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From. i dont know if you noticed but a couple of the girls had huge, gigantic, fake wings. [laughter] to people used to fly? greg: is amazing. there are angels. thats like hot angel land. i guess. three, is cultural appropriation everywhere to check everything we do is taking from some other culture. >> yes because we live in a western civilization and thats the point of western civilization is that we have a long history of appropriating things. in ways that are nice and sometimes in ways that ...

A couple of the girls had huge, gigantic, fake wings. [laughter] to people used to fly? greg: is amazing. there are angels. thats like hot angel land. i guess. three, is cultural appropriation everywhere to check everything we do is taking from some other culture. >> yes because we live in a western civilization and thats the point of western civilization is that we have a long history of appropriating things. in ways that are nice and sometimes in ways that are not nice but the logic that you p...

Quiet night. [laughter] but its an important story. its the exact opposite of something happening at brown university. get this according to the college the school is changing its grad school application to allow students to self identify as persons of colors so to sum this up in a social justice for years world a white girl cant for the headdress of a certain culture but she can totally identify as them. it makes perfect sense. isnt that right, captain verbal? i would identify as the captain an...

Say impacts asian american students. so brown trying to get ahead of the curve to preclude themselves getting lawsuit from the asian american population. that is what we are seeing here. >> martha: asian americans students feel they should check box of person of color because they feel underrepresented at the university and they are getting a backlash. i dont know if they are underrepresented at the university. it seems that asian americans are very well-represented at ivy league universities. i...

>> martha: my question is why do we need the boxes at all at this point? >> that is a good question. >> martha: why do we need boxes? >> well, to be quite honest as a university professor, you do need the boxes. at the end of the day you have to look at people from a holistic manner. what does your application look like? if we take away issues of race, color and creed. >> sean: but -- >> martha: you are not taking them away. if you want to take them away you should have no boxes. >> that is not ...

Tortured and killed. but his own cardinal, said that he had advised the pope not to use the term rohingya because it gets to the crux of the real conflict there, the government refuses to recognize that term, which that community uses to self-identify. a community that has fled en masse more than 600,000 traumatized terrified civilians who fled across the border to neighboring bangladesh since an army crackdown began in late august. the fact of the matter is myanmar was supposed to be a good sto...

Who applies here? >> students of all ages. we are talking kindergarten all the way up. ainsley: that is unbelievable. i mean, if i were in this situation i would want to know if my daughter is going through something at school or if she is trying to decide something, i would want to know that as her parent. for the schools to take that right away, i just think its absurd. what are folks saying there in delaware? most people on board with this? >> you know, we are seeing more outrage about this i...

He rationalize it a little bit, you rationalize a little more. maybe you decide its not that bad anyway. an awful lot of these people have moved from being hostile to trump to very reluctant supporters of trump to bha would say is rationalizeers and enablers of trump at this point. >> but the interesting thing is although as you point out, hes not terribly popular, donald trump, when you look at the latest polls, the morning consult, politico poll that just came out yesterday showed that majorit...

You rationalize a little more. maybe you decide its not that bad anyway. an awful lot of these people have moved from being hostile to trump to very reluctant supporters of trump to bha would say is rationalizeers and enablers of trump at this point. >> but the interesting thing is although as you point out, hes not terribly popular, donald trump, when you look at the latest polls, the morning consult, politico poll that just came out yesterday showed that majorities of americans believe that he...

Theyre bound together by common purpose, mutual trust and selfless devotion to our nation and to each other. >> donald trump on monday saying veterans are all part of one family. today a new report in the wall street journal that hes moving forward demanding the u.s. military break up that family and kick out people who self-identify as transgender. joining me now for a special discussion is eric fanning. hes a former secretary of the army under barack obama. he happens to be the first openly ga...