their primary audience is white people.

This is at the heart of it. This is an anti white Movement. White theology is the problem white exegesis is what needs to be destroyed. It's not black exegesis or Latino exegesis or whatever. It's white exegesis.

This is a tremendous insight and I'm glad that Jonathan Lehman knows it. But the problem that Jonathan Lehman is gonna have now is we're gonna hold him to this now because now we know. He's actually not naive Jonathan.

I want to encourage you. I hope you watch this video, too. I don't know if you watch my last one yet. I know you probably will at some point but I hope you watch this one too because I want to encourage you.

You see you've kind of revealed your hand now, you know that this is partially at this partiality all over this. The the they're treating white people differently and now you're gonna need to act as if that's true because now you can no longer Claim ignorance.

This is a big deal guys. I I have to say this is a big deal. He goes on to explain a little bit more about you know. This whole idea of you know, the being against white theology and what being very suspicious of white Exegesis as opposed to black exegesis and stuff like that.

If it's a white person exiting you have to wonder how much they're centering whiteness. It's it's racist guys. It's completely racist. I know some people who watch this channel don't like me using that term if you don't like it fine.

It's anti white. I mean, it's racist, but it's also anti white. We get that but let's let's just move on. I don't want this video to be too long. Listen this next paragraph. This is another insight that I think is key.

He says this Jonathan Lehman. It's worth noticing that none of these books emerged from the biblical studies departments like the egalitarian critiques of complimentarism did in the 1980s. So he's talking about different books and he actually name-drops, you know color of compromise among a few others.

Which is very again, this is no small thing. He's no small thing that he's saying that color of compromise is one of these kinds of books. That's a huge. Listen, you got to give credit where credit is due guys.

This is not strong enough in my opinion. We need more. We need it to be more aggressive. But listen, you got a crawl before you can walk, right? You got a crawl before you can walk and I think Jonathan Lehman is crawling out of the pit here.

Let's just hope so. Anyway, let's continue. He says that these don't come from biblical studies apartment. He says the deconstruction project does not begin as a conversation about the Bible rather the above books represent the works of historians.

Sociologists and theologians. The books may or may not offer a few claims about biblical texts. But the primary burden is historical or sociological. It's less. Here's what first Timothy means and more.

Complimentarians have interpreted first Timothy to preserve the patriarchy. This is key guys because so many of us and he talks about this exasperation. We're saying like yeah but the Bible doesn't say that and we're like where's your if you're gonna come to me and say I'm doing white theology then where's Your biblical argument and there's never biblical arguments coming because they know they can't win there.

They can't and so what they do is say well, you're just centering whiteness. They say stupid nonsense like that and all the history of of white people is awful. So therefore you're wrong it's like and and to us, you know people who have Dedicated our lives to understanding who Christ is and what he's like through his word.

It's like what what are you talking about? Like Christ has said this what does my whiteness have to do with that? Tell me where I'm wrong biblically. You'll never ever get even an attempt because that's not what they're going for.

They're going for something completely different and this is a tremendous insight from Jonathan Lehman. He he he quote tweets Andrew T Walker Walker here, which I think is very milquetoast. You know, this guy is not someone that I would trust and again, I'm not by the way guys I want you to say I'm not saying that I trust Jonathan Lehman right now.

I hope this is him crawling out of the pit. It could very well be completely subversive. I I don't know but this is I'm encouraged by this I'm encouraged by this and I'll explain more about that in a second.

He quote teeth Andrew T Walker here. This is actually a pretty good quote tweet. It says this it is astonishing to me the incredulity of scholars who are unable or unwilling to understand that even though Individuals might hold a good-faith conviction due to honest biblical interpretation and not some ulterior motive to protect one's power or privilege.

If a theological position is wrong demonstrate the error Exegetically and not why it must be wrong because of the critics pre commitment to their own sociological constraints or dare I say worldview who knew that post-modernism would be this predictable and boring.

Well, it's not boring because this is the air we breathe now and quite frankly If we had even an ounce of this kind of pushback in the beginning, we wouldn't be in this position but you guys let this run roughshod over us for Years and oftentimes you guys pig piled on us saying we're racist and this and now we're evil.

You're a meanie and stuff like that. And now you because you dog piled on us now they're emboldened and now you can't let this you can't put this genie back in The bottle now, this is hard work now. So we need more of this guy's but but the point is that I don't want to this to be too critical.

That's a very good point. Andrew T Walker's right. It's completely ridiculous. What the way that they operate you have biblical arguments and they disregard them because of your skin color. It's partial.

It's evil. It's wicked. It's demonic. It's all of those things. We get it and listen to this. This is where I think again. This is Jonathan Lehman. This is praiseworthy. This is something that you guys don't typically do and we need to see more of guys.

I want to read this to you and I want you to understand how how important this is. This is this is a big deal in my opinion. Listen to what he says Lehman. He says Walker and Burke's reaction brings us to the nub of the issue.

I'm interested in here. One side wants to have a conversation about the Bible while the other side Effectively dis allows it. Walker says he's merely interested in honest biblical interpretation without some ulterior motive but Beth Allison Barr quickly responds in an article to Walker's tweet and Confidently asserts that there is motive.

All right. He's just furthering his Complementarianism which in her mind translates to maintaining power. He wants exegesis. She wants to exegete the exegete if he tries to defend his position. The project is programmed like a computer to reply that his defense proves the original indictment.

He's protecting his power. History proves it sociological studies prove it the patterns proved it lived experiences prove it guys. This is nothing new if you watch this channel because we've been talking about this for years at this point.

We've been talking about how we want to have a conversation about the Bible and you just want to emote at us. You just want to emote you want us to empathize with your nonsense. You want us to affirm your stupidity and that's what you want us to do.

And we're not going to do it because we love Christ more than we love you. We love Christ more than we love the BD on yub. We lay we love Christ more than we love. You know who put anyone else in there and and that's true.

So we're not going to give up the truth for your truth. You see what I'm saying? Like we've been talking about this for years and Jonathan Lehman is a hundred percent, right? This is a big deal because this guy is in the guild and here's why it's even more important.

Let's continue this because. Let me just read it and let me tell you why I think this is so key. He says this the same scenario played out to a tee with my friend Kevin DeYoung and his review of Duke Quan.

Also a friend and Gregory Thompson's book reparations. DeYoung said he found the book problematic theologically. Quan and Thompson replied that his so-called theological disagreements involved him in the political work of white supremacy.

Even if it was unwitting. This is another example both of the deconstruction project and how our broader church friend groups have been pushing in very different directions for several years this is huge guys because Jonathan Lehman is naming names and not only is he naming names.

But he's putting people on the same spectrum. He's saying that this psychopath Dante Stewart up here. This guy's a he hates white people so much. He's a lunatic this guy. Putting him on the same perspective the same wavelength as Duke Quan who he considers a friend.

Duke Quan also hates white people. Maybe not as aggressively as Dante Stewart. Maybe not as openly as Dante Stewart but he also hates white people and he's on the same spectrum in this Jonathan Lehman article of the Deconstruction project as the most crazy progressive liberal they're on the same spectrum and that's exactly right.

They are on the same spectrum. I think it's only a matter of time before Duke Quan is as crazy as Dante Stewart or that mushroom guy who took mushrooms and You know discovered God or something like that.

Like this is huge. This is huge this doesn't happen in Big Eva very often and this ought to be supported because the reality is that if you guys Jonathan if you Guys had been doing this from the beginning with this cut this level of pushback from the beginning.

There would be no need for the 80 Robles YouTube channel. There'd be no need for it but the problem is that you allowed this to go on under your noses and you Regularly dogpiled with these idiots on top of people like me and other others.

You know Tom Askew all these guys and now it's out of control now. It's completely out of control and now there needs to be a bunch of Nehemiah's out there cracking skulls and pulling out hair. You know what I'm saying?

And look we need Ezra's too. I'm not going listen if you want to be an Ezra in this fight, brother I'm all about that and I'll support you. We need people studying and talking in these ways and we need that right?

But the reality is that because of your guys's failure and Lehman I'm not trying to insult you but you guys failed for a very long time. Now we need Nehemiah's out there cracking skulls. Metaphorically speaking.

It's just that simple. It's just that simple. So good stuff. I can't I couldn't believe it when he said Duke Quan was on this spectrum. He did the same thing where he doesn't want to talk about the Bible.

He wants to talk about your whiteness because he's a freaking racist. We get that I couldn't believe when I saw Jonathan Lehman name name drop Duke Quan and the thing is guys like but this is the thing Jonathan look you need to work this out in your head, right?

Because Let's just switch the races for a second here. Duke Quan is a friend and he hates white people. He treats them differently than he treats other people and negatively in a bad way. Let's just switch the races around here.

If you had a friend Duke Quan who was saying the same kind of stuff about blacks, right? Oh, that's just your blackness talking your black exegesis. You don't understand. Yeah, you just you just think that black people are better than everybody.

Would he be your friend? Would he be your friend if someone ripped black people the way Duke Quan with rips white people? I think you need to search your heart there because I Think that you know full well that he would not if someone was ripping black people for their blackness and how the blackness is Just affecting them negatively and stuff like that.

I don't think they would be your friend anymore. So the reality is why is Duke why are you why do you consider Duke Quan a friend? This is what he's doing to white people at this point. He's a he's an evil divisive person in the church trying to divide it up like a pizza.

Showing partiality against whites. We need to we need to come to terms with that and then and then look inside and say well There must be some partiality in my heart too because Jonathan I think there is if you switch the races around a little bit here.

There's no way you'd consider Duke Quan a friend and yet you do because there is is it's acceptable to hate on white people. It's acceptable in your heart Jonathan. You need to search that out because that's a big problem.

There's so much anti white hatred. I haven't commented on the Rittenhouse thing very much. I mean probably in the beginning I said obviously it's self-defense because it obviously was. I mean he shouldn't have been tried at all.

I haven't commented on this but somebody at church said yesterday. Asked me he said what's the deal? Why are people saying? This is racist, right? Well, why are people saying this was a racist shooting and and you know, I told him I was like Well, if you're looking for a good reason, I mean, I don't have anything for you.

I mean, I don't have a good reason. But the truth is that it doesn't matter of the facts of the case. What matters is that white people are just so degraded in our culture right now. It is it is it is it is part of being a good citizen to hate on white people and the reality is that this Was a racist shooting because Kyle was white.

It had nothing to do with who he shot and have nothing to do with why he shot had nothing to do with his beliefs. It's just because he's white. That's why it was racist. So you could do anything you want to him because he's white.

Our culture is fundamentally and systemically at this point. Imagine that ironic. Systemically against white people guys. It is so creepy all the Black Friday commercials that are coming your way, you know.

You know newspaper catalogs internet like it is creepy how few white people appear in these advertisements because our Country is still majority white and they have you looked at our advertising and our media.

It's like they'd be like 10 white. It's creepy guys. I don't know about you, but I find it extremely creepy that every time I see a commercial it's always not a white person. Creepy. Anyway, let's continue because there's still some more praiseworthy stuff in this article.

Why Leeman’s Framing of Deconstruction Is Still Worth Praising

Oh. And and all that to say the reason why Jonathan you need to search your heart because the air we breathe right now is Partial against white people and I think that this the way you've written this article kind of betrays there's some partiality in your own.

Are you bought into some of this stuff and The reality is that you need to you need to search that out and and and take those thoughts captive. And essentially you need you need you need you need to repent of some of your own partiality.

It's just that simple now now the next praiseworthy thing comes in the very next Section here because this is guys again. It's not all good. This article is not all good. So you're gonna read some of this stuff, especially when he gets to his his suggestions like how pastors should respond.

That's the next section. We're not gonna go into too much of that because there's a lot of there's a lot of squish there. And so I don't really think that that section is very good. But listen to this.

I want you. This is praiseworthy guys. This is praiseworthy. Listen to what he says here. Jonathan Lehman says my goal in this piece is not to offer specific responses to the books listed above. Much less all their arguments further.

I'm not going to sort through the theological differences among members or sympathizers with the deconstruction project some like gushy in his after evangelicals. And book dismissed the doctrine of biblical inerrancy and claimed that only parts of the Bible are inspired namely the parts that prove useful.

Others now listen to this guys. Listen to this. This is so important. He says some are complete pagans. They deny inerrancy fine. Others for the may for the time being Embrace inerrancy and a more conservative theology.

Though I believe these folks may soon discover they're sitting on the very branch that the project is trying to saw through. Guys, this is no small thing. Look Jonathan Lehman's pen is not barbed. And we just can't we can't hold him to the standard that we would hold somebody else to like like if I was a big Author clearly my pen would be quite barbed.

We get that It would be very aggressive and all of that and there's authors out there that have very barbed pens and we get that we love Them but the thing is the body of Christ needs all types. Jonathan Lehman's pen is not barbed however in a very graceful winsome kind of way.

This is savage Jonathan there's a little savage inside you man, and this is proof of it. Listen to what he said. He said some of them are total pagans. They don't believe the Bible. Others and I think he's probably talking about Quan.

He's probably talking about some of these guys that he's they are on are on this spectrum. He says others for the time being may embrace inerrancy. So he says some are total pagans others for the time being might not be total pagans.

But that pretty soon they're gonna have to make a decision. It's gonna have to be Christ in his word or these idiots out here and and that listen. This is savage when you're winsome. This is savage when you're winsome.

He's saying that he believes and I agree with him that a lot of these people that are still conservative and still orthodox right now Before long are gonna totally abandon this they're on the road that leads to destruction and it's just that simple and they need to either turn repent and get off that road or Continue down that road and end up in the lake of fire where all the liars end up.

See, that's a more barbed way of saying it. But the reality is that he's saying it and in in Jonathan Lehman according to his standard. This is savage and I I think this is praiseworthy and I want to come to his defense here guys I saw woke preacher clips say that some of the the the freaks out there the Like the demon-possessed critical race theorists, not the not the nice ones that are that are kindly but the demon-possessed ones.

That there were dogpiling up on Lehman for this article and I understand why because they read it the way I read it. Is that this is an attack and this is this is as aggressive as he's gonna get. There's a little savage in Jonathan Lehman.

This is as bad as much as it's gonna get right, but man I got your back bro, because this is good stuff. I got your back here. It's just that simple anyway, let's continue as I said, I don't want to comment too much on the advice because I think the advice is kind of lame in my opinion.

Sorry, Jonathan. I just think it is I think you give way too much credence to some of these demonic doctrines. Like I I don't think we should play footsies with the doctrines of demons, right? So but you're just coming out of this I get that you're you're starting to see clearly.

So I'm not gonna hold you to my standard. I think some of the advice section is kind of lame, but Let me let me let me rephrase that Jonathan. Let me rephrase that. I think that your advice section would have been good.

Like five or six years ago, you know. It would have actually been good if people were following this advice like five or six years ago. But the problem is that the genie is out of the lamp, right? The egg is scrambled.

You cannot scramble it. Now we need to crack some skulls. Now. We need to freaking Excommunicate people now we need the wolves to be shot essentially metaphorically speaking because I don't believe in violence.

But the reality is like like this this advice would have been good before it's not gonna work now. I think it's super naive and I think at worst it could be subversive. But I listen. Love believes all things brother and I want to believe all things so good advice for like a decade ago.

But today we need to crack some skulls metaphorically speaking, but let me just talk about a couple things here. Here's what he says. The first one is this he says if you're a pastor. Perhaps you've had an experience like the following a group of members in your church ask you for a meeting in which they want to Discuss ways that they feel hurt by the elders or another group in the church as you sit and listen two things become clear first.

Those speaking collectively you sense the members come from different places. Some people have been genuinely hurt and you sympathize some are overblowing their hurt and you lightly sympathize but not like you want to that they want you to and some are wolves that take wicked delight in Posturing as protectors of their hurt and in attacking you.

Though you keep in mind that wolves never think they're wolves but often feel a profound self of righteousness in their cause. So this is actually pretty good. He's saying, you know when when when somebody comes to you is the hurt real or is it?

Subversive, you know post-modernism evil speaking because here's the reality though. So this would have been good advice like six years ago. But the truth is now the lines are so blurred that you you kind of have to treat them the same and let me tell You what I mean by that.

Here's an article. That's still on nine marks to this day. In fact, I did a video about this article back when I was way less hardcore. So if you want to see winsome ad talk to an article, I'm gonna talk about an article.

I'm gonna post this this was in 2017. I'd responded this article. It's still a good video. I think it still holds up. But this is winsome ad and it's about how white churches are tough for black people.

Whatever one of the things that is said here is this black sisters are seen as second-class. It just says that it's a tremendous statement that better have some pretty good evidence for it. Here's what the evidence is perhaps.

No one is passed over more than black sisters in white churches. They're rarely asked out on dates if ever brothers have told them I'm just not attracted to black women and as a result they felt ugly.

Now here's the thing if the black sisters come to you and say hey I feel hurt because white people don't ask me out on dates, right? Is the hurt real or is it post-modernism speaking? Because here's the thing like that's that's what he's saying.

You got to discern the difference and you know, you treat them differently. Okay, let's just let's just take this a couple steps at a time here. Is it is it possible that black women are really hurt by the fact that their white brothers come out on date?

Yes, I think that's that's a fact that potentially it could be hurt by that. But if the white if the black women come to you and say see they're racist and this and that like that's also post-modernism speaking because the reality is that just because somebody doesn't want to go on a date with you does not mean that they're a Racist or white supremacist and so you need to handle that.

Maybe you handle it with a with a woman coming to you or a group coming to you. But with this complaint you handle it in a certain way. But you do need to disavow them of the notion that just because someone doesn't want to date you means that you're ugly because there's a Theological problem there and you can't just say okay well now I'm gonna go bash white people because they don't like the black girls at my church like.

You have yes. You need to have discernment but the reality is that you need to nip the false teaching in the bud because the false teaching there is that if as a Black woman my value is determined by whether or not white guys want to date me if that's what they're thinking.

Then you need to correct that theology at the same time. Recognizing that there's some real hurt there and you want to be maybe gentle with them, whatever. But but but there's a theological problem and there's some post-modernism in there as well.

And so the reality is like there could be real hurt. But there is also post-modernism speaking and you you can't you can't ignore The post-modernism and the false teaching just because someone's actually hurt, you know.

It's that you you can't and this is what happens every time. There's another shooting out there and you know black people get online a black black theologians get online and say oh. The pain it's like, okay, I believe you that you really feel hurt.

But the reality is you can't then go and use that hurt as an excuse to blast all white people like David Platt's pastor. David Platt's pastor. Well, I have a hard time. You know, I don't wanna I don't have a hard time.

Not trying to blast all white people. It's like a torch. I want to watch all white people like, okay I believe you that for some reason you're hurt when a black man across the country gets hurt or whatever I believe you if your hurt is real, but your teaching is still false and you need to shut your mouth maybe maybe if we need to maybe if we need to set a Cooling off period for you.

You keep your mouth shut for at least a week because we don't need any more emoting of nonsense. We don't need it. We don't need the beady, you know getting all emotional and crazy on on on Twitter for Every time there's another police shooting, right?

We don't need that. So maybe I believe you're hurt for some reason that hurts you. I get it. We don't need your emoting. And so you got you can't hurt is no excuse for false teaching. So that's that's one thing I wanted to say the other part that I thought was kind of lame.

This whole section is kind of lame. There's one in particular. That's actually pretty good, but most of this section is lame, but this part about learn history. He says, you know, it's really good to learn the history, but don't let it don't don't let it control your theology and he talks specifically about tisby's book the color of compromise, which Which he says it's a good good history history book and to me it's like yeah, I don't know about that I don't know about that.

It's not probably not that great of a historic historical narrative. I'm not a historian myself. But you know some of that book is just like, you know, a lot of cherry-picking going on a lot of fake analysis disguises analysis.

But really it's just you know opinion pieces and stuff like that at the very least though. He does say that once he gets out of the history and starts talking about modern times that it's total ideologue.

That's what he says in a very nice winsome way. Lehman says that color of compromise is an ideological book that You know, so so yeah learn history, but a lot of times these historians are actually not really historians.

They just have an agenda. They're revisionist. They're just making stuff up. They're cherry-picking to make the narrative seem a certain way. We all get their their their scam. I wrote about this in my book.

So that part's kind of meh as well, but I do want to I do want to praise one more thing. Because again guys, I want you to to really see that this this this article has a lot of good stuff in it. There's again, there's still some stuff in it.

That is not either naive or subversive. And so don't hear me saying this is a perfect article. It's not a perfect article, but Tremendous step in the right direction for all the reasons I've discussed, but there's also I Think could could this be a nod to old ad.

I don't know. I mean it could be it could be. Yeah, I want to just give him some credit where credit is due. Let me read. Let me read this because I think it's possible. It's possible now Jonathan Lehman did send me my book back.

So he didn't he didn't read it, but maybe he's heard about it. I mean, maybe he's heard things. He's heard things I don't know but listen to this. I want you to hear this because this is such a good insight.

It's probably not a nod to old ad but if it's not it's a it's a still a good insight. He says this he says speaking of critical race theory. Defenders are quick to say it's merely a legal theory indeed.

That's precisely what it is. It's a theory that legalizes all of life in racial terms now. Let me stop right there for a second. That's not the point. I want to make here, but that's actually a tremendous insight.

Because oftentimes we're like we're the way we talk about it's like oh, yeah, it started as a legal theory now. It's just freaking hating white people. But but Lehman says, okay, you want to say it's a legal theory.

I'll lean into that. It is it's a legal theory that legalizes all of life in racial terms. I think that's a tremendous insight. Good job, Jon. I'm gonna steal that one. I'm gonna steal that one. He goes on and says this rules and traditions work and play health and sex cities and nations and empires.

Your heart and mind even older ways of opposing racism all this it judges through the law of radical racialization and oppression where the deconstruction projects gender Conversation critiques authority the postmodern race conversation in a way does the opposite it legalizes.

Everything it creates law critical race theory is Moses on racialized hyperdrive. It is one of the premier phariseesms of today. Offering a God's eye view on our society and culture that places them under permanent Indictment, we're all guilty until proven innocent.