Ep. 1125 - Hershey’s Becomes HeShe’s
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Hershey s becomes He-She s as they appoint a trans activist to be the face of their Women's History Month campaign. But that's not even the worst of it. Also, some Republicans are pushing to ban TikTok as the ACLU objects. Tucker Carlson calls out Christian leaders for their failure to actually lead. The most notorious groomer on the internet keeps getting creepier and creepier as time goes on. And a daily cancellation with Women s History Month now upon us and Black History Month just passed, it seems like one group is being left out. We ll discuss all that and more today on The Matt Welch Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Hershey's becomes he-she's as they appoint a trans activist to be
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the face of their Women's History Month campaign. But that's not even the worst of it. We'll discuss
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all the details today. Also, some Republicans are pushing to ban TikTok as the ACLU objects.
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Tucker Carlson calls out Christian leaders for their failure to actually lead. The most notorious
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groomer on the internet keeps getting creepier and creepier as time goes on. And a daily
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cancellation with Women's History Month now upon us and Black History Month just passed.
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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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status as Pride Month or Black History Month of the three sacred celebrations. Women's History Month,
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which began this week, is certainly the lowest on the totem pole. Still, it's an important and holy
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time on the leftist liturgical calendar, especially because it presents yet another opportunity to
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celebrate LGBT people. To be specific, Women's History Month is a time to celebrate men, gay men,
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who masquerade as women. That's certainly how the Hershey's Corporation sees it anyway.
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That's why this week, as you've probably heard, the candy company unveiled its He for She campaign,
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which is meant to, quote, shine a light on the women and girls who inspire us every day.
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And they selected five women to be a part of this, so to be faces of this initiative.
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And each of the women will even have their likenesses adorned Hershey's chocolate bar
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wrappings for the duration of the month. But the interesting thing about one of these women is
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that he is not a woman at all, but rather a man pretending to be a woman. Trans activist
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Faye Johnstone announced his inclusion in the campaign this week with this video.
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My name is Faye Johnstone. I'm the executive director of Wisdom to Action.
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We can create a world where everyone is able to live in public space as their honest and authentic
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selves. See the woman changing how we see the future at Hershey's Canada.
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Now, it's already as absurd and as insulting as it could possibly get for a major corporate brand to
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make this man, who, by the way, also looks and sounds like a man, a representative of women. But
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a glance at Johnstone's history and at his social media posts tells an even darker story.
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In fact, Hershey has inadvertently provided us with, I think, a very revealing illustration of how
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trans activists are made and what they do with the privilege that their self-identity affords them.
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This was not the company's intention to give us this lesson. We can assume that it wasn't.
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But they have given us this instructive case study in any case. So it's worth, I think,
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investigating to see what we can learn from it. So follow with me briefly as we go through the
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story of Faye Johnstone. And we go all the way back to a few years ago to 2014 and 2015. Back then,
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Faye Johnstone, then known as Zach, was posting on Instagram with hashtags like gay boy and proud slut.
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In fact, he even posted a public acknowledgement of, because at the time he identified as a
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gay man. And around that same time, he posted a public acknowledgement of an apology for
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his, quote, cis privilege, begging forgiveness for taking up space as a queer male. In that 2015 post,
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this is what he wrote. This was Zach. He says, I want to acknowledge my own cis privilege and say that
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across the board, white queer men like myself take up space that marginalizes the most oppressed
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and diverse members of our community. Now, it's quite a strange thing to see yourself as merely
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taking up space. But this is what leftist identity politics entails if you're a white male.
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But then an interesting thing happened. After taking some women's history classes and reading some
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feminist literature and confronting his cis privilege some more, all this is documented on his Instagram
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page, Zach eventually decided that, well, it turns out he's not cis at all. He was no longer taking up
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space, nor did he owe any apologies. Over the next few years, he would identify as femme and, quote,
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non-binary and then land eventually on trans. It didn't take him very long after discovering his
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non-cis identity to monetize it. He put up another Instagram post in, I think it was 2017,
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advertising himself as a professional queer, quote unquote, and seeking honorariums and paid gigs.
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Magically, Johnstone was now in a position to not only make money off of this identity,
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but to lecture the cis allies that he was just identifying himself with like five seconds ago.
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In 2017, he posted this, quote, allyship means taking cisgender heterosexual spaces and making
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them queer and trans inclusive. It means not expecting trans and non-binary people to have to
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educate everyone around them every day and in every new space. It means being there and being
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consistent. So many allies talk a big game, but we need you to do more than talk.
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This is a man who had once, not long before, felt the need to apologize for taking up space.
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Now he was blaming others for taking up space that belonged to him. How quickly can a white male go
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from apologizing for his privilege to scolding other people for theirs? All you have to do is put on a
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dress. It's that simple. And these days, you don't even have to do that much. Johnstone, once the
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oppressor was now, once the oppressor was now apparently the oppressed and now makes his living
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as a professional activist. He also takes full advantage of the victim privilege that he has
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claimed for himself. As he advocates for many horrific things, including putting women in harm's
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way. Just a few days ago, Johnstone reprimanded someone for saying that male rapists who identify as
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trans shouldn't be housed in women's prisons. He claimed that trans identifying male sex offenders
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must be placed in women's prisons in the name of, quote, trans liberation. The separation of male and
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female prisoners is not a solution, he said. It bears repeating here and emphasizing, a man who wants to
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lock women prisoners into cages with male sex offenders and violent rapists is the person who Hershey chose to
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be a representative of women for Women's History Month. It gets worse. Johnstone has also explicitly
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advocated for vilifying, quote, unquote, his words, women who disagree with gender ideology. He said that
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such women, TERFs, as he calls them, should be shouted down until they, quote, don't dare to speak their
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views publicly. And this is not new or unique rhetoric coming from him. Back in 2017, he was calling for,
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quote, militant queers to rise up against his political enemies. Nowadays, Johnstone advocates
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for mandatory trans-affirming indoctrination of children in public school. A few months ago, he
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called for school boards to establish, quote, best practices to ensure all students learn about
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accepting trans people. And as for parents who might object, he believes that, as he stated, that
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parents don't have absolute rights over their own children. Now, none of these revelations are
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shocking. They don't even really count as revelations. I mean, of course, this male trans activist hates
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women and doesn't care if they're put in harm's way. Of course, all male trans activists hate women
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because they resent and despise the people who authentically belong to an identity group that they
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covet but will never really be a part of. It's that simple. And also, they're all narcissists.
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I mean, every single one. That's why they're trans activists. They care about nobody and nothing
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except their own affirmation. Whatever sacrifices must be made to make them feel affirmed are worth it.
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And if that means that women have to get raped in prison, as far as they're concerned, they're fine
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with it. They're more than fine with it. I mean, they hate women, after all, remember.
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The militant rhetoric, expressly calling for the vilification of their opponents,
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wishing to make their women too afraid and intimidated to even speak in public,
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this is also no surprise. It is how trans activists and LGBT activists and leftist activists in general
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have always operated. You know, while people on the right complain that my rhetoric is too mean,
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too abrasive, the other side has proudly and explicitly set out to demonize anyone who disagrees
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with them. And they'll even tell you that's what they're doing. They're not having any conversation
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about tone. Okay, there's no tone policing going on on that side. They all agree. Whatever tone is
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necessary to harass and terrorize the enemy is the right tone, as far as they're concerned.
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This is how they fight this war, while many on our side are still trying to, you know, play pat-a-cake
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with these people. It's also not a surprise, though very important to note, how Johnstone settled on
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his woman identity in the first place. I mean, you could track a similar progression for nearly every
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young trans activist in the country today, especially since they've all left behind extensive documentation.
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They've all left behind a paper trail on social media. So we can see how Johnstone came to understand
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that he was the villain according to his own ideology. As a cisgender, quote-unquote, white male,
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his role was to apologize and to step to the side. He was a warm body taking up space.
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But nobody wants to see themselves that way. Nobody wants to be that. So over time, he came to see that
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there's a way around this. He doesn't have to resign himself to his position in the caste system.
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All he had to do was declare himself something other than male, and a simple declaration
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is all it takes. And suddenly, he finds himself situated at the top of the pyramid.
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Moments before he was at the bottom, the pyramid is flipped on its head. It's as simple as that.
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It's really no wonder that trans and non-binary identification have risen so sharply.
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There's lots of social capital, and also financial capital to be gained from that identity.
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And it only takes a snap of the fingers to obtain it.
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Now, as for Hershey's, it's likely that the company didn't know many of these background details
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when they appointed Faye Johnstone their spokesman, or spokeswoman, as they would claim.
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That certainly isn't meant to be an excuse for the company. Not at all.
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The point is that they wouldn't have done any background research or looked into this guy
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at all. All they needed to know is that he's trans. And that automatically makes him above
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reproach. And any attempt to investigate his background, or vet him, or look into his past
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statements would be an affront against him. So I can guarantee you that they specifically
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decided not to do that. This is what the law of DEI dictates. And Hershey's, like most other
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corporations, is simply following that law. And now they should suffer the consequences for it.
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I mean, we have to start really penalizing these corporations for their unthinking allegiance to this
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perverse, twisted ideology. Nobody needs Hershey's, right? We could all go the rest of our lives and
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never touch another one of their products. And it would require nothing of us. It would require
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no sacrifice at all. Like it would not affect all the people who are disgusted by what Hershey's has
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done here. If all of us just said, okay, well, I'm never eating anything that Hershey makes ever again.
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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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lifestyles at all. We could easily do it. And so that's what we need to do. Now let's get to our
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That's epicwill.com slash Walsh. Well, to start with, uh, speaking of Hershey's or he-she's,
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as we will call it now, one great way to make them pay for their wokeness is to turn to the
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alternatives. But what are the alternatives? Well, funny, you should ask that. Here's the
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report from the Daily Wire. Hershey's chose the first day of Women's History Month to insult all
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women and rational men by introducing a gender dysphoric man who claims to be female as one of
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the faces of its commemorative she-bar. He even rolled out a social media ad with Faye Johnstone gushing
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about how she and other women are changing how we see the future. It was too much for the Daily Wire
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co-founder Jeremy Boring, who has built a reputation for taking on woke companies and
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offering alternatives to their insulted customers. Already a razor magnate, razor, and soon-to-be
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producer of wholesome children's content, Boring is now a chocolatier. Is that what we call people
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who make chocolate? I guess so. After a deluge of Twitter users appealed to him to offer another
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choice. Fine, Boring tweeted early Friday. I'll do it. Introducing Jeremy's chocolate. Yes,
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it's real. We have two kinds, he, him, and she, her. One of them has nuts. If you need me to tell
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you which one, keep buying Hershey's. So that's the news. This is a real thing that now exists,
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that now there is Jeremy's chocolates. And you can go to ihatehershey's.com and you can find the
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website and you can find the options for the chocolate bar. Right now it looks like there are
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just the two options, but if we've learned anything from Jeremy's Razors, we know that there will be many
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more options still to come. Now, uh, you know, it's a, it's a meme now, right? On, on social media
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that every time a company goes woke, everyone always says, oh, I guess the Daily Wire is going
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to make their own version. Uh, but it's not just a meme. It's real life. We are bringing the memes to
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life here at the Daily Wire. And I'm very proud of that. And it's a great thing for two reasons.
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Okay. One is like the obvious one that, uh, that the serious one that it's, it is important to build
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alternatives. Um, and you know, it, it makes it even easier on the consumer end to move away from
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these woke companies if those alternatives exist, which is why we're building them. And it, it should
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be really easy because as I said, even without the alternative, there's no reason, like nobody needs
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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
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and spit in our faces, then I mean, how much would we have to, how much, you know, disrespect what we
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have to have for ourselves to continue buying this product that we don't need and could easily go
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without from a company that is directly spitting in our faces. But it becomes all the easier when
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there are these alternatives that we have now. Uh, and now we have Jeremy's chocolates, but also
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number two, the second thing is that it's, it's, it is great trolling. And I do think that there is a,
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there's a virtue in, in trolling. I've talked about this recently that, you know, we can engage the
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left. We can fight back and, you know, on many different levels. There's legislation. There's,
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you know, of course you have to make the arguments. You have to do all these things,
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but there is a real virtue of trolling too, and of mockery because these people are,
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and what they represent is, uh, it's, it's what they, you know, their ideology is poisonous and
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destructive, but it's also completely ludicrous. And we can't lose sight of that. That's part of
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the trolling is to point that out. That's part of the mockery is to point that out. And that's why
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there's a real value in it. Uh, speaking of another thing we shouldn't be using, the ACLU is speaking
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out against efforts to ban the Chinese spyware app, TikTok. And here's a video they put up, I think on
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TikTok talking about this and why it would be an incredible infringement on free speech to
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ban TikTok. This is what they say. Congress is trying to ban TikTok and it is worse than you
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think. Here's what you need to know. Tomorrow, Congress will consider a bill that effectively
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bans TikTok for people in the U S and the way that they're planning to do it will undermine our
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first amendment rights for years to come. Quietly introduced by Texas Congressman Michael McCall over
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the weekend, the law would forbid U S citizens from engaging with entities that may transfer
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sensitive personal data to a foreign entity that is subject to the influence of China,
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effectively banning TikTok and many other foreign businesses. It would also gut the Berman amendment,
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which was passed in 1988 to protect our right to receive information, regardless of what country
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that information was created in. It's what keeps the U S government from banning a book by a Chinese
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author simply because it's from China. And in this case, it means that you can't ban a social media app
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simply because the app is from a Chinese company. Whether it's sharing cat videos,
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discussing spy balloons, or watching this video right now, the first amendment guarantees your
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right to express yourself both online and off. This is what the, uh, this is what the ACLU has become.
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They're now, um, coming to the defense of communist China and, uh, the technology that they've put out
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into the world to spy on us. Um, and not just spy on us, by the way, but specifically spying on our
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children, spying on and, and manipulating our kids, which is what they're doing with TikTok.
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You know, we've talked before about there's even a difference, a very noticeable and revealing
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difference in the, uh, the way TikTok operates in China, as opposed to here and kids in China,
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they use TikTok too, but they get a lot of like informative, wholesome, you know, types of
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content. And, but here they get just absolute depravity and filth and, and, and stupidity
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because TikTok is along with being a spy app, it's also a psyop against, um, you know,
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against our children specifically. And of course the claim that this is a free speech thing is
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ridiculous, uh, on the face of it, because you get rid of TikTok, you are not at all preventing
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anyone from expressing their point of view. There are a million other social media apps. There are
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a million ways to, uh, express yourself on the internets. Like how many ways do you actually need
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and on how many platforms do we have? And I say, this is someone who's on 50 different platforms
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myself. Um, and I can have the excuse that I do it for a living, but even then it's still excessive,
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but especially if you, if you don't do this for a living and you're just kind of like a normal person
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with a, with a, with a normal job or no job at all. A lot of people on TikTok have no job.
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It's like, what do you need? Do you need to be, do you, do you need 50 different platforms for kind
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of like saying the same thing? So there's no argument that this is a, uh, that this is a,
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an infringement on free speech or that'll prevent anyone from expressing themselves.
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This is not an attack, right? On the users of TikTok, if you were to ban it,
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it's to protect them. So if it's an attack on anyone or anything, it's on the communist Chinese
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government. So what are we infringing on their free speech? Now she brings up that, well, you
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couldn't, uh, you couldn't, if, if a Chinese author writes a book, you couldn't ban it and say, well,
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no one's allowed to read it because it's written by a Chinese author. Why can't you say that? Well,
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because that would be among other things that would be, you know, an infringement on, uh, on the
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author. So, but who's being infringed on here? If the app is given to us by essentially by the
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Chinese government. So we're, we're infringing on their rights, on their rights to access our kids.
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Uh, okay. Moving to this is a report in the daily wire. Fox news host, Tucker Carlson reacted
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on Thursday evening to the arrest of a Canadian minister who protested a drag queen event for
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children. Derek Reimer of mission seven was arrested after he protested a drag queen story
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hour at Calgary public library on Saturday. Video shows him shoved to the ground by attendees as he
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proclaimed that Jesus Christ is Lord and quoted, uh, biblical passages about homosexuality.
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This is what they're doing in Canada. Now they're, uh, arresting people for that. Uh, Carlson also
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referenced professional Christians who have frequently remained silent on governmental overreach
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and widespread disregard for biblical sexual ethics. Uh, Carlson said, where is David French,
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Beth Moore, Tim Keller, all of these people who are defending Christianity as actual Christians are
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being arrested for being Christian, not a word. I'm glad that he brought this up because, you know,
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this is specifically, uh, on the issue of, uh, of the sexualization of children, the drag queen events,
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transgenderism, gender ideology. And I have often had the same question as Tucker Carlson, which is
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all of these, uh, self-professed Christian leaders, where are they on this issue?
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I get this question a lot in Q and A's when we're going around giving speeches. And I, I hear this
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question of people, where are the, where are the, where's the, where's the church on this issue? Why aren't
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they saying anything? The actual leaders of churches, why aren't, that's a very good question.
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And I think that this, when it comes to a litmus test for a, for a self-professed, uh,
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self-appointed Christian leader, you couldn't ask for a better one than this issue in particular on
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the gender issue. You know, well, because what we get from a lot of these people, David French is one
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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
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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
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
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.
00:27:54.120
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
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
00:28:24.940
her some help. Meanwhile, a couple of knuckleheads were nearby close enough to perhaps provoke her
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
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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
00:34:12.040
that it's a miracle of stupidity that it's ever been accepted at all.
00:34:16.260
This is why our Jordan Peterson content on the daily wire is so popular because of insight like
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
00:34:38.960
As we established in the open, this is women's history month, or at least a women in name history
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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
00:35:23.460
not invited to this party. There is no men's history month and there is no white history month,
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
00:42:41.140
Let's be grateful for Native Americans. Let's be grateful for non-binary, polyamorous Mexican Eskimos.
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,
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.
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.
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.