Daily Wire host: “Homophobia, what does that mean? Viewing aberrant sexual acts with moral opprobrium? What's wrong with that?”
Michael Knowles: “Stop thinking about transphobia. ... That's not the sort of thing that anyone should be punished for.”
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From the April 1, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show
MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): What is supposed to be surprising? That a kid was kicked out of school? Kids get kicked out of school. Kids are suspended and expelled from schools. So that shouldn't be surprising.
What is surprising is that it was for transphobia or homophobia or whatever. But that shouldn't be surprising either because according to the morality constructed and enforced by the left, the new official morality — which is rather immoral, it's untethered from the actual objective moral order, but it's still a kind of a morality that is enforced — then some of the worst sins in the world are homophobia and transphobia.
You know, it wouldn't be surprising if a kid got kicked out of the second grade for stealing or at least suspended. Wouldn't be surprising if a kid got kicked out of kindergarten or at least suspended for lying to his teacher or to other students. Wouldn't be surprising if a kid got expelled for becoming really violent with some other student, even down to the nursery school age — biting a student or, I don't know, bringing a weapon to the school or something. That wouldn't be surprising.
So in a traditional society, in a normal society, those are the kinds of things you'd be punished for — stealing, lying, committing violence. But in our ridiculous modern liberal society, those actual sins are replaced by fake sins like homophobia and transphobia. So, yeah, this should be totally expected. Kind of like the two-tier system of justice in the UK. If you insist upon diversity and equity and inclusion and artificially boosting certain groups and artificially — well, even if you just engage the former, you're going to necessarily have to suppress, artificially, other groups. Same thing here. No surprise at all.
So if you don't like that, then you gotta — it can't just be, you know, oh, well, this is crazy. Kids shouldn't have to deal with this until they reach the fifth grade. No. Then just — the reason it's wrong is because transphobia is a ridiculous concept because transgenderism is a ridiculous concept because it's a false anthropology.
So just forget about it. Stop thinking about transphobia. It's not a — that's not the sort of thing that anyone should be punished for.
Homophobia, what does that mean? Viewing aberrant sexual acts with moral opprobrium? What's wrong with that? Not saying you should be cruel to people or anything, but to have that view, what's wrong with that? Nothing.
But that means you need to reset the moral order. That means, in other words, a change in regime, a restoration to a more sane kind of sovereign, and the people who are actually in power are not gonna give that up so quickly.