Daily Wire host: “The African continent is a rape culture”
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From the December 3, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show
MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): I remember I was in school and I was having a debate with a very, very liberal friend of mine — very feminist, very liberal, probably wouldn't call me a friend anymore. But we're having this debate and, at the time, there was this this conversation about how there was a rape culture on campuses. You might remember. This is 10, 15 years ago. There's a rape culture on campuses. People were trying to argue that, you know, Harvard Yard was more dangerous for women than Botswana or something. So it's a rape culture. And it was just because the liberals and the feminists didn't want to admit that hookup culture and promiscuous sex was bad, so they had to find a way to make it a crime or rape, but it was never tried in court. It was always tried by these kangaroo courts of professors, and it was this real jumbled knot that they twisted themselves in because they were hoisted on the petard of the sexual revolution. In any case, they said that there's a rape culture here. But at the same time, they would say, we can't judge any other culture. They'd say look, there's cultural relativism. No culture is better than any other culture. All cultures are different. We need to respect all cultures.
And so the obvious follow-up was, well, if we have to respect all cultures, don't we have to respect rape culture? How dare you, the feminists, you know, clutch their pearls. But it's a — it's not just a provocative question, it's quite pertinent because Somalia is a rape culture. Africa, the African continent is a rape culture. They rape people there a lot, in the Middle East, in the subcontinent. They that's what they do. And so we don't like that, right? We have a different culture. Well, that means that when we — if we take in immigrants, we need to exclude or severely restrict the people that we come from cultures that are discordant, that don't match up.