The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 124 - Why Is The Genocide Of Christians Being Ignored？

00:00:00.040 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we'll talk a little more about Elizabeth Warren's hilarious

00:00:03.980 attempts to prove that she's Native American. Why do Trump's enemies always self-destruct like

00:00:09.600 this? Why are they always stepping on rakes? Why are they always stepping on landmines?

00:00:15.500 Then we'll talk about the return of Pastor Andrew Brunson, who was freed from a Turkish prison after

00:00:20.000 two years. And we'll discuss the persecution of Christians across the world and why it's

00:00:26.300 ignored in this country. All of that is coming up. Well, before we get into the more important

00:00:32.180 discussion, I have to say that I'm still marveling at this thing with Elizabeth Warren. Ben Shapiro

00:00:37.360 wrote something yesterday where he said that Trump's superpower is that he gets his opponents

00:00:41.180 to say stupid things and do stupid things, which is a great superpower to have, especially as we

00:00:46.180 head into the midterms. And certainly to release your DNA results to prove that your great, great,

00:00:51.720 great, great, great, great, great grand uncle may have been possibly Native American or maybe just

00:00:58.800 Mexican or Colombian or something. Well, that is a stupid thing. That is a very stupid thing. It's

00:01:02.900 stupid, not just because the results are so sad and they actually disprove the very thing you're trying

00:01:08.760 to prove, but because this is an embarrassing subject for Warren and for the Democrats, and it's something

00:01:14.860 that they should be ignoring. You know, the right approach for them was just to act like this

00:01:19.440 Pocahontas thing wasn't happening, to ignore it completely, call it a distraction. Anytime the

00:01:24.920 Republicans bring it up to say, oh, they're talking about these silly things because they don't want

00:01:28.660 to talk about a plan for America. They want to talk about the economy. You know, that whole thing

00:01:34.760 the politicians do. But to actually bring it up yourself, I mean, that is astoundingly stupid.

00:01:41.600 This is the thing you're not supposed to want to talk about. This is the embarrassing thing for you.

00:01:45.620 Everyone's laughing at you. And as a politician, the worst thing in the world is to become a punchline.

00:01:53.820 That's the worst thing. You don't want people to laugh at you. They could hate you. They could be

00:01:59.660 angry at you. But for them to laugh at you and consider you a punchline, I think that's the worst

00:02:05.000 thing in the world. Which, by the way, for Democrats and for liberals, in their opposition of Trump,

00:02:18.800 by far for them, the more effective move is to make him into a punchline and to treat him like a

00:02:27.200 cartoon and a caricature, which they do that quite a bit. And I think that's far more effective than,

00:02:34.540 but on the other hand, they also mix that in with taking him very seriously and, you know,

00:02:40.240 saying, well, he's the second coming of Hitler and he's going to destroy the world and everything

00:02:43.640 else. That's like the opposite of treating him as a punchline. That's taking him very,

00:02:48.420 very seriously. So they're doing both things. And that it's the latter, the second one that is not

00:02:54.360 effective. It's not an effective strategy. But it's all part of this, where he kind of can coax

00:03:02.580 them into doing stupid things. And why did she do this stupid things? Well, this stupid thing,

00:03:07.480 well, because this is what happens when you have blind, seething hate in your heart for somebody

00:03:16.600 else. And I think in any competitive environment, whether it's politics or anything else, it doesn't

00:03:24.000 help to be filled with hate and rage. You don't want that. Because you can't think clearly in that

00:03:29.900 condition. You don't have the calm, cool kind of head that you need to analyze a situation,

00:03:35.220 choose the most expedient path, form a strategy and execute it. You can't do that when you're

00:03:41.440 filled with hatred. It's like in, think about in football, you know, if you're a linebacker on a

00:03:47.200 football team, it helps to play a little bit angry. It helps to be aggressive, to get pumped up,

00:03:51.660 to have a little bit of a grudge against your opponent. But you can't be overcome with hatred

00:03:58.840 for your opponent, because then you get flustered. You make dumb decisions. You're not strategic in

00:04:03.100 your thinking. So when a player is way too angry, and he hates the other team, he hates another play

00:04:08.380 on the other team, they've gotten into his head. That's when he might go and punch a guy in the head

00:04:13.800 or tackle someone after the whistle, which may be satisfying for him in the moment. But then it

00:04:19.080 detracts from his overall objective of actually winning the game, because then he gets the penalty,

00:04:24.080 he gives a first down to the other team. And when it comes to politics, I think Trump's opponents are

00:04:28.520 constantly taking personal foul penalties. They're constantly giving Trump first downs. Trump is

00:04:34.920 marching up and down the field because of penalties all the time. And it's because they're making

00:04:41.540 decisions based on sheer hatred, not strategy. These are not pragmatic, strategic decisions.

00:04:52.320 And in this case, I think Warren, the only thing she could think about, the only thing on her mind

00:04:58.360 was that she wanted to prove Trump wrong. And she wanted to try to make him look stupid. But in the

00:05:04.120 process, she just made herself look stupid. Because that's all she could think about. She wasn't,

00:05:10.180 she wasn't thinking clearly. Now, let me say something else. Because this whole Warren thing

00:05:18.740 has brought up a conversation about putting the politics aside for a minute. There's been a

00:05:26.300 conversation about when can you really say that you're part something? Everyone likes to claim in

00:05:36.700 America. This is an American thing. I'll get to that in a minute. But everyone in America likes to

00:05:41.140 claim that they have some kind of ethnic heritage. So people will say, oh, I'm Italian, I'm Irish,

00:05:47.100 I'm Native American, I'm French, whatever. But when does it really count? When can you really say it?

00:05:56.220 And let me just, and this is just a general PSA, okay, because we're on the subject. Here is the

00:06:03.400 rule, I think, okay? If you're off the boat yourself, then obviously that counts, okay? So

00:06:10.380 if you're off the boat from France, or I guess it would be the plane these days, then you can say

00:06:16.980 that you're French. If your parents were off the boat, then that counts. If two or more grandparents

00:06:26.020 are off the boat, that counts. But here's where it gets complicated. So I think that's all pretty

00:06:32.540 straightforward, right? But here's where it gets complicated. What if, say, only one grandparent,

00:06:41.200 just your paternal grandmother was from Italy? Can you then say that you're Italian?

00:06:49.320 And here's how I think we sort through that, okay? If it's only one grandparent, I think you can claim

00:06:57.480 that heritage as your own, if you were close with her growing up, and you were around her a lot,

00:07:03.680 and you spent a lot of time with her. Because then you have more than just a trace of Italian DNA.

00:07:08.720 Because if it's just one grandparent, even a grandparent, if it's just one grandparent that was

00:07:14.660 from this country, but that, you know, that's, when it comes to your actual, the actual, you know,

00:07:22.340 in a literal sense, there's not much there, right? It's pretty diluted. But if you're around her a lot,

00:07:32.520 and you're very close with this Italian grandmother, then you have the heritage, you have the customs,

00:07:38.060 you have the culture, which you would have absorbed from your Italian grandmother. And then I think in

00:07:44.820 that case, it's fair to say, well, I'm part Italian. But if your Italian grandmother died when you were

00:07:50.720 three, and all of your living relatives, and the only ones you ever spent any time with, were all

00:07:55.680 just American, no accent, nothing, then you're American. You're not Italian American. You're just,

00:08:01.980 you're American. That's all. You're American. Which, by the way, is fine. It's great. It's

00:08:08.660 awesome. And this is the weirdest thing about America is that everyone wants to live here,

00:08:13.140 but nobody wants to be from here for some reason. Everyone wants to claim that they're from somewhere

00:08:17.560 else. Well, what's wrong with just being from America? If your family has been here for generations,

00:08:23.220 then you're from America. You're not from Poland, you're from America. And what's wrong with that?

00:08:29.080 What's wrong with having American heritage? I mean, again, if you've been in this country for

00:08:36.220 generations, and almost all of your family members are from this country, well, then that's why go

00:08:41.560 around saying, oh, I'm a quarter Irish, a 10th Polish, a 13th Australian. No, you're not. You're

00:08:47.860 American. None of that means anything. What do you mean you're a quarter Irish, a quarter this,

00:08:52.720 a quarter? What is that? Again, unless you really grew up in a house that was just immersed in that

00:08:58.800 culture, then fine. But if you just have a quarter, that doesn't mean you're American.

00:09:06.040 That's what you are. And that's the thing with Warren. Her family has apparently been here

00:09:11.200 in America for a very long time. If she can trace her blood back 300 years

00:09:19.000 to find that potentially someone in her family reproduced with a Native American, well, that

00:09:26.600 means that her family's been here for a very long, for centuries. And that's something to be proud of.

00:09:33.060 That is a heritage in and of itself. It's not like you could only have a heritage if you're from some

00:09:39.240 other country. Like, we don't have our own heritage. You can't have one from America?

00:09:43.480 Yeah. If your family has been here since the Civil War, or earlier, that's really cool. That's

00:09:50.800 awesome. You should be proud of that. Stop trying to erase your family history by homing in on that

00:09:56.520 little fraction of some other culture that you allegedly have in your blood, but that has really

00:10:01.480 had very little influence on you. Or I should say, no influence at all, really. People don't do that in

00:10:09.260 other countries, by the way. Nobody in China is going, well, I'm a quarter Korean, a 10th South

00:10:15.020 African. No, they're not doing that. They're Chinese, and they're proud of it. They're saying,

00:10:18.800 I am Chinese. So why not be American? I mean, America was an unsettled, wild frontier country

00:10:29.520 only 150 years ago. America is a very young country. So if your family has been here for a long time,

00:10:35.500 then your family was here when the country was still being built and tamed and formed.

00:10:43.800 And that's awesome. That is a heritage. That is history. That is American history, American heritage,

00:10:52.220 and you should be proud of it. Stop trying to comb through your ancestry so that you can say, well,

00:10:58.260 I'm one 16th Mongolian. Who cares? That doesn't mean anything. That's had no influence on you

00:11:06.100 whatsoever. You are American, period. Be it. All right. Switching gears. So over the weekend,

00:11:20.240 speaking of Americans, American pastor, Andrew Brunson was released after two years in a Turkish

00:11:30.480 prison. He had been arrested on charges of Christianization, which yes, that's a real thing

00:11:41.000 in many countries across the world. Christianization is a crime that you can commit. And the Trump

00:11:47.000 administration negotiated for his release, and he finally arrived home. And there was a wonderful

00:11:52.200 scene at the White House where Pastor Brunson was thanking Trump and prayed for him, prayed over him.

00:11:58.060 It was a great scene. But I think Pastor Brunson's plights, and as far as I know, he hasn't spoken much

00:12:07.060 yet about his actual experiences in prison, which I'm sure were not pleasant experiences. I'm sure we'll

00:12:12.880 hear that story eventually. But his plight brings our minds back, or ought to bring our minds back

00:12:19.320 anyway, to the problem of Christian persecution across the world. Remember, he was arrested for

00:12:27.160 being Christian. That was his crime. And that is a crime, as I said, in many countries. In fact,

00:12:32.380 there was a recent report released a few months ago that said that Christian persecution today is worse

00:12:39.400 now than it's ever been in history. You know, China, Egypt, India, Iraq, Nigeria, North Korea,

00:12:46.440 Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the situation is very bad in all these countries. Christians are arrested,

00:12:55.140 tortured, killed, persecuted in many other ways. Their churches are burned down.

00:13:01.140 And their very existence, their faith, their existence has been criminalized.

00:13:08.740 There's a story in Newsweek of all places about this problem a few months ago. Let me read a little

00:13:13.820 bit of that to you, just to give you the, just so you understand what's happening. It says,

00:13:19.180 the persecution and genocide of Christians across the world is worse today than, quote, at any time in

00:13:24.600 history. And Western governments are failing to stop it. A report from a Catholic organization said,

00:13:29.800 a study by Aid to the Church in Need, said the treatment of Christians has worsened substantially

00:13:35.220 in the past two years compared with the two years prior, and has grown more violent than any other

00:13:39.840 period in modern time. Not only are Christians more persecuted than any other faith group,

00:13:44.060 but ever-increasing numbers are experiencing the very worst forms of persecution, the report said.

00:13:49.300 The report examined the plight of Christians in China, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria,

00:13:54.760 North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, over the period lasting from 2015 until

00:14:02.300 2017. And the research showed that in that time, Christians suffered crimes against humanity.

00:14:08.320 Some were hanged, some were crucified. It says Saudi Arabia was the only country where the situation

00:14:15.160 did not get worse, but that doesn't mean it got any better. The report put a special focus on

00:14:21.800 Middle Eastern countries, like Iraq and Syria, where the authors argued Christians would have

00:14:26.280 been entirely wiped out if it weren't for military action and the assistance of Christian humanitarian

00:14:30.600 organizations. Then it talks about the situation for Coptic Christians in Egypt.

00:14:38.960 And then for Christians in various African countries, it's very bad as well. So this is a widespread

00:14:45.700 problem across the globe. Yet, despite this Newsweek article, it gets very little attention.

00:14:51.800 Even though every once in a while you have a story like the pastor being freed, which got a little

00:14:58.240 bit of attention from the mainstream media. Why is it getting more attention? Well, as I think I've

00:15:07.240 explained before, I think the main reason, well, there are two reasons we don't pay attention that much

00:15:13.480 to Christian persecution across the globe. The first reason is that it's far away, and it's just hard for us

00:15:21.200 to care about things that are far away. So it's similar to if there's a natural disaster in Indonesia.

00:15:32.840 That's not going to get our attention as much as a disaster in the Florida panhandle, because these

00:15:39.220 things are closer to us. And to a certain extent, you know, and to a certain extent, that makes sense.

00:15:44.980 It makes sense for us to care particularly, especially about the things that are close

00:15:50.880 to us. That's a very human thing. It's a very normal thing. But when it comes to the persecution

00:15:58.680 of Christians overseas, I think it seems as though we've basically entirely ignored it. At least the

00:16:04.920 media has, like it doesn't matter at all. And that, of course, is not okay. That's not natural. That's not

00:16:09.040 human. And what's the reason for that? What's the special reason for ignoring the persecution of

00:16:13.820 Christians overseas? I think that the reason is that Christians have been historically and are

00:16:22.720 today on a massive scale victims. Christians are, in a very real sense, a victim group. Not in every

00:16:31.940 country, certainly, but then there's no group of people in the world anymore who are victims in every

00:16:37.760 country, okay? Which is a great thing. But there isn't any type of person, any demographic

00:16:43.720 left that is violently persecuted everywhere across the globe. Unborn babies may come the closest to

00:16:53.000 that designation. There are 50 million abortions across the globe every year. So I think they fall

00:16:58.380 into that category. But among born people, that doesn't really exist, which again is great. That's

00:17:03.840 we should celebrate that. Yet, the victimization of Christians is endemic. It is an epidemic.

00:17:14.200 It may not be happening everywhere, but it's happening in many, many places.

00:17:18.460 But we don't talk about it because, remember, in America, victimization is power. Everybody wants to

00:17:26.380 be a victim. And the whole point of identity politics, like we talked about yesterday,

00:17:30.540 it's to divide people into two groups, victim and victimizer. And the left has made it very easy for

00:17:37.900 itself. And it's said that basically everyone except for white Christian males belong in the victim

00:17:43.500 group. So if they acknowledge that actually Christians, Christians of all races and ethnicities

00:17:50.560 are being persecuted across the globe, then it throws off their whole system. Also, I think the left,

00:17:55.420 it considers the victim title to be a great honor, to be a very trendy and kind of cool thing to be a

00:18:03.200 victim. And so they don't want to share that title with Christians because they hate Christians.

00:18:10.080 And indeed, on a global scale, they would say that Christianity is perhaps the greatest villain of all.

00:18:16.760 But that's the narrative that they've established. And this just interferes with that narrative.

00:18:23.840 And that's why they tell stories about the Inquisition and the Crusades, because they have to go back,

00:18:29.260 they have to go back centuries to find even an arguable or alleged example of Christians systematically

00:18:34.780 persecuting anyone. That's why they have to immediately, you know, they go to the Crusades,

00:18:38.920 it's a thousand years ago.

00:18:39.840 So that should really tell you something, that when people want to make a case that the Christian

00:18:44.980 church has been this violent persecutor, the first thing they do is they go back a thousand

00:18:51.740 years to the Crusades. And of course, we could talk about how the Crusades are misunderstood and

00:18:55.980 they were largely, at least they were originally launched as defensive struggles against Muslim

00:19:01.800 aggression. But even aside from that, even if that is an example and it was just straightforward,

00:19:06.140 the Christians were evil and they did terrible things and there was nothing redeeming about it.

00:19:11.520 Well, that was a thousand years ago. And the fact that you have to go back a thousand years,

00:19:15.000 that should really tell you something. So, but again, this is all about the narrative

00:19:20.260 and their narrative, their entire worldview is really thrown for a loop if they admit Christians

00:19:27.560 into the persecuted club. They can't do that. Because their philosophy on life hinges on this idea of

00:19:40.220 persecution and victimization. And so, they've got a very strict formula and they just can't,

00:19:46.820 they can't fit Christians into the victimized group. They can't do it. It ruins everything.

00:19:51.420 And so, I think that combined with how distant all of this is to us geographically,

00:20:00.160 those two things together just are the two ingredients that are needed to basically completely

00:20:08.820 ignore what this report, I think, accurately calls genocide. But, you know, we, and when I say we,

00:20:19.780 I mean, those of us who are not on the left and who are not Christian haters, we should not ignore it.

00:20:26.360 This is something that we should be paying attention to. Thanks everybody for listening.

00:20:32.300 Thanks for watching. I'll talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 16, 2018

Ep. 124 - Why Is The Genocide Of Christians Being Ignored？

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