Trans Ideologues humiliated themselves during a congressional hearing on child-mutilation. Also, the fake controversy over Florida's curriculum about slavery continues, with Republicans jumping on the race-baiting dogpile. And a staggering number of Americans say they are not proud of their country. Does this make them unpatriotic? Not necessarily.
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Walsh Show, both sides of the trans debate had a chance to present their views during a congressional hearing on child mutilation this week.
00:00:06.340And once again, like every other time when the two views are allowed to be presented out in the open, the trans ideologues humiliated themselves.
00:00:12.740Also, the fake controversy over Florida's curriculum about slavery continues, with Republicans now jumping on the race-baiting dogpile.
00:00:19.640And a staggering number of Americans say that they are not proud of their country.
00:00:26.200In our daily cancellation, there has been yet another high-profile attempt to answer the great question of our time, what is a woman?
00:00:32.160And this one might be the most hilarious attempt yet.
00:00:34.660We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:47.700It used to be that if you wanted to hear a debate from both sides of a political issue, you had one option of last resort that was always available.
00:00:54.860You could turn on your TV and flip on a cable news channel.
00:00:57.940And for the most part, nothing you'd find would be particularly interesting, but at least they'd make an attempt at presenting a diversity of thoughts.
00:01:04.780CNN had Crossfire, and for a short period of time, they had Parker Spitzer.
00:01:10.660And for its part, MSNBC aired a program called The Cycle, which had at least one token Republican at all times.
00:01:16.000The point of all these shows was to present two neatly packaged opposing points of view side-by-side for mass consumption, and that was the business model.
00:01:25.020But somewhere along the line, all those networks canceled all of those shows and every show that resembled them in any way.
00:01:31.160They were replaced by productions that didn't even bother with the pretense of actual debate.
00:01:35.960And then coincidentally enough, a short time after that, you weren't allowed to have an open debate either.
00:01:41.620The largest social media companies on the planet, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, began the practice of content moderation, quote-unquote.
00:01:48.880If you had heterodox opinions about mass shootings or big pharma or national elections or gender or anything else, then you'd simply vanish, as surely as those cable news shows did.
00:01:59.420As always, these major changes occurred without any kind of real discussion or referendum or analysis of what effects it would have on civic life or on our democracy that you hear so much about.
00:02:11.020Even so, it's worth asking, what happens when the largest power centers in the country decide, seemingly on a whim, that debate is intolerable?
00:02:19.640What effect does this kind of thing have on day-to-day life in America?
00:02:22.820It's hard to say, honestly, but as of now, at least one of the consequences is obvious, if unexpected.
00:02:29.420And that is that hearings on Capitol Hill have become a lot more interesting.
00:02:34.100That's, you know, they're not just for C-SPAN addicts anymore.
00:02:36.920It turns out that Congress, for all its many, many, many faults, still permits, on occasion, every once in a while, two sides of an issue to talk in public at length.
00:02:47.860And there's no better way to find out the truth about something than that.
00:02:51.160The more people are allowed to advance an argument, followed by a rebuttal, the more that that argument's strength or its weaknesses become clear to everybody watching.
00:03:01.540That explains why trans activists and the politicians who support them are apoplectic about yesterday's hearing at the House Judiciary Committee.
00:03:08.300At the hearing, both sides of the so-called trans debate had the opportunity to discuss the issue.
00:03:14.960They had the chance to call the best witnesses they could find in the entire country in defense of their position.
00:03:21.760And yesterday, everyone on the side of transgenderism and on the side of child mutilation, as expected, was totally and completely humiliated.
00:03:29.660So, we'll start at the beginning of the hearing.
00:03:32.540The whole thing was a disaster for the pro-trans side.
00:03:35.200But we'll start with Mary Gay Scanlon, who's the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.
00:03:40.440And she came out with an opening statement in which she talked about the importance of parental rights, above all.
00:03:47.020You don't often hear Democrats talking about parental rights.
00:03:49.220They only talk about it in very limited circumstances, as we'll see.
00:03:52.300But she argued that parents should be able to do whatever they want to their children, including sterilizing them.
00:03:57.440Because parents always know best, she says.
00:04:02.180Holding a hearing to substitute far-right ideologies for parental judgment exposes the rank hypocrisy of the party claiming to value individual freedom and small government.
00:04:13.080And so, here we are before the Subcommittee on the Constitution and limited government.
00:04:20.320Now, Mary went on like that for a few minutes.
00:04:23.360And her point is that it's wrong for the government to deny parents the right to castrate their children or cut off their breasts.
00:04:29.660After all, she says, no one cares more about children than their parents.
00:07:56.480So both parties oppose the government, any government, making decisions over whether a child will be subjected to transgender procedures contrary to the wishes of the parents.
00:08:12.320The dispute is over what is appropriate, apparently.
00:08:14.600If both parties support a law that forbids performing these transgender procedures on a minor without the full and informed consent of the parents,
00:08:22.660then, Mr. Chairman, I believe we should advance such a bill right away.
00:08:25.920I think that would address the fears that I hear from a lot of parents that their desire to protect their child is at risk from various state governments like California who are trying to usurp that decision.
00:09:10.960But, of course, they don't present it that way.
00:09:12.460They present it as if they are advancing universal principles.
00:09:15.900And so when it comes to a parent who wants to have their child castrated, and if the government steps in, like in Tennessee, and says you can't do it, you can't do that to your child, then the left will say, well, what about parental rights?
00:09:26.540The parents have the right to make this decision.
00:09:27.920And then if you respond and say, well, parents have the right to make that decision, then can we at least agree that this should not happen to a kid without parental consent?
00:09:37.380I mean, it shouldn't happen at all, but let's start with it.
00:09:58.140So if we're talking about these hard cases, that's all you want to talk about?
00:10:00.480So it sounds like we agree that in all these other cases where there is no rape and the life of the mother is not threatened, can we at least agree there that there shouldn't be?
00:10:12.480The National Review's Caroline Downey observed that during this cross-examination, Scanlon's aide passed her a note to help her answer McClintock's question.
00:10:20.600But it didn't help because her answer ultimately makes no sense.
00:12:56.500And she's making a point that every human being on this planet would have agreed with just a decade ago or five years ago.
00:13:02.180Which is that sexualizing and butchering children is one of the greatest crimes imaginable.
00:13:07.360Now, Chloe Cole was not the only witness to expose the derangement of the transgender movement.
00:13:10.980There was also testimony from a former UPenn swimmer, Paula Scanlon.
00:13:14.900And Scanlon, as you know, if you watched my interview with her, both in What is a Woman, the film What is a Woman and the follow-up interview we did, Scanlon was forced by UPenn to share a locker room with Will Thomas, the mediocre male swimmer who now pretends to be a woman named Leah Thomas.
00:13:29.760And that's also, that whole testimony is something worth watching.
00:13:33.620So this mentally disturbed male gets to go into the bathroom and locker room and watch women undress.
00:13:39.620And if any UPenn swimmers complained about the obvious absurdity of this, as Paula explained, then the school would call them insane.
00:13:46.100They are the ones who had psychological problems that needed to be worked out.
00:13:50.040Like Chloe Cole, Paula Scanlon is composed in her testimony.
00:13:52.940She's testifying about her firsthand experience.
00:13:55.340And what she's saying is, you know, objectively horrifying.
00:14:23.080But Reynolds didn't base this conclusion on any scientific data or any kind of coherent argument whatsoever.
00:14:27.500Instead, Reynolds testified that she knew her own 11-year-old daughter was really a boy, contrary to what all the doctors said, because he didn't like the color pink.
00:15:10.720What a profound contrast between the not only emotionally compelling but also incredibly logical and reasonable testimonies of the mutilation opponents versus the half-baked, ridiculous logic of this mother.
00:15:20.980The same people who tell you that gender stereotypes are evil are now telling you that 11-year-olds should be castrated because they don't like the color pink.
00:15:27.700It would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic and disgusting.
00:15:30.440If there weren't actual children being destroyed in the process, you'd be able to laugh at how ridiculous this is, but you can't.
00:15:37.480Now, keep in mind that the proponents of the gender affirmation racket specifically brought Miriam Reynolds to Congress for the express purpose of representing their point of view.
00:15:45.860This isn't someone who just randomly walked into Congress off the street.
00:16:01.400That is as good as the argument possibly gets.
00:16:05.220And the argument can get a lot worse as well.
00:16:07.720Now, inane doesn't even begin to describe this.
00:16:10.520The contrast between, say, Chloe Cole and Miriam Reynolds, like the contrast between Tom McClintock and Mary Scanlon, couldn't be more pronounced.
00:16:17.760One side is interested in reason and compassion.
00:16:19.820The other side represents and presents the most juvenile, self-contradictory arguments imaginable.
00:16:25.520And as the hearing went on, this continued.
00:16:27.320I want you to watch Congressman Wesley Hunt's argument against child mutilation.
00:16:31.020And then after this, we'll show you the Democrats' position on this.
00:16:38.980And I admire your bravery in these times.
00:16:42.080Many of my colleagues on the left like to discuss gender-affirming care and claim that puberty blockers and hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery are the only ways to treat gender dysphoria.
00:16:52.940Once a child expresses a feeling of gender dysphoria, instead of questioning the root cause of that feeling, that child will more likely than not be on a fast track to gender reassignment surgery or otherwise known as genital mutilation.
00:17:42.320If my children had their way, they would have ice cream for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and for every single meal in between.
00:17:50.200They know the wisdom of children, but in the same country, we know that children are mature enough to make adult decisions that will impact the rest of their lives.
00:18:03.840Children cry for ice cream, but as parents, we have the wisdom to know that ice cream is not in their best interest, particularly their long-term interest.
00:18:16.480I want to thank my parents, Willie and Diane Hunt.
00:20:52.080Steve Cohen, like so many Democrats, says that he supports transgenderism and trans ideology without understanding the insane demands of the movement.
00:21:01.500He repeats the talking points without understanding them.
00:21:05.940With that, in that sense, Cohen has a lot in common with Congressman Jerry Nadler of New York.
00:21:11.160Jerry Nadler also made a familiar argument in which he goes on and on about how, well, we need to allow kids to be castrated because if not, they'll kill themselves.
00:21:19.520So on the one hand, you have an impassioned, compelling argument from conservatives that children can't consent to the mutilation of their genitals.
00:21:26.740On the other hand, you have one of the most senior Democrats in the House saying that you need to do that, do whatever kids say, or else they'll kill themselves.
00:21:33.580And he's saying that if you don't affirm their delusions, then you're bullying them.
00:21:39.340Now, normally when people threaten to kill themselves, we recognize that they need immediate intervention.
00:21:45.500But in this case, Jerry Nadler says when children are suicidal, we need to do whatever they say.
00:21:49.880We should affirm whatever delusion they've been told to believe.
00:21:53.260If a child is in despair, he says, we should affirm exactly the delusion that has caused the despair.
00:21:58.860You'll never find a clearer explanation for why trans activists demand censorship than yesterday's hearing at the House Judiciary Committee.
00:22:07.160At every turn, when sane people offered carefully considered, rational, common-sense arguments, Democrats flailed.
00:22:14.360They resorted to one of the most desperate and despicable arguments imaginable.
00:22:18.160Stop questioning us or else kids will kill themselves.
00:22:21.500That's the best argument that a 17-term congressman with the most experienced political staffers in all of Congress could come up with.
00:22:27.060It's ludicrous, it's incoherent, it's grotesque and stupid.
00:22:32.140It wilts immediately on contact with testimony of young people, people with no political experience, who have seen enough of this barbarism, have experienced it firsthand.
00:22:41.420As pathetic as it is, the essence of trans ideology has been exposed yet again for everyone to see.
00:22:46.860This happens any time there is any kind of open debate between the two sides on this issue.
00:22:51.680And that's exactly why the left is desperate to stop those debates from happening.
00:23:00.380So we're now on the fifth or sixth day, whatever it is, of fake media-driven controversy over Florida's history curriculum on the subject of slavery, which the media and Democrats claim promotes and defends slavery itself.
00:23:17.660That's what the curriculum does, according to them.
00:23:19.620This is all totally made up and ridiculous, of course, and I explained why in detail a few days ago.
00:23:23.380You can go and watch that segment if you want.
00:23:24.760Just to summarize in a sentence or two, the curriculum teaches in great depth about slavery.
00:23:29.100Slavery is mentioned like 150 or 200 times in the curriculum itself.
00:23:32.600One of those mentions, one, just one, one sentence in the curriculum notes that slaves, after being freed, sometimes utilize skills that they learned while enslaved.
00:23:43.000The point of including that note in the curriculum is because, for one thing, it's true, and we want to teach kids things that are true.
00:23:50.500And, for another, obviously, it was meant to be a tribute, a credit to the slaves themselves.
00:23:59.500So, just to illustrate the point, I want to read you a quick passage from the Wikipedia entry for a prominent tailor and clothing designer named Martin Greenfield.
00:24:10.940And he was never an African slave, but you'll understand why I'm reading in a second.
00:24:13.820During his time in Auschwitz, Greenfield learned the power behind clothing.
00:24:18.600After being beaten for accidentally ripping a Nazi shirt, he stole it, repaired it, and wore it underneath his uniform all throughout his time in the camp.
00:24:25.000Wearing the shirt made him realize that clothes possessed power.
00:24:27.380This became an inspiration to Martin, helped him survive the Holocaust.
00:24:30.100This experience was a contributing factor to how he became one of the most successful and famous men's tailors of America.
00:24:34.180Now, would anyone read that anecdote and imagine that it's somehow a defense of the Holocaust?
00:24:46.600Obviously, it's supposed to be a credit to Greenfield that his success can be traced back to a moment of such great trial and tribulation.
00:24:53.440If somebody wrote a biography of this guy and mentioned this fact, not only mentioned it, but probably made it like a central part of his life story,
00:25:01.960nobody in the world would interpret that as some sort of attempt to minimize the Holocaust.
00:25:05.880And yet, when it comes to telling the exact same kind of story about some slaves, suddenly it's racist?
00:25:12.480As if everyone can't immediately understand the point.
00:25:15.540The whole reason this was mentioned in the curriculum was that it was supposed to be a way of paying tribute to slaves who were able to convert tragedy into triumph.
00:25:22.300Usually, we respect that kind of thing.
00:25:46.300He's now saying that there's no agenda here.
00:25:48.760I don't think he's educated about the enslavement of my ancestors.
00:25:55.820I just want to read the text again of what Florida is now requiring for middle school students.
00:26:00.240It says, instructions should include, quote, how slaves develop skills, which in some instances could be applied for their own personal benefit.
00:26:09.160How can it be for your personal benefit when you're treated as an enslaved person?
00:26:23.260One of the arguments being made by supporters of Governor DeSantis is that schools were teaching kids to hate America by teaching, you know, the history of slavery in this country, the history.
00:26:40.040You learn to love America by learning the truth.
00:28:31.680But as the Daily Wire reports, quote, the College Board included a similar goal in its course framework for AP African-American studies for 2023 through 2024.
00:28:38.880The curriculum identifies as essential knowledge this, quote,
00:28:42.200In addition to agricultural work, enslaved people learned specialized trades and worked as painters, carpenters, tailors, musicians, and healers in the North and South.
00:28:50.240Once free, African-Americans use these skills to provide for themselves and others.
00:28:54.720The College Board's AP college prep classes are available in thousands of schools across the U.S.
00:28:59.360How is that any different from what you hear in the curriculum in Florida?
00:29:48.700As a country founded upon freedom, the greatest deprivation of freedom was slavery.
00:29:56.160There's no silver lining in freedom, in slavery.
00:29:59.760The truth is that anything you can learn, that any benefits that people suggest you had during slavery, you would have had as a free person.
00:30:06.640What slavery was, was really about separating families, about mutilating humans, and even raping their wives.
00:31:09.620You know, one thing I've heard from some people on the right who have said, you know, it is a little like, I don't know, I don't like that language in there.
00:31:24.920It's one thing mentioned out of 190 things.
00:31:28.480The left made it a focus, and you are stupid and going along with it.
00:31:33.760Because you haven't learned how these people operate.
00:31:36.940And to start with, anytime you hear the left saying anything about anything related to race, never believe it on face value.
00:31:47.340You assume that they are lying because they always are.
00:31:51.920If you are saying something about a race-related issue or a gender-related issue or any issue related to any so-called protected class, if you're saying something and it's exactly the same thing as what Kamala Harris is saying, you need to stop and think very hard about that.
00:32:09.500Because the chances that she's being, that she's right and being honest are infinitesimal.
00:32:15.880Now, I know that I'm saying all this and, you know, that Tim Scott was being manipulated.
00:32:22.080I, myself, am being somewhat naive because he's running for president and he probably knows exactly what he's doing.
00:32:31.340And if there is one commandment, if there is one rule that we should all follow, okay, it's not, you know, never attack your own side, never criticize your own side.
00:33:50.320I want to thank you for pulling this together.
00:33:52.780Another year, another standing room only event.
00:33:56.440And when I woke up this morning at 7, I was getting picked up at 745.
00:34:00.520Patrick, my fiancé, tried to pull me by my waist over this morning in bed and I was like, no, baby, we don't got time for that this morning.
00:34:08.660I got to get to the prayer breakfast and I got to be on time and a little TMI.
00:34:34.760Now, obviously, it's awkward and not appropriate to talk about that at a prayer breakfast.
00:34:38.620But the real point here is that you see how these establishment Republican types, of which Nancy Mace definitely is one, are so disconnected from the Christian base that they try to pander to Christians.
00:34:49.280But they don't know how to pander because they don't understand us.
00:35:20.840It's not exactly a way to warm up the crowd.
00:35:22.920But she doesn't realize that because she doesn't really know anything about her own voter base or their values or what they believe in or what they want.
00:35:29.900It's like going to a meeting for animal rights activists and starting your speech by mentioning that you were at a great steakhouse last night.
00:35:37.740I mean, in that context, it'd be funny.
00:35:39.480It's like the kind of thing I would do.
00:35:40.380But it clearly shows that either you're intentionally trying to troll your audience or you have no idea where you are or what these people are all about.
00:36:01.120Well, it's a Gallup poll that's getting a lot of attention.
00:36:03.540It says pride in national identity is the lowest among is at a steep decline.
00:36:07.780And they say it's lowest among those 18 to 34 illustrates the fracture between young Americans and older generations.
00:36:13.660In the most recent Gallup poll, Americans 55 and older were nearly three times more likely to be extremely prideful of their nationality than younger generations.
00:36:20.340Overall, 39 percent of U.S. adults say that they are extremely proud to be American in the most recent poll.
00:36:26.800Meanwhile, only 18 percent of those age 18 to 34 said the same, that they were proud to be American or extremely proud, compared to 40 percent of those age 35 to 54 and 50 percent of those 55 and over.
00:36:37.520So overall, it's like a pathetic picture.
00:36:40.020I mean, there doesn't appear to be a majority of people extremely proud to be American in any age group.
00:36:46.080Now, in comparison, in 2013, 85 percent of those aged 18 to 29 say they were extremely or very proud to be an American.
00:37:47.920If I were to look around at my family and I were to see that, you know, I don't know, my dad is a drug addict and my mom's an alcoholic and I have a brother in jail for embezzlement or something.
00:37:57.620None of this is true of my family, by the way, just to be clear.
00:37:59.540But if it was, if my family was just a mess with everybody's lives and total disrepair and everything is terrible, would I be proud of my family?
00:38:10.680Would I be proud to declare myself a member of it?
00:38:17.860I'd be heartbroken to see the state that my family is in.
00:38:20.620But I would still love my family is the point.
00:38:24.060In fact, my love for my family would make me even more ashamed and heartbroken and embarrassed because I would want my family and my family members to be better people for their own sake.
00:38:34.060I would want my family to be in better shape.
00:38:36.860I love my family and want what's best for it, which means not blithely ignoring all of these problems and just declaring myself proud of everyone in the family, no matter if they act like a bunch of scumbags or not.
00:38:59.960To be a patriot is to love your country.
00:39:01.600To love your country is to want your country to be great, which means, first of all, it must be good.
00:39:07.620You want your country to flourish in every way imaginable.
00:39:11.340It doesn't mean pretending that all of those things are true when they aren't.
00:39:16.540So when I look around at America and I see decaying cities and rampant crime and absurd levels of corruption in government and in all of our institutions and kids being butchered and mutilated and on and on and on, I'm not proud.
00:40:07.460No matter what they do, you're proud of them?
00:40:09.600Well, then it doesn't mean anything to say that you're proud of them.
00:40:11.620So you're proud of your son, whether he comes home with an A on his report card or, you know, he comes home with an F, like you're proud either way.
00:40:21.120So your pride in the good grade apparently means absolutely nothing.
00:40:24.780Just a default position that you've adopted.
00:40:31.260So, yeah, in this case, now, I think a lot of those people that say they're not proud of America, they probably would have very different reasons, you know, for that.
00:40:39.720They probably explain their feelings in a very different way.
00:40:43.000But I don't think that they're necessarily wrong in how for how they see it.
00:41:04.560Harrison says, Matt, I know you've talked about this plenty of times, but seriously,
00:41:07.360how do we explain big tech and the media and all these powerful organizations all seemingly at once deciding to try to erase anyone who says the truth about gender?
00:41:15.840YouTube was fine with discussions about this for years and then suddenly changed its mind.
00:41:19.760Well, there's all the familiar reasons that we talk about all the time.
00:41:22.820These institutions are ideologically captured by the left and on and on.
00:41:26.920So all those reasons are still still apply here.
00:41:30.360But there's another point, too, that I think is not and we've probably talked about it before, but it's not discussed enough and not understood enough.
00:41:38.580Which is that these institutions are run by people who at this point, many of them have children who identify as trans or non-binary or whatever.
00:41:57.760That explains, you know, I'm not naming specific cases.
00:42:01.680I mean, there are specific cases that I know of, of course, but it's just it's a general statement.
00:42:05.560You know, and this trans and non-binary stuff, it has caught hold, especially in super liberal areas, super liberal urban areas, wealthy areas.
00:42:14.660Because that's where it's especially prevalent.
00:42:17.540And that's also where all these people that run these institutions live.
00:42:21.900And so that's some of what's going on, especially the sudden some of these some of these places, like some of these institutions, organizations that seem like out of nowhere.
00:42:30.260Just, you know what, you can't talk about this anymore.
00:42:31.480And I'm willing to bet that in so many of those cases, it's because some of the decision makers in those institutions had a kid who recently came home and said, hey, guess what?
00:42:43.660Mom and dad, I'm not that there's going to be both mom and dad in the home most of the time, but I'm trans now.
00:42:51.360You know, you can never there's the political motivations.
00:42:53.820There's the economic motivations and all that.
00:42:57.180But there's all we've never overlooked just personal.
00:42:59.520It's very personal for a lot of these people.
00:43:01.980And so for a lot of these very powerful people, they have kids now who identify as trans and they themselves are facilitating that and going along with it and probably getting the kids on drugs and doing all of it.
00:43:59.140Martin says, when I'm bombarded with sensational news stories across the media, the first question I ask myself is, what are they distracting us from right now?
00:44:05.660And what are they in the process of covering up?
00:44:07.340Well, Martin, I think I've addressed this distraction.
00:44:14.480I am a dress like you're asserting something that I have addressed.
00:44:20.560OK, I have made my argument against what you're asserting.
00:44:23.280And so you respond by just asserting it again without even trying to address the argument.
00:44:27.280Carlos says, finally, someone besides me presenting the obvious and logical argument that by denying this phenomena, we're talking about UFOs now, is related to non-human intelligence.
00:44:37.920One is affirming that someone is hiding unbelievable technology.
00:44:40.840And that makes it the biggest and most interesting story ever either way.
00:44:45.280So if you it doesn't make any sense to me, you can take the position that all this UFO stuff is, you know, has nothing to do with space aliens.
00:44:54.660I don't know how you could possibly know that, but you can take that position.
00:44:57.280I mean, that's that's a valid position to take.
00:45:01.460But the position that is not valid is that all of this is irrelevant and uninteresting, because either way, these things are happening and someone's responsible for it.
00:45:10.560One thing we can confirm now, we can just say for a fact, is that there is highly advanced technology that is present in our skies that's way beyond the capacity, any capacity that we have as far as we know.
00:45:27.940That's definitely true, because there's enough evidence of it to say it, to put it forward as a fact.
00:45:36.360Yeah, does that prove that it's does that prove the origin that it proved that it's from some intergalactic or interstellar being?
00:45:41.940No, it doesn't prove that it proves it's it originates somewhere.
00:45:46.360And so we probably want to know where it originates from.
00:45:48.480And it still becomes it's even if it's all earthbound, if there's if there's a very earthbound explanation for all of this, it's still important.
00:46:17.980But the last thing I'll say on this distraction theory, oh, this is all distraction.
00:46:21.480And this is an important point because it matter how you feel about aliens, it's important to know how this actually works, because the powers that be, they do use distraction mechanisms.
00:47:24.540I know I know I know it is also a distraction, but I'm forced to address it because if I don't, then their narrative is allowed to stand unchallenged and it's allowed to just be cemented into the public conscious.
00:48:10.180Finally, Vicker says, I guess this is in response to my stirring tribute to the Democrat representative who went on a hunger and thirst strike that went that last a staggering nine hours.
00:48:24.860Vicker says, if Matt is giving a public figure over-the-top praise, there's a 75% chance it's sarcasm.
00:48:40.000Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:48:45.600There have been many attempts over the past year or so to answer the question, the great question, the question of all questions, what is a woman?
00:48:52.940And as you know, if you listen to the show, many of those attempts have landed themselves right here in the Daily Cancellation.
00:48:58.140Today, we have another worthy addition to this series.
00:49:01.340The prominent British news magazine called The New Statesman has published a pair of essays attempting to answer what it calls the most vexed question of our time.
00:49:10.140Now, to its credit, it is offering both perspectives.
00:49:12.520Richard Dawkins was enlisted to give the biological, that is, the correct view on the subject.
00:49:17.040While feminist writer Jacqueline Rose has been granted the honor of representing the incredibly wrong point of view.
00:49:23.480Now, as you probably recall, one of the most common themes we find in these leftist attempts to answer the what is a woman question is that they do not actually attempt to answer it at all.
00:49:33.940Because they can't, and they know they can't.
00:49:36.140And when I say they can't answer it, I mean not that they are unable to answer it or that they don't understand what the answer is, but that their ideology will not permit them to answer.
00:49:45.960They are literally not allowed to answer the question.
00:49:49.360So, in lieu of providing an answer, or even trying to, they will instead say lots of other things which may or may not be true and may or may not be tangentially related to the question at hand, but which do not amount to an actual answer.
00:50:02.280In other words, they will answer the question by doing everything except answer the question.
00:50:07.760They'll give you a 10,000-word essay leading up to an answer, seemingly leading up to the point where there will be an answer, and then they will end the essay before they reach the conclusion.
00:50:16.560Now, I don't mean to spoil the ending, but that is exactly what Jacqueline Rose does here.
00:50:21.740This essay is a journey with no ending, no destination.
00:50:24.440It spins itself in circles, ties itself in knots, all for nothing.
00:50:28.240She hopes to dazzle us with her eloquence and praise we don't notice that she isn't saying anything.
00:50:54.080If the binary is false, then that must mean either that there are more than two categories beyond male and female, or that there's only one, or none.
00:51:03.740So if the binary is false, either there's more than two, there's less, or there's fewer than two.
00:51:10.540Given that this is the title of her piece, surely she must, somewhere in this lengthy dissertation, actually provide some kind of evidence to support one of those alternatives.
00:51:21.940She can't make a statement like that right in the title and then not even attempt to defend or support it, can she?
00:51:27.860Well, we'll have to keep going to find out.