The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1137 - Race Hustlers Scrape The Bottom Of The Barrel In Desperate Pursuit Of Victimhood

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the race hustlers scrape the very bottom of the barrel in their

00:00:04.020 desperate search for racism. This time, they claim that memes are digital blackface, quote-unquote.

00:00:09.140 Also, AOC takes to TikTok to valiantly defend TikTok from those who want to ban it. A Minnesota

00:00:14.580 politician who pushes gender transition drugs on children reveals that he has no idea if the

00:00:18.920 drugs are safe or not and doesn't care. Donald Trump spends time during his rally attacking

00:00:23.100 DeSantis, and in our daily cancellation, George Washington University is dropping its Colonials

00:00:27.120 nickname because it brings to mind the evil history of colonization. But is the history of

00:00:32.140 colonization actually evil? Well, no, not at all. We'll talk about all that and more today on the

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00:01:50.720 Well, CNN is a dying, pathetic husk of a fake news organization, but at least it still serves 0.82

00:01:56.020 a purpose, and that purpose is making the rest of us feel smart by comparison. And it fulfilled 0.98

00:02:00.660 that vocation again this weekend with an op-ed on its website from one of its senior writers,

00:02:05.360 quote-unquote, named John Blake. The headline,

00:02:08.440 What is digital blackface, and why is it wrong when white people use it?

00:02:12.380 Yes, digital blackface. And no, he's not referencing Justin Trudeau's Twitter account.

00:02:18.000 The digital blackface scourge, according to Blake, is much more widespread than that. He explains,

00:02:22.880 quote, maybe you shared that viral video of Kimberly Sweet Brown Wilkins telling a reporter after

00:02:28.480 narrowly escaping an apartment fire, ain't nobody got time for that. Perhaps you posted the meme of

00:02:33.220 supermodel Tyra Banks exploding in anger on America's next top model. I was rooting for you.

00:02:38.500 We were all rooting for you, is what the meme says. Or maybe you've simply posted popular GIFs,

00:02:43.740 such as, and it is GIF, not JIF, such as the one of NBA great Michael Jordan crying, or of drag queen

00:02:50.000 RuPaul declaring, girl. If you're black and you've shared such images online, you get a pass. But if 0.99

00:02:56.180 you're white, you may have inadvertently perpetuated one of the most insidious forms of 1.00

00:03:00.680 contemporary racism, you may be wearing digital blackface. Now, before we go any further, I want 0.97

00:03:08.900 you to think about what Blake has just unwittingly conceded here. He has essentially admitted that

00:03:14.180 anti-black racism is a non-issue in modern America. He admitted all of that by claiming that white people

00:03:22.040 posting GIFs of Tyra Banks are engaging in one of the most insidious forms of contemporary racism.

00:03:28.680 Now, whatever else we can say about these GIFs, if they constitute one of the most insidious,

00:03:35.080 most sinister, most evil kinds of anti-black racism in modern America, then that would mean

00:03:41.680 that anti-black racism is basically over. I mean, certainly if we lived in a culture where black 0.94

00:03:46.940 people suffered actual widespread systemic racism, then memes of Michael Jordan would not make the top

00:03:53.180 tenless. There were no GIFs in 1850 during the slavery era, but if there were, nobody would have

00:03:59.040 said that they constitute one of the most insidious forms of racism at that time. If they do now, then

00:04:04.680 that should tell us something. Of course, digital blackface is not a thing and GIFs are not racist,

00:04:09.580 but my point is that we could actually concede everything that this ridiculous hack is claiming.

00:04:14.400 We could grant him the entire premise, and it would only undermine his underlying premise, 0.96

00:04:20.260 which is that anti-black racism is a serious systemic problem in modern America. In other words,

00:04:27.000 if he's wrong about this subject, he's full of crap. But if he's right about this subject, 0.98

00:04:31.960 he's still full of crap. Either way, this is one crap-filled man. Let's continue. 1.00

00:04:37.060 Digital blackface is a practice where white people co-opt online expressions of black imagery,

00:04:42.520 slang, catchphrases, or culture to convey comic relief or express emotions. These expressions,

00:04:48.260 what one commentator calls racialized reactions, are mainstays in Twitter feeds, TikTok videos,

00:04:54.620 and Instagram reels, and are among the most popular internet memes. Digital blackface involves 0.98

00:04:59.180 white people play-acting at being black, says Lauren Michelle Jackson, an author and cultural critic,

00:05:05.340 in an essay for Teen Vogue. Jackson says the internet thrives on white people laughing at exaggerated 0.94

00:05:10.920 displays of blackness, reflecting a tendency among some to see black people as walking hyperbole.

00:05:16.780 Another quick aside here. We're all busy people. We have a lot going on. Well, John Blake doesn't.

00:05:24.080 He has time to write a 5,000-word dissertation about memes that hurt his feelings. But some of us

00:05:29.960 are busy, which means we look for shortcuts. We look for ways to assess and understand things

00:05:34.520 very quickly. And here's one. If you're ever reading anything that mentions an essay in Teen Vogue,

00:05:40.840 and it's not in the context of making fun of the essay, but rather it's citing the essay as an

00:05:45.740 intellectual and moral authority, then you can immediately disregard everything else the author

00:05:50.460 has to say on that subject or any other subject. And if you are ever writing something and you find

00:05:56.680 yourself favorably citing an essay in Teen Vogue, then you can know that you have at some point in the

00:06:03.040 past suffered some kind of head trauma that maybe you don't remember and you need to seek medical

00:06:07.740 attention right away. More from CNN's John Blake. Quote, if you're still not sure how to define

00:06:14.700 digital blackface, Jackson offers a guide. She says, it includes displays of emotions stereotyped

00:06:19.400 as excessive. So happy, so sassy, so ghetto, so loud. Our dial is on 10 all the time. Rarely are black 1.00

00:06:26.440 characters afforded subtle traits or feelings. Many white people choose images of black people when it

00:06:32.040 comes to expressing exaggerated emotion on social media. A burden that black people didn't ask for, 1.00

00:06:37.340 she says. We are your sass, your nonchalance, your fury, your delight, your annoyance, your happy dance, 0.98

00:06:43.700 your diva, your shade, your yass moments. Jackson writes, the weight of reaction giffing, period,

00:06:50.940 rests on our shoulders. Well, if you were hoping that there would be some kind of rock bottom

00:06:57.800 to our cultural descent into stupidity, now you know better. Because if there was a rock bottom, 0.99

00:07:04.480 then the paragraph I just read would have to be it. A paragraph which ends with the sentence,

00:07:09.720 the weight of reaction giffing rests on our shoulders. This woman is pretending to be somehow 1.00

00:07:16.220 emotionally burdened by gifts of black people. According to her, she walks around every day 1.00

00:07:22.760 carrying the cross of gifts. She is a Christ figure, suffering and sacrificing herself so that

00:07:29.600 the rest of us can have memes. This is how she presents herself. And yet this is not our intellectual

00:07:35.640 rock bottom. We are still falling, still plunging eternally into the idiot abyss. Now, you've probably 1.00

00:07:42.980 heard enough of this article. You've heard enough after the title, really, but here's a bit more.

00:07:47.100 Quote, some may say posting a video of Sweet Brown saying, oh Lord Jesus, it's a fire, is just for

00:07:53.800 laughs. Why overthink it? Why give people yet another excuse for labeling white people racist for the

00:07:59.020 most innocuous behaviors? But critics say that digital blackface is wrong because it's a modern-day 0.99

00:08:03.980 repackaging of minstrel shows, a racist form of entertainment popular in the 19th century.

00:08:09.180 That's when white actors, faces darkened with burnt cork, entertained audiences by playing black 1.00

00:08:14.580 characters as bumbling, happy-go-lucky simpletons. That practice continued in the 20th century on hit 0.94

00:08:19.540 radio shows such as Amos and Andy. Put simply, digital blackface is 21st century minstrelsy. 0.98

00:08:26.360 So without a hint of irony, the article repeatedly uses a RuPaul meme as an example of this 21st century

00:08:33.400 minstrelsy, but not because drag is the modern-day minstrel show, which of course it is. Okay, these are the

00:08:41.080 minstrel performers of modern America. So we do have minstrel performers in this country, but they're

00:08:45.540 wearing woman face rather than blackface, just as degrading, just as dehumanizing, just as offensive,

00:08:52.220 just as insulting. That's not what the author means. To him, RuPaul is an example of modern-day

00:08:57.780 minstrel only when a white person on Twitter uses his image as a reaction gif.

00:09:04.280 One last time, back to the article, it says, historical blackface has never truly ended,

00:09:09.560 and Americans have yet to actively confront their racist past to this day, Aaron Wong writes in an

00:09:15.080 academic paper on the topic. In fact, minstrel blackface has emerged into even more subtle forms

00:09:20.540 of racism that are now glorified all over the internet. Wong says that digital blackface is

00:09:24.840 wrong because it culturally appropriates the language and expressions of black people for entertainment

00:09:28.660 while dismissing the severity of everyday instances of racism black people encounter,

00:09:32.900 such as police brutality, job discrimination, and educational inequity.

00:09:38.120 An academic paper on the topic, we're told. This is the kind of thing they write academic papers

00:09:43.360 about. The fact that academic papers are covering the same subjects as essays in Teen Vogue should tell

00:09:50.940 you everything you need to know about academia. And of course, they're all just following TikTok's lead.

00:09:57.200 Indeed, TikTok has been on the front lines fighting against digital blackface for years now. 1.00

00:10:01.000 So, here's one example.

00:10:03.000 Hi, Benji here, and I'm going to explain what digital blackface is. 0.79

00:10:06.840 Digital blackface is when non-black people use images or emojis of black people to express emotion 1.00

00:10:12.820 online, often extreme ones like anger or disbelief. Sometimes images are edited to indicate blackness

00:10:20.640 for this purpose. The intents may be innocent, but digital blackface, like the original use of blackface,

00:10:26.280 exploits blackness through media for entertainment. The overuse of these images also reinforces

00:10:32.280 negative stereotypes that drive racial discrimination. We can use images of people that are a different

00:10:37.400 race. It's okay to enjoy popular culture. We should just be conscious of the impact the media that we

00:10:42.920 share online may have on communities with less privilege. For example, if you find you always use

00:10:48.520 images of black women to express sass, consider the negative stereotypes you're reinforcing and how 0.92

00:10:53.500 this might reflect your own unconscious biases, and try a different image next time. Hope that helps. Bye.

00:10:58.580 You know, I would really prefer if they just yelled at us like they obviously want to,

00:11:05.640 because this cheerful, smiling routine is just intolerable. I mean, there's something even more

00:11:11.160 repugnant about this kind of tone. Hey, guys, hope you're having a great day. Hey, by the way,

00:11:15.660 you're racist if you do this totally normal and innocuous thing. Do as I say, you white devils. 1.00

00:11:20.300 Okay, bye, bigots. Love you. That's even worse. And of course, the condescension is part and parcel 1.00

00:11:25.860 here. Patronizing, smugly, disdainful. None of that is incidental. Leftism is, after all,

00:11:31.140 an ideology of trifling tyrants constantly looking for new ways to manipulate us. The pettiness is the

00:11:37.260 point. I mean, these are people who invented the word problematize, which literally means

00:11:43.440 taking something that is not a problem and turning it into a problem. They aren't trying to solve

00:11:49.820 problems. They're trying to create them, and they aren't even hiding it. They'll admit it.

00:11:53.140 That's why this kind of garbage, this push to make every benign thing into a racist assault on black 1.00

00:11:59.760 identity or into some other form of bigotry, even now, including memes, may seem idiotic and laughable, 1.00

00:12:06.820 and it is. I mean, it is idiotic, and we should laugh at it, absolutely. But underneath the stupidity, 1.00

00:12:11.420 bubbling just under the surface, is the very real and very sinister agenda to control every last aspect 1.00

00:12:18.540 of our lives and of our expression and of our words and our thoughts.

00:12:26.100 You know, they don't want you to do, say, or think anything without referring to them first to see if

00:12:33.340 it's allowed. And that's why the pettier, the better. The more seemingly innocuous, the better.

00:12:39.240 Because they want you to start thinking that, oh man, like this is the thing I thought didn't matter

00:12:43.240 at all. It's like, I can't even do this without being a racist. That's the agenda. But whether we

00:12:50.240 engage with this on the surface level or we consider what lies underneath it, our response should be the

00:12:56.460 same. And the response, again, should be utter contempt, disdain, dismissiveness, and mockery.

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00:14:43.440 All right, so I think we're going to begin with this. Late last week, Minnesota finally passed a bill that makes

00:14:48.780 Minnesota into a refuge state for child castration and mutilation. We've been following the progress of this bill, 0.58

00:14:54.620 and as expected, it passed. So parents can now take their children across state lines to Minnesota

00:15:00.180 to have them abused and butchered in the name of a quote-unquote gender transition. 0.96

00:15:05.300 If you want to know why this bill is insane, then, well, you only need to have a conscience and a brain 0.98

00:15:10.860 to figure that out. But also, this clip will help. Here's Representative Finke, who is a male who identifies

00:15:18.040 as a woman, being questioned about the side effects. This is one of the main proponents of

00:15:22.640 this bill and of this move to make Minnesota into a quote-unquote trans refuge state.

00:15:30.620 Well, he's questioned about these drugs and about the side effects because this is like

00:15:37.600 one of the main arguments that people who are against child transition will make is that these

00:15:44.580 drugs are harmful and that they do a lot of harm to kids. And so here he is being questioned about

00:15:50.120 that. Like, what do you have to say about that? And listen to his answers, or his non-answers, rather.

00:15:57.320 Representative Finke, do GNRH hormones cause bone loss?

00:16:02.320 Representative Finke.

00:16:03.820 Thank you, Madam Speaker. That is not a yes or no question. You'll have to talk to a doctor

00:16:16.900 about a specific treatment plan to have an answer to that question.

00:16:21.220 According to the NIH.gov, human clinical trials revealed significant bone loss at the spine,

00:16:27.000 hip, and femur in patients treated with a GNRH antagonist. Thus, osteoporosis and the

00:16:33.800 resilient fragility fractures pose a significant impact on health and quality of life of the GNRH

00:16:40.100 antagonist users. Representative Finke. Are any of the drugs that are prescribed to children

00:16:46.500 also given, and by drugs I mean hormone therapies or quote-unquote puberty blockers,

00:16:53.480 are any of them prescribed to children? Are they also given to violent sex offenders with the purpose

00:17:02.080 of chemically castrating the violent sex offender?

00:17:05.220 Representative Finke.

00:17:08.940 Madam Speaker, I have no idea.

00:17:11.380 Representative Franson.

00:17:14.360 Thank you, Madam Speaker.

00:17:16.100 The answer is yes.

00:17:18.260 Does luprin cause sterility in men?

00:17:23.620 Thank you, Madam Speaker. I don't know.

00:17:26.560 Representative Franson.

00:17:27.600 Madam Speaker, thank you. The answer, members, is yes.

00:17:35.740 I mean, to think that there are people who could watch that video and then come away with the

00:17:42.000 conclusion that the dude with the purple hair is in the right on this one. Like, I'm gonna be on his

00:17:48.100 side. Okay, he's promoting and pushing these drugs on children, and then he's asked, well,

00:17:53.500 does it have horrific long-term side effects? Well, I don't know. Who knows? Who knows?

00:18:01.760 Now, we will say that if this exact conversation was happening, say, two years ago,

00:18:11.020 then he would have answered all those questions, and he would have said no.

00:18:17.400 Does it cause this? Does it cause that? He would have said, no, no, it's 100% safe.

00:18:20.080 And there are still plenty of trans activists who will claim that. But the reason he doesn't say

00:18:24.540 that is because he is aware that more and more people are aware of this issue now. And if he

00:18:32.540 just straight up lies, people will know that he's lying. So instead of just outright lying and telling

00:18:42.000 lies everyone will know are lies, is that it's, well, I don't know. Who knows? It's not a yes or no

00:18:46.740 answer. By the way, if you ever are at the doctor and you're asking about, they're trying to get you

00:18:52.500 to take some kind of drug and you say, oh, well, does it have this terrible long-term side effect

00:18:57.320 like bone loss, okay, which is a debilitating and severe, I shouldn't have to tell anyone that,

00:19:04.560 debilitating and severe long-term side effect is bone loss. If you ask your doctor that,

00:19:10.160 does it cause this? Well, not a yes or no answer. It kind of is. Can it cause that or not? It either

00:19:17.420 can or it can't. So a not or yes or no answer in this context is a yes answer. Now, obviously he's

00:19:24.960 lying. Now he knows, he's saying, oh, we don't know the answer to the question. We know the answers to

00:19:29.720 those questions are all yes. Causes bone loss. This is a, these Lupron's drug, drug used to chemically

00:19:36.340 castrate sex offenders. That is a fact as an absolute fact, uh, causes sterility. Yes. Another

00:19:41.360 fact. Okay. It's part of the point of, of the way these drugs are used. And so that's all facts. So

00:19:47.860 he's lying about that. But in this case, the way he's presenting it is, uh, not only, I don't know,

00:19:55.040 but I don't care. Just total dismissiveness. So we went from on the, on the trans activist side, 0.84

00:20:02.020 we went from, oh, all these claims you're making about the drugs are false and wrong and untrue.

00:20:07.960 And now it's, and now, and now we've entered the phase of, well, no one can know for sure,

00:20:12.540 but who could really know? There's no way to know. And then pretty soon we're going to get to the part

00:20:17.160 where they start saying, well, yeah, it does cause that. And it's good. We're going to get there next.

00:20:23.980 We are very soon going to get to the point where they will answer and say, well, yeah,

00:20:27.940 we're sterilizing kids. Good. It's a good thing we are. Of course, that's already what they think.

00:20:33.240 Okay. It's already what they think. To them, it is a good thing. They are well aware that they are

00:20:37.620 sterilizing children with these drugs. They're chemically castrating children and they, but

00:20:43.520 they, that's not a, that's not a bug. It's a feature for them.

00:20:49.400 We are rapidly getting to the point where they will admit that out loud because this is always the

00:20:53.520 way that things progress. First, it's the denial not happening. Then it's the, well,

00:20:57.940 no one can know we have to relate. And then soon it's going to be, well, yeah, we're going to

00:21:02.140 sterilize kids. And it's a good thing we are. It always, it's, it's not happening. Okay. It is

00:21:10.260 happening, but it's good. It all, with everything on the left, it always works that way. It's not

00:21:14.740 happening. Okay, fine. It is happening and it's good. Now let's stay on this topic for a moment.

00:21:21.540 Grinnell College put out a poll result showing that a majority of Americans are not in favor

00:21:27.800 of bills banning gender transitions for minors. Okay. So according to this poll,

00:21:32.940 a majority of Americans will be on the purple haired dude's side. Okay. Not in favor, allegedly,

00:21:39.200 of the bills that ban this stuff. So a majority think that it's okay to medically transition a

00:21:44.080 child, according to this. And trans activists have, of course, swarmed on this poll, attached 0.56

00:21:48.520 themselves to it like, like flies on feces. Here's just one example, Ari Drennan of Media Matters. 0.75

00:21:54.800 New poll shows that the majority of U.S. adults oppose legislative bans on gender-affirming care

00:22:00.380 for trans youth. And then you can see the numbers there. Supposedly proposed ban on children receiving

00:22:07.080 gender-affirming medical care with parental consent. And what we're told is that 53% overall

00:22:14.080 oppose the ban. Obviously among Democrats, it's more 78%, but still you got almost 30% of Republicans

00:22:23.600 who oppose the ban and over 50% of independents who oppose it. What does this poll prove?

00:22:32.800 The poll proves that language is very important. So you look at the wording, gender-affirming care.

00:22:39.920 This is what people were asked, whether they support gender-affirming care. And the way they're

00:22:46.360 asked the question begs the question. Because the whole point of the people who object to this stuff

00:22:52.920 is that it is not, quote unquote, gender-affirming care, but rather butchery. It is the rejection

00:22:57.780 of the self, of the true self, of a person's true sex. Okay, so you're not affirming anything.

00:23:05.480 You're not affirming any reality. You're affirming confusion. They have taken aside just in the way

00:23:12.160 that they word the question, and they get a different answer. Because most people don't know

00:23:16.180 what these terms really mean, even now. I think more people understand now than did two or three

00:23:20.880 years ago. But even now, most people don't know what these terms mean. They don't know what it's

00:23:24.800 referring to. They just hear affirming, and they think, oh, well, it must be good. Most people don't

00:23:31.400 even know that gender-affirming care is the new term for, you know, where they used to use the

00:23:37.040 term sex change or gender transition, which is why when you ask people if they support sex changes for

00:23:46.020 minors, as Rasmussen did a month ago, the numbers flip. In that poll, when Americans were asked if they

00:23:52.800 support legislation making it illegal to perform sex change surgery on minors, 58% said that they did

00:23:59.100 support the ban. So you've got the numbers almost exactly flipping, depending on how you word it.

00:24:06.160 But even sex change is euphemistic. I mean, even the term sex change, because it used to be they

00:24:12.340 said sex change, and then they changed it to gender transition, then they changed it to gender

00:24:15.880 affirmation. But it was always the pro-trans side that was coming up with all these terms, and then

00:24:21.640 coming up with new terms, because they decided, you know, this is another thing that always happens

00:24:26.080 on the left. They use a term to, like, as a euphemism to denote a certain thing. And then

00:24:31.640 people start to realize what the term actually means and what it really stands for, and then they

00:24:36.760 have to change the term again. So they have to stay sort of one step ahead of the public

00:24:40.420 consciousness on these issues. So even sex change is euphemistic. It's euphemistic in favor of the

00:24:48.120 trans side, because you can't really change your sex. It's not possible to do. 1.00

00:24:52.640 The really revealing poll, and I don't know if anyone's done this, would be one that drops

00:24:58.360 all euphemisms and just ask people directly, like, explain what the thing is. Don't use any

00:25:05.840 label or term for it. Just explain what it is and say, do you support that? Do you think it's okay?

00:25:12.820 Do you support the chemical castration and sterilization of children? Do you think children

00:25:18.700 should be given drugs that chemically castrate and sterilize them? Period. Do you think that children

00:25:22.500 should be given those drugs? Because that's what these drugs do. That's what it is, plain and

00:25:27.280 simple. There's no editorializing there. It's just what it is. Or you could, as I said, you could go

00:25:34.460 in a longer explanation, you know, use more than one sentence. Say, here's Lupron. Here's what it does.

00:25:41.480 Do you think kids should be given this? You ask that question. And yet again, those numbers are going

00:25:48.840 to, you know, rather than 58% being in support of bans. It's going to be, you know, 75% or more.

00:25:57.820 All right. And do you know why it would be 75% or more? Because also many of the people,

00:26:05.620 you know, even people who would say, oh, I support gender transitions. Drop the affirmation part of it,

00:26:13.940 that euphemism. Even many of the people would say, I support gender transitions for minors. Yes,

00:26:18.260 I support that. Many of them also don't know what that entails. They don't really know what that

00:26:25.440 means, what it involves, what these drugs do. They don't know that. If you tell them,

00:26:32.160 you're going to get a different answer. All right. Trump held a rally in Waco on Saturday. Of course,

00:26:38.540 he spent a while during the rally attacking DeSantis. I mean, he attacks DeSantis far more

00:26:44.340 than he attacks Democrats these days. But I'm not sure that the attacks play well. And I thought

00:26:51.240 this was a revealing part of the rally. Check this out.

00:26:54.000 Long before this guy became governor, Florida was tremendously successful under Rick Scott.

00:27:01.080 He was, look, whether you like him or not, Charlie Crist, it was very successful. He was a

00:27:06.180 Republican at the time. But Florida has been successful for decades. In fact, probably as or

00:27:13.980 more successful than it is now. But when a man, you know, you get him elected and there's no quid pro

00:27:21.300 quo. Get rid of that word. Remember those words? Quid pro quo with the perfect call I made with the

00:27:27.700 Ukrainian president. But when you're getting a guy, so he gets a nomination because of you,

00:27:34.080 he wins the election because of you. Two years later, the fake news is up there saying,

00:27:40.660 will you run against the president? Will you run? And he says, I have no comment. I say,

00:27:48.140 that's not supposed to happen. So a few things. Trump's entire argument against DeSantis really

00:27:55.580 is that it hurts his feelings that he endorsed DeSantis. Now DeSantis has the gall to possibly run

00:28:01.980 against him. I think it's clear that DeSantis is going to run, but you have to do that Pierce

00:28:05.240 Morgan interview. So it hurts his feelings and it's offensive to him that, that just, you know,

00:28:12.700 his argument is that DeSantis owes him loyalty. I mean, that's his whole argument. That's his

00:28:16.000 argument against it. But, you know, that might be how he feels about it. But in terms of the American

00:28:21.840 people, does that, does that mean that we should see DeSantis as like he wouldn't make a good

00:28:25.740 president because of that? Because he, because he had insufficient loyalty to Donald Trump? I mean,

00:28:31.040 should the American people give a damn about that? And this is, this is, and again, I know

00:28:37.620 if you're a Trump supporter, Trump fan, you don't like this part of it, but Trump rose to prominence

00:28:44.680 2015, 2016, talking about issues that matter to Americans. Illegal immigration was obviously the big

00:28:52.940 one, not the only one, but that's what he was talking about. These days, he spends most of his

00:29:00.340 time talking about things that matter to him. It's like complaints that he has personally and trying

00:29:06.480 to make some sort of connection as to why this should matter to everyone else. And he doesn't even

00:29:10.000 really explain that because he can't, you know, now it comes to DeSantis, he really has no choice.

00:29:17.540 DeSantis has been a good governor. He's been, he just has been, I'm sorry. He has been

00:29:22.800 good. And, uh, and he has also enacted conservative policies in a meaningful way and in a, in a way

00:29:28.740 that no other Republican in elected office has in years. That's just a fact. And to most Americans,

00:29:39.280 that's what matters, especially Republican primary voters. That's what we care about.

00:29:42.860 Can you, can you get the policies? Can you put them in place? Can we, can we trust you to govern

00:29:47.280 according to the principles that you pretend to, to, uh, or, you know, that you, the principles that you

00:29:51.800 claim to hold, can we trust you to govern according to them? That's the question we have for any

00:29:56.520 presidential candidate, right? Um, the fact that some other politician is offended because, you know,

00:30:04.760 he feels like you owe them loyalty. He didn't that. Who cares? I don't care about that. No, no real

00:30:08.960 American voter cares about that, but this is what he spends his time on. I think it's a, I think it's

00:30:13.360 a huge mistake. And if he wins the primary Trump and he goes to the general, it's especially going

00:30:21.200 to be a mistake there. Maybe you get away with this in the primary. I don't know. Like maybe you

00:30:25.920 get away with a campaign that's like 90% focused on your own, uh, complaints about things that are

00:30:32.540 happening to you in a general election. No way. That's not going to fly. It just won't.

00:30:40.820 And when it comes to DeSantis, uh, the attacks on DeSantis, they play well on Twitter. Okay. They

00:30:48.040 play, there's a, there is a group of people on Twitter who go for this stuff. He's not even

00:30:53.120 getting cheers at a rally at a Trump rally. I, you, you rarely hear a Trump rally as quiet and awkward

00:30:58.680 as that, nor should you. It's a rally for, you know, if your rally, these are your people.

00:31:04.360 It's supposed to be raucous. And unless it's a, uh, you know, unless it's a Biden rally that

00:31:09.140 sounded like a Biden rally, which is not good. But there, there is a, I think this is just a

00:31:16.220 catastrophic strategy in general. Spent so much time going after the most popular Republican,

00:31:22.140 elected Republican in the country. And a guy who's popular in DeSantis, not just because of stuff he's

00:31:27.820 saying, but because of the stuff he did, we, we're not idiots. Okay. The, the Republicans who 0.97

00:31:32.740 support DeSantis, even if you like Trump more, if you still support DeSantis, um, we're not morons.

00:31:41.140 We like him because we see what he's done and we, we appreciate that. And this is what we want.

00:31:47.080 So I, I think this, it just, it's, I don't think it's playing. I don't think it's playing outside of

00:31:51.180 Twitter. I don't think it plays anywhere else. And, uh, I think it's a mistake. Um, not unsalvageable.

00:31:57.260 People have short memories, especially in a political campaign. Trump could pivot from this

00:32:02.440 and just say, all right, you know, let's talk about things Americans actually care about and

00:32:06.360 not complain about DeSantis the whole time. Um, let's even acknowledge that DeSantis is doing,

00:32:10.980 you know, doing a really good job rather than, rather than praising Charlie Chris. This is not

00:32:16.420 the first time either that he's praised Charlie Chris, by the way, praising Charlie Chris was better

00:32:22.040 in DeSantis. That is not, even Trump can't get away with a line like that in a Republican primary.

00:32:27.780 People are not going to go for that. It's possible to pivot, to get away from this,

00:32:34.000 to start focusing on issues people actually care about. Um, it's possible, certainly possible.

00:32:40.320 You know, if he were to pivot now, by the time the primaries really start in earnest and by the time

00:32:45.720 the, the, the voting actually starts, you know, right now is ancient history. Nobody even remembers

00:32:50.400 it. But, uh, I, I don't have a lot of confidence that that pivot will happen. All right. This is

00:32:59.000 from Business Insider. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said TikTok should not be banned

00:33:03.280 in her first video on the app on Saturday. The New York Democrats started her video by saying,

00:33:08.140 this is not, uh, not only my first TikTok, but it's a TikTok about TikTok. Do I believe TikTok

00:33:12.700 should be banned? No. So she started a TikTok in order to go on TikTok and defend TikTok from all

00:33:20.640 the people who want to ban it in both parties, by the way. Uh, let's watch a little bit of that video.

00:33:26.980 So why would we be proposing a ban regarding such a significant issue without being clued in on this

00:33:32.680 at all? It just doesn't feel right to me. And additionally, this case needs to be made to the

00:33:40.080 public. We are a government by the people and for the people. And if we want to make a decision as

00:33:47.200 significant as banning TikTok, and we believe, or someone believes, that there's really important

00:33:52.620 information that the public deserves to know about why such a decision would be justified,

00:33:57.780 that information should be shared with the public as well.

00:34:00.180 Great argument there. It doesn't, it just doesn't feel right. That's her, that really is her

00:34:05.920 argument. You can watch the whole video. It's, that's essentially her whole argument. Doesn't 0.71

00:34:09.300 feel right. Doesn't feel right to me. You know, that's that, at least that's the argument that

00:34:13.900 she'll present to the public. Doesn't feel right. Well, she also says that it's significant. This is

00:34:19.840 such a, it'd be such a significant move to ban TikTok. And I agree. It would be significant in that it

00:34:24.240 would be, you know, it would be, it'd be a significantly good, be significant in a good

00:34:29.780 way. But it's also not, it's not significant in the way that she, she frames it. Like it'd be this

00:34:39.080 huge deal, this huge power grab to ban TikTok. Um, it's actually not. It's, it's really a pretty

00:34:48.480 simple equation here. All you have to do is, is balance. So you, it's a balancing act. And on one

00:34:56.980 hand, you have the harm that TikTok does to the American people, especially to kids. And then you

00:35:07.020 also have to give the harm that it, that it does to children who are obsessed with this app and spend

00:35:13.100 like all day just scrolling, you know, when you've got, when you've got millions of kids who are

00:35:17.700 spending hours a day staring at their phone and just scrolling through like zombies. Okay. Not even,

00:35:24.480 not, not, not, not to even mention the content that they themselves are putting on this app that

00:35:28.620 will live in cyberspace and infamy forever. Um, so you have that harm and then you also have the

00:35:34.660 national security concerns and, uh, and all the rest of it. So that in one hand, and then you have

00:35:41.980 to balance that against the harm done by banning the app and by saying, okay, there are a million

00:35:51.280 apps you can use, but there's one that you can't, this one's banned. Well, what is the harm exactly?

00:35:57.560 So we know what the harm is here and it's quite significant. What is the harm in this hand that

00:36:03.160 we're worried about? What's the, uh, like dystopian scenario? What's the worst case scenario from banning

00:36:10.300 TikTok? In what way does that hurt us as a country? I know how it hurts us to have it.

00:36:16.060 How does it hurt us to get rid of it? Even she can't explain that the people defending TikTok

00:36:22.680 can't explain it. None of them have laid out. Okay. If we do this, here are the ways, boom,

00:36:28.980 boom, boom. I'll, I'll lay it out for you. Bullet point. Here are the ways that it harms,

00:36:33.360 uh, this country, harms the American people to get rid of it. So does a lot of harm by having it.

00:36:39.800 Doesn't really no harm by getting rid of it. It's owned by a Chinese company to begin with.

00:36:45.840 So what's the problem here? There really isn't one. Let's get to the comment section.

00:36:51.680 Todd says internet accessible cameras and microphones should be in every classroom.

00:37:06.000 If people have to have body cameras, then the, or if police have to have body cameras,

00:37:10.120 then there's no reason why schools shouldn't have this available to every parent. Yeah. We talked

00:37:14.740 about this, uh, a while ago and I completely agree with you. You know, there are, it's, it's not a,

00:37:20.340 it's by no means a perfect solution. And there are other concerns that you could have by having

00:37:26.740 cameras in the classroom, internet access to the cameras. You worry about the privacy and security

00:37:31.520 of the kids. Um, but it's not, instead not a perfect solution, but then you have to, you have to think

00:37:42.280 about what, well, what's the consequence of not having this kind of, uh, monitoring ability of the

00:37:46.480 teachers. Well, we see the consequences of that. And so we're stuck with imperfect solutions and

00:37:51.160 there are ways around it. I mean, you could do this and you could, for example, I mean, obviously

00:37:55.120 if you were to have cameras in the classroom with the, and they're accessible by the parents and

00:38:00.500 yeah, the parents should be able to, you know, if my kid was in a public school classroom, which

00:38:03.980 they never will be, but if they were, I should be able to go somewhere online and wherever they are,

00:38:08.760 I should be able to pull it up and see what's happening. See, you know, see what they're being

00:38:12.260 taught, what's, what's happening in class. I should be able to see that at any time. Um,

00:38:17.160 and there are ways to mitigate the privacy and security concerns for the, uh, kids. Now there's

00:38:24.140 no privacy concern for the teacher. Okay. Because when you're in the, the context of being a teacher,

00:38:31.880 when you're, when you're in that role of, of a teacher in a public school setting, government

00:38:36.540 employee, there's no privacy there when you're actively teaching. Okay. Now, if you're in the

00:38:43.520 faculty lounge or you're going to the bathroom or something, then obviously that's different. But

00:38:46.540 when you're in the classroom and you are actively teaching, there shouldn't be any privacy. There

00:38:51.520 shouldn't be a moment when you're actually teaching, when you would say, no, I don't want

00:38:54.460 anyone on the outside seeing this. Because if you're thinking that to yourself, then whatever

00:38:58.640 you're doing or saying, you shouldn't be doing or saying. Pretty simple. Ways around it, like,

00:39:03.660 uh, well, obviously you, you know, you wouldn't just put the internet feed on YouTube or something.

00:39:07.520 It'd be on school website. You could only be accessed through a password that the parents

00:39:11.480 have. Uh, so that gives you certain measure of security. Uh, the cameras would, you know,

00:39:17.360 be focused on the front of the classroom with the teacher standing. It wouldn't be like over the

00:39:21.560 entire class, uh, and that sort of thing. So there are ways to mitigate the security concerns,

00:39:25.700 but I think, you know, we have the capability of doing that these days. We've long had the

00:39:31.500 capability and it is a long past time. Jackie says, my husband and I were watching the show

00:39:37.980 1883 recently, and there was a scene where a pickpocket was beaten and hung in the street

00:39:42.120 when caught. I told my husband, if we had something like that in place, there'd be little

00:39:45.660 to no crime. Um, yeah, well, certainly, certainly a better system than what we do, which is just,

00:39:54.540 uh, you know, we say to criminals, okay, well be better next time.

00:39:58.180 And then they do it again next time and say, well, this, this is the last chance I'm warning

00:40:03.200 you. And then they do it again. Oh yeah. On and on and on. I don't, I watched 1883. I don't

00:40:09.360 remember. I guess that I I'm assuming a scene like that must've been, I barely remember it,

00:40:14.840 but it must've been at the close to the beginning of the show. Right. Because, uh, and if you're just

00:40:18.960 starting the show, I hate to warn you this. I know this wasn't really your point, but I have to

00:40:21.880 warn you that, uh, there's, there's going to be a, you know, there's, it's a, it's a good show for

00:40:26.900 about two, maybe three episodes. And then it hits some kind of threshold where it becomes a woke

00:40:33.480 teenage soap opera. Okay. Where the, this teenager is having love affairs with like

00:40:41.420 Comanche warriors who come and they're all very kind and nice. And, and the main, you know,

00:40:47.260 Sam Elliott is like constantly crying all the time and it's just, it's terrible. So if you watch three

00:40:52.380 episodes, I would just stop there. That's the end of the show as far as you should be concerned.

00:40:56.900 David says, nip isn't really a slur. It's just short for Nippon or Nippanese, which is how the

00:41:03.800 Japanese refer to themselves. It's no more slower than slur than Jap, or for that matter, Jerry for 0.91

00:41:08.400 the Germans or Yvonne for the Russians or Tommy's for the British, all of which were used during World

00:41:13.420 War II in equivalent contexts. Yeah. But the, the main point there is used during World War II,

00:41:20.780 which is why I, I have been told since we talked about this on Friday, some people have told me

00:41:27.960 that, oh yeah, I'm really familiar with that term. People use it all the time. Maybe there were some

00:41:32.740 places where that term was used for Japanese people, uh, where you maybe grew up and you were familiar

00:41:37.100 with it. I never heard it in my entire life. Not one time. Uh, I never encountered it on the internet,

00:41:44.660 nowhere. So I think it's, it's probably fair to say many more people in modern America had never

00:41:53.560 heard the term as, as it applies to Japanese people than had heard it, which makes the plausible

00:41:59.140 deniability of that, uh, you know, sports radio host all the more plausible. It doesn't matter

00:42:05.880 anyway, because he didn't defend himself. So I can't defend him. Honey says, I firmly believe

00:42:12.780 in disassociative identity disorder, but it's extremely rare and only comes about through

00:42:16.940 repeated trauma before a child's default personality is solidified, so to speak, typically before the

00:42:22.000 age of six, the brain fractures in order to protect itself. There are markers for this diagnosis that

00:42:26.960 are not able to be faked successfully, but that's why people online, um, people pop online and hit

00:42:33.300 record instead of seeking professional help. Most who have DID had no clue due to the amnesia that

00:42:39.580 comes with it. It's a horrible diagnosis and not something anyone should wish to have.

00:42:44.320 Yeah. I still don't buy it. I mean, I don't buy the disorder at all. So, so we would agree that

00:42:50.280 most of what you see on Tik TOK, the people that are probably all of it, but what you see on Tik

00:42:55.380 TOK of people claiming to have this disorder is made up. Um, and we already know that it's made up

00:42:59.900 because even on the, the terms of this, of this supposed illness is that, you know, you have these

00:43:05.800 other personalities, but you don't know that they're there because your brain is, as you say,

00:43:08.720 fracturing. So if you're aware of the other personalities and you can even like introduce

00:43:12.860 them and call upon them to like come to the surface and introduce themselves, um, that's not

00:43:18.040 how that works. That's a movie plot. And that's all that you see on Tik TOK. So I guess you would

00:43:22.780 agree with me there. And what you're saying is overdiagnosed, but it's real. I don't think that

00:43:27.840 it's real at all. I just think it's, I think it's completely made up. I have done some reading

00:43:32.340 into this and, um, you know, it's, there's a debate about it in the psychiatric community,

00:43:37.580 but there is definitely, you know, a preponderance of people who would say it's, it, it's not real.

00:43:44.800 It doesn't actually exist at all, which is why almost all the famous cases that come to mind.

00:43:49.620 And there have been famous cases of it have all turned out to be frauds. I don't even, I don't,

00:43:53.840 I don't think it makes any sense logically. I just don't think that the human consciousness

00:43:59.340 even works like that. So what, so what are we saying that you're a person's mind contains

00:44:04.080 multiple conscious. So it's like essentially multiple, actual distinct human consciousness,

00:44:10.080 distinct people inside one brain. I think that's the kind of thing that only makes sense.

00:44:16.860 It only seems to make sense to us because we've seen it in movies. It's only because of the influence

00:44:23.700 of movies that that kind of thing that we think, oh yeah, sure. The brain splits into different pieces

00:44:28.140 and each piece contains its own consciousness. But then when you actually think about it,

00:44:32.540 you realize that, well, that doesn't make any sense. All right. Leighton Pierce says,

00:44:38.240 moral midgets, LMAO, another Walsh quote I'm adding to my arsenal. Actually, I think I said

00:44:42.580 mental midgets, but moral midgets is even better. And I think I'll start using that. And finally, 0.67

00:44:48.660 Daniel says, Matt, I've started following your content last year, following your Dr. Phil episode. And a few

00:44:54.060 months after I realized I'm in the dark on too much inside jokes, especially a particular one.

00:44:58.740 So I decided to embark on a journey to watch your content from the beginning. I've had the pleasure

00:45:03.280 of watching your car videos and learn of your beekeeping journey, but this one is especially

00:45:07.280 important. I've just watched the video that brought the birth of the SPG. Don't worry,

00:45:12.580 your secret is safe with me. I won't tell anybody about episode 737. P.S. fellow members of the SPG,

00:45:17.780 please help make sure Matt reads this on Monday. Well, Daniel, you watched all those episodes and

00:45:24.300 did all that research, which is commendable. And you've done all of that only to now get banned

00:45:29.120 from the show because you are banned. We don't speak of the origins of the SPG. And if you've

00:45:34.480 been watching all the episodes, you know that and you defied that one rule. Well, it's not the one rule.

00:45:40.340 There are a lot of rules, but that's the first one. We don't speak of the origins. We especially

00:45:44.820 don't speak of episode 737. We don't speak of it. Episode 737 does not exist. For the SPG, episode

00:45:52.300 737, it's like the 13th floor of a hotel. We just skipped that. It doesn't exist. It's not there.

00:45:57.660 We go from episode 736 to 738. There's no 737. And so you, sir, are banned. But thanks for

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00:47:03.800 Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation. Today for our Daily Cancellation, we move from

00:47:12.120 problematic gifts to something a bit more familiar, which is problematic team mascots,

00:47:17.800 or in this case, team nicknames. The New York Times reports, quote,

00:47:20.860 George Washington University will soon choose a new nickname for its athletic teams dropping

00:47:24.940 colonials after a year of pressure from students who said the name was entangled with violence toward

00:47:29.680 Native Americans and other colonized people. The campus community in the heart of the nation's 0.99

00:47:33.980 capital has narrowed a list of 10 replacement candidates to four finalists, which are Ambassadors,

00:47:40.540 Blue Fog, Revolutionaries, and Sentinels. Well, just a side note here. It's a good thing

00:47:47.000 that names like Revolutionaries and Sentinels don't have anything to do with violence. You know,

00:47:52.460 that's really good. Personally, I think Blue Fog is the best option. It would be quite appropriate to

00:47:57.680 take away the name colonials, which is something solid and meaningful, and replace it literally

00:48:02.240 with fog. You know, something hazy, amorphous, undefined. It's the only way to avoid offending

00:48:08.580 people. If you choose anything distinct, anything that exists as a definable entity,

00:48:14.180 somebody will find a reason to be upset. Fog is your only choice. But then again, even fog brings

00:48:19.140 to mind a history of racial trauma. After all, the media has been reporting in recent years that fog around

00:48:24.020 the world is declining due to climate change. The website Inside Climate News reported in 2021,

00:48:29.500 quote, with a warming climate, coastal fog around the world is declining. But as we know,

00:48:34.600 climate change somehow impacts racially marginalized communities the most. And nobody knows how that's

00:48:40.380 the case, but that's what they say. And so this makes any mention of fog potentially triggering and

00:48:45.280 problematic. There's really no way out of this bind in a world where everything is racist. The only choice

00:48:50.080 is to choose a team name that doesn't mean anything at all. Just mix up a bunch of like

00:48:56.260 Scrabble tiles and go with whatever gibberish it spells out. So you could be the George Washington

00:49:01.700 Fifth Eternals or the George Washington Ziglabots or whatever. I think this is the only way forward.

00:49:09.620 More from the article. Quote, the university will hear feedback until April 28th through what it is

00:49:14.540 calling Moniker Madness. And a new nickname will be announced by the end of the semester,

00:49:18.380 said Ellen Morin, the university's vice president for communications and marketing.

00:49:22.240 The school's mascot will remain George I, George Washington's head, which a uniform student wears.

00:49:28.480 The change comes amid a reckoning of the fraught history of team names across the American sports

00:49:33.000 landscape. It comes after a push by students and a victory for Native American activists last year

00:49:37.400 when the National Football League team in Washington became the commanders, shedding a team name that was

00:49:42.300 a slur against indigenous people. Notice how the old name of the Washington football team

00:49:48.240 now can't even be mentioned in news articles. And this is the case with like any, you know,

00:49:53.020 if you read any article on ESPN that mentions the, you know, something that happened on that team

00:49:58.120 years ago, they won't even say the name. They won't print the name. But a couple of years ago,

00:50:03.520 they were putting the name on merchandise and selling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of it

00:50:08.140 every year. Now you can't even say the name anymore. Or at least I can't. They can't. I mean,

00:50:13.680 I will. The team was called the Washington Redskins for the record and still is called the Washington

00:50:18.100 Redskins as far as, you know, I'm concerned. A little more from the Times, it says, the more we

00:50:23.180 engage and the more we help the community envision what the new moniker options might look like

00:50:27.680 and give the community a chance to try out what the future might look like, we're getting a lot of

00:50:32.300 positive engagement, Ms. Morin said. The Colonial's name has been part of the university's identity

00:50:36.540 since 1926, replacing the Hatchet Heights, Hatchet Men, Axemen, and Crummen for Henry Crum,

00:50:43.420 a football coach. Opposition to the Colonial's nickname erupted in 2019 when the student body

00:50:47.820 voted to remove it and the Anything But Colonials Coalition was formed, according to a report

00:50:53.060 a university moniker committee released in 2021. The next year, student organizations delivered a

00:50:59.400 petition to the university president's office seeking a name change, quote, colonials were active

00:51:04.220 purveyors of colonialism and were complicit in militarized and racialized violence, oppression,

00:51:09.200 and hierarchy, the petition said. Colonialism has been historically and contemporaneously built

00:51:14.660 upon usurping land, labor, and autonomy from racialized communities through dehumanizing violence

00:51:20.420 and suppression. Well, they're right about one thing. Colonials were indeed active purveyors of 0.72

00:51:27.000 colonialism. The colonists did live in colonies. Very important insight and observation. The rest of

00:51:34.140 what they said is nonsense. Well, that's not the really disturbing thing here. The part that

00:51:38.920 disturbs me, disturbs me the most anyway, is when we hear from the defenders of the colonial moniker,

00:51:45.780 the people that want to keep it. This is what they say, quote, some alumni, however, remain attached to

00:51:51.420 the university's old name, Ms. Morin said. Survey respondents with an affinity for the colonials

00:51:55.980 associated with revolutionary spirit and fighting tyranny, according to a report. Proponents, especially

00:52:00.960 older alumni, have argued that it defines Americans during the British colonial era, said Denver

00:52:06.880 Brunsman, an associate professor of history at the university, who's a member of a committee that was

00:52:12.080 formed to discuss the name. Opponents view it as a synonymous with violent colonizers, said Dr. Brunsman,

00:52:18.600 a George Washington scholar. Now, this is the kind of reasoning that we hear a lot, and not just in relation

00:52:24.780 to George Washington University's nickname. From people who are ostensibly taking the rational and correct

00:52:29.880 side of the overall debate, will often hear this sort of thing. They'll say, well, you know, when we

00:52:36.000 celebrate and honor the colonists, we're not celebrating colonization. We're celebrating their

00:52:40.480 independent spirit and their toughness. That's all. Both sides of the argument seem to have conceded

00:52:46.460 that colonization was in itself a bad thing. We cannot defend colonization in its own right, and so we must

00:52:54.060 defend the people of that era by pointing to the good things they did. But here's the thing. Colonization

00:53:02.280 was a good thing they did. The conquest and colonization and settling of this land was overall a good and 1.00

00:53:12.040 noble and courageous thing. It is good that it happened, and we should be grateful for it. The people who

00:53:20.180 came here and claimed this land were heroes. It was heroic, and they were heroes not because of the

00:53:27.560 other good stuff, but because they came and claimed it. For hundreds of years, this would not have been

00:53:33.840 controversial to say. It would have been perhaps the least controversial thing to say, and now you're

00:53:39.700 not allowed to say it at all, but I will anyway. Now, not all colonization is good. There are evil forms

00:53:46.360 of the practice. For example, the cultural colonization that the left engages in today when Western

00:53:51.260 governments fly the pride flag on their embassies and try to export, you know, the LGBT agenda and gender

00:53:56.800 ideology into Africa and other regions of the world that don't want it. That is a form of ideological

00:54:01.820 colonization, and it's evil. But the colonization that brought Europeans to this part of the world hundreds 0.76

00:54:07.580 of years ago, that was good. Not everything that happened during those many centuries was good, obviously.

00:54:13.500 History is not that simple. People can commit evil in the pursuit of a worthwhile goal. That happens

00:54:19.180 all the time, and nobody would ever say that the conquerors and colonizers of this land were perfect

00:54:25.120 angels. But we should celebrate them, and we should celebrate what they achieved. This was all happening

00:54:33.240 at a time when much of the world was undiscovered, unsettled, uncivilized, and it fell to brave and determined

00:54:41.000 men, most of them living, of course, long before George Washington, to get into ships and sail into

00:54:47.060 unknown sea to discover unknown lands. And then to those after them, men and women, just as brave,

00:54:52.540 to settle that wilderness and spread civilization. They had every right to do it according to the law

00:54:58.540 of conquest, which was the law that governed the entire globe, and the law that every native tribe

00:55:05.160 lived and killed and died by. Despite what you may be told, a scattered assortment of primitive tribes

00:55:11.720 did not own this entire hemisphere. These tribes, which were about 3,000 years behind much of the rest

00:55:19.160 of the world, if not 4,000 years, did not have some kind of divine right to keep this entire half of the

00:55:26.660 globe to themselves forever. They conquered whatever land they occupied, conquered it by brutality and

00:55:32.880 bloodshed every time. And then they claimed thousands of square miles of wilderness as their 0.74

00:55:38.800 own, even though they weren't using almost any of it and couldn't defend almost any of it.

00:55:45.420 And so a far more advanced civilization came along and claimed it. That's the way of the world.

00:55:51.700 And it's good that it happened. What was the other option anyway? I mean, let's imagine history the

00:56:00.000 way that these leftist idiots think that it ought to have played out. The early explorers came to the 0.99

00:56:04.840 Americas. They find primitive people living here. Then they go home and say, never mind, guys, call 0.86

00:56:09.440 off the whole age of discovery thing. That entire part of the earth is owned by people who haven't 0.86

00:56:14.720 discovered the wheel yet. It's all theirs. The whole thing. We can't go there. What happens next?

00:56:22.100 The tide of civilization comes to a crashing halt and the earth forever remains divided by some kind of

00:56:26.900 time warp where one half of it lives 3,000 years in the past. Forget about how absurdly impossible

00:56:33.600 such a scenario is. Would it even be preferable if it could have happened? I mean, it could not have

00:56:39.440 happened. It could not have happened that way. It just couldn't. But even if it could have, would it

00:56:46.660 have been preferable? Would that have been a better thing? Obviously not. If this land had never been

00:56:54.840 colonized and conquered, forget about the technological advancements that never would

00:56:58.860 have been made. Certainly never would have happened here and possibly never developed at all.

00:57:04.700 Forget about the absence of modern medicine. Forget about the fact that people would still be dying by

00:57:08.300 diseases that don't even put us out of work these days. Consider that instead that slavery would still 0.80

00:57:13.760 exist here, just as it always did among native tribes. It still would. There would still be slavery 0.99

00:57:19.680 across this entire hemisphere. There would still be constant warfare where defeated combatants were

00:57:25.440 tortured and killed. Women were captured as sex slaves. Children were either killed or kidnapped. 0.97

00:57:32.760 Just as was routine among native tribes. There would certainly be no human rights here. No democracy. 0.99

00:57:40.960 None of that. Now I'm not saying that the early settlers came here to spread democracy, obviously.

00:57:46.940 I'm saying that the people who lament the settling of this land are lamenting the existence of everything

00:57:55.140 they pretend to cherish. They are pining for a version of this part of the world where nothing that

00:58:01.800 they value or pretend to value exists. And that is why they, the anti-colonialists, are once again today

00:58:10.860 canceled. That'll do it for this portion of the show as we move over to the members block. Hope to see you

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The Matt Walsh Show - March 27, 2023

Ep. 1137 - Race Hustlers Scrape The Bottom Of The Barrel In Desperate Pursuit Of Victimhood

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