The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1255 - The White House's War On 'Hate' Is Really A War On Free Speech

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the White House announced a new war on hate to combat alleged Islamophobia and other forms of bigotry.

00:00:06.180 They claim that hate is on the rise, but is that true?

00:00:08.780 And even if it is, does the government have any business policing hate?

00:00:12.500 Also, a caravan of thousands of illegal alien invaders makes its way to the southern border.

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00:00:20.160 An organization of birdwatchers ends racism by getting rid of racist bird names, finally.

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00:01:58.300 Well, it's been a while since we've heard from Kamala Harris.

00:02:01.200 And if you've been paying attention to anything Kamala Harris has done over the past three years, that's not especially surprising.

00:02:06.240 She has failed spectacularly at every single task she's been assigned since she became vice president,

00:02:12.660 almost as if her whole job is to pretend to solve problems while actually making them worse,

00:02:17.260 which I guess is basically the unofficial job of nearly everyone who's held a job in Washington at any point this century,

00:02:23.540 or really for most of the century before that.

00:02:27.080 As for Kamala, in 2021, for example, the White House put her in charge of managing the crisis at the border.

00:02:32.840 But unbelievable as it may be, her strategy of wagging her finger at Guatemalans and telling them,

00:02:39.100 do not come here, did not prove to be especially effective.

00:02:42.360 A year later, the Biden administration dispatched Harris to Germany just a few weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine

00:02:47.980 with the goal of seeking to avert a war, as the Los Angeles Times reported at the time.

00:02:53.340 And in the end, as we know, the Russians, I guess, took one look at Kamala Harris and went into Ukraine immediately.

00:02:59.580 With a track record like that, it's not hard to imagine that Muslims all over the United States are quaking in fear today.

00:03:06.760 And that's because this week, the Biden administration gave the woman, who somehow became vice president, yet another task.

00:03:13.060 And this time, her job was to announce and to lead the first ever national strategy to combat Islamophobia.

00:03:21.520 Harris herself made the announcement in a video message.

00:03:24.960 Watch.

00:03:25.300 Our nation was founded on the fundamental principle that all people should have the freedom to live, to worship and to be without fear of violence or persecution.

00:03:39.820 Every person has the right to live safe from violence, hate and bigotry.

00:03:44.740 And for those reasons and so many more, President Joe Biden and I have a duty, not only to keep the people of our nation safe,

00:03:53.760 but to condemn unequivocally and forcefully all forms of hate.

00:04:01.300 That's always really bold, always a really bold message.

00:04:05.460 We condemn hate.

00:04:08.200 We condemn bad things.

00:04:10.240 We don't like bad things and bad feelings.

00:04:13.560 We're against them.

00:04:15.460 Now, before we get into the whole strategy to combat Islamophobia, it's important to pause the video, I think, just to highlight what she says in the first 30 seconds of her big announcement.

00:04:25.620 She says that every person has the right to live safe from violence.

00:04:31.020 That part we can agree.

00:04:32.760 Then she also says live safe from bigotry and hate.

00:04:36.840 Well, see, that part's not actually remotely true.

00:04:39.680 And only someone like Kamala Harris could be dumb enough to think that it is true.

00:04:43.620 No, you don't have the right to live safe from bigotry.

00:04:46.540 And that's because other people have the freedom of speech and freedom of thought.

00:04:51.900 And they're allowed to think less of you for good reasons or bad reasons or smart reasons or stupid reasons or even for racist reasons.

00:04:59.660 They're allowed to.

00:05:00.700 They have that right.

00:05:02.060 People can be as bigoted as they want, in fact, as long as they're not committing any crimes in the process.

00:05:07.660 Nobody has the right to be free from the bigoted opinions and views and attitudes of other people.

00:05:13.780 That's the whole point of the First Amendment.

00:05:15.940 It protects speech that you think is good.

00:05:17.760 It also protects speech that you think is bad.

00:05:19.480 And as everyone says, but few seem to really believe when it comes down to it, the First Amendment is really only ever needed for that latter category.

00:05:27.300 If the First Amendment does not protect speech that people find abhorrent, then the First Amendment effectively protects nothing at all.

00:05:36.440 But the Biden administration apparently disagrees.

00:05:38.600 And now, out of nowhere, they say you have a right to be safe from bigotry.

00:05:43.580 Well, how will the government enforce this new right, you might ask?

00:05:46.400 And what exactly qualifies as bigotry?

00:05:48.840 Is it still acceptable to discriminate against white males, for example?

00:05:53.900 If not, that's bad news for literally every corporation and university in the whole country.

00:05:58.880 Do they have to revise all their policies overnight?

00:06:01.340 I mean, is that what we're talking about?

00:06:03.820 Well, we already know the answer to that question.

00:06:06.260 Of course, only certain kinds of bigotry are forbidden.

00:06:09.400 The kinds of bigotry that predominantly affect loyal voters of the Democratic Party.

00:06:13.080 And to that end, here's Kamala Harris explaining the administration's plan to combat Islamophobia.

00:06:20.200 And today, we take another important step forward in our fight against hate.

00:06:26.980 For years, Muslims in America and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks.

00:06:36.040 As a result of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza,

00:06:41.560 we have seen an uptick in anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, anti-Semitic, and Islamophobic incidents across America,

00:06:51.000 including the brutal attack of a Palestinian-American woman who is Muslim and the killing of her six-year-old son.

00:06:59.720 A senseless act of violence that the Department of Justice is investigating as a hate crime.

00:07:05.700 For so many people in our nation, the past few days and weeks have brought about all-too-familiar fears.

00:07:15.000 Fears that they will be targeted, profiled, or attacked simply because of who they are, how they worship, or how they look.

00:07:23.440 And so today, I am proud to announce the Biden-Harris administration will develop our nation's first national strategy to counter Islamophobia.

00:07:35.040 This strategy will be a comprehensive and detailed plan to protect Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim from hate, bigotry, and violence.

00:07:44.500 Now, for an address that's intended for a domestic audience, it's all very war-like.

00:07:50.200 Our fight against hate is underway, Harris says, as she sits sternly at her little desk in front of the American flag.

00:07:55.760 We have a strategy that's comprehensive and detailed, she declares.

00:07:59.740 On social media, Kamala Harris went further, saying,

00:08:02.420 This action is the latest step forward in our work to combat a surge of hate in America.

00:08:08.600 Well, hearing a sitting vice president talk like this about American citizens is unsettling, to say the least.

00:08:14.500 This is the kind of language you normally hear our leaders use when they're announcing a targeted strike against terrorist cells in the Middle East.

00:08:22.060 And now that language, once again, is being turned inward against American citizens.

00:08:26.560 The Biden administration is on this war-like footing against its own citizens.

00:08:31.020 And what could possibly justify this, you might ask?

00:08:34.140 Better be something good.

00:08:36.060 There better be a reason for this kind of hostility and brazen disregard for the Constitution, and in particular, the First Amendment.

00:08:42.680 But there's no reason for this whatsoever.

00:08:44.320 The only justification that Kamala Harris provides in her speech is that she says that, number one, she says that for years, there's been a disproportionate amount of hate being targeted at people perceived to be Muslim.

00:08:58.540 She says that's been going on for years.

00:09:01.040 And then, on top of that, there's supposedly been an uptick in what she calls Islamophobic attacks in the United States since October 7th.

00:09:08.060 Well, is that true?

00:09:11.500 I mean, have Muslim Americans been disproportionately targeted for years?

00:09:17.480 And has there been an uptick?

00:09:20.480 Kamala Harris didn't provide any kind of citation.

00:09:22.460 In fact, almost every single time that we hear about some group or another that's being disproportionately targeted, in nearly every case, there's no citation offered.

00:09:32.980 It's just asserted.

00:09:34.880 It's stated.

00:09:35.980 And we're supposed to accept it.

00:09:38.240 Well, in this case, I went looking to find out where this claim is coming from.

00:09:43.060 As far as I could tell, the source for this claim is the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.

00:09:49.420 And there are obviously reasons to think that CAIR might not be the most unbiased source on something like this.

00:09:55.140 So I was very interested to know how exactly they determined that anti-Muslim attacks are on the rise in the United States in just the past month.

00:10:02.260 Well, on CAIR's website, they provide this explanation.

00:10:04.380 Quote, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said that it has received 774 complaints, including reported bias incidents since the escalation of violence in Israel and Palestine on October 7th.

00:10:20.120 You know, that's supposedly more complaints than they normally receive in similar time periods, they say.

00:10:25.100 Now, to be clear, these are not reported crimes or documented arrests, much less are they, for the most part, violent attacks or anything close to that.

00:10:36.260 This statistic is based on reports that somehow get filtered to CAIR.

00:10:41.740 These are complaints.

00:10:43.740 So the actual headline, if you care about being honest and accurate, is that there has been an uptick in complaints.

00:10:50.900 Complaints are on the rise.

00:10:53.040 Well, are the complaints true?

00:10:55.100 Are the complaints complaining about actual incidents of bigotry?

00:10:59.420 And what qualifies as an incident of bigotry?

00:11:02.560 On that last question, we might be able to come up with some kind of answer.

00:11:05.920 There have been, after all, some more widely reported incidents of alleged Islamophobic bigotry.

00:11:12.700 One of those reports, according to CAIR, involved, quote,

00:11:15.260 a man who reportedly drove his truck through and brandished weapons against pro-Palestine protesters in Minnesota.

00:11:22.580 Well, that sounds pretty bad.

00:11:26.040 It sounds hateful, even.

00:11:27.860 So I looked into that incident a little bit more.

00:11:30.300 And here's the video of what happened, which CAIR actually provides the link to.

00:11:34.520 And here's what happens.

00:11:36.520 Watch.

00:11:36.760 I'm right here.

00:12:00.780 I know.

00:12:15.540 So that changes things a little bit.

00:12:17.380 For one thing, there was no truck involved in this incident.

00:12:19.680 It's clearly a sedan, what looks like a Ford Fusion.

00:12:21.640 And, you know, just semantics, but if we care about being accurate.

00:12:25.500 And it's obvious from the footage that the mob of so-called pro-Palestine protesters were blocking the street.

00:12:30.820 They were standing in the middle of the intersection, just blocking off the intersection, which they have no authority to do.

00:12:36.580 I know that leftist protesters do this all the time.

00:12:38.740 And I guess, I don't know, people assume that they have legal authority to do it.

00:12:41.920 They don't.

00:12:42.560 Actually, it turns out that just because you have some cause that you care about, that doesn't give you the authority to just shut down traffic whenever you feel like it.

00:12:52.860 And so the man attempts to continue on his way.

00:12:57.000 The mob surrounds the car, starts banging on the windshield, kicking the car and going crazy.

00:13:01.800 And by the way, at this point, they've surrounded the entire car so that no matter where the guy goes, he's going to be running into protesters, right?

00:13:13.820 If you don't want to be run into, don't surround every escape route.

00:13:18.920 There are people around it.

00:13:20.560 There's nowhere he can go.

00:13:22.900 What is he supposed to do?

00:13:23.880 Just offer himself up to the mob to be torn to pieces?

00:13:26.420 Now, even if you think the driver was in the wrong somehow, which he wasn't, there's also no indication that he hates Muslims.

00:13:35.600 If anything, he seems to hate protesters who block traffic.

00:13:39.480 And that is a form of bigotry that nearly everyone can relate to.

00:13:44.580 Now, according to a blogger who was on the scene, one protester complained, quote,

00:13:48.260 it was scary, honestly, because there have been protests where people run through the crowd with their vehicles and people, like, ended up dying.

00:13:54.180 And then knowing he was armed, like, a part of me wanted to run away.

00:13:57.880 But a part of me was, like, trying to assist everyone else in, like, stopping this car from causing more harm, too, because there's children here.

00:14:05.460 There's families here.

00:14:08.040 Well, here's an idea.

00:14:10.700 Maybe don't take your children to the middle of the road and block traffic.

00:14:16.080 Okay, maybe don't stand in an intersection with your children.

00:14:19.040 But that concept is unthinkable to these protesters, apparently.

00:14:23.420 And in their effort to sell this incident as Islamophobic, various left-wing activists uploaded additional footage.

00:14:29.840 And in this one, we can see the man brandishing a knife after he was surrounded.

00:14:33.920 Let's watch that.

00:14:34.740 Okay, so they're making this guy out to be some kind of white supremacist, some kind of Islamophobic terrorist, because he was driving in his car.

00:14:54.260 A mob surrounded him, and he brandished a knife to defend himself.

00:14:58.520 And he quickly realized that a knife against this whole crowd, this whole mob, is not going to do much good.

00:15:03.540 He gets back into the car.

00:15:04.840 Didn't actually hurt anyone.

00:15:06.820 And this is the kind of incident that CARE is classifying as Islamophobic.

00:15:11.100 When there is no evidence at all that this guy has any Muslim, anti-Muslim bigotry, period.

00:15:20.180 And in turn, the White House is using incidents like this to claim that Muslims are seeing some kind of heightened backlash,

00:15:25.760 which justifies wartime footing against MAGA Republicans and all forms of, quote-unquote, hatred.

00:15:31.500 They're also using incidents, it would appear, that are far more ambiguous and irrelevant than this.

00:15:37.700 Keep in mind that, again, reports, mere reports of biased incidents are being counted in the total.

00:15:45.540 Well, what is a biased incident?

00:15:48.500 There is no one single definition, and that's the point, really.

00:15:51.780 You know, it's just something that can be whatever they want it to be.

00:15:54.100 But every university in the country has its own bias incident response team.

00:15:59.260 And if you go to any university website and you find their bias incident page, you'll see some kind of definition.

00:16:05.160 And all the definitions are very similar.

00:16:07.700 And so generally, when anyone on the left talks about bias incidents, this is what they're talking about.

00:16:11.240 Here's the University of Denver, for example.

00:16:13.640 This is how they define it.

00:16:14.760 The university defines bias incidents as any behavior that targets individuals or groups based on their actual or perceived group identities.

00:16:23.960 Examples may include, but are not limited to, graffiti, harassment, jokes, direct insults, etc.

00:16:31.080 The specific forms, content, motivation, intention, and impact of bias incidents vary.

00:16:37.160 Jokes are included.

00:16:39.160 So a bias incident is anything that someone says or does that someone else interprets as biased.

00:16:47.960 Which is to say that an increase in biased incident reports really doesn't mean anything at all.

00:16:55.460 And if you announce ahead of time that a certain group is going to start experiencing more biased incidents,

00:17:01.220 and then members of that group immediately start complaining about biased incidents,

00:17:05.760 that does not indicate that there are actually more biased incidents, whatever a biased incident even is.

00:17:12.340 All it indicates is that the people in that group are being encouraged to interpret incidents that way.

00:17:19.280 So why exactly is the Biden administration doing this?

00:17:22.360 The most benign possible explanation is that they're not planning on really doing anything.

00:17:26.200 Like, this is not anything.

00:17:27.160 It's just theater.

00:17:27.860 And they're just trying to win some votes in swing states like Michigan by pandering to various Muslim communities

00:17:33.040 by announcing a national strategy to combat Islamophobia.

00:17:37.420 And if that's true, it wouldn't be the first time that the White House has done something like this.

00:17:40.680 In fact, just a few months ago, the White House announced its bold new national plan to combat anti-Semitism.

00:17:47.160 They pledged that it would end hatred against Jews in the United States.

00:17:50.040 But if you've been, you know, seeing any of the footage from college campuses recently,

00:17:54.160 you know that the White House's plan hasn't exactly accomplished much.

00:17:57.600 It was all PR.

00:17:59.220 So maybe the same thing is happening here with this new plan to combat Islamophobia.

00:18:04.280 Maybe they're just going to record a video and release a press release and just move on.

00:18:09.060 But there's reason to think that something else is going on here.

00:18:11.940 You might have noticed that over the last few years,

00:18:14.300 the left and the media tend to announce ahead of time that there will be a rise of a certain kind of hate crime

00:18:20.140 according to current events.

00:18:21.780 And then, like magic, the prophecy curiously tends to fulfill itself.

00:18:27.380 And then the left uses that increase in hate to assume more power and to demonize their political opponents.

00:18:33.740 We saw this during COVID.

00:18:36.300 Nearly as soon as COVID made its way to the United States,

00:18:39.220 Democrats, if you remember, started declaring that the worst thing about the virus

00:18:43.820 is how it would lead to anti-Asian sentiment.

00:18:47.140 And they started saying this right away.

00:18:49.700 And then, what do you know?

00:18:50.820 That uptick happened right on schedule.

00:18:53.640 As ABC News reported in 2021, quote,

00:18:55.860 a new study suggests that former President Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric around the coronavirus,

00:19:00.440 which is believed to have originated in China,

00:19:02.400 helped spark anti-Asian Twitter content and likely perpetuated racist attitudes.

00:19:07.360 At the same time, Democrats refused to acknowledge the obvious fact

00:19:10.640 that the so-called hate crime surge against Asians during COVID

00:19:13.380 was almost entirely driven by black perpetrators,

00:19:17.400 which is a demographic group that votes Democrat,

00:19:19.920 or a demographic group which votes Democrat by a margin of 9 to 1.

00:19:24.180 As City Journal reported, quote,

00:19:25.880 blacks are responsible for 305% more violent crime against Asians

00:19:29.820 than neighborhood demographics would predict,

00:19:31.580 while whites and Hispanics commit significantly fewer attacks against Asians

00:19:35.140 than would be expected.

00:19:36.520 Now, Democrats never talked about those numbers

00:19:39.260 because they didn't want to demonize one of their primary voting blocs.

00:19:42.060 They constructed a narrative, and they followed through with it,

00:19:44.560 no matter how obviously false it was.

00:19:47.420 That's how cynical these people are.

00:19:49.620 But also profoundly unoriginal,

00:19:51.300 which is why we're now seeing this same strategy play out all over again

00:19:54.840 in exactly the same way.

00:19:56.940 They're desperately hoping that their whole narrative about, quote, unquote,

00:20:00.480 Islamophobia will manifest in reality

00:20:03.120 if they just keep pushing it over and over again.

00:20:04.900 And either way, they'll pretend it has manifested

00:20:07.020 whether it really has or not.

00:20:08.860 But the key point is that

00:20:09.820 even if you concede the left's central claim,

00:20:13.200 even if you pretend it's true

00:20:14.380 that we're seeing a rise in attacks on Muslims in this country,

00:20:17.600 then there's still no justification for the federal government

00:20:20.180 to announce a plan to police hate.

00:20:22.660 Because whether it's hate against Muslims or Jews

00:20:24.960 or white people or anyone else,

00:20:27.260 hate itself on its own

00:20:29.500 is not something the Biden administration

00:20:32.020 has any authority or any ability to resolve.

00:20:35.440 Hatred is an emotional state.

00:20:37.120 It exists in the human heart.

00:20:39.180 You cannot eliminate it even if you tried.

00:20:42.700 Which is, of course, good news for liberal activists,

00:20:44.920 the very people who are pushing this federal war on hate,

00:20:47.880 because they're among the most hateful people on the planet.

00:20:49.960 They're gleeful whenever any of their political opponents

00:20:52.120 lose their jobs or even their lives.

00:20:54.760 So if anyone should be jailed under some grand new plan

00:20:57.460 to punish hateful people, then it's them.

00:20:59.180 But you can't do that.

00:21:00.560 You can't police hate.

00:21:02.600 Now, if somebody commits an actual crime driven by hate,

00:21:05.440 you can punish the crime.

00:21:07.320 But then the fact that it was motivated by hate

00:21:09.220 as opposed to some other nasty emotion

00:21:11.060 is basically irrelevant, or it should be.

00:21:14.320 Hate itself, the emotion, the thought,

00:21:16.920 is outside the purview of the government.

00:21:20.240 When the White House announces yet another war on hate,

00:21:22.620 it's actually announcing a war on feelings

00:21:24.660 that it thinks we shouldn't feel.

00:21:26.760 The vice president is saying,

00:21:29.260 there are a lot of people feeling unapproved emotions,

00:21:31.920 and we're going to put a stop to that.

00:21:34.460 And when you think of it that way,

00:21:35.860 which is the accurate way,

00:21:37.500 you see how dystopian this really is.

00:21:40.260 It's also, again, impossible.

00:21:43.120 They cannot stop hate,

00:21:44.360 even if we agree that they should try,

00:21:46.180 and we do not agree.

00:21:47.300 But they can use the pretense of a war on hate

00:21:51.660 to seize more control over our lives,

00:21:54.980 and, they hope, our minds.

00:21:58.000 And, of course, that's what all this is really about.

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00:23:14.940 Yahoo reports,

00:23:15.860 It's a large migrant caravan comprising many Central Americans and Venezuelans,

00:23:19.820 left Southern Mexico on Monday for the United States.

00:23:21.940 Organizers and officials said as Washington grapples with renewed pressure on its southern border.

00:23:25.960 Officials in the southern state of Chiapas said that some 3,500 people set off on foot

00:23:30.620 from the city of Tapuqla,

00:23:32.500 Tapuqla,

00:23:33.780 Tapuqla,

00:23:34.440 Tapuqla,

00:23:34.840 Tapuqla,

00:23:35.840 Tapuqla,

00:23:36.840 Tapuqla,

00:23:37.640 Tapuqla.

00:23:38.900 Anyway,

00:23:39.300 it's near the Guatemalan border.

00:23:40.600 Well,

00:23:40.740 one of the caravan's organizers said there were around 5,000 in the group.

00:23:46.040 U.S. President Joe Biden,

00:23:46.980 who is seeking re-election next year,

00:23:48.800 is under pressure to curb the number of people crossing illegally in the United States.

00:23:54.440 But most of the latest caravan are from Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Venezuela,

00:24:01.240 and other countries as well.

00:24:03.480 And it's making its way here.

00:24:05.080 Maybe the most important thing is just to see the footage of this caravan,

00:24:08.700 which we have here.

00:24:09.340 Let's watch that.

00:24:15.920 So, in other words, it's a lot of people, as you can see.

00:24:18.240 Just a whole parade of them walking casually to the southern border of the United States

00:24:24.700 while our government stands there and watches them helplessly.

00:24:30.000 It just shows how impotent our government is that, you know,

00:24:35.960 it's one thing when you've got people that are sneaking across in the middle of the night,

00:24:40.540 running across the border.

00:24:41.840 I mean, that's not good either.

00:24:43.000 And we should be able to put a stop to that if we actually tried.

00:24:45.920 But when you've got a whole group of people that are just walking,

00:24:50.980 you can see them hundreds of miles away, and we know exactly where they're going.

00:24:57.420 And we sit here as if we're powerless to stop it.

00:25:01.540 That makes it even more pathetic.

00:25:03.980 And look, I know that there are important events happening overseas right now.

00:25:07.880 There are always important events happening overseas.

00:25:10.200 But the most important thing to us in this country should be preserving and protecting our own country.

00:25:17.240 And we can be of little use to any ally if we cease to exist.

00:25:22.520 And that's what we are confronting right now.

00:25:24.560 That's the reality that we face.

00:25:27.180 We hear a lot about existential threats these days.

00:25:29.800 Well, what you just saw in that video, that's it.

00:25:34.260 That's just one small portion of the existential threat.

00:25:39.560 It really is the end of the country.

00:25:41.960 The constant invasion from the South represents the end of this country.

00:25:45.820 These people, the people in the caravan, were told,

00:25:51.120 well, they're looking for a better life.

00:25:54.860 Right?

00:25:55.200 They're trying to take care of their families.

00:25:58.440 And in some cases, that's true.

00:26:02.220 In fact, in many cases, that's true.

00:26:04.160 But we as Americans are also looking for a better life.

00:26:09.320 We also want to take care of our families.

00:26:13.460 And that means protecting our border, protecting our sovereignty,

00:26:17.240 our national identity, our way of life.

00:26:21.180 That's what it means.

00:26:22.540 At least that's what it should mean.

00:26:24.760 Speaking of protecting our families,

00:26:26.280 we have this from Daily Wire about the homeschooling surge,

00:26:30.880 which is still continuing.

00:26:32.180 Homeschooling has become America's fastest-growing form of education

00:26:34.980 and continues to explode in popularity

00:26:37.240 long after pandemic-era remote learning has ended,

00:26:39.980 a new Washington Post analysis found.

00:26:42.760 The dramatic rise in homeschooling that began during the pandemic

00:26:45.320 continued through the school year that ended this past spring,

00:26:48.420 according to the Post's analysis,

00:26:49.800 which looked at data from nearly 7,000 school districts across the country.

00:26:53.600 Homeschooling's continued popularity flies in the face of predictions

00:26:56.140 that most families would go back to in-person classes.

00:26:59.300 At schools, once controversial pandemic restrictions

00:27:01.600 like mask mandates ended.

00:27:03.480 Another concern parents had after the pandemic

00:27:05.100 is learning loss in public schools,

00:27:07.320 which may also be driving some families to homeschool.

00:27:10.220 The Post analysis stated,

00:27:11.840 homeschooling's surging popularity crosses

00:27:13.560 every measurable line of politics, geography, and demographics.

00:27:17.740 Which is an important point in all this,

00:27:19.360 and a very significant point,

00:27:20.440 that for a long time,

00:27:23.500 we've associated homeschooling

00:27:25.200 with a kind of conservative Christian demographic.

00:27:31.320 And it's, I imagine, still predominantly

00:27:34.700 conservatives who homeschool,

00:27:36.580 Christians who homeschool,

00:27:38.240 but it's not only that.

00:27:40.200 We're seeing stark,

00:27:41.500 a stark rise in homeschooling

00:27:42.900 that cuts across demographics,

00:27:45.960 which is very significant, obviously.

00:27:49.260 The analysis looked at data from 32 states

00:27:52.000 and District of Columbia,

00:27:52.860 which represents more than 60% of school-aged children.

00:27:55.640 The data is incomplete

00:27:56.560 because some states do not have

00:27:58.220 reliable tallies of homeschoolers,

00:28:00.160 and 11 states, including Texas,

00:28:01.680 Michigan, Connecticut, and Illinois,

00:28:03.540 do not require families to notify the state

00:28:05.520 when they decide to homeschool.

00:28:06.700 Nevertheless, the numbers that are available

00:28:08.640 indicate that homeschooling

00:28:09.620 has become a mainstay

00:28:10.840 of the American educational system.

00:28:12.840 Before the pandemic,

00:28:13.780 there were 1.5 million homeschoolers in the U.S.

00:28:16.760 Now there are between 1.9 million

00:28:18.460 and 2.7 million homeschoolers in the country,

00:28:21.200 according to the Post's analysis.

00:28:24.880 And that, again, as it says,

00:28:27.480 that's probably an undercount

00:28:29.400 because there are the states

00:28:32.420 where homeschoolers have to declare themselves,

00:28:35.280 and then there are states

00:28:36.400 when there is no requirement.

00:28:38.380 And so you can only sort of guess.

00:28:40.980 And by the way,

00:28:41.640 there shouldn't be any requirement.

00:28:44.340 Like, I shouldn't have to,

00:28:45.760 I shouldn't have to say anything

00:28:47.260 to the school system.

00:28:49.200 If I'm opting out of the school system,

00:28:50.900 I don't have to ask your permission.

00:28:52.400 I don't have to tell you

00:28:53.440 what business is it of yours.

00:28:55.680 You don't own my child.

00:28:57.620 I don't have to account for my child

00:28:59.600 to you in the public school system

00:29:01.320 if I'm pulling my kids out.

00:29:03.560 At least I shouldn't have to.

00:29:05.640 And that's the way the law is in many states.

00:29:08.620 So they can only guess.

00:29:10.920 And my guess would be, you know,

00:29:12.660 if they're talking around 3 million homeschoolers,

00:29:14.600 it's probably more than that.

00:29:16.640 But the most important fact

00:29:17.800 is that it's significantly more

00:29:19.500 than it was even a few years ago.

00:29:21.740 And, you know,

00:29:22.340 we talked about homeschooling in detail

00:29:23.720 last week in response

00:29:26.980 to the broad side against homeschooling

00:29:30.220 that was launched by John Oliver.

00:29:32.480 We don't need to repeat all that.

00:29:33.660 All I will say is that

00:29:34.600 as I predicted at the time,

00:29:37.840 this, you know,

00:29:38.500 going back to when all the lockdowns

00:29:40.280 were happening,

00:29:40.760 I said this at the time,

00:29:41.880 the public school system

00:29:42.680 made a massive strategic error

00:29:45.580 by shutting down

00:29:47.640 and going to remote learning,

00:29:49.500 quote unquote,

00:29:50.100 for half a year or a year

00:29:51.580 or more in some cases.

00:29:54.140 Now, it was bad for kids,

00:29:56.260 which is the most important thing,

00:29:58.060 but the system also shot itself in the foot

00:30:00.180 because it gave parents a chance

00:30:03.240 to see and to hear

00:30:04.700 what is actually being taught

00:30:06.180 in the classroom,

00:30:07.660 what's actually happening

00:30:08.620 in the classroom.

00:30:09.940 They got an inside look.

00:30:11.380 They got a kind of

00:30:12.020 behind the scenes look

00:30:13.280 and many of them

00:30:14.040 didn't like what they saw

00:30:15.440 because prior to that,

00:30:18.960 if you wanted to know

00:30:19.760 what was happening

00:30:20.400 inside your kid's classroom,

00:30:21.600 you could ask your kid

00:30:22.840 and kids sort of notoriously

00:30:25.240 can be very light on details.

00:30:28.560 You know, you ask them

00:30:29.080 how their day was

00:30:29.780 and you might get a fine,

00:30:31.800 like one word

00:30:32.560 to summarize an entire day.

00:30:34.020 So you could try

00:30:35.940 to find out that way

00:30:36.720 or you could visit the classroom

00:30:38.360 and there might be specific days

00:30:41.160 when it's parent day

00:30:42.860 and parents show up

00:30:43.760 and they're, you know,

00:30:44.680 but any of us

00:30:46.660 who went to public school,

00:30:47.380 we remember what that was like.

00:30:48.780 We remember the specific days,

00:30:50.220 a couple days of the year

00:30:50.980 when the parents come

00:30:51.880 and they're, you know,

00:30:52.780 they follow you around

00:30:54.360 and they're watching

00:30:55.040 and we can all remember

00:30:57.120 that we liked those days

00:30:59.640 because the teachers

00:31:00.940 changed quite a bit.

00:31:02.500 They were on their best behavior,

00:31:04.020 and they were much friendlier

00:31:05.560 when the parents were around.

00:31:09.240 Well, it was kind of,

00:31:09.920 it was kind of,

00:31:10.360 it was sort of a double-edged sword

00:31:11.460 because the teachers were nicer

00:31:13.880 and they were friendlier

00:31:14.420 when the parents were there,

00:31:15.040 but they also made you do actual work

00:31:16.700 if the parents were there.

00:31:18.020 So they weren't going to,

00:31:18.680 you know,

00:31:18.900 the teachers that would usually

00:31:20.000 just put on a movie,

00:31:21.300 they're not going to do that

00:31:22.200 when the parents are visiting.

00:31:24.480 But either way,

00:31:25.360 this was different

00:31:27.220 because it gave like a everyday

00:31:29.100 look into what was going on

00:31:32.240 and parents saw that

00:31:33.380 and a lot of them didn't like it.

00:31:34.940 Also, parents were forced

00:31:36.240 to keep their kids at home

00:31:37.320 and many of them started homeschooling

00:31:41.080 or quasi-homeschooling

00:31:42.100 out of necessity

00:31:42.700 and they found out

00:31:43.960 during the process

00:31:44.620 that they can do it.

00:31:46.900 It's good for their kids,

00:31:48.220 it's good for their family,

00:31:49.140 and they can do it.

00:31:51.580 See, this is the one advantage

00:31:53.320 that the public school system had,

00:31:55.520 that they gave,

00:31:56.100 they forfeited this advantage.

00:31:58.000 But, you know,

00:31:59.100 homeschooling was always

00:31:59.980 a better option,

00:32:00.720 it was always superior,

00:32:02.220 but the public school system

00:32:03.800 had the massive,

00:32:04.880 seemingly insurmountable advantage

00:32:06.600 of being the default, right?

00:32:09.200 Being the system

00:32:09.980 that nearly everyone

00:32:10.860 had inherited

00:32:11.700 and for many parents

00:32:15.480 doing anything else

00:32:16.580 seemed incomprehensible.

00:32:19.320 Change is hard,

00:32:20.560 change is scary,

00:32:21.660 and even if you can

00:32:22.460 intellectually understand

00:32:23.620 the benefits of the change,

00:32:24.900 it's still very, very difficult

00:32:25.940 to make the leap

00:32:27.240 and to take the risk

00:32:28.580 and to say,

00:32:29.200 okay, you know,

00:32:31.080 I'm going to do this thing

00:32:32.260 that will profoundly change

00:32:34.240 my life and my lifestyle,

00:32:35.480 but I'm going to do it

00:32:36.180 and I'm going to accept that change.

00:32:38.700 Most people just aren't

00:32:39.620 going to do that.

00:32:40.240 They don't want to make the jump

00:32:41.560 because they're afraid.

00:32:42.580 But then the schools shut down

00:32:43.840 and people were forced to.

00:32:47.100 The default was changed,

00:32:49.300 which is to say

00:32:50.300 the one thing

00:32:51.120 the public school

00:32:51.760 had going for it,

00:32:53.320 it's one sort of

00:32:54.700 defense mechanism

00:32:55.660 which is that

00:32:56.780 it was the default option

00:32:58.120 was taken away.

00:32:59.980 They gave it up.

00:33:00.580 They forfeited it.

00:33:02.040 And suddenly lots of parents said,

00:33:03.520 oh, you know,

00:33:03.900 actually I can do this.

00:33:05.880 It turns out I can do this.

00:33:07.040 I don't know what

00:33:07.380 I was so afraid of.

00:33:09.160 I don't need the system.

00:33:11.360 It's also, you know,

00:33:12.140 I've used this analogy before,

00:33:15.060 but it is very much like

00:33:16.320 if you, you know,

00:33:16.880 if you work at your job,

00:33:19.160 especially if you're kind of

00:33:20.140 a middle of the pack

00:33:21.320 sort of talent

00:33:22.760 and, you know,

00:33:24.760 you're not great

00:33:25.540 at your job,

00:33:26.680 maybe not terrible,

00:33:27.420 but you're not great

00:33:28.100 and maybe you're doing

00:33:30.900 a job that like

00:33:31.660 really doesn't need

00:33:32.360 to be done,

00:33:32.920 you're doing a lot

00:33:33.360 of busy work

00:33:34.100 and you don't really have

00:33:35.700 any kind of necessary

00:33:37.600 role in the company

00:33:38.420 and you're aware of that,

00:33:40.820 well, if you're in that boat,

00:33:43.720 it could be a dangerous thing

00:33:45.640 to take a lot of time

00:33:47.660 off of work.

00:33:48.140 Like you might not want

00:33:48.840 to go away on vacation

00:33:49.940 for two weeks.

00:33:50.660 You might want to make it

00:33:51.420 only a few days

00:33:52.100 because when you're gone,

00:33:54.540 everyone else is going

00:33:55.320 to look around

00:33:55.740 and they're going to realize,

00:33:56.360 oh, we actually don't need you.

00:33:57.520 Like we can,

00:33:58.300 we get,

00:33:58.740 oh, this person's gone.

00:33:59.540 We didn't even notice

00:34:00.260 they were gone.

00:34:02.680 And then when you come back,

00:34:03.900 there might not be a job

00:34:04.740 to come back to.

00:34:05.920 And I think that's what

00:34:06.640 happened with the public

00:34:07.060 school system.

00:34:07.500 A lot of people,

00:34:08.360 they kind of said,

00:34:09.680 oh, you know what?

00:34:10.220 We don't really need them.

00:34:13.160 I thought I did

00:34:13.900 because we just,

00:34:14.620 we always had them,

00:34:15.300 but now that they're gone,

00:34:16.140 we don't need them.

00:34:18.320 Okay, here's an article

00:34:19.140 from The Advocate.

00:34:20.300 Apparently,

00:34:20.780 I've been at the center

00:34:21.720 of a controversy

00:34:22.420 which has been raging

00:34:23.760 over the past week or so

00:34:25.440 that I was not aware of.

00:34:28.920 There have been articles written.

00:34:31.780 YouTubers have been responding

00:34:33.080 furiously to what I said.

00:34:35.800 I didn't even,

00:34:36.260 I didn't even know anything.

00:34:37.100 I didn't know they were mad.

00:34:38.280 I'm not surprised

00:34:38.960 they were mad

00:34:39.400 is something I said,

00:34:39.960 but I didn't even know about it.

00:34:40.980 I wasn't paying attention.

00:34:42.040 But here's The Advocate headline.

00:34:43.220 Matt Walsh's

00:34:44.460 homosexual infants remark

00:34:46.120 raises eyebrows

00:34:47.140 amid conversion therapy talk.

00:34:49.960 The article says,

00:34:50.860 Matt Walsh hosted

00:34:51.460 The Daily Wire's

00:34:52.200 The Matt Walsh Show

00:34:53.420 recently sparked an uproar

00:34:54.440 by expressing support

00:34:55.400 for conversion therapy,

00:34:56.700 challenging the widely accepted notion

00:34:58.120 that sexual orientation

00:34:59.080 is immutable.

00:35:01.660 Particularly controversial

00:35:02.760 were his remarks

00:35:03.460 concerning being born gay,

00:35:05.100 which he mocked,

00:35:05.920 according to a Media Matters

00:35:06.880 transcript published last month,

00:35:08.700 by suggesting the idea

00:35:10.780 implies the existence

00:35:11.740 of homosexual infants.

00:35:13.960 Quoting me,

00:35:14.520 if people are born gay,

00:35:15.680 like born gay,

00:35:16.420 you're gay from birth, right?

00:35:17.360 Well, that's what that would mean.

00:35:18.760 And then that means

00:35:20.040 that there are what?

00:35:21.440 Homosexual infants out there.

00:35:22.620 Again, no sane person

00:35:23.720 thinks that.

00:35:24.860 Walsh's comments

00:35:25.400 have been criticized

00:35:26.040 perpetuating harmful stereotypes

00:35:27.640 and misinformation

00:35:28.240 regarding the LGBTQ plus community.

00:35:31.760 His remarks come at a time

00:35:32.600 when a significant coalition

00:35:33.520 known as the United States

00:35:34.500 Joint Statement

00:35:35.520 is working tirelessly

00:35:37.760 to eradicate

00:35:38.520 the harmful practice

00:35:39.500 of conversion therapy.

00:35:41.740 The USJS,

00:35:42.900 comprising 28 influential

00:35:44.000 mental health

00:35:44.620 and medical organizations

00:35:45.280 in the United States,

00:35:46.120 has been making strides

00:35:46.880 in advocating

00:35:47.460 for the rights

00:35:48.100 of LGBTQ plus individuals.

00:35:51.020 Critics argue

00:35:51.600 that Walsh's comments

00:35:52.320 dismissed the substantial evidence

00:35:53.900 and the consensus

00:35:54.720 within the medical community

00:35:55.800 regarding the damaging impacts

00:35:57.320 of conversion therapy.

00:35:59.480 This practice,

00:36:00.100 aimed at changing

00:36:00.660 an individual's sexual orientation

00:36:01.760 or gender identity,

00:36:02.780 has been associated

00:36:03.480 with severe psychological trauma,

00:36:05.200 depression, anxiety,

00:36:06.080 and long-lasting

00:36:06.600 emotional distress.

00:36:07.840 Okay, a few things.

00:36:09.580 First of all,

00:36:11.260 a medical consensus

00:36:12.360 or a consensus

00:36:13.120 in the medical community,

00:36:14.200 it just doesn't mean

00:36:16.420 anything anymore.

00:36:17.380 Nobody cares.

00:36:19.000 And that's not my fault.

00:36:20.940 Okay, I wish that wasn't the case.

00:36:22.660 I wish we were not.

00:36:23.740 I wish that we lived

00:36:25.460 in a country

00:36:25.980 where when you hear the phrase

00:36:29.500 consensus in the medical community,

00:36:32.020 it really meant something.

00:36:34.380 I wish,

00:36:35.020 I deeply,

00:36:36.040 deeply wish

00:36:37.300 that we lived

00:36:38.040 in that kind of country.

00:36:39.800 I wish that we had

00:36:40.680 that kind of medical community

00:36:42.040 where if there was actually

00:36:44.100 a consensus among them

00:36:45.540 about something,

00:36:47.020 you could go,

00:36:47.920 oh, well, okay,

00:36:48.640 I guess it's,

00:36:49.620 well, that's pretty powerful.

00:36:51.700 Okay, I guess whatever

00:36:52.580 they're saying is good

00:36:53.840 because, you know,

00:36:55.100 if they all agree

00:36:55.860 these are the experts,

00:36:57.240 I wish that we could say that,

00:36:59.480 but we can't anymore.

00:37:01.540 We can't.

00:37:02.400 And so it doesn't,

00:37:04.020 it just doesn't mean anything.

00:37:05.260 And when people hear

00:37:05.880 about medical consensus,

00:37:06.920 they ignore it.

00:37:07.940 In fact, they laugh.

00:37:08.780 They don't just ignore it.

00:37:09.560 They laugh at it.

00:37:11.960 I know for people on the left

00:37:13.420 and in the media,

00:37:14.660 this is hard for you

00:37:15.620 to wrap your head around

00:37:16.700 because appeals to authority,

00:37:19.840 that's like your only move.

00:37:21.180 That's all you have.

00:37:22.180 You have ad hominem

00:37:23.080 and you have appeal to authority.

00:37:25.780 That's all you've got.

00:37:27.360 But what you have to realize

00:37:28.380 is that for normal people,

00:37:29.560 and not just right-wing radicals

00:37:32.940 like myself,

00:37:34.080 when they hear,

00:37:35.300 oh, there's a consensus

00:37:36.060 in the medical community,

00:37:36.780 they laugh at it

00:37:38.940 because we know

00:37:41.320 we can look

00:37:42.720 at recent examples

00:37:44.400 of things

00:37:45.980 that have, you know,

00:37:48.360 earned a consensus

00:37:49.540 in the medical community

00:37:50.500 and we know

00:37:51.320 that it's total nonsense.

00:37:54.220 There was a consensus

00:37:55.220 in the medical community

00:37:56.180 about the efficacy

00:37:57.020 of the vaccine,

00:37:58.140 for example,

00:37:58.720 and masks.

00:37:59.440 We all remember that.

00:38:00.480 There are a lot of,

00:38:01.360 there are many different

00:38:02.520 examples of a consensus

00:38:04.540 in the medical community

00:38:05.360 around COVID

00:38:05.900 that turned out

00:38:06.420 to be not correct.

00:38:09.620 There's a consent,

00:38:10.540 there's essentially,

00:38:12.080 there's wide agreements,

00:38:13.800 apparently,

00:38:14.180 in the medical community

00:38:15.000 that, you know,

00:38:18.220 that it can be a good idea

00:38:20.660 to chemically castrate kids.

00:38:24.720 There's also a quote-unquote

00:38:25.860 consensus about that.

00:38:27.880 Which is why the consensus

00:38:29.020 doesn't mean anything

00:38:29.780 to us.

00:38:31.800 Also, second,

00:38:32.520 my point about being born gay

00:38:33.840 absolutely still holds

00:38:35.540 and just scoffing at it

00:38:36.940 is not an argument.

00:38:38.980 The logic is simple, right?

00:38:41.280 If people are born gay,

00:38:42.540 as the left claims,

00:38:43.940 that means that they are

00:38:45.280 gay from birth.

00:38:47.100 Like, what am I missing here?

00:38:48.560 If you're born gay,

00:38:49.800 to be born something

00:38:51.340 is to be that thing

00:38:53.020 from birth.

00:38:54.300 If you're not that thing

00:38:55.440 from birth,

00:38:56.000 then you were not born it,

00:38:58.000 right?

00:38:59.360 And if you are gay

00:39:00.640 from birth,

00:39:01.280 if you are gay at birth,

00:39:02.660 from birth,

00:39:03.480 then that would mean

00:39:04.960 that there are

00:39:05.620 homosexual infants.

00:39:07.540 And if that concept

00:39:08.340 seems ridiculous to you

00:39:09.880 and disturbing

00:39:10.680 and just wrong,

00:39:13.200 and it should seem like

00:39:14.640 all those things

00:39:15.160 because it is,

00:39:16.340 then you apparently agree

00:39:18.620 that the whole idea

00:39:19.460 of being born gay

00:39:20.240 is inherently flawed

00:39:21.140 for that reason.

00:39:22.180 And finally,

00:39:23.900 you know,

00:39:24.080 I keep hearing about

00:39:24.780 the huge mounds of evidence

00:39:26.040 that, quote-unquote,

00:39:26.960 conversion therapy

00:39:27.800 is horrifically damaging

00:39:28.860 and harmful.

00:39:29.920 But I've never seen

00:39:31.100 any of this evidence

00:39:31.720 and that's because

00:39:32.200 the evidence doesn't exist.

00:39:33.280 Now, yes,

00:39:34.360 I think as I acknowledged

00:39:35.160 at the time

00:39:35.540 when we talked about this

00:39:36.100 the first time,

00:39:36.800 if you're talking about

00:39:37.780 some kind of

00:39:38.820 archaic, weird,

00:39:40.660 electroshock therapy thing

00:39:42.620 from the 50s,

00:39:44.340 back when psychiatrists

00:39:45.600 were giving electroshocks

00:39:46.560 to everybody for everything

00:39:47.800 because psychiatrists

00:39:48.960 have always just been

00:39:50.040 making crap up as they go,

00:39:52.080 which they're still doing now.

00:39:53.280 But if you're talking about that,

00:39:54.620 then, yeah,

00:39:56.000 that's bad.

00:39:57.400 But nobody is doing that.

00:40:00.120 Conversion therapy,

00:40:01.060 so-called,

00:40:01.660 in reality,

00:40:02.560 in practice,

00:40:03.220 what they call conversion therapy

00:40:04.500 usually just means

00:40:05.720 that somebody

00:40:07.280 with same-sex attraction

00:40:08.560 doesn't want to have

00:40:10.440 that attraction.

00:40:11.200 It causes them,

00:40:11.820 it disturbs them,

00:40:12.480 it causes them distress

00:40:13.360 and they're not happy with it

00:40:15.680 and so they seek counseling

00:40:17.040 about it.

00:40:19.260 That's what,

00:40:19.680 quote-unquote,

00:40:20.120 conversion therapy

00:40:20.860 is in practice.

00:40:21.740 And when you hear

00:40:22.240 about,

00:40:23.600 about,

00:40:25.940 you know,

00:40:26.300 when you hear these days

00:40:28.240 someone accused

00:40:29.320 of engaging

00:40:31.400 in conversion therapy,

00:40:32.320 that's what it is.

00:40:33.260 That's all it is.

00:40:35.660 And,

00:40:36.100 why shouldn't people

00:40:38.020 be able to do that?

00:40:39.020 I mean,

00:40:39.260 the left would have us believe

00:40:40.700 that it is valid

00:40:42.300 for a man

00:40:43.240 who doesn't want

00:40:43.900 to be a man

00:40:44.520 to seek counseling

00:40:46.220 in an effort

00:40:48.260 to become a woman

00:40:49.060 and yet

00:40:50.640 a gay person

00:40:52.020 who doesn't want

00:40:52.680 to be gay

00:40:53.120 should never

00:40:53.980 seek counseling

00:40:54.660 in an effort

00:40:55.680 to become straight.

00:40:58.640 And that doesn't make,

00:41:00.260 that dichotomy

00:41:01.400 is completely insane.

00:41:04.200 Okay?

00:41:04.540 It is totally crazy,

00:41:06.600 which is why

00:41:07.660 you can't defend it.

00:41:09.600 Okay?

00:41:10.140 Someone explained to me

00:41:11.360 how it could be possible

00:41:12.560 for a person

00:41:14.020 to change their sex,

00:41:15.360 how is it possible

00:41:16.320 that sex

00:41:17.020 is not immutable,

00:41:19.120 but sexual orientation

00:41:20.720 is?

00:41:22.960 Go ahead

00:41:23.660 and lay that out

00:41:24.340 for me.

00:41:25.660 You can't do it

00:41:26.680 because it's nonsense.

00:41:29.900 All right.

00:41:30.880 Let's see

00:41:31.460 how much time we have.

00:41:32.120 Okay,

00:41:32.240 we got to get to

00:41:32.920 the next segment,

00:41:34.260 but

00:41:34.440 before we do,

00:41:37.660 I've ruled on this issue

00:41:39.040 already in the past,

00:41:40.100 but it seems necessary

00:41:41.780 for me to speak up again

00:41:43.120 because it is shocking to me

00:41:45.780 how many people

00:41:46.680 are wrong about this,

00:41:47.940 how many people

00:41:48.520 don't understand

00:41:50.580 one of,

00:41:51.700 one of the

00:41:52.120 basic

00:41:53.640 rules of etiquette

00:41:55.160 and of life.

00:41:57.180 So here's a quick viral video

00:41:58.680 making the rounds right now.

00:41:59.860 It is an argument

00:42:00.960 on an airplane

00:42:01.820 over the issue

00:42:03.200 of reclining

00:42:04.120 your seat.

00:42:05.180 Let's watch.

00:42:07.040 The whole trip

00:42:07.900 she pushed my seat.

00:42:08.940 No, you seen it.

00:42:10.060 No, she didn't.

00:42:11.180 She put no.

00:42:11.980 I'm allowed

00:42:12.880 to put my seat back.

00:42:13.980 I'm allowed

00:42:14.600 to put my seat back.

00:42:16.400 I'm allowed

00:42:17.200 to put my seat back.

00:42:19.240 Okay.

00:42:20.520 So,

00:42:21.060 I don't know

00:42:21.520 where this video is from,

00:42:22.660 but it's making

00:42:23.420 the rounds right now.

00:42:24.180 I don't know

00:42:24.380 if it's recent or not.

00:42:25.060 I don't know

00:42:25.340 any other context behind it.

00:42:27.200 I don't know

00:42:27.460 who those people are.

00:42:28.600 But I think

00:42:29.060 we can assume

00:42:31.560 from the context

00:42:32.120 that this dispute

00:42:34.600 started

00:42:35.320 because the woman

00:42:35.900 was putting her seat back

00:42:37.060 and the guy

00:42:37.700 behind her

00:42:38.440 did not like that

00:42:39.580 and apparently

00:42:40.000 from what I read

00:42:40.700 he was kicking

00:42:41.580 the seat

00:42:41.800 or something.

00:42:44.020 So,

00:42:44.560 it is apparently

00:42:45.320 necessary,

00:42:46.140 as I did

00:42:46.640 on Twitter

00:42:46.920 this morning,

00:42:48.480 it's apparently

00:42:49.020 necessary for me

00:42:49.980 to stipulate,

00:42:51.340 once again,

00:42:52.280 you do not

00:42:53.080 recline your seat

00:42:54.080 in coach.

00:42:55.980 Okay?

00:42:56.640 If you want

00:42:57.580 the right

00:42:58.900 to recline your seat,

00:43:01.420 get a first class ticket.

00:43:03.020 You can recline

00:43:03.500 your seat

00:43:03.780 in first class.

00:43:04.820 Okay?

00:43:05.260 Because there's

00:43:05.680 enough room.

00:43:06.840 And you can recline

00:43:08.500 your seat

00:43:08.740 without impeding

00:43:09.540 the person

00:43:10.180 behind you.

00:43:13.220 And also,

00:43:14.880 there are practices,

00:43:15.320 like in first class,

00:43:16.100 for example,

00:43:17.000 the tray table,

00:43:18.100 most of the time,

00:43:19.240 is not attached

00:43:20.260 to the seat

00:43:21.020 in front of you.

00:43:22.040 Usually in first class,

00:43:23.080 they have the tray table

00:43:23.940 that comes out

00:43:24.560 of the armrest,

00:43:26.060 which means

00:43:26.680 that if the person

00:43:27.160 behind you

00:43:27.600 reclines a bit,

00:43:28.860 and you're trying

00:43:29.840 to eat your meal

00:43:31.980 on your tray table,

00:43:33.100 it's not going

00:43:33.700 to interfere.

00:43:35.300 But in coach,

00:43:36.460 the tray table

00:43:37.040 is attached

00:43:37.540 to the seat

00:43:37.960 behind you.

00:43:39.260 And so oftentimes,

00:43:39.900 if you have

00:43:40.400 a tray table down

00:43:41.120 and the person

00:43:41.560 reclines,

00:43:42.240 the tray table

00:43:42.680 is not even usable

00:43:43.320 anymore.

00:43:43.800 Can't use it.

00:43:45.380 And then there's

00:43:47.020 the leg room issue.

00:43:50.960 Okay?

00:43:51.440 You have like

00:43:52.240 two inches of leg room

00:43:53.400 to spare

00:43:54.040 if you're in coach.

00:43:56.040 You have barely any

00:43:57.100 leg room to begin with.

00:43:59.200 You've got maybe

00:43:59.920 two inches to spare.

00:44:01.480 And when I say

00:44:01.920 to spare,

00:44:02.500 I mean like

00:44:02.920 there's,

00:44:04.140 you might,

00:44:04.840 if you are,

00:44:05.660 yeah,

00:44:05.820 look,

00:44:06.120 if you're,

00:44:06.460 if you're a very

00:44:07.220 short person,

00:44:07.880 this might be

00:44:08.300 different.

00:44:09.580 But if you are

00:44:10.980 even average height

00:44:12.660 or slightly above

00:44:13.620 average height,

00:44:14.340 you've got where

00:44:15.860 your knee ends

00:44:16.720 and then you've got

00:44:17.300 maybe like two inches

00:44:18.560 before it's hitting

00:44:19.840 the seat in front of you.

00:44:21.420 If that person declines,

00:44:22.880 that room is gone now.

00:44:24.800 And now you,

00:44:26.020 your knee is wedged up

00:44:27.900 against that person's

00:44:29.080 reclined seat.

00:44:30.800 Just because,

00:44:31.920 and I don't want to hear,

00:44:33.560 as she's arguing,

00:44:35.180 I'm allowed to recline

00:44:36.280 my seat.

00:44:36.720 I'm allowed.

00:44:37.480 Yeah,

00:44:37.720 you're allowed to.

00:44:39.760 You're allowed.

00:44:40.080 There's no,

00:44:40.540 unfortunately,

00:44:41.140 there's no law

00:44:41.960 saying you can't,

00:44:42.920 there should be a law,

00:44:43.820 but there's not.

00:44:45.900 You're allowed to do

00:44:46.780 a lot of things

00:44:47.400 that you should,

00:44:48.020 you still shouldn't do.

00:44:49.940 That's what etiquette is.

00:44:52.180 There is not force of law

00:44:54.000 behind most rules of etiquette.

00:44:56.380 Again,

00:44:56.780 if I was in charge,

00:44:57.400 that it would be,

00:44:58.080 but I'm not,

00:44:59.520 unfortunately for everybody.

00:45:01.600 So,

00:45:01.920 but that doesn't,

00:45:02.540 that doesn't invalidate

00:45:03.940 the rule of etiquette.

00:45:05.580 There's no,

00:45:06.300 hey,

00:45:06.760 you're allowed

00:45:07.840 to walk in,

00:45:09.760 to walk through a door

00:45:11.260 and shut it

00:45:12.500 on the person behind you.

00:45:13.720 You're allowed to do that.

00:45:15.500 The door is,

00:45:16.760 you're able to do that.

00:45:19.460 Does that mean

00:45:20.160 you should do that?

00:45:21.180 Does that make it

00:45:21.680 not incredibly rude

00:45:22.980 to do that?

00:45:25.940 You know,

00:45:26.560 here's another analogy

00:45:27.400 for all the people

00:45:28.700 that say,

00:45:29.160 well,

00:45:29.520 the seats,

00:45:30.040 the seats can recline.

00:45:31.800 Like,

00:45:31.980 is that,

00:45:33.120 is that how simple

00:45:35.600 your mind is

00:45:36.400 that you say,

00:45:37.140 well,

00:45:37.300 it can do it,

00:45:38.060 so that means

00:45:38.560 I should do it.

00:45:40.640 Yeah,

00:45:41.080 it can do it,

00:45:41.760 but you shouldn't.

00:45:43.380 Just like

00:45:44.120 the vol,

00:45:45.340 take this,

00:45:47.120 maybe you live

00:45:47.600 in an apartment,

00:45:48.520 okay?

00:45:49.200 You have a TV.

00:45:50.580 You're allowed

00:45:51.140 to have a TV

00:45:51.660 in your apartment.

00:45:53.100 That TV

00:45:53.940 goes up

00:45:54.680 to a certain volume,

00:45:55.960 right?

00:45:56.220 It goes up

00:45:56.560 to volume 75

00:45:57.660 or whatever.

00:45:59.120 So,

00:45:59.700 you're allowed

00:46:00.100 to have a TV.

00:46:01.120 You're allowed

00:46:01.480 to be in your apartment.

00:46:03.160 The TV is,

00:46:04.020 you're able

00:46:04.700 to turn it

00:46:05.120 all the way up.

00:46:06.020 It has that capability,

00:46:07.780 but should you

00:46:09.700 put the TV

00:46:10.460 on full blast

00:46:11.620 so that you're

00:46:12.660 disturbing the people

00:46:13.540 who live around you?

00:46:14.880 No.

00:46:15.940 Even though you can,

00:46:17.780 even though

00:46:18.360 you're able to,

00:46:20.660 you still shouldn't

00:46:22.180 because it is rude

00:46:23.280 to the people

00:46:23.860 around you.

00:46:24.580 and when you

00:46:26.700 decide to recline

00:46:27.560 your seat

00:46:28.000 and coach,

00:46:28.820 you are making

00:46:29.680 the decision

00:46:30.580 to invade

00:46:32.260 the personal space

00:46:33.260 of the person

00:46:33.560 behind you

00:46:34.040 and to take

00:46:35.000 what little comfort

00:46:35.920 they had

00:46:36.560 away from them.

00:46:38.560 Okay?

00:46:38.740 And you're doing,

00:46:39.440 you're trying to

00:46:40.140 increase your comfort

00:46:41.260 by a little bit

00:46:42.020 by taking

00:46:44.040 the comfort away

00:46:45.480 from the person

00:46:45.860 behind you.

00:46:46.360 That is,

00:46:47.000 by definition,

00:46:47.680 a rude thing

00:46:48.860 to do.

00:46:50.320 All right.

00:46:51.840 Moving on.

00:46:52.380 Actually,

00:46:52.580 we're not going

00:46:52.880 to move on

00:46:53.280 because as we

00:46:53.940 move on

00:46:54.260 to the next

00:46:55.100 segment,

00:46:55.700 we will stay

00:46:57.360 on this very

00:46:57.940 important subject.

00:46:58.940 Let's get to that now.

00:47:03.280 Okay,

00:47:03.800 so as I mentioned,

00:47:05.060 we talked about this,

00:47:06.280 I want to say

00:47:09.980 I gave my opinion

00:47:10.880 on the leg room

00:47:11.960 or the seat

00:47:12.820 reclining issue.

00:47:13.600 I didn't give my opinion.

00:47:14.480 I stated what is a fact

00:47:16.480 on Twitter this morning

00:47:17.740 and shockingly,

00:47:22.160 a large percentage

00:47:23.460 of people

00:47:23.940 somehow are

00:47:25.080 disagreeing with me.

00:47:26.380 So I'll read a few

00:47:26.820 of these comments.

00:47:28.740 She's right,

00:47:29.420 Matt.

00:47:29.580 The reclining function

00:47:30.300 is there to be used.

00:47:31.400 You decide

00:47:32.000 or need to fly.

00:47:33.640 Bear with it.

00:47:34.480 That doesn't entitle

00:47:35.180 the person behind you

00:47:35.820 to push and kick

00:47:36.540 the seat in front.

00:47:37.860 Abby says,

00:47:39.020 seats recline

00:47:39.540 a tiny amount.

00:47:40.180 It's hardly noticeable

00:47:40.840 to either party.

00:47:42.420 Smooth Op says,

00:47:43.540 I'm putting my

00:47:44.140 back.

00:47:45.020 It is what it is.

00:47:46.320 I've paid for that seat

00:47:47.400 and all the amenities

00:47:48.220 that come with it.

00:47:50.520 Dr. Dre,

00:47:51.420 I don't know

00:47:51.660 if he's the one

00:47:52.400 and only,

00:47:52.980 says,

00:47:53.220 disagree.

00:47:53.640 It only reclines

00:47:54.260 about an inch

00:47:54.820 and the back table

00:47:55.660 is still usable.

00:47:57.940 Kara says,

00:47:59.200 these seats are designed

00:47:59.960 to be the smallest

00:48:00.620 possible to maximize

00:48:01.500 airline profits.

00:48:02.860 Why does logic

00:48:03.500 always elude you, Matt?

00:48:04.640 And Aaron says,

00:48:05.320 the seats only recline

00:48:06.020 a couple of inches,

00:48:06.680 stopping a drama queen.

00:48:08.180 Fly first class

00:48:08.920 if you really care

00:48:09.600 about leg room that much.

00:48:10.760 Okay.

00:48:12.060 Number one,

00:48:12.760 I do fly first class.

00:48:13.860 This is me.

00:48:14.420 I'm speaking up.

00:48:15.820 For the common man here.

00:48:17.180 Okay.

00:48:17.300 I'm speaking.

00:48:17.800 So I'm not even

00:48:18.540 personally affected

00:48:19.500 by this anymore.

00:48:20.440 But,

00:48:20.980 but even so,

00:48:22.160 I still,

00:48:23.620 it enrages me to know

00:48:25.420 that the people back there

00:48:27.760 are suffering in this way.

00:48:29.680 I almost want to

00:48:30.960 get my seat up for them.

00:48:32.620 Well,

00:48:32.940 no,

00:48:33.100 I would never do that.

00:48:33.860 But still,

00:48:34.440 I don't like to know

00:48:35.540 that this kind of,

00:48:36.860 that this rudeness

00:48:37.560 is happening.

00:48:38.160 And also,

00:48:39.000 because of the rudeness

00:48:39.660 that this great suffering

00:48:40.620 is happening as well.

00:48:42.200 Um,

00:48:43.120 it only reclines

00:48:43.840 a couple of inches.

00:48:44.580 That's true.

00:48:45.320 But once again,

00:48:46.480 there is only

00:48:47.460 a couple of inches

00:48:48.260 back there to spare

00:48:49.420 to begin with.

00:48:50.540 And so you're taking away

00:48:52.160 what,

00:48:52.820 what rightfully belongs

00:48:54.980 to the person behind you.

00:48:56.940 Now,

00:48:57.520 who's the ultimate villain

00:48:59.060 in all of this?

00:49:00.760 Is it the airline?

00:49:02.160 Yes,

00:49:02.520 I totally agree with that.

00:49:04.880 Okay.

00:49:05.400 The airlines,

00:49:06.120 they,

00:49:06.380 they're treating

00:49:07.040 their,

00:49:07.360 their passengers

00:49:08.100 like cattle,

00:49:09.040 basically just shoving

00:49:10.600 them back there.

00:49:12.080 And,

00:49:12.560 uh,

00:49:12.720 and then on top of it,

00:49:14.000 they have the recline function

00:49:16.420 on the seats,

00:49:17.060 which is insane.

00:49:17.820 Like,

00:49:18.160 why do you even have,

00:49:19.260 why are the seats

00:49:19.960 able to do that?

00:49:20.840 It's crazy.

00:49:22.720 So,

00:49:23.340 they are

00:49:24.940 to blame

00:49:25.740 ultimately for this.

00:49:27.280 But,

00:49:27.560 um,

00:49:27.960 look,

00:49:28.680 we get into the plane,

00:49:31.180 especially if we're

00:49:32.260 sitting back in coach,

00:49:34.160 you know,

00:49:34.800 as they said during COVID,

00:49:35.820 we're all in this together.

00:49:37.580 And,

00:49:38.020 uh,

00:49:38.360 and we should have

00:49:39.060 a lot more room.

00:49:39.760 We don't,

00:49:40.300 we shouldn't be treated

00:49:40.960 like cattle,

00:49:41.640 but we are.

00:49:43.680 And so,

00:49:44.440 we all just need to,

00:49:45.580 you know,

00:49:45.880 we just got to work together

00:49:46.660 a little bit.

00:49:47.220 Okay.

00:49:47.520 You don't very,

00:49:48.120 you don't very often hear me

00:49:49.160 with the kind of kumbaya message,

00:49:50.940 but this is one of those times.

00:49:53.740 And,

00:49:54.180 and usually when you see

00:49:55.300 these incidents on planes,

00:49:57.000 it's our,

00:49:57.380 it's our,

00:49:57.600 it's a high stress situation.

00:49:58.700 Traveling is high stress.

00:49:59.760 People are,

00:50:00.500 their nerves are,

00:50:01.160 are already frayed.

00:50:03.700 And,

00:50:04.160 uh,

00:50:04.300 and so you just got to,

00:50:05.260 just like basic,

00:50:06.720 etiquette,

00:50:08.060 basic politeness,

00:50:09.440 um,

00:50:10.400 be considerate to the people

00:50:11.520 around you in just real

00:50:12.940 basic,

00:50:13.640 small ways.

00:50:16.000 Uh,

00:50:16.580 and there's all,

00:50:18.060 you know,

00:50:18.420 if there's someone on the plane

00:50:19.780 that's not cooperating

00:50:21.160 with that program,

00:50:22.000 it just all hell breaks loose.

00:50:25.000 So that's it.

00:50:26.520 This should be the last time

00:50:27.800 that we have to talk about this.

00:50:30.080 The rule has been stated again.

00:50:32.340 You know the story,

00:50:34.160 but do you know the truth?

00:50:35.400 Convicting a Murderer,

00:50:36.180 the new 10-part docuseries

00:50:37.620 by Candace Owens and Daily Wire Plus

00:50:38.960 has done an excellent job

00:50:40.280 at convincing even the strongest

00:50:41.760 of Stephen Avery supporters

00:50:43.000 that he is guilty.

00:50:44.560 Candace has shed a light

00:50:45.500 on the manipulation by Hollywood

00:50:46.820 when depicting Stephen Avery's

00:50:48.140 involvement in the murder

00:50:49.180 of Teresa Halbach.

00:50:50.440 If you have not seen

00:50:51.420 the full series,

00:50:52.120 all episodes are now available

00:50:53.220 exclusively on Daily Wire Plus.

00:50:55.480 The final episode of

00:50:56.260 Convicting a Murderer

00:50:57.160 reveals who the real villains

00:50:58.320 of the story are,

00:50:59.220 Stephen Avery,

00:50:59.680 his family,

00:51:00.680 and the filmmakers

00:51:01.360 who portrayed him as innocent

00:51:02.760 and fooled millions of viewers.

00:51:04.900 Here's a teaser of the series.

00:51:06.360 Take a look.

00:51:07.840 I'm going to direct your attention

00:51:09.240 specifically to

00:51:10.860 October 31st of 2005.

00:51:15.840 You need to tell us about it

00:51:17.180 so we know you're telling us the truth.

00:51:19.380 So Steve stabs her first

00:51:20.760 and then you cut her neck.

00:51:23.400 We sat at her house

00:51:24.580 and waited for the garage door to open

00:51:26.060 hoping that she's coming back.

00:51:27.600 The garage door never opened.

00:51:31.320 It's almost as if she was murdered

00:51:33.840 and then murdered again

00:51:35.600 by these two documentary makers.

00:51:40.760 I love my sisters.

00:51:46.040 And I hope I love them, of course.

00:51:48.000 Well, you can binge all 10 episodes now,

00:51:53.560 but only if you're a Daily Wire Plus member.

00:51:55.320 So sign up today

00:51:55.940 at dailywire.com

00:51:57.440 slash subscribe

00:51:58.360 to watch the entire series.

00:52:00.520 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:52:08.280 Well, if you keep track of the happenings

00:52:10.100 over at the American Ornithological Society,

00:52:12.700 as I'm sure you do,

00:52:13.860 then you already know

00:52:14.920 all about the momentous announcement

00:52:16.560 the organization made this week.

00:52:18.120 But if for some reason

00:52:18.840 you are not up to speed

00:52:19.860 on the latest developments

00:52:20.820 in the birdwatching community,

00:52:22.480 then you may be in the dark about this.

00:52:24.560 And in fact,

00:52:25.740 just now hearing

00:52:26.580 that there was some kind of significant event

00:52:28.520 in the ornithology space,

00:52:30.280 you're probably assuming

00:52:31.300 that a major bird-related breakthrough

00:52:33.440 has occurred.

00:52:34.220 Has the American Ornithological Society

00:52:35.720 discovered a new species of bird

00:52:37.240 that will redefine society's expectations

00:52:40.180 of what a bird can be?

00:52:42.400 Or maybe they identified

00:52:43.120 a new invasive bird

00:52:44.340 that's going to destroy all the crops

00:52:45.720 and bring about the end of civilization.

00:52:47.400 Perhaps there's something

00:52:47.960 more salacious happening

00:52:49.100 in the avian world.

00:52:50.300 Maybe Taylor Swift

00:52:51.140 is dating a famous birdwatcher.

00:52:53.300 Maybe she's dating a bird.

00:52:54.400 These are all logical guesses.

00:52:56.360 But that is where

00:52:57.000 the disappointment sets in.

00:52:58.400 It turns out

00:52:58.980 the big announcement

00:53:00.080 instead was this.

00:53:03.080 After more than two years

00:53:04.320 of deliberation,

00:53:05.220 this bird society

00:53:06.180 has decided

00:53:07.100 that at long last

00:53:08.480 they're going to decolonize

00:53:10.020 the hobby of birdwatching

00:53:11.720 in all related fields.

00:53:13.600 And they're going to do that

00:53:14.860 by changing the names

00:53:16.040 of a few dozen birds.

00:53:17.760 As USA Today reported

00:53:18.760 without the slightest hint

00:53:19.640 of irony or self-awareness,

00:53:20.800 quote,

00:53:21.420 dozens of birds to be renamed

00:53:23.060 in an effort to shun racism

00:53:24.400 and make science more diverse.

00:53:27.420 Now, after realizing

00:53:28.240 how absurd that headline was,

00:53:30.040 USA Today quickly changed it

00:53:31.460 later in the day.

00:53:32.620 And now the headline reads,

00:53:33.720 quote,

00:53:34.220 dozens of birds,

00:53:35.160 including ones named

00:53:35.900 after white supremacists,

00:53:37.240 are being renamed.

00:53:39.100 The article goes on

00:53:39.800 to explain that,

00:53:40.560 quote,

00:53:40.660 The society plans

00:53:41.820 to remove all human names

00:53:43.060 from the common names

00:53:43.940 for birds within its jurisdiction

00:53:45.340 to create a more inclusive

00:53:46.740 environment for people

00:53:47.620 of diverse backgrounds

00:53:48.600 interested in birdwatching

00:53:49.940 and ornithology.

00:53:51.080 The public process,

00:53:51.840 yet to be fully defined,

00:53:53.080 will include 70 to 80 birds

00:53:54.520 in the U.S. and Canada,

00:53:55.860 according to the society.

00:53:57.600 The New York Times

00:53:58.140 elaborated on the situation

00:53:59.180 with their own article,

00:54:00.040 quote,

00:54:00.500 Advocates of this change

00:54:01.440 believe that many English

00:54:02.480 common names for birds

00:54:03.460 are isolating and demeaning

00:54:04.940 reminders of oppression,

00:54:06.260 slavery, and genocide,

00:54:07.600 according to a petition in 2020

00:54:08.880 that was addressed

00:54:09.740 to the American

00:54:10.460 Ornithological Society.

00:54:12.980 The petition was written

00:54:13.600 by Bird Names for Birds,

00:54:15.300 an initiative founded

00:54:16.060 by two ornithologists

00:54:17.100 to confront the issue

00:54:18.460 of these bird names,

00:54:19.720 which it describes

00:54:20.480 as verbal statues.

00:54:22.940 So they're going to tear down

00:54:24.460 the verbal statues

00:54:25.360 just like they tore down

00:54:26.280 the actual statues,

00:54:27.900 and they'll make sure

00:54:28.460 that no bird is named

00:54:29.580 after a human,

00:54:30.500 at least not any white human,

00:54:32.240 and that means there will be

00:54:32.960 no more McCown's long spur.

00:54:35.020 That's a bird named

00:54:35.660 after John P. McCown,

00:54:36.900 who discovered it,

00:54:38.020 but John P. McCown

00:54:39.420 fought for the Confederacy,

00:54:41.020 and he didn't want

00:54:41.660 the Seminole Indians

00:54:42.420 to rule Florida,

00:54:43.380 so needless to say,

00:54:44.220 the name of that particular bird

00:54:45.860 needs to change.

00:54:47.000 The Scots Oriole

00:54:48.160 also needs a new identity

00:54:49.320 because it was named

00:54:50.040 after Winfield Scott,

00:54:51.360 who relocated Indians

00:54:52.720 in the 19th century

00:54:53.560 in the so-called

00:54:54.060 Trail of Tears,

00:54:55.400 and of course,

00:54:55.960 they're the birds

00:54:56.660 named for John James Audubon,

00:54:58.440 who basically created

00:54:59.420 the whole field

00:55:00.100 of modern ornithology,

00:55:01.440 and that needs to change as well

00:55:02.360 because he owned slaves.

00:55:04.120 That's a big problem

00:55:04.840 for the Audubon's Shearwater,

00:55:06.720 which is a bird

00:55:07.280 that lives off the coast

00:55:08.160 of the southern United States,

00:55:09.460 as I'm sure you know.

00:55:10.800 Now, it goes without saying,

00:55:11.580 of course,

00:55:11.860 that these bird names

00:55:13.120 have caused untold trauma

00:55:16.300 for bird watchers

00:55:17.640 and civilians alike.

00:55:19.300 It's impossible to know

00:55:20.400 just how many people

00:55:21.280 have collapsed in shock

00:55:22.660 and suffered heart attacks

00:55:23.800 after learning that,

00:55:24.660 you know,

00:55:25.600 a species of North American sparrow

00:55:27.520 was named after

00:55:28.300 an obscure Civil War general

00:55:29.680 or that a certain type of crow

00:55:31.720 bears the name

00:55:32.440 of a guy who owned slaves

00:55:33.600 265 years ago

00:55:34.920 or whatever.

00:55:36.500 But we also give less thought

00:55:37.980 to the birds themselves

00:55:38.980 who have for decades

00:55:40.560 been saddled

00:55:41.260 with these ostracizing names

00:55:42.860 and think about how difficult

00:55:43.780 that must be for them.

00:55:45.840 That's why the American

00:55:46.540 Ornithological Society

00:55:48.000 is getting rid of

00:55:48.880 these genocidal names

00:55:49.940 and instead using names

00:55:51.000 that describe

00:55:51.640 a bird's physical features.

00:55:54.080 Now, granted,

00:55:54.720 it's only a matter of time

00:55:55.800 before that becomes

00:55:56.680 a problem too.

00:55:57.600 Now, I can't think of any

00:55:58.680 reason why the name

00:56:00.620 Blackbird is racist,

00:56:02.280 but I'm sure somebody

00:56:03.140 will think of one.

00:56:04.280 It just may take a while.

00:56:05.940 Indeed, it took more than

00:56:06.740 two years for these bird experts

00:56:08.300 to make this decision

00:56:09.980 to rename all these birds

00:56:11.700 and they still haven't

00:56:12.840 renamed them, by the way.

00:56:14.340 They've just confirmed

00:56:15.300 that they're going to do it.

00:56:17.260 More than two years ago,

00:56:18.340 the Washington Post

00:56:18.860 published a deep dive

00:56:19.940 into the field of bird watching,

00:56:21.560 noting that many birds

00:56:22.380 carry a, quote,

00:56:23.280 racist legacy.

00:56:24.860 And now, two years later,

00:56:26.140 we have some results.

00:56:27.600 Almost.

00:56:28.680 This is how long

00:56:29.640 the process takes

00:56:30.640 to give birds

00:56:31.620 more politically correct names.

00:56:34.020 For comparison,

00:56:35.000 it took less than three weeks

00:56:36.400 to write the Declaration

00:56:37.420 of Independence.

00:56:38.940 But then again,

00:56:40.460 the Declaration of Independence

00:56:41.300 is not nearly as important

00:56:42.800 a document

00:56:43.340 as the Declaration

00:56:44.720 of Anti-Racist Bird Names

00:56:46.460 from the American

00:56:47.220 Ornithological Society.

00:56:49.200 Now, if you want to know

00:56:50.260 more about this

00:56:51.300 laborious process

00:56:52.440 of identifying

00:56:53.340 the racist birds,

00:56:54.420 and I'm sure you do,

00:56:55.940 I have a clip

00:56:56.980 from the American

00:56:58.220 Ornithological Society

00:56:59.440 meeting two years ago

00:57:00.680 where they first discussed

00:57:02.020 this issue.

00:57:03.360 The meeting was hosted

00:57:04.440 by a woman named

00:57:05.220 Amelia Juliet Demery,

00:57:06.760 who's a member

00:57:07.180 of the American

00:57:07.780 Ornithological Society's

00:57:08.720 Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

00:57:10.780 And yes,

00:57:11.620 the American Ornithological Society

00:57:13.180 really does have

00:57:14.580 a Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

00:57:16.380 I'm not making that up.

00:57:17.380 Somehow,

00:57:17.720 I'm not making any of this up.

00:57:19.400 Now, if you thought

00:57:20.020 that regular human

00:57:22.280 Diversity and Inclusion Committees

00:57:23.840 were useless,

00:57:24.560 well, wait till you get a load

00:57:26.300 of the Diversity and Inclusion

00:57:27.780 Committee for birds.

00:57:29.880 Actually, I must admit

00:57:30.740 that the video

00:57:31.640 of this bird diversity meeting

00:57:33.580 is two hours long,

00:57:34.920 and I was not committed enough

00:57:36.840 to endure more than

00:57:37.860 a very short snippet.

00:57:39.600 So I kind of just

00:57:40.580 started at a random timestamp

00:57:42.820 and watched for about 90 seconds,

00:57:44.640 and this is the part

00:57:46.180 that I saw.

00:57:47.000 Watch.

00:57:48.720 So I'm a professional communicator,

00:57:51.080 and talking about birds

00:57:53.080 like Bachman Sparrow

00:57:54.080 are really challenging

00:57:55.220 because it looks

00:57:56.880 like another sparrow.

00:57:57.980 Why should someone

00:57:58.700 that doesn't think

00:57:59.460 it's super cool

00:58:00.460 care about this

00:58:01.640 near-threatened species, right?

00:58:04.380 Well, if we could all

00:58:05.960 get excited about,

00:58:07.480 you know,

00:58:07.700 we have to do this

00:58:08.500 community education aspect

00:58:10.180 to this campaign

00:58:11.080 for it's now

00:58:12.180 the most awesome sparrow

00:58:13.660 instead of a sparrow

00:58:15.480 that represents

00:58:16.880 a Lutheran pastor

00:58:17.740 that talked about

00:58:18.500 white supremacy,

00:58:19.180 then that's really cool, too,

00:58:21.400 and maybe we can do

00:58:22.360 really cool art

00:58:23.360 and storytelling

00:58:24.100 and get the community involved

00:58:26.060 and talk about, again,

00:58:27.320 the threats and conservation

00:58:28.280 needs that birds have.

00:58:30.720 Maybe we can talk about

00:58:31.920 some of the stories

00:58:33.020 and experiences

00:58:33.860 that the bird community members

00:58:36.360 that aren't represented today

00:58:37.600 have with this bird

00:58:38.700 and all of the other ones.

00:58:40.300 I just think that

00:58:41.420 it's exciting

00:58:43.000 what our future could be,

00:58:45.260 especially because I think

00:58:46.420 the biggest opportunity

00:58:47.440 is that this could be

00:58:48.780 our chance

00:58:49.400 to have a concrete statement

00:58:52.360 say the tendrils

00:58:53.680 of all social justice

00:58:55.440 have reached to the point

00:58:56.600 of bird names

00:58:57.740 and we're going to do

00:58:58.980 something about it.

00:59:00.180 No, it won't end racism,

00:59:01.900 it won't fix colonialism,

00:59:03.000 but it's something

00:59:04.200 that we can do

00:59:05.160 right now today

00:59:06.440 as our community.

00:59:07.540 And the bird community

00:59:08.600 is so big.

00:59:10.380 The impact of this

00:59:11.580 could be massive.

00:59:12.660 That is the saddest video

00:59:16.260 I've ever seen

00:59:17.040 in my life.

00:59:18.020 I find it sad

00:59:18.840 on such a deep level.

00:59:20.700 It's hard to even express.

00:59:22.660 Now, a couple of things here.

00:59:24.960 I am not going to say anything

00:59:27.840 about the guy

00:59:28.840 on the lower right-hand corner.

00:59:31.400 I did just say something about him,

00:59:33.520 but I'm not going to say anything else.

00:59:34.560 All I will say

00:59:36.960 is that he's exactly

00:59:38.000 what you imagine

00:59:38.880 when you hear

00:59:39.580 that bird watchers

00:59:40.600 have a diversity

00:59:41.860 and inclusion committee.

00:59:43.360 Somehow that guy

00:59:44.300 in particular

00:59:44.940 manifests in your mind

00:59:46.760 before you even see him.

00:59:50.160 And that's all I'm going to say.

00:59:53.820 Also, this fact

00:59:55.220 may interest only me,

00:59:56.180 but I want you to know

00:59:56.940 that the title of this video

00:59:58.080 on YouTube

00:59:58.440 is AOS Community Congress

01:00:00.200 on English Bird Names.

01:00:02.480 It is, as mentioned,

01:00:03.440 two hours long.

01:00:04.180 It's been on YouTube

01:00:04.760 for two years

01:00:05.380 and it has 1,700 views

01:00:06.580 and it's monetized.

01:00:08.420 They are running ads

01:00:09.400 on that video.

01:00:10.640 I don't know

01:00:11.000 what profit potential

01:00:11.860 they thought this content had,

01:00:14.060 but I hope that it lived up

01:00:15.220 to those expectations.

01:00:16.180 In any case,

01:00:16.880 this is big stuff,

01:00:18.660 the lady says.

01:00:19.280 This is massive.

01:00:20.600 This is major.

01:00:21.700 They are changing bird names.

01:00:24.460 Sure, sure,

01:00:25.520 she acknowledged

01:00:26.140 it won't end racism.

01:00:28.060 It won't fix colonialism.

01:00:29.960 It won't usher

01:00:30.920 in a progressive utopia

01:00:32.120 on its own.

01:00:32.980 It will only get us

01:00:33.680 like 95%

01:00:35.200 of the way there.

01:00:36.560 To get us the rest

01:00:37.240 of the way,

01:00:37.540 we're going to have to

01:00:37.960 rename a bunch of racist

01:00:39.000 insects and bugs too.

01:00:41.320 But that would require

01:00:41.940 those slackers

01:00:42.680 and the entomological society

01:00:44.000 to get their act together

01:00:44.820 finally and confront

01:00:45.760 this problem

01:00:46.280 and it's about time

01:00:47.220 for that.

01:00:48.080 But the bird lady

01:00:48.800 did say one thing

01:00:50.260 worth thinking about.

01:00:51.300 She said,

01:00:52.300 with great pride,

01:00:54.200 that the tendrils

01:00:55.120 of social justice

01:00:56.260 have reached bird names.

01:00:58.580 That is, indeed,

01:00:59.520 how pervasive

01:01:00.560 wokeness has become.

01:01:02.080 It has reached

01:01:02.520 into every corner

01:01:03.560 of society

01:01:04.240 and infected

01:01:05.200 every institution,

01:01:06.740 even organizations

01:01:07.620 of bird watchers.

01:01:09.620 The revolution

01:01:10.660 demands

01:01:11.280 total compliance

01:01:12.540 everywhere.

01:01:13.460 Among everyone,

01:01:14.820 even birds

01:01:15.600 are not exempt.

01:01:16.920 Everything must be

01:01:17.680 brought into conformity.

01:01:19.180 Everything must be

01:01:20.100 changed,

01:01:20.780 redefined,

01:01:21.560 renamed.

01:01:22.800 That is the dark reality

01:01:24.700 underpinning

01:01:25.380 this otherwise absurd

01:01:26.740 and unintentionally

01:01:28.040 hilarious story.

01:01:29.360 But we don't need

01:01:30.020 to focus on that

01:01:30.720 for now.

01:01:31.560 Instead,

01:01:31.920 let's just point

01:01:33.260 and laugh at this

01:01:34.080 because sometimes

01:01:34.880 that's all you can do

01:01:36.780 or should do.

01:01:38.120 And we can also say

01:01:39.300 to the American

01:01:40.360 Ornithological Society

01:01:41.580 what I never thought

01:01:42.780 we'd have to say

01:01:43.340 to the American

01:01:44.020 Ornithological Society

01:01:45.100 because, frankly,

01:01:46.080 I never thought

01:01:46.580 we'd have to say anything

01:01:47.460 to the American

01:01:48.160 Ornithological Society.

01:01:50.020 You are today

01:01:50.980 canceled.

01:01:52.900 And that'll do it

01:01:53.500 for the show today.

01:01:54.520 Thanks for watching.

01:01:55.020 Thanks for listening.

01:01:55.860 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:01:56.740 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 02, 2023

Ep. 1255 - The White House's War On 'Hate' Is Really A War On Free Speech

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