incomprehensible. it is not quite understandable. the other thing is, apart from the fact that it makes no strategic sense unless it was a kind of a deal, we are going to take your refugees, you ll take ours, so, doesn t look as bad domestically, because remember, for an australian prime minister, they don t want to violate this sort of rule that anybody who comes to our shoresm is not going to stay. they are afraid that all of asia, and a lot of people in asia are going to come on boats tomorrow. as a domestic issue they can t allow this. maybe, they calculated, if we take costa ricans off the hands of the u.s. and they take hours, it will look better. but the other thing is, obama should not have done this. that is a land mine he left behind. on the other hand, trump was stuck with a landmine. he had a chance to make. i guess, he got upset and he has a right to get upset at obama and at the australians for a landing him with us. because again, there is no good
again, why is that germane to your mission as expressed in your mission statement? i will give you another example. abortion. last year, on the university of roe vs. wade, you issued a press release saying that the sierra club stands in solidarity with planned parenthood. people feel that way, okay. what does that have to do with the environment? why does legal abortion make the environment better? we believe in empowering women s rights.. we think that women who have rights and the ability to have choice about their reproductive make their own reproductive choices, will help to produce strong families and help to protect the environment at the same time. the sierra club is pro-choice. tucker: but why? i get that you are pro-choice. that s fine. but that doesn t what does it have to do with the environment? how specifically does more p abortion or legal abortion help the environment? helps to address a number of people that we have on this planet. we feel that one of the ways
tucker: welcome the president trump had a pretty testy phone call with australian prime minister malcolm turnbull over the weekend. the american president wrecked a deal made by president obama to accept 1250 refugees from somalia,a, iraq, and i run but australia doesn t want and it to send here. yesterday, the president tweeted this. obamau believe this, the administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from australia. why? i will study this dumb deal! could this be characterized as a blunder? we are dry now by charles krauthammer, author of the great book, things that matter. thanks a lot for being here. funny with australia, people say, pick your battles. i don t think they mean all of them. you can certainly criticize our president on the basis of that. but the core question is an interesting one. why should america take 1250 b refugees from somalia, iran, iraq that australia doesn t
exposing them to things they wouldn t ordinarily see. in other words, it is a kind of ethic of compassion joined to a sense of consciencee that motivates them to do what they are motivated to do. tucker: i support a lot of that. i believe in charity.t what i don t believe in hisup collective guilt. that is why i m confused by the phrase white privilege. white privilege doesn t suggest guilt, suggest responsibility and accountability. the same america that people talk about pulling up by their bootstraps, addressing their situations, their communities, as being responsible for doing what they are doing. i don t believe in collective guilt but i do believe inn collective responsibility. tucker: responsibility and guilt are synonyms andnd the situation. let s be specific. privilege. i am privileged, i wouldn t deny that. i am white. we live near each other, nice neighborhood, you are rich, you went to an ivy league school, unlike me. so, you are way more privilege than most white
first of all, privilege is contingent upon the context in- which it is defined.. individual cases could have an imbalance. people of color could be way more privilege, as you talked about, that the average white person. but remember, during jim crow, jackie robinson was more privileged than white people, but he was still denied access to a water fountain. his kids couldn t go to the same school. i am saying that your argument seems to be rather vulnerable to rebuff because it doesn t mean economic accumulation can prevent you from experiencing what are essentially racial inequalities. the amount of money you have doesn t do that. tucker: in 1955, that is much truer than it is now. even now, and we talk about the disparities in terms of people achievement, he said he was done out of princeton university saying a black person with a college education had less of a chance to get a jobs than a white person who had gony to prison.wi so, even now, not 50 years ago,o right now, the disp