Ep. 1174 - Twitter Censors ‘What Is A Woman’
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Summary
It's Pride Month, and we're celebrating by celebrating the one year anniversary of the film, "What is a Woman?" by Alex Blumberg and the Daily Wire. Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we're going to talk about all that and much more.
Transcript
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, it's the first day of Pride Month and the one-year anniversary of
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What is a Woman, which is why we've decided to release the film for free for everybody
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on Twitter tonight. The only problem is that Twitter, which professes to be a free speech
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platform, has already told us that the film will be labeled hate speech and suppressed.
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So a lot to talk about. We're going to talk about all that today. Also,
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Target is facing major financial losses while an anti-Target rap song tops the iTunes chart.
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Planned Parenthood puts out another propaganda video declaring that any reason is a good reason
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to kill your baby. And a new survey shows that large percentages of Americans think that native
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tribes lived in, quote, peace and harmony before Europeans showed up and ruined the utopia.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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info kit on gold. Again, text Walsh to 989898. Today marks the beginning of what millions of
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Americans and all major corporations consider to be the single holiest month of the entire year. It is
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Pride Month, of course, and as you've probably noticed, the observances are well underway. Maybe
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you've seen a bunch of pride flags everywhere. Maybe you've noticed all of the pride-themed
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advertisements. Maybe there's a pride parade marching down your street at this very moment, full of
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naked people exposing themselves to children. If you're in San Francisco, that's a year-round
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activity, of course. Whatever the case, pride is here. And for decades, it used to be that pride
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was just one day, sort of like a transgender day of remembrance or the intersex awareness day or
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pansexual pride day, international pronouns day. But now pride is four weeks long. Can't avoid it if
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you try. It's the literal celebration of one of the seven deadly sins, and it simply can't be
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ignored. It's all-encompassing. So last year, on June 1st, we decided to join in and mark the
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occasion. My documentary, What is a Woman?, premiered at the Daily Wire one year ago today
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to start off Pride Month. It was a very deliberate choice by us to start the month with this film.
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For the film, my team and I, as you know, traveled all over the world asking that simple question in
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the title. Just a few years ago and throughout all of human history before that, the question would not
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have stumped a single person. If we had made a film called What is a Woman? in the year 2010 and gone
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around asking this question, everybody would be very confused, but confused for a different reason,
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confused about why we're asking such an obvious question to begin with. But we found that in 2022,
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it was a real mind twister. To be sure, some people had no problem telling us what a woman is. The
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tribesmen we met in Kenya could answer the question easily, for example. So could the Vietnam veteran in
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Washington State who runs his own store selling Star Wars memorabilia? But we found that the kind
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of people who celebrate Pride Month, the identity obsessed members of Congress, the gender studies
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professors, the physicians who make a lot of money mutilating children and so on, they could not give
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us an answer. In fact, they couldn't give us anything resembling an answer. They couldn't get close
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to an answer. They just started dissembling. And in many cases, they ran away or they screamed at us or
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both. These are the activists, the medical experts who will tell you without hesitation that trans
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women are women. They'll have you fired from your job, ostracized for the rest of your life if you
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disagree with them. But they can't even define the word. What is a Woman was an international success
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because most people recognize how absurd this is. I mean, don't we have free speech in this country?
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Isn't this what the country was founded on? Isn't it the basis for the First Amendment to our
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Constitution? What's the point of all that exactly if it can't protect us when we speak openly and
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honestly about whatever we want to talk about? And in particular, what's the point of all of that
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if we can't even ask a question about the most fundamental and immutable aspect of our identity?
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Something that's embedded at the chromosomal level, which is our sex.
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Okay, this is an attack not just on speech, but on the ability to speak basic fundamental truth.
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In a country where speaking the truth, not your truth, but the truth, has somehow become a
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revolutionary act, it makes sense that What is a Woman became a revolutionary film and one of the
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most influential and one of the most talked about documentaries of the century. We've screened the
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film all over the country. Every time we've gotten a massive response, we've shown it at colleges
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that don't allow dissent on this issue in the classroom. And since the release of the film,
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we've done even more to expose the damage that's being done by activists who deny the reality of
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biology, including at Vanderbilt Medical Center, where they abuse children for profit. Of course,
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we've seen laws being passed all across the country. And the film, we're proud to say,
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was a catalyst for a lot of that, helped to be a catalyst for a lot of that. But the incredible
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positive response to the film was met with fury and rage on the other side. The film has been banned
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from major big tech platforms, denounced as hate speech, reviled by many of the worst people in
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our country. It also made me personally public enemy number one to many of these trans activists,
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a title that I am proud to still hold and one that I intend to keep for as long as I live.
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I am very much proud to be hated by these kinds of people. I don't mind the hatred. What I do mind
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is the censorship, the fear, the refusal to even engage. And that's why we've been excited to see
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the changes to Twitter this past year under new management. For the first time, the owner of a
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major social media platform didn't just promise to respect the freedom of speech of all the users.
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He seemed to really mean it. Elon Musk lifted the previous regime's political bans on thousands of
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users, including the former president of the United States. Musk also, it seemed, eliminated,
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it seemed, eliminated Twitter's rules, which require that you respect the fake pronouns and
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gender identities of other users. And Musk promised transparency in Twitter's algorithm so that people
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with unfavorable opinions wouldn't be shadow banned anymore. They wouldn't be suppressed.
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And it was for all those reasons this year that we reached out to Twitter about distributing what is
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a woman on their platform for free, you know, for all users. This is how we plan to mark the one year
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anniversary of the film. And it's how we wanted to ring in Pride Month 2023. We wanted to take the
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movie that LGBT cultists hate the most and put it out in its entirety for free on one of the most
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traffic social media platforms on the planet. And we wanted to do it on the first day of Pride Month.
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That was the plan. Now, as The Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boring wrote earlier today, Twitter was initially
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receptive to this idea. In fact, they were excited about it. They pledged to set up a custom landing
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page just for the film so that everybody could find it easily. This is something that we were
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happy to pay for. This is a privilege that we were going to pay Twitter for. Twitter signed an
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agreement to that effect. Then, after all that, they asked to review the film because they wanted to
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screen it for any content that might, quote, trigger users on its platform because they wanted to know,
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how they were going to respond when the film proved to be controversial. Now, that was a giant red flag,
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obviously. Since when do free speech platforms talk about trigger warnings to begin with?
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And indeed, after reviewing the film, as you might have seen, Twitter suddenly changed its mind,
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switched course. Instead of promising to promote the film, Twitter informed us that they would
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dramatically restrict its reach. They labeled it as a hateful content. And they were going to make it as
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hard as possible to find without outright banning it. So all the shadow bans that we heard about in
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the past under the old regime, and we were told the shadow bans were gone, were now being told by
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Twitter that they will do that to this film when we post it. Because it is hate speech, they said.
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They would ensure that it would not appear in people's feeds. The algorithm would crush it
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completely. We were told by Twitter that that is what they're going to do. Now, how could that be,
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we asked? What hateful content were they talking about exactly? What's the hateful part of the film?
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I mean, I made the movie. I'm in it. I don't remember any hateful content. Twitter directed us
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to two clips in particular from What is a Woman that they said are hateful content. And because of
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these segments of the film, it becomes hate speech, and they're going to restrict its reach
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on the platform. Now, I'm going to show you both of these clips because it's hard to believe that
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they're really saying this. It's hard to believe anyway if you took their new commitment to free
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speech seriously. If you took that seriously, then this will be shocking to you. In the first clip,
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a father in Canada tells us that he was arrested and he was fined $30,000. His crime was referring to
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his 14-year-old daughter as a she. The father tried to prevent doctors from pumping his daughter full of
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hormones and tried to protect his daughter from mutilation and butchery. So the Canadian government
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destroyed his life. And now Twitter is calling this father hateful, and they're saying that you
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shouldn't hear what he has to say because of this clip, which we will play right now. Listen.
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Hello? Hey, is this? This is, yes. Hey, it's Matt Walsh. Are you, where are you right now? I'm in
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada right now. Are you, can, are you able to leave? I'm not able to
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leave BC. I can't even go to another province in Canada right now. And it's because I'm technically
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out on bail. What happened exactly? How exactly did, did this get into the courts to begin with?
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Right. So what happened is we set up a meeting with BC Children's Hospital. And according to the
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BC Children's Hospital website, there's going to be a thorough evaluation. And I'm thinking, good,
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this is going to be the end of it all. They're going to clearly see that my child is not the
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opposite sex. So my ex-wife brings my child into BC Children's Hospital. I get a call less than an hour
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into that appointment is that they were going to pump her full of cross-sex hormones within the
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hour. And I put a halt to that. I said, no. They agreed to stop for the moment. They figured, well,
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let's get the dad on board too. This is all going to be better. Let's just get everybody on the same
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page. I said, it's not going to happen. So I get a letter from BC Children's Hospital in December of
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2018. And it says that under the BC Infants Act, they will start injecting my child with cross-sex
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hormones. And I have two weeks to respond with legal action if I so choose. And so that's how I
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ended up in court because I didn't respond with legal action.
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So you called your daughter a she and you went to jail for that?
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It's considered criminal violence to not use the preferred pronouns. It is no different than,
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let's say, I were to take a broomstick and whack one of my kids over the head. So they were treating
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it in a similar fashion that misgendering, mispronouning my child was the equivalent of family
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She is. The court ordered that she could do whatever she wanted.
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Now, what happened to the man in that clip is becoming common in Canada. Fathers are now often
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required in a supposedly free country to stay quiet as doctors castrate their children.
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And that's exactly what these off-label hormones do. They sterilize girls and women.
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They cause all kinds of other problems too, including early onset osteoporosis.
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We spoke to one person in the documentary who experienced some truly horrible
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symptoms, but according to the court system in Canada, fathers have no right to protect their
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daughters from any of that. They want to shut those parents up. And now apparently Twitter agrees
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with the courts in Canada. By the way, that father has a sentencing hearing this week and may be on
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his way back to jail. Back to jail in a case that began with him simply wanting to raise his daughter
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as his daughter and refer to her as such. Began with a father not wanting his daughter to be
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sterilized. So I want you to think about what Twitter is doing here. They're not even accusing me of hate
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speech, right? They're actually accusing this father, a man who's already been arrested, tried,
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jailed, had his life destroyed. They're accusing him of committing hate speech against his own
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daughter simply because he acknowledges that she is a girl. Now that was one clip. There's another clip
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that Twitter objected to as well. This clip features the aforementioned shop owner, a Vietnam War veteran,
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who used biologically accurate pronouns in response to a trans activist who was accosting him in his
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store. And here's what that hateful content looks like. How long have you been running the shop here?
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25 years. Wow. Now you had an incident here a little while ago that went really viral online.
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Lots of reaction in the public. Aberdeen councilwoman Tiesa Meskis confronted owner Don
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Sucker about a sign he posted in his store. One day I just put the sign up over here and
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he came around the corner and I thought, okay, I recognize him. I says, oh, I recognize you.
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You're our new city councilman. He says, no, I'm your new city councilwoman. So it was,
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it was kind of on from there. You know what? It's . No, what you're spouting is . No,
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it's not. Trans women are women, sir. That sign is . I've been doing this 25 years.
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I've never had a problem with anybody, whether they're gay, trans, sex, anything. Now you're
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saying councilman, he, this individual was saying I'm a woman. Right. And you said you're not a woman.
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How do you know that that person's not a woman? How do I know? Yeah. Well, uh, common sense.
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Trans women are women. Doesn't, doesn't the science say that if someone identifies as a woman,
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then they are? No, no. Now that's completely bogus. I don't care if you think you're a sheepdog
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and you come into my store, it don't matter to me. Just don't come in and try to shove that
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down my throat. If it makes someone feel better, what about their, their feelings? I don't give a
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about their feelings. I'm old. What about in the Star Wars universe? Jar Jar Binks? Pansexual,
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do you think? Transgender? Um, why would I, why would I even care? It's, if it's his truth.
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Well, it ain't true. You're not a scientist. You're not a gender studies major. Or are you?
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No. Okay. How do you know that you're a man? How do I know that I'm a, I guess because I got a
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well, I guess Don isn't overthinking it. He admits he's not a gender studies major
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or at the very least a doctor. Now, not that this really matters, but how many Americans in
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this country do you think agree with that store owner? If you ran a poll and said, can men transform
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into women in an instant? What results do you think you'd get? Now I asked a poll that says,
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can men become women? That's the question. Not a poll that asks, do you believe in gender
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affirming care? When most people have no idea what that means. If you phrase it simply to people,
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so they understand the question, well, what kind of results do you think you'd get? Of course,
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most people would agree with the store owner. The only difference is that most Americans are too
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afraid to be honest about it because of exactly what happened to that store owner. Store owner was not
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honest, was, was, was not afraid to be honest. So a mob of activists tried to ruin his life.
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And now Twitter is once again, trying to silence him. And I have to continue to emphasize
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what makes this so egregious is that it's not simply speech. Okay. It's not that the Star Wars
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shop owner, Don Sucker, it's not that they were, that he was just giving his opinion about something.
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This is not his opinion. It's bad enough to silence people who are giving their opinions. We should have a
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society and we should have big tech platforms where you can have an opinion. You can have any
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opinion about anything and you can voice that opinion. If other people don't like it, they can
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voice their opinions. Then you have a, you have a debate about it. That's the way it's supposed to
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work in a free society. But my point is that this is not his opinion. This is just the truth.
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And so, yes, they're suppressing free speech, but more importantly, they are suppressing the truth.
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Now we reached out to Twitter about their objection to these clips. We've had,
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we've had extensive conversations with them. In fact, behind the scenes about this.
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So that's the other thing you need to know is that on Twitter's end, this is not some algorithmic
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glitch. Okay. This is a very intentional decision on their part. When they told us that they're going
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to suppress it and label it hate speech, this was a decision that was made. We know that because we
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talked to them. And when we talked to them, they said that it's, that it, that it's violates their
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misgendering policy. Now we asked them, didn't Twitter remove its misgendering policy? Because
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it was a misnomer. You know, misgendering just means you're correctly gendering someone.
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Didn't they allow Twitter users to once again refer to others with accurate pronouns instead of
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inaccurate ones? They did take that language off of their policy. That happened recently.
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But Twitter told us that actually misgendering is still considered abuse and harassment on the
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platform. And they just, they just don't specify it anymore. So they asked us to edit our film to
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comply with this new rule, this new unspoken rule against using accurate pronouns. And of course we
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refused. We're not going to do that. I mean, obviously we're not going to do that, which means
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that the daily wire is still going to distribute what is a woman tonight, starting at 8 PM Eastern.
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We're going to make it available on Twitter for everyone to see for free. It's going to stream
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tonight at 8 PM Eastern. It'll be available thereafter for 24 hours. Whether Twitter will
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let you see it or not, that's what remains unclear. You know, whether they actually tag it with the hate
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speech label and suppress it, that's the part that we're going to find out. This is a documentary that
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more than a year after its release is still being suppressed. I mean, think about that a year later
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and they're still suppressing it. They are still terrified of this movie. They do not want you to
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see it. The reason for that is obvious. They know that it's effective. They know that they can't answer
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even the most basic questions about their ideology. And that's the reason that sane people aren't calling
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for, you know, bans on trans activists, by the way. We're not returning the favor. When Elon Musk took
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over Twitter, we weren't saying ban all the trans activists. We aren't, we're not trying to kick them
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off of the platforms and silence them. On the contrary, we want to debate them. We want them
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to speak. We want them to be able to speak. We want, we want us to be able to speak. We want you to hear
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the contrast. In fact, that's one of the great ironies of this whole thing. Twitter's attempt to
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suppress us, all the other censorship that we faced. What makes it so ironic is that for most of the film,
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we allow the trans activist side to speak. They're constantly complaining. Let us speak. Let our
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voices be heard. And this movie is us saying, okay, here you go. Hey, the stage is yours. Let's hear
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your side. Most of the movie consists of them speaking. We give them the floor. We give them
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the camera and the microphone because we want people to hear them. We want their ideology to be fully
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exposed. And if that ideology is going to hang, we want it to hang itself. And we want you to see
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it hanging itself. And it did. And that's the main reason why they hate this movie so much.
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Because we didn't go around arguing with them and yelling at them. We just asked them questions and
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said, here you go. Tell us all about your position. And they humiliated themselves. All the supposed
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experts, the doctors, the doctors, all these people that were told, trust the experts. Well,
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we went to the experts. We put cameras in front of their faces. And we said, okay, experts, give us
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your spiel. And they came off like idiots and maniacs. That's not our fault. That's on them.
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If Twitter's ever going to be a free speech platform, which Elon Musk says he badly wants it to be,
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then these people cannot be allowed to suppress speech. Twitter likes to throw out the freedom
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of speech is not freedom of reach argument, but that's a cowardly dodge. It's no different than
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Idi Amin's famous quote, there's freedom of speech, he said, but I can't guarantee freedom after speech.
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Now, there's still time for Twitter to reverse this decision. If it wants to be a free speech platform,
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it must reverse this decision. This is a time for choosing. Twitter has to pick a side. Everyone has
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to pick a side. Either you are fully on the side of sanity and freedom and common sense, or you are
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against it. You got to choose. It is one or the other. There's no middle ground. One or the other. It's
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always been that way. Now, as for us, in the meantime, no matter what happens, we are not going to
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self-censor, and we are definitely not going to bow to the censors in Silicon Valley. We hope you'll
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watch the film tonight at 8 p.m., introduce it to as many people as you can, watch it, share it,
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make sure people see it. And we hope you'll continue to check The Daily Wire and its Twitter feeds and
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everything we're doing throughout Pride Month, because we have a lot planned. And if Twitter's
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actions this week tell us anything, it's that this fight is, if anything, even more important today
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than it was a year ago. It also shows that we are winning. We are winning. And they are scared.
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And that's why they try to silence us. But we will not be silenced, no matter what.
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Picture, if you will, the perfect summer night, the warm breeze on your face as you lounge
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in your favorite chair outside, the grill sizzling with juicy burgers, the aroma of the food is
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irresistible. Your mouth waters as you wait for it to be cooked to perfection. Now imagine what this
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reports. By the end of the day Tuesday, the plummet in target share prices reached the longest losing
00:24:21.180
streak the chain has suffered in almost five years. Target share prices have fallen for eight straight
00:24:26.800
days, plunging another 3.66% on Tuesday, reaching $133 as the store has lost a staggering $12 billion
00:24:36.220
in market value in the last 14 days. And this is all in the wake of the consumer boycott triggered
00:24:43.100
by its LGBTQ merchandise. Target CEO Brian Cornell stated to employees last week, quote,
00:24:49.080
while you've seen in recent days went well beyond discomfort, it's been gut-wrenching to see what
00:24:52.640
you've confronted in our aisles. And that was him, you know, trying to make themselves the victim of
00:24:58.080
this, the victim of their own choices and their own behavior and their own decision to push the LGBT
00:25:04.960
stuff and the trans stuff on kids. And now they are, they're suffering the consequences of this.
00:25:12.180
I mean, this is, look, the Bud Light boycott was a really big deal because it was the first.
00:25:18.820
And because it was a, you know, because of the symbolic nature of it. And that's the argument
00:25:26.540
that, as you know, I made all along. It's not just about Bud Light, it's the symbolism here.
00:25:32.900
Okay. Basically, we take Bud Light and we put its head on a pike, okay, on the, you know,
00:25:41.380
at the entrance of the town to show the other woke corporations, this is what we can do.
00:25:47.380
This is what, this, we can actually do this to you. We can, we can destroy you.
00:25:54.040
And if you show contempt for us, as you have for so many years, and you spit in our face,
00:25:59.800
and you, you, you try to shove this stuff in our face and in our kids' faces,
00:26:05.400
this is what we'll do to you. So that, that was the great significance of the target,
00:26:08.940
of the Bud Light boycott, rather. Target boycott also has incredible symbolic significance,
00:26:15.660
but then, but it's on top of that, just the, the, the fact that, you know, a company like this,
00:26:22.820
Bud Light is one thing, it's a big victory, but Bud Light is a product, just one product,
00:26:29.780
easily replaced by any, many other products that taste just as bad as it, or just as cheap.
00:26:35.260
Um, target, different deal though. You know, target is, um, is a much bigger fish to fry.
00:26:43.380
And the fact that they've sustained this kind of damage this quickly is, uh, I mean, it, it, it,
00:26:50.540
it would be hard to overstate the significance of it. Now, just like we said with Bud Light,
00:26:56.620
it only really matters if we sustain it. So if conservatives are happy with this and they say,
00:27:03.420
well, we got the purely symbolic victory and now we'll go back to shopping at Target again.
00:27:08.560
You know, if we do that, then it doesn't really mean anything. In fact, the symbolism at that
00:27:11.480
point works against us because then the woke corporations can see that, okay, yeah, if you do
00:27:15.960
the woke stuff, uh, you'll upset them for a few weeks and they'll be mad about it. And, you know,
00:27:20.160
maybe they won't shop their free fees, but they'll, they'll always come back. That's the message that
00:27:25.560
we would send. Um, but I feel pretty confident. I think it's different. Things are just different
00:27:34.340
now. Um, and I don't, I think there are a lot of people and I've talked to many, uh, many people
00:27:41.300
in this boat, just normal people with families, you know, moms and dads talk to many of them and
00:27:47.460
say, we're just done with Target. We're not going back to Target. Okay. For, for a lot of families,
00:27:52.700
it's like Target is very much a part of the weekly routine. You end up going to Target once or twice
00:27:56.960
a week. Um, but then when you say, okay, I'm cutting Target out, we're going to figure out how
00:28:01.880
to live without Target. You discover pretty quickly that, okay, yeah, it's actually pretty easy to,
00:28:06.480
well, we don't need Target. We can place other places we can go. And once people figure that out,
00:28:12.740
that they don't really need you, um, then you're in trouble. And Target has also sustained the kind
00:28:19.480
of brand damage that Bud Light sustained. Now, I think for a lot of people, they wouldn't want to
00:28:27.460
be seen walking into a Target. Uh, you wouldn't want to be seen carrying Target bags around.
00:28:35.440
I mean, to be, to be, to be seen walking out of a Target, carrying the Target bag with the Target
00:28:39.320
symbol. Uh, it's like, you're a groomer too. That's the kind of branding. It's embarrassing.
00:28:44.560
It's humiliating. And, uh, I think that kind of branding has set in and that's a,
00:28:50.200
that's a major problem for Target. Hard to recover from that. So things are different now.
00:28:57.540
Um, and they're different for a lot of reasons. One of them is just sheer exhaustion.
00:29:02.940
After a while, people get fed up and the LGBT activists, they've been running roughshod over
00:29:10.860
the culture for years and they've been getting everything they want and getting more bold about
00:29:18.440
it and more outlandish and more egregious and more grotesque. Uh, and they keep pushing it and
00:29:27.320
keep pushing it and keep pushing it. And then eventually people say, I mean, even a lot of the
00:29:32.020
people that went along with it because they were too afraid or they didn't care, they were like,
00:29:35.600
you know, they were, they were, uh, uh, apathetic about it. Many of them are now saying, this is
00:29:42.640
too much. I'm, I'm sick of it. I'm tired of it. I'm exhausted with it. Just stop, leave us alone.
00:29:49.640
And the thing is, once the back, once people get sick of it, you know, they don't really,
00:29:54.320
they don't end up drawing the line at the most recent, most egregious thing that you did.
00:29:58.780
They draw it all the way back at the beginning and they say, we don't want any of this. Just
00:30:02.460
leave us alone. Get it all out of here. Which is why now there's an attitude by many people on the
00:30:09.340
right that, um, yeah, we don't want, uh, anything that promotes gender ideology or transgenderism to
00:30:16.640
kids. We don't want the really super, uh, extreme stuff, satanic merchandise for kids. We don't want
00:30:23.420
that. We also, you know what we're saying now? We don't even, we don't want pride flags at all.
00:30:27.740
We don't, don't even, we don't even want to see the pride flag. We don't want any of it.
00:30:32.680
That's what many on the right are saying. And I'm glad they are.
00:30:35.960
I mean, I, that's where I've been all along, but, uh, I'm glad that, um,
00:30:40.360
this is becoming the mainstream view on the right. And you know whose fault it is. I mean,
00:30:46.040
it's all their fault. If you're an LGBT activist and you're feeling very persecuted by this
00:30:50.280
and you're saying, what happened? Now we can't even fly a pride flag without you. Well,
00:30:55.460
yeah, it's your fault. Yeah. You couldn't, if you had, uh, just stopped at like where you were
00:31:02.720
at say in say the year 2017. Okay. If you had stopped there and you said, okay, we've basically
00:31:08.820
won and you just stopped, then probably none of this would happen, but you kept going and you kept
00:31:15.180
pushing and now you're reaping the consequences of that. And I'm so glad that you are, uh, more
00:31:22.600
evidence of the consequences. Newsweek has this report, an anti-target song topped the iTunes sales
00:31:28.600
chart on Tuesday, prompting cheers from conservatives despite negligible performance on streaming apps
00:31:32.880
like Spotify. Okay. So they're always, I don't know why I'm bringing the Newsweek article about
00:31:36.100
this. So the real story is that this is an anti-target rap song that is the number one song on all of
00:31:44.220
iTunes. And of course, Newsweek tries to say, well, it's the number one on iTunes, but, uh, but it's
00:31:48.220
not streaming as much on Spotify. You know, yeah, that's, that's cope. The fact is that this is a,
00:31:54.780
this is a, a rap song calling target, accusing target of grooming kids, accusing them because
00:32:01.940
that's what they're doing. And it's the number one song on iTunes. Let's, uh, let's listen to that
00:32:07.100
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Tengenal shoppers. Tengenal shoppers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's a cleanup on
00:32:12.920
every aisle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Target is targeting your kids. Yeah. They put a target on
00:32:20.520
my back, but they target in your kids. They don't even need to ask cause you all know what it is.
00:32:25.760
Yeah. That's why I keep a strap and I'm always by my bed. This agenda gotta stop. Yeah. You know,
00:32:30.900
we gonna win when they target target. Yeah. They target and target target. Yeah. They target
00:32:37.920
kids. Target target. Yeah. They target and target target. Yeah. They target. There's a little clip
00:32:44.500
of that. That's the anti-target song. I love the fact that they recorded this in a target. I don't
00:32:49.660
know how that, you know, every time I see these, uh, where it's a music video or you see this with
00:32:54.560
TikTok videos a lot where they go into these stores and they record big musical numbers. And, um,
00:32:59.760
I don't know how, like, how do you even, well, I was going to ask, how do you get away with that?
00:33:03.660
But then again, like you can go into these stores and just fill your cart with merchandise and not
00:33:08.860
pay for it. You can go into these stores with a, with a, with a black plastic trash bag and fill
00:33:15.040
it with merchandise and walk out and they're not going to stop you. So I guess, yeah, you can record a
00:33:18.480
music video. So I love the fact that they went to a target to record an anti-target music video and
00:33:23.860
nobody stopped them. Uh, and that's fantastic, but this shows how far reaching this is. This is not
00:33:29.680
just a Twitter phenomenon. Um, you know, the dip in the, in the stock price and the sales and the,
00:33:37.360
the dip in sales and all that obviously shows that as well. But, um, this shows that this is a,
00:33:42.040
this is a cultural phenomenon and the real terrifying reality for the left is that on the right,
00:33:51.060
we figured out how to move these things from Twitter and social media and the podcast world
00:33:58.080
into the quote unquote real world. That's always been the key. You know, we've always been able to
00:34:05.640
talk about these things on podcasts and get a lot of attention that way. Uh, talk about it on social
00:34:10.720
media, as long as a big tech, you know, even working around censorship from big tech. So we've always
00:34:17.680
been able to do that. But then the, uh, the disconnect was how do you take it? You take something
00:34:22.280
that among conservatives is a big deal, you know, in that space and the kind of cyber bubble. How do
00:34:28.120
you take it from there and bring it out to the, to the rest of the world, to the physical world?
00:34:34.920
And what the left is seeing is that we're starting to figure out that formula and they are, they're
00:34:39.940
very frightened by that and they should be. All right, let's move to this. You know, we know that
00:34:47.360
safe, legal, and rare, um, the, those days of the pro-abortion movement are long, long gone, long since
00:34:53.940
gone. And every day we get more evidence of that, including this new video from Planned Parenthood.
00:35:01.300
Hi. Hi, my name is Lucky. I've had an abortion and I get gender affirming care from Planned Parenthood.
00:35:08.940
I wound up in a very, very difficult relationship. And within three months, I found out that I was
00:35:15.720
pregnant. I was like, Oh, no. My abortion was one of the greatest acts of compassion I had ever committed.
00:35:27.140
It was an easy decision. And it was a decision that for the friends I had told I was trans, they were like,
00:35:33.720
get it. You know, that's fine. Like, great. You know, that's your decision. You want to finally begin your life.
00:35:42.140
And it was just one of the best decisions I had ever made, ever in my life. I wish that more people
00:35:53.660
understood that abortion is healthcare, plain and simple. It's important to talk about abortion in a
00:36:02.120
healthcare setting because I think that when we don't, we see abortion as this very, very uncommon,
00:36:08.660
isolated thing. And it's not. It needs to be shared and it needs to be out there, just like any other thing that
00:36:17.500
people go through. I tell my abortion story because people need to understand that it's not just a women's
00:36:29.140
Okay. Abortion is not a women's rights issue. Well, that's news to the feminists.
00:36:38.760
You might want to let the feminists know about that because, of course, they've been saying for decades
00:36:42.580
that not only is a women's rights issue, but if you're not a woman, then you have no right to have
00:36:46.720
an opinion about it. And now, so those days are over. We know those days are over. As soon as we
00:36:52.700
get to the point where we can't define the word woman, as soon as the people who are making that claim,
00:36:56.960
well, you can't talk about this unless you're a woman. If they can't tell you what a woman is,
00:37:00.100
then that doesn't mean anything. So we already know that. But so this is just more, this is more
00:37:05.680
reinforcement of that claim. Every time you hear this from the pro-abortion activists,
00:37:13.020
especially the post-abortive pro-abortion activists, women, and that is a woman,
00:37:19.200
women who've had abortions and are now pro-abortion activists, and that's the case,
00:37:22.620
the vast majority of pro-abortion activists have had abortions themselves, and that's why they're
00:37:28.480
doing this. That's why they become activists, because they're trying to rationalize their own
00:37:34.480
choices. And anytime you hear them talk, it sounds exactly like conversations we've all had with other
00:37:41.320
people. Maybe not about abortion, but we've all been in conversations with other people
00:37:45.080
people where they're talking to us about something that they've done, you know, a decision that they
00:37:51.560
made, and they're explaining to us why it was good that they did this. And we can tell that they're
00:37:58.860
not really talking to us, right? You've had this conversation like this many times. The person you're
00:38:05.300
talking to, you can tell they're not really talking to you. They're talking to themselves. Everything
00:38:10.000
that they're saying, it's not to you. It's like, you might as well be a mirror. They are talking to
00:38:14.820
their own reflection. They're trying to convince themselves of what they are saying. And so it
00:38:20.640
becomes a mantra. And we find this on the left on nearly every issue, especially when it comes to
00:38:27.600
gender, when it comes to abortion. They have all these mantras that they repeat because they're
00:38:31.880
trying to convince themselves of something. Abortion is good. Abortion is good. I'm happy I got an
00:38:37.420
abortion. Abortion is compassionate. Trans women are women. Trans women are women. Trans women are women.
00:38:43.580
I mean, oftentimes you'll hear them literally just screaming the mantra over and over and over
00:38:49.400
again. Desperately trying to convince themselves of something that they don't even believe.
00:38:58.360
And that is always going to be the thing, one of the things that makes the debates about these
00:39:04.200
issues, oftentimes fruitless, if not impossible. It's because there's one side, you know, allegedly
00:39:12.180
you have two sides of an issue. One side believes one thing. One side believes the other. That's not
00:39:17.780
actually the case because one side doesn't really believe what they're saying. And so you're trying
00:39:23.280
to convince them of something. You're trying to persuade them away from a position that they don't
00:39:29.700
really hold. This woman, does she really believe that abortion is compassionate? What the hell does
00:39:36.120
that even mean? Compassionate by definition means it's something you're doing for someone else.
00:39:43.680
Okay, that's why the co, you have the co, co, co, passion, compassion. That's the etymology of the word
00:39:50.660
co-passion. And passion in this case, suffering. So it is, you are suffering, an actual compassionate act
00:39:57.580
is when you are suffering alongside someone. You're taking on their suffering. You're making
00:40:01.800
a sacrifice for someone. That's what compassion means. And so, abortion was the most compassionate
00:40:09.980
thing I've ever done. What that tells us, first of all, is that you are a narcissist. You're a
00:40:16.300
pathological narcissist that you apparently never engaged in any kind of compassion or selfless act
00:40:20.680
in your life if abortion was the most compassionate thing you've ever done. So if compassion means that
00:40:27.840
you are sacrificing something for someone else, so when you get an abortion, what are you sacrificing
00:40:35.700
and who are you sacrificing it for? You're sacrificing your child's life for him? You're sacrificing your
00:40:45.640
child's life for his sake? Taking his life away for his sake? You've decided that your child, well,
00:40:50.860
he doesn't need his life. He wouldn't want his life anyway. Well, take it away. I'm doing it for him.
00:40:56.640
You know, you could take the, and someone should really do this, the what is a woman strategy.
00:41:02.600
You could take that and apply it to the pro-abortion movement. There's a whole what is a woman type
00:41:06.360
film to be made about abortion. And you could structure it around what is a person, you know,
00:41:11.860
what is a human, what is a quote unquote fetus. Whatever question you structure it around doesn't
00:41:18.920
really matter. The main point is let these people speak. Ask them questions. Because what you'll find
00:41:26.560
is that they can't, they have mantras and they have slogans and that's all they have. They don't
00:41:30.660
have anything besides that. If you really dig in and you try to get them to elaborate, they'll fall apart.
00:41:38.520
So that woman can sit doing a Planned Parenthood propaganda video and she's talking to no one.
00:41:46.960
She's talking to a camera and she can say all these things and that's fine. But if you were in
00:41:51.560
the room with her and she was talking to you and you let her speak and she said, well, abortion is a
00:41:56.500
compassionate. If you simply said, well, what do you mean? How so? How's it compassionate?
00:42:02.900
Everything falls apart in that moment. She would not be able to explain what she means by that.
00:42:08.520
And if she did explain it, it would sound horrifying because she would actually have to say, well,
00:42:14.100
it's compassionate for the, for the, you know, for the, for the fetus, quote unquote.
00:42:21.220
Also compassionate, compassionate, killing someone is compassionate for them.
00:42:24.760
All these people can ever do is engage. It's like, all they have is very surface level.
00:42:32.260
They can only engage on the surface. If you go one inch beneath the surface, okay, if you dig in one
00:42:40.180
inch beneath the surface, what you find is horrifying and insane. Speaking of insane, we got to get to the
00:42:48.840
comment section. So we're going to cut the five headlines a little bit, a little bit shorter than
00:42:52.420
usual, but I did also want to mention this. A Washington DC area, this is from Yahoo News,
00:42:56.880
area activist wants anger management treatment for his attacker after he said he was brutally
00:43:01.380
beaten on the street for attempting to be a good Samaritan. Adam Theo, a veteran and a criminal
00:43:05.760
justice reform advocate and former independent candidate for the Arlington County board in North
00:43:09.220
Virginia, tweeted photos of the cuts and bruises to his neck and face. And they said that he incurred
00:43:14.780
when he tried to intervene in a public domestic dispute in Clarendon on Memorial Day weekend.
00:43:23.720
This evening when walking home, I passed a young guy arguing with, I presume his girlfriend.
00:43:27.240
He starts getting violent with her, pushing around, trying to rip off her clothes. I intervened
00:43:31.380
and got the S beat out of me. I lost count after punch number six. His girlfriend pulled him back
00:43:36.400
long enough for me to stumble away, but not far enough as he broke away from her and went for
00:43:40.120
another series of blows. About 15 in total, I think. Samaritans came to aid and called 911 with the guy
00:43:46.080
dragging the woman away screaming. Last I heard while sitting in Virginia Hospital Center,
00:43:49.360
he'd not yet been caught. Assuming Arlington PD catches him, I want to pursue restorative justice.
00:43:58.200
I want programs to deal with such anger and possibly substance abuse. Jail doesn't fix people. It
00:44:03.300
releases problems back into society even worse than they went in. So he's remaining committed to this.
00:44:11.600
Some people have said, even begrudgingly, I've seen some conservatives say, well, you got to
00:44:15.080
respect, but at least he's being consistent. And he's assaulted and he's, he, even he is saying,
00:44:19.720
well, let's just do, we need restorative justice for the person who assaults me. I don't respect it
00:44:23.580
at all. I mean, it's, this is absolutely pathetic. This is someone who, um, is, is so depraved in his
00:44:31.460
thinking that even after he's, okay, he watches a woman get assaulted and her clothes are being ripped
00:44:37.640
off and he steps in. So he's good for stepping in and he gets assaulted and he still can't bring
00:44:44.300
himself to say, yes, this is someone who needs to go to prison. Now he's actually, he's correct that
00:44:50.160
jail isn't going to fix people. Oftentimes it doesn't. I mean, it can, there are people who actually
00:44:56.860
reform themselves in jail, but, uh, it doesn't necessarily work that way. And in many cases it
00:45:01.440
doesn't, and it releases problems back into society. So what's a way to fix that? I mean,
00:45:08.000
there, there, there, so there are two ways that we can respond to that. If it's true that when you
00:45:11.500
take a violent, uh, degenerate person, you put them in jail, uh, and then you release them from jail,
00:45:16.200
they're going to be even worse than they went in and you're releasing a problem back into society.
00:45:19.520
There are two ways of responding to that. One is to say, well, let's not put them in jail at all.
00:45:25.580
And let's keep the problem in society. Let's not even try to do anything about it.
00:45:29.760
The other potential response is, is to say, well, okay, well then let's not release them back into
00:45:36.600
society. Let's keep them in jail. Let's potentially keep them in jail forever. And if the crime is
00:45:45.600
egregious enough, um, let's release them from jail in a coffin because we execute them.
00:45:52.600
That's the other way of responding. And I think that makes a lot more sense.
00:45:55.100
This idea is, well, we need to, it's, he needs to work on his anger issues. What is that? What do you
00:46:02.240
mean work on his anger issues? Do you think this person doesn't know that you aren't supposed to
00:46:08.300
brutalize and beat up women and try to rip their clothes off and then beat up a random stranger who
00:46:12.040
tries to stop you? He doesn't know that you think he just needs a counseling. So someone can inform
00:46:17.480
him. Hey, you know, you're not supposed to do that. Oh, really? I'm not. Why is it? No idea.
00:46:23.560
Or do you think he's an animal and that needs training? He's not a human being.
00:46:29.700
That's probably what you think. Now in reality, here's, here's the thing.
00:46:33.660
This is a, the man who was doing that is a man, a human making a conscious choice. He's choosing to
00:46:45.920
act that way and be that kind of person. He's aware that he shouldn't. He's capable of not acting
00:46:51.980
that way. He could make another choice, but he is choosing to act that way. This is a, this is a
00:46:59.840
moral decision that he has made. And when you start thinking of it like that, you realize that,
00:47:05.360
okay, this is a problem that goes a lot deeper than working on your anger issues.
00:47:10.620
Like this is someone who's corrupted down to their soul, that they would make choices like this.
00:47:16.840
And when you have someone corrupted down to their soul, down to that level, what, what can you do
00:47:20.180
with them? Well, you put them in prison, you put them in a cage and you keep them there for a long
00:47:24.440
time. That's the solution. Maybe, you know, I say it's a solution might not be a solution for them.
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It's not, it's no guarantee that it's going to make them a better person, but it's a solution for
00:47:35.080
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slash discuss star. Barbara says, I'm so sick of both sides of this. Can't we all just bloody get
00:48:22.980
along and live? Um, no, Barbara, we cannot, we cannot all simply get along. Um, it would be nice
00:48:31.960
if we could, but that's not the reality. And it's also a cop out to say you're sick of both sides of
00:48:38.480
this. No, it's you've got, you've got one side responding to the actions of the other. I think
00:48:48.200
you were, you were, uh, in particular responding to, um, you know, the subject of the grooming of
00:48:55.600
kids and the promoting of all this degeneracy. Well, you've got one side doing that. And then the
00:48:59.680
other side saying, stop doing that. So when you say you're sick of both sides, what does that mean?
00:49:04.360
Well, no, we can't, we can't get along as long as this kind of evil is being perpetrated.
00:49:11.020
Get along means, uh, ignore that it's happening. See, you can't get along as I'm always trying to
00:49:18.160
explain, um, unity in a, in a, in a country. I mean, I would like to have unity. I would love to
00:49:24.380
have that. If I could flip a switch and magically make a unified country appear out of thin air,
00:49:30.100
I would, I would do it. I would flip that switch for sure. But the problem is that you can't have
00:49:37.340
unity unless you are unified around something. Unity for unity's sake doesn't, isn't real.
00:49:45.140
Okay. Like if you go up to somebody on, on, on the street, some random stranger and you say,
00:49:50.020
Hey, let's be unified. Let's be unified. What's the first question they're going to ask you?
00:49:54.980
They're going to say, what do you mean? Unified for what? They're going to say unified for what?
00:49:59.060
What do you mean? For what reason? What do you mean? What are we, what are we, what are we being
00:50:02.120
unified around? I'm not just going to agree sight unseen to be unified with you in some sort of
00:50:07.620
effort unless I know what the effort is. Um, and that's the case in the country and the culture
00:50:15.700
that in order to be unified, we need to be united around something. I mean, there needs to be some
00:50:20.780
underlying principle, uh, some commonality that we are united around. And when it comes to the culture
00:50:28.300
war, yeah, there can be unity, but it's going to be unity on one side of the other. Unity will come
00:50:32.920
when one side loses and all the stragglers surrender to the other side. That's the only way that unity
00:50:38.760
happens because the divide, the chasm between the two is too deep and too wide. Like there's no
00:50:46.600
middle ground there. So it's just one side of the other wins or everybody loses and civilization
00:50:53.680
collapse, collapses, you know, that, you know, there could be some unity in that as well. So those,
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those really are the three options. Um, it's not very fun to think about, but that's it.
00:51:02.800
Uh, another comment says Anthony Bass is also the husband of the pregnant wife popcorn incident on
00:51:07.680
American airlines a few weeks ago. I knew I'd recognize his name somewhere. So that was it.
00:51:11.760
I, you know, as we were talking about Anthony Bass, I, I, I, I felt as if we had recently talked
00:51:18.080
about him for something else and I couldn't remember what it was, but yeah, that was it. So he was the guy,
00:51:22.440
his wife was, was on a plane with their child and they fed their child popcorn, which is a terrible
00:51:29.980
mistake in the first place to get your children popcorn out in public somewhere, unless you're in
00:51:33.540
a movie theater because nobody cares if movie theaters are, are gross and disgusting and
00:51:36.860
destroyed. Uh, and the child left the popcorn debris all over the plane and the flight attendant
00:51:44.640
asked the, the mom to pick it up and she was traumatized by that. So that's Anthony Bass.
00:51:50.100
Now it all sort of makes sense. And we're just going to skip finally this, this comment. I thought
00:51:55.420
it was important. Matt, can you do a fast food tier list? That would be a great watch.
00:52:01.160
I can. And thank you for that question. Um, so fast food tears, right? Well, not tears,
00:52:06.220
but I could do a ranking. And the first thing to keep in mind is that when we want to rank fast food,
00:52:10.800
a lot of people get this wrong, but you want to separate fast food from fast casual. Big mistake
00:52:15.020
people often make in the fast food ranking game is to, uh, is to include fast casual places in the
00:52:22.140
fast food category, which isn't really fair because obviously five guys would win. It'd be the number
00:52:27.760
one fast food place, but it's not really fast food. It's fast casual. Uh, Panera bread is, you know,
00:52:32.340
fast casual, not fast food. Although Panera bread is disgusting. Chipotle, you know, not in it. So I'm
00:52:37.720
taking fast casual out of it. I'm also taking sub shops out of it for including sub shops. Jersey
00:52:43.860
bikes would be number one, but I'm not including them and they're out of it. And then we're left
00:52:49.600
with kind of like your standard drive through fast food chains. And here's the top three counting down
00:52:55.620
from a three to one, three is McDonald's and it's a classic. Um, it's a staple, relatively reliable.
00:53:03.020
I didn't say it's good. It's relatively reliable. You know what you're going to get. It's more reliable
00:53:06.940
than, uh, than the Burger King. It's also better than Burger King. And the other reason that I put,
00:53:11.040
uh, that I put McDonald's in the top three is that it still has the best breakfast.
00:53:15.120
Nobody has managed to beat the sausage McMuffin. Um, it still remains, it still reigns as the king of,
00:53:21.580
of fast food breakfast. So McDonald's is number three. Number two is Chick-fil-A.
00:53:28.160
Putting all the wokeness aside, just judging based on the food. It is number two. Um, and number one,
00:53:33.240
and this is the thing that people often get the most wrong. Number one is Arby's. Arby's is
00:53:39.420
the best fast food place. Hands down. They have the best fries. Um, I'll take their roast beef sandwich
00:53:45.340
over any of the fast food burger options. And it's not really up for debate. So that's it.
00:53:52.220
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The public school system gets a lot of criticism for grooming and indoctrinating children. And for
00:54:49.400
good reason. It's guilty on both counts. But perhaps the greatest problem, the greatest problem
00:54:53.760
of the public school system, one certainly not unrelated to the first two issues that I just
00:54:58.940
mentioned, is that it makes people dumber. You know, Americans are actually becoming dumber over
00:55:03.560
time. This has been objectively observed. And the public school system is largely to blame for this
00:55:08.100
intellectual decline. It must be to blame for it. It is the education system. It is the system we have
00:55:12.040
come up with to educate people en masse. And if people are getting dumber, that is always going to be
00:55:17.980
an indictment first and foremost on that education system. This week provides us with an example,
00:55:23.680
another example to illustrate the entire scope of this problem, indoctrination, intellectual decline,
00:55:30.460
and how the two are linked. So this comes to us from a group called the Skeptic Research Team,
00:55:36.020
which published a report that begins with this introduction, quote, for decades in the U.S. and
00:55:41.340
particularly in the last few years, journalists and intellectuals have suggested that white people
00:55:45.520
are socially or morally deviant. Time Magazine, for example, published the claim that white
00:55:50.040
supremacy is the foundational principle of the culture in the U.S., preventing non-whites from
00:55:55.040
having perfect hair, perfect clothes, perfect grades, or regarded as a perfect employee and colleague.
00:56:00.120
In 2020, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture claimed
00:56:03.860
rational thinking and hard work are white supremacist ideals that oppress non-white people.
00:56:09.140
In a recent opinion editorial, Savala Nolan, the executive director of the Center for Social Justice at
00:56:13.600
UC Berkeley School of Law, said, white people disappoint me. They frustrate me. They make
00:56:18.400
me sad. Meanwhile, books describing the immorality of white people, such as caste,
00:56:23.400
how to be an anti-racist, and white fragility have all soared to the top of the New York Times bestseller
00:56:27.040
list. Given these opinions, in this report we ask, what does the public really think about the
00:56:32.580
apparent immorality of white people? So that's what they're trying to explore. And to come up with an
00:56:38.660
answer to that question, they conducted a study and they asked respondents a series of questions.
00:56:44.000
The answers to all of the questions were quite concerning, but I just want to focus on one.
00:56:48.760
This is one of the questions they asked. They asked various groups of people how much they agree
00:56:54.020
with the following statement. And the statement is this. Prior to the arrival of the European settlers,
00:57:00.680
Native American slash indigenous tribes lived in peace and harmony. That was the statement.
00:57:07.380
Let's see how the answers break down along various demographic lines. The majority of those who
00:57:12.820
self-identified as liberals agreed with this statement. 71% of those who call themselves
00:57:17.800
very liberal agreed with it. 59% of political moderates agreed to some extent with the statement
00:57:24.180
that Native tribes lived in peace and harmony. While even self-identified conservatives and even
00:57:29.240
very conservative people agreed at a rate of nearly 50%. You look at the question along racial lines,
00:57:35.120
we see that 75% of black respondents agreed with 20% strongly agreeing. 63% of Hispanics agreed along with
00:57:42.440
45% of whites. The generational breakdown gives us similar percentages. Gen Z agreed at a rate of 71%.
00:57:49.920
For millennials, for millennials, it's 65%. Gen X, it's 57%. And boomers was 41%. So all in all, we see that
00:57:58.200
huge percentages of Americans believe that the tribal people who lived here before first contact with
00:58:04.820
Europeans were angelic, peaceful creatures who did not know war or strife or violence. This entire
00:58:13.180
hemisphere was a place of love and peace and kindness. And all the tribes sat together around the fire,
00:58:19.020
holding hands and singing songs of togetherness. Basically, these people think that Disney's
00:58:24.780
Pocahontas was a documentary. They probably even believe that the natives could talk to trees and
00:58:29.540
animals. That appears to be the prevailing point of view, thanks in large part to the public school
00:58:37.040
system, because this is what the public school system basically teaches. Now, what can we say about
00:58:42.440
all this? Well, first, we must say that these people are wrong for the record. Stupendously
00:58:47.980
breathtakingly wrong. I shouldn't need to clarify or explain this, but apparently I do. Native tribes
00:58:55.380
did not live in harmony, and they certainly didn't live in peace, unless we're spelling peace,
00:59:01.200
P-I-E-C-E. I mean, they did live or at least die in pieces after getting hacked apart, dismembered,
00:59:07.620
scalped by their enemies. So if you mean peace in that sense, you would be sort of correct, but that's
00:59:12.920
not what it's meant in this context. These poll respondents think that native tribes existed in a
00:59:18.600
state of perfect kinship and tranquility. If they had a disagreement, they would resolve it, I suppose,
00:59:23.780
with sternly worded letters, which actually wouldn't have been possible anyway, because native tribes
00:59:28.400
never invented a written language, or the wheel for that matter. And there wasn't much kinship or
00:59:33.060
tranquility either. On the contrary, these tribes existed in a state of constant warfare. They fought
00:59:38.540
all the time. They didn't just have wars. They had a war and then a period of relative peace. It didn't
00:59:45.460
work that way. Instead, they were always at war. They were always fighting. And this is an important
00:59:52.400
point, too. The fighting was more brutal, more barbaric, more deadly than the kind of warfare that
00:59:59.420
Europeans and other civilized people of the time engaged in. And here, I'm not just referring to the
01:00:04.500
fact that many native tribes scalped, dismembered, and sometimes ate their enemies, or the fact that
01:00:09.180
civilizations like the Aztecs captured prisoners by the thousands and then cut their still-beating
01:00:13.480
hearts out of their chests as human sacrifices. That's partly what I'm referring to, but that's
01:00:18.160
not the full story. The other thing that made tribal warfare so uniquely brutal, and this is something
01:00:22.900
that Lawrence Keighley explains in depth in his book, War Before Civilization, which is worth reading if
01:00:28.200
you haven't, is that tribes, they didn't fight pitched battles, okay? These were not formal engagements
01:00:36.140
on the battlefield, which especially at the time among European countries, that's what war meant.
01:00:43.480
Like they meet on a battlefield and they charge towards each other and they try to kill each other.
01:00:49.800
Among native tribes, instead, they sent raiding parties, and often at night, and simply slaughtered
01:00:58.700
entire tribes. There's no battle. It's just like they're going to show up in the middle of the night
01:01:03.880
and when the other side is not armed, not ready, and kill everybody. That's what they did.
01:01:09.700
Men who were captured would not be held as prisoners of war. They would be murdered on the spot or tortured
01:01:15.300
and then murdered. Women and children were often killed as well, or else they were taken as slaves.
01:01:20.940
And I'm not describing random, rare exceptions or isolated incidents here. This is how the native
01:01:25.720
tribes conducted themselves. It's what life was like for centuries all across the hemisphere
01:01:30.780
before Europeans made contact. It was a brutal, violent, bloodthirsty place.
01:01:38.180
Now, this is where the guilty, self-loathing modern American quickly responds,
01:01:41.940
oh, okay, but that doesn't excuse all the violence that white people committed against
01:01:45.840
indigenous people. But the point is not that we're making excuses. Although, in fact,
01:01:51.700
it does excuse at least some of the violence. Because the point is that the first settlers
01:01:56.740
that came here, they didn't all come with a sinister plan to wipe out the native inhabitants.
01:02:01.740
In many cases, they landed on these shores and they were met with violence,
01:02:06.080
which they then responded to in self-defense. And you also have to see it from, and I know that
01:02:12.740
we're not allowed to say this, if we could see it from their perspective, which is very hard to do
01:02:18.500
500 years later, but from their perspective, they land here, they encounter people in loincloths or
01:02:26.240
fully naked who don't have a written language, don't even have the wheel, are living 3,000 years in the
01:02:30.720
past from their perspective. And then they see brutality unlike anything they'd ever witnessed
01:02:37.960
in their lives or could even imagine. Okay, like, can you imagine actually seeing someone get their
01:02:45.000
heart cut out of their chest while they're still alive? And so put it, like, can you just try to
01:02:53.340
think of it from their perspective for a moment? They come here, they don't know what they're going
01:02:56.740
to get into, they don't know, you know, they don't know anything. It's like, they don't have the
01:02:59.500
internet. They show up, they encounter these people, these primitive people, they see barbarism,
01:03:07.560
cannibalism, hearts being ripped out of chest, dismemberment, scalping, and they arrive at certain
01:03:14.840
conclusions about the people that they see doing this. Conclusions that, are we going to say,
01:03:20.840
were totally unreasonable? One of the conclusions that they arrive at is that,
01:03:26.240
well, we need to be, these people are a threat to us. Is that an unreasonable conclusion from
01:03:34.100
their perspective 500 years ago? Well, this is not simply about assigning blame. That's not the
01:03:40.140
question. More importantly, this is about understanding history, not just understanding
01:03:43.280
one historical event, but understanding history in general, understanding the history of the world
01:03:47.420
and of humanity. The people who believe in the noble savage myth are confused about that period of
01:03:53.460
history. They're blinded by their white guilt or their hatred of white people. But what's perhaps
01:03:57.480
even more troubling is that they have apparently no grasp on the general course of history, which
01:04:02.040
means they have no grasp on humanity, on human nature. And if they don't understand history and
01:04:07.180
they don't understand human nature, then they don't understand themselves. These people are clueless at the
01:04:12.760
deepest levels. In an effort to take all the sins of mankind, sins shared by all, and place them
01:04:18.800
entirely at the feet of the white man. They end up sanitizing history into oblivion. They neuter it.
01:04:24.620
They turn it into a cartoon. And while they demonize white people, in many ways, the non-whites fare
01:04:29.400
even worse. Because this cartoonish version of native culture, it may succeed in turning native people
01:04:34.620
into victims. But it also makes them boring and lame and devoid of any identity aside from their
01:04:41.040
victimhood. The truth is that native culture, and there wasn't one native culture, but hundreds,
01:04:46.240
these were warrior cultures. They were fierce and battle-hardened people. Yes, they engaged in the
01:04:52.360
most abhorrent kinds of brutality, but that doesn't make them all cartoon villains any more than Europeans
01:04:56.800
who also engaged in brutality were cartoon villains. They were simply people who lived in a different
01:05:01.920
time, governed by a very different set of rules, and who had very different assumptions and
01:05:07.940
presuppositions about the world. It is important to understand that if you want to understand anything
01:05:14.140
about history. And that is why the noble savage myth that so many Americans who've been mentally
01:05:19.640
corrupted by the school system, by the media, is today canceled. And that'll do it for the show
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