Ep. 1018 - Leftists Dance On Queen Elizabeth's Grave
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Summary
With the death of Queen Elizabeth, the left has taken the opportunity to rant about the evils of colonialism. But there is one form of colonialism still happening in the world today, and it is left-wing ideological colonialism. Also, the PODCAST Movement finally issues an apology for calling Ben Shapiro's physical presence harmful. Local politicians in D.C. panic as illegal immigrants panic as a result of a mass deportation order. Morning Joe tries its hand at biblical exegesis and it doesn t go well. And our daily cancellation will deal with a few recent attempts by the left to finally answer the great question of our time. All that and more today on Flannel Friday.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, with the death of Queen Elizabeth, the left has taken the
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opportunity to rant about the evils of colonialism, but there is one form of colonialism still
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happening in the world today, and it is left-wing ideological colonialism. We'll talk about
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that. Also, podcast movement finally issues an apology for calling Ben Shapiro's physical
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presence harmful. Local politicians in D.C. panic as illegal immigrants are shipped to
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their alleged sanctuary city. Morning Joe tries its hand at biblical exegesis, and it
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doesn't go well. And our daily cancellation will deal with a few recent attempts by the
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left to finally answer the great question of our time. All of that and more today on Flannel
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after reigning for 70 years, was one of the last great leaders and public figures in the world.
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She possessed virtues like grace, nobility, dignity, stoicism. These are all character traits,
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especially those last two, which have all but vanished from public life. Instead, in their place,
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Western nations in particular find themselves led by boorish morons, self-centered ignoramuses,
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and petulant crybabies. And that pretty much sums them all up. What's more, we're a civilization
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which denies its history and makes war against its own traditions. That's another reason to mourn the
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queen's passing. She was an anachronism, but I mean that in a positive way, a link to the past,
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a reminder of how things used to be, but are no longer. And it's possible to appreciate all of
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that, even if you, like me, don't have any particular fascination with the royal family.
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And even if you, like me, are actually a bit perplexed by the fascination. I don't spend a lot
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of time thinking about British royalty, but when it comes to Queen Elizabeth, I can appreciate these
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facts about her. Of course, we live in a different world now. It's a world where people are eager to
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advertise their utter lack of dignity and of grace. It's almost a virtue to not possess those things.
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And there have been many such displays in response to Queen Elizabeth's death, like that from Uju Anya,
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a professor of, this is what she's a professor of, Blackness and Multilingualism at Carnegie Mellon
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University. And there at Carnegie Mellon, you can spend $60,000 a year to study utterly useless
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subjects while having your brain assaulted and your soul pummeled by hateful, rabid ideologues like
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Professor Uju, who reacted to the Queen's imminent death on Thursday before she had died with this
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tweet. I heard the chief monarch of a thieving, raping, genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain
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be excruciating. Now, the professor issued more tweets doubling down on this sentiment. She feels
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absolutely morally justified in wishing excruciating pain on a dying elderly woman because that dying
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elderly woman has committed the crime of being powerful and also white, which is the greatest
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crime of all. CBS News correspondent Wesley Lowry was not quite as aggressive, but he had similar
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feelings, tweeting, the death of a person seen as a near deity by the white political ruling and media
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class, but who was also at one point the oppressive ruler of something like 30 percent of the global
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population, is going to provide an excellent example of the subjectivity of straight news reporting.
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There was much discussion about colonialism, with many echoing the thoughts of German comedian
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Dear white Europeans, you do realize that Black people won't mourn when another colonizer dies.
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She's old enough. Finally, let her and the whole colonial system go in peace.
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There are American media figures like Eugene Scott and Jameel Hill, Jameel Hill who agreed that now is
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the right time to talk about the sins of colonialism. Scott tweeted,
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Real question for the now is not the appropriate time to talk about the negative impact of colonialism
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crowd. When is the appropriate time to talk about the negative impact of colonialism?
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Hill had her own answer to that question. She said,
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Journalists are tasked with putting legacies into full context, so it's entirely appropriate to
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examine the queen and her role in the devastating impact of continued colonialism.
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Now, it's of course absurd to call Queen Elizabeth's impact on the world devastating. She has in fact been
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resisting tyranny literally since she was a teenager, enlisting in the military during World War II at the age of 19.
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The royal family chose not to flee to Canada even as the Germans bombed London and Elizabeth herself
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contributed to the war effort as soon as she was old enough to do so.
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As far as colonialism goes, the sort of historical colonialism that the left laments and has used
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Queen Elizabeth's death as a forum to whine about was neither all good nor all bad. I mean,
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you can no more condemn all colonialism than you can condemn all war. Terrible atrocities occur in
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times of war, but so do acts of heroism and sacrifice. There are wars waged for good reasons
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and bad reasons and many other wars whose motivations fall somewhere in between. In the case of
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colonialism, the fact remains that from a broad historical perspective, Western civilization and
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its freedoms and luxuries and rights and comforts and benefits would not exist without it. Now, the left
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would probably agree with that sentiment, but then they would claim that, well, that's proof
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that the West is inherently evil. And yet those same people choose to live here even so, feasting on the
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fruits of a tree which they claim is evil at its root. Which only goes to show that judging the impact
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of so-called colonialism is not nearly as simple as its critics pretend, it has had many effects
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that they themselves enjoy, if not appreciate. The discussion about colonialism also ignores the fact
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that there were empires all across the globe and all throughout history who practiced their own version
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of it. The whole world was shaped this way. And if colonialism is an abject, straightforward evil,
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which I deny, and if we can inherit its guilt through our blood, you know, which I also deny,
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we would all share that guilt to the point where it makes no sense to dwell on it. But here we are again
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talking about historical colonialism. And that's the kind that no longer exists. There is, however,
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another form of the practice, the modern form. And the irony is that the people who spend the most
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time screaming about the colonialist practices of 70 years ago or 300 years ago have nothing at all to
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say about the sort of colonialism perpetrated by Western cultures today. In fact, if they do have
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anything to say about it, they will speak up in defense of it. That's because the only sort of
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colonialism still carried out by Western nations in modern times is left-wing ideological colonialism.
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Historical colonialism had its bad moments. This left-wing ideological version, on the other hand,
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is all bad through and through. It is the attempt to export by force, blackmail, bribery, political
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pressure or other forms of coercion, left-wing cultural ideas and priorities to people and
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cultures and countries that do not want them. It just so happens that CNN only a few days ago
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provided us with a striking example of just this sort of thing. CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour had an
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interview with William Ruteau, who is the president-elect of Kenya. Now, I didn't initially see the clips of
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this interview online. I only became aware of the exchange because the sweet baby gang in Kenya
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which is, it turns out, a sizable community, I'm pleased to discover, they watched it and they
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alerted me to it. And I'm glad they did because this whole exchange, especially in light of this
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colonialism conversation, is quite instructive. Watch. I want to talk to you about a specific,
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you know, human rights situation in parts of Africa and including in your own country. You yourself
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gained worldwide attention a few years ago when you said there was, quote, no room for homosexuality in
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Kenyan society. I want to know whether you still stand by that. We have Kenyan law. We have Kenyan
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constitution. We have our tradition. We have our customs. We will continue to respect other people's
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customs as they respect our customs and our tradition. I am very clear that we respect everybody
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and what they believe in. But we also have what we believe in and we expect to be respected for
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what we believe in. So before I ask you to flesh that out and what exactly does it mean, I want to play
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you what President Kenyatta said to me about this issue. I will not engage in a subject that is
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of no, it is not of any major importance to the people and the Republic of Kenya. This is not an
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issue, as you would want to put it, of human rights. This is an issue of society, of our own base as a
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culture as a people, regardless of which community you come from. This is not acceptable. This is not
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Now, what we've seen here so far are two leading figures in Kenya trying to explain
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Kenyan culture to an outsider. They're both quite patient and gracious, which doesn't surprise me
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at all based on my own experience in the country. You know, I went there with my own very stupid
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questions, much like the stupid questions Amanpour is asking. And everyone I talked to was very kind
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and accommodating, in spite of how idiotic the line of questioning was. But Amanpour continues to press
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the issue. So let's keep watching. So he's basically saying homosexuality is not agreeable.
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You've just said that you're kind of trying to thread the needle, that the law says one thing,
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but you respect everybody's rights. Will a RUTO administration crack down, like many other
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leaders in Africa, on the homosexual LGBTQ community? Or will you allow them their human rights and their
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civil rights? I think on that subject, President Kenyatta was spot on. We do not want to create a
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mountain out of a molehill. This is not a big issue for the people of Kenya. When the people, when it
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becomes a big issue for the people of Kenya, the people of Kenya will make a choice. As it is now,
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we are grappling with five million young people who do not have jobs, four million people who are
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hungry. And that is my concern. That is the focus of the people of Kenya at the moment. When the issue
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you have discussed about homosexuality and the rights of LGBT will come, the people of Kenya will make a
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choice. And we will respect the choice of the people of Kenya. For now, Christiane Amanpour,
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let us focus on the real issues that affect our people.
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As you know, Mr. President, with respect, these are real issues that affect so many people around
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the world. But we will hold you to what you said and we'll come back to you if the situation requires
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it, which probably it will. Well, watch out, Kenya. Christiane Amanpour, she's going to hold you to
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this. And she's going to tell you what issues matter to your country. Now, I think Mr. Ruteau was very
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clear in his response, leaving no room for confusion. But for the benefit of Christiane Amanpour,
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I will summarize. First of all, as both Ruteau and Kenyatta try to explain, Kenyan culture doesn't
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recognize any sort of inherent human right to have whatever kind of sex you want to have. Now,
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it may seem unthinkable to the modern Western mind that Kenyans don't believe in that kind of right,
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that is, the right to have sex however you want. It may be unthinkable. You may not be able to get
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your mind around it. It may shock you and offend you. But that's the reality. In fact, very few
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cultures in the world or in the history of the world recognize that right. The right to sex
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is a very modern, very, very Western construct. We just came up with it last Tuesday, basically.
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And the rest of the world doesn't feel any particular urgency to adopt it themselves. They
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just don't. That's it. Second, even more to the point, the entire issue is not relevant to Kenyan
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society. There are millions of people in Kenya living in abject poverty, starving to death. People
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don't have enough food to eat. Families who live in shacks made out of spare sheet metal and who,
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if they become ill, could only go to a hospital in a shack similar to the one they live in,
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except with the word hospital spray painted and graffiti on the side. Now, not all of Kenya looks
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like that, but it's a reality for a large portion of the country. So they're not worried about LGBT
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issues. They're not worried about a lot of the issues that we're worried about here because they
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don't have the luxury or the time to worry about it. Now, Ruto is trying his best to communicate this.
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If he were less patient, if he were more like me, he would have simply shouted,
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hey, lady, our people are starving to death. We don't have time for this. Now piss off and leave
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me alone, you weirdo. But this is how ideological colonialism works. The leftist colonizer demands
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that her values must be adopted by people and cultures thousands of miles away. She insists that
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societies she has no stake in and countries she has never even visited must conform themselves to
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her own proclivities. She demands that people she doesn't know and has never met or even shared
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a continent with must adopt and live by her list of priorities. And she does all this while also
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claiming, by the way, to be an advocate for democracy. Well, you just heard the answer there.
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Well, people of Kenya will decide. And if we decide that we care about this issue, then we'll care
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about it. And if not, we don't. I mean, if you believe in democracy, then that should be a good
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answer for you, but apparently not. This is the official policy, not just of nosy journalists like
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Amanpour, but of the American government, which is why we gallivant across the globe waving the
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rainbow flag in everybody's face. Meanwhile, the very people demanding ideological conformity from
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foreign cultures also claim to be advocates of multiculturalism. That's all a ruse, as we have
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seen. They don't want multiculturalism. Not anywhere close to that. They want uniculturalism, okay?
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They want one culture, one society, one set of priorities adopted by people of different races,
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ethnicities, and ethnicities all across the world. That's what they want. Their ultimate vision of
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diversity and multiculturalism is a room full of people of varying skin pigmentations and ethnic
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backgrounds, all speaking in unison, reading off of a script written by their left-wing overlords.
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That's colonialism. That's what it looks like in the modern world.
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And it is, in many ways, far worse than any form of colonialism that came before it.
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It's another good question. Here's an update on something we just talked about in the opening
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monologue. There's a little bit more to this story from Daily Wire. It says, Carnegie Mellon University
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condemned a professor on Thursday who called for the death of Queen Elizabeth to be excruciatingly
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painful, saying that the professor's tweet was offensive and objectionable. And then, so we know
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we read what she's, what she tweeted already. And the university said in a statement, we do not
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condone the offensive and objectionable messages posted by Uju Anya today on her personal social
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media account. Free expression is core to the mission of higher education. However, the views she
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shared absolutely do not represent the values of the institution nor the standards of discourse
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we seek to foster. Now, that's all nice and good. And these days, it's like somewhat impressive that
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they at least did that much because we know that usually there's no accountability whatsoever for
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anybody on the left that can say whatever they want. So they condemned it and they condemned it and
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they, you know, even by name, fine. But really what they should be doing, we should not be satisfied
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with this. We should be, what we should be demanding, and I know some people are demanding
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and they're right to demand it, is that she be fired. Okay. Yes. It's, you want to call it, it's
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right-wing cancel culture. Sure. Whatever you want to call it that. Sure. Yeah. She should be canceled.
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Absolutely. You're a professor. Okay. It's not like she works at Walmart or something like that.
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She's a professor, which means that she's in charge of educating people. And, and this is the kind of
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thing that she's saying publicly. It's an embarrassment to the institution that you work
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for. And it would make any thinking person very hesitant to send their kids to that institution.
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Like, these are the kinds of, I'm going to spend $60,000 a year to, for my kids to be taught by
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people like this. And by the way, I didn't even read. I mean, I could go down. She, she wasn't just
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that tweet that she, but it wasn't, it wasn't just that. Like I said, she doubled down on it
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and she was responding to people criticizing her in very vulgar, disgusting ways that I can't even
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read to you, but you can go look it up if you want to. This woman is like, she, she has the, the,
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the maturity of a, of a 12 year old and, um, you know, a moral insight, much worse than that. So
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it would make sense for the institution to fire her. That's what they ought to do.
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People like this should lose their jobs and we shouldn't be hesitant or shy about calling for
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that, but you know, lest we be accused of cancel culture or anything else. Um, kind of on the same
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subject here, this is on the daily wire. It says the, uh, the media trade association that vilified
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Ben Shapiro last month for simply appearing at a recent trade show apologized on Thursday saying
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its treatment of the daily wire star wasn't right. Podcast movement, the industry's biggest trade
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group and host of annual conferences that bring together top media companies said in a statement
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that it was wrong to claim that Shapiro's presence at its recent Dallas show caused harm. The mea
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couple came after the daily wire and media giant Cumulus both vowed to end their support for the
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organization. So the statement said, as we stated, we're continuing to evaluate our priorities,
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policies, uh, rather guiding social media and events with inclusivity, diversity, and respect for
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all. We have to start by sincerely apologizing to Mr. Shapiro for our reaction when he visited a
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booth that we, that we sold his company. That wasn't right. Uh, podcast movement began in 2014 with
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four podcasters who had an idea to create a vibrant community. That was for podcasters by podcasters.
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We're still those people with the same idea and recognize there's work to do as we grow.
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So day the wire co-founder Jeremy Boring, who, uh, at the company's recent backstage event had
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blasted podcast movement for unadulterated bigotry said, uh, people rarely admit when they do wrong,
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particularly on the left where every cultural indicator reinforces your error. Podcast movement
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did the right thing with this apology. Co-founder Dan Franks also called me to make clear their
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treatment of Ben was unacceptable. Good on them. Jeremy's being very gracious here. Uh, I am a slightly
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less gracious person in general. So yeah, it's an apology. It's, it's the right thing to do.
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So, you know, kind of like Carnegie Mellon responding to their professor and the horrible
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thing. She said, yeah, it's the right thing to respond to it, but you know, it's, to me,
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it's not quite enough. And especially with podcast movement. Yeah. They, they gave the apology.
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This is like two weeks later, three weeks, like two weeks later, and they're only doing it because
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they had no other choice. I mean, they tried everything they could to avoid apologizing,
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but then once Cumulus got on board and there were more companies, you know, having our back on this
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thing as they should, they had podcast movement. What choice do they have?
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If you want to have a podcast conference, a podcast organization, and you lose daily wire and you
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lose Cumulus, you start, you start losing all of the biggest podcasts and companies. Well, then you
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can't, then your company is gone. So they have no choice. And they, and they very begrudgingly
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finally apologized as an act of sheer self-preservation.
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Fine. I'm glad they did, but, um, I am certainly not at all convinced that this was, uh, that this
00:25:10.040
was something that they did because they really feel that they were wrong and, and, uh, they're
00:25:17.260
trying to make amends or, or whatever. All right, let's go to this. Um, another report from the Daily
00:25:24.580
Wire says, a sitting member of the Washington DC city council blamed Texas and Arizona Thursday
00:25:29.080
for an influx of immigrants, stressing Washington's social services. DC councilwoman, uh, Brianne
00:25:35.360
Nadeau pointed the fingers at, uh, the figure at the two border States, both run by Republican
00:25:40.120
governors claiming that they turned Washington into a border town. God forbid. Let's listen to some of
00:25:45.320
that. It's been said, but it's worth reiterating that the governors of Texas and Arizona have created
00:25:53.020
this crisis and the federal government has not stepped up to assist the district of Columbia.
00:25:58.080
So we, um, along with our regional partners, we'll do what we've always done. We'll rise to the
00:26:03.940
occasion. We've learned from border towns like El Paso and Brownsville. Um, and in many ways,
00:26:12.320
the governors of Texas and Arizona have turned us into a border town. We don't know how long this will
00:26:19.620
take to resolve. We don't know how long they will continue busing. And so the right thing to do here
00:26:24.800
is to be prepared to ensure we can greet every bus. We can get people off on the right foot. We can get
00:26:30.120
them where they want to go and that will ultimately help them. Oh, God forbid if they've turned us into
00:26:37.100
a border town, we don't want to be one of those. Now, of course, that's not even close to true. I don't
00:26:43.000
have the numbers in front of me, but you can fact check me on this. And I, but I'm quite certain in
00:26:47.480
saying that the influx of, um, illegal immigrants to Washington DC, um, or to any of the other cities
00:26:57.060
where they're being shipped off to Chicago, it doesn't even come close. It doesn't even come,
00:27:00.960
it's barely a fraction of what actual border towns are dealing with, you know, like a 10th or less
00:27:07.760
than that. So no, they haven't been turned into a border town. Um, if they think it's bad now,
00:27:14.880
okay, that if they were actually turned into a border, if they had to deal with the flow of
00:27:20.800
illegal immigrants, anywhere near the scale that real, that actual border towns have to deal with
00:27:25.760
it, then they would be, they'd be panicking much more than they are now. But as I, as I said, when
00:27:32.560
a couple of days ago, we were listening to, I think it was the, I think in that, yeah, it was the
00:27:36.860
mayor of Chicago, Lightfoot, complaining about Governor Abbott for sending illegal immigrants to her,
00:27:43.080
even though they opened their arms and they said, we're a sanctuary city.
00:27:48.800
All that Texas and Arizona are doing is saying, well, you're a sanctuary. So don't you want,
00:27:52.940
you said you're a sanctuary. Don't you, so we're, we're, we're sending people to the sanctuary that
00:27:58.300
you've set up. Oh, well, you don't actually want them though. So you wanted, you wanted the virtue
00:28:04.740
signal. You want to be able to say that about yourself. You wanted to be able to say, we're a
00:28:08.880
sanctuary city without actually having to deal with the everyday reality and all of the challenges
00:28:15.520
and problems, not to mention crime that comes with it when you have all these people being shipped to
00:28:19.620
you. Right. I get it now. This is how the ruling regime works. This, everything about this perfectly
00:28:28.480
illustrates leftist elites and how they function, where they want to be able to stand off at a distance
00:28:37.040
and make proclamations and, uh, suggest policies, impose policies that are utterly disastrous,
00:28:47.400
catastrophic, and cause untold human misery, but they don't want to have to experience any of that.
00:28:53.800
So they're, they're, they're, this is, this is left-wing compassion for you. Left-wing compassion is,
00:28:58.560
um, that they support actions that cause suffering that they don't have to experience.
00:29:09.660
Their compassion is forcing you to be compassionate. It's like coming up with
00:29:14.500
things that they think a compassionate person should do and forcing you to do it because they're
00:29:19.140
not going to do it. Right. The compassionate, the right compassionate thing is to defund the police,
00:29:26.180
to get rid of law enforcement, to stop enforcing the law, to let criminals out of jail. That's the
00:29:33.620
compassionate thing. And so they're going to do that in, especially in neighborhoods and towns where
00:29:37.440
they don't live, but they're in their gated communities and they've got armed security and
00:29:43.820
all the rest of it. But that of course is not compassion. I mean, true compassion, you know what
00:29:50.800
compassion means? Compassion is, um, if you follow the etymology of the word, actual meaning of the
00:29:56.580
word, uh, it means, it means, you know, co-suffering is what it means. Compassion, co-suffering. So
00:30:03.860
when you're compassionate, you are, uh, taking on the suffering of someone else. You are taking part in
00:30:13.460
their suffering. You're suffering alongside them. You're relieving their suffering and taking some of it
00:30:17.040
upon yourself. That's why as Christians, we would say the, the ultimate act of compassion in human
00:30:22.680
history was Jesus Christ dying on the cross, taking on the suffering of all mankind caused by our sin.
00:30:29.840
Um, that's why we call it the passion of the Christ, right? But that's what compassion is. And,
00:30:34.720
and that's what we're all called to do on a much smaller scale. But that means that you're doing it.
00:30:40.880
Okay. But you yourself are taking on that suffering. But if you're calling for a policy or for something
00:30:49.520
to happen and, uh, and hoping that all the suffering is felt by people who are not you,
00:30:54.700
then by definition, that is not compassion. That actually is the, that's indifference,
00:31:00.240
which is essentially the opposite. Speaking of, uh, the Bible and, and Jesus, here's Morning Joe
00:31:08.220
offering some insightful exegesis, uh, of, of his own. Let's listen to that as a Southern Baptist
00:31:15.360
that grew up reading the Bible, maybe a backslidden Baptist, but I still know the Bible. Jesus never
00:31:20.700
once talked about abortion never once. And it was happening back in ancient times. It was happening
00:31:28.020
during his time. Never once mentioned it for people perverting the gospel of Jesus Christ down to one
00:31:35.760
issue. It's heresy. Go. If you don't believe me, if that makes you angry, why don't you do something
00:31:42.400
you haven't done in a long time? Open the Bible, open the new Testament, read the red letters. You
00:31:49.240
won't see it there. And yet there are people who are using Jesus as a shield to make 10 year old rape
00:31:59.480
girls go through a living and breathing hell here on earth. They've also conveniently overlooked the
00:32:07.000
parts of the new Testament where Jesus talks about taking care of the needy, taking care of those who
00:32:15.780
are helpless, who live a hopeless life because they believe these state legislators believe that life
00:32:25.200
begins at fertilization and ends at childbirth. And Cady, what a powerful message yesterday.
00:32:34.580
Yes. Powerful, just a powerful straw man there. Every single part of that was a straw man.
00:32:40.600
And, you know, leftists, they really think that they're onto something here. They always think
00:32:44.720
that this is a, this is some sort of gotcha. Oh, you see, Jesus doesn't mention abortion. That,
00:32:51.600
there you go. But a couple of points about that. Um, first of all, abortion is the killing of
00:33:02.100
innocent human life. And the Bible does in fact forbid that, um, forbids that all across the old
00:33:10.480
and new Testament forbids it in the 10 commandments. Um, Jesus forbids it. Okay. These things are
00:33:16.860
explicitly forbidden violence against the innocent harming the innocent. Actually, what Jesus says
00:33:22.660
is that he, and he, and he specifies it for children too. Uh, he says that, that if you're
00:33:27.000
going to harm a child, it'd be better for you to have a millstone hung around your neck and to be
00:33:30.840
drowned in the sea. Okay. That's how strong Jesus felt about it. One of the many statements that if
00:33:38.440
Jesus had never said that. And, uh, and, and, and, or even though he had like, if you still, if, if
00:33:45.220
today, if a Christian goes around speaking in terms as strong as that, there'll be a cure. Well,
00:33:50.040
that's unchristlike. You're saying that it'd be better for someone to have a stone hung around
00:33:54.960
their neck and be drowned in the sea. That's, that's violent and terrible and unchrist. No, it's
00:33:59.260
literally Christlike because that's literally what he said. And it is literal. Like it would be better
00:34:05.480
for you. If you're going to harm a child, it would actually be better for you to just drown yourself.
00:34:12.620
So yes, both, uh, the Bible forbids abortion, broadly speaking. And so does Jesus because it,
00:34:20.460
because, uh, harming the innocent is forbidden. Now, does it specify that, that is there any point
00:34:27.400
where it says, Hey, by the way, to all you modern readers, uh, when we say don't kill innocent
00:34:32.680
people, we include babies in that. No, it doesn't say that. Um, it shouldn't need to say that. In fact,
00:34:38.860
it doesn't, when we are forbidden from murdering, it, it, it, it rarely specifies groups of people
00:34:45.280
because we're supposed to understand that it applies to everyone. Okay. It also doesn't say
00:34:50.820
that, uh, it says don't murder people. It never says that you can't murder a middle-aged woman
00:34:55.320
or a teenage boy or someone who's 90 years old. It never specifies any stage of human development
00:35:06.320
or any age group because it applies to all of them. And if you're not brain dead, you should
00:35:13.520
already know that. Like it should be, you shouldn't have to ask the question. If somebody says to you,
00:35:17.140
if God says to you, as he says to us in scripture, uh, don't murder people, you shouldn't need the
00:35:23.820
follow-up question of, oh, sorry, uh, Lord was, does that include babies? Are they, oh, we can't
00:35:28.920
murder them either. Okay. Thanks. Did you really need that specified for you? But here's the other
00:35:35.580
problem. If, if you need, if you need these kinds of very specific rules laid out for you, or if you
00:35:45.720
think that Jesus was supposed to specifically mention every issue that we deal with today, um, well,
00:35:52.180
that's a problem for the left, isn't it? Because especially if they want to bring the Bible up,
00:35:57.140
I mean, once again, what have I told you before when the Bible is brought into a discussion about
00:36:02.940
abortion, especially it is nine times out of 10, or maybe 9.9 times out of 10, someone on the left
00:36:10.760
who brings it up. So they are the ones constantly bringing religion and the Bible and Jesus into not
00:36:17.780
just the abortion conversation, but any conversation about a social issue. They constantly bring that
00:36:22.940
in. And then they accuse us of basing our entire, uh, point of view on the Bible and religion and all.
00:36:30.220
Well, you're only saying that because of the Bible. You're only saying that because of religion. So,
00:36:33.380
you know, on one hand, we only, we only are saying this because we're following the Bible as if that
00:36:40.960
would be a bad thing anyway. But then on the other hand, the Bible doesn't say that it's very
00:36:47.120
confused. But the point is this, um, the left tells us that trans people have always existed,
00:36:54.200
you know, transgenderism, the fact that we're seeing this skyrocketing rise and transgender
00:36:58.720
identification in modern times, that's not a, it's not, that's not any social contagion. It's not
00:37:04.940
because people are being indoctrinated or groomed or anything like that. They claim it's because,
00:37:09.620
well, this many trans people have always existed. It's just that they were, you know,
00:37:12.780
they hadn't, um, they didn't feel comfortable identifying themselves as such.
00:37:18.140
Well, it means that trans people existed in Jesus's time. And yet Jesus never says anything
00:37:22.120
about trans rights. Never says anything about it. Actually, one of the very first things we're
00:37:28.280
told in the Bible is that God created us male and female. There's no mention of any other category.
00:37:33.980
There, there's no indication anywhere that a man can be a woman.
00:37:42.040
So by, by Joe Scarborough's logic, trans rights out the window. Jesus never says it.
00:37:48.580
You know what else he doesn't mention? Doesn't mention gay rights.
00:37:52.120
Quite the opposite, actually. And he also, Jesus also never mentions plenty of things that we should
00:37:59.360
all agree are bad. Like, uh, he never specifically condemns slavery as an institution. He never
00:38:06.620
specifically condemns child pornography or rape. Now, does that mean that we as Christians should
00:38:14.300
endorse all of those things or be indifferent or not have an opinion? Does it mean that Jesus
00:38:18.340
endorsed them? No, obviously not. Because Jesus didn't come to earth to just provide a list of
00:38:26.380
every single bad thing we shouldn't do. But we are given commandments and principles
00:38:33.040
and moral teachings, which we are then supposed to apply to all of these situations and all of these
00:38:41.140
issues. And if you take the moral teachings that we are given by Jesus and you apply them to, to
00:38:48.560
slavery, child pornography, rape, uh, you can easily see that according to these principles,
00:38:55.100
those things are horrific evils. We also recognize it as a matter of natural law. Like we, we inherently
00:39:01.500
recognize it. It's written on our heart. And the same thing goes for abortion. All right. Maybe we'll
00:39:10.260
do one more thing here if I can scroll down to it. Okay. This is important. So the new Pinocchio movie
00:39:18.420
starring Tom Hanks comes out, uh, today, I believe. And it's actually the second Pinocchio film of the
00:39:23.400
year. For some reason they make, there's been like 46 versions of this story, put the film.
00:39:28.220
This one stars Tom Hanks produced by Disney. And it's essentially a shot for shot remake of the
00:39:33.560
Disney cartoon version, except, um, this one is live action, live action, except for Pinocchio himself,
00:39:40.360
of course, who's still like a cartoon because it's, they couldn't find a live action, uh,
00:39:44.500
talking puppet who moves on its own. Anyway, it's getting trashed by critics, 30 some percent
00:39:49.400
critic rate, critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The audience hates it too. Um, the audience reviews
00:39:54.500
aren't, aren't much better. Total thrashing across the board. Uh, we haven't yet been told
00:39:59.380
that it's because of racism, but I'm waiting for that to happen because I think there is,
00:40:04.080
they did add, they did add a, uh, a black character into the film, like a character that
00:40:09.260
didn't even exist. It wasn't just changing one of the characters to make them black, but they added
00:40:13.460
a character, I think in this version of Pinocchio, uh, black woman who appears and pops up throughout.
00:40:19.960
And so maybe that will be their excuse. Once this thing does terribly and everyone hates it,
00:40:26.080
they're going to say, Oh, it's only because of racism. It's because he didn't like that character.
00:40:29.920
The review in the Telegraph gives it one star, uh, reading. Some of it says when Gus Van
00:40:33.980
Sand directed a shot by shot replica of Psycho in 1998, the exercise was widely decried as a cash-in.
00:40:39.980
Perhaps if he'd waited 20 more years, he would have been hailed as a marketing genius.
00:40:43.960
Disney's latest live action remake of a classic from the studio's animation vault even looks like
00:40:48.240
a business calculation before you press play. Rather than playing in theaters, it's going
00:40:52.200
straight online as a free-to-view enticement to Disney Plus subscribers. Uh, the company has been
00:40:57.140
criticized for releasing films directly onto their streaming service. The sheer hawkish expediency of it
00:41:01.700
seemed to reduce the ravishingly crafted likes of Pixar's Soul and Turning Red to mere time-passing
00:41:07.060
content. But content is the only appropriate term for this garish, dead-eyed exercise,
00:41:11.880
which recreates the 1940 masterpiece largely scene for scene, albeit with a handful of instantly
00:41:16.960
forgettable minor detours. Pinocchio is now assisted on and off by a young female puppeteer slash
00:41:23.020
ballerina, for instance, presumably to help redress the story's gender balance. So I think that's the
00:41:28.560
black character that was added in, which means that this review is horribly racist. You have to like
00:41:33.120
the film now. But here's the point. I bring this up because, um, I really think that this is the
00:41:38.140
worst thing Disney is doing right now. And maybe the best argument for ditching Disney and all of
00:41:46.440
these movie studios, it's, well, it's not quite as bad as the woke stuff and child grooming, but it's,
00:41:51.840
it's pretty bad. And it's all connected anyway, because the whole point or part of the point of
00:41:56.120
these remakes is to woke-ify the films. They're, they are corrections, they're correctives taking out the
00:42:02.260
quote-unquote problematic aspects of the stories and replacing it with something that is more palatable
00:42:07.580
for modern people. But even without the woke stuff, it's still just an abomination. I mean, Disney is so
00:42:14.380
bereft of ideas, so totally devoid of creativity, that now they're simply going through their old
00:42:21.860
catalog and producing the exact same films again, except this time without the charm or originality
00:42:28.800
or personality. It's not even a remake. And you know, think of a remake, you think of a, well,
00:42:33.300
taking a film and we're going to tell the same basic story, but it's going to be our, it's going
00:42:37.100
to be a new take on an old story. That's what a remake is. And in that sense, a lot of these old
00:42:42.540
classic Disney films were already remakes because they were taking stories that already existed and
00:42:47.380
had been told in different versions, sometimes for centuries, and they were kind of giving their spin on
00:42:52.960
it. But that's not what this is. This is just like a total absolute recreation of what already
00:42:59.080
existed, except without any originality, no personality. This is what happens when art is
00:43:05.840
dead in a culture. What you're left with are these lifeless, hollow recreations. And the premise is
00:43:13.200
ridiculous. Like, oh, let's do a live action version. As if the lack of realism in the first version
00:43:22.700
was a problem. No, it wasn't. I mean, it's, it's, it's actually absurd to do a realistic version
00:43:29.520
of a movie about a puppet who comes to life or a realistic version about a version of a movie about
00:43:35.440
a singing mermaid or a blue genie who lives in a lamp. Let's have that, but make it realistic this
00:43:42.080
time. Think about the Lion King remake, which I think the Lion King remake is, is maybe Hollywood's
00:43:49.360
greatest abomination of all time. You're taking this, this cartoon that was only, that only came
00:43:54.640
out, you know, 20 years ago, 25 years ago, calling it a live action remake, which of course it isn't
00:44:00.960
because there's still, it still is starring talking lions and there are no real ones. So it's still
00:44:05.260
animation, but we're going to take this cartoon and we're going to do it again, shot for shot.
00:44:10.660
And it's still going to be a cartoon, but this time it's going to look realistic.
00:44:13.720
Except that now, now you've got realistic looking lions going around singing and talking to each
00:44:19.800
other. It just looks, what before was, was cute and creative and had charm and personality now just
00:44:24.820
looks weird and awkward and, and bizarre. So the cartoon is part of the art. And so what they're
00:44:33.900
saying now is, well, let's, let's do it again without the art. Let's, let's have, let's try this piece
00:44:38.720
of art, but take out the art and see what happens. What you're left with is something totally empty and
00:45:00.400
Johnny Walker says, Matt makes great points about holding companies accountable. That's why the DW
00:45:04.920
doesn't use YouTube or Twitter. That's why Matt and Shapiro don't have Twitter pages. You guys use
00:45:09.620
those tools to get large. And a lot of us have no other options. If we want to do something similar
00:45:13.340
to what DW does, I don't use a lot of these companies that express views like this, but when
00:45:19.060
you turn around and see large conservative companies using them while telling us not to, what is a woman
00:45:23.240
was great. There's nothing offensive in there except for the people you interview who are hard to
00:45:26.460
stomach. Well, I've actually never said that you shouldn't use Twitter or YouTube or Facebook or
00:45:30.660
Instagram or whatever. I have said the opposite pretty consistently. I think that if you can use
00:45:35.840
those platforms to amplify a message of truth and rationality and morality, if you can do that,
00:45:45.540
then absolutely you should. Use the platforms to undermine the ideological agenda of the people who run
00:45:54.200
them. I think that's a, that's a good thing to do. We should be doing that. I am actually, I am against
00:46:01.780
this idea that conservatives should remove themselves from all these platforms and then go gather in
00:46:08.560
these kind of conservative ghettos of these like other social media platforms that are made just for
00:46:13.920
conservatives where no one's paying attention. It's not relevant. No one cares what you say there. It's an echo
00:46:19.140
chamber. And, um, and not only is it like not nearly as fun when there's nobody to argue with,
00:46:24.160
but also it's just, there's no cultural purchase there. There's no relevance. Uh, so I'm against
00:46:29.380
that. I think that it's, it's a good idea to be on these platforms and to use that to spread a message
00:46:34.000
as long as we can. Now, if you get to the point on a platform where you simply can't speak the truth
00:46:39.440
anymore, it's just, it's not allowed. And the only way to stay there is to abandon the truth. Well,
00:46:44.620
then we shouldn't be on the platforms anymore, but we're not quite there yet. I mean, I, for
00:46:49.560
instance, I can, you know, what is a woman? One of the reasons why what is a woman was so successful
00:46:54.760
and so many people saw it is that we were able to use these social media platforms to promote it,
00:46:58.620
which is, which is a good thing because then people were exposed to it or otherwise wouldn't
00:47:02.800
have been. So that's the issue. I think, um, when we talk about boycotts and conservatives,
00:47:09.660
not, you know, patronizing these woke companies, I think that in particular applies to products,
00:47:17.020
services, content, whatever, where all we are is consumers. It's not a platform that we're using
00:47:24.160
to spread a message. It's just something that we're consuming and that's it. And especially where
00:47:29.120
there are other options. So we could become consumers of this woke company, or in fact,
00:47:35.420
we could go somewhere else. There's actually another option. It might take, you know, a little
00:47:41.140
bit of time to find it, but they are, but they are there. So that's what I'm talking about. Now,
00:47:45.100
Eventbrite, yeah, it kind of falls in between. I'll admit it's, um, it can be, it's not just a product
00:47:52.500
or something that we're consuming. It is a platform. It could be a useful thing for getting out a
00:47:58.440
conservative message, except that now apparently you can't. So are we going to keep using it?
00:48:05.820
That's, that's the point. GigaSniper says, Matt, I took someone out on a date to watch What is a
00:48:11.120
Woman? Uh, my date told me I should start dressing like you and that look is extremely manly. The
00:48:16.060
flannels must return for the sake of us men. We need a strong manly fit figure to lead us, not erase
00:48:21.640
us. Well, I'm here at least on Fridays. You have that until flannel Friday becomes flannel Thursday
00:48:29.060
and Wednesday. It could happen. Uh, Courtney Gross says, Matt, if you want a great kid show,
00:48:34.540
you need to watch Bluey. Yes, it's on Disney, but, uh, I have not yet, yet come across anything that
00:48:39.520
I'm worried about regarding leftist agenda propaganda. Its characters are cute. I find myself
00:48:44.600
cracking up at the humorous ways the parents handle their two puppies. I love it. And I think you will too.
00:48:48.920
Um, yeah, I've heard of Bluey, but wasn't there a woke thing with Bluey? I don't know
00:48:53.840
this, but I, I seem to remember there being some, some recent story about wokeness injected into this
00:49:01.420
Bluey show. I could be wrong, but it's something to look into. Um, Mark says, Matt, a few days ago
00:49:08.440
on your show, you seem to call into question the notion of Christian forgiveness. I appreciate you
00:49:12.420
and your show, but you do not know more than Jesus Christ. Humble yourself, brother, and remember
00:49:16.600
who's in charge. I don't claim to know more than Jesus, but I do know what Jesus said. And I know
00:49:22.080
that he calls on us to forgive those who persecute us, right? You are much like with compassion. This
00:49:30.140
is you taking on the suffering of another. If you're, if you're making someone else take on the
00:49:34.520
suffering, it's not compassionate. Uh, same thing with forgiveness. You are called to forgive offenses
00:49:40.660
committed, committed against you. If your brother offends you, you should forgive him seven times,
00:49:47.820
seven times, seven times, and so on, right? If he offends you, but if it isn't you that's suffering
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the persecution or the harm, then it's not up to you to forgive it. And that was my point on bringing
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this up a few days ago is that, is that sometimes Christians will use forgiveness as a cover for what
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is really indifference or cowardice because they don't want to get involved in a situation. So instead they
00:50:10.020
say, or there's, there's some sort of evil going on that they don't want to denounce.
00:50:13.540
And so instead they say, I, I, I, I forgive, I forgive the person committing this evil. It's not
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up for you to forgive. Someone else is, is, is falling victim to it. I think a particular example
00:50:23.740
where this came up was the, the kids who are being mutilated and butchered by the gender affirmers.
00:50:31.420
Well, it's not good enough for you to say, uh, I forgive, I forgive my enemies. I forgive them.
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It's not you being mutilated and butchered. It's the kids. So you're
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forgiveness is worthless in that case. What does that even mean? It's like if, if you,
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um, if someone stole your car and you were upset about it and I came up to you and I patted you on
00:50:50.960
the shoulder and I said, Hey man, listen, I forgive the person who did this to you. What? Of course.
00:50:58.260
Yeah. That's easy for you to do. This doesn't concern you. Um, that's a, that is at best a very cheap
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forgiveness where you are not harmed. You are not concerned. Uh, you were not persecuted. Someone
00:51:11.420
else was, but you forgive them. No, as I said, that's to me, that's, uh, not forgiveness. That's
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indifference. And there's certainly a difference. Well, if you thought the walrus gate, uh, emotional
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rollercoaster wasn't wild enough, I'm here to add to the loops and corkscrews that tug violently at the
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as I'm sure you can imagine, is about one of the millions of children traumatized by the grave
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hostage situation involving my giant walrus. I'll let the child's solemn letter speak for itself,
00:51:47.560
but I know that he speaks on behalf of all mankind and all walrus kind. So this is a real,
00:51:52.000
it's actually a real letter, right? It's actually sent to us. Uh, it is real. Dear Mr. Matt,
00:51:57.060
I like your book. I hope Mr. Ben gives you your walrus back from, uh, Eliana and my mom
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from the mouth of babes. Okay. This is a child has spoken out. Even the children are crying out.
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There you have it. How far must this go? How long must I be, must I be tormented? How many children
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must be affected? Think of the children. Uh, I still have not, nor may I ever receive my walrus,
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Well, even as big tech continues to conspire to suppress my documentary, What is a Woman,
00:54:00.320
most recently with Eventbrite's decision to ban all screening events and watch parties from their
00:54:04.740
platform, still the ideas from the film and the question, the ultimate question, are out there.
00:54:10.340
Nothing can be done now to stop that. In fact, the left is finally beginning to realize that they must
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come up with some kind of answer. They can't dodge it forever. And that's why today for our daily
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cancellation, I'm going to take a look at two of the most recent attempts to answer, and if not answer,
00:54:24.360
then at least handle the great question of our time, what is a woman? So we begin with a man named
00:54:30.480
Matt Ho, who is running for Senate in North Carolina on the Green Party platform. Matt was very proud of
00:54:36.880
himself a few days ago when he tweeted this, quote, today I got my first what is a woman question.
00:54:42.720
Before I could say anything, my campaign manager replied, F off transphobe. There was no reason to
00:54:48.600
say anything else. Hashtag F off transphobe. Hashtag trans rights are human rights. Now as a Green Party
00:54:55.340
candidate, I must admit it takes some guts to alienate 50% of your electoral base by cussing out
00:55:00.640
one person. Still, it's a rather sad thing to see a grown man proud of the fact that he had to dodge
00:55:08.460
a question that my three-year-old could answer. Perhaps next he'll brag about the time when someone
00:55:13.880
asked him whether the earth is flat or round, and he responded by bursting into tears and running out
00:55:19.280
of the room. I mean, these are moments of true courage, right? Now I tried to explain to Matt that
00:55:25.360
F off is not exactly a sufficient answer to the question. And to his credit, he did give another
00:55:31.040
attempt to actually answer it. Less to his credit, his second attempt is arguably even dumber than his
00:55:36.640
first. A few hours later, he tweeted this, for all the people demanding an answer as to what is a woman,
00:55:43.120
a woman is a person who identifies as an adult female. Hashtag trans rights are human rights.
00:55:48.720
Now look, in a certain sense, this is progress. At least he's not attempting to define the word woman
00:55:55.700
by using the word woman. And yet this definition has its own very significant problems, because a
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female person is a human being who is of the nature to bear offspring and who produces ova, which are
00:56:08.440
female gametes or reproductive cells. So if someone identifies as female, then they are identifying as a
00:56:16.180
human capable of bearing offspring and producing ova. But a male who identifies as producing ova
00:56:22.800
still cannot produce ova. He produces sperm, which are male gametes. No matter how he feels or what he
00:56:30.260
says or how he identifies, he will produce male reproductive cells all the same. Therefore, identifying
00:56:35.900
as female when you're male is no different in kind than identifying as seven feet tall when you're
00:56:40.840
actually five and a half feet tall. So what Matt is claiming is that there is basically no difference,
00:56:45.760
definitionally, between an actual seven foot tall human being and a human being who's a foot and a
00:56:50.160
half shorter, but views themselves as equal in height to the seven foot person. But that's nonsense.
00:56:56.520
I mean, if it's true that females are females, but then males can be females too, that means that
00:57:03.760
females effectively don't exist. And if they don't exist, then it doesn't make any sense to identify
00:57:08.760
as one. You can only identify as that which can be defined. But if it can't be defined, or rather,
00:57:14.020
if it can be defined, then there must be a physical reality against which your self-identification can
00:57:19.600
be judged accurate or inaccurate. So if females exist, then males cannot be females. And if females
00:57:25.860
do not exist, then males also cannot be females. So no matter what you do, males cannot be females.
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And Matt Ho is left up a creek without a paddle, and nobody is even sending a search party for him
00:57:39.120
because nobody will know that he's missing because he's a Green Party candidate. It's a terrible
00:57:42.780
situation all around. But if a politician on Twitter can't solve the riddle, maybe somebody
00:57:49.700
on TikTok can. There's a video going around, recently gone viral, from a user called Circus
00:57:55.540
Pork Roast, who, I mean, that's her username, who believes that she has finally, once and for all,
00:58:02.680
come up with the answer to the dreaded question. Let's listen.
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I keep seeing all these clips from the Matt Walsh documentary, What is a Woman?, where he asks these,
00:58:13.060
you know, gender studies experts, what is a woman? And then when they give him these, like,
00:58:18.700
long, carefully thought out answers that, like, delve into the identity and the complexities of,
00:58:24.800
you know, the label of woman, he basically mocks them for not being able to give him, like,
00:58:30.240
a short, concise, biologically truthful answer. If you've watched any of these clips, and you
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yourself have wondered, I don't understand why they can't just give, like, a simple answer. Like,
00:58:41.060
it's such a simple question. I'm going to compare it to something else. And I'm going to ask you this
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question. What is a mother? Can you tell me that in one sentence? Yes, I can. Thank you for asking.
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Mother is a term that describes a woman's relationship to her children. There you go.
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That's what it means. Hopefully, we can all move on with our lives now, but I suspect that's not the
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case. And you might say, oh, well, obviously, a mother is someone who has given birth and then
00:59:08.860
raised children. But it's actually a lot more complicated than that, right? Because, yes,
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there are mothers who were pregnant and gave birth to children and then raised those children,
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and we all agree those are mothers. But there's also people who adopted children. They didn't give
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birth. They were never pregnant. But we still consider them to be mothers because they take on
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the societal role of mother, and they accept that as their role. And then there's also people who gave
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birth and then gave those children up for adoption and wanted nothing to do with them and don't
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consider themselves to be mothers. Are those mothers? Do we consider those mothers as well?
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And then there's also people who were pregnant but had a miscarriage. They consider themselves to be
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mothers. But there are certain people who argue against that and say, well, no, your baby was never
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born and therefore you're not a mother. And then there are people who raise their nieces and nephews or
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their grandchildren as their own children. They consider themselves to be mothers even though they
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are also aunts or grandmothers, therefore taking on two separate labels at once. And both of those
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things are true at the same time. And so, as you can see, a supposedly simple question that seems to be
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rooted in biological reality is actually much more rooted in the societal roles that people play and
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the labels that they accept upon themselves. And the same thing is true of gender. It's partially rooted
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in biology, but in our modern times, it's more so rooted in the roles we play in society and the labels
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we accept for ourselves. Okay, let's try our best to sort through this. First of all, nothing that you
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said there actually makes the term mother confusing or opaque. As I already noted, the word mother
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describes a woman in relation to her children. A woman who gives birth to offspring is a mother. A
01:01:08.040
woman who conceives children who then tragically die in utero is also a mother. A woman who adopts
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a child is a mother too, because that child, once adopted, is her child. What does it mean for him to be
01:01:19.060
her child? Well, she's taking on the role as his primary female caretaker. She's accepting a unique
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legal and moral responsibility for and to the child. She is dedicating her life to him. She's a
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mother. This is not confusing. Now, there is some nuance here, sure. A child who is put up for
01:01:36.200
adoption may end up with, in effect, two mothers, because the woman who gave birth to him is a mother
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in the biological sense, while the woman who adopts him is a mother in every other sense. This is why we
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often distinguish in those situations between mother and biological mother. Again, it's not really
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confusing. You only want to make it seem confusing because you think it helps you make something else
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seem confusing too. And that brings us to the second point. Even if I agree that the word mother
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is somehow vague or ambiguous, which I don't, that still wouldn't at all prove that the word woman is
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vague or ambiguous. There are ideas and concepts that are difficult and hard to define. That doesn't
01:02:15.760
make all ideas and concepts difficult and hard to define. You can't prove that one word has no
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objective definition simply by asserting that some other word has no objective definition. This is what
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they do all the time. They say, well, you asked me to identify, to define woman. Can you identify this
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other word? What does that have to do with this word we're talking about? So because one word can't be
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defined, that means no word can be defined. It's especially absurd in this case when the other
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word, mother, actually does have an objective definition and everyone knows what the word means.
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The reason why mother has some extra complexity is that it is a word which describes a role and a
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relationship. You're right about that. But it's a role and relationship specifically fulfilled by women.
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Mother is a role that many women fill. But being a woman itself is not a role or a relationship. It is
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by definition a physical, biological identity. After all, if mother is a role and woman is a role,
01:03:22.200
then who exactly is filling these roles? We can only say anything about mothers at all if we first
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establish that women exist and can be defined. There are plenty of other words that describe roles that
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women play or relationships they take part in, sister, aunt, girlfriend, waitress, actress, etc.
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All of these are roles that a woman can play. But even if on the margins there is some element of
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ambiguity in some of these roles, the roles can only exist and we can only talk about them if women exist
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first. And whatever ambiguity you can find in the role does not at all even come close to creating
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ambiguity around the concept of womanhood itself. But all of this could almost be put to the side.
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Because here's the real question for you. Whatever you think about mothers, whatever you think about
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women, I ask you this. If a man with no children, who isn't even a caretaker of children, like he sits at
01:04:22.280
home all day playing video games, like he doesn't, he's not even around children. If he stood up one
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day and declared that he's a mother, would you accept that self-identification as valid? Would
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you say, well, I guess you're a mother too? In other words, if I agree that the word mother has some
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complexity and nuance to it, does that mean that just anyone can legitimately claim the title for
01:04:44.740
themselves? Does physical reality impose no requirements at all on the person who makes this claim?
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It may be difficult to wrap your arms around all that the word mother describes, but does that mean
01:04:57.260
that it describes nothing? Does the word have a complex meaning or no meaning? You're wondering
01:05:06.380
whether an aunt or a grandmother who's very close to a child counts as a mother, but would you wonder
01:05:11.540
whether my five-year-old son counts as a mother? I assume you would not. So you may struggle with the
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concept around the margins, yet you know that the word means something, and it therefore excludes
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people, lots of people actually, regardless of what they say about themselves or what anyone else says
01:05:27.520
about them. And if you would agree that the word mother cannot be applied to just anyone, then you
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must agree that the word woman cannot be applied to just anyone. There is a reality that the word
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describes, both in the case of women and mothers, there's a reality that it describes, which means that
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someone can make a claim, can identify themselves, and be wrong about it, because it does not comport with the
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reality that the words are supposed to describe. That's the real point that you should be thinking about.
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And you'll have plenty of time to think about it, because you are, today, on this first Flannel
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Friday, canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. We
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move on to our member segment. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.