The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1265 - Osama bin Laden Becomes A TikTok Influencer

00:00:00.100 Today on the Matt Wall Show, there's a new TikTok influencer taking the internet by storm.

00:00:04.100 It's Osama bin Laden. Apparently, a bunch of Gen Zers have suddenly discovered bin Laden and

00:00:08.060 decided that he's not such a bad guy after all. We'll talk about that. Also, the Daily Wire has

00:00:11.940 a stunning report about the FBI's decision to let a child rapist stay on the street

00:00:15.660 so they can focus on hunting down January Sixers instead. And high school debate leagues are not

00:00:20.800 what they used to be. These days, you can apparently win a debate by pointing out that

00:00:24.060 the other team is too white. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:54.280 Lynette Adkins is not exactly the person you'd expect to kickstart a social media conversation

00:02:00.400 about international terrorism and how Osama bin Laden might have done the right thing by ordering

00:02:05.000 the 9-11 terrorist attacks. For one thing, Lynette Adkins is a recent college graduate whose most

00:02:09.640 recent video on YouTube is entitled Getting Hotter and Making Friends in LA. In 2021, Adkins was profiled by

00:02:16.560 the Los Angeles Times, not for her great insights on world affairs, but because of her videos on

00:02:21.880 college life, skin and hair care, including a tutorial for black women growing out their natural

00:02:27.520 hair. Adkins, the Times reported, was mainly successful because she often told her followers,

00:02:33.140 which now number well over 200,000 on various social media platforms, how they could quit their

00:02:38.520 white collar jobs and become a vapid social media personality like herself. But just a couple of days

00:02:44.020 ago, Adkins offered an insight into a very different topic. Claiming that she was in the midst of an

00:02:49.440 existential crisis, Adkins posted this short video on TikTok. Watch.

00:02:55.520 I need everyone to stop what they're doing right now and go read. It's literally two pages. Go read

00:03:00.380 a letter to America. And please come back here and just let me know what you think, because I feel

00:03:06.320 like I'm going through like an existential crisis right now. And a lot of people are. So I just need

00:03:10.880 someone else to be feeling this too. She's having an existential crisis, she says. Now we're a long way

00:03:17.100 from telling black women how to grow out their natural hair. In that clip, Adkins conspicuously

00:03:22.480 doesn't mention what a letter to America is, apparently because she's worried that people

00:03:28.360 might not be interested in the document. They might not go and look it up if they were to learn ahead

00:03:32.840 of time that it was Osama bin Laden's manifesto justifying the 9-11 attacks. But in the end,

00:03:39.840 Adkins' ploy apparently worked. As the New York Post reported, Adkins single-handedly,

00:03:43.780 quote, jump-started a flood of activity on social media and especially on TikTok about

00:03:48.940 Osama bin Laden's manifesto. Several other outlets also credited Adkins for what happened next. And

00:03:55.080 what happened next is that the hashtag letter to America was trending on TikTok, had more than 14

00:04:01.520 million views as of Thursday afternoon. And on Twitter, the same hashtag quickly accounted for

00:04:06.100 nearly 100,000 posts. So this letter from Osama bin Laden has become, you know, decades later,

00:04:13.400 an internet sensation. The journalist Yashar Ali reported that in thousands of TikToks,

00:04:18.940 people of all races, ethnicities, backgrounds responded to bin Laden's letter. And for the

00:04:24.220 most part, these TikToks involved young people saying that bin Laden's letter has led them to

00:04:30.340 reevaluate their perspective on terrorism and how it can be, in fact, they're saying now,

00:04:36.520 a legitimate form of protest to a hostile colonizing power. He uploaded just a small sample of those

00:04:44.300 TikToks, and we will take a look at a small sample of that sample. Here it is.

00:04:49.400 This morning, I read Letter to America, which is Osama bin Laden's letter to America explaining why

00:04:56.780 he attacked Americans. And I am ashamed to say that I not only have never read this letter,

00:05:04.900 but I didn't even know this letter existed. It's wild, and everyone should read it. If you haven't

00:05:11.380 read it yet, read it. However, be forewarned that this has left me very disillusioned, and I feel the

00:05:19.360 same exact way I felt when I was deconstructing Christianity. I feel a little bit just confused,

00:05:26.260 like I have entered into another timeline. What is this? And yeah, so go read it.

00:05:32.320 So I just read a letter to America. And I will never look at life the same. I will never look at

00:05:42.540 this country the same. I will never. Please read it. And if you have read it, let me know if you are

00:05:51.560 also going through an existential crisis in this very moment. Because in the last 20 minutes, my entire

00:05:58.440 viewpoint on the entire life I have believed and I have lived has changed. Please read that entire

00:06:09.580 letter. I need you to stop what you're doing and go read a letter to America. It is literally the

00:06:16.060 craziest thing I've read in a while. And while I can't say that I'm that surprised, I am pretty shocked.

00:06:21.040 So go read it and tell me what you think, because I really also need to talk to other people about this.

00:06:25.860 And actually, before you even read the letter, I did want to mention, in reading the letter, I could only

00:06:30.980 think of this tweet that I saw the other day. Under settler colonialism, any kind of resistance is

00:06:36.160 branded as terrorist because the only acceptable violence is violence by the occupier.

00:06:41.820 Okay, so Osama bin Laden, the mass murderer of 3000 people has opened their eyes. He has enlightened

00:06:46.840 them with his penetrating insights and deep wisdom. And they're talking about this letter like it's,

00:06:53.060 well, they said it will absolutely change your life, which by the way, I have read the letter.

00:06:58.640 And it is, on top of being the ramblings of a mass murderer, it is not nearly as insightful as they're

00:07:06.680 making it out to be. And it also includes a whole lot of things that these people, being that they're

00:07:12.300 left-wing TikTokers, must not have noticed because Osama bin Laden's ideology, which we'll talk about

00:07:19.120 in a minute. But it's not exactly one that you would think these people would generally agree

00:07:24.740 with. And for anyone who lived through 9-11, which many of these TikTok personalities didn't,

00:07:30.460 and I think that's part of the issue here, it still is, it's hard for us to make sense of this.

00:07:35.340 20 years ago, even the most rabid leftists on college campuses didn't go out in public and proudly

00:07:41.180 suggest that bin Laden was justified. That would have been unthinkable. Instead, the left generally

00:07:46.760 agreed that acts of terrorism that kill thousands of U.S. citizens are bad. You know, the mass

00:07:52.620 protests that we saw after 9-11, which began in earnest in like 2002, were almost entirely in

00:07:58.040 response to the planned U.S. military intervention in Iraq, a country that, it turns out, didn't have

00:08:03.260 anything to do with 9-11. That was the concern there. Until that point, the country was mostly

00:08:08.320 unified. There was no groundswell of support on the left in defense of 9-11 on the internet or

00:08:14.940 anywhere else. So what changed? Well, for one thing, academic theories of decolonization as the

00:08:21.040 reaction to the events in the Middle East currently has made clear, these ideas are not just academic

00:08:27.080 anymore. They have filtered down from the university system into the mainstream. But as I've said

00:08:32.420 repeatedly, decolonization, you know, it's about much more than Israel. And this latest TikTok trend

00:08:37.400 makes that very clear. The ultimate objective of decolonizers is the destruction of anything that these

00:08:43.820 zealots perceive as too white. Decolonization is a genocidal ideology. It expressly justifies

00:08:51.100 the mass slaughter of innocents, white innocents specifically, on the grounds that no white person

00:08:56.860 can actually be innocent. That was certainly Osama bin Laden's view of things. And these TikTokers

00:09:03.840 agree with him. And of course, that means that the thousands of people who died on 9-11

00:09:09.460 were not innocent by this logic. Most of the people living in the United States right now are not

00:09:14.480 innocent. One of the many striking aspects of this ideology is how incoherent and self-defeating it is.

00:09:21.020 I mean, if Libs of TikTok's videos are any indication, people on TikTok would be among the very first to get

00:09:28.880 stoned to death if bin Laden's version of Sharia law ever came to the United States, which, by the way,

00:09:33.640 is another demand in bin Laden's letter, the total subservience of the West to Sharia law.

00:09:40.520 I guess these people didn't notice that or don't know what it means or both.

00:09:45.520 Only a defeated and very confused people with a constant connection to other very confused and

00:09:52.420 defeated people on the internet would ever support their own eradication like this.

00:09:57.300 But none of these people uploading this nonsense to TikTok actually came up with this idea on their

00:10:03.420 own, of course, for a long time now. Many commentators have lamented that, you know,

00:10:07.700 the schools are failing and asking, what are they teaching these kids and so on in response to these

00:10:13.220 videos. I've seen a lot of that on Twitter. People say, oh, look at the schools fail. What are they

00:10:16.800 teaching the kids in these schools? Well, the answer is pretty clear. What are they teaching kids in

00:10:23.060 schools? They're teaching them this. This is what they're teaching them. Schools have not failed,

00:10:29.660 actually. They have succeeded in creating exactly the sort of people that they set out to create.

00:10:36.400 Now, the schools in our country may not be explicitly defending bin Laden, or maybe they are

00:10:42.260 in some cases, but mostly they are spreading a deep hatred of white Western civilization. They have

00:10:49.160 taught that colonization is an abject and eternal evil with no positive upshot whatsoever.

00:10:55.760 They've told students that the very idea of policing is a white supremacist concept intended

00:11:00.800 to victimize black people. They've taught that whiteness is a sickness, a cancer that must be

00:11:05.900 eradicated. This is the actual language that is being used in schools. Of course, they've said the

00:11:12.600 same thing about the fundamental concepts of biology and other concepts as well. Schools want students

00:11:18.420 to grow into adults who hate this country and hate the truth and hate reality and everything about it.

00:11:26.120 And that's exactly what we're seeing right now. We are seeing the fruits of all of that labor.

00:11:31.540 At the same time, it needs to be said that the blame doesn't entirely fall on the university

00:11:35.780 system or the school system. For one thing, it's probably not a coincidence that this trend is

00:11:39.620 taking off on a Chinese social media app. As hard as this may be to believe, there are consequences,

00:11:45.780 it turns out, to allowing millions of kids to spend their entire day ingesting content from an algorithm

00:11:51.760 controlled by a communist adversary. In a follow-up video, the woman who apparently started this whole

00:11:58.280 trend on TikTok, Lynette Adkins, went on to acknowledge that TikTok has a role in reprogramming

00:12:04.500 Americans. Watch. When I tell y'all TikTok is going to save this generation, the amount of things that

00:12:10.160 we've learned on this app in this past month alone that other people in other generations,

00:12:14.400 I try to talk to them about it, they don't understand. They don't get it because they've

00:12:17.240 been literally so programmed to think a certain way. TikTok is undoing all of that. It's crazy

00:12:23.980 to watch in real time. If you haven't already, go read A Letter to America. Yeah. And by the way,

00:12:32.080 just so you know, you're not teaching us anything we didn't know. Well, did you know that Osama bin Laden

00:12:35.760 attacked the United States because he hated Western civilization? Oh, really? I had no idea.

00:12:40.860 No, you're the first person that we had no clue that that was why. We've been wondering all this

00:12:45.580 time. We had wondered about that. And thankfully, some 20-somethings on TikTok came along 20 years

00:12:52.720 later to inform us. So we really appreciate that. We had no clue. But I had no idea. I thought that

00:12:57.180 Osama bin Laden loved the West. So I didn't know. Now, young people, Lynette Adkins says,

00:13:03.680 have been so programmed to think a certain way. And now she says, quote, TikTok is undoing all that.

00:13:08.420 It's crazy to watch it in real time. And that is an understatement. It may be the only true and

00:13:13.040 useful thing that Lynette has ever said on her various social media channels. And apparently,

00:13:16.540 it's the last thing she's going to say. Because as of this morning, Lynette's videos on TikTok,

00:13:21.020 including the one I just showed you, are all inaccessible. Her account apparently does not

00:13:24.900 exist anymore. It's not clear whether TikTok took her account down or if she deleted her account

00:13:29.320 herself. We reached out to her for an explanation. She didn't respond.

00:13:33.680 And for its part, TikTok is claiming to be outraged by all this. They've suppressed

00:13:37.120 any videos that use the term letter to America or Osama bin Laden. You try to search for it,

00:13:41.940 you'll get a warning about community guidelines. And the company has put out statements saying

00:13:45.820 that they're horrified that this letter has resurfaced. They're horrified. They're not the

00:13:49.420 only one saying that. The Guardian, which hosted a version of this letter on their website for the

00:13:53.000 past 20 years, deleted the letter from its website in response to all the traffic from TikTok.

00:13:58.360 And of course, in response, interest in bin Laden's letter only grew from there because you can't

00:14:03.020 delete anything from the internet. And if you try, you just encourage more people to seek it out,

00:14:07.240 which is why the Guardian's decision to delete the letter was ridiculous and did more harm than good.

00:14:13.960 So you can interpret these reactions from TikTok and The Guardian however you want.

00:14:17.620 You could choose to believe that a social media platform controlled by the Communist Party of

00:14:21.280 China is deeply upset that American youth are talking about how bin Laden was justified in

00:14:26.960 taking down the Twin Towers. You could choose to believe that social media mercenary Lynette Adkins,

00:14:32.460 for some reason, decided to out of the blue one day to promote this whole idea. You know,

00:14:36.740 you could ignore how strange it is that this person of everyone would start this trend and then

00:14:41.000 disappear from social media. But no matter what, whether you think this is just the latest successful

00:14:45.740 Chinese propaganda effort or not, one fact remains, which no amount of online censorship can change.

00:14:52.800 The truth is that after 9-11, you know, there were scattered reports of celebrations that broke out

00:14:58.760 in response to the violence. Most of those reports are unverified and disputed to this day. But

00:15:04.120 if another 9-11 happened today, it would not be difficult to find people celebrating.

00:15:10.400 All you'd have to do is look at any college campus or go on TikTok. That is the harshest reality to

00:15:17.000 contemplate here. Everybody was basically on the same page after 9-11. Okay, sometimes we,

00:15:23.200 I think, overstate when people talk about the unity, the great unity we had as a country after 9-11. I

00:15:28.060 think that's oftentimes overstated. But it is true that after 9-11, anyone who went through it knows

00:15:34.020 this, everybody was sad, everybody was angry. And so we were on the same page in that way. And that

00:15:41.800 was the last time we would all be on the same page about anything. If a similar attack was launched

00:15:48.180 today, we would not even be able to agree that it's a sad thing. And that fact is now unavoidable.

00:15:56.400 It's unavoidable because of an ideology that both parties have been subsidizing in the university

00:16:02.340 system and public school system for decades. This is an ideology that our leaders have done nothing

00:16:07.560 to combat for all the years it's festered. In fact, they have only facilitated and promoted it.

00:16:13.200 So now instead of our young people looking up to great authors or public servants or something like

00:16:17.920 that, people with good moral character, they look up to tedious social media influencers like Lynette

00:16:24.460 Adkins. They look up to Osama bin Laden. And that's as humiliating an indictment of a society as you

00:16:31.360 can find. But for China, which controls TikTok, it's fantastic news. Xi Jinping just promised at

00:16:37.020 the APEC summit that there will be no hot war with the United States. But what he didn't say is that

00:16:43.580 he won't need to launch a hot war in order to weaken, delegitimize, and ultimately destroy this

00:16:48.540 country. All he needs to do is have an army of useful idiots who want to destroy Western civilization

00:16:53.480 from within. And if there's anything we can learn from what's happened on TikTok this week,

00:17:00.140 it's that Xi Jinping now has that army. And it is bigger and dumber than he could have possibly hoped

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00:18:19.380 There's a very important report on The Daily Wire right now, and you should go read it for yourself.

00:18:24.520 Not a lot of analysis is really necessary, but I'll read just a little bit of it here.

00:18:29.440 On January 6th, 2021, the FBI explicitly chose to abandon a sting on a child pornographer in Virginia

00:18:36.560 who was messaging with an undercover agent about having sex with a nine-year-old boy,

00:18:40.720 opting instead to focus on prosecuting Donald Trump's supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol.

00:18:45.460 Less than three years later, the FBI discovered the same man living in Alaska, where he appears to

00:18:49.920 have been performing sex acts on a 10-year-old boy, according to court documents.

00:18:54.680 On December 2nd, 2020, an internet user with the screen name GayBoy69Freak messaged an

00:19:02.840 undercover agent with the FBI's Washington field office who was posing as a father pimping

00:19:07.040 out his nine-year-old son and told him that he wanted to travel to D.C. to have sex with

00:19:10.800 a boy. The man also sent the agent a video of a prepubescent minor male being assaulted,

00:19:18.440 being raped. His IP address led the FBI to Brogan Welsh of Glenallen, Virginia, and

00:19:24.680 But what appears to be a slam-dunk case against a child predator was abruptly abandoned just one

00:19:31.940 month later. Quote, according to court documents on January 6th, 2021, FBI Washington field office

00:19:38.680 decided this investigation was halted due to events that occurred at the United States Capitol

00:19:43.120 that day. The man was only arrested and the court documents only filed because Welsh moved to Alaska

00:19:49.280 and crossed the Anchorage FBI's radar in an unrelated perversion investigation. On October 24th, 2023,

00:19:56.580 after coming across troubling chats from Welsh on a phone they seized from a different alleged pervert,

00:20:01.640 Alaska FBI agents went into his house and located items that made it very clear that he was a child

00:20:07.920 predator and abusing a child, and they then arrested him. And there's, in this report, like I said,

00:20:17.280 you should read the report. If you didn't, you know, if you still have somehow any faith in our federal law

00:20:24.720 enforcement agencies, then if you have any faith left, then you should read that report and by the

00:20:30.240 end of it have all that faith taken away. And there are some examples of text messages in this article

00:20:36.640 sent by this predator. I'm definitely not going to read them. You could see them in the report as well.

00:20:42.860 I will say that this case again raises the question, raises a couple of questions. One of them is

00:20:49.880 we must once again ask, why don't we just automatically execute people like this? I mean,

00:20:57.640 it is insane, like truly insane that someone can rape a child and not have a mandatory

00:21:04.880 decapitation as the penalty as soon as they are convicted in a court of law.

00:21:11.900 So I'm not just saying that we should execute child rapists publicly in the town square.

00:21:16.860 I'm saying that it's actually crazy that we don't. This shouldn't be some sort of radical,

00:21:23.800 wild suggestion that some of us are making. It's like, it's like, why aren't, this is insane that we

00:21:28.740 don't do this? What else is there to do with these people? What are we going to do? Pay thousands of

00:21:34.500 dollars to feed and house them for the rest of their lives? Why? Why in God's name would we do that?

00:21:40.000 But that's what we do. Or sorry, we don't do that. We don't even do that much in some of these cases.

00:21:48.820 And in this case, uh, the FBI did nothing at all. The predator suffered no penalty at all.

00:21:55.380 And, uh, and, and then went on to, well, we say that he went on to, um, horribly abuse another child,

00:22:03.420 but it is like certain that he went on to horribly abuse many more children. Uh, it's just,

00:22:09.580 this is the one instant instance where he was caught again.

00:22:14.460 So just to reiterate, the FBI knew about a psychopathic child rapist who was out there.

00:22:28.460 They had them dead to rights, had all the evidence they needed, could have put them away

00:22:32.260 and they decided not to pursue it. They, they made the conscious decision and said, you know what,

00:22:37.340 we're going to let him stay out there and continue raping children because instead we need to go and

00:22:43.020 track down, uh, the people who trespassed in the U S capital. And that's what they decided to spend

00:22:47.880 the next three years of their time doing. Because of course the FBI doesn't care about

00:22:54.800 protecting children. They don't care about the law. They don't care about any of this. It's an

00:22:57.740 entirely political ideological, uh, entity. And this is maybe the most egregious and horrific,

00:23:04.860 uh, you know, evidence that we've seen of that. And what makes it all the worse is that

00:23:11.580 there will be no accountability. You know, this is, this is, this is the nature of federal

00:23:16.000 bureaucracies. This is why they exist largely to shield those in power from any kind of

00:23:23.400 accountability. So there's a, this is, there's a very real thing that happened here with,

00:23:29.280 with quantifiable, tangible consequences. Um, and there are actual human beings responsible,

00:23:38.200 like some actual people with names made the express decision to not go after this guy and

00:23:46.800 to let him stay out in, in the world, abusing children. But whoever those people are, they

00:23:52.920 will never be held accountable for it. That's what we know. New York post has a story here.

00:23:59.060 A Georgia high school football coach was fired after he held a baptism service for 20 of his

00:24:03.220 players on school grounds last month. According to a report, the superintendent of Tattnall County

00:24:09.220 High School announced coach Isaac Farrell's firing after a video uploaded to the team's

00:24:13.460 official Facebook page showed players being baptized in a tub by a local pastor.

00:24:19.880 Footage shows pastor Gary Few directing players individually to sit in a large black tub of

00:24:24.580 water before saying to them, I baptize you now, my brother, in the name of the father,

00:24:27.420 the son and the Holy spirit. Pastor then ducks their heads under the water while surrounding

00:24:31.400 players cheer and support. But the incident outraged some community members, eventually

00:24:37.000 leading one to inform a group called the Freedom From Religion Foundation. And, uh, that foundation

00:24:42.560 then went after the school and now the coach has been fired, though I believe he still has,

00:24:46.500 um, his teaching job, but he's been fired from, uh, from his coaching position. And this is,

00:24:53.140 yes, it's outraged people like the Freedom From Religion Foundation and others on the left.

00:24:57.820 I think we have a, we have a clip of what this baptism looked like. Let's watch that.

00:25:01.400 Are you willing to commit the rest of your life to him?

00:25:04.000 Yes, sir.

00:25:04.500 All right. Let's go.

00:25:06.500 Let's go.

00:25:07.000 Let's sit down.

00:25:09.060 All right?

00:25:09.660 That was deep enough.

00:25:10.840 Put your feet up.

00:25:12.540 I got you.

00:25:14.000 Oh!

00:25:16.620 I baptize you now, my brother, in the name of the father, the son, and the Holy spirit.

00:25:23.820 Yay!

00:25:26.000 I baptize you, the father, the son, and the Holy spirit.

00:25:28.900 I want that time as well, too.

00:25:33.440 So there's 20 baptisms that were done. Now, first of all, um, I'm Catholic and I will say

00:25:38.160 that this is not how we handle baptisms, generally speaking, in the Catholic church.

00:25:42.420 Usually, usually they're done in a church and there's a process before the baptism in most cases.

00:25:47.520 Uh, it's not like a spur of the moment deal.

00:25:49.340 Well, it can be in certain circumstances, but, um, that's, uh, that's how they did it in this case.

00:25:58.520 And does that infringe on anybody's rights? Like, that's the real question.

00:26:02.960 Is it a betrayal of the principle of separation of church and state?

00:26:07.340 And the answer to, uh, that question is no.

00:26:10.840 And no on a few levels.

00:26:13.160 The separation of church and state, to begin with, has always been a misnomer anyway.

00:26:18.860 Um, I think most of the audience, you know, you probably know the history here.

00:26:22.260 Uh, separation of church and state is not written anywhere in the constitution or in any founding

00:26:29.520 legal document. It is a phrase used by Thomas Jefferson in a letter, uh, to a Baptist church

00:26:37.440 where he gives his opinion in a letter. And his opinion is that we have to be careful about letting

00:26:42.260 the government intrude on the church, not the other way around. And somehow we got from that letter

00:26:47.200 that was written by Thomas Jefferson. It's just a letter. It's not a legal document.

00:26:50.540 We got from that letter to the idea that it's unconstitutional for like teachers to have a

00:26:54.920 crucifix in their classroom. It's, it's absurd. It's like, it's, it's an insane interpretation

00:27:00.240 of a fabricated legal principle. That's the truth. But also, however you interpret that,

00:27:08.060 um, separation of church and state and all the rest of it, this event after football practice is

00:27:12.420 obviously, uh, obviously not an imposition on anyone or anything. The players were not

00:27:20.220 forced to participate. This was not a forced baptism. They weren't being told that they had

00:27:25.020 to be baptized as a condition of being on the team. It was after practice and those who wanted

00:27:31.260 to participate did. Those who didn't, didn't. Lots of kids did. Which actually is not a surprise

00:27:38.060 because football has always been a sport that attracts very religious people. Um, it's always been

00:27:44.920 the case. Just listen to the way that even professional football players speak at press

00:27:50.000 conferences and so on. There was just a great example of that recently. CJ Stroud is the rookie

00:27:54.660 quarterback in Houston, uh, at, at a recent, uh, present after the post-game press conference

00:28:00.940 was proclaiming his faith in Christ in, in a very profound way that you don't often hear people do,

00:28:08.400 um, in the mainstream, um, uh, you know, on a public platform, but football players do it all the time,

00:28:15.620 which I think is great. And one of the reasons why I'm a big football fan. Also one of the reasons

00:28:20.500 why not to get too sidetracked, but I think it's unfortunate that so many conservatives in particular

00:28:25.160 have, um, recently decided that football is woke and we shouldn't, you know, it's the whole sport and

00:28:32.100 it's a waste of time and it's, it doesn't matter. Uh, I think that's unfortunate because first of all,

00:28:37.700 sports are important part of culture. And so if you're interested in defending culture, you can't

00:28:41.580 just give up on, on a whole aspect of culture. And also again, football is like, it actually attracts

00:28:49.040 conservative religious people. And that is still the case. Um, so that's part of what we're seeing

00:28:58.940 in the, in, in the video with this case, it's not hurting anybody else. And especially if you don't

00:29:04.900 believe in Christianity, this is one of the things I don't get. If you don't believe like in the power

00:29:10.600 of baptism, then that, then that's all the more reason why you shouldn't care. Because then from

00:29:18.100 your perspective, this is just, they're, they're dunking their heads underwater as a kind of team

00:29:22.980 building exercise from your perspective. That's all they're doing, which may be from your perspective

00:29:28.280 is sort of weird, but it's also totally harmless. Um, here's the other point though. I think maybe the

00:29:37.520 most important point is that I guarantee right now that if that coach had called the players together

00:29:44.720 and given them a chance to announce their pronouns and profess their sexuality, none of the people

00:29:52.260 complaining would be complaining. If the coach pulled out a rainbow flag and had them all pledge

00:29:57.240 allegiance to it, these same people will be giving him an award. You know, so don't talk to me about

00:30:02.880 the separation of church and state when you openly advocate for schools to be used as a tool for

00:30:08.540 explicitly promoting your own religion, your faith. And you might not call it that, but that's what it

00:30:15.520 is. All right. Moving to, uh, this report, I think it's kind of interesting. This is from

00:30:21.060 studyfinds.org. It says when tragic events happen, no matter how far away from us they are,

00:30:25.940 it's hard not to pay attention. Many of us empathize with the people in these situations

00:30:29.800 and wonder how we can get involved or if there's anything we can do to help.

00:30:33.800 Over the past few years, we've borne witness to a series of pivotal global events from the COVID

00:30:38.160 pandemic to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as well as many natural disasters. Uh, just when it seemed

00:30:43.360 that things could not get worse, Hamas launched an attack on Israel. Um, and, uh, but as the,

00:30:50.240 as the report continues to explain, citing various different, uh, scientific, uh, supposed

00:30:56.340 authorities, that all of this leads to what they're calling compassion fatigue.

00:31:02.320 Compassion fatigue is a stress response that results in feelings of apathy or indifference

00:31:07.100 towards those who are suffering. This phenomenon is particularly common in healthcare. Health and

00:31:11.760 social workers may be particularly prone because the nature of the work often means sharing the

00:31:16.160 emotional burden of your patients. But we're being told that compassion fatigue is a, um,

00:31:22.560 widespread phenomenon now. Uh, and what they're saying is because so many horrible things are

00:31:27.520 happening in the world. And so people are fatigued and it's making, you know, it's, it's having the,

00:31:33.100 the reverse effect of making them more indifferent to world events. And, you know, compassion fatigue

00:31:38.900 sounds like the kind of concept that I would make fun of. And maybe by all rights, I should,

00:31:43.980 but I will shock you and say that I think there's some validity to this idea. Now I think I'm not

00:31:49.320 sure I would call it compassion fatigue. That's probably not the phrase I would use to describe

00:31:52.280 the phenomenon, but it is a real phenomenon. And it's a consequence of all of us being plugged in

00:31:59.200 and aware of everything happening everywhere all the time. And not just aware of it, but to be,

00:32:06.800 but to be immersed in it. And, and, uh, you know, it's not even like maybe what it would have been

00:32:13.660 in the past. If you pick up a newspaper and you get a very small sort of curated collection

00:32:20.380 of all the things that are happening in the world. And then you put the newspaper down and

00:32:24.800 you go about your day. Now it's just a constant onslaught of everything happening all the time.

00:32:31.940 And, um, and it's not just articles, but it's videos and it's images. And if there's some really

00:32:37.900 horrible thing that happened that we're all going to see, whether we want to see it or not,

00:32:41.100 if you're on social media, you're scrolling along and then boom, right in front of your face,

00:32:45.240 you didn't even choose to watch it. You just saw someone get shot or killed or blown up. I mean,

00:32:49.820 um, this is what we're, we're all, uh, this is the situation we're all in and it isn't natural.

00:32:58.620 And I don't even think that we quite grasp just how unnatural all of this is. Human beings are not

00:33:06.420 meant to carry around in our heads, in our consciences, this awareness of thousands of

00:33:13.940 things happening thousands of miles away from us. Um, I think it has, it has us totally overwhelmed

00:33:19.260 and numb. It has our priorities wildly out of balance. And the worst thing is that we're all

00:33:27.680 suffering from this, right? Um, from this, uh, if we want to call it compassion fatigue and yet,

00:33:33.180 and yet we wield it against each other in, in, in certain, um, opportune times, like we all

00:33:40.420 understand what this is like. And we all know that you can't like be emotionally invested in

00:33:46.900 everything. Now we all know that. And yet, um, if something bad happens in the world, and if you

00:33:53.780 don't appear to be immediately devastated by it, if you aren't obsessively focused on it,

00:33:59.060 if you aren't as angry and sad as you are supposed to be, then other people will go,

00:34:04.060 but why don't you care about this? What, what about this? Huh? Why aren't you talking about this?

00:34:08.100 Why don't you care about this more? Why don't you focus on this more? Well, I don't know. Maybe

00:34:11.800 because I'm a human being, maybe because I can't care deeply about everything happening in the world

00:34:18.800 always. Maybe I'm only emotionally capable of being invested in a very limited number of events at a

00:34:24.580 time. Maybe again, because I'm a human like you, you know, there was a massacre, I think in, uh,

00:34:33.520 I can't even remember where it was, uh, in Sudan just a few days ago, hundreds of innocent people

00:34:39.380 butchered, um, men, women, children. Nobody's talking about that. Nobody is talking about that.

00:34:47.020 Nobody in this country is talking about it or pretending to care. And I'm not talking about it

00:34:52.140 either. This is the first time you heard it from me. Um, and you know what, when I heard about it,

00:34:57.320 I didn't, I didn't shed a single tear. I didn't now, not because I'm cruel or callous. I recognize

00:35:03.220 that it's a terrible tragedy from an intellectual, like intellectually, I care intellectually. I see

00:35:08.640 it as a sad day. I recognize that I understand it, but I simply cannot be distraught and devastated

00:35:14.720 by all tragedies that occur everywhere because otherwise I will be distraught and devastated all the time

00:35:21.040 with no break between one tragedy to the next. And that's just not, it's not even like when I say

00:35:27.900 can't, I mean, it's not just that it would be difficult to operate that way. I mean, literally

00:35:32.200 can't. The human mind is not capable of that. Neither is yours. Nobody's is. And that's why we

00:35:40.580 all typically prioritize and care the most about the things that are closest to us. And so that's the

00:35:47.560 thing that, that, um, is the most frustrating is that it's one thing to be like constantly aware

00:35:53.800 of everything, all the bad things, bad things, bad things, bad things, constantly, always. And

00:35:57.780 we're, and it's, we're surrounded by it all the time. It's one thing for that, but, um, it's another

00:36:04.420 thing again, when, when our natural human impulses and wiring is used against us by other people who

00:36:12.760 know exactly what they're doing. And, uh, cause this is how all people operate, right? If there's

00:36:18.720 something, if there's some tragedy, like you, you will prioritize the things and care the most about

00:36:24.740 the things that are happening closest to you. Um, that's the way it goes. The things that you are

00:36:31.400 connected to, those are the things that you care the most about. Um, which is why let's say in your

00:36:37.880 community, if there's, if there's a car accident in your community and a child is killed, you will

00:36:45.640 probably, if it's in your community, especially if it's someone that, you know, you will feel much

00:36:52.100 more emotionally, uh, devastated by that than by a report of a massacre of 500 people, uh, 5,000 miles

00:37:01.040 away. Even though the other thing is like objectively worse, more people died. You care more about the

00:37:06.940 other thing, not because you're cruel, not because you're a sociopath, but because you're a human and

00:37:11.520 you, that's how we are meant to pee is you care about the things that are closest to you. Everybody

00:37:17.340 does. And so if there's some, if there's something happening far away, uh, that you really care a lot

00:37:27.400 about, it's only because you perceive yourself as having some personal connection to it. That's, that's

00:37:34.660 why that's, that's how it's so selective. You know, it was like, we all care about things closest to us.

00:37:38.180 And then when it comes to like global tragedies and there's a never ending supply of them,

00:37:42.780 everyone's very selective about which ones they say, Oh, we should care about. Well,

00:37:47.060 it's because if you perceive a personal connection to it, that's why you care about it. And then you

00:37:52.100 turn around to other people who don't perceive that personal connection and, and you get angry at

00:37:56.020 them. Um, one way or another, we all care primarily about the things that are closest to us. And that

00:38:02.120 is natural. Uh, it's how it's supposed to be. Um, it's why like ultimately, you know, one of the many

00:38:10.420 reasons why probably the internet and social media is a net, well, not probably, let me back up. Not

00:38:15.400 probably the internet and social media, definitely a net negative for, for mankind. Um, it exists

00:38:21.660 and I believe that we, I'm, I'm here right now. So I sense it exists and it's not going anywhere. We

00:38:25.240 should try to use it as best we can for, for good. But best, the best thing would be if we could,

00:38:30.500 if I could just snap my fingers and make it all disappear, I would, because, um, one of the many

00:38:36.380 problems with it is how it, uh, it just works against our basic human wiring. Um, and it, it,

00:38:43.180 it takes us away from the immediate, like our communities, our families, these are the things

00:38:48.420 we should, we should care more about those. And if someone says, well, why do you only care? You care

00:38:52.200 more about that than, well, of course I care more about that. I'm supposed to, that's the right

00:38:56.660 approach. Uh, but it takes us out of that. And it kind of like, we, we only have a certain

00:39:03.040 amount of compassion that we're capable of. And it just sort of like disperses it everywhere.

00:39:08.360 And, uh, to the point where it's sort of dispersed into nothingness. And I think that's what's

00:39:14.960 happening. All right. Um, here's something I can feel compassion about. Uh, Fox news has

00:39:22.100 another important point. Some guests are reportedly unable to control their bowels

00:39:26.820 while waiting hours and long lines at Disney theme parks. Uh, one poster on Reddit claimed,

00:39:33.480 I'm in the queue for rise of the resistance at Disney world. I guess that's a ride. Someone

00:39:38.600 let their kid take a dump on the floor and they just walked out and left it WTF. This is a Fox news

00:39:46.060 whole Fox news. It's like a lengthy Fox news article of people, uh, about people pooping in line at,

00:39:51.160 at, uh, theme parks, but I mean, I'm reading, it's important. Another person claimed to be,

00:39:55.480 uh, claiming to be a park employee on the, uh, Walt Disney world subreddit chimed in to verify

00:40:00.460 the claim about the star Wars theme bride writing quote for the skeptics. This has actually happened.

00:40:05.740 Fun fact. This was one of three, uh, related incidents at rise today. And then this led to this,

00:40:13.200 uh, I guess, uh, sort of a, a longer dialogue, uh, about this epidemic of people

00:40:21.140 um, relieving themselves in line at Disney world. Apparently this is like, uh, this is a real

00:40:26.300 problem. And only reason I'm telling you about it is that just my case, my case against amusement

00:40:32.920 parks grow stronger by the day. I am vindicated yet again. And, um, and by the way, I was just at an

00:40:39.780 amusement park this past weekend. We went to Dollywood. Um, and, uh, and look, I went with the family at

00:40:48.320 Dollywood amusement park. I'm not supposed to be negative about it or critical. You know,

00:40:54.420 I'm not going to complain. My wife, she says, don't be negative. So I don't know why she would

00:40:59.720 ever think that I would be negative about something. That's not me. That's not who I am.

00:41:03.220 And I'm not going to be, I'm not going to be negative about our experience at amusement park

00:41:07.080 last weekend. I'm not going to say anything about it. You know, in fact, I loved it. I loved

00:41:12.240 waiting in line for two and a half hours for a ride that lasts 65 seconds. I loved every second of it.

00:41:17.660 I love that. That's, I was just waiting in that line and I'm going, this is great.

00:41:22.660 This is amazing. I'm so glad we're here doing this. Like there are so many other things we could

00:41:26.580 be doing today. And I'm glad we chose this. Just wait, just sitting here, just waiting in this line,

00:41:30.060 just standing here. It's a, it's a, that's the amusement park experience. And it's great.

00:41:34.000 That's what's so great about it. It's an opportunity to spend hundreds of dollars waiting in line

00:41:38.320 with antsy, impatient children. And I'm not going to be negative about it. I'm not negative. I'm

00:41:43.060 really not. I think it's great. I love waiting in line. I love, uh, standing around

00:41:47.620 with huge crowds of people. It's my favorite thing for me. It's even better, you know,

00:41:52.820 recently because I've got the added element of, uh, you know, waiting in line. And, uh,

00:41:58.000 there's very often be someone nearby who recognizes me and, and, uh, which is, which is fine. Like,

00:42:02.840 it's fine. But then, yeah, I'm a big fan, but then, but then we, we have that interaction,

00:42:09.960 but then we're standing next to each other in a line for the next two hours. And so, and that's great.

00:42:16.300 No, it's great. It really is. And look, honestly, sincerely, I believe that it's not at all insane

00:42:22.500 that we as adults allow amusement parks to exist. It's not at all crazy that we as adults spend

00:42:28.420 exorbitant amounts of money to then spend all day waiting in line. It is, those were great lines.

00:42:36.620 They were the best line. Those lines at Dollywood were my favorite lines I've ever waited in.

00:42:41.500 And, uh, I guess the, you know, the lines at Disney world are even better spectacular lines.

00:42:48.780 And of course, the other great thing is that you're waiting in these lines with children who

00:42:54.100 are as bored and frustrated as you are, but then it like makes you angry that they're bored and

00:43:01.380 frustrated because you spent all this money to bring them. And so if they articulate their boredom

00:43:06.920 and frustration, then you say, stop, don't be ungrateful. Don't say out loud, this thing that

00:43:13.580 we're both thinking, just pretend we, we spent all this money. You better pretend you're having fun.

00:43:19.740 No, it was, it was great. Uh, we had fun with the lines and total of six minutes of rides

00:43:24.380 in like nine hours. And it was just fantastic. I recommend it to everybody. Let's get to the

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00:44:47.940 weekend, we also went to the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, which is right next to Dollywood.

00:44:56.620 And very touristy weekend. We were doing all the touristy stuff. We were identifying as tourists

00:45:00.460 all weekend. But you know what? Non-starcastically, I can actually say that the Titanic Museum was

00:45:06.560 pretty cool. I did enjoy that. Also a long line. No, the long line. There's lines everywhere.

00:45:11.860 But, and then I did feel slightly guilty for enjoying it. And I didn't bring this up while

00:45:17.840 we were, I never brought this up. I thought about bringing this up as we were walking through the

00:45:21.220 museum to bring up like the ethical dilemma here. And I didn't, I didn't bring it up.

00:45:28.320 But like hundreds of people died and we're having a grand old time with it.

00:45:34.520 This means, I don't know if you've been to this, this museum, the Titanic Museum,

00:45:37.300 the whole, the whole museum looks like the Titanic. And, and then you walk into it and they actually

00:45:42.500 have, it's a real museum. They have artifacts and stuff that were recovered from the ship.

00:45:45.960 But they have, for example, they have a section where kids can take turns trying to steer the

00:45:52.840 Titanic away from the iceberg. And so you've got 30 seconds and the iceberg, you know, you got,

00:45:58.460 you're at the wheel and there's, there's a screen and there's the iceberg. And then,

00:46:02.420 and they only let kids 10 and under. I don't know why I could, I watched all these kids and they

00:46:06.460 failed completely, just totally incompetent ship captains. I wanted to give it a shot,

00:46:11.220 but the big sign says you have to be 10 and under. But you have 30 seconds to steer the ship away from

00:46:16.160 the iceberg. And if you don't do it and none of them, none of them successfully did, then something

00:46:20.020 comes up on the screen like, oh no, you hit it. Now 1500 people will die. Better luck next time.

00:46:26.360 Game over. You know, it's fun, but I had like the seeking, sneaking suspicion that it might be

00:46:32.160 slightly inappropriate. I didn't want to be that guy. They have another part where you, they have three

00:46:37.380 different models of what the pitch of the ship would have been like as it was sinking. And so,

00:46:44.100 and you can, you can climb up it. So it looks like a, you know, it looks like part of a ship that's

00:46:50.160 sinking into the water. You can kind of climb up it to see if you can climb all the way up the ship

00:46:54.520 at like a 45 degree angle. And kids are, you know, on it laughing and climbing and people are taking

00:47:00.320 pictures and selfies. There's like 1500 people died. You know, we turned it into a jungle gym,

00:47:07.680 basically. But, uh, and then you go to the gift shop afterwards. It's okay. I guess because

00:47:13.240 it's been a hundred years. I think, I think that's probably the rule. Like once something has,

00:47:18.420 once a tragedy is a hundred years old, then you can turn it into a kitschy tourist attraction and sell

00:47:27.100 gifts at a gift shop. I think it's like, so we're still a good, like 60 years or so from when say

00:47:33.840 the challenger explosion can become a fun activity for kids and families. Um, all right, we'll take

00:47:39.980 a look at some comments about, these are comments about our discussion of the high school teacher

00:47:44.200 forced to resign after her OnlyFans account was discovered, which is, uh, the, just the latest

00:47:50.460 example of many other examples like this, as we talked about. Katie Jensen says, as a conservative

00:47:54.340 teacher, this is so embarrassing to our profession. It is gross. A week later, another teacher at the

00:47:59.300 same district was fired for also having an OnlyFans. I, somehow I did not see that. So you're

00:48:04.940 saying it wasn't just another teacher, but in the same school district, I also had an OnlyFans. I,

00:48:10.560 I, I missed that update to that story. Uh, Sarah says, it's so crazy to think about a teacher doing

00:48:16.120 this. I'm a high school teacher and one of my coworkers resigned last year for having an OnlyFans

00:48:20.480 account. Some education students at one of the local colleges were upset about what

00:48:24.340 happened to her. First thing I told them was to consider the fact that students found the account

00:48:28.200 and have access to pornographic pictures of their teacher. Might be a little bit of a problem,

00:48:34.120 you'd think. Yes. Uh, Mift Cuttlefish says, she was a teacher. Imagine being able to make more money

00:48:40.380 by tutoring on the side instead of whoring yourself out to people you don't know. Novel idea. Yeah,

00:48:46.540 I think all these points are true. I also think that, uh, there was another point in that

00:48:50.280 conversation that I wanted to make. We kind of ran out of time. The point that we're sort of

00:48:54.020 missing, which is that a lot of these seemingly normal young women, because that's, that's,

00:49:00.280 that's the epidemic is that you've got, like, well, there's always been prostitutes in the world

00:49:06.180 and it's a, it's a certain sort of person that ends up in a life of prostitution historically.

00:49:14.380 But now you've got these women who are seemingly normal, soccer moms, English teachers,

00:49:20.160 social studies teachers, like we've talked as a corporate marketing executive. I mean,

00:49:24.660 just like normal people with jobs and, and families and kids and husbands who are turning

00:49:31.560 to prostitution and absolutely would not if OnlyFans didn't exist. In fact, I remember back when

00:49:38.360 there was, remember that was that brief weird moment when OnlyFans actually stopped, uh, allowing

00:49:45.000 sexually explicit content on their site because they're worried about the banks coming after them.

00:49:49.220 And that lasted for about five seconds. But during that time, the critics of that decision

00:49:55.360 said that, well, this is going to send, now you're going to send all of these quote unquote sex

00:49:59.440 workers back out onto the street, back into a back alleys and everything else. And no, you're not

00:50:05.000 because most of these women are not going to do that. They're just going to go back to teaching

00:50:08.200 is what they're going to. They're not going to suddenly become virtuous people. Okay. They're

00:50:12.140 probably going to be having affairs and stuff like that, but, but, but they're not going to go out

00:50:15.760 and say, well, my OnlyFans will shut down. I guess I'll go be a turn tricks on the street corner.

00:50:20.440 I guess I'll go down to the hustler club and become a stripper. Like they're not going to do that.

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00:53:32.640 Almost three years ago in December of 2020, Time published an article announcing that America's

00:53:37.480 racial reckoning had made its way into high school debate leagues. Time reports with, of course,

00:53:43.200 total approval and admiration that debate competitions have now become forums for confronting

00:53:47.960 the horrors of systemic racism. We're told about one high school, one high school debater named Bintu

00:53:53.540 Bazemore, who was preparing for her next tournament, quote, for the team's first tournament this school

00:53:59.160 year, which will be held virtually in January by Emory University. High school debate tournaments are

00:54:03.800 typically hosted by colleges. Bazemore is getting ready to try out her most daring speech yet.

00:54:08.900 The teenager plans to talk about how Black women are often left out of the conversation when it comes

00:54:13.660 to mental health. Quote, I'm an African-American female. Look at me, she says in one version of

00:54:18.740 the speech she's rehearsing. When you see me up here, what do you think? Strong, independent, gold digger,

00:54:23.380 poor, crazy. This is not the typical stuff of oratory meets, where even speeches about the most hot

00:54:29.560 button topics are studiously mild. Quote, a lot of speeches I hear, they're good, but they don't seem

00:54:35.820 real, Bazemore says. If I'm going to say something, I'm going to say it from the heart. If I'm the only

00:54:41.060 Black female in the room, what I say matters. You have to hand it to her. She has come up with

00:54:46.380 two short sentences that perfectly encapsulate the left-wing attitude on race. I am a Black female.

00:54:52.640 Look at me. That kind of says it all, I suppose. But this was not a momentary blip on the radar.

00:54:58.080 High school debate did not veer off into racial insanity only to correct itself and get back to

00:55:03.140 doing what high school debate is supposed to do, which, by the way, is to teach kids how to successfully

00:55:07.340 argue for a position using logic and reason. Now, apparently, and not surprisingly, things have

00:55:12.700 only gotten worse in the world of high school debate since 2020. A guy named James Fishback is

00:55:18.040 the founder of an organization called Incubate Debate, which is a new and fast-growing debate league

00:55:22.660 that focuses on, it says, civility, merit, and open debate, which sets it apart from most other debate

00:55:28.600 leagues these days that evidently focus on none of those things. James has been keeping track of and

00:55:33.920 reporting on the radical woke-ifying of high school debate. One video he posted a few days ago

00:55:39.000 shows, reading from his caption, quote, a high school debate team winning the national championship

00:55:43.540 by not debating the assigned topic and ranting about transgenocide instead. There's a lot of

00:55:50.780 these kinds of videos. Kids in the middle of a debate meet, or whatever you're supposed to call it,

00:55:56.460 decide that, yeah, I'm not going to talk about the topic out of hand. Instead, I'm going to

00:55:59.360 talk about trans people. I'm going to talk about racism. In a video posted a few days before that,

00:56:04.460 we see a nationally ranked high school debater arguing that the other team's points are invalid

00:56:09.860 because their team has a white debater. Watch.

00:56:14.540 They have a white debater on their team, which inherently means they have more whiteness than us.

00:56:18.440 We obviously know that s*** is not white. It's pretty obvious. Go down onto our pick. We give you

00:56:23.260 three words why we subsume all of their protests and affirm their protests. In a pick, what it means is

00:56:28.480 you are furthering their cause just minus the whiteness as a vehicle for this movement. We say

00:56:33.560 whiteness means really bad for representation and queer people, and it's a bad form of furthering

00:56:38.600 this protest. The best way to further the protest is to vote for our pick and to affirm it, but minus

00:56:42.980 the whiteness. They say that we're taking over just labor. But first, this is a new response. If

00:56:47.260 they read this response before, we probably would have read a campaign about how you can't use labor

00:56:51.780 across identity lines. That's a really bad thing to do. Second, how picks work is you affirm their

00:56:56.080 protest. We're not taking over their labor. It's just a technicality of debate. Then they say that

00:56:59.960 it's trans exclusion. No. A couple responses that they dropped from one. Our constructive speech was

00:57:04.760 about personal experiences, about our identity. We are not comfortable discussing our sexuality on a

00:57:09.720 live stream with 130 people. Second, we say that them telling us how we should represent our advocacy

00:57:15.640 feeds into our link about racism because a white person, someone on a white team should never be

00:57:20.140 telling two women of color how they should be furthering their advocacy. That's an independent link into our

00:57:23.940 whiteness argument that gets dropped. You can drop them right now.

00:57:30.820 Now, I just want to highlight, that's debate. That's sort of debate. And we blurred the faces

00:57:36.980 because these are kids. It's high school kids. And the point here is what is being done to these

00:57:42.660 kids, actually. It's not to humiliate the kids themselves. But it's a very sad thing, in fact,

00:57:49.420 because it shows what is being done to them in these schools, which we'll get into in a minute.

00:57:53.760 But I just want to highlight one sentence from that diatribe, which is nearly impossible to

00:57:58.420 translate into English, especially this part. Quote, whiteness means really bad for representation

00:58:03.440 in queer people, and it's a bad form of furthering this protest. Now, most people will focus on how woke

00:58:10.180 all this is. But the greater concern is that it is totally incoherent. Apparently, you can win a

00:58:16.620 high school debate tournament now by stringing together a series of leftist buzzwords without

00:58:20.840 even bothering to connect those words in a way that makes sense. Forget about saying things that are

00:58:26.140 wrong. I can't even listen to that and say she's wrong because it doesn't mean anything. There is no

00:58:33.440 premise here. There's no proposition being made. There's no, there's nothing. There's no argument

00:58:39.680 being presented. It's just nonsense. Now, today, another clip from a different high school debate

00:58:47.580 has gone viral. And here, a student reportedly won the debate by rejecting the assigned topic and

00:58:53.360 instead spending his entire time attacking white people and especially white Christians. Watch.

00:58:58.880 We demand that white Christians be held accountable for America's original sin.

00:59:01.520 The negative continues the trend in politics while whiteness devours the other.

00:59:04.740 Debating this topic is irrelevant while society is dominated by white Christians.

00:59:07.720 Even if we have something educational to say about this topic, the political will just pray

00:59:10.920 it away and continue their mission to conquer the world in the name of Jesus Christ.

00:59:14.080 The military-industrial complex has been coupled with American Christianity,

00:59:17.080 the worship of the weapons of whiteness.

00:59:18.560 The United States was built to be a city upon a hill for white Christians.

00:59:21.300 American Christianity has controlled all aspects of politics, such as justifying slavery.

00:59:24.900 We solve by decoupling weapons and worships and ending the crusade.

00:59:27.720 White Christians literally inscribe scriptures onto their weapons,

00:59:29.500 worshiping through war. We want to repent for our sins and show America's failure.

00:59:32.660 By voting for us, the judge will send his signal to political leaders and condemn Christianity

00:59:35.780 in politics.

00:59:36.420 It ends up being a 2-1 for Livingston.

00:59:39.700 The affirmative tells me, in summary and final focus, that the role of the ballot for me is

00:59:43.200 to reject Christian militarism. So at the end of the day, I'm left with deciding which side

00:59:47.100 I think is better, doing a better job rejecting Christian militarism.

00:59:52.620 So he just changed the topic to Christian militarism and he wins. You know, I never

01:00:00.680 participated in, maybe surprisingly, I was never in a debate team as when I was in high school.

01:00:06.040 But I can remember in school where we would have debates, you know, where you would learn

01:00:12.300 about how to have a debate and you would have a debate. And usually the way that would work is

01:00:17.500 that there would be an issue and oftentimes kind of like a boring issue, but they would give you an

01:00:23.000 issue and then they would tell you, they would assign you a position, whether you agree with it or

01:00:27.780 not. Because it's not about whether you agree. It's like the point here is supposed to be,

01:00:31.700 can you defend? In fact, if you don't agree, that is even better. Can you find a way to defend this

01:00:37.200 position? No matter how you personally feel about it, can you find a way to defend it? Because the

01:00:44.520 point is supposed to be about honing those abilities. And apparently they've gotten completely

01:00:50.600 away from that now. And the most troubling thing immediately, of course, is the anti-white racism

01:00:56.980 and that these kids are openly and proudly putting that on display. But maybe even more disturbing is

01:01:03.440 that they have apparently learned nothing about world history, nevermind debate. They blame white

01:01:08.560 Christians for justifying slavery when in fact white Christians were by far and away the first to

01:01:14.760 abolish slavery. The non-white, non-Christian world had to be dragged kicking and screaming into abolition.

01:01:21.640 White Christians were the ones who developed the doctrine of human rights that the abolition

01:01:24.740 movement is based on. White Christians were the ones who patrolled the seas to stop slave ships.

01:01:30.400 If not for white Christians, slavery would still probably be legal in many parts of the world. In

01:01:34.980 fact, even to this day, slavery is effectively still practiced in many non-white, non-Christian

01:01:39.360 countries. I don't blame these kids for not knowing those facts. I blame the schools for not teaching

01:01:44.420 them. And I also blame the schools for inculcating the attitude on display in all these videos.

01:01:50.460 These are kids who are incapable of engaging thoughtfully on an issue. They are not able to,

01:01:54.740 assess the merits of an argument. They cannot reason. They cannot think logically. They cannot

01:01:58.980 engage in any kind of objective analysis of anything. They can only see the world through

01:02:02.880 the lens of the left's victimhood doctrine. It's a lens that is perhaps less a lens and more a series

01:02:09.500 of funhouse mirrors. They are trying to navigate intellectually, but all they see are distorted

01:02:15.260 images. And most of those images are of themselves. They cannot see out into the world. They can't focus

01:02:21.940 on anything but themselves. This is how the schools, which are nothing but mechanisms for

01:02:27.560 left-wing indoctrination, of course, train these kids to think. Now, as I said, we can't fault the

01:02:33.400 kids for this. If I was currently 16 years old, and I had spent essentially my entire life up until

01:02:39.280 that point in a government indoctrination facility, and if I didn't have parental guidance at home to

01:02:44.420 counteract that indoctrination, I would be saying all of the same things that these kids are saying,

01:02:50.460 and so would you. And I'd be looking at the world the same way that they look at it. Pretty much

01:02:55.720 everything they hear and see and experience every day is designed to condition them this way.

01:03:01.040 It is a relentless brainwashing campaign that will inevitably have a near 100% success rate.

01:03:06.360 And that's what we're watching here, which is why I will not cancel these high school debaters,

01:03:13.440 no matter how awful they are at debating. Instead, it is everyone else responsible for

01:03:18.020 turning them into this, especially the school system itself, that is today canceled.

01:03:24.720 That'll do it for the show today and this week. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

01:03:27.620 Talk to you on Monday. Have a great weekend. Godspeed.

01:03:36.360 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 17, 2023

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