The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 131 - Middle School Invites Drag Queen For Career Day

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a middle school in Colorado invited a drag queen to come speak to the kids.

00:00:05.340 Parents, of course, were not notified ahead of time.

00:00:07.540 So is it officially, officially, officially time for parents to abandon the public school system and rescue their children from this madness?

00:00:15.720 We'll talk about that now on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:21.960 All right, let's go and check on the latest madness in the public school system, shall we?

00:00:26.760 Always a fun topic.

00:00:27.820 I point you to an article in the Daily Wire yesterday.

00:00:31.720 Headline is Drag Queen Jessica Lahore visits middle school after backlash school issues partial apology.

00:00:39.200 And the article says, in part, after backlash from the community, a school district in Colorado has apologized to parents for not notifying them in advance that a drag queen who goes by the name of Jessica Lahore visited the school for career day.

00:00:51.560 The district said it would not apologize, however, for inviting the drag queen to talk to the middle schoolers, a decision the school made in the name of inclusiveness and diversity.

00:00:59.040 Adams 12, five-star school district admitted that the staff of Rocky Top Middle School should have notified parents in advance about what they knew would be a controversial event,

00:01:13.860 which is the visitation of Jessica Lahore, who dressed, which is not his Christian name, I assume, who dressed in drag.

00:01:22.320 He spoke to four different classes of sixth to eighth graders, read a book on bullying and answers answered questions about negativity and hate.

00:01:30.040 Lahore said that he spoke to a bunch of classes.

00:01:32.840 They asked great questions.

00:01:33.860 He also said this, he said, there were a lot of kids interested in how I could have the confidence to go out looking the way that I look, which is, I hate to tell you, Mr. Lahore, I don't, I think that may have been a bit of a backhanded compliment.

00:01:52.280 When you go to someone and you say, what do you think of my outfit?

00:01:54.820 And they say, I mean, it looks like you got a lot of confidence dressing like that.

00:01:59.500 I don't think that's a compliment is what I'm trying to tell you.

00:02:02.460 Lahore dresses as a woman professionally, a job that the drag queen says involves traveling around the country, working six days a week.

00:02:14.320 The spokesman for the school district said that parents should have known in advance who was going to be speaking, and that didn't happen in this particular situation.

00:02:22.920 Parents just needed to have more info and context about what was going to be talked about and some background on this individual, and they weren't given that information.

00:02:30.160 The principal of the school also apologized, but apologized not for telling parents, didn't apologize for the event, apologized not for telling parents.

00:02:41.020 That's the only thing they're apologizing for.

00:02:44.860 Lahore himself said, his message to parents is, I'm not telling your kid to go off and become a drag queen.

00:02:50.520 I'm telling them to have the conversations because it will come up in life.

00:02:56.040 Well, sir, let me just say this as delicately as I can.

00:03:02.780 It's not your job, sir, to tell my kids anything.

00:03:07.820 Do you understand that?

00:03:08.400 It's not your job to tell anyone's kids anything.

00:03:13.320 It's not your right to try to indoctrinate other people's kids into your way of thinking.

00:03:21.760 And actually, you say that this conversation comes up in life, but really, for most people, it doesn't.

00:03:29.080 For most people, this conversation, they never have to talk to their kids about drag queens because it never comes up.

00:03:33.660 It only comes up when people like yourself bring it up.

00:03:39.680 If you wouldn't bring it up, it would never come up.

00:03:43.760 All right, let me just make a few points here, if I could.

00:03:50.040 First, we should stipulate that this is not an unprecedented thing.

00:03:54.220 This is part of a larger trend.

00:03:55.900 This effort to push drag queens on kids has been going on for a while. 1.00

00:04:00.300 Well, the overall effort to promote deviancy to children, the left has been doing that for decades, of course.

00:04:06.820 But recently, they have really focused in on this specific project of getting drag queens and little kids together.

00:04:14.500 They're very obsessed with that.

00:04:16.000 So they've got the drag queen story hours and everything.

00:04:17.900 They want to get drag queens and they want to get little kids. 0.98

00:04:19.940 They want to get them together.

00:04:21.120 It's a very strange, very bizarre thing.

00:04:23.900 But the left is, this is one of their new and most favorite methods of indoctrination.

00:04:32.480 And why do they do this?

00:04:33.940 What's the point?

00:04:36.160 I mean, keep in mind, again, just to emphasize, this drag queen was at the school for career day.

00:04:42.980 Career day.

00:04:43.820 As if any parent in their right mind wants their child to become a drag queen as a career. 1.00

00:04:53.840 And I know when I say that, you know, I know what I just said is would be considered controversial.

00:04:58.920 Or at least what I should say is a lot of people would pretend that what I just said is controversial.

00:05:04.520 What I'm saying is no parent in the right mind, almost no parent wants their kid to become a drag queen. 1.00

00:05:10.240 And then, now you might start typing furiously and say, well, you're a bigot.

00:05:16.020 How dare you say, yeah, except that you know that I'm right, don't you?

00:05:21.220 So I think 99% of us, we, that's the interesting thing about these kinds of conversations,

00:05:26.200 that 99% of us agree in our heads.

00:05:30.720 We know we all feel the same way because we're normal.

00:05:34.540 Of course, we don't want our kids to become drag queens. 1.00

00:05:37.340 Of course, we don't want that.

00:05:38.460 You want your kid to become a doctor, an engineer, a lawyer, you know, that's what you want.

00:05:44.280 You want your kid to have kids and be a parent and a spouse.

00:05:47.540 And that's what you want for your kid.

00:05:48.700 You don't want them to be a drag queen going around the country, calling themselves a whore, 1.00

00:05:53.420 dressed in makeup and dress.

00:05:56.980 That's not what you want for your son.

00:05:58.540 Nobody does.

00:06:00.020 But you feel like you have to pretend otherwise.

00:06:02.680 So 99% of us agree, but over half of that 99% think they have to pretend they don't agree.

00:06:12.540 And what I'm telling you is you don't have to pretend.

00:06:14.840 It's okay to be normal.

00:06:16.920 You're a normal person.

00:06:18.300 You're a normal parent.

00:06:19.480 You don't want that for your kid.

00:06:21.460 That's normal.

00:06:22.240 That's healthy.

00:06:23.820 That's loving.

00:06:24.660 And it's okay to be normal and healthy and loving.

00:06:29.380 So just admit it is what I'm saying.

00:06:33.040 I think with so much of this stuff, especially when it comes to the really fringe, radical

00:06:38.100 methods and strategies and messages of the left, almost none of us really agree with that stuff in our minds.

00:06:48.620 When the left comes and says, oh, you know, a man could be a woman if he feels like one. 0.96

00:06:55.280 99% of us, we know that that's nonsense.

00:06:57.600 That's crazy.

00:06:59.020 We know that.

00:07:01.380 So just admit it.

00:07:03.820 You're allowed to say it.

00:07:05.620 And I'm not saying you're allowed to say it because I give you permission.

00:07:08.240 I'm saying you're allowed to say it because the Constitution gives you permission.

00:07:12.460 Because God gives you permission with your free will.

00:07:15.060 All right.

00:07:19.620 But they say, so, you know, what's the reason that they give for doing something?

00:07:24.900 Well, they say it's about fighting bullying.

00:07:27.660 But we don't, obviously, we don't need a drag queen to tell us not to bully. 0.99

00:07:32.280 Anyone can tell you that.

00:07:34.500 A drag queen has no special anti-bullying expertise. 1.00

00:07:38.240 In fact, this guy who now goes around in dresses and makeup and wigs and calls himself Lahore,

00:07:42.920 he pretty clearly never learned how to deal with bullying.

00:07:47.280 He's basically the last example you want.

00:07:51.480 Okay.

00:07:51.940 Show the kid someone who was bullied in school and then became an astronaut, a doctor, an engineer,

00:07:57.320 a healthy, normal person.

00:07:59.360 Show them that person.

00:08:01.500 A CEO, you know.

00:08:03.580 Don't show them someone who was bullied and now spends his life doing this.

00:08:07.100 Obviously, this person has suffered trauma and challenges in life, and we all have challenges in life.

00:08:12.640 But they never discovered a healthy outlet for it.

00:08:16.280 So this is the last example we should want to put in front of our kids.

00:08:22.000 Also, when it comes to bullying, I think there's a deeper reason why they bring in a drag queen to share this message.

00:08:28.620 Because what they're trying to tell our kids is, if you see a man carrying on this way,

00:08:34.720 if you see a man acting in a clearly outrageous, unhealthy, perverse way,

00:08:38.940 you shouldn't treat him any differently or act as though he's engaged in anything strange.

00:08:43.100 So this is an effort to normalize perverse behavior.

00:08:47.140 They call it anti-bullying.

00:08:48.440 That's not what it is.

00:08:49.160 It is normalization.

00:08:51.960 Because it's not bullying for a person to see this guy dressed this way, prancing around.

00:09:04.500 There's nothing bullying about noticing that and thinking, well, that's abnormal.

00:09:08.380 That's strange.

00:09:10.300 That's not right.

00:09:11.480 That's not bullying.

00:09:14.880 Obviously, bullying is never okay.

00:09:16.560 It's never acceptable.

00:09:17.200 But it's also true that Mr. Lahore, he's acting strange.

00:09:23.780 What he's doing is not normal.

00:09:24.960 It's not healthy.

00:09:25.680 It shouldn't be treated as though it is.

00:09:27.400 If my kids saw something like that and they said, well, that's weird.

00:09:31.340 You know what I would say?

00:09:31.960 I wouldn't say, oh, no, we don't call that weird.

00:09:34.320 No, that's normal.

00:09:35.940 That's great.

00:09:37.140 I would be so proud of you, son, if you did the same thing.

00:09:40.600 No, I wouldn't tell my kids.

00:09:41.620 You know what I would say to them?

00:09:42.500 Yes, you're right.

00:09:43.900 That is weird.

00:09:44.780 Now, we don't call him weird.

00:09:47.920 Okay, we don't say that about people.

00:09:49.280 We don't insult people.

00:09:50.940 But what he's doing, how he's behaving, that's weird.

00:09:54.940 You're right.

00:09:56.800 Now, we don't be unkind.

00:09:58.220 We won't be uncharitable.

00:09:59.340 We won't be abusive.

00:10:00.080 We won't be mocking.

00:10:04.740 But yes, that's weird.

00:10:06.960 We should have sympathy for this person.

00:10:08.460 He's very troubled.

00:10:09.320 He's obviously a very troubled person.

00:10:11.060 But you're right that what he's doing is weird.

00:10:12.400 That's what I would tell my kids.

00:10:13.780 That's what I have told my kids.

00:10:18.540 And I know the left hates to hear that.

00:10:20.240 They say, oh, you're, I mean, you're raising your own kids how you want?

00:10:24.580 How dare you?

00:10:25.440 Yep, that's how I'm raising my kids.

00:10:26.640 And there's nothing you can do about it.

00:10:28.840 I'm raising my kids to find that kind of thing weird.

00:10:31.300 I'm telling them it's weird.

00:10:33.240 Yep, that's what I'm doing.

00:10:36.100 Because they're my kids.

00:10:38.080 And I can raise them, not you.

00:10:44.040 So, you know, this guy, what he's insisting is that we pretend his whole routine is totally normal.

00:10:49.020 It's not.

00:10:50.340 We shouldn't have to go along with it.

00:10:51.760 And, you know, if I, there's a certain amount of pointing and staring that you clearly have earned if you go out and carry on this way.

00:11:04.740 If I, if I strap a pineapple to my head and then walk outside and go to the store or something and people point and stare and say, that guy's got a pineapple on his head.

00:11:13.900 I can't say, well, how dare, you're bullying, stop bullying me.

00:11:17.300 How dare you notice this pineapple that I've strapped to my head and then walked outside of the house specifically so that you would notice the pineapple.

00:11:23.100 I mean, when you dress in an outrageous, ridiculous way, people are going to notice.

00:11:30.700 And that's the whole reason that you're dressed that way.

00:11:32.400 So don't pretend like you're being victimized when you're getting exactly the reaction that you want.

00:11:36.520 By the way, even if this was an actual woman dressed like this and calling herself Lahore, my reaction would be very similar.

00:11:49.680 And I would certainly say that that woman should not be in a school. 1.00

00:11:56.060 That's my other problem with this drag queen stuff. 1.00

00:11:58.080 I don't know why haven't feminists spoken up about this. 1.00

00:12:01.360 These guys are making a mockery of femininity. 0.56

00:12:03.860 They're appropriating femininity and making it into a joke, a spectacle. 1.00

00:12:09.280 How in the world can you say that it's inappropriate for a white woman to wear like a Native American headdress, 1.00

00:12:15.700 but it's perfectly fine for this guy to dress like a female character from some weird Tim Burton film and call himself Lahore and then portray womanhood that way?

00:12:27.100 How is the one appropriating, reductive, and exploitative, but the other isn't?

00:12:37.300 I mean, this fella, when he dresses that way, what he's saying is, this is how I see women.

00:12:43.980 He calls himself Lahore.

00:12:45.180 He dresses in the ridiculous outfit.

00:12:46.840 And he's saying, to me, this is what a woman is.

00:12:49.380 That's offensive.

00:12:56.140 I mean, you should be offended by that.

00:12:59.660 I don't want my daughter to see that because I don't want my daughter to think that's what a woman is. 0.97

00:13:04.380 He's making a mockery of womanhood. 0.89

00:13:07.520 And he's using it as a gimmick.

00:13:10.200 I mean, think about that.

00:13:11.520 He's dressing up as a woman and calling himself a whore.

00:13:14.340 How are the feminists not all over that? 1.00

00:13:22.740 How is that any different from a guy dressing up in a ridiculous Native American costume and calling himself some slur for Native Americans?

00:13:37.420 I mean, what if a guy for Halloween dressed up in Native American costume and painted his face red? 0.53

00:13:41.980 Well, we would say, well, that's terribly offensive to Native Americans.

00:13:46.000 So how is it?

00:13:47.420 This is exactly the same thing.

00:13:49.440 Second point I want to make.

00:13:52.040 This is not the first time that I'm going to say this.

00:13:55.840 It's not even the 100th time.

00:13:58.120 I'll say it a million more times.

00:13:59.700 It won't be the last time.

00:14:01.060 But I think it needs to be said once again that this is what public school is, folks.

00:14:06.920 This is how public school operates.

00:14:09.540 This is the point of public school.

00:14:11.000 Now, I know that not all public schools are going to invite drag queens for career day. 0.89

00:14:15.600 I think we may have a few more years before that becomes the norm.

00:14:19.160 But I'll tell you what is the norm.

00:14:21.340 The norm is the schools making parenting decisions for you.

00:14:25.780 The schools deciding what sort of person they want your kids to be and then working to turn them in to that kind of person without your input, without your consent.

00:14:35.740 And that's not only how public schools operate.

00:14:38.380 That is why public schools exist.

00:14:41.800 The government has a public school system so that they can shape the next generation of people.

00:14:50.380 That's the point of the public school system.

00:14:52.480 It's not about just teaching.

00:14:56.040 It's about shaping, forming, molding, guiding, instilling values.

00:15:01.780 And those values are going to be the mainstream secular values of society.

00:15:10.920 So all you need to do is look at the mainstream secular values in society and decide, is that what I want infused into my kid's head for seven hours a day, five days a week, nine months a year for the next 13 years?

00:15:27.460 And it's not like I have no dog in this fight, by the way.

00:15:31.640 It's not like it's easy for me to be anti-public school because I don't have kids.

00:15:35.520 I do have kids.

00:15:36.160 I have three kids.

00:15:36.780 The oldest are five.

00:15:37.680 So our decision to not do public school has led to many difficulties and challenges for us already, and we're still very early on.

00:15:44.020 So I get that public school is easier, cheaper, and all that.

00:15:47.000 I mean, it's such an easy decision to make, and there are so many practical advantages to it.

00:15:52.840 I definitely acknowledge that, and I acknowledge also that there are still people who really have no other choice.

00:15:59.560 If you're a single parent, for instance, and you can't afford private school, then what are you going to do?

00:16:11.100 You really have very few options.

00:16:12.920 So I understand that.

00:16:13.820 But for those of us who feasibly, plausibly could have any other option, I think we really need to consider those options.

00:16:23.700 Because this is public school.

00:16:27.820 No matter what you say, no matter what you do, no matter how you approach it, they are going to want to parent your child and turn your child into the sort of person they think your child should be.

00:16:43.960 Education is not—and I'm not saying that, well, the public school, they're so biased in—the problem isn't that they're biased in their education.

00:16:52.840 Education is by nature biased.

00:16:55.800 Because education by nature is not just about passing on information in a sort of detached, objective, robotic way.

00:17:04.420 Education is about making people.

00:17:11.440 It's about forming—it's about imparting values, you know, passing on belief systems, you know, instilling priorities and principles.

00:17:23.680 That's what education is.

00:17:26.000 That's what education has always been and always will be, and it will never, ever change.

00:17:32.840 We have this fantasy of objectivity.

00:17:35.700 Like, we think it's possible that—we think it's possible for there to be a truly objective, unbiased news source.

00:17:42.800 And what we learn is it's impossible.

00:17:46.300 And the news media, for as long as it's existed, has always been biased because there are human beings behind it.

00:17:53.800 There are human beings passing on the information, and they have views and ideas and priorities.

00:17:59.020 And that's inevitably going to come out.

00:18:01.000 Well, even more—that's even more the case for education, that there's going to be an agenda, an objective beyond just putting information in their heads.

00:18:15.520 These are people, after all, who are doing the educating.

00:18:22.060 And these are people who run the schools.

00:18:23.960 And they all have belief systems and ideas and everything else.

00:18:28.280 And they're also operating—very importantly here—they're operating within a system that itself is certainly not objective, a system that itself has an agenda in mind.

00:18:41.000 So that even—and there are plenty of very good public school teachers, plenty of devout Christian public school teachers, conservatives, religious, you know, public school teachers, but—and many of them work heroically to stand against the tide.

00:18:58.760 But the fact remains that there is a tide, and they are standing against it.

00:19:02.540 And those kinds of teachers, they are—you know, if you send your kid to public school, those teachers are very—those are like oaseses in the desert, an oasis of sanity and reason that your kid might come across, which is great.

00:19:20.420 But that's not how the system in general is set up.

00:19:23.460 And so we just have to ask ourselves, is this the environment that we want to put our kids in?

00:19:29.760 And it is very possible.

00:19:31.160 I don't deny it.

00:19:31.720 It's very possible that you could send your child—if you're a religious person, if you're a conservative, if you care about so-called family values, objective reality, objective truth, objective morality, all that kind of stuff—you could send your kid into public school.

00:19:47.480 And it's quite possible, although I think probably unlikely, but it is possible that they could come out on the other end with their heads still screwed on straight and with all of those values still basically intact.

00:19:59.340 But if they accomplish that, it will be in spite of their education and in spite of the environment, the atmosphere they've been immersed in for the last 12, 13 years.

00:20:08.960 And so what we have to ask ourselves is, is that fair to our kids, that we expect them to be good people in spite of their education, when in truth, they should be good people, good, decent, normal, healthy people, in part because of their education.

00:20:28.080 Education is supposed to strengthen you.

00:20:30.240 It's not supposed to be a necessary evil.

00:20:32.700 It's not supposed to be an obstacle for a kid to get around or over or climb over.

00:20:36.320 It's not supposed to be that. It's supposed to be an advantage.

00:20:40.160 It's supposed to be a good thing that helps a kid, boosts him up, not something that drags him down so that he's constantly trying to climb and resist it and all that.

00:20:51.660 I think that's something we really need to think about.

00:20:53.980 But then ultimately make our own decisions.

00:20:56.220 And if you happen to send your kid to that middle school in Colorado, I certainly hope that you will demand, even if fruitlessly,

00:21:02.500 you will still demand and never stop demanding that every single person responsible for bringing that drag queen in is fired. 0.97

00:21:08.680 Because that's what needs to happen there.

00:21:10.640 Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 25, 2018

Ep. 131 - Middle School Invites Drag Queen For Career Day

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