The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1032 - An Epidemic Of Lonely, Alienated Young Men

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, there is a crisis in our culture of lonely, disaffected young men,

00:00:05.040 but anyone who speaks up for them, like Jordan Peterson, is villainized. Why? We'll talk about

00:00:09.060 that today. Also, a House hearing on abortion descends once again into anti-science nonsense.

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00:01:49.460 Last week, a film that had been grabbing headlines for reasons that have nothing to do with the film

00:01:54.260 itself finally premiered. Olivia Wilde's Don't Worry Darling is, from what I've read, a sort of

00:02:00.060 feminist fever dream of a film, woke in the extreme, and yet of such low quality that most movie critics

00:02:07.220 have actually panned it despite agreeing with and applauding its politics. Now, fortunately for the

00:02:12.280 critics, Olivia Wilde is white and I think straight, and so they're allowed to criticize her work. You

00:02:18.000 know, they're actually allowed to do that, and so in this case they have. The movie had a relatively

00:02:22.080 strong debut at the box office, helped by all of the news coverage it had gotten due to gossip and

00:02:27.840 drama behind the scenes, the details of which are too tedious and boring to bother recapping here. 0.95

00:02:33.020 But sales began tumbling a few days after the release as audiences realized that the film is garbage and 0.83

00:02:38.520 word began to spread. It's sort of unfortunate in a way. You know, Hollywood finally puts out a movie

00:02:43.700 that isn't based on a comic book or some other pre-existing brand, and it sucks. So I have a 0.95

00:02:49.440 feeling the industry will learn all of the wrong lessons from this outcome. But months before the

00:02:54.760 film came out, Wilde had explained that the villain in the movie is based on Jordan Peterson, whose excellent

00:03:02.100 content, by the way, is now available on Daily Wire+. Wilde said that Peterson himself is, quote,

00:03:08.180 a hero to the incel community, which she defined as, quote, disenfranchised, mostly white men who 0.79

00:03:15.320 believe they're entitled to sex from women, and they believe that society has now robbed them,

00:03:20.060 that the idea of feminism is working against nature, and that we must put back into the correct 0.97

00:03:24.880 place. She then accused Peterson of, quote, legitimizing certain aspects of their movement

00:03:30.240 because he's a former professor, he's an author, he wears a suit, so they feel like this is a real

00:03:35.200 philosophy that should be taken seriously. Now, almost everything that you can hear in that quote

00:03:41.540 there is false and stupid. It's like a seven-layer cake of wrongness, just totally ridiculous on 1.00

00:03:46.920 multiple levels. But how does Jordan Peterson himself feel about it? Well, he was asked about it 0.95

00:03:52.220 by Piers Morgan last night while he was visiting Piers Morgan's show, and here's what he said. Watch.

00:03:58.800 I want to ask you just quickly, the film director Olivia Wilde has a new movie out, which she says is

00:04:04.540 based on you, this insane man, this pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community, incel being these 0.57

00:04:11.160 weirdo loner men who are despicable in many ways. Is that you? Are you the intellectual hero to these 0.99

00:04:20.100 people? Sure. Why not? You know, people have been after me for a long time by, because I've been

00:04:29.700 speaking to disaffected young men. You know, what a terrible thing to do that is. I thought the

00:04:35.660 marginalized were supposed to have a voice. It's making you emotional, talk about it. Well, God, you 1.00

00:04:40.980 know, it's very difficult to understand how demoralized people are. And certainly many

00:04:48.720 young men are in that category. And you get these casual insults, these incels. What do they

00:04:56.440 mean? It's like, well, these men, they don't know how to make themselves attractive to women

00:05:01.200 who are very picky. And good for them. Women, like, be picky. That's your gift, man. Demand 1.00

00:05:08.580 high standards from your men. Fair enough. But all these men who are alienated, it's like

00:05:13.680 they're lonesome. And they don't know what to do. And everyone piles abuse on them.

00:05:20.080 When she said that, Olivia Wilde, it stung you, didn't it? I saw the direction.

00:05:24.620 Oh, by that time, you know, as far as critiques go, that was kind of low level. I mean, once

00:05:32.540 I got painted as Red Skull, you know, magical super Nazi, that was kind of the end of the 0.85

00:05:39.680 insults. Now, Peterson has been trending today because of that clip with thousands of leftists

00:05:47.200 mocking him for becoming emotional and slightly teary-eyed. Media headlines from outlets like

00:05:52.660 Variety declare, Jordan Peterson breaks down in tears when asked about Olivia Wilde calling him

00:05:58.020 the hero to the incel community. Now, the headlines are, of course, meant to stir up even more mockery.

00:06:03.520 And they also are meant to give the false impression that Peterson was crying over the

00:06:07.560 insult from Olivia Wilde. No, obviously, it's not the case. He makes clear that he doesn't care what

00:06:12.340 Olivia Wilde says. And why would he? Does anyone? He became emotional when speaking about disaffected,

00:06:18.480 despairing young men. Those were tears of empathy, not self-pity. Okay, this was not a

00:06:25.020 Taylor Lorenz-type crying fit. It was in every way the opposite. But this is an interesting thing

00:06:33.020 that you might notice. The left constantly insists that men should be less stoic, should show more

00:06:39.740 emotion. And then when a man does exactly that and shows emotion, he's ruthlessly ridiculed for it.

00:06:47.140 So they say that men should be vulnerable, but the moment that any man actually takes them up on it,

00:06:52.600 his vulnerability is wielded against him, used against him. And if men notice that this is how

00:07:00.380 it works and thus resolve to be even more closed off and reserved, they'll be accused of toxic

00:07:05.320 masculinity. It's a game that men cannot win because no matter what they say or do, no matter how they 0.83

00:07:10.540 react to any situation, they lose. And that is really the point, isn't it? Jordan Peterson has noticed

00:07:18.380 the ways that our culture stacks the deck against young men, isolates them, disenfranchises them,

00:07:24.240 alienates them. He speaks with empathy to and about this group of people, and that's the primary

00:07:30.440 reason why he is hated so much by the left. People like Olivia Wilde have made it clear that young men

00:07:36.160 should be lectured and nagged and treated with disdain. We should make no attempt to understand them,

00:07:43.640 least of all guide them and champion them. We can't do that. And that's why anyone who does so,

00:07:49.280 any figure who comes along and tries to give alienated young men a voice and thus earns a

00:07:56.120 large following of exactly those kinds of men is going to get kicked off social media, de-platformed,

00:08:01.560 villainized, etc. We've seen this play out countless times, not just with Jordan Peterson.

00:08:07.280 I mean, can you think of an example of a public figure who has garnered an audience,

00:08:12.060 who's known to have garnered an audience largely of men and yet has not been labeled controversial

00:08:17.960 because of it? The message is made loud and clear. You may ignore these people or you may demonize

00:08:27.720 them, but you must not treat them with respect or advocate for them or try to understand them.

00:08:35.700 Because if you do that, you're a danger, you're a threat. You're a hero to the incel community. Of 0.99

00:08:41.780 course, we have to keep in mind that whenever anyone on the left uses the term incel, they simply mean

00:08:46.780 all men who are not avowed woke leftists. That's what an incel is. It is at this point, nothing but

00:08:53.860 an anti-male slur used against literally any man who's judged to be a political enemy.

00:09:00.100 You don't need to gather on 4chan and you certainly don't need to be an involuntary celibate

00:09:04.740 to earn the title. I mean, they use that term against me and I have a wife and six kids.

00:09:09.640 If you can be an incel while driving your family in your 12-passenger van to church, 0.70

00:09:15.460 then the term obviously has a much broader meaning. It's just another way, another label

00:09:20.140 meant to stigmatize and alienate. And it works. Because no matter what you think,

00:09:29.380 no matter what image you have of the world, no matter what your politics or your ideology demands

00:09:35.640 you believe, no matter how deeply you believe in the fiction of male privilege, the fact is

00:09:41.800 that a huge number of men in our culture, especially young men, are deeply lonely, lost, frustrated,

00:09:50.340 isolated. I mean, I hear from these men every day. Jordan Peterson hears from them

00:09:55.100 at an exponentially greater volume. That's why he gets emotional when he talks about the issue,

00:09:59.220 because encountering the depths of other people's despair every day takes a toll.

00:10:06.600 I mean, it's an enormous burden, emotional burden, that sociopaths on the left can't understand.

00:10:12.740 I mean, they literally can't understand empathy. When they see it, they just laugh at it because

00:10:17.100 they don't know what else to do with it. But it leaves us again with this stark fact that these men

00:10:22.680 exist and denying that they exist only contributes to the problem. But it's easy to see why the left

00:10:32.220 doesn't want to acknowledge the societal crisis of marginalized, disenfranchised young men. Because

00:10:39.120 for one thing, the left has this complicated, ever-changing victim pyramid to maintain. And a victim

00:10:45.600 pyramid requires a villain. With all those victims around, we need someone to do the victimizing. 0.79

00:10:51.440 Men, especially white men, have been assigned that role. But much as comic book films don't usually spend

00:10:57.300 too much time humanizing their supervillains for fear that they might, you know, become too sympathetic

00:11:03.460 and then you're not going to root for the good guys anymore, so too does the left avoid humanizing their

00:11:08.100 own chosen villains, and for the same reason. That's why they treat it like a big secret. Like, no, no, no,

00:11:14.040 you're not, these people aren't human beings. You can't, no, no, no, no. We have, we can describe

00:11:20.420 these people in one sentence and you're not allowed to go beyond that sentence. But I think there's a

00:11:26.380 deeper reason also why they would prefer to ignore this group. And that's because young men and young

00:11:33.080 women in this culture are suffering from despair and hopelessness and purposelessness because this 1.00

00:11:41.080 is what the sexual revolution and our culture's continued lurch leftward has brought. You know,

00:11:47.880 if you acknowledge the men, if you take their pain seriously, then you've opened a conversation that the left

00:11:54.840 doesn't want to have. Because it's a conversation about how all of their promises have been empty. Their

00:12:02.980 revolution failed. I mean, they created despair where they promised happiness and emptiness where they promised

00:12:12.680 fulfillment. That's why these men must continue to be ignored. And anyone who speaks for them silenced.

00:12:23.520 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:12:33.140 So there was a House Oversight Committee hearing on abortion yesterday. Yet another one. So they have

00:12:39.320 committee hearings on abortion, it seems like three or four times a week. And they had another one

00:12:44.460 here. A few moments worth revisiting, I think. We'll start with Dr. Bhavik Kumar. Kumar identifies as a

00:12:52.960 trans and abortion care provider and was brought on as an expert witness. And there are a couple of

00:13:00.560 moments here. We'll start with this where we're told that, among other things, hurricanes require abortions.

00:13:09.400 There's a connection between hurricanes and abortions. How could that possibly be the case? Well, let's listen to the

00:13:16.180 connection as it's made here.

00:13:17.700 This nationwide abortion ban, 15-week nationwide abortion ban, Dr. Kumar, a 2021 study predicted a 21% increase in

00:13:28.780 pregnancy-related deaths if an abortion ban were imposed, with black women facing a predicted increase of 33%.

00:13:37.620 Can you explain to us why there would be an increase in pregnancy-related deaths, as well as more black 1.00

00:13:45.980 women, a 33% increase in black women dying as well? 1.00

00:13:52.000 Sure. Thank you for that question. What I would point to first is a recent CDC report that looked at

00:13:57.180 maternal mortality in our country and actually found that four out of five of those deaths are

00:14:01.840 preventable. Some of the top conditions that they talked about were mental health conditions, such as

00:14:06.320 suicidality or depression, excessive bleeding referred to as hemorrhage, cardiac conditions, which are

00:14:11.400 highest among black women, and also hypertension-related conditions. All of these things are

00:14:15.540 preventable. When we look at today's landscape of abortion access and we talk about a 15-week ban, we can look at

00:14:20.820 Florida, for example, what's happening today with a natural disaster hurricane. As that state has a 15-week ban and we think about what's

00:14:27.420 happening to families, what's happening to their homes, folks that may be 13 weeks pregnant or even 10 weeks pregnant, as they deal with the

00:14:33.560 things that they're having to deal with in their lives, they're being pushed further and further into pregnancy. When we look at the

00:14:37.800 landscape around accessing abortion and the limited number of clinics that are still available in Haven states and how long people are

00:14:44.060 waiting sometimes several weeks, that's also pushing them further into pregnancy. So these impacts are always felt

00:14:48.740 disproportionately by people of color, especially low-income folks and also black folks. And that's what we'll continue to see, but it will only 1.00

00:14:54.600 worsen from here. 1.00

00:14:56.900 My God, these people are such demonic, satanic freaks. I mean, they really are. 1.00

00:15:03.860 The problem, so what we're worried about with the hurricane is that it's pushing people into pregnancy.

00:15:10.020 So there's a hurricane slamming Florida and destroying wide swaths of the state and cities and people are getting

00:15:19.500 swept away and houses are destroyed. But the thing that Dr. Bhavi Kumar is worried about is that it's going to push

00:15:25.380 people into pregnancy. Well, this hurricane might lead to fewer babies dying.

00:15:32.720 Just think about what a twisted, sociopathic, bloodthirsty goblin you have to be to see a hurricane. The first 0.98

00:15:44.160 thing that comes to mind is, oh my God, more babies might be born because of this. But somehow that's not

00:15:52.300 even the most, you know, the headline from the clip you just heard there, because right before that,

00:15:58.620 we're told, and this is an important point, actually, because they talk about the maternal

00:16:03.040 mortality rate. And of course, everybody agrees that maternal mortality, people, you know, women

00:16:10.260 dying in childbirth is a terrible thing. We have to do everything we can to prevent it. But on the left,

00:16:17.340 they're very invested in making childbirth seem as dangerous as possible. I mean, the great thing about 0.78

00:16:24.520 living in the first world, you know, in a Western civilization is that maternal mortality is, you

00:16:32.000 know, it's, you know, childbirth is very, very safe. So it's a rare exception when somebody dies

00:16:39.300 from childbirth in this country in modern times. It wasn't always that way. It isn't that way

00:16:44.520 necessarily in other parts of the world, in third world countries, where they don't have access to

00:16:48.420 the same medical care. But in this country, it is. I mean, it does happen, but it's rare. Thank God.

00:16:53.000 Right. But on the left, they're very invested in making, in making child, you know, childbirth seem

00:16:59.900 even more dangerous. They want it to be dangerous because then they can use it as a rationale for

00:17:07.980 having more abortions. But there are a couple of problems here. First of all, you heard him say

00:17:13.300 that when it comes to maternal mortality, you know, the number one cause is suicidality and depression.

00:17:21.880 And so they're counting suicide as a death caused by childbirth. They're including that in maternal

00:17:30.460 mortality, the maternal mortality rate, according to what we just heard there, suicide. Now, of course,

00:17:36.660 when they, if they don't specify that and you hear about maternal mortality, nobody thinks suicide.

00:17:41.840 You don't think of that as a, as a directly caused by childbirth. I mean, you're thinking of someone,

00:17:46.860 of a woman tragically bleeding out during childbirth or something like that. That's what they want you to

00:17:51.280 think about. But as we just heard, they're, they're sort of padding the stats by adding suicide to it.

00:17:56.560 Now, it's true that, you know, postpartum depression is a real problem. And tragically,

00:18:03.020 there are women who commit suicide suffering from postpartum depression. The question though

00:18:08.620 is, can you solve that problem through abortion? So you kill the baby, does that solve the depression 0.99

00:18:17.180 problem? Let me ask you something. How, so we know about suicide, which they link to postpartum 0.99

00:18:27.120 depression. What about suicide linked to post-abortion depression? We have any stats on that?

00:18:35.300 Well, no, there are basically no stats on it because it never happens. It never happens because

00:18:41.700 women never regret their abortions. That's total nonsense. We know, but there's, there's no one 1.00

00:18:49.440 who feels, you know, the people who are in charge of tabulating these things, there's, there's no real

00:18:54.440 incentive for them to keep track of that. But of course we know the reality is that while postpartum

00:19:04.440 depression is a very real problem, it is, thank God, most of the time, temporary, women get through 0.99

00:19:13.260 it. The guilt and regret and despair that comes from abortion, on the other hand, can be lifelong,

00:19:21.160 never goes away. But if a woman five months after an abortion or 15 years after an abortion

00:19:34.380 commits suicide because she can't deal with the guilt anymore, we're never going to be told about

00:19:38.700 that. They just won't tell us. That, that, that link will never be made in any official sort of

00:19:43.540 context. Uh, then the conversation moved on and got more bizarre as we get to this exchange between

00:19:52.760 the doctor and a Republican lawmaker on the issue of whether men can get pregnant. And you feel like

00:20:02.080 you kind of know what the answer is going to be, but there's, there's, there's one part of this

00:20:05.280 answer that's pretty interesting. So I want you to listen to this. Dr. Kumar, can biological men

00:20:10.980 become pregnant and give birth? Um, so men can have pregnancies, especially trans men.

00:20:19.060 Uh, so can biological men become pregnant and give birth? So are you saying that a biological

00:20:26.320 female who identifies as a man and therefore becomes pregnant is, quote, a man? Is that what 0.93

00:20:32.140 you're saying? These questions about who can become pregnant are really missing the point. I'm here to

00:20:37.100 talk. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is me asking a question and you answering. I'm asking

00:20:43.080 the question, sir, not you. Right. And I'm answering the question. Somebody with a uterus may have the 0.98

00:20:47.480 capability of becoming pregnant, whether they're a woman or a man. That doesn't make a difference. 0.88

00:20:51.560 Okay, we're done. Not every person with a uterus has the ability. This isn't complicated. Let me tell

00:20:55.280 you, if a person has a uterus and is born as a, is born female, they are a woman. That is not a man. And

00:21:01.280 the vast majority of the world considers that to be a woman because there are biological differences 1.00

00:21:05.860 between men and women. I mean, clearly, any high school biology class teaches that men and women 0.98

00:21:14.140 have different chromosomes. Females are XX chromosome and male are XY chromosome. Can't believe it's 0.87

00:21:20.920 necessary to say this, but men cannot get pregnant and cannot get birth, give birth, regardless of

00:21:26.900 how they identify themselves. So we, we see these exchanges now every time, pretty much any time

00:21:33.800 there's a, any hearing in the, in the house that we get, we get this question from a Republican

00:21:38.500 lawmaker, can men give birth? What is a woman? And I think it's great. I mean, it's fantastic. This is

00:21:43.720 exactly what you should be doing. And especially if they're there to talk about anything related to

00:21:49.740 pregnancy, if they're there to talk about anything science related, then yes, you should get them on the

00:21:55.680 record, uh, endorsing the idea that men can give birth. So that's, that is a, this is, this is progress 0.72

00:22:02.840 for the Republican party and I'm glad they're doing it. Uh, but you notice the response there. The

00:22:07.820 response was, yes, men can give, get pregnant, especially trans men, especially not only, but

00:22:16.800 especially now a trans man quote unquote is a woman who identifies as a man. And yes, we all know that

00:22:24.160 those individuals, I mean, if they haven't, uh, mutilated or their body or, or, or sterilized

00:22:29.900 themselves yet, um, they can get pregnant. So we know that yes, it's a woman who calls herself

00:22:38.060 something else or mentally identifies another way can still get pregnant. She still has all the 1.00

00:22:43.200 functions of a woman. That's our point. That's what we're saying that that actually helps us 0.99

00:22:49.680 that yes, no matter how you identify, unless you, unless you go to a surgeon and tell them to start

00:22:55.960 removing parts of your body, it doesn't matter, no matter how you identify your, your, your biological 0.77

00:23:03.080 essence, the biological reality remains. But what about, but, but especially, so especially means that,

00:23:13.640 well, in, in, in particular, uh, women who identify as men can get pregnant, but since you're using the

00:23:20.400 word especially, that would seem to indicate that even non-trans men can get pregnant. So the claim

00:23:27.400 that we just heard from that doctor is that not only women who identify as men can get pregnant, but

00:23:32.560 actual biological men can get pregnant. This is what we hear from doctors now, something that

00:23:43.460 we unfortunately, again, always have to keep in mind when you're going to the doctor, you're

00:23:47.840 consulting any, any healthcare professional, not saying that you never should. I'm not saying that

00:23:52.280 you should, uh, uh, you know, swear off modern medicine entirely. That wouldn't be a good idea for

00:23:57.600 your own health and safety, but you do have to keep in mind that much of the medical profession is

00:24:02.840 totally compromised and has been claimed by this absolute abject insanity. Um, and has lost its grip

00:24:12.160 on physical reality. So you got to remember that and just be cautious and look out for that.

00:24:17.860 A little bit later on, AOC chimed in and had a rebuke for the transphobia that we just heard there,

00:24:23.520 but, but something also to say before that, let's listen.

00:24:27.180 Briefly, I'd like to address some of the prior claims that, uh, and prior, several prior immediate

00:24:33.960 claims. One being that, uh, abortion is not an economic issue and that we should be focused on

00:24:39.640 economic issues. And I also, you know, I think it's important to state that, um, that abortion 0.93

00:24:47.140 is an economic issue, forcing poor and working class people, uh, to give birth, um, against their 0.56

00:24:55.800 will, against their consent, um, against their ability to provide for themselves or a child is a

00:25:04.460 profound economic issue. And it's certainly a way to keep, um, a workforce, uh, basically

00:25:12.480 conscripted, uh, to large scale employers and to employers to be, to work more, uh, against their

00:25:20.120 will, to take second and third jobs against their desire and their own autonomy. And so the idea that,

00:25:26.060 um, that abortion and access to abortion is somehow not a profound and central economic

00:25:33.100 and class issue and class struggle, um, is certainly something that I think a person who's never had

00:25:40.840 to contend, uh, with the ability to carry a child, um, you know, it belies that perspective, um, and it's

00:25:49.200 disappointing to see. Um, but secondly, I think another thing that I'd like, uh, to address is that

00:25:55.380 the same folks who tell, who tell us and told us that COVID COVID's just a flu, that climate change

00:26:03.700 isn't real, that January 6th was nothing but a tourist visit are the same, are now trying to tell

00:26:11.080 us that transgender people are not real. And, um, I would say that their claim, uh, is probably just 0.99

00:26:19.360 as legitimate as all their others, which is to say not very much at all. 1.00

00:26:26.740 She is so stupid all the time. And it's not, it's not a put on, it's not an act. I mean, 1.00

00:26:34.020 some of these people on the left, there are people on the left who are quite intelligent and they're

00:26:38.180 the ones you have to watch out for the most. Uh, they're very smart and, and, um, and scheming

00:26:45.140 and devious and they say things that they know aren't true, but I don't think that's true for

00:26:51.940 AOC. I think she actually is enormously dumb. You know, uh, that's, that's what I think the 1.00

00:26:58.700 issue is for her. So when she says, the trans people exist, you're denying the existence of

00:27:04.880 trans people. I, I, I'm willing to believe that she actually believes that that's the issue here.

00:27:10.060 But of course it isn't. No one is denying that quote, trans people. Obviously we know that

00:27:17.280 otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation. How can you claim in one, in one breath that we're

00:27:24.200 transphobic and in the other breath, we're denying the existence of trans people. If they don't exist,

00:27:29.260 then there's no, so if, are we afraid of them or do we deny they exist? Because if we're denying that

00:27:33.520 they exist, then there'd be nothing to be afraid of. You got to choose one or the other.

00:27:38.860 Now, both are not correct, but at least choose one falsehood or the other,

00:27:44.040 not two falsehoods that contradict each other.

00:27:48.220 People who identify as trans exist. People who make the claim that they are a sex other than what

00:27:58.100 they were born at birth exist. Those people exist. However, the claims they are making about reality

00:28:04.260 are false. That's what we're saying. We're denying their claims, not their physical existence. You

00:28:11.980 moron. What she says before that is even worse though, because she's exactly wrong. She's, she is, 1.00

00:28:19.820 she's, she's chosen a position that is the diametric. She's like on the South pole and what is,

00:28:26.340 and the truth is the North pole. She's in the, she's the, all, she couldn't get farther away from 0.65

00:28:30.920 the truth because she says that it's kind of a conspiracy among corporations and the wealthy

00:28:37.720 to push abortion bans, you know, because it helps their own bottom line. What? 0.65

00:28:45.080 What major corporations are supporting abortion bans?

00:28:51.540 Almost every single one of them have come out and denounced abortion bans. And not only that,

00:28:56.940 but a lot of these corporations are paying to send their employees to other states to get abortions. 1.00

00:29:04.380 That's what the corporations are doing. You ignoramus. That's what almost all of them are doing. 0.99

00:29:10.600 And why would they do that? Because it's better for the corporation. That's better for your employer.

00:29:17.440 If you kill your child, because then you have more time to spend at work. It doesn't help. How does it 0.98

00:29:24.060 help your job? If you have a baby, especially as a woman, it means that you got, you have the baby, 1.00

00:29:29.300 you take maternity leave. And now you have something else in your life that is claiming your time and

00:29:36.660 attention. You have something that is pulling you away from the job, especially as a woman. 0.95

00:29:43.800 Well, the employers, they don't want that. The corporations, they don't want that. So they're going to ship you

00:29:48.780 off and they'll say, sure, we'll pay for your abortion. Yeah, go ahead. We'll do that. It means you have more 1.00

00:29:53.120 time for us. It means that we, as the corporation, we remain the focus of your life. We don't want the baby

00:29:59.000 to be the focus of your life. We don't want your family to be the focus of your life. We want us. We want what

00:30:03.220 happens here in this building, in your dumb little cubicle. We want that to be the thing that's most 1.00

00:30:07.540 important to you. And that's why they pay for the abortions. So she literally could not be more wrong

00:30:15.720 about that. All right. Let's move on before I get heated. Too late, probably. So this shouldn't be

00:30:25.720 funny, but it is. And you've probably seen this clip already, but I have to play it anyway. Vice put

00:30:30.340 together a puff piece about how society is too mean to sex offenders and we need to treat sex

00:30:38.700 offenders better. We have to reintegrate them into society, poor victims and all that. And the report 1.00

00:30:44.900 ended this way. I'm definitely hopeful. I like the position I'm in. I ain't finna let stuff stop me.

00:30:53.260 Not even this. Or DNA or a person's opinion. Like, we all out here in this world and we all

00:31:03.920 got to make it happen. It ain't nothing stopping me. So like, I'm very hopeful and confident.

00:31:11.840 After this interview, Ashif sent a picture of his penis to our producer. 0.98

00:31:15.580 He later said through his lawyer that he sent it by mistake. 0.98

00:31:24.860 Mistake. Very plausible excuse.

00:31:28.260 It's a shame, too, that it turns out he's still a sexual deviant because I thought his insights were

00:31:34.720 quite profound. You know, he said he's not going to let anything, any stuff stop him.

00:31:39.560 You know, we all got to make it happen in life. That's real insight. That's Kamala Harris level

00:31:46.740 insight. You know. So, turns out, you know, he's one of the people being profiled. Let's reintegrate

00:31:55.000 him into society. And he sexually harasses one of the producers on the story that is meant to paint

00:32:03.680 him in a positive light. There was a follow up interview with a producer of this of this

00:32:10.600 segment asking, you know, what what happened behind the scenes? Why did this happen? And why did you

00:32:18.160 decide to include it in the report? And let's listen. I wanted to ask you about what it was like,

00:32:24.280 what it was like to find out that Ashif had sent that picture to one of your producers. I mean, I was

00:32:29.400 shocked. I was angry. If this was something that happened from a stranger, you would just block the

00:32:37.060 person and never talk to them again. But we're journalists and we were working with Ashif on

00:32:40.560 this. So we reached out to him. We got comment. You know, we reached out to his lawyers. He says

00:32:45.620 he sent it by mistake, which I think is up for the viewers to decide whether they believe that or not.

00:32:51.420 Was it hard to decide whether to use that information or not in the piece?

00:32:55.740 Yeah, we went back and forth a lot about it because on the one hand, you could argue that it's not

00:33:01.060 relevant to the story of the injustice that Ashif faced at the hands of the state all of the years

00:33:07.520 of dead time that he served. You know, that's really what our story was about. And his lawyers would

00:33:13.220 argue that, you know, the fact of the dick pic isn't relevant. But we wanted to basically give the 0.92

00:33:19.040 full story to our viewers in a piece that's also about what it means to reintegrate successfully

00:33:23.680 and unsuccessfully as someone who's on the sex events registry. This seemed like, you know,

00:33:28.380 an important fact to note about Ashif, who is a complex person. And this is part of his complexity.

00:33:34.780 It's part of his complexity. He sends pictures of his penis. That's OK. I guess you've just given 1.00

00:33:41.160 that rationale to any future scumbag men. Why didn't you give that to any of the men during 0.97

00:33:51.660 Me Too? Maybe Harvey Weinstein could have said that. You know, this is all part of my complexity.

00:33:59.680 When he sent a picture of his penis, he was actually showing his complexity. There's a euphemism 0.99

00:34:04.860 for you. Now, she says that, well, it's not really relevant. It's not relevant to how the

00:34:11.460 state treated poor Ashif, which just shows that these people, they cannot learn. They just can't 1.00

00:34:19.260 learn. You're doing a puff piece on sex offenders, claiming they should be reintegrated to society.

00:34:24.300 You get sexually harassed by one of them, and it still isn't enough for you to, that's not a wake-up

00:34:29.320 call. So she says it's not relevant to how the state treated him. Of course it is. It's very

00:34:35.120 relevant. Because the whole point is that he's clearly still a danger to society. He's out there,

00:34:42.840 that's sexual harassment. So he's out there sexually harassing women. And just think about

00:34:48.280 this for a minute. If he's willing to do that, OK, if he's going to do that to the producer of a

00:34:54.240 segment in which he is painted as a protagonist, and he would do that in that context, then what

00:35:06.640 else is he doing? We can't know. This is one of the problems. One of the problems, one of the many

00:35:12.340 problems of releasing sex offenders back into society is that much of what they do, we aren't

00:35:20.320 ever going to know. The vast majority of sex offenses go unreported. And even if they're

00:35:29.160 reported, many of them are almost impossible to prove, unless you're stupid enough to do it 0.98

00:35:33.680 with your phone through pictures that you're sending to people, in which case it's very easy. 0.99

00:35:44.560 That's the thing about a lot of these sex offenses committed by these creeps.

00:35:50.320 That there's kind of a scale, and many of them are really easy to prove because they're doing it,

00:35:55.220 they leave a digital paper trail, but then there's a whole other category that's almost

00:35:58.900 impossible to prove.

00:36:03.020 But yes, it's all relevant because it shows that, yes, this is someone who you have selected

00:36:09.520 because it helps to prove your, who you thought helped to prove your point,

00:36:13.720 and even he turns out to be still a danger to society.

00:36:19.620 That's just, that's the nature of this kind of crime.

00:36:24.140 The people who behave this way, who treat others this way,

00:36:27.920 it is very difficult to rehabilitate them.

00:36:31.600 You can't say it's impossible.

00:36:36.660 We can't say that it's, that it's categorically impossible for someone to change.

00:36:42.980 I mean, anyone in theory can change.

00:36:48.100 But out of the, outside of the realm of theory and in reality,

00:36:51.480 the vast majority of these people will never change.

00:36:54.180 That's just, that's, and we could talk about why that is,

00:36:56.720 and it gets into psychological facts and spiritual facts,

00:37:00.960 but the fact still is that the vast majority never change.

00:37:07.020 So what happens when you take them and you put them in prison

00:37:09.460 and you have them kind of stewing in that environment 1.00

00:37:12.800 with other sociopaths and dangerous people and scumbags, 0.99

00:37:17.780 and you have them stewing in that environment for several years, 0.99

00:37:20.560 and then you release them back into society?

00:37:23.220 Are they likely to be less dangerous magically during that time?

00:37:26.720 No, even more so.

00:37:31.900 I mean, you could argue that if you're going to take a dangerous sex offender,

00:37:35.120 put them in jail for three years, and then release them,

00:37:37.600 you might as well not put them in jail at all.

00:37:40.740 Because all you're doing is now delaying the inevitable,

00:37:43.340 and you're putting them in an environment where they're only going to get worse.

00:37:47.080 And then you're inflicting them on society.

00:37:49.040 So it seems to me the most logical and practical thing is that

00:37:55.720 if you're going to put these people in prison, which obviously we should,

00:37:59.400 you keep them there for a very long time, if not forever.

00:38:03.900 All right, we're going to kind of skip ahead here.

00:38:08.360 I don't think this is five.

00:38:09.260 It might be four headlines today because I do want to play this for you too.

00:38:12.820 This is Kamala Harris, and I'm playing this for you because this is the one.

00:38:18.680 I've never found her to be relatable at all.

00:38:21.740 This is her one relatable moment.

00:38:25.460 Because here she is visiting the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea,

00:38:30.420 and she's talking to people who've got a lot on their mind.

00:38:33.420 Okay, they're dealing with it.

00:38:35.240 There are plenty of things they have to worry about being in the DMZ.

00:38:40.460 And she thought, though, it was a good time to have this conversation.

00:38:45.220 Have you seen the photographs from the web television?

00:38:51.740 It's humbling.

00:38:53.540 So we invested in this telescope, and the images just came back.

00:39:00.160 And they show us three billion years back to the beginning, to all these galaxies.

00:39:07.580 It's the most humbling thing you have ever seen.

00:39:10.620 You've got to have somebody show you the word.

00:39:12.740 It's absolutely humbling.

00:39:14.520 Galaxies we didn't know existed.

00:39:17.120 So when we think we've seen everything, we're going to do.

00:39:21.740 Oh, you've got to be smart about it.

00:39:26.340 Looks like we're waiting for you.

00:39:27.660 Okay, I'm ready.

00:39:30.040 This is why you shouldn't smoke weed before visiting the demilitarized zone.

00:39:33.980 And you've got to feel for those military officers, because they're standing there

00:39:37.220 thinking to themselves, why are you telling me this?

00:39:40.440 What are you babbling about?

00:39:42.120 And yet, she's talking about outer space and all the cool stuff happening in outer space

00:39:47.560 in a very uninformed way, going on about how awesome it is, to people who do not care,

00:39:53.320 and in a context where it could not be more irrelevant.

00:39:57.080 And for that reason, I have never found her more relatable than in that moment,

00:40:00.800 because that is what I do all the time.

00:40:02.840 That's what I do on this show about three or four times a week.

00:40:04.760 So we at least have that in common.

00:40:06.780 We have nothing else, but at least we have that.

00:40:10.420 Let's get to the comment section.

00:40:11.560 Who saved Virginia after leaving there just for a day?

00:40:18.160 There's someone to thank.

00:40:21.380 He leads the sweet baby gang.

00:40:26.420 Marissa says, whoa, who would have thunk that if during the summer of love, 0.88

00:40:30.000 we simply got Lizzo to twerk on the statues, leftists would have thought history is cool

00:40:34.440 and stopped tearing them down.

00:40:37.000 Yeah, I mean, that brings up another important point about this Lizzo.

00:40:39.800 James Madison flute situation, which is that they're all pretending to find the flute cool.

00:40:49.060 Oh, it's a nice, cool piece of history because of its ties to James Madison.

00:40:54.120 But we know they don't really see it that way.

00:40:58.260 Since when have they thought that anything related to the founding fathers was cool?

00:41:03.540 This is the only time.

00:41:08.340 You know, these people in media say, oh, that's awesome.

00:41:10.640 It's something.

00:41:11.160 James Madison.

00:41:12.600 Since when have you cared about that?

00:41:14.260 No, usually anything we could tie back to the founding fathers is problematic and bad and evil.

00:41:22.240 So that's just how you know.

00:41:23.380 The claim that this was done out of respect for the founding fathers in American history,

00:41:31.080 you know right off the bat that that's not true because these people have no respect for American history,

00:41:36.180 least of all the founding fathers.

00:41:37.060 All right, PG says, I didn't think pigs could fly, but now I know they can play the flute.

00:41:46.040 Sean says, sorry, Matt.

00:41:47.300 Lizzo is proof you can indeed grow up to be a walrus.

00:41:53.800 I'm disappointed in those comments.

00:41:55.600 We don't make, we don't body shame.

00:41:58.440 We don't, I'm deeply, deeply disappointed in both of you.

00:42:07.860 Ethan says, to destroy a people, you must first sever their roots, quoting Alexander Solzhenistin,

00:42:14.320 which, yes, this is, now you could say the flute thing is a rather petty example of it.

00:42:20.080 The more dramatic examples are tearing down the statues, taking names off of buildings and all the rest of it.

00:42:24.500 But as we talked about yesterday, the pettiness is the point.

00:42:28.640 That's part of the point here, is to find these really small, superficial ways of kind of driving the knife in deeper.

00:42:38.260 And that's what this was.

00:42:43.000 Jimmy says, Lizzo playing a priceless piece of history that the other 332 million people that live in this country

00:42:48.660 will likely never even see, let alone hold and play,

00:42:51.960 proves once again just how underrepresented and oppressed she really is, stunning and brave.

00:42:57.460 Yeah, that is another, there are other comments making that observation as well,

00:43:01.280 that along with everything else, this once again goes to show

00:43:04.660 that although we're told someone like Lizzo, being that she's a racial minority,

00:43:10.020 she's a woman, she's overweight, she checks a lot of victim boxes, 0.99

00:43:13.260 and yet she is being honored in a way that, according to her,

00:43:18.080 nobody else ever has been in history, in American history.

00:43:21.960 So that's what it means to be oppressed, apparently.

00:43:26.560 And District 97 says,

00:43:29.600 Funny how Matt and other conservatives didn't even know this flute existed until seven seconds ago,

00:43:35.080 but yet are indignant about this.

00:43:38.060 That is the laziest response to this.

00:43:40.320 I have to tell you, District 97, with all due respect, 1.00

00:43:44.200 that's the laziest response possible, and the dumbest. 0.99

00:43:48.500 You didn't even know the flute existed. 0.99

00:43:51.440 You're right, I didn't know the flute existed.

00:43:53.900 Guilty as charged.

00:43:54.860 I did not know that James Madison had a crystal flute dating back to 1813.

00:44:00.080 I didn't know that.

00:44:01.980 You're right.

00:44:04.060 You know what?

00:44:04.860 There are many things in the Smithsonian,

00:44:07.760 in fact, almost every artifact in the Smithsonian right now,

00:44:11.540 because it's been a long time since I've been there,

00:44:13.180 I have no direct knowledge of.

00:44:15.100 And there are many things that the,

00:44:17.140 you know, there are many things archived that I have no knowledge,

00:44:22.740 no direct knowledge of.

00:44:25.260 There are many priceless artifacts and works of art

00:44:28.460 that I, right now, could not list off for you.

00:44:31.200 And yet, I would still be opposed to those things being defaced.

00:44:37.540 So, if someone, if I hear about someone defacing,

00:44:42.020 you know, a Michelangelo painting that I never heard of,

00:44:46.940 I'm not going to say, oh, I never heard of that one.

00:44:48.320 Who cares?

00:44:48.780 Yeah, go ahead.

00:44:49.780 I only care about the ones that I had heard of before this moment.

00:44:53.320 What?

00:44:53.680 Yeah, I, in principle, am opposed to defiling, defacing,

00:45:02.740 desecrating, disrespecting, priceless historical artifacts.

00:45:07.140 That's, across the board, I'm opposed to all of it,

00:45:09.440 whether I've heard of them or not.

00:45:11.660 That's my position.

00:45:13.500 Quite radical, I know.

00:45:15.320 In the dense emotional fog and mass hysteria

00:45:19.660 that was the infamous, historic Walrusgate scandal,

00:45:23.880 I almost forgot to release a patch

00:45:25.560 in the most highly coveted patch program

00:45:27.780 in the history of patch programs.

00:45:30.060 Yes, I, Matt Walsh, still have a patch program

00:45:32.520 that I did not forget about.

00:45:34.360 I could never forget about it.

00:45:36.000 And that's why this month's patch

00:45:37.720 is the Sweet Baby Walrus Patch.

00:45:40.420 It is a beacon of hope,

00:45:42.160 a light at the end of the proverbial tunnel

00:45:44.340 where the shadowy figure at the end

00:45:46.820 is a giant stuffed walrus of arguably inconvenient size

00:45:50.900 and questionable utility.

00:45:52.940 As always, these are limited edition

00:45:54.680 and will sell out fast, so you don't want to wait.

00:45:57.860 And while you're in my shop,

00:45:58.820 you can also pick up our own official

00:46:00.720 Johnny the Walrus plushie.

00:46:02.720 So you can go to dailywire.com slash shop

00:46:05.020 to get the latest installment

00:46:06.420 in the Matt Walsh patch program

00:46:08.460 and your very own walrus today.

00:46:11.320 Also, I'm going to speak to a segment of my audience

00:46:15.380 so I've never directly addressed before frat guys.

00:46:19.820 Where the hell is this going?

00:46:20.700 I have no idea.

00:46:22.220 You know, I may not be one of you,

00:46:23.720 but in some ways, we're not so different, you and I.

00:46:26.380 We're both unfairly portrayed by the media

00:46:28.180 and we're both among the men most hated

00:46:30.520 by, oh, the woke razor companies and leftist ideology,

00:46:33.920 which is unfortunate when you consider

00:46:35.780 the fraternities raise millions of dollars

00:46:37.820 every year for charity.

00:46:39.140 One Virginia Tech fraternity alone raised $255,000

00:46:42.280 for St. Jude's Children's Hospital last year.

00:46:44.580 So with that influence and moxie in mind, 1.00

00:46:47.140 I thought I'd share an idea that I obviously had.

00:46:50.440 I had this idea that I'm reading for the first time

00:46:52.260 from a teleprompter.

00:46:53.520 You know, Jeremy's Razor's contest to win the car,

00:46:55.580 the one where you can win Jeremy's McLaren.

00:46:57.380 Well, we get that you don't want to shuttle everybody around

00:47:00.820 in a two-seater sports car.

00:47:02.360 That's why if you win,

00:47:03.700 you can take the $250,000 cash prize instead.

00:47:08.400 So I'm sure your imagination will suffice

00:47:10.260 to paint a picture of all the fun and goodwill

00:47:12.260 that a quarter million dollars will enable

00:47:13.800 for you and your friends.

00:47:15.500 Listen, most of the top players in the contest

00:47:17.060 still haven't hit the 10 referral mark.

00:47:18.840 So there's plenty of opportunity for you

00:47:20.220 to jump into the race and take it all,

00:47:22.520 take the money and run.

00:47:23.920 Just go to jeremysrazors.com slash play

00:47:25.880 to get your referral link.

00:47:27.600 And come November 1st, 2022,

00:47:28.820 we'll see which of you is the most woke free fraternity

00:47:31.700 in America.

00:47:34.000 Peace out, dudes.

00:47:35.700 Is that even current lingo for frat guys?

00:47:38.620 Anyway, terms and conditions apply.

00:47:41.620 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:47:47.880 So Haley Bieber is, I'm going to assume,

00:47:51.620 Justin Bieber's wife.

00:47:53.480 Or I guess she could be his sister,

00:47:55.980 based on the last name.

00:47:57.320 I didn't feel like checking Wikipedia,

00:47:58.700 so these things will remain a mystery.

00:48:00.960 All I know is that Haley Bieber

00:48:02.300 came under intense scrutiny this week,

00:48:04.800 sparked backlash, provoked outrage,

00:48:07.060 as the media puts it,

00:48:08.680 for wearing a certain color lipstick.

00:48:11.120 Now you may not have realized

00:48:12.080 that there are significant implications

00:48:13.560 to the color of one's lips,

00:48:15.520 but that is apparently the case.

00:48:17.620 I don't make the rules.

00:48:19.000 If I did, we would live in a better society,

00:48:21.500 I think.

00:48:21.920 Better for some of us, anyway.

00:48:23.380 Not better for the sorts of people

00:48:24.520 who have turned lipstick into a political issue.

00:48:27.620 Under my theocratic fascist regime,

00:48:29.240 all such people would be exiled

00:48:30.640 to a barren volcanic island

00:48:32.600 somewhere in the remote Pacific

00:48:33.960 where they would be free

00:48:35.320 to live out their lives

00:48:36.460 for as long as their survival skills

00:48:37.900 will sustain them,

00:48:38.660 which I guess would be about 45 minutes or so.

00:48:41.220 And certainly on the first boat

00:48:42.860 to that island,

00:48:44.200 under my regime,

00:48:45.580 would be the entire cast

00:48:47.140 of ABC's Good Morning America,

00:48:48.900 which earlier this week

00:48:50.040 did an entire report,

00:48:51.400 in fact, their cover story,

00:48:53.280 on the Haley Bieber lipstick controversy.

00:48:56.640 Here it is.

00:48:57.140 Now we're going to go to our GMA cover story.

00:49:00.540 Haley Bieber facing...

00:49:02.200 It's the cover story.

00:49:02.680 It's very important.

00:49:03.540 You have to realize.

00:49:04.540 ...after sharing a makeup look on TikTok

00:49:06.160 with some users causing the look

00:49:07.720 cultural appropriation.

00:49:09.680 Stephanie Ramos had the details.

00:49:11.660 Good morning, Stephanie. 0.98

00:49:12.240 Look at those racist lips. 0.95

00:49:12.940 Michael, good morning. 0.89

00:49:14.040 Haley Bieber doesn't claim

00:49:15.640 to have invented this particular lip combo

00:49:17.720 in her video,

00:49:18.440 the brown lip liner

00:49:19.380 and the clear lip gloss.

00:49:21.160 But that post about that combo

00:49:23.480 led to an influx of TikTok users

00:49:25.580 recreating the look on the platform

00:49:27.200 and crediting Bieber...

00:49:28.340 Do you think she's embarrassed

00:49:29.100 as a reporter to be doing this?

00:49:30.340 ...others calling it

00:49:31.440 cultural appropriation.

00:49:32.640 Is this a moment

00:49:33.120 where she looks in the mirror and...

00:49:34.500 ...this morning,

00:49:34.920 supermodel Haley Bieber

00:49:36.420 facing backlash

00:49:37.420 after sharing her new lip routine

00:49:39.740 on TikTok with the caption,

00:49:41.740 ready for all the fall things,

00:49:43.340 including brownie-glazed lips.

00:49:45.600 The now viral post

00:49:49.980 causing a wave of criticism.

00:49:51.840 Social media users

00:49:52.760 calling out the supermodels

00:49:53.880 claiming she is culturally

00:49:55.700 appropriating the makeup routine

00:49:57.800 using dark lip liner

00:49:59.700 and clear lip gloss,

00:50:01.620 a popular style

00:50:02.620 from the late 80s and 90s.

00:50:04.520 I know that that lip combo

00:50:06.660 is not Haley Bieber lips.

00:50:09.040 It is a Latina 0.78

00:50:10.140 and black woman lip combo. 1.00

00:50:11.780 Got her.

00:50:12.100 You got her.

00:50:12.620 You're right.

00:50:12.940 The issue is when

00:50:14.420 something is sort of

00:50:16.020 presented as if

00:50:17.640 it's something new

00:50:18.580 when it's a practice

00:50:20.020 that has been around

00:50:21.460 for decades and decades.

00:50:22.960 African-American

00:50:23.620 and Latino women 0.50

00:50:24.980 get denigrated

00:50:26.440 for the ways

00:50:27.440 that they present their body,

00:50:28.640 the way they braid their hair.

00:50:29.800 People use words

00:50:30.600 like ghetto or ratchet 0.99

00:50:31.660 or have these identities

00:50:33.400 to denigrate women.

00:50:35.080 It was ghetto. 1.00

00:50:35.880 It was trashy. 0.98

00:50:36.800 It was not cute. 0.86

00:50:38.000 Many pointing out

00:50:39.040 that the lip style

00:50:40.040 was accepted

00:50:40.860 when a white woman did it, 1.00

00:50:42.340 but not when a woman 0.94

00:50:43.600 of color did.

00:50:44.720 Okay.

00:50:46.120 That's right.

00:50:46.800 This report went on,

00:50:47.980 by the way,

00:50:48.320 for several more minutes

00:50:49.740 about the lipstick.

00:50:52.360 Now,

00:50:53.040 they're making it sound

00:50:55.580 like Haley Bieber

00:50:56.860 literally stole 0.71

00:50:58.500 a black woman's 0.96

00:50:59.520 actual lips, 0.99

00:51:00.540 like ripped them off

00:51:01.500 and super glued them

00:51:03.040 onto herself

00:51:03.600 like some kind of weird

00:51:04.400 female TikTok version

00:51:06.400 of Leatherface.

00:51:07.800 And if that's what

00:51:08.480 she had done,

00:51:09.140 I would be the first

00:51:09.880 to condemn her.

00:51:10.420 It is inappropriate.

00:51:11.260 I will say right now

00:51:12.140 to steal another person's

00:51:13.760 facial features

00:51:14.340 without their consent.

00:51:15.160 I have been very consistent

00:51:16.140 in denouncing such crimes,

00:51:17.680 as you know,

00:51:18.220 if you've listened to the show.

00:51:19.460 But that is not exactly

00:51:21.260 what happened here.

00:51:22.080 Instead,

00:51:22.480 Haley Bieber simply

00:51:23.260 put on some lipstick,

00:51:24.500 which presumably

00:51:25.020 she didn't pickpocket 0.89

00:51:26.440 out of a black woman's purse, 0.58

00:51:27.620 but rather purchased

00:51:28.740 from the store.

00:51:29.860 So the lipstick

00:51:30.340 is rightfully hers

00:51:31.460 by any legal

00:51:32.640 or moral standard.

00:51:34.120 Now,

00:51:34.800 we don't need to spend

00:51:36.320 a lot of time,

00:51:36.820 I think,

00:51:37.060 explaining why

00:51:37.900 the cultural appropriation charge 1.00

00:51:39.660 is always stupid, 1.00

00:51:40.700 especially in this 1.00

00:51:41.640 specific case,

00:51:42.720 because there are two ways

00:51:43.880 of looking at this issue.

00:51:45.740 If by cultural appropriation

00:51:47.540 you mean that someone,

00:51:49.140 an outsider,

00:51:49.920 an interloper,

00:51:51.200 is stealing a product

00:51:52.860 or style

00:51:53.620 or concept

00:51:54.320 or aesthetic

00:51:55.080 or type of music

00:51:56.320 or whatever

00:51:56.820 from an entire culture,

00:51:59.080 if that's what you mean,

00:52:00.000 then cultural appropriation

00:52:01.040 understood that way

00:52:02.200 is a myth.

00:52:03.600 Because by definition,

00:52:04.940 stealing means two things.

00:52:06.280 First,

00:52:06.900 that a thing is being taken

00:52:07.960 without permission

00:52:08.660 and second,

00:52:09.700 that the victim

00:52:10.440 of this theft

00:52:11.380 is now deprived

00:52:12.360 of the thing

00:52:13.200 that was stolen.

00:52:14.400 So this is how it works

00:52:15.320 when you steal a car

00:52:16.300 or a piece of jewelry

00:52:17.120 or five dollars

00:52:17.920 out of somebody's wallet.

00:52:19.320 But neither of those conditions

00:52:20.880 can be met

00:52:21.560 in any case

00:52:22.320 of cultural appropriation

00:52:23.960 because the thing

00:52:25.120 that's allegedly

00:52:25.700 being appropriated

00:52:26.660 is not owned

00:52:28.020 by any individual

00:52:29.100 and so there's no one

00:52:30.240 to seek permission from.

00:52:32.240 You can't steal

00:52:33.080 what's not owned.

00:52:34.980 Also,

00:52:35.680 nobody is deprived

00:52:36.740 of the thing

00:52:37.560 that has supposedly

00:52:38.460 been appropriated. 0.94

00:52:39.760 Black women 1.00

00:52:40.320 are not prevented

00:52:41.220 from wearing brown lipstick

00:52:42.440 just because

00:52:43.020 Haley Bieber wore it.

00:52:45.860 This is not,

00:52:47.320 therefore,

00:52:47.640 a case of theft.

00:52:48.900 But if by cultural appropriation

00:52:50.540 you mean simply

00:52:51.540 that someone is adopting

00:52:53.720 a concept,

00:52:55.040 style,

00:52:55.480 idea,

00:52:55.900 etc.,

00:52:56.280 that originated

00:52:56.980 or was developed

00:52:57.780 by another culture,

00:52:59.140 then cultural appropriation

00:53:00.480 does indeed exist

00:53:01.660 and it's also

00:53:02.200 a very good thing.

00:53:04.200 We used to call this

00:53:05.200 cultural exchange

00:53:06.420 and it was considered

00:53:07.800 a positive

00:53:08.380 and enriching thing

00:53:09.300 until the TikTok

00:53:09.980 pitchfork mob

00:53:10.880 took over the country.

00:53:12.600 Along with being

00:53:13.420 positive and enriching,

00:53:14.380 it's also inevitable.

00:53:16.220 Cultures are not static.

00:53:17.580 They're not these

00:53:17.940 immutable blocks

00:53:18.840 of concrete

00:53:19.520 separated from each other

00:53:20.860 by impenetrable force fields.

00:53:23.240 Especially not in today's world,

00:53:24.520 but they never were,

00:53:25.320 even in ancient times.

00:53:26.600 Cultures are living,

00:53:27.640 breathing organisms,

00:53:29.340 basically.

00:53:29.860 They,

00:53:30.240 to use a term popular

00:53:31.520 in every context

00:53:32.340 except where it actually applies,

00:53:34.100 cultures are fluid.

00:53:35.060 They change over time

00:53:36.980 for better or worse.

00:53:38.980 In the case of

00:53:39.840 modern Western culture,

00:53:40.920 most of the recent changes

00:53:41.960 have fallen into

00:53:42.920 the latter category.

00:53:43.840 They've been for the worse,

00:53:44.820 but whether good or bad,

00:53:46.140 cultures will change

00:53:47.640 and they will borrow

00:53:49.160 and they will learn

00:53:50.600 from each other.

00:53:52.260 Now, of course,

00:53:52.740 I don't really need

00:53:53.340 to explain any of this,

00:53:54.360 do I?

00:53:55.300 Because the people

00:53:55.880 who rail against

00:53:56.600 cultural appropriation

00:53:57.660 already understand all of it.

00:53:59.620 That's why they would never

00:54:00.620 in a million years

00:54:01.840 suggest that non-white people 0.87

00:54:03.820 ought to refrain from

00:54:04.780 using or wearing

00:54:05.740 or partaking in things

00:54:07.000 that originated

00:54:07.840 with white people.

00:54:08.960 You'll never hear them say

00:54:10.000 that a racial minority

00:54:11.740 is culturally appropriating

00:54:13.160 by wearing denim jeans

00:54:14.700 or using electricity.

00:54:17.120 This only ever goes

00:54:18.360 in one direction

00:54:19.000 because it's actually

00:54:19.760 got nothing to do

00:54:20.460 with culture

00:54:20.940 and everything to do

00:54:21.780 with finding yet another way

00:54:23.420 and another reason

00:54:24.140 to criticize,

00:54:25.340 denigrate, 0.97

00:54:25.740 and control white people. 0.96

00:54:27.860 And inventing rules

00:54:28.940 that only one race

00:54:29.920 of people have to follow

00:54:30.900 and no other race 0.97

00:54:32.000 of people has to follow

00:54:32.900 is racist. 0.81

00:54:35.220 And that's what

00:54:35.900 most of this is about.

00:54:38.040 But the complaints

00:54:39.000 about cultural appropriation

00:54:40.100 also speak to something else.

00:54:42.740 That is,

00:54:44.120 that many people

00:54:44.920 in our society

00:54:45.680 are bored,

00:54:47.280 unserious,

00:54:48.440 and frivolous

00:54:49.280 in the extreme.

00:54:50.580 They have no purpose

00:54:51.580 in life.

00:54:52.120 They have nothing

00:54:52.520 to strive for

00:54:53.420 or struggle against.

00:54:55.400 They are oppressed

00:54:56.600 by their own comfort

00:54:57.860 and security.

00:54:58.580 They go out

00:55:00.000 looking for dragons

00:55:00.840 to slay

00:55:01.400 in order to give

00:55:01.920 their lives meaning,

00:55:03.040 but they don't have

00:55:03.520 the energy or courage

00:55:04.440 or spiritual depth

00:55:05.360 to find and confront

00:55:06.380 the true evils

00:55:07.180 in this world,

00:55:07.720 of which there are many.

00:55:09.220 So instead,

00:55:09.780 they look for

00:55:10.120 the easiest targets.

00:55:11.980 Problems they can solve

00:55:12.820 by making a TikTok video

00:55:14.240 or participating

00:55:15.200 in a hashtag campaign. 0.99

00:55:17.540 They are deeply miserable 0.98

00:55:19.000 and teetering always 0.99

00:55:20.780 on the edge

00:55:21.420 of full-blown despair,

00:55:22.720 but they're too shallow

00:55:23.660 to understand

00:55:24.220 their own misery,

00:55:24.920 and so they blame it

00:55:25.640 on the most superficial

00:55:26.500 and frivolous things

00:55:27.740 imaginable.

00:55:28.580 They are flailing around,

00:55:30.360 totally lost,

00:55:31.180 living lives utterly devoid

00:55:32.480 of meaning or consequence,

00:55:33.900 and that's really

00:55:34.560 why they complain

00:55:35.440 about Haley Bieber's lipstick

00:55:36.700 or about whatever

00:55:38.820 they're whining about today,

00:55:39.920 having already moved on

00:55:40.880 from that controversy

00:55:41.720 and on to another one

00:55:42.700 and then another

00:55:43.360 forever and ever 1.00

00:55:44.020 until they die

00:55:44.940 old and alone, 0.55

00:55:45.740 having wasted their lives

00:55:46.660 caring about everything

00:55:47.560 except the things

00:55:48.640 actually worth caring about.

00:55:49.860 And that's why

00:55:52.080 they are today

00:55:53.400 canceled.

00:55:55.280 That'll do it

00:55:55.760 for this portion

00:55:56.560 of the show.

00:55:57.580 As we move over

00:55:58.240 to the members block,

00:55:59.100 hope to see you there.

00:55:59.740 If not,

00:56:00.060 talk to you on Monday.

00:56:01.600 Happy Flannel Friday.

00:56:02.900 Godspeed.

00:56:03.720 History raus

00:56:06.460 is going to diyor

00:56:07.540 atitude.

00:56:07.780 婦

00:56:09.140 is going to be in the

00:56:10.820 igible

00:56:11.200 of course

00:56:11.320 and

00:56:11.740 of course

00:56:12.180 and

00:56:12.720 of course

00:56:14.100 is going to be in the

00:56:15.720 resent deshalb

00:56:16.880 of the flesh

00:56:16.920 and the flesh

00:56:17.820 and the flesh

00:56:17.920 and the flesh

00:56:18.000 and the flesh

00:56:18.920 and the flesh

00:56:19.560 and theено

00:56:21.780 have made

00:56:22.580 continued

00:56:23.540 with tequila

The Matt Walsh Show - September 30, 2022

Ep. 1032 - An Epidemic Of Lonely, Alienated Young Men

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