Elie Mystal spoke with the ladies on The View to promote his new book Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America, and it’s worse than you think.

This country was founded on the principle that all men were created equal, and just because white people enacted that does not mean we need to overturn the majority of laws in this country.

This also points to a big problem with progressivism, which is that you can never be progressive enough. So by this double standard, we should just get rid of all laws altogether because the goal post is constantly moving with these people.

According to The New Press:

In Bad Law, the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution reimagines what our legal system, and society at large, could look like if we could move past legislation plagued by racism, misogyny, and corruption. Through accessible yet detailed prose and trenchant wit, Mystal argues that these egregiously awful laws—his “Bill of Wrongs”—continue to cause systematic and individual harm and should be repealed completely.

So I just checked all our founding documents, including the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, and I am having trouble finding this racist law that needs to be repealed. Additionally, it's unclear if he realized that it was white people who fought to end slavery or if he's just ignoring that fact to prove his point; that is extremely lacking.

What makes it even more comical is that he aligns politically with the Democratic party, the same side that fought to keep the Civil Rights Act from passing. So, in reality, it's his party he has a problem with, and the sooner he realizes that, the better off he may be. Nonetheless, I don't have to tell you how dumb it is that he wrote a book dedicated to such a naive and factually incorrect understanding of this country's history and founding but it's not definitely not surprising.

It's unclear if there is any country in human history that did not have some form of a discriminatory or racist past, but if there is, I would bet Mystal certainly could not name it.