The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1237 - Left Wing Activists Are Dying By Their Own Ideology

00:00:00.100 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the murder of an Antifa activist in Brooklyn this week has exposed some very ugly things about leftism.

00:00:06.120 We'll discuss that. Also, a bunch of men claiming to be non-binary invaded a tech conference for women.

00:00:10.940 NBC News demands answers from a GOP congressman whose distant ancestors owned slaves.

00:00:16.000 And an actress comes out to tell her abortion story, but reveals more than she intended to in the process.

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00:01:51.960 The other day I talked briefly about the murder of someone named Ryan Carson.

00:01:56.240 He's the 32-year-old Antifa activist who was stabbed to death around 4 a.m. in Brooklyn on Monday.

00:02:01.760 And I said that, among other things, his killing shows the importance of knowing your surroundings and taking proactive steps to protect yourself and your family.

00:02:10.600 Now, leftists can call that whatever they want to call it, stereotyping, racial profiling, white supremacy, whatever.

00:02:15.660 The truth is that it's common sense to get out of a situation when you assess that you are unsafe.

00:02:21.180 And if an agitated young male in a hoodie on a street corner starts kicking mopeds and ranting and raving in front of you, as Ryan Carson's killer did, then you don't stare at him.

00:02:31.320 You don't tell him to chill or shove him several times in the chest, especially when he says, I'll kill you.

00:02:36.800 What you do is you get yourself and your loved ones as far away as you can.

00:02:40.940 If somebody calls you a racist because of that, then that's their problem.

00:02:44.640 It's better to be alive and quote-unquote racist than dead and tolerant.

00:02:49.580 Now, over the last 48 hours, though, it's become very clear that the murder of Ryan Carson is about much more than what Ryan Carson did or failed to do at 4 a.m. on Monday morning in Brooklyn.

00:02:59.500 The response to Carson's killing from all corners of the left, from Carson's friends to local politicians to the media, doesn't simply tell us that leftists are hopelessly naive and ignorant of very real threats to their lives.

00:03:11.260 It does tell us that, but it also tells us a lot more, because this is a bigger story than that, it turns out.

00:03:17.700 Now, the response to Ryan Carson's killing also makes it clear that leftists simply don't care about human life or humanity in general.

00:03:26.280 We know that because they're not even going through the motions of demonstrating some pretense of concern for Carson, much less the policies that led directly to his death.

00:03:35.760 And what this means is that leftism is collectivism in every sense and at every level.

00:03:41.700 It views its own adherence not as people, but as replaceable, fungible cogs in the revolution.

00:03:48.520 It uses its own followers as essentially cannon fodder in the culture war.

00:03:54.000 One death is irrelevant.

00:03:55.940 It's collateral damage.

00:03:56.900 Now, we can debate when this began or whether it's always been the case with leftism, but it's impossible to dispute that the left is openly admitting this now.

00:04:05.980 Consider the fact that within hours of Ryan Carson's death, his left-wing friends set up a GoFundMe.

00:04:13.640 And that part is not unique.

00:04:15.520 You know, this happens a lot.

00:04:16.380 Somebody dies and next thing you know, there's a GoFundMe.

00:04:18.060 But the thing is that they didn't create this GoFundMe to cover funeral costs or to help Carson's family.

00:04:24.480 Instead, Carson's friends set up a GoFundMe for themselves so that they could skip work in order to mourn.

00:04:33.640 That's not an exaggeration.

00:04:34.540 It's precisely what they wrote.

00:04:35.700 Here's the pitch on their GoFundMe page.

00:04:37.140 Quote, we are a collective of Ryan's close friends reeling from a brutal loss.

00:04:41.520 We're asking for your help on behalf of his partner in easing the burden and stress of this horrifying situation so that we can have space and time to grieve and remember Ryan.

00:04:50.680 Immediate needs are to offset the costs of working-class people taking time off of work to properly mourn.

00:04:56.820 So they want to take a vacation.

00:04:58.440 They want vacation days.

00:04:59.920 And they want to be paid.

00:05:01.460 They want a paid vacation.

00:05:02.340 And they need to crowdfund for that, crowdfunding some bereavement leave, even though they're not even related to the guy.

00:05:09.820 Like, forget the family.

00:05:10.820 Forget the funeral, apparently.

00:05:12.080 Just pay them to sit around and mourn.

00:05:15.920 I mean, think about this.

00:05:17.740 Their friend died.

00:05:18.640 This all happened early Monday morning is when he was killed.

00:05:23.340 And the GoFundMe was up very quickly.

00:05:25.240 So their friend died, I mean, brutally, horrifically, stabbed to death in the heart.

00:05:33.100 Bleeding to death on a sidewalk, right?

00:05:35.800 And the first thing they think to do is start a GoFundMe to raise funds for themselves.

00:05:45.020 Which means that someone in the friend circle had to suggest this almost immediately after he died.

00:05:50.820 Did you hear Ryan was killed?

00:05:51.820 It's awful.

00:05:52.820 You know, we should start a GoFundMe.

00:05:54.700 Oh, for funeral costs?

00:05:55.800 No, no, no.

00:05:56.040 For us.

00:05:56.760 So we can take some time off work.

00:05:58.460 And then everyone else apparently agreed to it.

00:06:00.000 It's incredible.

00:06:02.680 But Ryan's comrades didn't stop there, rather.

00:06:05.900 For good measure, they also told media outlets that if he were alive, Ryan would feel bad for his killer.

00:06:12.120 As the Daily Mail reported, quote,

00:06:13.220 Unfortunately, Ryan Carson could not be reached for comment on this.

00:06:26.720 And although, if we're being completely honest, his friends are probably right.

00:06:30.620 On social media before his death, Carson celebrated violence directed at police officers.

00:06:35.460 He called the torching of a Minneapolis police station, quote, really good.

00:06:39.480 He cheered when Rush Limbaugh died, saying, quote, hell yeah.

00:06:43.380 He also threatened an elected official, saying that he wanted to, quote, shove this little effing nerd in the locker where he belongs.

00:06:48.640 At the same time, Carson pretended to be a compassionate person when he was talking about violent thugs and drug addicts.

00:06:54.980 So we wanted to have constant state-funded access to narcotics.

00:06:58.740 So the criminals who terrorize entire cities are the good guys, according to Ryan Carson.

00:07:02.980 But the talk radio hosts and politicians who disagree with him, on the other hand, well, they deserve to die.

00:07:08.360 Now, as depraved an ideology as that is, this is what resonates on the left now.

00:07:14.700 Carson's friends value that ideology more than the memory of their dead friend.

00:07:20.540 They want to promote the very same policies, defunding the police, legalizing injection sites, putting the mentally ill homeless back on the streets.

00:07:28.480 They want to lean into those policies that got Carson killed in the first place.

00:07:33.080 That's because they don't care about him.

00:07:35.200 They care about the revolution.

00:07:38.360 Now, you might have heard claims on social media that Carson's girlfriend, who was with him when he was killed, Claudia,

00:07:44.240 there have been reports on social media that she was not cooperative with police in the hours after her boyfriend's death.

00:07:49.940 And we can't confirm that, so I don't know if that's true or not.

00:07:52.980 Certainly, if it's true, it would be in keeping with Claudia's social media posts where she says that all cops are bastards.

00:07:58.680 But here's what we do know.

00:07:59.620 According to the New York Daily News, Claudia somehow mispicked, quote, unquote, mispicked her boyfriend's killer in a lineup.

00:08:06.680 And she's the only eyewitness to the crime.

00:08:08.080 She saw it happen right in front of her from just a few feet away.

00:08:12.180 But she reportedly misidentified the person who did it.

00:08:16.460 Now, without seeing all the people in the lineup, it's hard to make anything out of that.

00:08:20.700 Eyewitnesses are also notoriously unreliable.

00:08:23.380 But it is another interesting detail to note, all the same.

00:08:27.420 Politicians in New York don't appear to be interested in getting to the bottom of any of this or making sure that these sort of things don't happen again.

00:08:34.540 And like Carson's friends, they're motivated solely by ideology.

00:08:37.760 So take a look at so-called tributes to Ryan Carson from New York State Senator Julia Salazar or public advocate Jumaine Williams or council member Sandy Nurse or State Senator Jabari Bridsport or State Representative Emily Gallagher.

00:08:52.120 And all of these tributes that have been pouring in, none of them talk exactly about how Carson died or anything like that.

00:08:59.660 Instead, they all mindlessly tell people to continue practicing his brand of left-wing activism.

00:09:05.760 Salazar, for example, eulogized Carson by talking about the importance of humane drug policy.

00:09:12.100 Williams went on about the need for environmental justice.

00:09:14.880 They're skipping over any form of self-reflection about why Ryan Carson is dead in favor of repeating their talking points.

00:09:23.620 It's like callous and craven doesn't even begin to describe this.

00:09:28.220 Of course, wherever there's callous and craven behavior, there's also the corporate media.

00:09:32.700 And they've also been working overtime to obscure as many facts as possible about this Antifa foot soldier's unfortunate demise.

00:09:39.500 In the hours after Carson's murder, several outlets, including the New York Daily News and the New York Post, refused to provide any kind of description for the suspect.

00:09:47.420 Even though we could see it on security camera footage, so we all knew some of the basic details of his physical description.

00:09:54.900 The New York Daily News, for example, called the killer an, quote, unhinged stranger.

00:09:59.560 The article later describes the murder as a belligerent stranger.

00:10:02.460 But there's no mention of any kind of description, even though the article cites police sources who have clearly seen the surveillance footage showing the murder.

00:10:12.140 So this is deliberate.

00:10:13.820 Either the police or the media or Carson's girlfriend decided to hide some of the information.

00:10:17.920 There's no getting around that.

00:10:19.920 And as incredible as that is, it gets worse.

00:10:23.320 Somehow, in a development that's unprecedented in New York's storied history of perp walks, this cover-up continued even after police arrested Carson's alleged killer.

00:10:35.120 Yesterday, when police arrested the suspect, who allegedly stabbed Carson to death on the street, CBS News made the editorial decision to blur the alleged killer's face.

00:10:46.820 They deliberately hid his identity.

00:10:49.020 Watch this.

00:10:49.780 This is footage of the man police say they were looking for.

00:10:54.580 He has not yet been identified, but we are blurring his face at the moment while charges are pending.

00:11:00.100 We watched again as all of this went down.

00:11:02.540 More than a dozen officers were around when it happened before entering a home here on Lafayette Avenue.

00:11:09.780 I mean, it's amazing.

00:11:11.440 To be perfectly clear, the suspect that police arrested is an 18-year-old adult by the name of Brian Dowling.

00:11:18.160 There is no conceivable reason to blur his face in this context.

00:11:24.180 The excuse from CBS, which appears to be, well, this adult murder suspect hasn't been formally charged yet, so therefore you don't get to see his face.

00:11:31.660 This has never been used by any major media outlet in the history of this country, as far as we can tell.

00:11:37.700 It's never been used by CBS.

00:11:41.280 Thousands of times they have put footage of people getting arrested on TV, and they have never blurred the face.

00:11:49.200 They certainly didn't do that with Daniel Penny.

00:11:52.280 Daniel Penny didn't kill anyone in cold blood.

00:11:55.260 He's not a murderer.

00:11:55.980 He saved people on a subway car from getting violently attacked, which, by the way, you remember that in that case, Jordan Neely was going crazy on a subway.

00:12:06.680 Daniel Penny intervened.

00:12:08.900 And we're told that Jordan Neely, well, he was not a threat to anyone.

00:12:13.340 He wasn't waving a gun around.

00:12:15.940 Well, you see in the case of Ryan Carson, how quickly it goes from belligerent guy screaming to stabbing someone to death.

00:12:27.180 In the span of seconds, Brian Dowling went from screaming on a street corner to stabbing a man to death.

00:12:36.300 That's how quickly that happens.

00:12:38.320 Did Daniel Penny save people on the subway from the same fate?

00:12:46.320 It's quite possible.

00:12:48.160 And yet, even before Daniel Penny was outrageously charged with any crime, news outlets had no problem putting his face everywhere.

00:12:56.400 Before he was arrested.

00:12:59.600 What explains the different treatment?

00:13:01.220 Well, of course, Daniel Penny is white, and Brian Dowling is black.

00:13:04.440 That shouldn't matter, but when corporate media makes everything about race, it's hard not to notice.

00:13:11.040 And more to the point, Daniel Penny was a law-abiding citizen.

00:13:13.760 He served his country in the Marines.

00:13:15.500 Then he exercised his right of self-defense and his right to defend others around him.

00:13:20.180 So naturally, they'll want to shame him at every opportunity.

00:13:23.660 Brian Dowling, on the other hand, he did exactly what leftists wanted him to do.

00:13:27.040 If what authorities are saying is true, he contributed nothing to society.

00:13:31.360 Instead, he committed a bunch of crimes, behaved like a lunatic.

00:13:34.440 And terrorized everybody around him.

00:13:36.400 In fact, shortly before he murdered the Antifa activists in Brooklyn, Dowling was allegedly involved in other kinds of incidents.

00:13:44.760 Let's watch this.

00:13:46.400 What we've learned about 18-year-old Brian Dowling is that there appears to have been a summons from last year for disorderly conduct.

00:13:52.380 And that just a couple months ago, after Dowling was in an argument with his girlfriend at her apartment, he was breaking things.

00:13:58.800 And it actually led to his aunt calling 911 and describing him as emotionally disturbed.

00:14:04.600 There's a lot of thoughts that maybe there's a mental health aspect to it.

00:14:07.900 But certainly, it is a brutal murder that happened with this man stabbed to death in front of his own girlfriend.

00:14:12.380 So instead of throwing Brian Dowling in an asylum where he apparently belonged, leftist policies ensured that he wouldn't spend a day in any kind of institution.

00:14:22.100 The fact that he may have killed a leftist is unfortunate in their eyes, but they don't really care.

00:14:27.460 A little bit of a friendly fire in their view.

00:14:30.120 But shouldn't distract from their agenda.

00:14:31.760 Now, we've been seeing this a lot lately.

00:14:34.480 The other day, I mentioned the brutal murder of a 26-year-old white left-wing tech CEO in her luxury apartment building in Baltimore.

00:14:41.460 The CEO named Pava Leper was an avowed leftist.

00:14:44.840 She had BLM propaganda all over her social media feeds.

00:14:47.780 She seemed to really harbor an irrational hatred towards white men.

00:14:51.460 How did she die?

00:14:52.240 Well, she let a black guy she didn't know into her apartment building.

00:14:55.600 And then she got into an elevator with him.

00:14:57.900 The surveillance footage shows all of this.

00:14:59.440 Leper's mangled dead body was found on the rooftop of her apartment a few days later.

00:15:05.060 Now, if you were covering this story, and pretty much every news station in the Baltimore area has covered it,

00:15:10.240 then you'd think you'd at least want to inform viewers of exactly how Leper was murdered.

00:15:15.780 But that's not what's happened.

00:15:17.300 So here's one example of local news coverage of Leper's death.

00:15:20.100 This is from Fox St. Louis.

00:15:22.660 And I want you to notice what is not mentioned here.

00:15:24.980 We have new developments surrounding the investigation into the woman who was killed inside an apartment complex near Mount Vernon.

00:15:33.500 Well, city police are now saying they found the body of Ecomap CEO Pava Leper.

00:15:38.740 Leper inside the complex that was once the historic Congress Hotel.

00:15:43.000 Investigators say there were signs of blunt force trauma.

00:15:46.060 Detectives were originally called to the building after someone reported the 26-year-old missing.

00:15:52.180 Police are asking anyone with information that could help solve this case to contact them.

00:15:57.540 So a lot of reports are like this.

00:15:59.000 They say that she was killed in her apartment building, but they don't tell you how the killer got inside.

00:16:02.460 And that's a curious omission when you think about it.

00:16:05.060 Because if you really cared about Pava Leper, or even if you just cared about accuracy in journalism,

00:16:09.700 you'd think that maybe that would be one of the first things you mention.

00:16:12.900 Pava Leper let this killer into her building.

00:16:17.520 She died because she was too welcoming.

00:16:19.240 She was too trusting.

00:16:20.040 She was too tolerant.

00:16:21.400 Too naive.

00:16:23.340 She died because she didn't make stereotypical assumptions.

00:16:28.980 Why not tell that story to the public?

00:16:31.380 Now, the omission is particularly notable given recent history.

00:16:34.240 It wasn't all that long ago that the media told us that unless we allow every random black guy into our apartment buildings,

00:16:40.120 then we're racist and we should lose our job.

00:16:41.920 So here's a story that you almost certainly don't remember.

00:16:44.720 It's from the dark ages of 2018.

00:16:47.700 And that year, a white woman named Hillary Thornton decided to block a black man from entering her apartment building.

00:16:54.060 Hillary had cracked the door to let her dog out.

00:16:56.400 Then an unknown black guy tried to enter the building.

00:16:59.400 And Hillary said that she wouldn't allow him inside.

00:17:03.620 What happened next?

00:17:04.380 Well, the entire national news media branded Hillary Thornton as a racist.

00:17:08.460 And she was fired from her job.

00:17:10.260 Watch.

00:17:10.520 We are hearing the other side of a story that's making national headlines.

00:17:15.740 A white woman inside a downtown loft building not letting a black man inside Friday night has hit social media and gone viral.

00:17:24.680 And the woman in the video says he didn't have a key fob to get in and forced his way inside.

00:17:30.920 She reached out to me to tell her side of the story after being called a racist and receiving death threats.

00:17:36.900 It's an exclusive interview.

00:17:38.120 You will see only on Fox 2 tonight.

00:17:40.640 So you're blocking me?

00:17:41.840 Into my building.

00:17:43.340 Okay.

00:17:43.640 And it's my building as well.

00:17:44.680 So I need you to get out of my way.

00:17:45.960 Okay.

00:17:46.180 This is the viral video of Hillary Thornton trying to stop Darion Tolles from entering the Elder Shirtlofts just off Washington in the city.

00:17:54.480 Thornton wanted people to know her side of what happened.

00:17:56.840 So when I noticed an individual that I did not know, my only intent was to follow the direction that I had been given by our condo association board members repeatedly.

00:18:07.640 And that is to never allow access to any individual that you do not know.

00:18:13.920 Thornton showed us several emails from the association stating what residents should do when dealing with a situation like this.

00:18:21.280 Hillary says Dorion said he was trying to get into the building as she had the door cracked as her dog went to the bathroom.

00:18:27.000 And I simply asked if he lived there.

00:18:30.520 Because the direction from the condo association is so repeated that if you don't know the person, you do not let them know.

00:18:38.100 Thornton adds she told him she couldn't let him in, then asked if he had a key fob.

00:18:41.740 That's the only indicator that any resident has that they live in that building.

00:18:47.840 He would not answer me.

00:18:50.860 So Hillary Thornton's life was destroyed because she did the right thing.

00:18:54.820 She did what her condo association told her to do.

00:18:57.760 She also did what common sense tells you to do.

00:19:00.520 You got someone who you don't recognize in the building, doesn't have a key fob, won't even tell you that they live there.

00:19:06.360 Don't let them in.

00:19:08.240 I wouldn't.

00:19:10.260 Pavel Leper, on the other hand, did what the left of corporate media demanded.

00:19:14.420 And now she's dead because of it.

00:19:17.560 And none of the activists who gave her that horrible advice, none of the media outlets that relentlessly attacked Hillary Thornton are acknowledging any of that.

00:19:24.600 Like Ryan Carson's friends, they don't care.

00:19:26.220 They're worried instead about the cultural revolution.

00:19:29.340 They don't care about the innocent people who die as a result.

00:19:31.340 You might have noticed that there have been several other prominent examples recently of leftist activists dying horrible deaths because of left-wing policies.

00:19:40.840 This is becoming more and more common.

00:19:42.500 And with every new tragic example, the responses from the left is always the same.

00:19:46.720 It's detached.

00:19:47.760 It's self-absorbed.

00:19:48.760 It's completely focused on politics.

00:19:51.140 All of them, corporate media politicians, the foot soldiers in Brooklyn, they all want their ideology to win.

00:19:57.240 That's all they care about.

00:19:58.800 People do not matter to them.

00:20:00.800 Human life doesn't matter to them.

00:20:02.060 The higher the body count, the more forcefully they'll clamor for social justice.

00:20:08.200 Every fatality is more evidence that they're right somehow.

00:20:11.800 What they'll never admit is that Ryan Carson and Pavel LaPierre, many more victims like them, have already experienced the inevitable consequences of this suicidal, insane ideology.

00:20:24.820 And precisely for that reason, no one will ever hear from them again.

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00:21:31.740 From the Daily Mail, it says,

00:21:33.000 female job seekers at a women in tech conference have reacted with fury after a number of men

00:21:37.940 crashed the networking events, seemingly taking advantage of the acceptance of non-binary people.

00:21:43.180 The scandal erupted at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Orlando, Florida,

00:21:48.500 which is among the most lucrative job-finding conventions for young female professionals

00:21:52.560 to meet major tech firms, often right out of college.

00:21:55.400 This year's summit, held from September 26th to 29th,

00:21:57.680 was swarmed with men also looking to land a big interview with firms including Amazon, Apple, and Google.

00:22:03.280 The reason many were welcomed appeared to be the women's event allowing non-binary individuals

00:22:07.360 to also attend, sparking anger among women,

00:22:10.540 feeling the move was a shameless attempt to take advantage of gender diversity programs.

00:22:14.080 Furious attendees took to social media to slam the men for gate-crashing the women's event.

00:22:19.300 However, some pointed the finger at vague benchmarks for entering the summit,

00:22:22.640 as men could simply identify as non-binary.

00:22:25.340 So there's a lot of outrage about this on the internet.

00:22:27.080 It was all quite hilarious.

00:22:28.400 Here's a report from an outlet called Catch Up News,

00:22:32.420 which shows us some of the women who are not so pleased about this.

00:22:37.300 Career conference for females in tech was taken over by male attendees.

00:22:41.520 They were there just purely for the career fair.

00:22:44.840 Social media clips filmed at the Grace Hopper,

00:22:47.440 the world's largest gathering of women technologists,

00:22:50.360 show men standing in line to meet with recruiters.

00:22:53.080 This is a space for women in tech.

00:22:56.220 This is one of those few limited resources that isn't for you.

00:23:01.640 It's for us.

00:23:02.560 Some of the male attendees reportedly lied about being non-binary just to get in.

00:23:07.140 But it's interesting that the large majority of the people that actually ended up in the event

00:23:12.000 had name tags with he, him,

00:23:14.060 and have no searchable history of identifying as non-binary.

00:23:17.240 Several tech workers defended the men for trying to capitalize on job opportunities not meant for them,

00:23:23.180 seeing that the entire concept was wrong.

00:23:25.160 Let's be honest, there is no need for a conference just for women,

00:23:28.760 because if it was the opposite just for men, then it would be sexist.

00:23:31.780 Just because you are a woman doesn't give you the right to talk to a big firm recruiter.

00:23:35.920 Guys work just as hard, and they don't get that chance.

00:23:38.620 No searchable history of identifying as non-binary.

00:23:43.060 What do you mean searchable history?

00:23:46.140 Have you been identifying every single one of these guys?

00:23:50.420 Or not guys, they don't identify as guys.

00:23:53.740 Have you been identifying every single one of these they, thems,

00:23:57.780 and then going online to search to find out exactly when they started identifying as non-binary?

00:24:02.160 If you are, then you're a creep.

00:24:07.060 But also, that's highly bigoted.

00:24:10.460 Because, first of all, if someone decided this morning that they're non-binary,

00:24:15.460 that is a totally valid identity.

00:24:19.040 And also, there's no rules in the non-binary rulebook, last I checked,

00:24:23.980 that says that if you're non-binary, you have to go by they, them pronouns.

00:24:27.520 You go by he, him pronouns.

00:24:28.600 You could go by any pronoun.

00:24:30.480 You could use no pronouns.

00:24:32.340 You could make up a pronoun.

00:24:33.800 These are the rules.

00:24:34.720 The rules are that there are no rules.

00:24:39.000 And we'll talk more about that in a second.

00:24:40.820 But we should also note that the, I think it's, the title is Chief Impact Officer, I believe.

00:24:48.580 A guy named Cullen White was at the event.

00:24:51.720 And he actually, at some point, the invasion of non-binary men got to a point where it was a real crisis at the event.

00:24:58.220 And so the Chief Impact Officer stood up and called out the men from the stage.

00:25:02.900 Let's watch some of that.

00:25:03.640 This is supposed to be a joyous event that centers around you.

00:25:09.900 Yesterday, it became clear that there are a far greater number of cisgender men attending who may anticipate.

00:25:16.520 Simply put, some of you lied about your time, right, and you need to be registered.

00:25:23.200 And as evidenced by the stats and stacks of resumes you were passing out, you did so because you thought that you could come here and take space to try to do the job.

00:25:35.600 We need male allies.

00:25:40.100 We need men who want to celebrate women, who want to work with and for women.

00:25:46.800 And so we welcome men in this space, but to learn, and support, and improve.

00:26:04.760 Let's pause it.

00:26:05.700 Needless to say, well, first of all, I am deeply inspired by what these heroic non-binary men have done, breaking down barriers, crashing through glass ceilings.

00:26:20.480 And to see the bigotry that they encountered, to be called out from the stage, and when I think about how deeply otherizing and marginalizing it must have been for them, it just makes me furious.

00:26:37.420 It makes me furious to see that.

00:26:40.820 And listen, you know, they have the leftover barrel on this one.

00:26:45.200 There's really nothing you can say.

00:26:48.000 You invented this non-binary idea.

00:26:51.200 You intentionally made it incoherent, ambiguous, totally impossible to define, arbitrary.

00:26:57.700 You're the ones who declared that being non-binary or being trans carries with it no standards or requirements of any kind.

00:27:07.520 You certainly can't make determinations about who someone is and what their identity is just by looking at them.

00:27:14.180 You said.

00:27:15.020 If you say that you're non-binary, then you are, and that's it.

00:27:21.920 What does it mean to be non-binary?

00:27:24.180 Like, to look at someone and say, well, I don't think they're really non-binary.

00:27:27.220 What do you mean really non-binary?

00:27:30.500 It literally is nothing.

00:27:31.660 It's just a phrase that you use.

00:27:36.080 That's the rule that you set up.

00:27:38.120 So it makes no sense for you to sit there and say that these men aren't non-binary or aren't presenting themselves as non-binary.

00:27:45.760 That's my favorite thing about this, is that they're getting blamed for not presenting.

00:27:51.540 What do you mean presenting yourself?

00:27:55.300 And you have no right to say that.

00:27:57.760 Like, according to you.

00:27:59.560 According to you, you have no right to tell anyone that they are or are not non-binary.

00:28:05.500 How dare you?

00:28:09.660 How dare you?

00:28:13.100 I say again, how dare you marginalize these non-binary Americans who are trying to get jobs in tech?

00:28:23.040 Let me ask you this.

00:28:27.440 How many tech CEOs are non-binary?

00:28:33.640 I mean, there's probably a lot at this point, to be fair.

00:28:35.720 But, you know, not enough.

00:28:38.360 Not nearly enough.

00:28:41.320 And so these brave souls show up to this conference, living their truth.

00:28:47.840 For many of them, you know what?

00:28:49.180 It probably is the first time that they live their truth openly.

00:28:51.520 You couldn't find a searchable history of them being non-binary?

00:28:55.080 You know what?

00:28:55.380 It probably is true.

00:28:56.840 All of these former men, all together, decided in that moment that they were going to announce themselves to the world

00:29:05.600 in their true non-binary form at a career conference.

00:29:13.360 Think about the courage that required.

00:29:17.880 And they do that, and then this is the response they get.

00:29:21.520 From these bigoted liberal women.

00:29:24.040 I am shocked.

00:29:25.340 I am appalled.

00:29:26.180 But all I can say to these men is, or former men, or whatever they want to be called.

00:29:36.080 You know what?

00:29:36.480 Here's the thing.

00:29:37.920 It's possible that they still identify as men.

00:29:40.540 That they still go by he, him pronouns.

00:29:43.720 They still dress like men.

00:29:45.640 Everything is the same.

00:29:47.320 Everything is the same.

00:29:48.760 And yet they are also non-binary.

00:29:50.300 That's valid.

00:29:51.300 That's valid.

00:29:52.000 So, to these men, if that's what they identify as, I can only just extend my heartfelt admiration.

00:30:02.000 And I also very much encourage other men who randomly identify as non-binary to invade any conference like this.

00:30:14.780 Giving the left a chance to experience the full implications of their own ideology.

00:30:26.540 I think it's a good opportunity.

00:30:27.720 It's an opportunity for them to experience.

00:30:29.480 And you know something, too?

00:30:30.120 Many of these women at this conference, for the first time in years, they suddenly discovered what the word woman means.

00:30:42.260 And so maybe that is the great service that these men or former men provided to these women.

00:30:47.120 Just by showing up, by simply showing up, all of these liberal women in tech, all together discovered what the word woman means.

00:31:00.120 Very brave.

00:31:01.680 Very brave.

00:31:02.440 Okay.

00:31:03.640 NBC News, speaking of brave, they've been doing a series of reports about slavery.

00:31:10.320 Which, I'm not sure if you ever heard about slavery, but that was a thing that happened in this country a long time ago.

00:31:15.120 And NBC News has decided that now is the time that they really need to do a deep dive exploration of slavery.

00:31:20.940 And who is descended from slaves and who is descended from slave owners.

00:31:25.360 And their most recent report on this topic has gotten a lot of attention.

00:31:28.560 Most of it negative.

00:31:30.120 Let's watch some of this.

00:31:31.800 We have a follow-up tonight to a story we first brought you over the summer.

00:31:36.200 In June, writers reveal that many of America's political leaders are descended from slaveholders.

00:31:41.580 Tonight, Blaine Alexander brings us more with a woman stunned to learn the history one of those lawmakers has with her own family.

00:31:50.000 In the sprawling fields of rural Tennessee, where thousands of black Americans were once enslaved,

00:31:55.160 Lucretia Johnson-Flash feels living history.

00:31:57.960 My people are buried here.

00:32:00.040 As head of diversity and inclusion at a college, she has spent years working against slavery's lasting impact.

00:32:06.460 Today, a typical white family in the U.S. is eight times wealthier than a typical black family.

00:32:12.140 The dynamics are still very much present with us.

00:32:15.260 A recent investigation by Reuters found five living U.S. presidents and at least 100 members of the last Congress are all direct descendants of slaveholders.

00:32:25.260 What does that say to you about the legacy of slavery in this country?

00:32:30.260 It says that power is passed down intergenerationally.

00:32:35.040 It's not to demonize anyone for the past, but things get passed down.

00:32:39.500 Through the Reuters investigation, Lucretia discovered her ancestors were enslaved by families whose direct descendant is Republican Congressman Brett Guthrie of Kentucky.

00:32:49.300 NBC News made repeated attempts to speak with the congressman.

00:32:53.260 He did not respond.

00:32:54.700 Okay, pause for a second.

00:32:57.280 NBC News made repeated attempts to talk to the congressman about a distant relative who lived 200 years ago and owned slaves.

00:33:07.840 And shockingly, this congressman didn't think that was an urgent matter that needed to be addressed.

00:33:15.140 I don't know anything about this guy, this congressman.

00:33:17.120 But I can't imagine that even for politicians, they've got plenty of other things going on in their lives that are more important than that.

00:33:26.700 And I also think it's, just to rewind, watch a little bit more of this for whatever reason, but just to rewind a little bit, you know, we're being told that, well, why is this important?

00:33:38.640 Why do we need to still be talking about slavery 150, 200 years later?

00:33:44.760 You know, something that happened, an evil from centuries ago, why do we need to talk about it now?

00:33:49.720 And she says it's because of power, power being passed down through the generations, which even if that is true, right, even if it's true that you can look at some people today and where they are today and, you know, trace it back to slavery.

00:34:08.020 And if you were to rewind the clock and if their ancestors were never enslaved, they'd be in a different position.

00:34:14.440 As I've talked about before, that doesn't necessarily mean they'd be in a better position.

00:34:18.880 But yeah, if you were to change anything that far back in the past, it's going to change where you are today.

00:34:23.960 It also might mean that you don't even exist today, as we've discussed.

00:34:26.780 But fine, accounting for all of that, and even if it's true that someone, and there's no way to know this, but you take this woman in particular, descendant of slaves from generations and generations ago.

00:34:45.820 If it's true that somehow her life today is worse than it would have been had her ancestors never been enslaved, if it's true that she somehow in some way is suffering some kind of disadvantage that she would not have suffered had her ancestors never been enslaved, there's no way to know that.

00:35:10.700 There's no way to declare that.

00:35:11.820 You can't possibly say that that's true.

00:35:13.380 But just for the sake of argument, let's accept it.

00:35:15.820 You still have the question of how does it benefit you or anyone to dwell on that fact today?

00:35:25.960 You go back, you know, if things were different 150 years ago, my life would be better.

00:35:30.580 That's an insane statement.

00:35:31.900 You can't possibly know that.

00:35:33.420 But okay, maybe it's true.

00:35:37.280 Okay, well, just, all right.

00:35:41.340 The most we can do with a statement like that is say, okay.

00:35:45.820 Okay, all right, now let's move on.

00:35:48.080 We can't do anything about it.

00:35:49.660 We can't do anything about it.

00:35:51.180 It already happened a long time ago.

00:35:53.360 And it stopped happening a long time ago.

00:35:55.640 We can do absolutely nothing about it now.

00:35:58.300 So the only thing that you can do is live your life and move forward or sit around in a state of paralysis,

00:36:06.980 whining about forms of persecution that you never even suffered.

00:36:12.820 I think it's funny they put up on the screen there the wealth, what was it, the wealth gap between, you know, white Americans and black Americans.

00:36:27.040 You know, but they only show white Americans and black Americans.

00:36:31.280 You know, they don't, it's sort of conspicuous that they don't put other groups up there.

00:36:38.300 Because if they were, if they were to do that, they would say, yeah, well, white Americans on average are this much wealthier than black Americans on average.

00:36:46.100 But you know who's at the top of that financial socioeconomic pecking order?

00:36:52.820 Asians.

00:36:54.380 The Asian Americans are at the very top.

00:36:57.400 And if everything's explained by the legacy of slavery, how does that fit in?

00:37:01.780 And they always leave the Asians out of the conversation because it doesn't, it doesn't work.

00:37:08.020 It doesn't fit in with their equation.

00:37:12.780 Especially when you consider that Asians also have a claim to forms of historical persecution.

00:37:20.000 There were Asians much more recently than slavery era getting rounded up in internment camps.

00:37:25.500 And yet they are, as a group, succeeding enormously and succeeding even more than white Americans are.

00:37:38.020 And why is that?

00:37:39.540 Well, it's very simple.

00:37:40.940 Because their divorce rates are relatively low.

00:37:43.820 Their out of wedlock birth rate is relatively low.

00:37:46.600 I'll say comparatively low.

00:37:49.100 These rates are comparatively low.

00:37:51.340 And their families stick together for the most part.

00:37:54.340 And they value education.

00:37:56.280 That's it.

00:37:57.340 I mean, there are other things too, but that's pretty much it.

00:38:00.840 They get married.

00:38:02.280 Then they have babies.

00:38:03.680 They stay married.

00:38:05.280 And they make sure that their kids get educated.

00:38:08.860 That's it.

00:38:09.580 That is the whole equation.

00:38:11.740 Right?

00:38:13.700 To, as a demographic group.

00:38:16.800 If you want your demographic group to be, you know, collectively successful.

00:38:22.620 And to climb the ladder.

00:38:24.060 That's how you do it.

00:38:24.800 That's it.

00:38:25.500 Wait till you're married to have babies.

00:38:27.720 Stay married once you have babies.

00:38:29.780 And make sure your kids get educated.

00:38:32.160 That's it.

00:38:32.760 If you do that, you're going to succeed collectively.

00:38:38.180 If you don't do that, you're going to fail.

00:38:41.260 And there's no reason why a history of slavery 150, 200 years ago would prevent you today.

00:38:48.360 Oh, my ancestors were enslaved in the year 1847.

00:38:53.780 So, therefore, I have to make babies out of wedlock and not get married.

00:39:01.580 What?

00:39:02.140 My ancestors were enslaved in the year 1847, so, therefore, I have to make self-destructive decisions today?

00:39:11.320 That's your choice.

00:39:12.240 It's very simple.

00:39:14.240 It's very simple.

00:39:17.340 The path to collective success is, it turns out, very, very simple.

00:39:23.100 Okay.

00:39:23.340 One other brief thing I want to mention before we get to the next segment.

00:39:26.600 Here's a story from the New York Post that's also gotten some attention this week.

00:39:34.020 New research out of the U.S. and London shows that shouting at children can be just as harmful to them as sexual or physical abuse.

00:39:44.680 The study commissioned by the U.K. charity Words Matter was published this month in the journal Child Abuse and Neglect.

00:39:51.220 It calls for childhood verbal abuse, CVA, to be officially recognized as a form of maltreatment.

00:39:56.580 In making this determination, researchers from Wingate University in North Carolina and University College London analyzed 149 quantitative and 17 qualitative studies examining CVA.

00:40:10.500 Study authors found that the definitional themes of abuse included negative speech volume, tone, and speech content, and their immediate impact.

00:40:19.120 And so this is what these psychologists and sociologists, this is, who really have been just, this whole industry has been an absolute blight on mankind.

00:40:33.520 And here's yet another example where these geniuses are telling us that using a negative speech tone, what's a negative speech tone?

00:40:43.180 It's, you know, being stern, being stern with your child, like speaking to your child in a way that communicates that you are upset about something.

00:40:52.240 Negative speech tone.

00:40:54.180 So they're not even just talking about, like, full-on top of your lungs screaming at a kid right in their face.

00:41:01.920 I think most people acknowledge that that is overboard.

00:41:04.960 They're not just saying that.

00:41:05.920 They're saying a negative tone.

00:41:09.020 And not only are they claiming that this is a form of abuse, but that it has the same effect on a child as being molested, is what they're saying.

00:41:21.300 And I can only imagine, like, the only reason why you would make an insane claim like this is if you are trying to minimize, greatly minimize, the harm and evil of child sexual abuse.

00:41:39.020 That is all that they are.

00:41:41.360 If they're accomplishing anything here, that is it.

00:41:45.920 Whether that's the underlying motivation, I have no idea with these people.

00:41:52.880 But that's the effect.

00:41:55.680 And we find this across the cultures, like this sort of, like, leveling out of everything.

00:42:02.260 And we're taking all forms of evil, and even things that are not evil.

00:42:06.180 Using a negative speech tone with a child is not evil.

00:42:09.360 But taking all, like, negative things and just putting them in the same basket, as if there are no gradations, as if there are no degrees to this.

00:42:18.880 And so now they're at the point of claiming that, yeah, a negative speech tone is, you know, results in the same trauma as molesting a child.

00:42:30.560 Which, I mean, I don't think I need to explain why that is.

00:42:34.400 Like, if you don't intuitively recognize why that is completely crazy, then there's probably nothing I can say that would convince you otherwise.

00:42:45.000 But I think most people into it will be recognized that.

00:42:49.520 But, you know, even putting aside, so the comparison to child molestation is just absolutely nuts.

00:42:56.600 If we were to somehow carve that out and put that to the side for a moment, you know, the rest of this is in line with stuff that we've heard before.

00:43:08.200 And this increasingly sort of, like, common claim about parenting, which is, this is what the parenting experts say now.

00:43:17.580 And, you know, the psychological, so-called psychological experts, this is what they tell us.

00:43:23.160 That yelling at a kid is abusive, you never want to do that.

00:43:27.900 Using negative tones with a child is abusive, never want to do that.

00:43:32.160 Of course, they've long ago said that any form of spanking whatsoever in any context, always abusive.

00:43:39.240 They even say now that time out, putting a kid in a time out, is abusive too.

00:43:46.800 Which, if you've already accepted everything else they've said, that kind of makes sense.

00:43:50.880 Like, if you can't even use a negative tone with a child, then, yeah, putting a kid in a time out is like a form of false imprisonment.

00:43:57.680 It's like kidnapping or something.

00:43:59.220 And you see all this, and you might start to think, like, well, what, how am I, what form of discipline can I use now?

00:44:08.460 What, if a child is misbehaving, how am I supposed to convey that to the child?

00:44:17.880 How do you instill any form of discipline whatsoever?

00:44:21.080 As these people, as the experts have come along one by one, it started with spanking.

00:44:28.360 And then just one by one, everything that a parent might do, everything that a normal parent might do to try to discipline their child and to try to communicate to a child that certain behavior is unacceptable, it's dangerous, it's disrespectful, whatever it is.

00:44:41.380 They've got one by one.

00:44:42.620 And the experts have come along and said, nope, can't do that, nope, not that, nope, not that, not that, not that, not that.

00:44:49.560 And then you're laughing, well, okay, what, what's left?

00:44:52.200 How am I supposed to instill any kind of discipline?

00:44:55.720 And the answer is for these so-called experts, they don't want, the answer is nothing.

00:44:59.060 Don't, don't, they don't want you to discipline your child.

00:45:00.620 They don't want you to parent your child is the point.

00:45:05.040 For these experts, they don't want you to do anything.

00:45:07.300 They just want you to be a lump on a log and your, your, your only function is just to be there, provide the, the roof over the head, give them food.

00:45:17.800 And even like the type of food, they'll tell you what type.

00:45:22.360 That's all you're there to.

00:45:23.200 And all the rest of it, the moral formation, any kind of any, whatever form of disciplining, leave that up to them.

00:45:28.460 They'll do the rest.

00:45:29.580 That's what they want.

00:45:30.620 And, you know, I, I worry about this for, because for someone like, it doesn't matter to me.

00:45:41.780 I just ignore these people.

00:45:43.780 But I think for a lot of younger people, for young parents, new parents, younger people who are not parents yet, and they see all of this and it just may, it's, it, it, you know, especially for young people who are not parents yet.

00:45:58.080 They see this and it dissuades them from ever becoming parents.

00:46:02.400 Because they look at this and they say, oh my gosh, like, no matter what I do, I'm going to destroy my child.

00:46:07.340 Anything I do apparently is going to traumatize my kid.

00:46:09.720 If I use the wrong tone when I'm disciplining them, it will, it will cause potentially lifelong trauma.

00:46:19.820 And I think a lot of younger people say that and say, I don't even want, I can't do it.

00:46:23.100 I can't.

00:46:23.880 I don't know, apparently you have to be some sort of highly trained genius to parent.

00:46:30.960 And you know what, that is also the objective too.

00:46:33.340 Ultimately, that's the real objective.

00:46:34.680 Is to communicate to people that, you know what, parenting, don't even do it.

00:46:39.800 Don't even try.

00:46:42.040 That's what they're getting to.

00:46:44.180 Let's get to Was Walsh Wrong?

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00:47:45.480 Scott McKinney says, Matt Walsh is working hard to move the Overton window on racial stereotyping.

00:47:50.180 He wants very much for white people to stereotype black men as dangerous and pretends that fear of black people is reasonable and warranted.

00:47:55.300 This is open and clear racism and race hatred.

00:48:00.440 Californian in AR says, it's true though.

00:48:03.560 I've stereotyped you as a stupid bigot.

00:48:05.860 Therefore, I don't listen to you and live my life without your influence.

00:48:08.340 It's great.

00:48:10.360 And Follow Me to the Truth says, what would you do if you pulled up to a gas station and there were white people wearing hoodies?

00:48:15.560 What about white people with neck tattoos?

00:48:16.960 White people with pink or purple hair?

00:48:19.020 I think the middle-aged black woman was a poor alternative.

00:48:21.180 You could have made a better alternative case.

00:48:22.720 Okay, so I'm going to respond to all these, but let me start with this last comment.

00:48:27.420 Would I have stopped at the gas station at night with my kids in the car if there were two white guys with neck tattoos hanging weirdly around off to the side, not pumping gas?

00:48:40.000 No, definitely not.

00:48:42.380 I wouldn't have.

00:48:43.240 What if they had hoodies?

00:48:44.260 I don't know.

00:48:45.180 It kind of depends.

00:48:46.500 What if they had pink or purple hair?

00:48:47.840 Or, I mean, no, I wouldn't worry, you know, the white person with pink or purple hair, I don't worry for my own safety around those sorts of people.

00:48:56.120 I wouldn't hire them as babysitters.

00:48:58.180 That's for sure.

00:48:59.780 And actually, that's another great example of when a rational person will make stereotypical judgments about people based mostly on appearance.

00:49:08.500 If you're hiring somebody to watch your kids, you know, so you can go out on a date night or something with your spouse, you would probably never, should never hire a man, first of all, of any race.

00:49:23.100 Unless this is like grandpa or someone close to you who you really know and trust.

00:49:27.380 But I'm talking about you're going out to hire a stranger, as people often do, and they're hiring babysitters, you're going through some kind of service or something like that.

00:49:35.460 You're not going to hire a man, I would hope.

00:49:39.060 You're not going to hire anybody with exotically dyed hair, probably.

00:49:43.020 You're only hiring a woman, and you're going to be very particular and judgmental of the woman's appearance and demeanor.

00:49:50.460 Because this is someone you're leaving your kids with, and you don't have a lot of information about them, ultimately.

00:49:54.380 And so you've got to make judgment calls based on appearance.

00:50:00.440 And so you might make a judgment call or an assumption or something that ends up being incorrect about that particular person.

00:50:10.540 But it doesn't matter, because it's not about them specifically.

00:50:13.580 It's just about assessing risk levels.

00:50:16.760 So this is why, again, using the example, you're going through some kind of babysitter service to hire a stranger.

00:50:22.680 And you see some, I don't know, 22-year-old guy is one of the potential babysitters with a profile on the site.

00:50:32.920 I think you'd be crazy to hire the 22-year-old guy to come watch your kids, a 22-year-old strange man to come watch your kids.

00:50:40.620 And so if I see that profile, I'm not going to hire that person.

00:50:44.240 Does that mean, is it like definitely true that that person is a child abuser of some kind?

00:50:49.020 Of course not.

00:50:49.560 There's a very good chance that they aren't.

00:50:52.380 In fact, they almost certainly aren't, just statistically.

00:50:57.240 But I'm assessing risk.

00:50:59.780 And the risk level with that man is going to be higher than it is for a random woman.

00:51:05.500 Now, does race factor into the kind of judgment calls we make when we're assessing risk and when we have no other information?

00:51:18.020 Well, yeah, because it's something we observe.

00:51:21.160 It's part of the overall picture.

00:51:23.140 And so when you're looking at someone, you're taking everything about them into account.

00:51:26.560 And most of this happens very quickly.

00:51:29.160 It's like it's unconscious, or at least it's instinctive.

00:51:33.240 It's gut level.

00:51:34.000 And you're just, you see someone and you're taking everything about them.

00:51:36.960 You notice everything about them and it all kind of filters through the risk assessing process.

00:51:43.120 So if you're walking alone at night and you see a young black male up ahead standing on a street corner, you are going to be more wary than if you see a middle-aged white woman in yoga pants jogging by.

00:51:58.400 And that's because middle-aged white women are responsible for basically none of the violent crime in the country.

00:52:05.860 Basically none.

00:52:07.320 Like there's probably never been a case in history where a person was mugged on a street corner by a 37-year-old white woman.

00:52:19.180 It's probably never happened.

00:52:21.700 And I know someone's going to go on Google and find the one case.

00:52:24.040 Oh, you know, back in 1987, there was a 37-year-old woman named Kelly who became a gang leader in Detroit.

00:52:30.920 Like you might be able to find the rent, but cases like that are totally anomalous.

00:52:37.800 It basically never happens.

00:52:39.200 It's not a concern that enters in your head.

00:52:41.760 On the other hand, young black males are responsible for a vastly disproportionate amount of violent crime.

00:52:48.160 A young black male is a lot more likely to mug you and rob you than a middle-aged white female or really anyone of any other demographic group.

00:52:59.880 That's just a fact.

00:53:01.540 It just is.

00:53:03.320 It's just a simple statistical reality.

00:53:06.960 And there's no, you can deny it.

00:53:08.440 This is what we do.

00:53:09.100 We deny things that we, every person who denies it knows, we all know.

00:53:13.020 So we're all talking to each other and there are people in the conversation denying things, even though we're looking at each other.

00:53:18.800 You and I both know that what you're denying is actually true.

00:53:22.660 So we all know that.

00:53:27.280 And in these kinds of situations, your level of wariness, if you're a rational person, is going to fluctuate depending on the level of actual risk.

00:53:34.320 It also factors, again, context matters.

00:53:36.700 Young black male in a hoodie standing on a street corner at night alone, you're going to assess that differently than if you see a black male walking by you in a suit.

00:53:50.620 You know, it's all of these things you're taking into account.

00:53:54.000 And you have a gut level assessment of it.

00:53:58.820 And, again, we all know that's true.

00:54:01.340 Some of these commenters and others are pretending, you know, they're pretending that if they saw a young black male and a white woman, that they would have, that there would be equal levels of concern or that there should be.

00:54:13.720 But if you're making that claim, you're either lying, you are just lying, and we all know you're lying, or you are suicidally naive and stupid.

00:54:25.460 And there's a good chance you will end up like Ryan Carson, dead on a sidewalk somewhere.

00:54:29.680 So those are the two options.

00:54:33.540 I think the better option is just for us all to acknowledge reality, because it is what it is.

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00:56:14.540 Now, let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:56:23.360 Today for our Daily Cancellation, we turn to the actress Carrie Washington, who has published an excerpt from her upcoming memoir in Time magazine.

00:56:31.400 And as you've noticed, the bar for memoirs has been severely lowered in recent years.

00:56:37.020 It used to be that there were two basic requirements for writing a memoir.

00:56:39.740 First, you have to have led an incredibly interesting life to write a memoir.

00:56:43.620 And second, you have to be a great writer.

00:56:46.660 Memoirs are things that exist for fascinating writers who've lived fascinating lives.

00:56:51.040 And there are very few people who fall into either category, and fewer still who fall into both categories.

00:56:56.400 That's the point.

00:56:57.040 It's a very rare person who is worthy of a memoir.

00:57:00.700 But that's all changed.

00:57:01.680 And in fact, it's been flipped completely on its head.

00:57:03.340 And now, in most cases, memoirs are written only by the worst writers who have lived the most boring lives.

00:57:09.600 They're written by someone like Carrie Washington, a run-of-the-mill actress who starred in a bunch of mediocre network TV shows.

00:57:17.980 How can she justify a memoir?

00:57:19.740 What can she possibly have to say about her life that's worthy of a memoir?

00:57:23.200 What important experiences has she had?

00:57:25.860 Well, in her Time magazine piece, she tells us about one.

00:57:28.820 She had an abortion.

00:57:30.260 So she may not have done anything interesting or incredibly instructive with her life or constructive,

00:57:36.640 but she did kill her baby.

00:57:38.400 And that story really needs to be told, she thinks.

00:57:42.000 So reading now, it says,

00:57:42.860 In my late 20s, I made the difficult and very private decision to have an abortion.

00:57:46.620 About a decade later, I played a character that was the first woman to be shown undergoing an abortion procedure on network television.

00:57:52.140 As women, it is our right to choose what happens to our bodies, our lives, and our futures.

00:57:55.700 It's also up to us to decide when, how, and with whom we share our stories.

00:58:00.480 The reality is that abortion is a very real and normal part of women's lives.

00:58:04.440 I share the story of my abortion procedure here

00:58:06.400 because our right to make choices about our bodies and our lives is under attack, both culturally and legislatively.

00:58:11.320 This is my story.

00:58:12.440 I am one of many, and we will not be silenced.

00:58:15.160 Now, one thing you notice about liberal women is that they never shut up, but they're always claiming that they're being silenced,

00:58:24.340 especially when it comes to their abortion stories.

00:58:26.520 Every time a woman like this comes out with the saga of her abortion,

00:58:30.080 She always has this elaborate, melodramatic wind-up where she insists that it's finally time.

00:58:36.220 It's finally time for women to talk about their abortions, except that women have been talking about their abortions for decades.

00:58:43.020 We've heard this story over and over and over again.

00:58:45.700 In fact, before we read any more of Kerry Washington's personal and private abortion story,

00:58:50.460 we already know everything it will say because it's always the same script.

00:58:54.780 And that's because evil is not very innovative.

00:58:57.980 It tends to repeat itself, right?

00:59:00.360 It's the banality of evil, which is why every woman who has ever bragged about killing her child

00:59:04.900 has sounded exactly like every other woman who has bragged about killing her child.

00:59:09.240 So we don't need to keep reading, but we will.

00:59:13.120 Continuing,

00:59:13.440 Let's stop there for a moment.

00:59:31.780 Kerry, you say you wanted to hide from the reality of the procedure you were about to undergo.

00:59:37.400 Why?

00:59:38.580 Why would you need to hide from the reality of the procedure?

00:59:40.740 If abortion is a legitimate medical procedure, and if it's not, in fact, the murder of a human child,

00:59:46.040 then why do you need to hide from its reality?

00:59:48.880 You know, if I were to ever write a memoir about my experience getting surgery on my torn Achilles in 2019,

00:59:55.180 which would at least be as interesting as your memoir,

00:59:59.020 I would never say that I wanted to hide from the reality of the procedure.

01:00:01.980 I would never open it like that.

01:00:03.960 It was cold outside.

01:00:05.300 It was dark.

01:00:07.000 Cocooned myself from the reality of my Achilles procedure.

01:00:10.740 I would never say that.

01:00:12.340 Now, I may have gotten a little nervous about getting surgery in general,

01:00:14.980 but there was nothing about the reality of the procedure that I found upsetting or distressing.

01:00:20.260 The reality is that they were going to fix something that was broken.

01:00:23.220 It's a good thing.

01:00:24.380 I was happy they were doing it, ultimately.

01:00:28.940 You were not happy.

01:00:30.480 You were hiding from the reality.

01:00:31.820 Why?

01:00:33.200 What is it about abortion that made you want to hide?

01:00:38.800 If you actually were to explore that question in an honest and introspective way,

01:00:43.920 then your abortion story might have a chance to be the first of its kind to have any value whatsoever.

01:00:49.280 But, of course, you don't explore that question.

01:00:51.600 You just, you say, I wanted to hide from the reality.

01:00:53.900 Anyway, never explaining why.

01:00:56.700 What is it about the reality that you want to hide from?

01:00:58.600 What's so upsetting about it?

01:01:01.140 Never explaining.

01:01:01.880 Skip right over it, and we move on to this.

01:01:03.920 Continuing, I sat in the waiting room and completed the paperwork with false information.

01:01:07.880 A made-up name, a pretend address, a non-existent email.

01:01:10.960 Only the phone number was my own, should the office need to reach me in case of an emergency.

01:01:15.820 Let me stop there again.

01:01:16.780 In what other context can you go in for a surgical procedure and get away with providing completely false information?

01:01:25.920 They never asked for your ID.

01:01:27.560 They never verified anything about your identity.

01:01:30.360 They never even verified your age.

01:01:33.020 So we're constantly told about the invisible hurdles that women have to jump over to obtain abortions.

01:01:36.840 But this makes it clear that the hurdles are significantly lower than they are for any actually legitimate medical procedure.

01:01:44.500 Moving on, it says,

01:01:45.340 It says,

01:02:45.340 A few points here.

01:02:50.480 First of all, for anyone listening to this, you may have experienced challenges in your life.

01:02:56.560 You may have suffered in many ways.

01:02:59.540 But look on the bright side.

01:03:00.660 At least you were never subjected to performances by Kerry Washington's Health Education Theater Company.

01:03:06.600 So however bad you think it may be in your life, it could be worse.

01:03:10.620 There are people, apparently, years ago, who were sitting in audiences watching a health education theater company starring Kerry Washington.

01:03:19.500 Second, notice the passive tone that Kerry adopts here.

01:03:23.260 She chose to have sex outside of marriage at a time when she felt she was unprepared to have children.

01:03:26.960 And it led to predictable results.

01:03:28.960 In fact, her sexual experience had the same result that literally billions and billions of other sexual experiences have had.

01:03:38.080 A man and a woman had sex and they made a baby.

01:03:40.560 It is a story as old as humanity itself.

01:03:43.500 It has played out tens of billions of times across the world and through history.

01:03:49.000 Yeah, Kerry Washington presents herself as perplexed.

01:03:51.960 I had sex with a man.

01:03:53.680 I became pregnant.

01:03:54.540 How could this have happened?

01:03:56.160 How could this have happened?

01:03:58.220 Well, I could tell you how it happened.

01:04:01.420 I mean, you're the one who was in a health education theater company.

01:04:03.800 I think you should probably know.

01:04:05.880 But it's not really her fault, she informs us.

01:04:07.640 She was just people-pleasing by having sex with the guy.

01:04:10.700 She did it for his sake, really.

01:04:13.160 Her only mistake was not establishing boundaries,

01:04:16.380 which is a not-so-subtle way of essentially putting all the blame on the man.

01:04:20.480 Because she only had sex for his sake.

01:04:23.100 This was about pleasing him.

01:04:25.020 He was crossing boundaries.

01:04:27.100 The sex was something that was happening to her.

01:04:30.240 And if she's to blame for anything, it's for not speaking up for herself.

01:04:34.880 Right.

01:04:35.820 Reading a little more, she says,

01:04:36.900 Later, as I lay on the medical bed with my feet in stirrups,

01:04:39.160 the doctor described her plans for the termination,

01:04:41.580 the instruments she would be using,

01:04:42.740 and what it might feel like at different stages along the way.

01:04:45.720 I had been to several gynecological appointments through the years,

01:04:50.080 but never one so transactional.

01:04:52.060 Today, I had come to this office for a particular result

01:04:54.340 and required a definitive outcome.

01:04:56.100 When I left, I would be a changed woman without the burden of new life,

01:05:00.640 but perhaps with a bit more time to understand and define my own.

01:05:03.720 As the doctor opened my cervix and inserted the thin vacuum tube,

01:05:06.980 the nurse looked down at me, smiled, and very gently said,

01:05:09.860 Do you know who you look like?

01:05:11.360 I think she was trying to comfort me,

01:05:12.880 to tell me that even though this moment was incredibly difficult,

01:05:16.260 she could see the beauty in me,

01:05:17.660 could see that I reminded her of a movie star.

01:05:20.220 She said my real name.

01:05:22.040 I could hear it under the muffled sound of the water in which I was drowning.

01:05:25.940 Kerry Washington.

01:05:27.240 It was my name,

01:05:28.300 but the version she was calling out had nothing to do with me.

01:05:31.420 And so in that moment,

01:05:32.640 I didn't know who I was.

01:05:36.380 Okay.

01:05:39.300 We probably read enough at this point.

01:05:40.900 Two other quick points, though.

01:05:42.100 First, as predicted, the writing here is just absolutely atrocious.

01:05:48.560 I could hear it under the muffled sound of the water in which I was drowning.

01:05:52.820 Never mind that, again, abortion is supposedly a legitimate and positive medical procedure,

01:05:56.460 and yet she compares it to drowning.

01:05:58.920 Okay.

01:05:59.040 You would never describe any other medical procedure that way.

01:06:02.360 But that aside,

01:06:03.440 this is just tremendously awful writing.

01:06:05.740 She is laboring to make the whole experience sound profound and poetic and beautiful,

01:06:10.740 but she finds herself hamstrung by the fact that she is a shallow, midwit actress

01:06:16.240 who has never had a profound thought in her entire life.

01:06:19.780 And the result is a sentence like,

01:06:21.520 I could hear it under the muffled sound of the water in which I was drowning,

01:06:24.460 which is equal parts clunky and cliched.

01:06:27.180 It sounds like something you'd read in a 10th grader's creative writing assignment.

01:06:30.480 And by the way,

01:06:33.060 this is a pet peeve, but

01:06:34.300 okay, you can actually end a sentence with a preposition.

01:06:39.300 Nobody in real life would ever say the phrase,

01:06:41.820 the water in which I was drowning.

01:06:44.520 You didn't rescue me from the water in which I was drowning.

01:06:49.940 You would just say,

01:06:51.360 the water I was drowning in.

01:06:53.120 That's what you would say.

01:06:54.560 Now, your public school teacher told you

01:06:56.260 that there's some ironclad grammar rule

01:06:59.200 forbidding you from ever ending a sentence with a preposition,

01:07:02.140 but that was just one of the many things

01:07:03.780 your public school teacher lied to you about, okay?

01:07:06.100 You could end a sentence with a preposition.

01:07:10.140 If you see someone with earbuds in,

01:07:13.060 you don't have to ask them,

01:07:15.040 to what music are you listening?

01:07:19.400 What are you listening to?

01:07:21.720 You don't have to speak like Yoda, okay?

01:07:23.580 That's not the correct grammar.

01:07:25.420 That's incorrect grammar.

01:07:27.260 Anyway, more importantly, we have this sentence,

01:07:29.700 where she says,

01:07:30.140 when I left, I'd be a changed woman

01:07:31.320 without the burden of new life,

01:07:32.400 but perhaps with a bit more time

01:07:33.340 to understand and define my own.

01:07:35.180 And that's the whole story right there.

01:07:36.240 I mean, that's the part that really matters.

01:07:38.800 Because this is what abortion is

01:07:40.120 in the vast majority of instances.

01:07:41.860 Kerry Washington was not a poor,

01:07:44.020 desperate woman getting an abortion

01:07:45.340 because she felt she had no choice.

01:07:47.560 Now, it still would not have been justified

01:07:48.700 even in that case,

01:07:49.720 but that is not the case here.

01:07:50.800 She simply just didn't want to deal with a baby.

01:07:52.600 She didn't feel like having a baby,

01:07:53.720 so she's killing it.

01:07:55.580 She even acknowledges that the life in her womb

01:07:57.840 is in fact life,

01:07:59.140 but it's a life that burdens her,

01:08:01.220 inconveniences her,

01:08:02.340 interferes with her lifestyle.

01:08:04.520 Is she killing her child

01:08:05.520 so that she doesn't end up homeless

01:08:06.720 or starve to death?

01:08:08.900 Which still would not be a justified reason

01:08:10.840 for killing her child

01:08:11.620 because nothing could ever justify

01:08:14.560 killing a child.

01:08:15.820 Nothing.

01:08:17.440 But no, that's not even why she's doing it.

01:08:19.280 In her words,

01:08:19.920 she just wants to have more time

01:08:22.280 to understand and define her own life.

01:08:25.880 So she is willfully and admittedly

01:08:28.120 destroying human life

01:08:29.480 for the most frivolous reason imaginable.

01:08:32.620 She's killing her own child

01:08:34.320 and all that she can offer

01:08:36.000 to defend that decision

01:08:36.840 is some meaningless

01:08:38.060 self-actualization jargon.

01:08:42.160 In other words,

01:08:43.140 she is simply a terrible human being.

01:08:45.900 That's the real moral of the story.

01:08:47.340 It's the one thing we learn

01:08:50.200 from her otherwise pointless

01:08:51.720 and dull memoir.

01:08:53.480 And it's why

01:08:54.080 Kerry Washington

01:08:55.160 is today

01:08:56.600 canceled.

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 06, 2023

Ep. 1237 - Left Wing Activists Are Dying By Their Own Ideology

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