The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1125 - Hershey’s Becomes HeShe’s

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Hershey's becomes he-she's as they appoint a trans activist to be

00:00:05.380 the face of their Women's History Month campaign. But that's not even the worst of it. We'll discuss

00:00:09.880 all the details today. Also, some Republicans are pushing to ban TikTok as the ACLU objects.

00:00:15.400 Tucker Carlson calls out Christian leaders for their failure to actually lead. The most notorious

00:00:19.780 groomer on the internet keeps getting creepier and creepier as time goes on. And a daily

00:00:23.900 cancellation with Women's History Month now upon us and Black History Month just passed.

00:00:27.800 It seems like one group is being left out. We'll talk about all that and more today on Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:46.580 bankonyourself.com slash Walsh today. Women's History Month does not enjoy exactly the same

00:01:52.700 status as Pride Month or Black History Month of the three sacred celebrations. Women's History Month,

00:01:59.100 which began this week, is certainly the lowest on the totem pole. Still, it's an important and holy

00:02:04.640 time on the leftist liturgical calendar, especially because it presents yet another opportunity to

00:02:09.620 celebrate LGBT people. To be specific, Women's History Month is a time to celebrate men, gay men,

00:02:16.280 who masquerade as women. That's certainly how the Hershey's Corporation sees it anyway. 1.00

00:02:21.740 That's why this week, as you've probably heard, the candy company unveiled its He for She campaign,

00:02:26.860 which is meant to, quote, shine a light on the women and girls who inspire us every day.

00:02:32.380 And they selected five women to be a part of this, so to be faces of this initiative.

00:02:37.220 And each of the women will even have their likenesses adorned Hershey's chocolate bar

00:02:41.380 wrappings for the duration of the month. But the interesting thing about one of these women is 0.94

00:02:46.560 that he is not a woman at all, but rather a man pretending to be a woman. Trans activist

00:02:52.040 Faye Johnstone announced his inclusion in the campaign this week with this video.

00:02:57.840 Listen.

00:02:58.020 My name is Faye Johnstone. I'm the executive director of Wisdom to Action.

00:03:03.260 We can create a world where everyone is able to live in public space as their honest and authentic

00:03:09.280 selves. See the woman changing how we see the future at Hershey's Canada. 1.00

00:03:15.020 Now, it's already as absurd and as insulting as it could possibly get for a major corporate brand to

00:03:20.360 make this man, who, by the way, also looks and sounds like a man, a representative of women. But

00:03:26.960 a glance at Johnstone's history and at his social media posts tells an even darker story.

00:03:34.800 In fact, Hershey has inadvertently provided us with, I think, a very revealing illustration of how

00:03:39.700 trans activists are made and what they do with the privilege that their self-identity affords them. 0.85

00:03:47.180 This was not the company's intention to give us this lesson. We can assume that it wasn't.

00:03:50.240 But they have given us this instructive case study in any case. So it's worth, I think,

00:03:55.740 investigating to see what we can learn from it. So follow with me briefly as we go through the

00:04:01.540 story of Faye Johnstone. And we go all the way back to a few years ago to 2014 and 2015. Back then,

00:04:09.540 Faye Johnstone, then known as Zach, was posting on Instagram with hashtags like gay boy and proud slut. 0.99

00:04:17.220 In fact, he even posted a public acknowledgement of, because at the time he identified as a 0.99

00:04:22.660 gay man. And around that same time, he posted a public acknowledgement of an apology for

00:04:28.420 his, quote, cis privilege, begging forgiveness for taking up space as a queer male. In that 2015 post,

00:04:36.280 this is what he wrote. This was Zach. He says, I want to acknowledge my own cis privilege and say that

00:04:42.460 across the board, white queer men like myself take up space that marginalizes the most oppressed

00:04:48.320 and diverse members of our community. Now, it's quite a strange thing to see yourself as merely

00:04:56.000 taking up space. But this is what leftist identity politics entails if you're a white male.

00:05:02.960 But then an interesting thing happened. After taking some women's history classes and reading some

00:05:08.760 feminist literature and confronting his cis privilege some more, all this is documented on his Instagram

00:05:14.240 page, Zach eventually decided that, well, it turns out he's not cis at all. He was no longer taking up

00:05:21.740 space, nor did he owe any apologies. Over the next few years, he would identify as femme and, quote,

00:05:28.680 non-binary and then land eventually on trans. It didn't take him very long after discovering his

00:05:34.860 non-cis identity to monetize it. He put up another Instagram post in, I think it was 2017,

00:05:42.060 advertising himself as a professional queer, quote unquote, and seeking honorariums and paid gigs. 0.59

00:05:49.280 Magically, Johnstone was now in a position to not only make money off of this identity,

00:05:55.260 but to lecture the cis allies that he was just identifying himself with like five seconds ago.

00:06:01.240 In 2017, he posted this, quote, allyship means taking cisgender heterosexual spaces and making

00:06:09.560 them queer and trans inclusive. It means not expecting trans and non-binary people to have to

00:06:15.720 educate everyone around them every day and in every new space. It means being there and being

00:06:20.660 consistent. So many allies talk a big game, but we need you to do more than talk.

00:06:26.540 This is a man who had once, not long before, felt the need to apologize for taking up space.

00:06:34.820 Now he was blaming others for taking up space that belonged to him. How quickly can a white male go

00:06:40.980 from apologizing for his privilege to scolding other people for theirs? All you have to do is put on a

00:06:47.380 dress. It's that simple. And these days, you don't even have to do that much. Johnstone, once the

00:06:53.520 oppressor was now, once the oppressor was now apparently the oppressed and now makes his living

00:07:00.800 as a professional activist. He also takes full advantage of the victim privilege that he has

00:07:06.980 claimed for himself. As he advocates for many horrific things, including putting women in harm's

00:07:13.060 way. Just a few days ago, Johnstone reprimanded someone for saying that male rapists who identify as

00:07:19.100 trans shouldn't be housed in women's prisons. He claimed that trans identifying male sex offenders 0.86

00:07:24.820 must be placed in women's prisons in the name of, quote, trans liberation. The separation of male and 0.99

00:07:31.940 female prisoners is not a solution, he said. It bears repeating here and emphasizing, a man who wants to 1.00

00:07:40.460 lock women prisoners into cages with male sex offenders and violent rapists is the person who Hershey chose to 0.87

00:07:48.640 be a representative of women for Women's History Month. It gets worse. Johnstone has also explicitly 0.79

00:07:55.340 advocated for vilifying, quote, unquote, his words, women who disagree with gender ideology. He said that

00:08:02.640 such women, TERFs, as he calls them, should be shouted down until they, quote, don't dare to speak their 1.00

00:08:09.460 views publicly. And this is not new or unique rhetoric coming from him. Back in 2017, he was calling for,

00:08:15.920 quote, militant queers to rise up against his political enemies. Nowadays, Johnstone advocates 0.99

00:08:23.280 for mandatory trans-affirming indoctrination of children in public school. A few months ago, he

00:08:28.100 called for school boards to establish, quote, best practices to ensure all students learn about

00:08:34.180 accepting trans people. And as for parents who might object, he believes that, as he stated, that

00:08:40.240 parents don't have absolute rights over their own children. Now, none of these revelations are

00:08:45.380 shocking. They don't even really count as revelations. I mean, of course, this male trans activist hates

00:08:52.500 women and doesn't care if they're put in harm's way. Of course, all male trans activists hate women 0.99

00:08:59.120 because they resent and despise the people who authentically belong to an identity group that they 0.95

00:09:05.620 covet but will never really be a part of. It's that simple. And also, they're all narcissists.

00:09:11.040 I mean, every single one. That's why they're trans activists. They care about nobody and nothing 1.00

00:09:16.820 except their own affirmation. Whatever sacrifices must be made to make them feel affirmed are worth it.

00:09:24.040 And if that means that women have to get raped in prison, as far as they're concerned, they're fine 1.00

00:09:29.980 with it. They're more than fine with it. I mean, they hate women, after all, remember. 0.99

00:09:33.080 The militant rhetoric, expressly calling for the vilification of their opponents,

00:09:40.720 wishing to make their women too afraid and intimidated to even speak in public, 0.99

00:09:46.460 this is also no surprise. It is how trans activists and LGBT activists and leftist activists in general

00:09:51.840 have always operated. You know, while people on the right complain that my rhetoric is too mean,

00:09:58.080 too abrasive, the other side has proudly and explicitly set out to demonize anyone who disagrees

00:10:05.060 with them. And they'll even tell you that's what they're doing. They're not having any conversation

00:10:09.900 about tone. Okay, there's no tone policing going on on that side. They all agree. Whatever tone is

00:10:16.980 necessary to harass and terrorize the enemy is the right tone, as far as they're concerned.

00:10:21.960 This is how they fight this war, while many on our side are still trying to, you know, play pat-a-cake

00:10:28.120 with these people. It's also not a surprise, though very important to note, how Johnstone settled on

00:10:35.960 his woman identity in the first place. I mean, you could track a similar progression for nearly every

00:10:41.040 young trans activist in the country today, especially since they've all left behind extensive documentation.

00:10:46.000 They've all left behind a paper trail on social media. So we can see how Johnstone came to understand

00:10:51.620 that he was the villain according to his own ideology. As a cisgender, quote-unquote, white male, 0.65

00:10:58.360 his role was to apologize and to step to the side. He was a warm body taking up space.

00:11:05.220 But nobody wants to see themselves that way. Nobody wants to be that. So over time, he came to see that

00:11:10.200 there's a way around this. He doesn't have to resign himself to his position in the caste system.

00:11:17.360 All he had to do was declare himself something other than male, and a simple declaration

00:11:22.140 is all it takes. And suddenly, he finds himself situated at the top of the pyramid.

00:11:28.140 Moments before he was at the bottom, the pyramid is flipped on its head. It's as simple as that.

00:11:33.260 It's really no wonder that trans and non-binary identification have risen so sharply. 1.00

00:11:37.140 There's lots of social capital, and also financial capital to be gained from that identity.

00:11:43.240 And it only takes a snap of the fingers to obtain it.

00:11:47.520 Now, as for Hershey's, it's likely that the company didn't know many of these background details

00:11:54.980 when they appointed Faye Johnstone their spokesman, or spokeswoman, as they would claim.

00:12:00.780 That certainly isn't meant to be an excuse for the company. Not at all.

00:12:05.780 The point is that they wouldn't have done any background research or looked into this guy

00:12:11.460 at all. All they needed to know is that he's trans. And that automatically makes him above 0.98

00:12:16.700 reproach. And any attempt to investigate his background, or vet him, or look into his past

00:12:23.360 statements would be an affront against him. So I can guarantee you that they specifically

00:12:28.580 decided not to do that. This is what the law of DEI dictates. And Hershey's, like most other

00:12:36.460 corporations, is simply following that law. And now they should suffer the consequences for it.

00:12:45.000 I mean, we have to start really penalizing these corporations for their unthinking allegiance to this

00:12:49.960 perverse, twisted ideology. Nobody needs Hershey's, right? We could all go the rest of our lives and

00:12:58.300 never touch another one of their products. And it would require nothing of us. It would require

00:13:04.780 no sacrifice at all. Like it would not affect all the people who are disgusted by what Hershey's has

00:13:11.920 done here. If all of us just said, okay, well, I'm never eating anything that Hershey makes ever again.

00:13:17.020 Um, it, it would be a major win in the culture. And also it would require, it would not affect our

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00:14:33.080 That's epicwill.com slash Walsh. Well, to start with, uh, speaking of Hershey's or he-she's,

00:14:39.440 as we will call it now, one great way to make them pay for their wokeness is to turn to the 0.97

00:14:45.440 alternatives. But what are the alternatives? Well, funny, you should ask that. Here's the

00:14:50.140 report from the Daily Wire. Hershey's chose the first day of Women's History Month to insult all

00:14:55.060 women and rational men by introducing a gender dysphoric man who claims to be female as one of

00:14:59.520 the faces of its commemorative she-bar. He even rolled out a social media ad with Faye Johnstone gushing

00:15:04.460 about how she and other women are changing how we see the future. It was too much for the Daily Wire

00:15:08.260 co-founder Jeremy Boring, who has built a reputation for taking on woke companies and

00:15:12.060 offering alternatives to their insulted customers. Already a razor magnate, razor, and soon-to-be

00:15:18.760 producer of wholesome children's content, Boring is now a chocolatier. Is that what we call people

00:15:23.720 who make chocolate? I guess so. After a deluge of Twitter users appealed to him to offer another

00:15:28.440 choice. Fine, Boring tweeted early Friday. I'll do it. Introducing Jeremy's chocolate. Yes,

00:15:34.020 it's real. We have two kinds, he, him, and she, her. One of them has nuts. If you need me to tell

00:15:38.460 you which one, keep buying Hershey's. So that's the news. This is a real thing that now exists,

00:15:46.020 that now there is Jeremy's chocolates. And you can go to ihatehershey's.com and you can find the

00:15:51.820 website and you can find the options for the chocolate bar. Right now it looks like there are

00:15:56.480 just the two options, but if we've learned anything from Jeremy's Razors, we know that there will be many 0.59

00:16:01.920 more options still to come. Now, uh, you know, it's a, it's a meme now, right? On, on social media

00:16:08.500 that every time a company goes woke, everyone always says, oh, I guess the Daily Wire is going

00:16:12.880 to make their own version. Uh, but it's not just a meme. It's real life. We are bringing the memes to

00:16:19.440 life here at the Daily Wire. And I'm very proud of that. And it's a great thing for two reasons.

00:16:23.700 Okay. One is like the obvious one that, uh, that the serious one that it's, it is important to build

00:16:30.320 alternatives. Um, and you know, it, it makes it even easier on the consumer end to move away from

00:16:43.860 these woke companies if those alternatives exist, which is why we're building them. And it, it should

00:16:50.900 be really easy because as I said, even without the alternative, there's no reason, like nobody needs

00:16:56.140 Hershey's. And so if they, if we don't need you, we don't need you. And if you're going to come in

00:17:02.620 and spit in our faces, then I mean, how much would we have to, how much, you know, disrespect what we

00:17:14.320 have to have for ourselves to continue buying this product that we don't need and could easily go

00:17:20.200 without from a company that is directly spitting in our faces. But it becomes all the easier when

00:17:27.020 there are these alternatives that we have now. Uh, and now we have Jeremy's chocolates, but also

00:17:32.380 number two, the second thing is that it's, it's, it is great trolling. And I do think that there is a,

00:17:38.680 there's a virtue in, in trolling. I've talked about this recently that, you know, we can engage the

00:17:45.640 left. We can fight back and, you know, on many different levels. There's legislation. There's,

00:17:54.000 you know, of course you have to make the arguments. You have to do all these things,

00:17:56.560 but there is a real virtue of trolling too, and of mockery because these people are,

00:18:03.300 and what they represent is, uh, it's, it's what they, you know, their ideology is poisonous and 0.96

00:18:11.740 destructive, but it's also completely ludicrous. And we can't lose sight of that. That's part of 0.92

00:18:19.460 the trolling is to point that out. That's part of the mockery is to point that out. And that's why

00:18:23.760 there's a real value in it. Uh, speaking of another thing we shouldn't be using, the ACLU is speaking

00:18:30.480 out against efforts to ban the Chinese spyware app, TikTok. And here's a video they put up, I think on

00:18:38.040 TikTok talking about this and why it would be an incredible infringement on free speech to

00:18:43.360 ban TikTok. This is what they say. Congress is trying to ban TikTok and it is worse than you

00:18:48.140 think. Here's what you need to know. Tomorrow, Congress will consider a bill that effectively

00:18:52.420 bans TikTok for people in the U S and the way that they're planning to do it will undermine our

00:18:57.220 first amendment rights for years to come. Quietly introduced by Texas Congressman Michael McCall over

00:19:01.700 the weekend, the law would forbid U S citizens from engaging with entities that may transfer

00:19:06.360 sensitive personal data to a foreign entity that is subject to the influence of China,

00:19:10.560 effectively banning TikTok and many other foreign businesses. It would also gut the Berman amendment,

00:19:16.100 which was passed in 1988 to protect our right to receive information, regardless of what country

00:19:20.980 that information was created in. It's what keeps the U S government from banning a book by a Chinese

00:19:26.360 author simply because it's from China. And in this case, it means that you can't ban a social media app

00:19:32.160 simply because the app is from a Chinese company. Whether it's sharing cat videos,

00:19:36.360 discussing spy balloons, or watching this video right now, the first amendment guarantees your

00:19:41.060 right to express yourself both online and off. This is what the, uh, this is what the ACLU has become.

00:19:47.400 They're now, um, coming to the defense of communist China and, uh, the technology that they've put out

00:19:53.440 into the world to spy on us. Um, and not just spy on us, by the way, but specifically spying on our

00:20:01.320 children, spying on and, and manipulating our kids, which is what they're doing with TikTok.

00:20:07.300 You know, we've talked before about there's even a difference, a very noticeable and revealing

00:20:13.500 difference in the, uh, the way TikTok operates in China, as opposed to here and kids in China,

00:20:23.260 they use TikTok too, but they get a lot of like informative, wholesome, you know, types of

00:20:28.380 content. And, but here they get just absolute depravity and filth and, and, and stupidity 0.99

00:20:36.280 because TikTok is along with being a spy app, it's also a psyop against, um, you know, 0.99

00:20:46.720 against our children specifically. And of course the claim that this is a free speech thing is

00:20:53.240 ridiculous, uh, on the face of it, because you get rid of TikTok, you are not at all preventing

00:21:01.420 anyone from expressing their point of view. There are a million other social media apps. There are 0.78

00:21:07.600 a million ways to, uh, express yourself on the internets. Like how many ways do you actually need

00:21:15.240 and on how many platforms do we have? And I say, this is someone who's on 50 different platforms

00:21:20.100 myself. Um, and I can have the excuse that I do it for a living, but even then it's still excessive,

00:21:24.620 but especially if you, if you don't do this for a living and you're just kind of like a normal person

00:21:30.140 with a, with a, with a normal job or no job at all. A lot of people on TikTok have no job.

00:21:35.360 It's like, what do you need? Do you need to be, do you, do you need 50 different platforms for kind

00:21:40.720 of like saying the same thing? So there's no argument that this is a, uh, that this is a,

00:21:49.260 an infringement on free speech or that'll prevent anyone from expressing themselves.

00:21:54.220 This is not an attack, right? On the users of TikTok, if you were to ban it,

00:22:00.740 it's to protect them. So if it's an attack on anyone or anything, it's on the communist Chinese 0.99

00:22:07.920 government. So what are we infringing on their free speech? Now she brings up that, well, you

00:22:14.800 couldn't, uh, you couldn't, if, if a Chinese author writes a book, you couldn't ban it and say, well,

00:22:20.920 no one's allowed to read it because it's written by a Chinese author. Why can't you say that? Well,

00:22:26.300 because that would be among other things that would be, you know, an infringement on, uh, on the

00:22:30.640 author. So, but who's being infringed on here? If the app is given to us by essentially by the

00:22:37.260 Chinese government. So we're, we're infringing on their rights, on their rights to access our kids.

00:22:44.280 Uh, okay. Moving to this is a report in the daily wire. Fox news host, Tucker Carlson reacted

00:22:49.560 on Thursday evening to the arrest of a Canadian minister who protested a drag queen event for

00:22:54.360 children. Derek Reimer of mission seven was arrested after he protested a drag queen story

00:22:59.740 hour at Calgary public library on Saturday. Video shows him shoved to the ground by attendees as he

00:23:05.040 proclaimed that Jesus Christ is Lord and quoted, uh, biblical passages about homosexuality.

00:23:13.100 This is what they're doing in Canada. Now they're, uh, arresting people for that. Uh, Carlson also

00:23:18.560 referenced professional Christians who have frequently remained silent on governmental overreach

00:23:23.720 and widespread disregard for biblical sexual ethics. Uh, Carlson said, where is David French,

00:23:29.500 Beth Moore, Tim Keller, all of these people who are defending Christianity as actual Christians are 0.98

00:23:33.160 being arrested for being Christian, not a word. I'm glad that he brought this up because, you know, 0.89

00:23:37.660 this is specifically, uh, on the issue of, uh, of the sexualization of children, the drag queen events,

00:23:46.980 transgenderism, gender ideology. And I have often had the same question as Tucker Carlson, which is

00:23:53.720 all of these, uh, self-professed Christian leaders, where are they on this issue?

00:23:58.900 I get this question a lot in Q and A's when we're going around giving speeches. And I, I hear this

00:24:05.520 question of people, where are the, where are the, where's the, where's the church on this issue? Why aren't

00:24:09.060 they saying anything? The actual leaders of churches, why aren't, that's a very good question.

00:24:17.320 And I think that this, when it comes to a litmus test for a, for a self-professed, uh,

00:24:25.100 self-appointed Christian leader, you couldn't ask for a better one than this issue in particular on

00:24:29.440 the gender issue. You know, well, because what we get from a lot of these people, David French is one

00:24:34.600 of them. If they're going to wade in to this topic, it's going to be, it's going to do, it's to do the

00:24:42.700 tone policing thing. It's to say, well, you know, there's, there, there are excesses on, on, on that

00:24:49.860 side, the people that are pushing, there are excesses, sure. But we have to be good Christians, we have

00:24:55.940 to be nice and, and compassionate. What you don't hear them ever do is actually take on the ideology

00:25:02.260 itself, which tells you everything you need to know about them. All right, one other, let's see, make sure

00:25:08.600 we have a lot of, we have, we have several other things we don't have time to get to. Um, so instead

00:25:14.740 we'll just go right to this, the, uh, you know, the airlines are celebrating Women's History Month, and, uh,

00:25:20.260 here's a quick TikTok, another TikTok video, this one's from Delta, and their Women's History Month

00:25:25.800 celebration, let's watch this. Did somebody say, slave?

00:25:36.320 Okay, that was it, that was the whole thing. So that was, uh, is a bunch of young female Delta 1.00

00:25:40.220 airline pilots and mechanics and flight attendants dancing and, uh, and lip syncing. And, you know,

00:25:48.080 you know, this fills me with a visceral terror, terror, I have to admit. Um, and it's, it's, it's not

00:25:53.780 because I'm sexist against female airline pilots. I mean, I am, as I've admitted, but I also want to 0.83

00:26:02.160 make clear that, uh, that, that it's okay because I'm also ageist. Okay. Uh, when it comes to airline

00:26:08.320 pilots, young airline pilots, terrify me as well. As I've said many times, every airline pilot should

00:26:16.500 be a man between the ages of 40 and I'll say 65. And I believe they should all have mustaches.

00:26:23.820 Every pilot should look like, you know, a version of Captain Sully who landed the plane in the Hudson.

00:26:28.740 That, that is the classic airline pilot look. And that's what I'm looking for. It makes me feel more

00:26:33.720 comfortable. Uh, I was on a plane the other day and there was a, there was a young guy in the cockpit.

00:26:41.220 I try not to even look, you know, if I, when I'm walking in and the door is still open, you can see

00:26:45.580 the pilots. I try not to even look anymore because I'm, I'm most of the time these days, I'm terrified

00:26:50.520 by what I see. I happened to glance in and the guy, he looked like he was just at a middle school.

00:26:54.760 Like this was his, they just took the training wheels off and I'm on his first flight.

00:26:58.740 And I get the guy to start somewhere, but just don't start on the plane that I'm flying on is

00:27:04.200 my point. But my other issue with this kind of thing is, um, this marketing strategy of airlines.

00:27:10.620 And you see a lot of this, it's not just like the wokeness. It's also the, the lack of seriousness.

00:27:16.720 Okay. What happened to seriousness in our culture? I don't want an airline advertising itself with

00:27:24.120 lip syncing and dancing. I just, I don't, I don't, I don't want, I don't want TikTok videos from an

00:27:30.540 airline. I want a little bit of seriousness, cheerful. Okay. You don't want gloomy. You don't

00:27:35.980 want your airline to be gloomy, but you want a, a cheerful, but serious disposition from your airline.

00:27:43.860 I would say that's what we're missing in our society in general, but especially with airlines.

00:27:51.080 All right, let's get to the comment section.

00:27:54.120 Comment says late one night I was making a door dash delivery to an apartment complex. There I

00:28:11.000 encountered a young lady who had ingested an illegal substance of some sort and had a very 0.85

00:28:15.120 adverse reaction to it. She was screaming and rambling incoherently, wandering aimlessly and

00:28:20.100 began removing her clothes. I was at a safe distance on the phone with 911 to try and get 0.52

00:28:24.940 her some help. Meanwhile, a couple of knuckleheads were nearby close enough to perhaps provoke her 1.00

00:28:29.860 further filming her on their phones. I yelled at them to keep their distance. This was not for their

00:28:35.280 entertainment and that, uh, and that I was trying to get her some help shaking my head. Um, yeah,

00:28:42.440 this is the, uh, it's, they call it the bystander effect. And we talked about this a lot yesterday,

00:28:47.860 and that's, there's some comments pointing that out. And this is a, this is something that's been

00:28:52.280 observed in human psychology since the dawn of time, pretty much. Um, people, when they're in

00:29:00.400 a, an unexpected situation, uh, potentially a life threatening situation, you know, a traumatizing

00:29:08.840 situation, whatever it is, people tend to freeze. And if, especially if they're in a group, they kind

00:29:13.640 of freeze and they stand there and they're, they're waiting for someone else to act, but everybody is

00:29:18.160 waiting for someone else and no one does anything. That's the bystander effect. Uh, and I, and I

00:29:23.720 understand that that's always been a feature of an unfortunate feature of human psychology. I do think

00:29:28.560 that it's gotten a lot worse. And of course we are more aware. So there's always this question of,

00:29:35.400 uh, well, are things worse in society or are we just more aware of how things, bad things are

00:29:41.880 because we can see it all on video when in the past that was never an option. So there might be

00:29:46.560 some of that, but I, I, to me, it does seem like it's gotten worse, uh, because of this technology

00:29:53.300 that allows us to see it. It encourages more of the bystander effect because now people are also

00:29:58.400 they're taking other phones and they're filming. Even in situations where

00:30:02.980 that there's no acceptable rationale for filming. Now there could be times when someone could claim,

00:30:11.120 well, I want to get this on film because, uh, it's, it's important that those, so the police

00:30:14.020 will see it. But so often it's, there's, there's, there's no value to the video at all,

00:30:18.760 except as just content. And the really disturbing thing is that normal everyday people,

00:30:24.480 because everyone's chronically online. So normal everyday people are experiencing the world this

00:30:29.720 way. They, they see the world as nothing but an opportunity to make content for the internet.

00:30:36.660 And this should be, that should be the kind of temptation that is really only experienced by

00:30:41.020 people like me who make a living delivering content. And so, yeah, that, that's a pull that

00:30:46.200 we can feel sometimes that there's this, uh, need to constantly churn out so much content.

00:30:51.340 And so then you start seeing all of your life as a, as a, as a, you know, an opportunity to harvest

00:30:58.760 more content. And, um, and then, you know, but so you got to put these kinds of barriers in place

00:31:04.580 so that you can live as a normal human being. So I can understand when you're, when you're in the

00:31:08.360 business, there is that temptation, but you have people who don't even make a living this way.

00:31:12.320 That's still how they see it. Something happens. And the first thing they think is,

00:31:15.760 oh, I got to get, I got to get this on film. I got to get this online. Why?

00:31:18.880 Another comment says this episode hit me hard. Not only do I lack communication skills, but I'm

00:31:24.800 also a lazy reader, always skipping through a bunch of words, looking for the main point.

00:31:29.560 Also, everything I listened to has to be concise. But here's the good news. We know that's not true

00:31:34.280 because you listened to this show. So that can't possibly, if everything you listened to had to

00:31:38.460 be concise, you wouldn't be listening to me right now. Um, Talisa says the pink and blue thing is

00:31:44.960 real. They considered dainty powder blue to be a baby girl color and a more robust red,

00:31:50.240 not pink to be for boys. I forget when and why they became swapped, but it doesn't answer the

00:31:55.320 question anyways. Yeah, but that actually shows that even the associations of color with gender

00:32:01.420 are not actually entirely arbitrary. Uh, the color represents, right? The attitude or demeanor that

00:32:09.620 society associates with each gender and the association of the color to the demeanor might

00:32:15.100 be arbitrary. So you said, well, they, they, they associated blue with being dainty back in the,

00:32:20.560 whenever in the thirties. And now they, we associate pink with that. Well, that part is arbitrary,

00:32:25.900 whether it's blue or pink is arbitrary. Um, but the association of the demeanor to the gender is not.

00:32:34.580 So it's like everyone, all societies have agreed on kind of what feminine and dainty, you know,

00:32:42.120 like we associate that with, with, with, uh, with women and with girls. Um, but then we have different

00:32:49.140 sort of, uh, symbols that are meant to, to stand for that and indicate that, um, the symbols might be

00:32:58.520 arbitrary, but the thing that they are symbolizing is not arbitrary. And I think that's a fundamental

00:33:04.240 confusion that a lot of people have these days. Finally, uh, final fantasy says Matt needs to go

00:33:09.980 on to the, what, whatever podcast. He would also be great on the PBD value attainment podcast.

00:33:17.280 Well, on that latter point, I can tell you, uh, stay tuned for next week. So a little bit of a

00:33:22.600 teaser for you. If you only listen to media or a leftist activists, you think changing your identity

00:33:28.060 as often as you change your underwear is a perfectly normal thing to do. But if you listen to people

00:33:32.460 who live in reality, like me, you know, the truth, but I'm not the only one pointing this out in

00:33:36.820 Jordan's new five-part series, vision and destiny on daily wire plus, he articulates this better,

00:33:42.040 uh, better than, than even I ever could. In fact, it's a psychological wake up call that we all need.

00:33:47.040 And just to show you what we're talking about, here's a clip, um, check it out.

00:33:51.620 The idea that identity is subjectively defined and that each of us is only what we feel we are.

00:33:59.120 Again, whatever that means, especially allied with the notion that that can change

00:34:04.360 at a moment's notice, again, as a consequence of subjective whim is so psychologically preposterous 0.99

00:34:12.040 that it's a miracle of stupidity that it's ever been accepted at all. 0.97

00:34:16.260 This is why our Jordan Peterson content on the daily wire is so popular because of insight like 1.00

00:34:20.880 that. And that's just a little taste of it. The third episode of vision and destiny is out today.

00:34:24.660 New episodes are releasing every week, but it's all exclusive for daily wire plus members. So

00:34:29.100 you can join out dailywire.com slash subscribe to watch vision and destiny. Now let's get to our

00:34:33.940 daily cancellation.

00:34:38.960 As we established in the open, this is women's history month, or at least a women in name history

00:34:44.720 month. There is also, as mentioned, the recently concluded black history month, gay pride month,

00:34:50.060 but these are not the only identity groups that have their own nationally recognized months of

00:34:53.480 celebration. For example, May is Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage month. September into

00:34:58.900 October is national Hispanic heritage month. November is national Native American history month.

00:35:06.040 We live in an inclusive and equitable time, which means that all identity groups are celebrated and

00:35:11.420 all people are encouraged to be proud of who they are and of what their group has achieved and

00:35:16.840 contributed to the world, right? Well, all groups except one, of course. White males are 0.96

00:35:23.460 not invited to this party. There is no men's history month and there is no white history month, 0.95

00:35:28.880 which means that if you belong to both identity groups, then the only way to be a part of the

00:35:33.400 celebration is to claim membership in a different group. And this, as we've seen, is a viable option

00:35:39.060 for men these days. But it still leaves us with the fact that you cannot be celebrated while embracing

00:35:43.980 your identity in your actual group. Now, all of these history months are, of course, to use the

00:35:50.620 scientific term, extremely cringe. There is a large part of me that would rather make fun of

00:35:55.560 the months than have my own. Actually, the entire part of me feels that way. Still, this is a microcosm

00:36:02.180 of a larger issue. In our society in general, the message is clear. Every identity group should be

00:36:07.060 applauded, should be proud of itself, should be celebrated for its history and its heritage,

00:36:12.220 except for these two. And especially, except for those who belong to both. The months are just 0.66

00:36:20.520 another thing codifying this cultural policy, you know, cementing it in place. In fact, this doctrine

00:36:26.900 declares that white males who even speak of their history or heritage or who say that they're proud

00:36:32.820 to be who they are, proud of their identity, must be decried as bigots. That is, if they simply engage

00:36:38.620 in exactly the same sort of rhetoric as everyone else in every other group, if they do and say

00:36:45.100 exactly what everyone else is doing and saying, no different, they are condemned. No, no, no,

00:36:51.720 they're told. See, if we do this, it's good. But if you do it, it's bad. And we're supposed to accept

00:36:57.220 this rationale. They can't, no one ever explains it. We're just supposed to accept. One of the many

00:37:02.320 things that we're supposed to accept, as if it's self-evident why every group should be able to

00:37:08.620 celebrate themselves except this group. Now, it would be one thing if there was, say, a culture-wide

00:37:15.120 push away from all forms of tribalism. I don't know how plausible or even advisable this kind of

00:37:21.700 push would be. There's never been a post-tribal society, and I doubt there ever could be one. 0.99

00:37:27.180 But it would be consistent, if nothing else. We could at least respect the consistency, if not the

00:37:31.980 realism, of, say, messaging that said, hey, humans are humans. We're all one family. We shouldn't be

00:37:39.460 dividing ourselves into groups or singling groups out for special commendations or condemnations.

00:37:45.700 It doesn't make any sense to be proud of or celebrated for the identity that you were born

00:37:49.720 into. You should be proud of what you yourself have achieved individually and proud of others for

00:37:54.880 what they've achieved, regardless of their race or gender. We are all one. Kumbaya, et cetera, et cetera,

00:38:00.580 yada, yada. Now, say what you want about this kind of talk. It would at least be sincere if it was

00:38:07.300 applied to everyone, but it isn't. These warnings against tribalism are only issued to white people 0.74

00:38:14.020 and men and white men in particular. If a white man says, I'm proud to be a white man, then he's told

00:38:20.860 that such talk makes no sense and so on and so on. But if anyone in any other group says, I'm proud to be

00:38:27.860 in this identity group. He's applauded for his positive attitude. But the thing is that when

00:38:32.460 only one group is warned against tribalism, that is a form of tribalism itself. It is a tribalism

00:38:39.760 where all the other groups say to the hated group, you have no tribe, you have no identity.

00:38:46.500 You are, in the words of our friend Faye Johnstone, just bodies taking up space.

00:38:51.160 Now, this kind of message is a real problem for many reasons, and we'll just talk about one of

00:38:58.380 them. It is simply true that men have achieved many great things. White people have achieved many 0.99

00:39:07.680 great things, and white men have achieved many great things. The refusal to acknowledge this and

00:39:12.040 to acknowledge it specifically, actually say that white men have achieved many great things,

00:39:16.760 and to acknowledge it in the same way that we acknowledge the achievements of black people

00:39:21.620 and women and so on, this has led to the widespread impression that, in fact, white men have done very

00:39:27.220 little. This is the impression that our cultural elites want us to have. When kids are constantly

00:39:32.020 told, hey, listen to all the great things that black people have done and women have done and

00:39:35.880 Hispanics have done, but they're never, ever, ever told, hey, listen to all the great things white men have

00:39:41.640 done. The kids will come to believe that white men haven't done much at all. In fact, you'll often

00:39:47.240 hear this kind of reasoning offered by people who are trying to defend our cultural prohibition of

00:39:53.140 white pride and male pride and white history month and men's history month. So just one example,

00:39:58.520 I googled men's history month just for the sake of it. The very first thing that popped up

00:40:04.300 was an article from a group called Parents Together. And it was an article that, like many others,

00:40:11.360 you can pick any at random. They all kind of say the same thing. And this article was trying to

00:40:15.240 explain why, you know, there's no men's history month and why there shouldn't be one, even though

00:40:19.540 there is a women's history month. And the reason, one of the reasons they offered is this. They said

00:40:23.600 this. The truth is that women have achieved plenty throughout history, but men often got credit for

00:40:28.880 their work. Here are just a couple of examples. Female scientist Rosalind Franklin was the first to

00:40:33.420 photograph the double helix structure of DNA, but two male researchers used her work without permission

00:40:39.620 and won awards for the discovery. Female R&B singer Big Mama Thornton was the first to record the song

00:40:45.080 Hound Dog. When Elvis Presley later covered the song, it became his number one hit, selling millions

00:40:50.180 of copies worldwide and helping him become the ultra famous king of rock and roll. Okay, so we hear this

00:40:56.800 kind of thing all the time, that white men were thieves. They stole the achievements from other identity 0.99

00:41:01.500 groups. But the people who make this claim can only ever provide a few very dubious

00:41:07.280 examples. And that's because in reality, white men were and still are indispensable to our 0.83

00:41:19.100 civilization, which is an understatement. A huge percentage of the greatest inventors, explorers,

00:41:25.660 discoverers, scientists, philosophers, political leaders, artists, authors, poets, pioneers who built

00:41:30.800 this country and this civilization were white, were men, and very often were both. And not because they 0.99

00:41:38.180 stole the work of others or they claimed credit for what others have done, but because they did it.

00:41:42.960 They achieved it. They built it and they passed it down to us. This is simply a fact that should be

00:41:50.720 acknowledged, just like it's acknowledged for every other group. But it's a fact that many in our society,

00:41:55.680 especially younger people, actually don't know because we're not allowed to specifically acknowledge

00:42:00.600 it. Kids grow up with resentment and suspicion towards white men rather than gratitude and the

00:42:09.060 kind of gratitude they should have. And in fact, this attitude is so ingrained, it is so pervasive,

00:42:15.460 it is so poisonous, that for me to even say that they should have gratitude will be considered incredibly

00:42:21.420 sexist and racist. Everything I'm saying right now is guaranteed to end up on Twitter with people

00:42:25.640 expressing outrage and derision. Grateful for white men? How could you say such a thing?

00:42:31.840 Even though they would have no problem and would applaud me if I said we should be grateful for

00:42:36.820 any other group of people. Let's be grateful for black Americans. Let's be grateful for women. 0.94

00:42:41.140 Let's be grateful for Native Americans. Let's be grateful for non-binary, polyamorous Mexican Eskimos. 0.99

00:42:46.020 All of that would be met with approval. But then if you add, and let's be grateful for white men, 0.89

00:42:51.140 shock and shrieks of heart, this is again a real problem and it really matters.

00:43:00.380 It's not about merely pointing out a double standard. Because this is not just a double

00:43:05.500 standard. It's about pointing out a real and extremely successful effort to demonize a certain

00:43:11.940 group of people and to erase their achievements. We hear so much about groups of people being erased

00:43:17.480 in their achievements. That's only actually happening to one group and that is white men.

00:43:22.400 Okay? The only group of people that in this country that are being erased in any kind of

00:43:26.720 meaningful way, historically, are white men. And then people that are being erased in another sense,

00:43:36.540 women, by the trans activists. So those are the two ways in which people are erased in this culture. 1.00

00:43:44.500 And, but those are also the ways that are never acknowledged.

00:43:49.020 We are not the first society to single out a group this way. We won't be the last.

00:43:55.140 And that's why, you know, we know where it leads. And we know that it doesn't lead anywhere good.

00:44:01.100 And that is why, today, in Women's History Month, the effort to cancel white men is instead canceled. 0.56

00:44:09.940 And that'll do it for today and for the week. We'll talk to you on Monday. Have a great weekend.

00:44:14.340 Godspeed.

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