The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1100 - The Internet Is Very Mad That I Want To Punish Criminals

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the internet is very mad at me because I suggested that

00:00:03.900 criminals should actually be punished for their crimes, if you can imagine it.

00:00:07.440 We will dive into this provocative idea today.

00:00:09.780 Also, Mike Pence is the latest former government official to have classified documents in his

00:00:13.980 home.

00:00:14.200 Apparently, we all have classified documents in our homes, which makes the media's narrative

00:00:17.760 about Trump's documents all the more absurd.

00:00:20.380 And an MSNBC host contracts COVID and laments that he didn't get his fourth booster shot

00:00:25.100 to prevent it.

00:00:25.940 DeSantis is deemed racist for coming out against the new African-American studies

00:00:29.620 curriculum for public schools.

00:00:30.760 In our daily cancellation, we will learn why the word aloha is potentially insensitive,

00:00:36.060 bigoted, and even physically harmful.

00:00:38.400 All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:50.360 We begin with some breaking news.

00:00:52.440 This is not the sort of thing you expect to hear.

00:00:54.460 You may find it shocking and certainly upsetting.

00:00:56.880 I know I did.

00:00:58.120 But here's the news.

00:00:59.000 People are mad at me on the internet.

00:01:02.900 They are upset.

00:01:04.020 They're scandalized.

00:01:05.040 They're calling me things like fascist and bigot.

00:01:07.700 This is all, of course, making me feel quite bad about myself as someone who is so accustomed

00:01:12.240 to receiving unanimous acclaim and adulation and agreement all the time everywhere I go.

00:01:17.720 So I don't know how to deal with this.

00:01:19.460 Let's back up for a moment so you can understand the context.

00:01:21.980 A few days ago, a leftist Twitter user, and I inferred his political leanings from the pride

00:01:26.400 flag in his bio, posted a video expressing his awe over the airport in Singapore.

00:01:32.940 This is Singapore's airport.

00:01:35.100 As you can see, it's a rather impressive sight.

00:01:37.640 It looks like the futuristic utopia in every sci-fi movie right before the robots start killing

00:01:43.800 everyone.

00:01:44.180 And I mean that in a good way.

00:01:46.040 Waterfall there is particularly magnificent.

00:01:48.600 Though, in fairness, I have seen similar sights at LAX.

00:01:53.140 It's just that those waterfalls were overflowing toilets. 0.97

00:01:57.880 Our airports in America are generally a different kind of experience from what you just saw there.

00:02:03.040 Airports in the United States, they qualify as really nice if they have a food court with

00:02:09.000 a Chipotle and more than three electrical outlets in each terminal.

00:02:13.280 So the bar is set a bit lower.

00:02:15.140 Admiring Singapore, though, has become something of a trend online.

00:02:19.540 Every so often, somebody, usually somebody on the left, will post a video like the one

00:02:24.820 you just saw or like this one, extolling Singapore, the city, for its clean, green, eco-friendly

00:02:31.720 approach.

00:02:32.820 Watch.

00:02:33.860 This place creates gardens and parks in the middle of its buildings.

00:02:37.980 That's because in parts of Singapore, you're required to replace the land that you're building

00:02:42.460 on with the same amount of greenery.

00:02:44.600 So the greenery that is lost on the ground is replaced in the sky.

00:02:49.140 Each building must have greenery that's equivalent to at least 100% of the land that it was built

00:02:54.660 on.

00:02:55.080 But some take it to the next level.

00:02:57.120 This building has over 200% greenery for the land that it replaced.

00:03:01.840 This is Park Royal, and it's absolutely crazy how they managed to include greenery throughout

00:03:06.500 the building.

00:03:07.120 You can even go on a garden walk here.

00:03:09.120 But all of this is not just done for a more beautiful look.

00:03:12.020 There is a functional reason as well.

00:03:13.940 See, buildings with more greenery end up using less electricity, produce less waste, and in

00:03:19.220 general, have a lower carbon footprint.

00:03:21.300 You also improve the air quality and keep the temperatures cooler.

00:03:25.180 This rooftop is over 50 stories high, and it's pretty much entirely a garden.

00:03:29.740 And the crazy part is that it's completely open to the public.

00:03:32.780 This is a public area.

00:03:33.900 Now, your mileage may vary a bit with the Jumanji aesthetic, where forests are growing inside

00:03:40.120 and on top of all the buildings.

00:03:41.900 The real point is that the city looks bright and clean and safe and not at all like a post-apocalyptic

00:03:48.920 zombie-infested hellscape, which sets it apart from our cities, which in so many cases look

00:03:54.860 like some sort of horrifying mashup of The Walking Dead and The Wire.

00:03:59.760 Like this, for example.

00:04:00.900 What you see here is Philadelphia.

00:04:04.260 But it could be a random street in nearly any major American city.

00:04:09.620 There's a reason we don't have, you know, very many carefully manicured public parks located

00:04:14.360 on the tops of our buildings, because if we did, there'd be almost immediately, you know,

00:04:19.040 a drug addict passed out on every bench and a homeless guy taking a dump in every bush.

00:04:24.140 The people who look with envious, lustful eyes at Singapore's cleanliness and general

00:04:31.360 lack of fentanyl zombies and random street thugs assaulting pedestrians have every reason

00:04:36.520 to be so covetous when you consider what our cities look like.

00:04:39.080 But there's also a reason why Singapore looks like Singapore and Philadelphia looks like

00:04:45.260 Philadelphia.

00:04:46.220 There are many reasons, actually, and not all of them can or should be emulated.

00:04:50.300 But in the tweet that got me into trouble, I mentioned one major factor that, to my mind,

00:04:55.580 we should adopt.

00:04:56.960 I tweeted this.

00:04:58.380 Singapore is able to have nice things in part because they execute drug dealers by hanging

00:05:02.400 and they arrest even petty vandals and thieves and beat them with a cane until they bleed.

00:05:07.060 We don't have nice things because we aren't willing to do what is required to maintain them.

00:05:12.720 Now, that tweet has been viewed like 14 million times and 13.9 million of those views apparently

00:05:18.400 came from people who were deeply offended by it on the right and left.

00:05:23.160 But offended as they may be, the fact is that Singapore isn't plagued by property crime and

00:05:29.600 violent crime nearly to the extent that our country is.

00:05:32.340 In fact, their crime rates are among the lowest in the world because, in part, in large part,

00:05:38.720 they harshly punish lawbreakers.

00:05:41.220 As mentioned in the tweet, thieves, robbers, vandals, similar malcontents are subject to

00:05:46.560 judicial caning.

00:05:48.420 Drug offenders can be given the same treatment.

00:05:50.840 And it's meted out to more serious criminals like rapists and people convicted of kidnapping.

00:05:56.560 Often the corporal punishment will be paired with a prison sentence, which, depending on the

00:05:59.860 crime, can be quite lengthy.

00:06:02.160 We've heard a little bit, actually, about this punishment in Singapore and the methods

00:06:06.120 that are used from Westerners who have made the mistake of committing the crimes in Singapore

00:06:12.040 that everyone knows you aren't supposed to commit in Singapore.

00:06:15.080 For instance, a couple of years ago, the British media reported with great alarm about the story

00:06:19.560 of a British national who got caught dealing drugs in Singapore, which, again, everybody,

00:06:26.600 even people who don't live in Singapore knows that Singapore is the last place where you

00:06:30.140 go to deal drugs.

00:06:31.220 That's what he did.

00:06:31.840 And he received 20 years in prison to go along with a caning that was so severe that he couldn't

00:06:37.160 sit down afterwards.

00:06:38.700 He had trouble controlling his bowels because of how badly he was beaten.

00:06:43.760 He reported that the fear that he felt in having to wait in line while listening to the screams

00:06:51.480 of other inmates as they received their punishments.

00:06:54.280 He's in one room waiting, this is the way he described it, and they bring people in one

00:06:59.320 by one, and they beat them with the cane, and you can hear them screaming in agony, and

00:07:04.220 then they open the door and it's your turn.

00:07:06.540 Not a pleasant experience.

00:07:08.660 Not one that I would ever want to experience myself.

00:07:11.620 But he got off easy compared to other drug offenders, because if in Singapore you're caught

00:07:16.140 with drugs over a certain amount, and it doesn't have to be all that much, 15 grams of heroin,

00:07:21.080 30 grams of cocaine, for example, you are automatically charged with trafficking, drug

00:07:27.260 trafficking.

00:07:27.620 It's automatically assumed that you have that because you want to traffic drugs.

00:07:31.700 And in Singapore, they simply do not tolerate drug trafficking at all.

00:07:36.840 So if you're convicted of drug trafficking, you are automatically executed.

00:07:40.260 It is a mandatory sentence.

00:07:41.960 And they will dole out this most severe of punishments for a number of crimes, not just

00:07:47.800 drug trafficking.

00:07:48.560 Of course, murder, terrorism, kidnapping can also warrant that, and other serious crimes

00:07:54.160 as well.

00:07:55.200 And the executions are carried out usually swiftly.

00:07:59.140 Death row inmates are given four days' notice, not four decades, four days' notice, before they're

00:08:04.360 taken out, usually at dawn, and they are dispatched by hanging.

00:08:08.360 Now, it's often said that studies prove that death penalty and other harsh punishments are

00:08:15.760 not effective deterrence.

00:08:17.960 That's what we hear all the time in this country.

00:08:19.560 Oh, it doesn't, studies have proven, studies have proven it doesn't deter anything.

00:08:23.880 Well, it seems to be working pretty well in Singapore, which in Singapore, they can make

00:08:29.960 it through entire days.

00:08:31.960 Okay, in fact, dozens of days in a year without any reported crimes at all.

00:08:37.660 As a CNBC report marveled over a few years ago, Singapore is so safe that many stores

00:08:45.540 don't have locks.

00:08:47.220 They don't lock their doors at night, and sometimes they don't even have doors or locks to begin

00:08:51.340 with.

00:08:53.380 If capital punishment lacks a deterrent element in our country, it's obviously because we

00:08:59.640 hardly ever use it.

00:09:00.740 It's not capital punishment itself that doesn't deter crime.

00:09:02.980 It is the way that we go about it that lessens its deterrence factor.

00:09:09.020 There have only been something like 1,500 total executions in our entire country since the

00:09:15.180 mid-1970s.

00:09:17.240 And that number is decreasing all the time.

00:09:20.340 It's like a small handful of people across the entire country are executed in any given

00:09:24.580 year.

00:09:24.820 And on the extremely rare occasion that anybody is executed, it happens decades after the crime

00:09:30.800 they committed, out of sight, out of mind for the public, and after hundreds of appeals.

00:09:35.900 What this means is that criminals, they aren't deterred by it because they know they almost

00:09:40.360 certainly won't receive that penalty.

00:09:42.880 They know it won't happen to them, no matter what they do.

00:09:45.780 It's not that they aren't scared of the death penalty itself.

00:09:48.540 Obviously, anybody would be scared of that.

00:09:50.060 It's that they don't believe the court system will have the gumption to actually impose

00:09:54.140 it on them.

00:09:55.060 And in nearly every case, they're right.

00:09:58.620 Now, when the death penalty or other harsh penalties are immediate and all but certain,

00:10:04.440 it does have, unsurprisingly, a way of dissuading potential criminals.

00:10:08.840 As it turns out, people do respond to incentives and disincentives.

00:10:12.900 This is one of the basic realities of human psychology, is that every single person on the

00:10:19.760 planet responds to incentives and disincentives.

00:10:23.800 And the prospect of dangling at the end of a rope until you die is a rather powerful disincentive.

00:10:30.620 It's not going to be 100% effective.

00:10:33.480 Okay, there are people who will risk it, but most people won't.

00:10:36.740 For the pettier criminals, the idea of being stripped naked and beaten so hard with a cane

00:10:42.440 that the guy doing the beating has to take breaks to let his arm rest throughout your

00:10:46.220 ordeal is also a rather powerful disincentive.

00:10:50.520 Now, our system of dealing with thieves and vandals and those of that ilk is laughably

00:10:55.180 ineffective because in these cases, too, the criminals aren't convinced that there will

00:10:59.260 be any significant penalty.

00:11:01.580 And if they do wind up with a short stint in prison, the experience is likely to only increase

00:11:05.720 their street cred and give them an opportunity to spend time with and be influenced by criminals

00:11:10.140 even worse than themselves.

00:11:13.100 But an added element of extremely painful corporal punishment creates a profound disincentive

00:11:20.820 so that even those unbothered by prison would be bothered by this.

00:11:27.460 Caning is also, and it is meant to be, humiliating, degrading, emasculating, which means that the

00:11:35.500 experience isn't going to enhance anybody's street cred.

00:11:38.880 Okay, you're not going to get out of prison bragging about getting caned.

00:11:43.380 Put another way, it's not the kind of thing that you can imagine a rapper boasting about

00:11:47.640 in a song.

00:11:48.920 And that's precisely why it's an effective form of punishment.

00:11:51.540 In fact, maybe this is like the easiest way to think about this.

00:11:54.680 When you're thinking about what sort of penalties should we have for criminals, think about it.

00:11:58.780 If it's the kind of penalty you can imagine a rapper bragging about in a song that becomes

00:12:06.860 a big hit and is streamed 100 million times on Spotify, if it's that kind of penalty, then

00:12:12.940 it's not a good penalty.

00:12:15.940 Let's imagine penalties that they would be too embarrassed and too ashamed to brag about.

00:12:21.920 Those are the good penalties.

00:12:23.700 Those are the effective ones.

00:12:24.820 Now, am I actually suggesting that we should adopt these Singapore-like draconian forms of

00:12:31.780 justice here in the United States?

00:12:33.220 Am I seriously advocating that?

00:12:36.540 Yes, absolutely.

00:12:38.220 Of course I am.

00:12:39.500 Corporal punishment for convicted criminals, that shouldn't even be controversial.

00:12:44.920 Okay, that's actually obviously the correct thing to do.

00:12:47.860 Both obvious and effective and just.

00:12:54.820 Those who cause damage to another person's body or livelihood or property should be made

00:13:00.040 to experience the sort of physical suffering that might help them appreciate the seriousness

00:13:04.880 of their crimes.

00:13:06.660 Our current system is not impressing anyone with the seriousness of their crimes.

00:13:13.580 That's what the punishment is supposed to do.

00:13:18.120 We have it in our heads that, well, all forms of physical punishment are automatically cruel

00:13:22.680 and unusual.

00:13:23.360 I've heard this over and over again in response to this argument.

00:13:26.860 Well, it's cruel and unusual punishment.

00:13:28.980 As if it's just self-evident.

00:13:30.780 You can't simply assert that it's cruel and unusual to impose the death penalty or corporal

00:13:36.720 punishment.

00:13:37.440 Explain why.

00:13:38.300 You could call it cruel and unusual.

00:13:41.560 In what sense is it either of those things?

00:13:44.760 I mean, these punishments certainly aren't unusual.

00:13:47.640 On the contrary, they are probably the most usual sort of punishment imaginable from a historical

00:13:52.440 perspective.

00:13:53.640 And they aren't cruel because the person that they are inflicted on has chosen to act in

00:13:59.600 a way that warrants it.

00:14:01.440 It is not cruel to assign undesirable consequences to undesirable behavior.

00:14:11.140 It is, on the contrary, the only way to maintain a civilized society.

00:14:19.320 Criminals and lawbreakers must be made to suffer.

00:14:23.760 If they aren't suffering, then it is not really a punishment.

00:14:28.580 That's what a punishment is supposed to do.

00:14:30.880 It's supposed to make you suffer.

00:14:34.720 And so if we have a system where the criminals are not suffering, then they're not being punished.

00:14:39.660 And we are trying a system where we just actually don't punish people for committing crimes.

00:14:45.760 Now, as for the death penalty for drug traffickers, this again, to me, seems obvious.

00:14:50.600 They sell poison for profit, taking advantage of the most helpless and miserable among us, 1.00

00:14:55.300 turning people and entire communities into zombified husks, slowly dying while these parasitic scumbags reap the rewards. 1.00

00:15:03.940 They deserve to die for what they're doing to people, to our cities, to our country. 1.00

00:15:09.140 They deserve to die for it. 1.00

00:15:13.540 Fentanyl traffickers. 1.00

00:15:15.180 Okay, the people that are, those zombies that you saw in the clip of Philadelphia that are walking around hunched over. 1.00

00:15:21.360 The people trafficking those drugs into our communities, they deserve to die. 0.99

00:15:26.820 I can't understand the argument to the country. 0.99

00:15:30.340 You're actually telling me they don't deserve to die for doing that to people?

00:15:34.240 Do we need to keep them around?

00:15:35.920 In what ways would we be harmed as a society if the people that are doing that, if we are deprived of their presence?

00:15:43.940 How are we harmed?

00:15:45.300 How are we missing out?

00:15:48.040 No, our nation would be a better, more hopeful, safer, and more livable place without them.

00:15:55.220 Now, I'm not arguing that our country should emulate Singapore in every respect.

00:15:59.140 There are certainly things about the country I don't like.

00:16:01.100 And I'm not claiming that beating criminals and hanging drug traffickers would, on its own, solve all of our problems.

00:16:07.560 I acknowledge that Singapore has other advantages.

00:16:10.300 They have a smaller, much more homogenous population, for one.

00:16:13.300 And that helps it to build and maintain communities that aren't littered with used heroin needles and reeking constantly of weed and human urine, like our cities.

00:16:21.660 But even so, there is a lesson we can learn here.

00:16:24.900 The lesson is that civilization comes at a cost.

00:16:28.300 If we have decided that nobody should have to pay that price, well then, we will no longer have civilization.

00:16:38.380 We live free and comfortable and gentle lives.

00:16:42.180 And so we imagine that everything is and should be comfortable and gentle all the way down.

00:16:47.980 What we don't realize is that this freedom and comfort and gentleness has been maintained by tough men who are willing to do hard and sometimes ugly things.

00:16:59.580 If we insist now that those things must not be done anymore because they interfere with our comfortable illusions,

00:17:06.560 then pretty soon we will no longer have the comfort or the freedom.

00:17:09.840 We are surrendering our society to its worst and most predatory factions because we're too squeamish to stand up to them,

00:17:18.800 to impose our will over them, and to force them to live like civilized human beings,

00:17:24.520 which is what you're supposed to do with criminals.

00:17:27.780 You stand up to them.

00:17:29.480 You impose your will on them.

00:17:31.480 You force them to behave.

00:17:33.020 You don't give them an option.

00:17:34.240 It's not putting them in jail for, let's hope they reform, let's hope they see the error in their ways

00:17:41.380 and that they choose of their own free will to be better people.

00:17:45.980 Now, we don't sit around waiting for that while, you know, our children are getting murdered in the street.

00:17:52.180 We don't sit around waiting for it.

00:17:53.780 We say, we're not giving you an option.

00:17:55.940 And if your crimes are bad enough, we're not going to worry about reforming you because you're done.

00:18:04.240 There's no second strike.

00:18:07.760 In other words, these days we wish to have a civilization without justice

00:18:14.140 because justice is too harsh a thing for us to stomach.

00:18:18.780 We say no to justice, which means we say no to civilization,

00:18:23.040 which means that rather than forcing the lawless dregs of humanity to pay the price, 0.99

00:18:28.940 we all have to pay it instead.

00:18:32.780 Now, let's get to our headlines.

00:18:34.240 A brief programming note.

00:18:41.920 Some of you have noticed that episode 1097 of this show,

00:18:46.840 where I discuss the gender surgeons who want to implant uteruses in men,

00:18:51.140 is now missing from our YouTube channel.

00:18:54.400 And that's because, as we found out last night, YouTube deleted the episode,

00:18:57.260 having decided that comments I made during that discussion were in violation of their hate speech policies.

00:19:04.860 And I'd say to begin with, in a sense, they're right.

00:19:10.300 I do hate what is being done by these Frankenstein surgeons and these new age Nazi scientists 0.99

00:19:16.900 who are conducting horrifying human experiments.

00:19:20.800 I hate what they're doing to people.

00:19:23.240 That's for sure.

00:19:24.060 I absolutely hate it.

00:19:25.380 We all should.

00:19:26.940 It was a speech expressing hatred of those practices,

00:19:31.440 which, of course, I also don't even remotely come close to apologizing for, needless to say.

00:19:36.960 But YouTube took it down, which means that if you want to watch the full episode

00:19:40.640 and hear all of my hateful thoughts, then you need to go to dailywire.com.

00:19:46.900 And it's all still there in its hateful glory.

00:19:51.740 All right.

00:19:53.020 Fox has this report.

00:19:54.120 Former Vice President Mike Pence informed Congress on Tuesday that he discovered documents

00:19:59.900 bearing classified markings from his time as vice president in his home in Indiana on January 16th.

00:20:06.120 Following the revelations, the classified documents from President Joe Biden's tenure

00:20:08.880 as vice president were found at the Penn-Biden Center think tank and Wilmington, Delaware, Pence,

00:20:13.560 and also Wilmington, Delaware.

00:20:15.480 Pence's team conducted searches of Pence's Indiana home

00:20:17.800 and the office of his political advocacy group, Advancing American Freedom.

00:20:21.800 According to his team, Pence informed the National Archives on January 18th

00:20:25.240 that a small number of potential classified documents were found in two small boxes.

00:20:29.680 Another two boxes contained copies of vice presidential papers.

00:20:32.840 The National Archives then informed the FBI per standard procedure.

00:20:37.680 All right.

00:20:38.000 So, I mean, at this point, like, I feel like I need to go home

00:20:43.720 and make sure that I don't have classified documents.

00:20:46.160 I guess we all have them.

00:20:47.800 And if I do have them, I would immediately return them.

00:20:51.640 Unless Putin offers a high price for them, obviously, then that would change things.

00:20:56.340 This does just go to show, I mean, at this point, it's a farce now.

00:20:59.480 Like, it's like everybody has them.

00:21:02.300 I'm quite certain that if they were to do a check of Obama's residence,

00:21:07.420 which they would never do, they'd find plenty of classified documents as well.

00:21:12.160 Apparently, this is something that people do.

00:21:14.760 I didn't know that, but evidently, it's what happens. 0.93

00:21:18.960 And it goes to show, of course, that the Trump classified document story was always ridiculous. 0.51

00:21:28.180 Not because it wasn't true.

00:21:29.420 This thing we have to remember about the fake news media is that, yeah, sometimes they invent stories out of whole cloth,

00:21:37.220 and they've certainly done that with Trump.

00:21:39.160 And sometimes that's what they do.

00:21:40.780 But usually that's not how the fake news works.

00:21:43.040 Usually the fake news, it's in the details they're ignoring.

00:21:45.760 It's like what they're saying might be sort of accurate, but it's meant to give a misleading impression because of the details they leave out

00:21:55.460 or because of the things that they choose to emphasize or because they take a story and try to blow it up and make it a huge deal,

00:22:03.560 while other stories they ignore.

00:22:04.880 It's like that's slightly more subtle in how the fake news operates.

00:22:10.020 In this case, was it true that Trump had classified documents in his home?

00:22:14.700 Yeah, that seems to be true.

00:22:16.920 What's not true is that it's some sort of earth-shattering, enormous deal that we all need to be really worried about

00:22:25.140 and that it indicates that Trump was up to something deeply nefarious and that he was trying to sell the documents to Putin or whatever.

00:22:33.400 That's the part that was obviously, from the beginning, absurd.

00:22:37.260 And there's no excuse to be misled on this sort of thing anymore.

00:22:44.860 Your BS detector should be refined enough to pick up on this stuff.

00:22:50.000 As I said, I had no idea that, I'm not terribly shocked by it, but I didn't know that this is something that presidents and vice presidents apparently do,

00:22:59.720 where they end up with classified documents in their home.

00:23:01.640 I didn't know that until this thing happened with Trump.

00:23:04.360 But as soon as I found out about it, even though I just found out about it,

00:23:09.900 it still was apparent to me that, well, this doesn't seem like a big deal.

00:23:14.280 The only way that this is a big deal is if he did have some sort of intention to sell the classified information on the black market.

00:23:23.080 That's what would make it a huge deal.

00:23:24.480 But that, he just wasn't going to do that.

00:23:28.060 That's not what this was.

00:23:30.820 Because we live in reality, not a movie.

00:23:35.560 This is not Jack Ryan or something.

00:23:38.020 This is reality.

00:23:38.740 And now that's all become, I think, hopefully obvious to everyone.

00:23:45.800 And the left, they can't deny it either, because now they know.

00:23:49.920 Now it's happened with Biden.

00:23:51.260 And they also know that if they were to dig deeper, which they're not going to do,

00:23:54.320 that they're going to find classified documents in everybody's home.

00:23:58.380 Everyone in D.C., apparently, they just, they take a, it's like a parting gift.

00:24:02.820 I don't know, when you leave, you take, they give you a little goodie bag.

00:24:06.820 They give you some classified documents you can bring home with your keepsakes.

00:24:12.680 Something to reminisce with, I suppose.

00:24:16.760 All right, Joe Scarborough on MSNBC contracted COVID.

00:24:20.240 And when he came back to work, this was yesterday,

00:24:23.280 he expressed regret that he hadn't gotten his fourth booster shot to prevent the COVID infection.

00:24:29.180 He was disappointed in himself that he didn't get his fourth shot.

00:24:34.140 And that's why he ended up getting COVID.

00:24:36.440 Because the first three didn't do it.

00:24:38.380 The first three didn't do it.

00:24:39.400 And what does that mean?

00:24:40.200 It means you keep getting more of them.

00:24:42.980 Which is pretty funny.

00:24:44.160 And people were laughing about it.

00:24:45.260 Which prompted Joe Scarborough, when he came back,

00:24:47.520 to respond to their mockery of him.

00:24:49.700 And his response is also funny.

00:24:52.120 Let's watch that.

00:24:53.460 You know, yesterday when I was talking about getting COVID,

00:24:57.700 and should have gotten a fourth booster shot.

00:25:01.300 A lot of these freaks go, oh, fourth booster shot, robot. 1.00

00:25:04.440 No, listen, here's the deal, moron. 1.00

00:25:07.860 If you get a flu shot, what do you do? 1.00

00:25:10.480 Do you go to the doctor?

00:25:11.260 Oh, my God, you want me to have a 50th flu shot?

00:25:13.960 No, you get a flu shot every year.

00:25:16.180 Right.

00:25:16.800 And as we're finding out with this pandemic,

00:25:18.980 well, it lasts six months, maybe a year.

00:25:21.800 So, yes, yes, put on your big boy pants.

00:25:26.280 Put on your big girl pants. 1.00

00:25:28.200 And if you want to be healthy, I don't care if you don't.

00:25:31.080 That's your business.

00:25:31.900 Smoke cigarettes.

00:25:32.860 Do whatever you want to do.

00:25:34.100 Stay up all night.

00:25:35.060 Don't sleep.

00:25:35.800 That's fine.

00:25:38.220 Be unhealthy.

00:25:39.180 Your choice.

00:25:39.900 My concern here, though, and let me bring in Reverend Sharpen

00:25:43.980 because we've talked about this.

00:25:45.800 My concern, Rev, is that there's a disinformation out there

00:25:50.780 where people are saying, oh, well, it doesn't work

00:25:53.520 because you've got to keep getting booster shots.

00:25:56.200 The thing is you're always trying to build up your immunity

00:25:58.600 and people are still dying from COVID.

00:26:02.360 Is it a crisis right now?

00:26:04.600 Well, for the people who are dying of COVID, yeah, it's a crisis.

00:26:08.700 Is it as bad as it's been?

00:26:10.720 No.

00:26:11.780 But as the doctor explained to me when I didn't want to get flu shots,

00:26:15.340 you're not just doing it for yourself, Joe.

00:26:16.980 I'm going to cut this off before the Reverend Al Sharpton shows up.

00:26:21.620 Why are we bringing Al Sharpton in to talk about it?

00:26:23.460 He's a medical expert now about vaccines,

00:26:27.220 which they basically dropped that.

00:26:29.320 I mean, there's a few things here.

00:26:32.440 To begin with, he says everyone gets a flu shot every year.

00:26:35.520 Do they?

00:26:36.000 I don't.

00:26:36.600 I've never gotten a flu shot in my life.

00:26:37.900 I've never gotten a flu.

00:26:39.380 You know what?

00:26:39.720 I've never gotten a flu shot because I've never gotten a flu shot in my life.

00:26:42.900 Have I ever gotten the flu?

00:26:44.360 Yeah.

00:26:44.780 I mean, I've never gotten the flu shot and I've had the flu,

00:26:48.300 I don't know, maybe twice in 36 years.

00:26:54.160 And one of the times it was pretty bad.

00:26:56.260 I was pretty sick for about three or four days.

00:26:58.740 So I've never gotten a flu shot and I've gotten the flu twice.

00:27:02.200 Well, they also fully admit that even if you get the flu shot, you can still get the flu.

00:27:08.580 So what would my batting average be if I had been getting a flu shot every single year?

00:27:15.060 I mean, they would admit that even if you get the flu shot every year for 36 years,

00:27:18.700 you'll probably still get the flu a couple of times.

00:27:20.560 Well, I don't get it and I get the flu a couple of times.

00:27:22.380 So why am I going to get the shot?

00:27:27.880 But also, this is the game that they're playing now.

00:27:32.440 Where now we hear from people like Joe Scarborough.

00:27:35.820 Oh, the shot will last six months to a year.

00:27:38.600 That's just like the flu shot.

00:27:39.840 You get it every six months.

00:27:41.900 Which even that, does anyone get the flu shot every six months?

00:27:45.160 There's a difference there too.

00:27:49.220 It's a difference of like double the number of shots.

00:27:52.380 I think most people, if they get the flu shot on a regular basis, they get it every year.

00:28:00.220 So now they're saying, yeah, you just get it every six months.

00:28:03.840 What's the big deal?

00:28:06.680 Part of the big deal here, which you hope that we forget,

00:28:10.080 is that that's not what you said at first.

00:28:14.440 That's not how this was sold.

00:28:16.420 That's not how the shot was sold.

00:28:22.880 And when I say sold, it was not really sold.

00:28:25.320 It was more like forcing it into people's arms.

00:28:28.540 Which is the other part of this because he also says, it's your choice if you want to live an unhealthy life.

00:28:33.880 That's not what you were saying two years ago?

00:28:36.800 No, that's what we were saying two years ago.

00:28:39.820 That's what those of us who don't believe in forcing chemicals in people's bodies if they don't want it.

00:28:45.540 That's what we were saying.

00:28:48.120 We were saying, however you feel about the vaccine, it should be your choice.

00:28:53.160 So if you're a pro-vaccine person and you think that it's really unhealthy to not get the vaccine,

00:28:58.540 you're allowed to think that.

00:29:01.700 So your answer should be, well, if you want to live an unhealthy life, then that's your choice.

00:29:07.760 Now they've adopted that attitude.

00:29:10.540 Do what you want.

00:29:11.220 It's your choice.

00:29:13.880 That's not what they were saying before.

00:29:16.540 And they certainly were not saying, yeah, this will be just like the flu shot.

00:29:20.660 Or actually, even less effective than the flu shot.

00:29:23.500 Because this one you have to get every six months for your entire life.

00:29:30.700 So if you live 60 more years, you're going to get the COVID quote-unquote vaccine 120 times.

00:29:38.800 That is not what they were saying.

00:29:42.160 That's what they're saying now.

00:29:43.460 And hoping we don't remember what they actually said.

00:29:47.980 I want you to hear this exchange between a reporter and a Karen Jean pair. 0.98

00:29:52.460 And this is a wonderful clip because between the two of them, they may be setting the record for, I don't know, lowest collective IQ.

00:30:00.980 But let's listen to this together.

00:30:03.780 Just a follow-up quick, still on gun violence.

00:30:07.840 We have spoke between me and some friends that in this country, and I'm making this point because we need to remind people that America is the only country on earth that people die by gun without even being in war.

00:30:27.300 Because I'm giving this example because in Africa, there are countries in war, but people don't even have access to gun.

00:30:35.020 It's very hard because the government and everybody is very conscient that the guns can cause a lot of destruction.

00:30:41.740 But in this country, it's very normal for everybody to have access to gun, and this needs to be controlled.

00:30:46.660 But what can people like me, common people, can also, what can we do to help control guns?

00:30:53.640 All right, let's pause it there for a second.

00:30:55.100 Pause it one second before we get to Karen Jean.

00:30:56.580 I want to hear her answer because she's a very eloquent and articulate person.

00:31:02.700 She always has insightful things to say, so I really want to give her a chance to answer that.

00:31:06.360 But here's what her answer should be to what you just heard. 0.98

00:31:11.580 Her answer should be, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. 0.97

00:31:14.820 How did you get in this building? 0.99

00:31:16.060 What are you doing here?

00:31:18.200 She actually claims, the reporter there is not from this country, claims that America is the only country in the world where people die by gun violence when it's not in the context of a war.

00:31:31.940 It's just simply not close to true.

00:31:37.740 It's especially not true in Africa.

00:31:40.260 But it's not true anywhere on God's green earth.

00:31:48.540 Is that what Karen Jean-Pierre will say?

00:31:50.000 Well, we'll find out.

00:31:50.520 Well, look, what I can speak to, there are many ways that people can get involved in dealing with the gun violence that we're seeing here.

00:32:00.100 I'm not going to make any suggestions, but there are ways that folks can go out there and participate in a way that's healthy, in a way that actually helps deal with a real issue.

00:32:12.840 What I can speak to is what the president has done.

00:32:16.820 What I can speak to is what the president believes.

00:32:19.360 What I can speak to is the president's record on this, which is you can see for yourself as a senator this last two years as president and the executive actions that he's taken.

00:32:28.320 He signed a bipartisan piece of legislation, as I just mentioned moments ago.

00:32:32.180 That's great.

00:32:35.240 She's great.

00:32:36.420 She's great because she's so terrible at this.

00:32:38.300 And I know, and I don't blame her for the fact that she can't answer any of the questions.

00:32:44.780 She just has to obfuscate all the time. 1.00

00:32:47.620 I don't blame her for that.

00:32:48.580 That's what White House press secretaries do. 1.00

00:32:51.600 That is their job.

00:32:53.200 Their job is to never answer a question.

00:32:56.660 But there's a skill.

00:32:58.720 There's actually a talent.

00:32:59.640 There's a talent involved in being a really good BS artist and being asked a question and giving something that sounds like an answer but isn't.

00:33:09.860 She does not have that skill. 0.73

00:33:11.780 It is so obvious when she is, we can't even say she's dancing around it.

00:33:15.860 This is not dancing.

00:33:17.140 Because dancing gives the impression of someone who's artful and graceful, which she is not.

00:33:23.540 So she has no answer to that.

00:33:25.180 Well, what I can speak to is what the president has said.

00:33:28.180 What I can speak to is his record.

00:33:30.640 What I can speak to is the president.

00:33:32.600 She keeps listing what she can speak to and then she doesn't speak to it.

00:33:34.820 She doesn't say anything about it.

00:33:39.760 So that's good stuff. 0.99

00:33:40.940 In fairness, it was a really, really dumb question. 0.97

00:33:44.980 Dumb question not only because the person claimed that gun violence only happens in the United States. 0.99

00:33:50.140 And dumb not only because the person making that claim is from Africa, where there is certainly plenty of violence of all kinds, but also dumb because it all led to the question of what can we do in our individually in our communities to stop gun violence? 0.99

00:34:06.100 Well, here's one thing you could do. 0.99

00:34:08.900 One thing we could all do is maybe that part of the question isn't so dumb because actually there is something that we can do in our communities.

00:34:17.000 There are two things, actually.

00:34:17.840 If you don't want crimes with guns to be committed, one thing is don't commit those crimes yourself.

00:34:24.460 So the more people who commit to that, the less crime there will be.

00:34:27.960 And then the second thing is to have the ability to defend yourself and to refuse to be a victim.

00:34:34.480 But that's the second thing you can do.

00:34:37.980 But of course, she's not going to say that.

00:34:39.940 All right.

00:34:40.180 I don't know why we're going to spend any time on this at all, but Variety has this report.

00:34:46.400 Everything Everywhere All at Once, a twisty sci-fi adventure, led the nominations for the 95th Academy Awards on Tuesday morning, picking up 11 nods.

00:34:54.860 It was followed closely by All Quiet on the Western Front, a World War I epic, and The Banshees of Inishirin, I think, a darkly comic look at friendship that unfolds against the backdrop of the Irish Civil War, both of which scored nine nominations.

00:35:07.380 All three films will fly for Best Picture in what is shaping up to be a much more commercially successful collection of honorees than recent years.

00:35:15.020 The Best Picture race contains the two highest-grossing films of the year, Avatar, The Way of Water, and Top Gun Maverick, along with Elvis,

00:35:21.580 a musical biopic that scored with audiences last summer.

00:35:25.940 Other contenders include Steven Spielberg's The Fablemans, Tar, a drama about an abusive conductor, Women Talking, a look at the residents of a repressive religious community, and Triangle of Sadness, a send-up of the 1% that unfolds partly on a mega yacht. 0.62

00:35:41.580 So they opened up the Best Picture nominations a few years ago, so that now they're nominating, I think they doubled the number of films that can be nominated.

00:35:50.360 And this is what you end up with.

00:35:51.880 You end up with some of these blockbuster films that were not good.

00:35:56.360 I mean, Avatar, it was very good at earning a lot of money.

00:36:02.540 Although it's arguable how good it was at that, considering it had hundreds of millions behind it in marketing.

00:36:09.420 So really, it had to make over a billion dollars, or it would have been a loss.

00:36:13.380 So on one hand, you have these films that, like, they're only there because they made a lot of money.

00:36:19.580 And then you have films that no one has ever heard of or seen.

00:36:23.480 And there's nothing in between.

00:36:25.840 Films that were, like, legitimately successful, and, you know, people actually saw and have heard of.

00:36:30.860 But also were good films.

00:36:35.600 That isn't very represented here.

00:36:38.500 What I can tell you, though, just to give the official answer on this.

00:36:45.060 The Best Movies of the Year, without a doubt, there's no dispute, there's no debate on this.

00:36:50.460 Best Movies of the Year, All Quiet on the Western Front, that was one of the best movies.

00:36:53.460 And that did get some nominations.

00:36:55.120 And then The Northman was the other best movie of the year.

00:37:01.640 But The Northman wasn't nominated for anything.

00:37:04.320 And All Quiet on the Western Front will almost certainly not win anything.

00:37:07.660 And the reason on both counts is because those films are basically all white. 0.69

00:37:12.960 Not just white.

00:37:13.600 It's, like, the worst of all worlds for Hollywood.

00:37:15.460 These are films about white people, and even white people acting heroically. 0.54

00:37:21.240 And then also almost entirely men in both films.

00:37:25.120 So we can't allow that.

00:37:27.680 They're both among the whitest and most masculine movies we've seen in a while.

00:37:32.980 So no hope of actually winning anything.

00:37:35.860 All right.

00:37:37.080 The Daily Wire has this report.

00:37:38.800 The College Board announced on Tuesday that the curriculum for AP African American Studies

00:37:43.960 would be publicly released on February 1st, citing the start of Black History Month.

00:37:48.160 The curriculum has garnered backlash among conservatives following reports of the program,

00:37:51.260 which is currently undergoing pilots at five dozen high schools across the nation,

00:37:55.240 is centered upon leftist activism rather than a study of black history.

00:37:58.980 The Florida Department of Education recently informed the College Board that the course's content

00:38:03.080 is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value,

00:38:07.780 adding that the state would reconsider the course should the organization make the material lawful

00:38:13.580 and historically accurate.

00:38:14.620 The College Board referenced the beginning of Black History Month in a statement provided to Daily Wire

00:38:19.260 announcing the course's structures public release, saying, quote,

00:38:23.380 this framework under development since March 2022 replaces the preliminary pilot course framework

00:38:27.700 under discussion to date.

00:38:29.360 We're grateful for the—okay, who cares about that?

00:38:30.900 Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who signed legislation last year preventing the state government schools

00:38:38.280 from teaching discrimination on the basis of race, color, or sex,

00:38:40.920 has emerged as a leading skeptic of the new AP African American Studies course.

00:38:45.080 He noted that it submits policies such as prison abolition for student consideration,

00:38:50.880 even though such suggestions are primarily supported by left-wing activists.

00:38:53.680 Here he is, by the way, we have a clip of Ron DeSantis talking about this new Black History Month

00:39:01.540 or African American Studies AP course and the problems with it, and here it is.

00:39:07.240 This course on black history, what's one of the lessons about?

00:39:12.960 Queer theory. 0.71

00:39:14.600 Now, who would say that an important part of black history is queer theory? 0.97

00:39:20.140 That is somebody pushing an agenda on our kids. 0.98

00:39:23.540 And so when you look to see they have stuff about intersectionality, abolishing prisons,

00:39:29.140 that's a political agenda.

00:39:31.220 And so we're on—that's the wrong side of the line for Florida's standards.

00:39:35.440 We believe in teaching kids facts and how to think,

00:39:39.140 but we don't believe they should have an agenda imposed on them.

00:39:42.640 When you try to use black history to shoehorn in queer theory, 0.94

00:39:46.900 you are clearly trying to use that for political purposes.

00:39:52.300 Yeah, of course.

00:39:53.500 And he's absolutely right, obviously.

00:39:55.820 And there's just no chance that in the modern age, in the government school system,

00:40:03.040 they can have any course related to something like African American studies

00:40:06.940 that will not be highly political, ideologically charged.

00:40:12.180 And, yeah, include things like queer theory.

00:40:17.680 Because that's—that is going to be—that's going to be shoehorned into anything.

00:40:24.540 Anything where the left is involved, it's always going to come down to LGBT indoctrination. 1.00

00:40:30.860 It's always a forum for that.

00:40:33.720 I mean, look at BLM before they changed their website,

00:40:40.780 you know, originally on their website,

00:40:42.000 when they listed their—what their mission statement is,

00:40:45.240 all over their mission statement.

00:40:48.080 It's about trans rights, LGBT this, LGBT that. 0.53

00:40:53.600 What does that have to do with Black Lives Matter?

00:40:57.120 Well, it's because that's a cover for just a far-left agenda,

00:41:00.300 as he accurately points out.

00:41:02.140 Though, I'll also say that I'm not in favor of—

00:41:06.200 you know, you hear some conservatives say,

00:41:07.420 well, we've got to reform—we need to reform this program,

00:41:10.640 we need to take a look at it, we need to audit it and figure out a way to—

00:41:14.760 no, we don't need this at all.

00:41:17.520 Okay, this is not an appropriate or relevant thing.

00:41:20.560 Any kind of African American history or studies,

00:41:23.780 that should not be a course that is offered

00:41:27.780 or presented in grade school, in public schools.

00:41:32.400 It shouldn't be there at all.

00:41:34.220 And why is that?

00:41:35.320 Because what we should be teaching kids is American history.

00:41:39.280 The courses should be focused on American history,

00:41:42.340 not breaking history down by racial groups.

00:41:45.520 The moment you start to do that,

00:41:48.980 it is, again, going to automatically become political and ideological.

00:41:53.780 But it's also not appropriate for a public school environment.

00:41:58.180 Teach the kids American history.

00:42:01.080 And that will include the story of everyone who has been an American.

00:42:05.280 All right, let's get to the comment section.

00:42:08.780 Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage?

00:42:14.660 Who's to blame?

00:42:17.500 It's a sweet baby gang.

00:42:21.900 Bob Pierce says,

00:42:22.900 the reporters tried to contact the 17-year-old girl at her workplace.

00:42:26.240 That part should not be overlooked.

00:42:27.900 They're trying to get her fired. 1.00

00:42:30.940 Yeah, they're trying to do a lot more than that.

00:42:32.480 The 17-year-old girl who stood up to the male who entered the locker room at the YMCA

00:42:38.640 and disrobed, exposed himself to her.

00:42:42.860 And the media, not just calling it a workplace,

00:42:44.880 but they're trying to publicly shame her for the crime of not wanting to be exposed 0.98

00:42:54.180 to male genitalia in the locker room. 0.97

00:42:56.780 It's really sinister stuff. 0.99

00:42:59.320 Luke says,

00:42:59.760 Because the moment Matt said,

00:43:01.040 pass down the fat genes,

00:43:02.520 I had to brace myself for the inevitable pun.

00:43:05.460 The more children he has,

00:43:06.480 the stronger his dad jokes become.

00:43:09.160 I couldn't, look,

00:43:10.140 during that segment on obesity,

00:43:13.820 there were many opportunities for fat puns.

00:43:16.700 And I think that I showed incredible restraint

00:43:20.500 because I only,

00:43:21.520 I'd say there were about five or six opportunities.

00:43:23.960 I only took maybe two of them.

00:43:26.060 And I was impressed with myself.

00:43:28.220 I was very proud of myself after that,

00:43:29.720 that I didn't,

00:43:30.180 that I didn't grab every single pun.

00:43:32.180 That one was just too,

00:43:33.620 that one you have to go with.

00:43:37.260 Aiden says,

00:43:38.020 Can't believe Matt didn't laugh at the obesity expert being named Fatima.

00:43:42.840 That's exactly my point.

00:43:44.240 I wanted to,

00:43:44.820 I wanted to make a comment about that,

00:43:46.140 but I didn't.

00:43:46.520 Meow, meow, meow, meow says,

00:43:52.800 Walsh's ignorance of actual science on psychiatry and psychology is shocking.

00:43:57.880 And yes,

00:43:58.320 he is also right that such a claim can also be applied to many who challenge him.

00:44:02.300 This is just sad all around.

00:44:04.500 P.S.

00:44:04.840 He's 95% correct on obesity.

00:44:08.380 Well,

00:44:10.020 meow, meow, meow,

00:44:11.260 far be it from me to,

00:44:12.520 you know,

00:44:13.520 challenge you at all on this.

00:44:14.540 But just simply stating,

00:44:18.440 well,

00:44:19.200 what Matt said about this is wrong.

00:44:21.760 That's,

00:44:22.280 that's not an argument.

00:44:23.060 That's an assertion.

00:44:25.640 What did I say about psychiatry and psychology that is,

00:44:29.800 that not only is wrong,

00:44:31.200 but you say is shocking.

00:44:35.600 Especially in the context of the show yesterday,

00:44:37.440 where I didn't,

00:44:38.380 I didn't say much specifically about it.

00:44:40.540 Other than to,

00:44:45.140 you know,

00:44:46.600 make the broad,

00:44:48.280 but correct criticism that what the psychiatric industry has been doing for the last several decades,

00:44:57.120 part of the effect of what they've been doing,

00:44:58.480 is to categorize and catalog every aspect of the human condition,

00:45:06.200 every emotion and behavior,

00:45:07.960 and turn it into a disease-ify it,

00:45:10.160 disease-ify,

00:45:10.680 disease-ifying the human condition.

00:45:12.180 And I base that

00:45:14.960 not on just like my assumption

00:45:17.400 or some vague feeling,

00:45:19.340 but you can read what they have in the,

00:45:21.620 in the DSM.

00:45:22.440 You can,

00:45:22.760 in fact,

00:45:23.280 you can look at the fact that they've had

00:45:24.500 five revisions to the DSM,

00:45:26.820 and every single time they add more things to it,

00:45:30.020 which should already make you skeptical,

00:45:32.580 that every time they keep adding to it,

00:45:35.140 are they really discovering?

00:45:36.240 Is that,

00:45:36.500 is that really what's happening?

00:45:37.460 Are they,

00:45:37.980 every year you just discover new mental illnesses

00:45:40.580 that nobody knew about before?

00:45:43.180 Oh,

00:45:43.720 but,

00:45:43.960 you know,

00:45:44.480 I'm not,

00:45:45.060 maybe I'm not being completely fair.

00:45:47.040 They don't just add to the DSM,

00:45:48.920 right?

00:45:49.080 Sometimes they take things out,

00:45:50.540 but they take things out in response to political pressure.

00:45:55.540 And when they take things out,

00:45:56.860 they very rarely can give any kind of scientific reason

00:45:59.200 why they took it out.

00:46:00.580 They just took it out because people were upset.

00:46:03.700 And the classic example,

00:46:04.580 of course,

00:46:04.840 is when they took homosexuality, 0.84

00:46:07.980 which originally the psychiatric industry, 0.68

00:46:10.360 the psychiatrist said was a mental illness.

00:46:12.960 It was in the DSM.

00:46:13.840 They took it out and they took it out

00:46:15.660 because there was a lot of pressure from gay activists

00:46:17.760 saying that they were deeply disturbed and offended

00:46:20.100 that it was in there.

00:46:22.860 They've also made changes to the way that

00:46:24.900 gender dysphoria is categorized

00:46:29.940 and certainly how it's treated

00:46:31.020 in response to political pressure.

00:46:35.340 This is not ignorance.

00:46:36.380 This is just exactly what they've done.

00:46:38.220 I'm sorry to say.

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00:47:45.460 Well, as we know,

00:47:50.660 the woke cultists among us

00:47:52.240 are constantly running

00:47:53.380 a linguistic inventory,

00:47:54.940 scanning through the catalog

00:47:55.900 of human language,

00:47:56.820 looking for random words

00:47:57.920 to suddenly, out of nowhere,

00:47:59.320 and for no intelligible reason,

00:48:00.860 declare problematic and insensitive.

00:48:03.420 And this week,

00:48:03.960 the cultists seem to be

00:48:04.880 putting in some overtime work

00:48:06.220 as there are multiple examples

00:48:07.800 just from this week

00:48:09.100 of benign words and phrases

00:48:10.540 being declared suddenly

00:48:11.740 and indiscernible.

00:48:12.560 But today we're going to focus

00:48:13.900 only on USA Today

00:48:15.960 and an article written by

00:48:17.180 diversity and inclusion reporter

00:48:19.080 David Oliver.

00:48:20.640 The headline asks,

00:48:21.960 is it time to stop saying aloha

00:48:23.680 and other culturally sensitive words

00:48:25.620 out of context?

00:48:27.300 Not to spoil the ending,

00:48:28.600 but yes, it is time apparently.

00:48:30.180 That's what he wants to tell us.

00:48:32.360 He writes, quote,

00:48:33.620 aloha, ola, shalom.

00:48:35.520 These are ways to say hello

00:48:36.940 in Hawaiian, Spanish,

00:48:38.100 and Hebrew respectively.

00:48:39.560 But just because you can say something

00:48:41.120 doesn't mean it's always appropriate.

00:48:43.040 On the surface,

00:48:43.600 simple greetings and phrases

00:48:44.900 from other races and cultures

00:48:45.980 may seem fine to sprinkle

00:48:47.800 into our vernacular,

00:48:49.160 inclusive even.

00:48:50.460 But did you know that aloha

00:48:51.660 doesn't just mean hello or goodbye?

00:48:54.180 Quote, it's a greeting or a farewell,

00:48:55.740 but the meaning is deeper,

00:48:56.820 says Mel Arvin,

00:48:58.240 the director of Pacific Island Studies

00:49:00.100 at the University of Utah.

00:49:01.600 One of my Hawaiian language teachers

00:49:03.340 taught it to me as,

00:49:04.240 aloha means recognizing yourself

00:49:06.480 in everyone and everything you meet.

00:49:08.700 If you're not Hawaiian and you say it, 1.00

00:49:10.360 it could come off as mockery.

00:49:11.840 And that's just one word

00:49:13.140 to think about.

00:49:14.220 The use of certain words

00:49:15.320 requires education,

00:49:16.580 knowledge,

00:49:17.020 and the foresight to understand

00:49:18.500 when they should or shouldn't

00:49:20.300 come out of your mouth. 0.52

00:49:22.900 Yes, David Oliver of USA Today

00:49:24.720 will tell you what should or shouldn't

00:49:27.220 come out of your mouth. 0.52

00:49:29.560 You cannot be trusted

00:49:30.820 to simply go around speaking

00:49:32.280 and saying words all willy-nilly.

00:49:34.420 You need guidance and instruction

00:49:36.020 and correction,

00:49:37.060 and David Oliver is here to provide it.

00:49:39.440 Very nice of him.

00:49:40.940 Something to keep in mind,

00:49:41.780 by the way,

00:49:42.000 when considering the subject

00:49:43.000 that we began the show with today,

00:49:44.400 people are very squeamish

00:49:45.380 about imposing our collective will

00:49:47.640 on criminals,

00:49:48.860 punishing them,

00:49:49.580 and forcing them to comply

00:49:50.560 with the law

00:49:51.220 and the standards

00:49:52.280 of basic human decency.

00:49:53.740 But I'm willing to bet

00:49:54.380 that David Oliver himself

00:49:55.980 would take great exception

00:49:56.880 to everything I said

00:49:57.620 about that subject.

00:49:58.460 And yet,

00:49:59.980 these same squeamish,

00:50:01.500 gentle, tolerant folks

00:50:02.780 suddenly adopt

00:50:03.520 a quite different attitude

00:50:04.920 when it comes to

00:50:06.300 normal, law-abiding citizens

00:50:07.980 who say words

00:50:09.060 and express ideas

00:50:10.260 that they don't like.

00:50:12.620 Now, it's not true then

00:50:13.640 to say that we live

00:50:14.420 in a permissive society.

00:50:16.160 It's more accurate to say 0.75

00:50:17.280 that we are a society

00:50:18.200 permissive specifically

00:50:19.460 of criminals 0.98

00:50:20.640 and social leeches, 0.96

00:50:22.000 but quite stern 0.70

00:50:22.800 and controlling

00:50:23.460 when it comes to

00:50:24.120 normal people

00:50:24.920 who do say

00:50:26.220 and think normal things.

00:50:28.640 Now, granted,

00:50:29.260 David isn't suggesting

00:50:30.460 caning or executing 0.99

00:50:32.380 white people 1.00

00:50:33.120 who use the word aloha,

00:50:34.200 but I'm not sure

00:50:34.960 that he necessarily

00:50:35.720 object to that suggestion either.

00:50:37.580 Back to his article,

00:50:38.220 he says,

00:50:39.020 of course,

00:50:39.440 not all uses of language

00:50:40.620 outside someone's culture

00:50:41.700 are problematic.

00:50:43.020 Quote,

00:50:43.200 we live in a multilingual world

00:50:44.900 where we're always influencing

00:50:46.260 one another's language practices

00:50:48.240 where we might come into contact

00:50:50.520 with a variety of terms

00:50:51.580 or language practices

00:50:52.300 that we have not grown up in,

00:50:53.860 says Nikki Lane,

00:50:54.720 cultural and linguistic anthropologist.

00:50:56.960 Intention matters most.

00:50:58.820 Dropping hola or shalom

00:51:00.620 to someone who you know

00:51:02.000 speaks Spanish or Hebrew,

00:51:03.160 for example,

00:51:04.040 isn't something to worry about.

00:51:05.720 Actively don a fake,

00:51:07.320 exaggerated accent

00:51:08.200 and say those words,

00:51:09.300 well,

00:51:09.580 therein lies the problem.

00:51:11.900 Yeah,

00:51:12.460 but what if the fake accent

00:51:13.480 is hilarious?

00:51:15.020 Can we carve out an exception

00:51:16.100 for exaggerated accents

00:51:17.400 that are particularly funny?

00:51:20.000 Probably not.

00:51:21.440 Continuing,

00:51:21.920 it says,

00:51:23.240 quote,

00:51:23.780 like saying ni hao

00:51:25.040 to someone Asian American

00:51:26.200 who isn't Chinese,

00:51:27.300 this could be both othering

00:51:28.640 and a microaggression.

00:51:30.380 What we need

00:51:30.880 is a critical consciousness

00:51:32.160 in our public

00:51:33.080 around language,

00:51:34.120 says Jeffrey McCune,

00:51:35.520 director of the

00:51:36.180 Frederick Douglass Institute

00:51:37.260 of African and African American Studies

00:51:39.260 at the University of Rochester.

00:51:41.440 Language is too critical 1.00

00:51:42.660 to our culture

00:51:43.320 that we can't just

00:51:44.080 casually use language

00:51:45.860 in ways that might offend

00:51:47.080 and or even harm,

00:51:48.540 do harm,

00:51:49.080 to certain groups of people.

00:51:50.380 It's the larger

00:51:51.100 cultural considerations

00:51:52.320 around the use of these words

00:51:53.800 that matter most.

00:51:55.600 Quote,

00:51:55.880 I don't think the intention

00:51:56.940 is necessarily to be offensive

00:51:58.220 or anything,

00:51:58.840 but for native Hawaiian people,

00:52:00.520 Hawaiian language

00:52:01.140 was banned in schools

00:52:02.220 after the Hawaiian kingdom

00:52:03.260 was overthrown,

00:52:03.960 Arvin says.

00:52:04.960 Considering how difficult

00:52:05.700 it has been

00:52:06.160 to keep the language alive,

00:52:07.520 to see someone using it

00:52:08.600 without respect

00:52:09.260 is really difficult

00:52:10.160 for that reason.

00:52:12.040 Ah, so,

00:52:13.000 it's been difficult

00:52:13.760 to keep the Hawaiian language alive,

00:52:16.020 which is why

00:52:17.360 you don't want people

00:52:19.700 to use it?

00:52:21.340 There was allegedly

00:52:22.180 an effort

00:52:22.480 to eradicate the language, 0.92

00:52:23.780 and now parts of the language

00:52:24.600 are so common

00:52:25.220 that even people

00:52:25.840 who are not Hawaiian

00:52:26.640 use it,

00:52:27.480 and that's a bad thing,

00:52:29.000 you say.

00:52:30.480 Well, it's only bad

00:52:31.480 when the word is used

00:52:32.440 without respect.

00:52:34.340 But what sort of respect

00:52:35.560 do we need to grant

00:52:36.520 a word like aloha?

00:52:38.100 What kind of sacred reverence

00:52:39.680 do you need to see?

00:52:41.380 I'm not sure I know

00:52:42.400 how to respect

00:52:43.520 the word aloha,

00:52:44.340 even if I cared enough

00:52:45.140 to try,

00:52:45.960 which I don't.

00:52:47.340 Whatever they mean by respect,

00:52:48.420 the point is that

00:52:49.080 our intentions

00:52:49.780 are what matters.

00:52:50.840 That's what they say.

00:52:51.880 And on that point,

00:52:52.600 I actually agree.

00:52:53.400 What matters most

00:52:55.160 in any human communication

00:52:56.280 is intention.

00:52:58.420 You cannot know

00:52:59.140 how to respond to someone

00:53:00.600 or how to feel

00:53:01.740 about what they've said

00:53:02.740 until you understand

00:53:03.880 their intention

00:53:04.620 behind their words,

00:53:05.780 the meaning

00:53:06.280 they were trying

00:53:07.220 to convey.

00:53:09.140 The words

00:53:09.740 and syllables

00:53:10.220 themselves

00:53:10.740 are less functionally

00:53:11.960 important in most

00:53:12.840 day-to-day communication

00:53:13.740 than the intended meaning

00:53:15.300 behind them.

00:53:16.000 Somebody might

00:53:16.580 phrase something

00:53:17.800 incorrectly

00:53:18.280 or use a word

00:53:19.020 in the wrong way,

00:53:19.580 but if you know

00:53:20.620 what they mean,

00:53:21.500 which most of the time

00:53:22.300 you do,

00:53:23.460 then the communication

00:53:24.260 was successful

00:53:24.960 and only a tedious, 1.00

00:53:26.060 pedantic jerk 1.00

00:53:26.820 would feel the need 1.00

00:53:27.480 to go back

00:53:28.040 and correct them.

00:53:29.380 The problem is that

00:53:30.360 when the left says

00:53:31.660 intention is what matters,

00:53:33.000 what they mean to say is

00:53:34.220 my perception

00:53:36.220 of your intention

00:53:37.600 is what matters.

00:53:39.560 They don't actually care

00:53:40.720 about your intention

00:53:41.660 behind your own words.

00:53:43.520 That couldn't be

00:53:44.540 less relevant to them.

00:53:45.880 The words themselves

00:53:46.840 are also basically irrelevant.

00:53:48.720 They will just arbitrarily decide

00:53:50.240 what your motivations

00:53:51.380 and intentions were

00:53:52.280 and they will adjust

00:53:53.220 their level of offense

00:53:54.100 accordingly.

00:53:55.520 But don't worry, though.

00:53:56.840 They're not going to leave you

00:53:57.740 entirely in limbo

00:53:58.620 wondering what you should

00:53:59.800 or shouldn't say

00:54:00.480 and how you should

00:54:01.560 or shouldn't say it.

00:54:02.900 They won't leave me

00:54:03.820 in that limbo

00:54:04.340 because I simply don't care

00:54:05.340 at all about their language rules

00:54:06.600 and I'm not waiting

00:54:07.340 for their permission

00:54:07.920 to say anything.

00:54:09.020 But if you are concerned

00:54:10.000 about the rules

00:54:10.580 and if you are determined

00:54:11.760 to follow them,

00:54:12.840 well, our white knight friend

00:54:13.940 David Oliver

00:54:14.440 concludes his article

00:54:15.740 with some very helpful tips.

00:54:17.340 Here they are.

00:54:18.180 Quote,

00:54:18.380 These action items

00:54:20.360 will help keep

00:54:21.020 your language in check.

00:54:23.120 Number one,

00:54:24.240 make an effort

00:54:24.760 to befriend people

00:54:25.660 from other cultures.

00:54:26.780 Step outside your comfort zone

00:54:27.900 and talk to people

00:54:28.700 who do not share

00:54:29.740 our values or our experiences,

00:54:31.060 says Suni Rucker Chang,

00:54:32.360 associate professor

00:54:33.000 at the Center for Slavic,

00:54:34.280 East European,

00:54:35.160 and Eurasian Studies

00:54:36.020 at the Ohio State University.

00:54:38.060 You'll likely get a better feel

00:54:39.860 for what's appropriate this way.

00:54:41.600 Two,

00:54:42.120 ask yourself

00:54:42.820 why you are saying the term.

00:54:44.960 Are you using the term

00:54:45.780 because you want to say

00:54:46.560 something besides hello or hey?

00:54:49.140 Consider the cultural implications

00:54:50.820 before you do.

00:54:52.420 McCune says,

00:54:53.420 Is it to the benefit

00:54:54.180 of laughter and sarcasm

00:54:55.600 and satire?

00:54:56.780 Or is it a genuine interest

00:54:58.080 in being a part

00:54:58.780 of a cultural community

00:54:59.640 that recognizes

00:55:00.300 the historical meaning

00:55:01.180 and historical significance

00:55:02.040 of various terms?

00:55:03.660 Three,

00:55:04.460 remember the weight of words.

00:55:06.460 Quote,

00:55:06.760 Language is really about power, 0.96

00:55:08.300 says Rucker Chang.

00:55:09.640 And I think that

00:55:10.360 the person who is using

00:55:11.380 these terms

00:55:11.780 needs to be more aware

00:55:13.000 of the origins of them.

00:55:14.460 Four,

00:55:14.780 avoid terms you don't know.

00:55:16.460 Once you learn,

00:55:17.060 you might decide

00:55:17.780 you don't want to use the term

00:55:19.400 because you see

00:55:20.140 that it is indexing

00:55:21.820 certain things

00:55:22.440 that have nothing to do with you

00:55:23.520 and which might reproduce ideas

00:55:25.200 in which you are not interested

00:55:26.460 in reproducing.

00:55:28.400 What?

00:55:29.480 Okay.

00:55:30.100 Five,

00:55:30.640 educate, educate, educate.

00:55:32.100 Whether it's history

00:55:32.880 of colonialism in Hawaii

00:55:34.160 or other significant

00:55:34.920 historical facts,

00:55:35.940 knowledge helps fight ignorance.

00:55:38.920 Now,

00:55:39.200 one thing they don't cover

00:55:40.120 is about

00:55:42.500 what about

00:55:43.180 when I intentionally

00:55:44.460 mispronounce

00:55:45.300 foreign words

00:55:46.140 and foreign names

00:55:46.980 simply because

00:55:48.040 I find it amusing

00:55:48.900 to butcher terms

00:55:49.820 I'm not familiar with.

00:55:51.580 Like,

00:55:51.740 what about when I,

00:55:52.200 is that okay?

00:55:52.680 Can I do that?

00:55:54.040 I guess it's not okay.

00:55:55.140 That's my guess.

00:55:55.920 Which only makes it

00:55:56.740 more amusing to me,

00:55:57.760 which ensures

00:55:58.180 that I will continue

00:55:58.960 doing it even more.

00:56:00.600 As for the rest,

00:56:01.660 it's all nonsense, 0.82

00:56:02.980 of course.

00:56:03.520 Consider the cultural implications

00:56:05.400 before saying hello

00:56:06.580 to someone.

00:56:08.060 How is it even possible

00:56:09.420 to function in society

00:56:11.020 if you have to treat

00:56:12.240 every conversation

00:56:13.380 like some sort of

00:56:14.180 explorer

00:56:15.260 making contact

00:56:16.260 with a primitive jungle tribe 0.99

00:56:17.680 for the first time,

00:56:18.680 paranoid that one wrong move

00:56:20.180 or phrase 0.89

00:56:20.620 will result in a spear 1.00

00:56:21.860 through your chest 1.00

00:56:22.520 and your corpse roasting 0.99

00:56:23.540 over, you know,

00:56:24.840 an open fire for dinner.

00:56:26.800 Of course,

00:56:27.240 it's not possible

00:56:28.080 to function that way,

00:56:29.140 which is part of the point.

00:56:30.820 These people are very much

00:56:31.900 opposed to any

00:56:32.880 functional vision

00:56:34.200 of society

00:56:35.080 or human interaction.

00:56:36.180 Function is what

00:56:36.780 they hate most of all. 0.94

00:56:38.300 And what in the hell 0.60

00:56:38.940 does she mean 0.63

00:56:39.500 when she says

00:56:39.940 language is about power?

00:56:43.340 I mean,

00:56:43.620 that's the kind of

00:56:44.200 utterly nonsensical statement

00:56:45.500 that college professors

00:56:46.420 make to their students

00:56:47.260 all the time

00:56:47.820 who are meant to just

00:56:48.680 sit there and mindlessly 0.98

00:56:49.720 consume the nonsense 0.64

00:56:50.800 like baby birds

00:56:52.400 inhaling whatever

00:56:53.200 half-digested muck

00:56:54.400 is spewed at them.

00:56:55.680 If you sit and think

00:56:56.780 about it, though,

00:56:57.700 for more than half a second,

00:56:58.940 you realize that

00:56:59.500 it makes no sense.

00:57:01.140 And it makes no sense

00:57:02.240 in the most cynical

00:57:02.980 and hideous way imaginable

00:57:04.540 because she is casting

00:57:06.420 ordinary communication,

00:57:08.620 polite greetings

00:57:09.440 between people

00:57:10.040 as power struggles.

00:57:12.420 When you say hello

00:57:13.500 to someone,

00:57:14.040 it's a power struggle.

00:57:15.320 You are exercising

00:57:16.660 power over them

00:57:17.980 by saying hi.

00:57:20.460 She suggests

00:57:21.260 that people ought to bring

00:57:22.000 their ancestral resentments

00:57:23.640 and blood feuds

00:57:24.560 into every exchange,

00:57:26.140 seeing even a statement

00:57:27.020 like hello

00:57:27.700 as an effort

00:57:28.220 to colonize

00:57:29.080 and enslave them. 0.83

00:57:29.800 As always, then,

00:57:32.840 we find that

00:57:34.020 what appears to be 0.99

00:57:34.860 merely stupid 1.00

00:57:35.500 on the surface 1.00

00:57:36.100 turns out to be 1.00

00:57:37.160 still very stupid, 1.00

00:57:38.880 of course, 1.00

00:57:39.180 but even more insidious

00:57:40.200 and hideous

00:57:40.620 than it first appeared.

00:57:42.480 And this

00:57:43.100 is ultimately why

00:57:44.800 to David Oliver

00:57:46.300 and Sunni Rucker Chang

00:57:47.840 and anyone else

00:57:48.540 associated with this article,

00:57:49.960 we must say

00:57:50.400 to all of them,

00:57:51.860 aloha

00:57:52.460 and you're canceled.

00:57:55.000 That'll do it

00:57:55.580 for this portion of the show.

00:57:56.440 Let's move over

00:57:56.760 to the members block.

00:57:57.460 Hope to see you there.

00:57:58.120 If not,

00:57:58.560 talk to you tomorrow.

00:57:59.120 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 25, 2023

Ep. 1100 - The Internet Is Very Mad That I Want To Punish Criminals

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