The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
Fri, 14 Feb 2025
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Chapter 1: What are the shocking tapes about the Department of Education?
Well, folks, President Trump has put enormous effort into killing the Department of Education, which has been a longtime Republican goal as long as I've been alive. That's been something Republicans have wanted to do. And today we're going to break news on the show with our friend Chris Ruffo tapes of what you have been funding via the DOE. And it is shocking.
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Education should be done at the local and state level. Parents should be in charge of the education of their children, whether you're in private school or public school. The reality is the more local the education, the more reflects the needs, desires and wants of the parents, who, of course, are the ones most aligned with the interests of their children instead.
we in the United States have increasingly devolved authority to the federal government. And the federal government, virtually all of its agencies have been hijacked, as we've now been learning, by a left-wing bureaucratic mess designed as a permanent pipeline of cash to the friends of the Democrats. And this is particularly true of the Department of Education.
In fiscal year 2024, the Department of Education spent $268 billion. That is a lot of money. And since 1980, the DOE spending has increased 372%, which is almost double the increase of the size of the rest of the federal government. So the DOE has been growing by leaps and bounds.
Now, most of that goes to subsidize precisely the sort of indoctrination centers that have been churning out radicals in extraordinary numbers, corrupting our body politic for decades. If you don't like the Hamas tentafadas on campus last year,
You can blame the fact that we as a society have decided it is deeply imperative that we send all of our teenagers to institutions of higher education that indoctrinate them in trash. You can blame that on the fact that our lower education institutions, secondary education, high school, primary education has been indoctrinating kids in left-wing values for literally as long as I have been alive.
When it comes to higher education, last year, the Department of Education spent $165 billion on higher education. That's nearly half the total spend of the entire department. That's money that went to colleges and universities to prop up the great scam that is, again, higher education. Those are grants to students to go major in lesbian dance theory. You're wondering how they got that money?
The answer is you got to pay for it. Just $40 billion went directly to elementary and secondary education. So even if you wanted the money going to the small kids, it's not actually going to the small kids. Predominantly, It is going to the very large overgrown children who are 19 and 20 years old majoring in nonsense.
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Chapter 2: How does the Department of Education's spending affect American education?
And by not talking about it and avoiding talking about that, we're actually making that worse and making it easier for people to be stigmatized who need support. So we wanna make sure that that's something as educators that we're aware of so that we're able to support our communities.
Now, this is just evil. I mean, the actual slide talks about how important it is for young people to be supported, and presumably we're talking about here minors, young people to be supported in legitimizing sex work so that they are not stigmatized if they are young, transgender, LGBTQ, and are making a living from being actual prostitutes. Am I missing something here?
No, it sounds absurd, but you're not missing anything. That is exactly what they're saying. They're saying that actually decriminalizing and destigmatizing sex work for black transgender children is the new noble calling. And look, that's certainly opinion that you can have protected by the First Amendment. I disagree. I'm sure that you disagree.
But the important thing here is that this is being subsidized by federal taxpayers. So every taxi driver, line cook and electrician around the country that's working hard to feed their family is actually chipping in for this idea that we should destigmatize sex work for children. It is so outrageous that it's almost hard to believe it's true.
I mean, that is pedophilia. And certainly the word grooming would not be an opposite with regard to this. That is insane. But just in case you thought that we were done, we're not. Here's another clip of some of these pseudo educators explaining that we need to really fight adultism.
Apparently adultism is the idea that adults have the ability to make adult decisions while children are in fact children. Apparently this is a bad and a form of discrimination as well.
As service providers and as educators, we want to make sure that we are not reinforcing systems of adultism. For LGBT young people, adultism is uniquely important because a huge part of where adultism meets homophobia and transphobia is the notion that as a young LGBT person, you are not in charge of yourself. You are not in charge of your body. You're not in charge of your medical care.
And by denying or trying to control LGBT young people's ability to express themselves as who they truly are, this often leads to things like people running away from home, as we've discussed and shared with you about our personal lives. This often leads to homelessness. This often leads to and creates a lot of the systems that we all here, I would imagine, are trying to prevent.
Say, for example, an LGBT child comes out to their parent and their parent is cishet and their parents like, oh, you know, well, you know, it could just be a phase you might grow out of it. Right. That's something that is commonly heard by LGBT young people. That is not just homophobic and transphobic.
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