The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1195 - NBC News Totally Obliterates Trans Ideology By Accident

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, in a shocking turn of events, NBC News has published a lengthy article

00:00:04.680 completely obliterating trans ideology. Of course, it was entirely an accident, but still. Also, 0.93

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00:01:35.400 It's not every day that a news article from a mainstream media outlet truly shocks you. We're

00:01:40.320 all used to predictable narratives at this point. Most of it's just sort of noise. But the other day,

00:01:45.460 there was a very notable exception to this general rule. An article published by NBC News of all places

00:01:50.120 just blew up the entire narrative of transgenderism out of nowhere. NBC News came out with a well-researched 0.73

00:01:58.340 in-depth piece that completely debunks the entire concept. Eradicates the whole ideology,

00:02:02.900 you might even say. They even quote several all-important experts at prestigious universities

00:02:07.260 who concur that the madness needs to end. That's right. After years of insisting that anyone can

00:02:13.160 change their gender at will simply by wishing it, they've given up. The sanity has prevailed, 0.98

00:02:18.080 not since NBC News aired Katie Couric's colonoscopy live on air has the network produced content so

00:02:23.860 unexpected and jarring. Yet it is a very welcome departure from the norm. I mean, this article is

00:02:29.600 welcome, not the colonoscopy, just to be clear. But as you may have guessed by now, NBC News published

00:02:34.360 this in-depth analysis without realizing what they were doing. Self-awareness, as ever, is in short supply

00:02:39.940 in the mainstream media. But there's no denying that's what they did. They obliterated,

00:02:44.580 point by point, any logical argument in favor of transgenderism. How did they do it? Well, 1.00

00:02:50.480 the piece in question is on NBC News' website right now. You can go check it out. It's headlined

00:02:54.120 Inside the Online World of People Who Think They Can Change Their Race. Now, the article is

00:03:00.700 apparently intended to disprove the idea that you can opt into another racial category. And along the way,

00:03:07.320 accidentally, every argument from NBC News and their thought leaders ends up refuting the idea that

00:03:12.040 people can change their gender too. The piece begins by describing a teenager who lives in Maryland

00:03:17.480 and thinks that she's transforming into a Japanese woman. She's changed her name. She also thinks that

00:03:24.260 just by wishing it, her hair is getting darker, her eyelids are getting smaller, etc. Now, right away,

00:03:31.940 the keen observer might note that it sounds exactly like the lingo that trans activists use.

00:03:37.620 According to NBC, this girl also watches videos like the one that we're going to play for you in a

00:03:42.380 second, apparently to help her transition and help her help this proceed. It's sort of like a mental

00:03:48.020 thing. And I'll show you a piece of this video. Again, this is a video that helps, I think it helps you

00:03:53.360 transition into an Asian person. But just be forewarned that, you know, upon watching this video,

00:03:59.980 it might turn you Asian. Anyway, here it is. 0.81

00:04:03.300 Hmm. Well, I don't know about you, but I'm feeling more Japanese already. Now, any sane person 1.00

00:04:33.160 might look at that clip and conclude that this is all crazy and that anyone who watches that video

00:04:39.340 thinking that it changes their race is delusional. Case closed. But at NBC News, they weren't ready to

00:04:46.700 move on so quickly. This is something of a sensitive subject for them and for anyone on the left,

00:04:51.240 because they spent the last few years telling us that anyone can change their gender at will,

00:04:55.440 that your identity is entirely up to you. It's a fluid thing that you determined for yourself.

00:05:00.800 So they understand that they have to respond to the obvious question, which is why shouldn't we

00:05:06.080 affirm the identity of this teenage trans Japanese girl? She says she's Japanese. She watched a few 0.81

00:05:12.340 YouTube videos, maybe bought a kimono or two. She feels more at home, more herself in her Japanese

00:05:19.260 identity. She recognizes inside herself her innate Japanese-ness. Why isn't that good enough? Who are we to 0.99

00:05:28.060 deny her lived experience? Who are we to reject her truth? Well, here's the crux of NBC News's

00:05:35.260 argument. Quote, experts agree race is not genetic, but they contend that even though race is a cultural

00:05:41.080 construct, it is impossible to change your race because of the systemic inequalities inherent

00:05:45.920 to being born into a certain race. Now, think about what they wrote for more than two seconds,

00:05:52.060 and the logic falls apart. In fact, it doesn't really take two seconds even for it to fall apart.

00:05:57.500 They're saying that you can't change your race because there are systemic inequalities inherent

00:06:02.280 to being born into certain races. But wait a minute. Aren't these the same experts who tell us that

00:06:09.060 women live under the thumb of the patriarchy? That they can't even earn an honest living because of 1.00

00:06:14.160 how sexist our society is? That if you go and you get a job as a woman, you automatically make 1.00

00:06:19.160 77 cents on the dollar or whatever the made-up figure is now? So that sounds a lot like systemic

00:06:24.820 inequality, if it was true, which it isn't. And yet they have no problem with men deciding to identify

00:06:29.500 as women. Despite all the systemic inequality, women have allegedly endured. Why is that? Well,

00:06:37.280 the NBC piece doesn't say, doesn't really linger on that point, which is strange because they've had a

00:06:42.540 lot of time to prepare for this question. Remember when they destroyed Rachel Dolezal a few years ago?

00:06:48.460 She claimed to be black, and she drove them absolutely crazy because they had no way of 1.00

00:06:53.020 refuting what she was saying. So let's just, just to remind ourselves, here's Matt Lauer and his 0.81

00:06:59.700 attempt a few years ago to take down Rachel Dolezal. Let me just ask you the question in simple terms

00:07:08.340 again because you've sent mixed signals over the years. Are you an African-American woman? 0.99

00:07:13.860 Identify as black. You identify as black. Let me put a picture up of you in your early 20s,

00:07:21.480 though. And when you see this picture, is this an African-American woman or is that a Caucasian 0.98

00:07:26.800 woman? That's not in my early 20s, but... That's a little younger, I guess.

00:07:31.380 I think I was 16 in that picture. Is she a Caucasian woman or an African-American woman?

00:07:36.980 I would say that visibly she would be identified as white by people who see her.

00:07:43.080 But at the time, were you identifying yourself as African-American?

00:07:47.680 In that picture, during that time, no. Your parents were asked this question this week,

00:07:53.380 and they didn't have any trouble answering it. Here's what they said. She's clearly our birth

00:07:57.260 daughter, and we're clearly Caucasian. That's just a fact. Your father went on to say she's a very

00:08:02.400 talented woman doing work she believes in. Why can't she do that as a Caucasian woman, which is 1.00

00:08:08.680 what she is? Now, you notice, and that's very traumatizing to go back and watch that again,

00:08:14.380 because Matt Lauer uses all of these transphobic arguments to disprove Rachel Dolezal's claim that

00:08:20.240 she's black. First, he confronts her with a photo of her in her teenage years. He suggests that because

00:08:24.480 she was white then, she can't possibly be black now. Then Matt Lauer calls in Dolezal's parents,

00:08:29.800 who deny her lived experience as a black woman. And we're meant to take that as proof that Dolezal 0.56

00:08:35.680 is lying. So why exactly aren't we allowed to refute transgenderism on the same basis? Why exactly 0.95

00:08:41.240 can't we show photos of William Thomas, who goes by Leo Thomas now, before he started pretending to be

00:08:47.540 a female swimmer, as proof that he's really a man? Why are we supposed to call the parents of trans 0.50

00:08:53.740 activists and ask them what gender their kid really is? Now, at the time, Matt Lauer and NBC News didn't

00:08:59.460 resolve that question, but now NBC is intent on addressing it, because there are a lot more Rachel

00:09:04.300 Dolezal's coming out of the woodwork all of a sudden. I wonder why that is. That's a big problem 1.00

00:09:09.240 for the trans movement. They desperately don't want you to apply the incoherent logic of transgenderism 1.00

00:09:15.160 in order to justify transracialism. It's clear why that is, and in a moment, we'll get to that. But for now,

00:09:21.760 let's focus on NBC's argument, such as it is. NBC News called in a series of experts for this

00:09:28.100 article. Unfortunately for NBC, every single one of them managed to undercut the trans argument even

00:09:33.080 further accidentally. They quoted a trans activist named Teek Milan, for example, who objects to

00:09:38.820 transracialism on the grounds that people with fetishes are into it. Can you imagine? Quote, 0.97

00:09:45.640 it's not just putting on the hair and the makeup and talking and walking in a kind of way. That is

00:09:52.040 fetishizing, and it's objectifying, and it reduces the beautiful and complicated cultures of people of

00:09:57.140 color. In other words, going full Trudeau and layering on the blackface doesn't make you black.

00:10:02.480 In fact, it fetishizes and targets black people in a way that's totally inappropriate, 0.96

00:10:06.920 which seems intuitive enough. But strangely enough, the expert did not condemn autogynophiles, 0.89

00:10:12.860 who dress up as women for the sole purpose of arousal and of debasing women, which they get a 0.98

00:10:18.040 sexual thrill out of. So you can't fetishize another race, but you can fetishize women if 0.95

00:10:25.780 you're a man by dressing up as one. Why is that? Now, NBC News was again silent on that point.

00:10:33.660 Well, let's pause for a second. You might be wondering whether this article was a kind of cry

00:10:37.820 for help from deep within the bowels of NBC News. And honestly, it might be. The author of the piece

00:10:42.860 is a college student at the University of Pennsylvania who's currently interning at the

00:10:46.520 network. This intern is majoring in philosophy. So why would NBC News assign a college kid to write

00:10:52.100 their big takedown of transracialism? Who knows? Maybe they got played. I don't know. Either way,

00:10:58.320 it's certainly entertaining. So let's keep on reading the article because the more you read,

00:11:01.760 the better it gets. At one point, the piece tries to rebut the idea of transracialism and

00:11:06.900 transgenderism, that the idea that they're comparable. And they quote that same activist,

00:11:11.820 Tique Milan, with this line, which may be the single dumbest statement ever uttered by a trans 1.00

00:11:16.800 activist, as mighty a hurdle as that is to get over. But here's the line, quote, 0.96

00:11:22.080 race historically emerged as a social construct to establish a racial hierarchy with the right

00:11:27.460 white race at the top, whereas variances in gender identity have existed for thousands of years.

00:11:33.900 Now, it's hard to know where to begin. The first line is simply false. For one,

00:11:37.520 the concept of race did not begin with colonialism. It began in antiquity. The Roman poet Virgil called

00:11:43.200 his people the Toged race, for example. And many cultures like in Asia established racial hierarchies

00:11:48.320 that had nothing to do with whites one way or another. Other cultures created racial hierarchies that

00:11:52.560 put the white race at the bottom. In fact, they're calling for a white genocide in South Africa

00:11:56.700 right now. In case you missed it, here's footage of a leading political figure in the country,

00:12:02.100 right now, chanting, kill the white farmer, as a massive crowd cheers him on. Watch. 0.96

00:12:07.540 Kill the poor, the farmer, kill the poor, the farmer. 1.00

00:12:27.620 Brr, bağ, bağ, bağ, bağ. 1.00

00:12:32.180 Pa! Pa! Attention! 0.96

00:12:36.800 Hmm. There's a lot of people in that stadium, all very excited about killing white farmers. 1.00

00:12:42.600 Now, that doesn't seem like a racial hierarchy with the white race at the top. 0.98

00:12:46.320 So we're left with the trans activist claim that variances in gender identity,

00:12:51.120 the ones that we're seeing today, have been around for thousands of years.

00:12:54.440 Because, yeah, we all know that there were a bunch of pansexual, aromantic, non-binaries walking around in the 1600s. 0.86

00:13:00.500 It's just that nobody ever mentioned them.

00:13:02.180 We have to believe that they existed on faith, I suppose.

00:13:06.040 It takes faith because, in fact, as it turns out, there is no recorded history anywhere in the world,

00:13:11.640 in any culture, of people believing that men could actually be women or that women could actually be men.

00:13:17.380 This concept did not exist anywhere in the world until it was invented by gender ideologues in the 20th century. 0.98

00:13:24.760 So everything you heard from that expert, quote-unquote, was completely false.

00:13:28.520 But even putting all the factual issues to the side,

00:13:30.920 what that expert said doesn't begin to explain why people can't change their race.

00:13:36.120 This is how wrong these people are all the time.

00:13:39.160 You know, they're so wrong that even if their initial arguments are correct,

00:13:44.260 their conclusions would still be wrong.

00:13:46.460 So they build their arguments on these false premises.

00:13:49.280 But even if you agree with the premise, even if you ignore the fact that the premise is completely false,

00:13:53.940 it still doesn't lead to the conclusion that they want it to lead to.

00:13:57.700 So if you assume it's true that gender identity has been around for longer than racial distinctions,

00:14:03.060 there's still no answer to this basic question.

00:14:05.780 Why can't we change our race? 1.00

00:14:08.220 Do we have to wait a thousand years or so and then we can do it?

00:14:10.800 Besides, if race is a new concept, then doesn't that make it even more fluid and negotiable?

00:14:17.000 Doesn't that make it even more valid to reject the social construct of race entirely?

00:14:22.000 Who knows?

00:14:22.680 The NBC piece just moves on.

00:14:24.320 They flail a little bit and then they cite Jamie Cohen, a random Queens College professor,

00:14:29.000 for some support on this.

00:14:30.560 He says, people can't change their race because, and I'm quoting,

00:14:34.120 it's just belief.

00:14:35.240 It doesn't ever really work because it's not doing anything.

00:14:37.780 But they've convinced themselves that it works because there's other people who have convinced themselves as well.

00:14:43.040 Oh, so like a social contagion sounds like that's what you're talking about.

00:14:46.860 By the way, Jamie Cohen, like the author of this piece, is not a scientist.

00:14:50.160 He's a culture and media studies professor.

00:14:52.720 On his website, he says that he specializes in memes

00:14:55.020 and also something called advertising inequalities and social media.

00:14:58.520 Now, that's not to say that he can't comment on this topic, obviously,

00:15:01.660 but it's notable that the very same people who yell things like,

00:15:05.800 you can't comment on transgenderism, you're not a member of the American Medical Association,

00:15:09.540 those same people are now quoting meme professors to explain away transracialism.

00:15:14.880 It's worth pausing to note something that's curiously absent from this NBC bombshell,

00:15:19.580 and that's the word sex.

00:15:21.460 Nowhere in this five-page article does the word sex come up.

00:15:24.660 They talk about gender and social constructs throughout the piece, but never sex.

00:15:27.860 Why is that?

00:15:28.400 Well, here's one possibility.

00:15:30.260 Maybe it's because they know that sex has a clear biological component.

00:15:34.500 Sex is biological.

00:15:36.960 And at a biological level, there's an objective genetic explanation

00:15:41.340 for why some people are men and some people are women.

00:15:44.940 And these genetic differences between men and women, first of all, exist,

00:15:48.220 no matter what you call them and what you label them,

00:15:50.080 they just are, they're physical realities.

00:15:52.240 And they're far more substantial than any conceivable genetic differences between racial categories.

00:15:56.820 Men have a completely different set of chromosomes than women do. 1.00

00:16:00.240 That affects the entire body and how it functions.

00:16:03.400 What that means is that transracialism, while completely crazy, 0.85

00:16:06.420 is a lot less crazy than transgenderism. 0.55

00:16:09.820 The transracial Japanese girl has a much more valid claim to her Japanese identity

00:16:14.920 than any man has to a female identity or vice versa.

00:16:19.560 Race actually is fluid after all.

00:16:21.380 Everyone is a mix of races and ethnicities.

00:16:24.160 So why do they want to avoid talking about genetics and objective reality?

00:16:28.100 Why can't they just come out and admit that, yeah, if you support transgenderism,

00:16:31.800 then you should also support transracialism?

00:16:34.540 I mean, why not just let people be whoever they want to be?

00:16:37.820 Just whatever it is.

00:16:39.120 Your identity is completely fluid.

00:16:41.080 Be what you want.

00:16:41.760 Well, the truth is, they embrace transgenderism while rejecting transracialism for a simple reason.

00:16:49.120 One that has nothing to do with logic or science or anything else.

00:16:51.740 The left has constructed a race-based spoil system that punishes their political opponents

00:16:56.880 and elevates loyal members of their party.

00:16:59.580 They don't want that system to come crashing down on them.

00:17:02.400 Now, self-identified transgender people are the left's dependable political allies.

00:17:06.360 Like, they can assume, they own the entire LGBT alphabet. 0.98

00:17:12.240 And so they can just assume that anybody who identify, any man who identifies as a woman,

00:17:16.000 is almost certainly going to vote Democrat and be a leftist, with only very rare exceptions.

00:17:23.220 But the people who could take advantage of a transracial system would not be so dependable.

00:17:29.500 If Asians and white people could instantly claim to be oppressed black men,

00:17:32.900 then all of their cynical racial politics would collapse overnight on the left. 0.93

00:17:38.320 And they can't have that.

00:17:39.560 It's that simple.

00:17:41.280 The pseudoscience is a cover and not a particularly effective one.

00:17:45.240 Now, a lot of people have tried to make that case over the years,

00:17:47.500 especially since the Rachel Dolezal episode.

00:17:50.360 But few of them have done it better than NBC News and their intrepid philosophy in turn.

00:17:54.780 In their attempts to shut down transracialism, they have exposed transgenderism. 0.66

00:17:59.420 Now, to be sure, like a confused teenager in Maryland who thinks she's Japanese, NBC has no idea what it's doing.

00:18:06.520 But in this case, they accidentally did some journalism, one way or another.

00:18:09.960 And for that, we should all be grateful.

00:18:13.200 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:18:14.520 We'll see you next time.

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00:19:26.420 The Daily Wire reports, Hunter Biden's former business partner reportedly confirmed to the House Oversight Committee

00:19:31.800 that President Joe Biden was on more than 20 calls with his son during a closed-door meeting on Monday.

00:19:36.820 Republican members pressed for details about alleged foreign business dealings involving the president during his time in the Obama administration.

00:19:42.920 Devin Archer, who served as the director of Ukrainian energy company Burisma alongside Hunter Biden,

00:19:47.900 reportedly ignored questions from the press as he walked into the O'Neill House building.

00:19:51.120 Yesterday, the committee was expected to interview Archer for approximately five hours,

00:19:55.900 where Republican and Democrat members rotate between our blocks to investigate the key witness,

00:20:00.660 who has alleged Hunter put then-Vice President Joe Biden on speakerphone roughly two dozen times

00:20:05.220 as Hunter spoke to his foreign business partners or investors beginning in 2014.

00:20:10.520 Representative Dan Goldman, who was reportedly the only left-wing politician present in the room during Archer's testimony,

00:20:15.620 said that Archer, quote, indicated that Hunter spoke to his father every day and approximately 20 times over the course of a 10-year relationship,

00:20:22.880 the Daily Mail reported.

00:20:23.680 Now, so he's reporting over 20 occasions where Joe Biden, again, this is Joe Biden while he is vice president,

00:20:31.780 while he's in the White House, on the phone with Hunter Biden's foreign business partners and investors.

00:20:39.160 But what were they talking about, okay, is a question.

00:20:44.100 And Dan Goldman has an answer for that.

00:20:47.060 And, you know, it's interesting to hear what he says and also just how he looks, everything.

00:20:51.080 You could tell that he's panicked.

00:20:52.440 He's very flustered.

00:20:54.300 He doesn't know what to say because he's just come out of this five-hour investigation, interrogation.

00:21:03.600 He's heard all of this and he knows that it's bad.

00:21:05.620 But he's trying to find some kind of way to let Biden off the hook.

00:21:09.320 And this is what he comes up with.

00:21:10.240 Listen.

00:21:11.460 So to confirm, you're saying that the speakerphone conversations, they don't seem concerning to you

00:21:16.180 because there is no specifics about business and it just seemed like they were talking about it.

00:21:19.700 It was clear that it was part of the daily conversations that Hunter Biden had with his father.

00:21:26.840 And it was, and it sounded like most of the time, now President Biden didn't even know who the people he was at dinner.

00:21:37.400 He was just asked to say hello.

00:21:39.720 And he would, you know, talk about the way he described it several times.

00:21:43.700 They asked over and over and over.

00:21:44.960 He described what the weather was, how, what's going on on your end.

00:21:50.640 He, the witness was very, very consistent that none of those conversations ever had to do with any business dealings or transactions.

00:22:01.900 They were purely what he called casual conversation.

00:22:05.800 Oh, they were just talking about the weather.

00:22:07.200 That's all they were talking about.

00:22:08.640 Which, first of all, who, like, like Joe Biden would even know the weather.

00:22:11.980 Like, that's, that's a conversation you could even have as if he's aware enough.

00:22:16.000 Now, this was back in 2014, 15, was slightly less senile back then.

00:22:22.040 But, you know, they're just talking about the weather.

00:22:23.340 That's all.

00:22:23.880 Nothing to worry about.

00:22:25.460 The fact that his, his dad is, happens to be vice president, total, you know, this has got nothing to do with it.

00:22:31.900 Hey, business partner, let me put you on the phone with my dad who happens to be vice president.

00:22:36.880 Just so he can say hi to you.

00:22:38.240 So, we're, we are supposed to believe that Joe Biden, at this point, was operating in his capacity simply as a proud father of his crackhead son.

00:22:51.240 And that the fact that he was vice president had nothing to do with the conversation.

00:22:53.900 Well, if that's the case, why, why would you put, like, if your dad is not the vice president,

00:22:59.460 why would you put him on the phone randomly with your, with business partners or investors who you claim he doesn't even know?

00:23:06.140 Now, let me call my daddy up so you can talk to him.

00:23:09.680 What, when would that ever happen?

00:23:10.780 Why would you ever do that?

00:23:13.320 Well, you would do it if your dad's the vice president and you're trying to use his influence in your business, in your corrupt business dealings.

00:23:19.500 That's the only reason you would do that, right?

00:23:22.260 Okay, if, if, if Hunter Biden's dad, if Joe Biden was a plumber, well, the world would be, world would be a much better place right now if Joe Biden was a plumber.

00:23:31.040 Now, maybe the houses that he worked on as a plumber would not be in such great shape, but certainly the world would.

00:23:35.440 But if his dad's a plumber or something or works at, you know, the deli down the street, if he's the manager of, of the local Walmart,

00:23:44.200 is Hunter Biden going to put his dad on the phone with his business partners?

00:23:49.260 That's what we're supposed to believe.

00:23:50.240 Now, of course, the idea that they didn't talk about business at all and they only talked about the weather is absurd.

00:23:54.800 But even if it's true, which it isn't, it still wouldn't exonerate Joe Biden, because after all, this is how influence peddling works.

00:24:06.420 It's all about making the connection.

00:24:08.360 So in some ways, it doesn't really matter what Joe said on those calls.

00:24:12.320 The fact that he got on the calls in the first place as vice president, inserting himself into these business dealings with his son overseas, that's all that matters.

00:24:24.100 There's the corruption.

00:24:24.960 It doesn't actually matter what was said.

00:24:28.520 Because the only reason, again, to get on the calls is to establish the connection, to use his influence to help his son in his corrupt business dealings.

00:24:34.240 That's the whole point.

00:24:38.780 So it might be true that in some of these conversations, the weather, they pretended to make small talk and the weather came up.

00:24:43.160 So what?

00:24:45.860 You don't need to get on the phone.

00:24:47.520 Joe doesn't need to get on the phone and say, listen, I'm going to use my political position of vice president of the United States and my position of power to help you with this thing.

00:24:55.540 And in exchange, you'll do this.

00:24:56.960 And like, that's not generally how it works.

00:24:59.340 But that's if you buy the whole they talked about the weather bit, which obviously I don't and you shouldn't. 0.97

00:25:08.420 So, yes, Biden is corrupt. 0.99

00:25:09.480 The whole family is corrupt. 1.00

00:25:10.380 His son's a crackhead and corrupt. 1.00

00:25:11.760 And all of that is true. 1.00

00:25:14.080 Absolutely.

00:25:16.020 OK.

00:25:17.760 And maybe you get tired of hearing me go on about this.

00:25:19.980 But for me, it all comes back to once we've established that, and I think we have established that for any reasonable person, it all comes back to Republicans.

00:25:28.580 And the same question I'm always asking, which is, what are you going to do about it?

00:25:33.420 That's the only conversation I'm interested in having at this point.

00:25:36.760 Now, some people get upset at me because I don't spend more time talking about Biden on the show and his corruption and all that.

00:25:43.720 There aren't very many shows of mine that the lead topic is, here's the latest with Joe Biden.

00:25:49.020 Here's all the terrible things Joe Biden's doing.

00:25:51.520 And the reason I don't do that is, well, for one thing, I don't focus as much on politics.

00:25:54.540 I focus on culture.

00:25:55.400 But also, we all get it, right?

00:25:58.060 Like, the whole audience gets it.

00:26:01.400 I'm not interested in continually repeating the mantra about how Biden is a criminal if Republicans aren't going to do anything about it.

00:26:08.300 And they can't really right now, except all they can do right now is basically symbolic.

00:26:12.980 There's some value in symbolic gestures.

00:26:16.140 But will they do something if they have the power to do so?

00:26:19.340 And so I go, I think, back to 2015, 2016.

00:26:23.280 And like anyone else in right-wing media at the time, I didn't have a podcast back then, but I was writing a lot. 0.96

00:26:28.620 And I was hammering on the point that Hillary was a criminal and a crook and the emails and all that. 0.99

00:26:34.560 Okay? 0.98

00:26:34.800 Like, anybody else in conservative media, a lot of ink was spilled from me on that subject.

00:26:40.160 Lock her up. 0.91

00:26:40.740 I was chanting that, too.

00:26:41.600 And then Republicans take the White House and the Senate and the House, and they do nothing.

00:26:45.400 They just do nothing.

00:26:47.320 They do absolutely nothing.

00:26:49.540 Going into office, lock her up, lock her up. 1.00

00:26:51.380 And then they're in office, nothing.

00:26:53.040 No attempt, even, to lock her up.

00:26:55.300 There's no discussion.

00:26:57.440 And I think most of the people that were chanting it didn't believe it would even happen, didn't care if it did.

00:27:03.400 If you'd asked most of them, they'd say, well, we're not really going to put Hillary Clinton in prison.

00:27:06.220 You think we're actually going to do that?

00:27:07.320 Of course not.

00:27:07.800 Well, for some of us, no, we actually wanted you to do it.

00:27:13.080 It was not just, we're not here talking about how corrupt Hillary Clinton is for our own health. 1.00

00:27:18.640 We're not saying it because we enjoy talking about it.

00:27:21.980 We want you to do something.

00:27:23.640 Look at the Democrats.

00:27:24.760 They are actually trying to throw Trump in prison.

00:27:27.200 That is, they are really trying to do it.

00:27:29.780 I don't like it.

00:27:30.620 I don't approve.

00:27:31.240 I think it's an outrage.

00:27:33.180 I think it's an actual attack on our democratic system.

00:27:35.700 And all the norms they pretend to care so much about.

00:27:38.640 But, but they're following through.

00:27:41.260 They yelled, lock him up.

00:27:43.720 And while he was in office, you know, people on the left were saying, when he gets out of office, we're going to go after this guy.

00:27:48.820 We're going to take him down.

00:27:49.940 He's going to pay for this.

00:27:50.680 They kept saying that.

00:27:51.740 And, and then, and now they're, they're trying to do it.

00:27:54.040 So they yell, lock him up.

00:27:56.100 And then they actually try to arrest that.

00:27:58.200 Not don't try.

00:27:59.140 They yell, lock him up.

00:28:00.280 And then they actually proceed to arrest their political enemies and try to throw them in prison.

00:28:06.280 Whereas we yell, lock them up and then do nothing.

00:28:09.680 It's all talk.

00:28:10.860 All sloganeering.

00:28:11.620 So I want to see Republicans do something.

00:28:15.940 We don't need to repeat over and over again what we all know to be true.

00:28:18.620 Go do something.

00:28:19.900 The fact is that, you know, Republicans aren't throwing corrupt Democrats in jail anywhere.

00:28:26.660 Even right now, where they might have the power to do so.

00:28:30.200 That should have been the first response to what they're doing to Trump.

00:28:34.580 Like, there are Republican DAs out there.

00:28:36.540 There are, there are, there are areas of the country that are controlled by Republicans.

00:28:39.960 Why aren't they frog marching some corrupt Democrats into prison to make an example out of them? 1.00

00:28:48.760 Why isn't that happening?

00:28:49.360 It's not happening anywhere.

00:28:51.720 In fact, it's the opposite.

00:28:53.020 Corrupt Democrats get, get pardons.

00:28:55.520 Okay. 0.88

00:28:55.660 The last time Republicans were in charge, corrupt Democrats got pardons. 0.70

00:28:59.280 Kwame Kilpatrick, the absurdly corrupt Democrat, former mayor of Detroit. 0.78

00:29:04.780 Okay.

00:29:05.240 The guy had been convicted of perjury, mail fraud, wire fraud, racketeering.

00:29:10.700 It's like cartoonishly corrupt and a Democrat.

00:29:14.600 Trump commuted his sentence. 0.93

00:29:16.700 So that's, that's what we do with corrupt Democrats. 0.99

00:29:19.260 We give them a helping hand.

00:29:20.380 So it doesn't excite me as much as it does maybe some people who say, oh, we got him dead to rights this time.

00:29:30.120 Biden, look, this proves it.

00:29:31.520 Yeah, I mean, it does.

00:29:32.660 Absolutely.

00:29:33.920 Doesn't excite me though, because I have no faith at all that Republicans will do a damn thing about it if they ever have the power to.

00:29:41.640 Hope I'm wrong.

00:29:42.940 But action is what I'm interested in.

00:29:44.660 It's not like I'm only applying that to this topic.

00:29:48.060 Okay.

00:29:48.460 This is, this is my approach to anything.

00:29:50.680 I care about action.

00:29:51.880 That's why I spent the last two years of my life pushing for laws and legislation against child mutilation.

00:29:55.540 I'm not interested in just talking about it.

00:29:59.300 I want to see action.

00:30:00.420 I want to see things done.

00:30:02.180 That's, that's what I care about.

00:30:04.340 This is not just a topic for conversation.

00:30:06.640 I'm afraid for a lot of people on the right, especially a lot of people in the right-wing media, that's all it really is.

00:30:12.400 It's just, it's just stuff to talk about.

00:30:14.260 You don't really care about it.

00:30:16.420 And so, and, and, you know, you'll know who those people are because if Republicans manage to take the White House in, in 2024,

00:30:25.460 and then are in a position to actually hold Biden accountable, how many of the right-wing commentators and pundits right now who are going on about Biden's corruption,

00:30:37.720 how many of them are going to push that Republican president, whoever it may be, how many are going to push him and say, okay, follow through now, do it.

00:30:47.500 We're not going to take any, no excuses.

00:30:49.980 How many of them are going to say that?

00:30:51.140 How many of them followed up once Trump took office in 2016 and said, what about all the locking her up stuff?

00:30:57.360 What happened with that?

00:30:59.820 No, the locker up is a, is a, is a mantra.

00:31:02.780 It's a slogan precisely in the moments when Republicans don't have the power to do it.

00:31:07.320 That has been the theme with Republicans forever.

00:31:10.140 They're very excited about doing things when they don't have the power to do it.

00:31:13.020 And then when they have the power to do it, it's like, it never happened.

00:31:15.920 We forget about it.

00:31:18.520 All right.

00:31:19.020 This is from the, also from the Daily Wire. 0.99

00:31:21.140 A self-described transsexual male who had surgery in 2009 to invert his penis into an imitation vagina has experienced such constant pain 0.51

00:31:28.600 that he asked Canada's MAID, which is the Medical Assistance in Dying program, for permission to be euthanized and was rejected. 0.64

00:31:37.460 Lewis Cardinal, 35, who describes himself as a sterilized First Nations post-op transsexual,

00:31:44.540 petitioned the MAID program with his doctor writing that his problem was pain and anxiety related to neo-vagina for gender affirmation.

00:31:53.000 The doctor then referred Cardinal to another doctor who wrote, quote,

00:31:55.780 based on current clinical information and consultation, the patient does not meet current MAID criteria,

00:32:00.560 adding that the patient could be reassessed in the future if change in clinical status.

00:32:06.840 Wesley J. Smith of the National Review noted,

00:32:09.240 Canadian law does not require those who want to be killed to access such care.

00:32:12.340 To the contrary, irremediable suffering is based on the patient's perspective,

00:32:16.480 not the unavailability of treatment or interventions.

00:32:21.440 Cardinal informed the Daily Mail, quote,

00:32:22.820 I'm in constant discomfort and pain.

00:32:24.860 It's taking this psychological burden on me.

00:32:27.440 If I'm not able to access proper medical care, I don't want to continue to do this.

00:32:31.600 And do this meaning live.

00:32:33.560 I'm not getting any better and nor am I experiencing better medical care or any medical care.

00:32:37.780 It's so captured by gender ideologies that they care more about my pronouns.

00:32:42.020 Cardinal tweeted,

00:32:42.620 I call on all levels of governments and offices to reconsider their stance on gender affirming care.

00:32:46.920 Okay, so, first of all, should go without saying that I absolutely reject the idea of medical assistance and dying and euthanasia.

00:32:55.800 So, I don't think that anybody should be euthanized.

00:32:58.000 And I don't think that this guy should be euthanized either.

00:33:02.140 But the fact that they won't approve it shows a glaring inconsistency in Canada when it comes to how they approach euthanasia.

00:33:11.120 Medical assistance and dying, quote, unquote, as they euphemistically call it.

00:33:17.160 Because, as the National Review correctly noted, they don't have any, you know, there are no, there are no policies.

00:33:26.360 There are no requirements right now in place that should, by all rights, prevent this individual from accessing this, quote, unquote, care.

00:33:37.500 Big quotes around that.

00:33:38.540 But, there's nothing.

00:33:40.540 All that is required now to be euthanized, to be put down like a dog, is that if you have suffering that is not going away.

00:33:50.200 If you are suffering in a way and it's not going away and you don't see any end to the suffering in sight,

00:33:55.320 does not need to be a terminal illness that long since passed for, that's long in the past now in Canada.

00:34:02.000 That you only need to have a terminal illness.

00:34:04.400 Now, if you're suffering and it cannot be remediated, it cannot be helped, and who determines that?

00:34:13.140 Well, again, the policies for MAID in Canada stipulate that that's up to the patient to determine.

00:34:17.180 Which means that's basically open to anybody.

00:34:23.260 And certainly in this person's case, like, it is actually true that there is immense suffering he's experiencing right now that really can't be remediated.

00:34:36.220 And will be permanent.

00:34:40.460 Which isn't to say that, again, it's not to say that he should be euthanized, that he should commit suicide.

00:34:45.620 Certainly not.

00:34:47.040 But that is the reality.

00:34:48.780 Like, this is intense, very real suffering he's experiencing.

00:34:52.280 And there is no real solution for it.

00:34:57.340 There's always hope in life.

00:34:58.460 And there's ways that you can find happiness and joy in life, no matter what you're going through.

00:35:01.280 But there's no solution for what he's suffering from.

00:35:05.360 What the doctors did to him is permanent.

00:35:07.740 It cannot be undone.

00:35:10.640 And the mental and physical anguish, therefore, is also, at some level, permanent.

00:35:20.380 Like, I don't think you'll ever get to the point where you're just okay with the fact that this was done to you.

00:35:24.840 That's not ever going to happen.

00:35:25.760 So now, you know, and this is the case of, there are other people in other categories who are dealing with immense suffering that is not going to go away.

00:35:40.300 But you find ways to live with it.

00:35:43.240 And that should be the message to him.

00:35:44.880 But that is not Canada's message to most people who are suffering in a way that cannot be cured completely.

00:35:52.360 So why are they turning him down?

00:35:56.560 Well, the real reason, of course, is that this man's case is politically inconvenient.

00:36:01.080 It is detrimental.

00:36:02.720 There's nothing to be gained politically by admitting trans-identified people with regret into the program.

00:36:10.680 It starts a whole conversation that they don't want to have.

00:36:13.380 His whole case, his existence, is an inconvenience to them.

00:36:19.940 They would rather he not exist.

00:36:21.920 Only they don't want to help him not exist anymore because that calls attention to it.

00:36:27.980 That's the reality.

00:36:28.760 Because euthanasia, one of the many, many great problems with euthanasia that everyone should understand,

00:36:38.480 and this doesn't matter what your euthanasia policy is, doesn't matter if you are only, quote unquote, only allowing euthanasia for the terminally ill.

00:36:47.220 No matter what, it is going to be politicized.

00:36:50.040 The moment the government gets involved in suicide, by coming up with laws and policies and regulations for it,

00:36:59.280 it becomes politicized automatically.

00:37:02.000 Anything the government is involved in is politicized inherently.

00:37:06.820 The government is a political entity.

00:37:09.820 So if they're coming up with regulations for anything, there's going to be a political element to it.

00:37:15.540 Always.

00:37:16.060 So you have to ask yourself, do you want any kind of politicization of suicide?

00:37:21.940 Which is why, one of the many reasons, again, why euthanasia should, there should be no legal euthanasia at all.

00:37:29.220 Because that means the government's getting involved.

00:37:31.980 Now you have the government involved in regulating suicide and deciding who is eligible for suicide and who isn't,

00:37:38.260 which is just like grotesque, the whole thing.

00:37:42.160 And also, the medical industry is involved.

00:37:46.060 Essentially, it's like the two last institutions you would ever want to be involved in suicide,

00:37:52.220 government and medicine, now are.

00:37:56.880 But really, you don't want anything or anyone involved in suicide.

00:37:59.380 Because anytime somebody is suicidal, our message should be a message of hope to them.

00:38:03.060 And we should be finding ways to help them live with whatever they're going through.

00:38:07.860 Not give up and die.

00:38:09.220 That should always be our message.

00:38:11.220 Here's an interesting article from CNN.

00:38:17.880 CNN says,

00:38:18.880 Christian leadership in the U.S. has typically been seen as a male occupation.

00:38:23.460 The right for women to be ordained and serve as faith leaders has been hard won over decades.

00:38:27.360 And in several major factions, like the Roman Catholic and Southern Baptist churches,

00:38:30.380 women are barred from the highest levels of leadership. 0.99

00:38:32.340 However, among mainstream denominations that do ordain women, a sea change is occurring.

00:38:36.440 More women are entering seminary and other theological programs with the intent of becoming priests.

00:38:42.220 As it follows, more women are also occupying these roles after being ordained. 0.99

00:38:45.940 Experts say one of the main reasons for the increase is that women of faith are looking at their religious traditions 0.95

00:38:50.120 and sensing a need for change.

00:38:53.300 Alexis Abernethy, the chief academic officer at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, says,

00:38:57.960 women and men in the church have seen abuse and suffering.

00:39:00.680 They've seen the role of the patriarchy in the church.

00:39:03.240 They want to address constructively some of these challenges that have been facing both the church and our society.

00:39:07.340 They're saying enough of this.

00:39:08.540 We need to be different.

00:39:09.240 So I think a lot of these women are marshaling energy in that direction. 1.00

00:39:14.400 And so it's an article all about this alleged change that's happening

00:39:18.040 where women are finally assuming leadership positions in the church, in churches all across America.

00:39:25.260 Two quick points about that.

00:39:26.340 First, it's a myth.

00:39:27.960 That churches in America have been run by men up to this point.

00:39:32.060 So if more women are getting involved in churches, that's not a sea change at all. 1.00

00:39:36.600 It's not any kind of change.

00:39:37.620 That's just more of the same.

00:39:39.420 Most churches have been run by women for the past several decades.

00:39:44.340 Okay?

00:39:45.020 Maybe not in an official capacity or as pastors or priests in all these cases,

00:39:49.440 but women have been running the show in most churches for a long time. 1.00

00:39:53.560 Anyone who's been going to church for any period of time knows that.

00:39:58.680 I mean, even in the Catholic Church, where women cannot become priests, still, your average Catholic parish is not going to have a female priest.

00:40:08.040 But there will be, in almost every case, a gaggle of women who basically run things. 1.00

00:40:13.520 There might be a liberal nun in there. 1.00

00:40:16.040 You know, one of those nuns that wears regular clothes, doesn't wear the habit. 1.00

00:40:19.500 Maybe there's like a female music director or something. 1.00

00:40:22.980 Other positions as well.

00:40:24.120 But whatever the position the women have in the church, or maybe they have none at all, 1.00

00:40:29.000 there are also going to be a lot of women who don't have an official position. 1.00

00:40:31.800 You know, they are just part of the congregation, and yet they have inserted themselves into all these different aspects of what goes on in the church.

00:40:40.240 And they're very vocal, and they're very, you know, if there's anything that happens that upsets them,

00:40:45.260 it's whoever actually is supposed to be running the church, the pastor, the priest, knows.

00:40:48.700 It's like, okay, I want to hear from them about this.

00:40:50.760 And they effectively run the church.

00:40:52.540 So, and that is why, you know, for years now, most churches have catered to women,

00:41:01.260 because they've effectively been run by women. 0.99

00:41:02.980 Churches in America are already female-led, okay, much to their detriment. 1.00

00:41:08.220 That's because the last thing that we need here is more women in church leadership positions. 1.00

00:41:15.400 That's the last thing we need.

00:41:16.900 That the church is already too feminized, too soft, too focused on feelings and emotions and being welcoming and inclusive.

00:41:27.740 All of that is coming from liberal women in these churches, or most of it anyway.

00:41:32.340 They're the ones driving this.

00:41:35.740 The church, Christendom in America is what I, you know, I'm talking about all of Christianity, basically,

00:41:42.300 with rare exception, is far too soft and feminine.

00:41:45.500 And again, it's been that way for years.

00:41:49.120 So, adding more women into leadership, it's just going to drive that problem even more, 1.00

00:41:54.840 which, of course, is what CNN wants.

00:41:56.980 So, they realize that.

00:41:58.740 And it's a self-perpetuating problem.

00:42:00.520 The more feminine the church is, the less men want to go. 1.00

00:42:04.140 And the less that men want to go, the more women are in charge, because there's no one else there. 1.00

00:42:09.140 And the more they're in charge, the more feminine it gets, and the less men want to go. 0.94

00:42:15.300 So, the more women are in charge, the more feminine it gets, the less men want to go. 0.99

00:42:19.140 And it's just on and on and on.

00:42:20.960 A self-perpetuating cycle.

00:42:22.160 And it's really more of a death spiral, self-perpetuating death spiral for the church.

00:42:30.940 You know, C.S. Lewis, and I'm going to butcher the quote, I don't remember the exact quote,

00:42:34.120 but he talks about how going to church, it should have the feeling of, you know, of getting battle plans,

00:42:44.440 of like, you're in the middle of a war, and you're meeting, and you're going over your battle plans for the battle ahead.

00:42:53.920 And you should have very much that feeling of like spiritual warfare, and you're all soldiers,

00:42:59.840 and you're meeting together, and you're discussing what your battle strategy is going to be.

00:43:05.220 That's the feeling that church should have.

00:43:09.040 He put it much more eloquently than that.

00:43:11.900 But that's right.

00:43:13.000 That's what church should feel like, because that's what it is.

00:43:16.160 We're in the middle of a spiritual warfare, and that's what church is, 1.00

00:43:19.100 and church is supposed to equip us for that spiritual warfare.

00:43:23.880 And one of the advantages that we're supposed to have in going to church every week

00:43:29.340 is that it equips us for the battle ahead for the next week.

00:43:32.940 Like, we're coming off of the battlefield, and battered, and bruised,

00:43:38.360 and from the past week of fighting it, and now we're collecting ourselves,

00:43:42.420 and we're getting ready to go back out into that battlefield again.

00:43:48.060 But that's how it should feel.

00:43:52.880 And if churches have that feeling, then you're going to have a lot more men showing up,

00:43:57.560 because that's what men want.

00:44:01.920 But that's not what churches feel like.

00:44:04.520 That's not the, to use the, as the kids would say, that's not the vibe, okay?

00:44:08.360 That's not the vibe you get from most churches.

00:44:11.040 Rare exception, again, and I'm always going to hear from people say,

00:44:13.260 well, my church is not like that.

00:44:14.160 Well, then God bless you and your church.

00:44:16.100 But most churches, it is.

00:44:19.080 It does not have the feeling of, like, spiritual warfare, battle plans,

00:44:24.340 you're going to war, you're fighting the forces of evil.

00:44:27.520 That is not the feeling.

00:44:29.400 And it's all set up to not feel that way.

00:44:33.460 Everything from the way that the churches are built now,

00:44:36.980 you know, they're built to look like,

00:44:38.780 either they look like kind of these nondescript office building types,

00:44:42.740 very sterile environments,

00:44:44.020 or they look, you know, if it's a mega church,

00:44:47.000 they look like just a concert venue and, you know, an auditorium of some kind.

00:44:51.860 But that's how they look.

00:44:52.860 And then you go in and the music is very feminine music 0.95

00:44:55.740 and everything about it.

00:44:56.540 The message from the pastor,

00:44:59.580 a very feminine message,

00:45:00.620 always about welcoming and being nice and being friends.

00:45:03.240 And men sit in there and they are bored to death by it.

00:45:07.680 They are just bored to tears

00:45:09.240 and feeling like they get nothing out of it.

00:45:12.560 And they leave in droves.

00:45:13.760 The women take over more. 1.00

00:45:14.780 And it's, again, continues and continues.

00:45:17.140 So this CNN is not reporting on a new development in churches,

00:45:21.400 but rather just more of the same, unfortunately.

00:45:23.560 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:46:57.740 Crispy Honey Bun says,

00:46:59.100 I don't think we will ever fully know

00:47:00.400 if Matt is an alien believer

00:47:01.960 or if this is all just a masterfully comedic performance.

00:47:05.960 These comments every single time I talk about this issue.

00:47:09.840 How marginalized do you think this makes me?

00:47:11.940 How alone in the world?

00:47:13.760 We may not be alone in the universe,

00:47:15.520 but how alone does it make me feel

00:47:17.260 that even when I try to express myself,

00:47:21.700 speaking from the greatest depths of my heart

00:47:24.680 as a member of the ABC,

00:47:27.640 Alien Believing Community, 0.97

00:47:29.040 that when I do that,

00:47:30.360 all I get is laughter from people.

00:47:32.300 Say, oh, what a great joke, man.

00:47:33.760 I'm not joking about this.

00:47:36.880 I don't joke in general.

00:47:38.460 I don't believe in it.

00:47:39.160 And I certainly would not joke about this.

00:47:44.620 Strago says,

00:47:45.440 I love how Matt develops the theme

00:47:46.720 and you never know if he's making joke or being serious.

00:47:49.040 Everything seems joke,

00:47:50.140 seems like a joke and serious at the same time.

00:47:52.480 Very funny.

00:47:54.760 Well, again, I don't know,

00:47:55.880 I don't know how,

00:47:56.400 I don't know what part of our discussion yesterday

00:47:59.000 or of me destroying Ben Shapiro

00:48:01.520 with facts and logic on the alien debate.

00:48:03.120 I don't know what part of that

00:48:04.180 seemed like a joke to you,

00:48:06.300 but this is all deadly serious.

00:48:07.620 Another comment says,

00:48:11.460 it's great that Matt can attack his boss like this

00:48:13.500 and nothing happens.

00:48:14.440 Most people would love to work at a place

00:48:15.740 where you can say anything.

00:48:18.100 Well, he's not my boss anymore, though,

00:48:20.580 because I owned him.

00:48:22.120 Legally, he is now my employee.

00:48:24.760 This is written into law.

00:48:26.380 A lot of people don't know this,

00:48:27.780 but if you,

00:48:28.820 it's an actual thing.

00:48:29.800 If you own your boss with a YouTube video,

00:48:33.240 then after that,

00:48:35.160 he actually becomes your subordinate.

00:48:36.480 So it's a little known loophole

00:48:38.420 in our labor laws,

00:48:40.700 but that's,

00:48:41.580 that's the situation.

00:48:44.400 That's what Ben's dealing with now.

00:48:47.000 Kay Stan says,

00:48:48.680 I have to admit that

00:48:49.440 when Matt started talking about aliens,

00:48:51.400 I thought it was nonsense,

00:48:52.320 but now he's actually winning me over

00:48:53.480 with his arguments.

00:48:54.100 Okay, good.

00:48:54.760 So there's at least one person

00:48:55.740 taking me seriously.

00:48:57.120 Thank God.

00:48:58.500 Here's a comment not related to aliens.

00:49:01.000 I don't know why I'm reading in that case.

00:49:02.500 David says,

00:49:04.480 I like when you,

00:49:05.280 like what you say about learning

00:49:06.200 about the whole story of slavery

00:49:07.520 rather than just the one piece of it.

00:49:09.800 It won't make slavery seem justified,

00:49:11.320 but it does make you pause

00:49:12.320 before singling out white people

00:49:13.520 as the main villains

00:49:14.440 in the slavery story.

00:49:15.900 Same thing for Western expansion

00:49:17.300 into the Americas.

00:49:18.400 Easy to condemn now,

00:49:19.460 but all civilizations through history

00:49:20.580 have expanded through violence.

00:49:22.660 Yeah, I mean,

00:49:23.300 your point is basically correct.

00:49:24.240 To say that white people 0.66

00:49:24.900 aren't the main villains

00:49:26.180 in the slavery story

00:49:27.040 is a vast understatement.

00:49:28.840 Slavery was a global institution

00:49:30.040 for millennia,

00:49:31.160 so no race or ethnicity or culture

00:49:34.720 is the main villain of it,

00:49:36.280 and no race, ethnicity, or culture

00:49:37.840 is innocent in this crime.

00:49:41.080 In fact, you know,

00:49:42.480 arguably white people

00:49:43.900 aren't even the main villains

00:49:44.900 or certainly not the only villains

00:49:46.040 of slavery in the West.

00:49:47.860 If we were to just narrow it down to that,

00:49:51.560 because those slaves were sold

00:49:53.360 into slavery by Africans. 0.88

00:49:55.180 What you say about Western expansion

00:49:56.620 is also true.

00:49:58.340 But I wouldn't talk about

00:50:00.500 Western expansion

00:50:01.400 like it's some evil

00:50:02.540 that needs to be excused.

00:50:04.640 The drive to come across the ocean

00:50:06.940 and expand into this untamed,

00:50:09.020 unknown part of the globe,

00:50:10.660 you know, that was,

00:50:11.340 it was good.

00:50:12.380 It's like, it's not a thing

00:50:13.100 that we need to rationalize

00:50:14.060 or excuse.

00:50:14.760 It was a good thing.

00:50:15.380 It was noble and courageous.

00:50:16.880 And I'm certainly glad

00:50:18.020 that it happened.

00:50:19.500 Like, I'm glad that this part

00:50:20.740 of the world was conquered.

00:50:23.160 And everyone who lives here

00:50:24.740 is glad that it happened also,

00:50:26.020 whether they admit it or not.

00:50:29.340 Like, if they could rewind the clock

00:50:31.360 and have none of that ever happen,

00:50:33.780 they wouldn't do it.

00:50:36.500 I mean, for one thing,

00:50:37.120 it means that they would cease to exist.

00:50:38.440 They would be unwriting

00:50:39.840 their own existence.

00:50:40.920 So that's probably one reason

00:50:41.680 why they wouldn't do it.

00:50:42.300 But if this part of the world

00:50:46.260 had remained, you know,

00:50:47.320 it was about 3,000 years in the past.

00:50:49.560 This part of the world was,

00:50:51.040 it's pretty fascinating.

00:50:52.420 Like, it's a fascinating moment in history.

00:50:55.320 It's why I love reading about it

00:50:56.360 and studying it.

00:50:57.700 The moment when Europeans 1.00

00:50:58.880 came into the new world

00:51:00.600 because they were basically

00:51:02.020 going backwards in time,

00:51:03.160 about 3,000 years.

00:51:04.900 The Indian civilizations

00:51:06.040 were about 3,000 years in the past,

00:51:07.700 if not farther than that.

00:51:11.020 Now, were atrocities committed

00:51:12.540 by Europeans and later Americans

00:51:14.100 against the Indians?

00:51:15.080 Yes, atrocities, plenty of them

00:51:16.220 were committed the other way too.

00:51:17.380 You know, there were atrocities.

00:51:18.300 Anytime you have a story of conquest,

00:51:22.940 there's always going to be

00:51:23.420 violence on both sides. 0.95

00:51:24.100 But whites were responsible 1.00

00:51:25.120 for their share of it.

00:51:26.540 As you say,

00:51:27.160 conquest has always involved violence.

00:51:29.560 And conquest has been practiced

00:51:30.860 by civilizations across the world.

00:51:32.220 But there's another point too,

00:51:34.500 which is that,

00:51:35.640 again, we're judging these events

00:51:37.600 from a modern lens.

00:51:40.080 Part of that bias

00:51:41.180 is that, you know,

00:51:44.400 the modern Western world

00:51:47.260 believes in human equality,

00:51:49.880 believes in the idea

00:51:50.840 that all people are equal

00:51:52.140 in worth and value.

00:51:54.260 But the thing is that

00:51:55.140 that idea didn't really exist anywhere

00:51:57.120 500 years ago

00:51:58.820 when Europeans first

00:52:00.480 made it into this hemisphere.

00:52:04.400 It was not a concept

00:52:05.540 that had really been developed yet.

00:52:07.460 So when they came here,

00:52:08.920 they didn't view

00:52:09.700 the Indian tribes

00:52:10.800 as equal to them

00:52:11.580 any more than the Indians 1.00

00:52:12.440 viewed their enemy tribes

00:52:13.760 as equal to them.

00:52:14.680 That didn't exist.

00:52:15.800 You think the Indian tribes 1.00

00:52:16.580 were talking about equality

00:52:17.960 and the tribes

00:52:19.480 that they were warring against

00:52:20.340 were equal to them?

00:52:21.180 No, absolutely not.

00:52:22.300 They didn't believe that.

00:52:24.800 Again, this idea

00:52:25.960 was basically non-existent.

00:52:28.140 Not just among white cultures, 0.89

00:52:29.500 but among all cultures.

00:52:30.220 So they came here,

00:52:30.920 they found this wilderness.

00:52:32.480 They found these people

00:52:33.480 that were living 3,000 years

00:52:34.560 in the past

00:52:35.040 in loincloths

00:52:35.760 and running around

00:52:36.380 naked in some cases,

00:52:37.940 having not invented the wheel

00:52:39.120 or any form of written language.

00:52:41.140 They saw things like,

00:52:42.420 in some cases,

00:52:43.000 ritual cannibalism.

00:52:45.520 And yeah,

00:52:45.940 there were many Europeans

00:52:46.720 who came to the conclusion

00:52:47.540 that these tribal people

00:52:48.400 were not exactly equal to them.

00:52:50.020 Now we can judge that now,

00:52:51.200 we can condemn it, 0.96

00:52:52.440 but it's just silly. 0.91

00:52:54.060 It just is.

00:52:54.920 Like, take away

00:52:55.720 your modern lens,

00:52:58.140 everything that you were born with,

00:52:59.500 all of these assumptions

00:53:00.440 and beliefs

00:53:01.020 and the doctrine of human equality.

00:53:02.840 It's impossible

00:53:03.540 to really take that away

00:53:04.540 from yourself

00:53:04.940 and try to see the world

00:53:05.980 without it.

00:53:06.960 But that is something

00:53:07.520 that you were born into.

00:53:08.480 You didn't come up with that idea,

00:53:09.460 you didn't earn it,

00:53:10.100 you don't get credit for it.

00:53:11.400 You were just born

00:53:12.040 and you were taught about this,

00:53:13.060 that all people are equal.

00:53:14.140 Well, take that away,

00:53:15.680 put yourself in the shoes

00:53:16.520 of someone 500 years ago,

00:53:18.860 entering into a wilderness

00:53:20.220 and coming across

00:53:21.960 a group of people

00:53:23.740 who are living

00:53:24.800 thousands of years

00:53:25.680 in the past

00:53:26.280 that don't even have

00:53:26.800 written language

00:53:27.560 and yes,

00:53:28.440 where ritual cannibalism exists

00:53:29.780 and you just encounter this

00:53:31.020 for the first time

00:53:32.080 and you don't have

00:53:33.760 all this philosophical framework

00:53:35.260 in place already

00:53:36.360 that insists

00:53:37.560 that everyone is equal

00:53:38.780 in some way

00:53:39.240 even if they don't appear to be.

00:53:40.380 You don't have any of that

00:53:41.400 and you're just seeing this.

00:53:42.800 What conclusions

00:53:43.420 are you going to draw?

00:53:45.620 You probably aren't going

00:53:47.400 to draw the conclusion

00:53:48.340 they're exactly equal

00:53:49.720 to you in every way.

00:53:50.940 You probably won't think that.

00:53:52.420 And I know this is a point

00:53:54.600 we're not supposed

00:53:54.980 to ever bring up

00:53:55.920 or admit or talk about

00:53:57.100 but it's like,

00:53:57.560 who cares?

00:53:58.140 We all know it.

00:53:59.200 Come on.

00:54:00.920 So you go back

00:54:01.500 and you can read

00:54:02.040 some of the things

00:54:02.600 that the early,

00:54:05.300 the Spanish

00:54:06.040 and the conquistadors

00:54:06.860 wrote about these

00:54:07.860 Indian tribes

00:54:09.140 and they called them savages

00:54:10.100 and we said,

00:54:10.760 oh, how could they think that?

00:54:12.320 How could they say that?

00:54:13.920 That's so bigoted.

00:54:17.080 I don't know.

00:54:17.620 I mean,

00:54:17.800 maybe they saw them

00:54:19.720 ripping out the hearts

00:54:21.880 of someone 0.96

00:54:22.260 and eating their limbs 0.89

00:54:23.460 and they,

00:54:24.480 this is what they thought?

00:54:26.320 They thought,

00:54:26.920 well, these are,

00:54:27.820 this is like savage

00:54:28.900 animalistic behavior.

00:54:30.480 Is that an unreasonable

00:54:31.780 thing to think

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00:55:35.460 Now let's get to our

00:55:36.140 daily cancellation.

00:55:40.880 Considering my recent

00:55:42.040 17-minute rant

00:55:43.080 against therapy,

00:55:43.940 it will not surprise you

00:55:44.760 to learn that I do not share

00:55:45.920 modern society's overriding concern

00:55:47.820 for mental health.

00:55:49.100 Now, as I'll explain in a moment,

00:55:49.980 mental health is important,

00:55:52.460 arguably,

00:55:53.060 if we understand the term

00:55:54.100 a certain way,

00:55:55.080 a way very different

00:55:55.840 from how it is commonly understood.

00:55:57.320 But if we accept

00:55:58.300 the popular narrative

00:55:59.180 about mental health,

00:56:00.020 it will lead us

00:56:00.460 to all sorts of

00:56:01.140 unfortunate directions.

00:56:02.180 It leads us,

00:56:02.740 most unfortunately,

00:56:03.400 to a country

00:56:04.040 where some 65 million people

00:56:05.860 are currently taking

00:56:06.680 psychiatric drugs.

00:56:08.300 And in a result,

00:56:08.920 not quite as dire,

00:56:09.900 but still pretty bad.

00:56:10.560 It leads us to this article

00:56:11.740 from the website Essence.

00:56:13.180 Headline,

00:56:13.540 nearly 40% of black women

00:56:15.600 have quit jobs

00:56:16.540 because they didn't feel

00:56:17.720 emotionally safe.

00:56:19.220 New survey findings

00:56:20.080 from black women-focused

00:56:21.120 mental health app Exhale

00:56:22.360 found that the group

00:56:23.880 often feels unprotected

00:56:25.200 and discouraged

00:56:25.860 from leaning into their identity

00:56:27.360 in the workplace.

00:56:28.920 Now,

00:56:29.780 we don't have the time

00:56:30.480 to dissect every piece of this,

00:56:32.160 so phrases like

00:56:33.000 leaning into their identity

00:56:34.400 in the workplace

00:56:34.920 will just have to be

00:56:36.340 left alone for now.

00:56:37.320 At first blush,

00:56:37.920 it may seem totally incoherent.

00:56:39.340 I mean,

00:56:39.440 how can you lean into

00:56:40.520 your own identity?

00:56:41.680 Your identity is just

00:56:42.500 who you are. 0.99

00:56:43.940 The rather insufferable

00:56:44.920 lean into expression

00:56:46.000 normally means

00:56:46.680 that you're working hard

00:56:47.560 at something,

00:56:48.180 that you're showing

00:56:49.020 great effort

00:56:49.680 and perseverance.

00:56:51.380 How can you work hard

00:56:52.660 at your own identity?

00:56:54.840 And anyway,

00:56:55.420 why is that the kind of work

00:56:56.520 you'd be doing

00:56:57.000 in the workplace?

00:56:58.400 Your employer

00:56:58.860 didn't hire you

00:56:59.520 to sit around

00:57:00.280 and simply exist

00:57:01.500 as yourself.

00:57:02.820 If your boss asks you

00:57:04.060 what you did all day,

00:57:05.580 it'd be a bad idea

00:57:06.360 to answer,

00:57:06.840 well,

00:57:07.140 I existed.

00:57:07.860 You know,

00:57:08.000 I did a lot of existing.

00:57:09.500 Yeah,

00:57:09.840 I really leaned into

00:57:10.520 my identity.

00:57:11.620 In fact,

00:57:11.820 I'm going to bring

00:57:12.260 my work home with me

00:57:13.540 and continue existing

00:57:14.540 even off the clock.

00:57:15.520 That's how committed

00:57:16.160 I am,

00:57:16.680 boss.

00:57:18.100 It doesn't make much sense.

00:57:19.440 Until you understand

00:57:20.340 that by lean into

00:57:21.260 your identity,

00:57:21.960 what they really mean

00:57:22.740 is do and say

00:57:24.300 whatever you want

00:57:24.980 all the time.

00:57:26.140 And what that really means

00:57:27.060 in context

00:57:27.700 and in practical terms

00:57:29.020 is be a lazy,

00:57:30.840 unproductive 0.99

00:57:31.340 a**hole. 0.98

00:57:32.280 That's what anyone 0.83

00:57:33.020 who expresses a desire

00:57:34.940 to lean into

00:57:35.760 their identity

00:57:36.280 in the workplace,

00:57:37.060 that's what they really mean

00:57:38.120 100% of the time.

00:57:39.460 I know we said

00:57:41.120 we wouldn't spend

00:57:41.600 a lot of time on this,

00:57:42.580 but it turns out

00:57:43.160 that it's a very relevant

00:57:43.980 point,

00:57:45.060 very relevant to the main point,

00:57:46.520 as we'll see as we continue.

00:57:48.120 Quote,

00:57:48.460 black women are increasingly 1.00

00:57:49.720 prioritizing their mental health, 0.98

00:57:51.320 but it's coming at the cost

00:57:52.600 of their livelihood.

00:57:53.820 Exhale,

00:57:54.280 a well-being app

00:57:55.260 specifically for black women

00:57:56.300 and women of color, 1.00

00:57:57.380 recently published

00:57:58.060 its The State of Self-Care

00:57:59.340 for Black Women report

00:58:00.280 and found that nearly

00:58:00.880 40% of black women 0.63

00:58:01.800 have left their jobs

00:58:03.100 because they felt unsafe

00:58:04.180 in their identity.

00:58:04.900 Quote,

00:58:05.040 as black women

00:58:05.900 we're surrounded

00:58:06.520 with messages

00:58:07.060 telling us we're strong

00:58:08.120 and resilient enough

00:58:08.820 to manage stress,

00:58:09.920 but this survey proves

00:58:10.780 that we are negatively impacted

00:58:12.040 by a lack of necessary support,

00:58:13.900 said Katara McCarty,

00:58:15.140 founder of Exhale

00:58:15.800 in a news release

00:58:16.800 shared with Essence.

00:58:18.580 Quote, 0.98

00:58:18.880 black women cannot fully heal 1.00

00:58:20.240 without being fully seen. 0.91

00:58:21.780 We need culturally appropriate

00:58:22.880 resources and tools

00:58:23.840 that address the effects

00:58:24.820 of racial trauma

00:58:25.700 on mental, emotional,

00:58:27.000 and physical health.

00:58:28.840 Now, I have no idea

00:58:29.700 if the numbers here

00:58:30.540 are correct.

00:58:31.480 I suspect they're not.

00:58:32.500 40% of black women 0.63

00:58:35.260 have left their jobs

00:58:36.360 because they felt unsafe

00:58:37.800 in their identity.

00:58:39.760 I would have thought

00:58:40.280 it'd be impossible

00:58:40.880 to find 40% of adults

00:58:42.160 in any demographic

00:58:42.940 who would even use the phrase

00:58:44.880 I feel unsafe in my identity,

00:58:46.500 much less leave a job over it.

00:58:48.600 This is the kind of thing

00:58:49.260 that you might expect

00:58:49.960 a 19-year-old blue-haired

00:58:51.440 Starbucks barista

00:58:52.360 to scream as she 0.97

00:58:53.200 storms out of her job 1.00

00:58:54.420 because a customer

00:58:55.040 misgendered her.

00:58:56.220 That's it, I'm leaving.

00:58:57.140 I feel so unsafe

00:58:58.400 in my identity here.

00:59:00.280 I can imagine that.

00:59:01.500 I can't imagine

00:59:02.860 40% of adults

00:59:04.320 in any group

00:59:05.340 carrying on this way.

00:59:07.540 But perhaps I'm being

00:59:08.400 overly optimistic.

00:59:09.740 I don't know.

00:59:10.520 Back to the article.

00:59:11.360 Quote,

00:59:11.960 the report analyzed responses

00:59:13.140 from 1,005 black women 0.98

00:59:15.000 in the United States

00:59:15.680 and unpacks the stressors

00:59:17.400 they experience every day

00:59:18.380 across various touch points

00:59:19.540 in their lives,

00:59:20.300 particularly in their

00:59:20.840 professional lives.

00:59:21.540 For example,

00:59:22.260 66% of respondents

00:59:23.280 say that they overexert

00:59:24.420 themselves to excel

00:59:25.340 in the workplace

00:59:25.760 and to take care

00:59:26.620 of personal responsibilities.

00:59:27.940 As Essence previously reported,

00:59:29.300 burnout is prevalent

00:59:30.060 among black women 0.91

00:59:30.780 and can often manifest

00:59:31.980 in physical ailments.

00:59:33.060 Quote,

00:59:33.500 constantly striving

00:59:34.240 to be the best of the best

00:59:35.160 while forgoing self-care

00:59:36.640 is really an epidemic

00:59:37.520 among black women.

00:59:39.120 Fauntleroy told Essence

00:59:40.780 in November 2022,

00:59:42.600 she's a certified acupuncturist

00:59:44.380 and owner of

00:59:44.940 holistic wellness practice,

00:59:46.360 The Spirit Seed,

00:59:47.560 and regularly teaches clients

00:59:48.940 the importance of

00:59:49.740 physiological interconnectedness.

00:59:52.060 In layman's terms,

00:59:53.260 she shows people

00:59:54.360 how mental wounds

00:59:55.560 adversely affect

00:59:56.700 our overall physical health.

00:59:58.240 Well, they're really hitting

00:59:59.940 all the liberal buzzwords,

01:00:01.540 aren't they?

01:00:02.360 Unpack the stressors,

01:00:04.060 lean into their identity,

01:00:05.620 touch points,

01:00:06.660 holistic wellness,

01:00:07.880 self-care.

01:00:09.300 I would say that this sounds

01:00:10.600 like it was written by AI,

01:00:11.920 except that the article

01:00:12.700 is not nearly authentic

01:00:14.340 and human enough

01:00:15.080 to have been written by AI.

01:00:17.040 Now, the obvious point

01:00:18.200 is that this is self-victimization

01:00:20.240 on steroids.

01:00:21.060 Here we find another example

01:00:22.160 of this absurd myth 0.98

01:00:23.960 that black women 1.00

01:00:25.220 somehow live 0.94

01:00:25.920 especially stressful

01:00:27.040 and difficult lives.

01:00:28.640 We're always being told

01:00:29.260 about this,

01:00:30.300 how difficult it is 0.72

01:00:31.260 to be a black. 0.96

01:00:31.720 Can you imagine 0.95

01:00:32.060 being a black woman

01:00:32.880 in today's society?

01:00:34.220 How hard it must be.

01:00:35.640 Now, in reality,

01:00:37.280 black women are already members 0.97

01:00:38.960 of two privileged classes

01:00:40.560 right out of the gate.

01:00:42.120 And that's before

01:00:42.660 they pad their stats

01:00:43.560 by adding non-binary

01:00:44.660 or obese

01:00:45.480 or whatever else

01:00:46.200 to the resume.

01:00:47.120 Now, sure,

01:00:48.020 black women 1.00

01:00:48.520 might have stresses 0.81

01:00:49.660 in their lives.

01:00:50.320 They might feel overworked

01:00:51.280 in some cases,

01:00:52.020 burned out,

01:00:52.700 and so on.

01:00:53.960 But so what?

01:00:54.640 Welcome to life, ladies. 1.00

01:00:56.840 Welcome to reality.

01:00:58.000 Welcome to existence

01:00:58.780 as a human person

01:01:00.200 in the world.

01:01:01.080 We're all stressed out

01:01:02.220 and burned out

01:01:02.800 and yada yada.

01:01:03.800 I have six kids to support.

01:01:05.360 I have two infants

01:01:06.260 who only sleep

01:01:07.300 for three hours at a time.

01:01:09.260 Okay, you want to go

01:01:09.840 toe-to-toe

01:01:10.220 in a stress match?

01:01:11.140 We can do that.

01:01:12.260 I know something about it,

01:01:13.120 but I don't sit around

01:01:14.260 at work or anyone else

01:01:15.240 trying to unpack it

01:01:16.500 and analyze it

01:01:17.860 and talk about it

01:01:19.300 and establish

01:01:20.380 physiological interconnectedness,

01:01:22.200 whatever the hell that means.

01:01:23.520 I just live my life.

01:01:24.940 And I do what needs to be done.

01:01:26.600 Handle my business 0.91

01:01:27.260 until I die. 0.98

01:01:28.560 That's it.

01:01:29.060 That's how life works.

01:01:30.240 Get used to it.

01:01:31.080 Move on.

01:01:32.300 There's nothing special

01:01:33.220 or unique about your stresses.

01:01:34.720 I guarantee you that.

01:01:35.680 Your life is not as hard

01:01:36.460 as you think it is.

01:01:37.260 And even if it is that hard,

01:01:39.220 self-pity won't get you anywhere.

01:01:41.340 So stop moping

01:01:42.320 and get on with it.

01:01:43.900 And that brings us finally

01:01:44.640 back to mental health.

01:01:46.480 The problem with the whole concept

01:01:48.100 of mental health,

01:01:49.060 as the phrase is commonly used

01:01:50.380 and understood,

01:01:50.760 is that when someone says

01:01:53.560 that we should focus

01:01:55.160 on mental health,

01:01:56.220 what they usually mean

01:01:57.720 is that we should focus

01:01:58.760 on feeling good about ourselves

01:02:00.260 and about our lives.

01:02:01.720 When a person complains

01:02:02.660 about poor mental health,

01:02:04.280 they simply mean,

01:02:05.060 most of the time,

01:02:05.680 that they feel bad,

01:02:06.720 that they feel stressed out,

01:02:07.560 that they feel irritated,

01:02:08.640 sad, whatever.

01:02:09.980 The solution then

01:02:10.920 is to prioritize mental health

01:02:12.180 by doing what makes them feel good

01:02:13.560 and happy and comfortable.

01:02:15.680 But this is all wrong.

01:02:17.340 Bad feelings,

01:02:18.240 stressful feelings,

01:02:19.080 feelings of burnout,

01:02:19.900 feeling overloaded,

01:02:21.300 these are not mental sicknesses.

01:02:22.860 These are not symptoms

01:02:24.020 of poor mental health.

01:02:25.180 These are symptoms

01:02:25.720 of simply being a conscious

01:02:26.980 human agent

01:02:27.980 operating in the world.

01:02:30.080 These are symptoms

01:02:30.700 not of having a sick mind,

01:02:32.460 but simply having a mind.

01:02:35.240 So if you talk about,

01:02:36.140 oh, I have stresses

01:02:36.820 and I have this

01:02:37.360 and I feel uncomfortable,

01:02:38.540 good.

01:02:39.040 That means that you're conscious.

01:02:40.160 That means you're a person.

01:02:42.400 The alternative is what?

01:02:43.540 To be catatonic?

01:02:45.660 Trying to avoid

01:02:46.940 uncomfortable feelings

01:02:47.800 and experiences,

01:02:48.460 that is not prioritizing

01:02:49.500 your mental health

01:02:50.100 because uncomfortable feelings

01:02:51.460 and experiences

01:02:51.900 do not jeopardize

01:02:53.000 your mental health.

01:02:53.960 In fact, it's the opposite.

01:02:55.400 A mentally healthy person

01:02:56.500 is a person who experiences stress

01:02:58.080 and experiences sadness

01:02:59.140 and discomfort

01:02:59.660 and then continues on functioning

01:03:01.780 as normal in spite of it.

01:03:03.960 In other words,

01:03:04.480 prioritizing your mental health

01:03:05.600 means going to work

01:03:06.740 and feeling stressed out

01:03:08.980 and then coming home

01:03:10.460 and going about your life

01:03:11.860 without whining about it constantly.

01:03:13.360 That's what a mentally healthy

01:03:14.420 person does.

01:03:16.200 The more you complain,

01:03:17.420 the more you shield yourself

01:03:18.440 from discomfort

01:03:19.020 by quitting jobs

01:03:20.020 or taking medicine

01:03:20.780 or whatever else, 0.70

01:03:22.140 the more mentally sick 1.00

01:03:23.220 you make yourself. 1.00

01:03:24.280 Now, in truth,

01:03:25.920 with all that said,

01:03:28.400 this is the appropriate way

01:03:29.860 of understanding mental health,

01:03:31.200 but I still don't love

01:03:32.560 the mental health

01:03:33.440 versus mental sickness language

01:03:34.760 even in this context.

01:03:36.480 That's because health

01:03:37.840 and sickness

01:03:38.280 are diagnostic terms.

01:03:40.140 They are medical language.

01:03:41.380 The more that we can take

01:03:43.000 medical language

01:03:43.960 away from the mind,

01:03:45.720 the better.

01:03:46.340 The more that we can

01:03:46.860 separate these two

01:03:47.840 and stop thinking of the mind

01:03:49.580 as this entity

01:03:51.820 that can be constantly

01:03:53.180 diagnosed with various sicknesses,

01:03:55.300 like the way that you can be

01:03:56.140 diagnosed with diabetes

01:03:57.260 or arthritis or something.

01:04:00.040 The more we can do that,

01:04:00.920 the better.

01:04:02.740 You know,

01:04:03.220 a woman who leaves her job

01:04:05.040 because she doesn't feel safe

01:04:06.440 in her identity

01:04:07.000 is not mentally sick exactly.

01:04:10.180 This is a moral defect.

01:04:11.700 This is a character flaw.

01:04:13.500 She lacks fortitude. 0.99

01:04:14.660 She lacks perseverance. 0.88

01:04:16.160 She lacks maturity.

01:04:17.640 She lacks strength. 1.00

01:04:19.020 She's weak. 1.00

01:04:20.060 She's a coward. 1.00

01:04:20.800 She's selfish. 1.00

01:04:21.480 She's shallow. 1.00

01:04:23.160 She's actually just sort of 0.88

01:04:23.980 a bad person.

01:04:25.640 Okay?

01:04:26.060 If you're leaving jobs

01:04:26.860 because I don't feel

01:04:27.400 unsafe in my identity,

01:04:28.380 you're just like a bad person. 0.99

01:04:30.000 You're not a good person. 1.00

01:04:31.380 You're weak. 1.00

01:04:32.840 You're silly. 1.00

01:04:33.620 You're frivolous. 1.00

01:04:34.800 You don't have a medical problem.

01:04:35.940 You have a character problem.

01:04:38.420 This has nothing to do

01:04:39.420 with mental health

01:04:40.020 one way or another.

01:04:41.320 So even when we try to come

01:04:42.420 to a more coherent understanding

01:04:43.780 of mental health,

01:04:44.420 we still find that

01:04:45.440 it misses the point.

01:04:47.100 It's not a useful concept

01:04:48.860 in most cases

01:04:50.160 because as it turns out,

01:04:51.740 the best thing you can do

01:04:52.700 about your mental health,

01:04:53.700 whatever exactly we mean by that,

01:04:55.460 is to stop thinking about it.

01:04:57.480 Stop making it the goal and focus.

01:04:59.520 The most mentally healthy people

01:05:00.900 in the world

01:05:01.560 are the people

01:05:02.140 who've never thought

01:05:03.140 for one second

01:05:04.360 about their mental health

01:05:05.360 or done one single thing

01:05:06.980 for the sake of it.

01:05:08.240 Okay, find me a person

01:05:09.320 who has never uttered the phrase,

01:05:11.600 I'm prioritizing my mental health.

01:05:13.260 That person is way mentally healthier

01:05:15.740 than anyone

01:05:16.820 who has done the opposite.

01:05:19.700 That's what mental health looks like.

01:05:21.940 Whatever mental health is exactly.

01:05:23.540 And that is why everyone

01:05:24.320 who prioritizes their mental health

01:05:26.520 is today, unfortunately, canceled.

01:05:29.820 And that'll do it

01:05:30.220 for this portion of the show

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 01, 2023

Ep. 1195 - NBC News Totally Obliterates Trans Ideology By Accident

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