The Matt Walsh Show - Disney's Woke Agenda Is Worse Than You Think ｜ Proof For Your Liberal Friend

00:00:00.000 As far as Disney is concerned, I'm a white male.

00:00:04.360 That's not who they're looking to promote.

00:00:06.140 They're not considering anyone else for a shop.

00:00:08.200 Disney blatantly discriminates against white men in particular.

00:00:12.480 Eight months ago, Disney CEO Bob Iger publicly pledged to pursue the first option.

00:00:16.960 He declared that Disney would refocus its efforts on entertainment, not political messaging.

00:00:21.100 That was the plan, or at least the plan that was shared with the public.

00:00:24.280 But that's not what has happened.

00:00:25.880 Disney, over the past eight months, has apparently decided to double down on agenda-driven content

00:00:30.400 to the point that they're now openly attacking their own fans.

00:00:33.720 It's a remarkable turn of events, and it's one that's worth discussing

00:00:36.780 because this development is not unique to Disney.

00:00:39.680 And it suggests that wokeness, as we call it, may not be the best way to describe

00:00:44.160 what we're seeing at Disney and other major corporations like it.

00:00:48.460 That's part of what we're seeing, but there's something else going on here as well.

00:00:52.500 It looks a lot like corporate mediocrity run amok.

00:00:55.500 The private sector version of what we see across the public sector bureaucracy.

00:01:00.240 Unimpressive people with impressive-sounding credentials who check the right demographic boxes 1.00

00:01:04.760 are taking the helm of businesses and products that they don't understand.

00:01:08.820 They've insinuated themselves into these companies like a cancer

00:01:12.020 that's evidently impossible to remove.

00:01:14.760 And even when the company CEO publicly tells them one thing, they're free to do another.

00:01:19.900 Now, to get a better idea of what I mean, take a look at this interview from the other day

00:01:23.720 featuring Leslie Hedlund, the creator of the new Disney Star Wars show, The Acolyte.

00:01:29.960 Now, I don't want to prejudice you in any way, so I'll just play the clip with no further introduction.

00:01:35.620 This is the showrunner talking about her new show.

00:01:39.800 Watch.

00:01:40.060 I want to ask you both because this is, I would say, arguably the gayest Star Wars, I think, by a considerable margin. 1.00

00:01:47.700 And are you excited about that?

00:01:50.660 Are you bracing yourself?

00:01:51.800 Not the gayest Star Wars. 1.00

00:01:52.540 Not the gayest Star Wars. 1.00

00:01:54.020 It's pretty gay. 0.99

00:01:54.820 Let's be honest.

00:01:57.220 Leslie, are you...

00:01:58.400 How do you feel?

00:01:58.880 Am I gay?

00:01:59.580 Yes.

00:01:59.720 Well, no, I know you are gay, but I'm asking, are you excited about putting this... 1.00

00:02:02.980 You know, this is going to be a talking point.

00:02:05.400 Is it going to be a talking point?

00:02:06.840 I'm sure some...

00:02:07.460 Because nerds are gay. 0.97

00:02:08.860 Yeah.

00:02:09.280 Well, some nerds are very not gay and are very threatened by gay stuff. 0.70

00:02:12.560 Well, that's true.

00:02:13.240 But in my world, nerds are gay. 0.55

00:02:15.080 Okay.

00:02:17.140 Was this the fun element of...

00:02:18.720 No, I don't think so.

00:02:20.260 And yet, people have told me that it's the gayest Star Wars, and I, frankly...

00:02:24.860 You're fended?

00:02:26.020 Into it.

00:02:26.360 You think it should be...

00:02:26.780 No, I...

00:02:27.260 I think that Star Wars is so gay already. 1.00

00:02:31.380 Okay.

00:02:31.880 I mean, have you seen the fits?

00:02:34.520 We'd be like, look how gay this is, and then send each other a reference photo.

00:02:37.800 And are you telling me, with a straight face, that C-3PO is straight?

00:02:41.340 They're a couple.

00:02:42.420 That's what I think.

00:02:43.880 But this is more outward.

00:02:45.540 I think it's canon that R2-D2 is a lesbian. 0.55

00:02:50.140 So don't worry about the story or the plot or the characters.

00:02:52.700 Who has time for that? 0.99

00:02:53.320 Instead, just listen to these two women. 1.00

00:02:54.740 They're excited that this new Star Wars show will be the gayest Star Wars show yet, which 1.00

00:03:03.560 is, in every way, the exact opposite of what the audience actually wants.

00:03:08.240 Nobody has watched the recent Star Wars films and shows and said to themselves, you know,

00:03:16.840 this would be better if only it was even gayer.

00:03:19.000 No one has thought that, except for, apparently, the people behind this show.

00:03:23.940 Now, the only thing you learn from that interview is that Leslie Hedlund is gay and has no respect 0.94

00:03:27.780 whatsoever for her audience or her own show.

00:03:30.540 This is how Disney is promoting the latest entry to franchise.

00:03:33.520 They spent $4 billion to buy a decade ago.

00:03:36.480 And that has a lot of fans wondering how exactly she was chosen for the role of showrunner.

00:03:40.580 If her role is to push some subversive, woke ideology, she's not being very subversive 0.97

00:03:45.320 about it.

00:03:46.380 She's just angering as many fans as she possibly can. 1.00

00:03:50.000 And that's, you know, all this is.

00:03:51.680 And she's not the only CEO, the only one doing this.

00:03:54.020 The CEO of Lucasfilm, a woman named Kathleen Kennedy, just came out in defense of her showrunner.

00:03:59.200 Kennedy declared that if you're not a fan of how Leslie Hedlund is handling herself,

00:04:04.760 then you probably hate women. 0.93

00:04:06.720 Quote, I think Leslie has struggled a little bit with it. 0.53

00:04:09.620 I think a lot of the women who step into Star Wars struggle with this a bit more. 0.91

00:04:13.940 Because of the fan base being so male-dominated, they sometimes get attacked in ways that can

00:04:17.780 be quite personal.

00:04:18.880 My belief is that storytelling does need to be representative of all people.

00:04:23.260 That's an easy decision for me.

00:04:26.620 Yeah, she really said that.

00:04:27.980 Storytelling does need to be representative of all people, says the CEO of Lucasfilm as she

00:04:34.040 mocks her own fan base.

00:04:35.160 These people are so dumb, they don't even understand the words coming out of their own

00:04:39.840 mouth.

00:04:40.140 Is representative of all people?

00:04:41.960 Really?

00:04:42.980 Are they going to have 8 billion characters in this show?

00:04:45.640 One for each person on earth?

00:04:48.100 How exactly does that work?

00:04:50.620 Is storytelling supposed to be representative of all people, whatever that means?

00:04:54.180 Or is it supposed to be representative of the creative, distinct, creative vision of

00:04:58.140 the storyteller?

00:04:58.960 I was going to show some more clips of these women, but it's honestly too painful to subject 0.98

00:05:03.900 you to.

00:05:04.220 These are people who can't even communicate without descending into Valley Girl nonsense.

00:05:07.820 And they're putting together shows that they expect millions of people to watch.

00:05:11.780 Kathleen Kennedy was lucky enough to work with Steven Spielberg, and Leslie Hedlund worked

00:05:15.860 on rom-coms with titles like Sleeping With Other People.

00:05:18.520 So those are their credentials, and they're considered impressive in the industry, I guess.

00:05:23.100 So they get to continue butchering Star Wars.

00:05:24.900 By the way, The Acolyte was released this week.

00:05:26.980 I think it was released yesterday.

00:05:28.200 And as has become a new tradition for Star Wars films and shows, it has a very high critic

00:05:34.760 score of Rotten Tomatoes, like 88%, but a failing grade of 45% from the audience.

00:05:40.740 That is the dynamic we always see now with these things.

00:05:44.480 Joel Berry, who apparently subjected himself to at least some of the show, offered this

00:05:48.660 review, quote,

00:05:49.880 The Acolyte is a queer Marxist vandalization of the myth of Star Wars. 0.97

00:05:53.580 In The Acolyte, the force is a metaphor for cultural hegemonic power.

00:05:57.120 The Jedi are a metaphor for cisgender white oppressors who hoard the power for themselves. 0.89

00:06:02.240 Yes, it really is that obnoxious and stupid.

00:06:05.440 The account Wall Street Silver offered this viewer warning, quote,

00:06:09.120 The Acolyte, Star Wars' new series streaming, is very woke.

00:06:12.220 Number one, main character has two mothers. 1.00

00:06:14.200 Number two, main Jedi characters are all black and Asian, no white men.

00:06:18.260 And number three, only speaking role for white men in first episode is prisoners on a prison

00:06:22.420 ship.

00:06:24.480 So Disney has decided to right the ship by ramming it directly into another iceberg.

00:06:30.060 That's not to pick on The Acolyte too much, although it obviously deserves it. 1.00

00:06:34.200 Because of the fact that Disney is now pumping out Star Wars shows on an assembly line,

00:06:37.520 there's another one that I can mock as well.

00:06:39.400 It's called Tales of the Empire.

00:06:41.320 This one is apparently geared towards kids, and I guess it features a non-binary Jedi based 1.00

00:06:45.860 on how all the characters use they, them pronouns to refer to this corpse.

00:06:50.520 Watch this.

00:06:51.100 I think we've played this once before, but here it is again.

00:06:54.840 If you can get through it, here it is.

00:06:56.280 Watch.

00:06:56.460 They're still alive.

00:07:04.740 We need to get them to the ship.

00:07:06.740 We can save them.

00:07:07.940 Forget it.

00:07:09.020 Let them die.

00:07:10.580 It's not worth the trouble.

00:07:16.360 They were about to surrender.

00:07:18.540 Irrelevant.

00:07:19.060 The Jedi are a threat to be eradicated wherever they are found. 0.98

00:07:26.100 Oh yeah, we did play that before because I remember now.

00:07:28.580 That's the one where the bad guy, I guess it's a bad guy, kills someone,

00:07:35.140 but then still respects that person's pronouns after having murdered them.

00:07:41.000 So that's nice at least.

00:07:42.760 This is the result of Disney's big plan to focus on entertainment and not messaging.

00:07:48.300 We have non-binary Jedis and girl bosses making sure we have the gayest Star Wars ever. 1.00

00:07:54.500 And that's not all.

00:07:55.560 As Bloomberg recently reported, Disney is now banking on the upcoming film Inside Out 2

00:07:59.680 as the, quote, key to restoring the magic.

00:08:01.780 They think that this film, a sequel to a movie from 2015, is going to be a smash hit

00:08:05.600 to the point that they're going to give it a 100-day run in theaters.

00:08:09.080 As Bloomberg reports, quote,

00:08:10.340 If families show up for Inside Out 2 in the kinds of numbers Pixar used to see,

00:08:14.380 it will reaffirm the studio's standing.

00:08:17.780 But if the movie fails, it will fuel concerns about the company's relevance.

00:08:23.020 And by the way, the whole article is kind of funny because it's all about how Disney,

00:08:27.260 they've come up with their brilliant strategy to get back on track.

00:08:33.500 And their brilliant strategy is to do more sequels and remakes.

00:08:36.920 That's the strategy.

00:08:37.860 And of course, anyone reads that, isn't that what you've been doing

00:08:40.000 the whole time?

00:08:40.660 Isn't that the only thing you've done for 20 years now?

00:08:44.420 Now, what is Inside Out 2 going to be about?

00:08:46.720 It's hard to say because it's not out yet.

00:08:48.160 But after some Googling, I came across this headline from an outlet called Pride.com.

00:08:52.980 And here's their assessment based on the trailer.

00:08:55.200 Quote,

00:08:55.360 The long-awaited sequel to Disney and Pixar's Inside Out isn't hitting theaters until the summer.

00:08:59.140 But the official trailer dropped this week and it's looking a little gay.

00:09:02.640 Fans think Inside Out 2 is going to be gay as F.

00:09:06.860 Now, how brave is that?

00:09:09.520 Are they also going to, they're also going to, I guess, gayify Inside Out? 0.93

00:09:13.860 Or maybe they will.

00:09:15.120 Which was kind of a middling Pixar entry in the first place.

00:09:17.980 Is that the direction they're going with it?

00:09:19.500 Who knows?

00:09:19.900 But based on the fact that they can't make anything that isn't gay anymore, 0.96

00:09:23.160 we can assume that the answer to that question is probably yes.

00:09:25.360 If you've been watching any significant amount of Disney content over the past few years,

00:09:29.780 there's a question that's probably crossed your mind at some point.

00:09:32.580 As you gaze upon the two lesbian mothers in the kids' show Young Jedi Adventures,

00:09:37.460 or the non-binary Jedi in Tales of the Empire,

00:09:41.100 or the gay kisses in Lightyear and Rise of Skywalker,

00:09:44.960 or the communist lesbian witches in The Acolyte, 0.75

00:09:48.060 or the prominent trans character in Baymax,

00:09:50.660 or the non-binary Lake character in Elemental,

00:09:53.640 or the gay moment in Endgame,

00:09:55.720 or the purple gay Cyclops police officer in Onward, 0.56

00:09:59.160 or the first ever biracial gay cartoon character in Strange World,

00:10:03.540 you may have caught yourself thinking,

00:10:05.040 what the hell is going on inside the company?

00:10:07.500 If this is what they're producing as entertainment

00:10:09.480 for the millions of people in the audience,

00:10:12.880 how dysfunctional are the inner workings of Disney exactly?

00:10:15.940 If they're so fixated on sexuality and race

00:10:17.900 that they have to ram so-called marginalized identities 0.87

00:10:21.080 into every orifice of their streaming and film shows,

00:10:25.740 what would it be like to actually work at a place like this?

00:10:29.180 You may ask yourself.

00:10:30.820 We don't have to ask those questions anymore, though,

00:10:32.640 because yesterday, James O'Keefe,

00:10:33.940 formerly the head of Project Veritas,

00:10:35.540 and now the CEO of OMG Media,

00:10:38.020 provided an exclusive window into the inner workings of Disney.

00:10:41.760 One of O'Keefe's undercover operatives

00:10:43.380 recorded an intimate conversation

00:10:45.300 with a senior vice president at the company

00:10:47.620 named Michael Gardino,

00:10:49.220 and it's simultaneously an incredibly shocking piece of footage

00:10:53.480 in some ways,

00:10:54.720 as well as, at the same time,

00:10:55.920 everything you'd expect it to be.

00:10:57.520 In this clip, Gardino appears to admit

00:10:59.540 on multiple occasions

00:11:00.880 that Disney discriminates against job applicants

00:11:03.840 on the basis of their skin color and their gender.

00:11:07.220 According to Gardino,

00:11:08.600 the company will look at a white man 0.94

00:11:10.900 and decide,

00:11:11.880 because of immutable characteristics that he can't control,

00:11:14.440 that he is disqualified from employment.

00:11:17.500 In fact, on at least one occasion,

00:11:19.600 this executive says that Disney higher-ups

00:11:21.620 disqualified a half-black applicant

00:11:23.780 because he didn't look black enough.

00:11:27.000 Now, I'll provide the usual disclaimer

00:11:28.400 that, of course, I haven't personally seen

00:11:30.480 all of O'Keefe's unedited footage,

00:11:32.220 but here's some of what O'Keefe aired.

00:11:35.360 Watch.

00:11:35.600 Certainly, there have been times where, you know,

00:11:40.560 there's no way we're hiding a white man.

00:11:42.780 It's just kind of unspoken.

00:11:45.760 There are times when it's spoken.

00:11:47.580 How would they say it?

00:11:49.160 There's no way we're hiding a white man. 0.52

00:11:50.460 According to these videotapes,

00:11:52.780 Disney blatantly discriminates against whites,

00:11:56.520 white men in particular.

00:11:58.220 I think I'm sort of, like, well-prepared for it.

00:12:03.600 I'm well-positioned for it.

00:12:06.140 But as far as Disney's concerned,

00:12:08.080 I'm a white male.

00:12:08.960 That's not who they're looking to promote as the most.

00:12:12.040 You know, I've been at the company 11 years now,

00:12:14.620 so I have friends in HR,

00:12:15.880 and I have friends in those divisions,

00:12:17.380 and they're like, look,

00:12:18.420 nobody else is going to tell you this, Mike,

00:12:19.840 but they're not considering any white males for this job.

00:12:23.080 They're just not.

00:12:24.940 That's not who they want.

00:12:26.200 They even passed over a qualified half-black person

00:12:29.320 for a promotion

00:12:30.120 because they didn't look black enough.

00:12:33.880 We wanted to hire somebody in the department

00:12:35.760 a few years ago now

00:12:36.900 who was half-black

00:12:40.300 but didn't, like, appear half-black.

00:12:43.400 And there was a creative executive who was like,

00:12:46.800 we're not, like, that's not what's going on.

00:12:50.280 Like, they wanted somebody in meetings

00:12:51.940 who would appear a certain way,

00:12:53.380 and he wasn't going to bring that to the media.

00:12:56.500 I mean, it kind of feels like we're, you know,

00:13:00.140 at some point there's going to be a lawsuit.

00:13:02.520 That's kind of how it feels.

00:13:06.200 Now, when civil rights laws were first passed,

00:13:09.260 laws that mandated that businesses

00:13:10.720 stop discriminating on the basis of race,

00:13:12.820 there were quite a few businesses in this country

00:13:14.700 that had to close.

00:13:15.660 In some cases, the owner simply didn't want

00:13:18.200 to serve black customers or hire black employees.

00:13:20.500 In other cases, the business did attempt to integrate,

00:13:23.020 but their clientele wouldn't stand for it.

00:13:24.680 They wanted to see certain races excluded

00:13:27.180 from the whole operation,

00:13:28.440 and when that was no longer allowed,

00:13:29.880 they stopped patronizing the business anyway.

00:13:33.060 And after watching this footage,

00:13:34.880 for the first time, it's not hard to see

00:13:36.460 how a major entertainment juggernaut like Disney

00:13:38.800 could someday meet the same fate

00:13:40.760 as all those businesses that crumbled

00:13:42.340 in the aftermath of the civil rights movement.

00:13:45.340 You know, if what this executive is saying is true,

00:13:47.600 then there's a very strong case to be made

00:13:49.300 that Disney is flagrantly and systematically

00:13:51.520 violating civil rights law.

00:13:53.580 Like, in the most flagrant way possible, actually.

00:13:57.100 In this country, in pretty much every case,

00:13:59.360 businesses are not allowed to deny employment

00:14:02.340 on the basis of race or gender.

00:14:04.580 Race or gender can't even be one of the reasons

00:14:06.880 why an employee is promoted or rejected

00:14:09.080 or hired or fired.

00:14:10.780 You're not allowed to consider it at all.

00:14:12.800 That's the way the law is supposedly set up.

00:14:16.120 And Michael Gardino appears to realize that,

00:14:18.500 which is why he says on the tape

00:14:19.920 that Disney is likely to face a massive lawsuit

00:14:21.820 in the near future.

00:14:23.220 Now, will the law actually be enforced against Disney?

00:14:26.500 Well, that remains to be seen.

00:14:27.980 We all know that, for the most part,

00:14:29.420 the civil rights law works in one direction.

00:14:31.660 It's rare, though certainly not unheard of,

00:14:33.980 for white plaintiffs to successfully sue

00:14:36.120 for workplace discrimination.

00:14:37.060 But in this case, there's a Disney executive

00:14:39.680 saying explicitly on tape that, in his estimation,

00:14:42.980 the company discriminates on the basis of race and gender.

00:14:45.420 And as of now, the only response from Disney

00:14:48.300 has been that Michael Gardino

00:14:49.520 has taken down his LinkedIn page.

00:14:51.220 But other than that, they haven't said anything.

00:14:52.200 They haven't put out any kind of explanation

00:14:54.160 or statement one way or another

00:14:55.400 about the fact that one of their senior executives

00:14:59.100 says that the company is systematically

00:15:01.000 discriminating against white people.

00:15:03.680 Of course, from internal Disney footage

00:15:06.660 previously released by Chris Ruffeau,

00:15:09.000 we know that Disney executives

00:15:10.300 generally want to advance a culture

00:15:12.420 of racial equity and so on.

00:15:14.980 So it's not exactly a stretch to assume

00:15:16.700 that they're on board with this

00:15:18.100 at the highest levels of the company.

00:15:20.140 This is a very big problem for Disney.

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00:16:47.060 Disney is hiring a diversity,

00:16:48.780 equity, and inclusion director

00:16:50.220 who could earn up to four times

00:16:52.100 the national average income,

00:16:53.420 pushing a far-left agenda.

00:16:54.720 A job posting from the Walt Disney Company

00:16:57.720 for a DEI director role

00:16:59.320 advertises a minimum salary

00:17:02.060 of $197,000 a year,

00:17:05.720 a maximum salary of a little over $241,000.

00:17:09.500 The average American salary in 2024

00:17:11.340 is $59,428 annually.

00:17:15.560 The job description reads,

00:17:17.460 We're seeking a director

00:17:18.300 of strategic external engagement,

00:17:20.020 Enterprise DEI,

00:17:21.820 to lead our efforts

00:17:22.700 in building strategic relationships

00:17:24.080 with external stakeholders,

00:17:25.380 driving community engagement,

00:17:26.560 and generating valuable insights

00:17:28.060 to support our diversity,

00:17:29.260 equity, and inclusion objectives.

00:17:31.680 The new director will be tasked

00:17:33.740 with advancing the company's

00:17:35.080 left-wing program

00:17:36.080 and be required to lead initiatives

00:17:38.360 focused on specific dimensions

00:17:39.940 of diversity

00:17:40.640 and amplify DEI content

00:17:43.240 and communicate progress.

00:17:44.840 So this is still happening

00:17:47.960 at Disney.

00:17:49.260 And that's one takeaway here

00:17:51.520 is that any hope

00:17:54.140 that Disney will unwoke itself

00:17:57.540 and get away from wokeness,

00:18:00.100 any hope, I think,

00:18:01.500 is greatly misplaced.

00:18:04.600 Because Disney is,

00:18:05.760 this is what Disney is

00:18:06.800 to its core at this point.

00:18:08.720 It's what much of corporate America is.

00:18:11.060 And in some cases,

00:18:13.860 some of these companies

00:18:14.620 might get a little embarrassed

00:18:15.680 about some of the DEI stuff

00:18:16.960 because it's, I think,

00:18:20.000 now roundly recognized

00:18:21.760 by most Americans

00:18:23.020 as a waste of time at best.

00:18:27.260 Although it's much worse

00:18:28.260 than a waste of time.

00:18:29.380 So they might get

00:18:29.860 a little embarrassed about it.

00:18:30.900 They don't put it front and center.

00:18:32.940 I think you're going to find

00:18:34.600 some of these companies

00:18:35.200 start rebranding.

00:18:36.880 I mean, I'm actually surprised

00:18:38.780 that they still use

00:18:39.880 the letters DEI at all,

00:18:42.320 that they haven't already

00:18:43.140 rebranded it.

00:18:44.420 Still keep it in place,

00:18:45.400 but just call it something else.

00:18:47.340 Even move the letters around.

00:18:49.500 Maybe call it IDE,

00:18:51.260 Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity.

00:18:54.640 So I'm surprised

00:18:55.480 they haven't done that yet.

00:18:59.000 They will do it eventually.

00:19:00.640 But we are far from the point

00:19:07.080 where Disney will be anything

00:19:10.340 but a radically left company

00:19:12.680 because, again,

00:19:13.280 this is down to the core

00:19:14.700 of who they are,

00:19:17.440 their corporate identity.

00:19:18.980 Now, since they are hiring

00:19:22.040 a DEI leader in the company,

00:19:26.140 I do have to say,

00:19:26.880 and I'm just throwing this out there,

00:19:28.720 that I am,

00:19:29.480 I don't know if you heard this,

00:19:30.720 but I am officially

00:19:31.680 DEI certified.

00:19:33.240 And I would happily

00:19:34.300 take on this role.

00:19:35.540 This is something

00:19:35.980 that I would do.

00:19:36.880 I would tackle

00:19:37.660 this important task.

00:19:38.740 And I'm well equipped.

00:19:40.860 I have the skills necessary

00:19:42.340 to, what was it,

00:19:44.280 amplify DEI content

00:19:46.100 and communicate progress.

00:19:48.540 I don't know what that means.

00:19:50.040 I suspect it means nothing.

00:19:52.500 But I'm ready to do it.

00:19:54.060 Whatever it is,

00:19:54.780 I'm ready to do it.

00:19:55.640 I can amplify content

00:19:56.740 all day long.

00:19:58.280 Amplifying content is easy.

00:20:00.340 Give me the content.

00:20:01.220 I'll amplify it.

00:20:01.900 And as far as communicating progress goes,

00:20:03.740 well, you know,

00:20:05.700 that's easy to do.

00:20:07.800 I don't know how,

00:20:08.460 I guess communicating progress

00:20:09.540 is just letting people know,

00:20:10.720 hey, we are progressing, folks.

00:20:12.880 There, I just did it.

00:20:13.880 I communicated progress.

00:20:17.100 And the great thing is

00:20:18.440 that literally anyone

00:20:22.040 can do these jobs

00:20:23.100 because this is not

00:20:24.260 a real thing.

00:20:26.260 Like we talked about yesterday,

00:20:28.380 Rob and D'Angelo

00:20:29.980 caught up in a plagiarism scandal.

00:20:33.320 And there's so much plagiarism

00:20:34.600 that goes on with these people

00:20:35.660 because it's not a real subject.

00:20:38.060 It's not a real thing.

00:20:40.560 There's only one central idea.

00:20:42.420 There's only one idea

00:20:43.700 that they have,

00:20:44.420 which is that white people

00:20:45.260 are bad and racist. 0.80

00:20:46.440 And that's really it.

00:20:47.400 That's all there is there.

00:20:48.560 And being a DEI expert,

00:20:52.780 all that means is that

00:20:54.220 you have accepted that doctrine.

00:20:56.420 And if you accept it

00:20:57.540 or at least pretend to accept it,

00:20:58.580 then you too can be a DEI expert

00:21:00.340 and maybe get a mid-six-figure job

00:21:03.800 at a place like Disney.

00:21:05.240 The latest uber-woke episode

00:21:07.120 from Disney's uber-woke children's show,

00:21:09.640 which is called The Proud Family.

00:21:11.320 Now, for a little bit of background,

00:21:12.540 The Proud Family was originally

00:21:13.480 a kid's show on the Disney Channel

00:21:15.000 back in the early 2000s.

00:21:16.240 It was canceled in 2005.

00:21:18.180 And then in 2022,

00:21:19.060 it became just the latest reboot

00:21:21.440 that nobody needed,

00:21:22.460 nobody asked for,

00:21:23.440 nobody wanted.

00:21:24.700 The rebooted Proud Family,

00:21:26.440 which can be found now on Disney+,

00:21:28.540 promises to be louder and prouder.

00:21:31.720 And it certainly fulfills

00:21:32.840 at least half of that promise.

00:21:35.180 A clip from a recent episode

00:21:36.120 has gone viral over the past few days.

00:21:37.580 And in it,

00:21:38.660 we are treated to what we're told

00:21:40.180 is a rap or a song

00:21:41.840 about the sinister origins

00:21:43.620 of the United States.

00:21:44.720 And here it is.

00:21:48.740 This country was built on slavery,

00:21:50.900 which means slaves built this country. 0.78

00:21:53.240 Tilled this land from sea to sea to sea.

00:21:55.260 First there was rice, tobacco, sugar cane.

00:21:57.200 Then Whitney did his thing

00:21:58.320 and cotton became king.

00:21:59.540 And we were its soldiers.

00:22:00.820 Four million strong.

00:22:01.960 Fighting for America's freedoms

00:22:03.180 even though we remained America's slaves.

00:22:04.980 Slaves built this country. 1.00

00:22:06.600 The descendants of slaves 0.91

00:22:07.680 continue to build it.

00:22:09.260 Slaves built this country. 1.00

00:22:10.820 And we, the descendants of slaves in America,

00:22:12.820 have earned reparations for their suffering.

00:22:15.000 And continue to earn reparations

00:22:16.900 every moment we spend submerged

00:22:18.520 in the systemic prejudice, racism, and

00:22:20.660 white supremacy

00:22:21.560 that America was founded with

00:22:23.340 and still has not atoned for.

00:22:25.200 Slaves built this country. 1.00

00:22:26.900 Not only field hands,

00:22:28.020 but carpenters' mazes.

00:22:29.400 Blacksmiths, musicians.

00:22:30.840 Inventors build cities

00:22:31.800 from Jamestown to New Orleans,

00:22:33.320 to Bannacombs, Washington.

00:22:34.840 Forty acres and a mule.

00:22:36.200 We'll take the 40 acres,

00:22:37.700 keep the mule.

00:22:38.640 We made your families rich.

00:22:40.100 From the southern plantation heirs, 0.94

00:22:41.920 to the northern bankers,

00:22:43.200 to the New England ship owners,

00:22:44.660 the founding fathers,

00:22:45.800 former presidents,

00:22:46.700 current senators,

00:22:47.660 the Illuminati,

00:22:48.620 the New World Order.

00:22:49.720 Slaves built this country. 1.00

00:22:51.140 We had Tubman, 0.54

00:22:52.160 Turner,

00:22:52.640 Frederick D.

00:22:53.300 Then they say Lincoln freed the slaves.

00:22:54.940 But slaves were meant.

00:22:56.000 And women. 0.98

00:22:56.960 And only we can free ourselves.

00:22:59.300 Emancipation is not freedom.

00:23:00.800 Jim Crow, segregation,

00:23:02.160 redlining,

00:23:02.760 public schools,

00:23:03.380 feeding private prisons

00:23:04.340 where we become slaves again.

00:23:06.120 As we celebrate Juneteenth,

00:23:07.840 for the umpteenth time,

00:23:09.220 our account is still outstanding.

00:23:11.260 Because this country was built on slavery,

00:23:13.060 which means

00:23:13.640 slaves built this country.

00:23:15.660 And we demand our 40 acres and a mule.

00:23:18.640 Bump that.

00:23:19.480 You can keep the mule.

00:23:20.480 Keep the 40.

00:23:21.260 We're taking our freedom.

00:23:23.040 Keep the mule.

00:23:24.040 Keep the mule.

00:23:24.460 Keep the mule.

00:23:26.760 Keep the mule.

00:23:28.280 Keep the mule.

00:23:32.260 Just some nice, wholesome children's content.

00:23:35.400 That's why I'll stick with Bluey, I think. 1.00

00:23:37.920 Okay, first of all,

00:23:40.120 there's been some misinformation

00:23:41.500 about the content of that clip.

00:23:43.320 People are saying that

00:23:44.080 the Disney show featured

00:23:46.640 an anti-American song.

00:23:49.420 Well, that is anti-American, 0.78

00:23:50.360 but it's not a song.

00:23:51.100 It's literally just shrill voices

00:23:52.760 chanting vacuous bumper sticker slogans

00:23:55.040 without rhyme or rhythm.

00:23:57.300 Which I guess, you know,

00:23:58.100 doesn't really separate it much

00:23:59.300 from many other pop songs.

00:24:00.840 But as Martin Luther King would say,

00:24:02.680 we should judge woke propaganda

00:24:04.060 by, not by its shrillness,

00:24:06.120 but by its content.

00:24:07.880 The content here is ridiculous

00:24:09.740 on multiple levels.

00:24:11.300 So let's go through them.

00:24:12.240 First, most importantly,

00:24:15.480 and it is really necessary

00:24:17.140 that we emphasize this,

00:24:18.300 slaves did not build this country.

00:24:22.340 This country was built

00:24:23.560 over the course of hundreds of years,

00:24:25.900 beginning long before it was a country.

00:24:28.080 The building started in the 1400s

00:24:29.900 when the first European explorers

00:24:31.200 sailed across treacherous

00:24:32.720 and uncharted seas

00:24:33.540 to discover these lands.

00:24:35.220 It continued with the European settlers 1.00

00:24:37.220 in the 1500s and 1600s

00:24:38.860 who built a life for themselves

00:24:40.000 in this unknown wilderness,

00:24:42.000 facing untold threats

00:24:43.300 and for many of them,

00:24:44.400 certain death.

00:24:45.780 This country was built by the colonists

00:24:47.780 and the American revolutionaries.

00:24:49.140 It was built by the pioneers

00:24:50.720 who expanded the country

00:24:51.760 from the east,

00:24:52.700 heading west out

00:24:53.520 into a hostile wilderness,

00:24:55.220 occupied by warring Indian tribes.

00:24:57.940 It was built by war and conquest,

00:24:59.760 by discovery, by diplomacy,

00:25:01.500 by industry.

00:25:03.220 It was built and then nearly undone

00:25:05.240 by a civil war

00:25:06.000 that killed 620,000 men,

00:25:08.420 then built up again,

00:25:09.780 only to thrive once more.

00:25:12.180 The country was built

00:25:13.000 by the people who made it

00:25:14.560 into the world's great power

00:25:15.680 in the 20th century,

00:25:16.560 who won world wars

00:25:17.740 and brought about peace

00:25:18.560 and economic prosperity.

00:25:19.800 It was built by many people

00:25:21.400 over many centuries.

00:25:23.180 And for a portion of that history,

00:25:25.820 some people in some parts

00:25:27.720 of the country own slaves.

00:25:30.400 That certainly is not enough

00:25:32.320 to justify the claim

00:25:33.380 that the slaves built the country.

00:25:35.860 To make that claim

00:25:36.900 is to erase nearly everyone

00:25:38.560 who really did build the country.

00:25:40.580 It's to paper over

00:25:41.600 America's actual history

00:25:43.020 with your grievance-mongering nonsense. 0.56

00:25:46.720 Now, if the mere historical fact

00:25:49.160 of slavery automatically means

00:25:50.960 that the country was built by slavery

00:25:52.840 and forever is indebted

00:25:54.880 to slaves and their descendants,

00:25:56.020 then, of course, the same must be said

00:25:57.980 about every nation on the planet.

00:25:59.460 There is no race, no people, 1.00

00:26:01.960 no nation anywhere in the world

00:26:04.240 who does not inherit

00:26:05.900 the guilt of slavery,

00:26:08.400 if indeed the guilt of slavery

00:26:10.240 can be inherited.

00:26:12.380 As I will never tire of pointing out,

00:26:14.360 the only thing that makes

00:26:15.460 America's relationship

00:26:16.740 to slavery unique

00:26:18.060 is how comparatively quickly

00:26:20.580 we abolished it

00:26:21.680 and the lengths we went

00:26:24.320 to abolish it.

00:26:26.020 of which we do

00:26:30.360 first人 in a country

00:26:30.940 has been

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00:26:34.660 Al odds

00:26:37.400 to go under

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00:26:45.200 of which we make

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 12, 2025

Disney's Woke Agenda Is Worse Than You Think ｜ Proof For Your Liberal Friend

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