The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1322 - The Secret History Of The Evil Organization That Pushed Gender Madness Into The Mainstream

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, there is one single organization most responsible for pushing

00:00:04.000 transgenderism into the mainstream. Most people don't know anything about this organization or

00:00:07.720 even that it exists. And today we'll try to change that. Also, White House staffers are

00:00:11.980 getting increasingly frustrated when people point out that the president is senile.

00:00:15.300 Oregon officially recriminalizes drugs after their decriminalization experiment epically failed.

00:00:20.720 And the drag queen RuPaul plans to send a rainbow bus around the country giving out 0.99

00:00:24.600 inappropriate books to children. This story only gets more bizarre from there.

00:00:28.220 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:51.740 months free expressvpn.com slash Walsh. When the Sixth Circuit upheld Tennessee's ban on the chemical

00:01:58.700 castration of children last year, they singled out the World Professional Association for Transgender

00:02:03.600 Health or WPATH. This is the organization that major hospitals and gender clinics cite as the all

00:02:09.460 important authority on so-called trans healthcare. In fact, in court, the ACLU argued that WPATH's

00:02:15.600 professional opinions are so important that they should overturn the will of the overwhelming

00:02:20.440 majority of voters in the state of Tennessee, but the court was not convinced. In its opinion,

00:02:25.020 it pointed out that WPATH, by its own admission, has presented, quote, limited data on the long-term

00:02:30.900 physical, psychological, and neurodevelopmental outcomes that result from administering puberty

00:02:36.180 blockers and cross-sex hormones to children, in part because WPATH's data and the documentation

00:02:40.920 wasn't exactly comprehensive, the court allowed the ban on these so-called treatments to take effect.

00:02:47.960 Six months later, we now have a window into what data and documentation WPATH actually does have

00:02:53.780 in its possession, and it's not limited, as they previously said. Instead, this internal documentation

00:03:01.220 at WPATH is comprehensive evidence that so-called gender-affirming care, quote, unquote,

00:03:10.920 permanently damages their bodies. And crucially, the documents prove that WPATH knows it. These leaked

00:03:17.960 WPATH files come to us from a think tank called Environmental Progress and the independent journalist

00:03:22.940 Michael Schellenberger. Among the files is this internal communication at WPATH from a doctor

00:03:29.340 concerning a 16-year-old girl who developed liver tumors, large ones, after she was given drugs to

00:03:36.020 suppress menstruation, as well as testosterone. Quote, the patient found to have two liver masses,

00:03:41.540 and the oncologist and surgeon both have indicated that the likely offending agents

00:03:45.620 are the hormones. That's a quote. In response to that report, another doctor on the WPATH discussion

00:03:52.000 forum said that one of his colleagues had developed liver cancer and died after taking testosterone for

00:03:57.620 about a decade. Quote, to the best of my knowledge, it was linked to his hormone treatment. The doctor

00:04:01.220 wrote, quote, it was so advanced that he opted for palliative care and died a couple of months later.

00:04:07.300 Now, at no point in these documents does WPATH suggest that they should go public with these concerns.

00:04:13.080 They don't immediately run to the media with their determination that cross-sex hormones could 1.00

00:04:17.460 contribute to fatal liver cancer. They don't warn anybody, as far as I can tell. Instead, they press on

00:04:23.380 with a plan to mutilate the 16-year-old girl with liver tumors and the tumors that they have apparently

00:04:28.300 caused. Quote, we're prepared to support the patient in any way we can, e.g. top surgery when

00:04:34.560 medically stable, etc. Now, Ghoulish doesn't even begin to describe this. After concluding that they've

00:04:42.080 possibly caused tumors in a teenage girl's liver, their only concern, apparently, is how quickly they

00:04:47.920 can remove her breasts. In fact, from the documents, it appears that WPATH tries to rush these procedures

00:04:53.740 in general before patients can reach adulthood. One surgeon, Christine N. McGinn, boasts that she's

00:04:59.160 performed more than a dozen vaginoplasties on patients under the age of 18. And in this context,

00:05:05.400 vaginoplasty means that they are removing a child's penis and testicles and scrotum and replacing them 0.99

00:05:10.420 with a non-functioning open wound. And they're doing this to children. The surgeon writes, quote, 0.97

00:05:16.680 I feel the best time for surgery in the U.S. is the summer before their last year of high school.

00:05:24.480 She also says many other surgeons in this community agree with her. What makes this even more egregious,

00:05:29.660 if that's even possible, is that WPATH knows that children can't provide informed consent to any of

00:05:37.480 this butchery. They admit that in these files. Schellenberger obtained this footage showing WPATH

00:05:43.040 members discussing how little patients understand about these procedures. And parts of this video

00:05:48.200 were made public last year, but Schellenberger obtained the full thing. Here are a couple of parts

00:05:53.240 of it. Watch. I think the thing you have to remember about kids is that we're often explaining these

00:05:57.320 sorts of things to people who haven't even had biology in high school yet. And I know I've heard

00:06:04.340 others in this kind of a setting say, well, we think adults are like really slick biologically.

00:06:09.760 In fact, lots of people have very little medical understanding of stuff like that. We just

00:06:15.220 medical professionals and mental health professionals take for granted, but I don't

00:06:19.240 know still what to do for the 14 year olds. The parents have it on their minds, but the 14 year

00:06:24.200 olds, you just, it's like talking with diabetic complications with a 14 year old. They don't

00:06:28.860 care. They're not going to die. They're going to live forever. Right? So I think, I think when

00:06:34.640 we're doing informed consent, I know that that's still a big lacuna. We try to talk about it,

00:06:38.680 but most of the kids are nowhere in any kind of a brain space to really, really, really talk

00:06:43.700 about it in a serious way. That's always bothered me, but you know, we still want the kids to

00:06:49.900 be happy, happier in the moment. Right? We want them to be happier in the moment. He says,

00:06:57.200 we try to talk about it, but most of the kids are nowhere in any kind of brain space to really,

00:07:01.180 really, really talk about it seriously. That's just one of the many quotes like this from WPATH

00:07:06.420 members. Here's another one quote. It's out of their developmental range to understand the extent

00:07:10.360 to which some of these medical interventions are impacting them. They'll say they understand,

00:07:14.180 but then they'll say something else that makes you think, oh, they didn't really understand that.

00:07:18.340 And they didn't really understand that they're going to have facial hair.

00:07:21.860 So these are the doctors doing this stuff, admitting that the patients they're doing it to

00:07:27.520 cannot really consent to it. Elsewhere in the files, there's a confession from a therapist that in 15

00:07:33.200 years, she's only turned down one patient for gender treatment. And that's only because that 1.00

00:07:38.500 patient was in active psychosis and was hallucinating during their interview. There's also discussions

00:07:45.200 about boys who began transitioning when they were four years old. To understand the extent of the

00:07:51.000 barbarism, you need to read the WPATH files for yourself. I'm not going to summarize them all here

00:07:55.100 only because it would be redundant. For now, it's important to emphasize that none of these findings

00:08:01.520 are surprising. They're unbelievably disturbing, but there's nothing in here that would surprise

00:08:06.240 anyone who's done even a cursory look into WPATH. There's no excuse for any hospital or medical

00:08:12.540 association to listen to a word WPATH says. And that's been clear for a very long time. Redux

00:08:17.960 has done extensive work exposing the various perverts who are connected with WPATH,

00:08:22.560 including eunuch fetishists who post their fantasies anonymously on the internet. These are academics

00:08:29.320 who have lectured at WPATH and spoken at conferences, and they're apparently sexually 0.97

00:08:34.120 aroused by the idea of castrating themselves. Imagine entrusting the care of your child

00:08:40.760 to an organization that promotes people like that. They want to castrate themselves and they want to

00:08:47.340 do the same to your child. It's unbelievable, but the truth is that even before these kinds of

00:08:52.360 people became affiliated with WPATH, the organization had no credibility. WPATH, the organization that

00:08:58.080 major hospitals and medical organizations hold up as the gold standard for trans healthcare standards

00:09:03.620 was a radical cult from the very beginning. That's what you have to understand. So I'm going to

00:09:10.900 recount WPATH's sordid history because to my knowledge, no one has done it before. And you need

00:09:17.420 to understand what this organization is. And to know that, you need to know where it came from.

00:09:22.280 So the history of WPATH starts with a gender-confused, new-age, drug-addicted, 0.99

00:09:27.820 lesbian-rich kid named Rita Erickson, her prolific nudist friend Zelda Supley,

00:09:33.220 and something called the Erickson Educational Foundation, or EEF. Rita Erickson was born in 0.95

00:09:38.700 Texas in 1917 to successful business owners named Robert and Ruth Erickson. And with immense privilege

00:09:45.340 and educational opportunities, ironically, at an all-girls school, Rita grew up to become an engineer 0.94

00:09:50.140 and contributed to the continued success of her family's lead-smelting business, ultimately

00:09:53.980 inheriting and selling it for millions of dollars. In 1963, after her father had passed away,

00:09:59.440 Rita sought to transition into a he under the care of a quack doctor named Harry Benjamin.

00:10:06.600 Rita changed her name to Reed Erickson and became the ultimate financial force in the push for 0.99

00:10:10.600 mainstream acceptance of transgenderism. Then, in 1964, Erickson launched the EEF to, quote,

00:10:17.740 provide assistance and support in areas where human potential was limited by adverse physical,

00:10:22.700 mental, or social conditions, or where the scope of research was too new, controversial, or imaginative

00:10:27.360 to receive traditionally-oriented support. Imaginative. Well, that's one way to put it.

00:10:34.580 But despite Rita's plans to advance human potential for everybody, supposedly, her own life was falling 0.86

00:10:41.560 apart. Following the mutilation that Erickson received under the care of Dr. Benjamin,

00:10:45.880 she had four failed marriages. She developed a drug addiction and ultimately fled from California

00:10:51.380 to Mexico to avoid drug charges. Her daughter had to take on a conservatorship of her estate due to

00:10:57.480 her mental and physical decline. And still, beginning around the time of Erickson's transition,

00:11:02.380 and all through her decline, the EEF pushed transgenderism and mutilation-based care of gender-confused 0.87

00:11:08.860 people under the leadership of its director, Zelda R. Suple, who was the right-hand woman to Erickson.

00:11:14.740 Now, Suple, her claim to fame was her obsession with nudity, mostly. She owned multiple nudist camps 1.00

00:11:21.780 and became the first woman to pose fully nude on the cover of Playboy. She also did psychic research

00:11:26.900 and dabbled in past-life New Age beliefs. Under Suple, the EEF-sponsored symposiums to bring

00:11:34.080 fringe doctors together. The organization paid these doctors to travel and spread gender ideologies. 1.00

00:11:40.900 They also sponsored programs at colleges to inject transgenderism into academia.

00:11:45.700 They handed out propaganda to doctors and lawyers and police departments and social workers.

00:11:50.980 The EEF even provided grants to doctors who wanted to pursue gender mutilation, contributing heavily to

00:11:55.380 today's more mainstream acceptance of this butchery. The EEF helped to bankroll the first major gender 1.00

00:12:02.520 clinic at Johns Hopkins University, where Dr. John Money, an EEF board member, worked at the time.

00:12:08.620 The clinic received a reported $85,000 from the EEF, and that's approximately $750,000

00:12:13.780 in today's dollars. Now, the EEF revered John Money, calling him a leading scholar and researcher

00:12:21.180 of our time in a newsletter in 1972. Now, what was John Money doing in 1972 to be celebrated and

00:12:29.000 financed by the EEF? Well, according to Arizona State University, he became infamous for directing

00:12:36.440 twin boys to, quote, inspect one another's genitals and engage in behavior resembling sexual 0.99

00:12:41.880 intercourse. He also attempted to change one of the boys into a girl, a story you know if you watched 0.97

00:12:46.700 What is a Woman? Ultimately, one of the boys shot himself in the head and the other died of a drug

00:12:51.860 overdose. Now, the EEF suspended its operations in 1977, but not before helping fund the Janus Information

00:12:59.080 Facility, or JIF, which overtook much of the EEF's work. The JIF also absorbed the nudist director

00:13:06.480 of the EEF, Zelda Supley. The JIF served as a referral service for gender-confused people to find 0.97

00:13:12.480 fringe doctors willing to sterilize and mutilate them. Along with Supley, it was run by the University

00:13:18.540 of Texas' Dr. Paul Walker, a former Johns Hopkins colleague of Dr. John Money. And through the late

00:13:24.900 1970s, bankrolled by the EEF, the Janus Information Facility and Dr. Paul Walker led the continued

00:13:30.640 push to mainstream these extreme surgeries, which were increasingly marked by patient regret,

00:13:36.720 high complication rates. In 1982, researchers at Yale and the University of Kentucky found that

00:13:42.060 post-operative complications included, quote, breast cancer and hormonally treated males, the need for

00:13:48.360 surgical reduction of bloated limbs resulting from hormones, repeated construction of vaginal openings,

00:13:53.860 infections of the urinary system and rectum, hemorrhaging, loss of skin grafts, post-operative

00:13:59.740 suicides and suicide attempts, and patient demands to reverse surgery. Some sex change patients,

00:14:05.920 the researchers reported, quote, threatened to shoot the genitals of the surgeon with a shotgun.

00:14:11.040 Now, those are pretty bad results of this new form of surgery. Did any of this make Erickson,

00:14:17.120 Supley, Paul Walker, John Money, Harry Benjamin, or any of their other unhinged counterparts stop? Did it

00:14:26.900 give them a moment of hesitation? No, they doubled down. In 1979, the EEF-funded symposia led to the

00:14:34.820 formation of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, which took over from

00:14:39.940 the JIF. And it was chaired by Dr. Walker, who left the University of Texas thanks to some financial

00:14:45.560 backing from Erickson. Dr. Harry Benjamin, the new organization's namesake, had long been bankrolled

00:14:51.300 by his former patient and funder extraordinaire, Erickson. Benjamin received $18,000 per year from

00:14:56.760 Erickson, which is worth about $176,000 today. In the early years of the Harry Benjamin Association,

00:15:02.560 at the urging of Benjamin, Erickson allowed the EEF to be revived for a year to fund newsletters to get

00:15:08.560 its message out to the masses. But what was it about Benjamin that made him so beloved? Well,

00:15:15.080 in 1966, Dr. Harry Benjamin had authored the transsexual phenomenon, which inspired this 0.80

00:15:21.740 community of fringe doctors. In it, Benjamin acknowledges that fake vaginas are, quote, 0.87

00:15:27.800 wounds, and says that these fake vaginas can degrade to the point of being, quote, 1.00

00:15:32.320 obliterated and useless for sexual relations. So this is him admitting that they're creating 1.00

00:15:39.260 open wounds in patients and calling it vaginas. Benjamin also outlines the social motivation 0.91

00:15:45.140 behind some transitions. In one case, Benjamin writes that a mother was embarrassed to be seen

00:15:52.340 with her son in public. But when her son began identifying as a girl, the mother suddenly became

00:15:57.580 proud of him and even found him to be, quote, attractive. In an especially creepy passage,

00:16:04.180 Benjamin writes that he could also verify the attractiveness of the supposed young lady.

00:16:10.100 The Harry Benjamin International Gender Daphoria Association, led by Paul Walker, fully recognized

00:16:15.460 its roots in Dr. Harry Benjamin, Reed Erickson, Zelda Supley, presenting them with Lifetime Achievement

00:16:19.960 Awards. And the newly formed Harry Benjamin Association wasted no time creating their first

00:16:25.340 standards of care in 1979. Despite the ample history of failure and suffering they'd inflicted

00:16:33.080 on people who often had comorbid mental illnesses, they declared themselves arbiters of authority.

00:16:39.880 Their only mild redeeming quality was that they seemed to agree that this sadistic quackery

00:16:45.400 shouldn't be inflicted upon minors who were obviously incapable of consent. That's what they said back

00:16:51.680 then. In 2000, one of the earliest iterations of the website for the Harry Benjamin Association

00:16:56.080 linked to another website called Transsexual Women's Resources, run by one of their early

00:17:01.240 members, Dr. Anne Lawrence, who sat on the Standards of Care Committee for the association.

00:17:06.000 And he was, and still is, an admitted autogynophile, which is a paraphilia where a man is sexually

00:17:11.440 aroused by the thought of himself as a female. And in a paper, Dr. Lawrence refers to 0.61

00:17:15.940 autogynophilia as an underappreciated paraphilia. Now, few have been as honest about this paraphilia

00:17:23.760 as Dr. Anne Lawrence. In a 1999 version of his website, which the Harry Benjamin Association

00:17:28.340 linked to, he wrote about his personal experience with genital mutilation, saying that he very badly

00:17:34.920 wanted to be a, quote, receptacle. And that's why he wanted to get the mutilation. In 1997, Lawrence

00:17:42.560 resigned from a hospital after admitting to a serious lapse in judgment, quote, unquote, involving

00:17:49.640 a patient. And the lapse of judgment was that, according to an incident report, a hospital

00:17:54.720 gynecologist repeatedly told Lawrence that a patient, an Ethiopian woman, had not experienced

00:18:01.500 female circumcision. But when the gynecologist left the room, Lawrence performed a non-consensual

00:18:07.860 genital exam on the woman who was unconscious. That was his lapse of judgment, otherwise known

00:18:14.240 as sexual abuse of a woman. Now, how many, quote, unquote, trans women are just men with 0.94

00:18:21.880 a paraphilic sexual arousal of themselves as women? And more concerningly, how many of them 0.95

00:18:27.260 who view themselves, you know, view women simply as genital receptacles, quote, unquote, are being

00:18:34.020 allowed in the restrooms and locker rooms of actual girls and women? Despite having published

00:18:40.040 this garbage, Dr. Anne Lawrence remained involved in the standards of care for the Harry Benjamin 0.97

00:18:45.340 International Gender Dysphoria Association. He was a co-author on the sixth version of the standards, 0.90

00:18:50.820 which were published in 2001. And that was the last version published before the organization

00:18:57.540 changed its name in 2007 to WPATH, or the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.

00:19:04.020 Now, despite this new branding, WPATH continued promoting the same radical gender ideology and

00:19:09.500 sexual paraphilia of its predecessors. The seventh version of the standards of care released under

00:19:14.800 the new WPATH name in 2012 and valid all the way through 2022 continued to reference the work of

00:19:21.020 Dr. John Money, whose victims killed themselves. WPATH also cited the receptacle autogynophile,

00:19:27.020 Dr. Anne Lawrence. As recently as last year, the WPATH website fully acknowledged almost proudly

00:19:32.720 their origin with the EEF and how its suspending of operations in 1977 directly led to this pack of

00:19:39.640 fringe doctors forming the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association,

00:19:43.900 which is now WPATH. But despite its sordid history, WPATH is somehow now taken seriously

00:19:51.640 as the standard setter in the field by major hospitals and medical associations.

00:19:56.940 And this is maybe the single greatest scam in modern medicine. It's one of the greatest scams

00:20:04.740 in the history of medicine. It's destroying the lives of children across the country. And that much

00:20:10.420 is clear. What's less clear is why anyone who knows the truth about WPATH's origin would ever listen to a

00:20:18.240 word they have to say. The WPATH of today is the proud product of decades of quackery and sexual 1.00

00:20:26.480 experimentation. It's a threat to public health and in particular to children. Now, the good news is that

00:20:33.600 there's a simple solution. The fact that radical activists at WPATH provide standards of care doesn't mean

00:20:40.180 doctors, hospitals, medical schools, insurance companies have to follow them or use them for any

00:20:45.100 purpose at all. Medical professionals have the capacity and capability of rejecting barbarism and doing what's

00:20:52.260 right. They can exercise some level of common sense and restraint. It's happened before. Physicians used to engage

00:20:59.960 in a wide range of practices that we now recognize are gruesome and unethical, like lobotomies, using heroin as

00:21:06.520 cough syrup, treating asthma with chloroform. In time, WPATH's standards of care and the procedures they endorse

00:21:14.380 will meet the same fate. WPATH exists because, for years, most people didn't know about its history or how its

00:21:24.240 standards of care are used. Most people didn't know that hospitals will perform double mastectomies and other

00:21:30.640 life-altering operations on children. Well, that's all changing now. WPATH and everything it stands for has been

00:21:38.520 exposed. And now it's time for the medical profession to do what it should have done a long time ago and shut

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00:22:47.740 That's zapmydebt.com. Super Tuesday was yesterday. Not much to talk about there. Obviously, Trump won

00:22:54.160 basically everything. Nikki Haley is dropping out, although Haley did win the Vermont primary,

00:22:59.320 I believe. So by my count, Haley won exactly two primaries. She won Vermont and Washington, D.C. 0.99

00:23:06.960 So she wins the swamp, and then she wins the kookiest left-wing state in the union outside of 0.88

00:23:12.840 maybe Oregon. So it's a very fitting result for her. Also very expected. No surprises with any of

00:23:19.200 this. Trump is the nominee. Has been for a while now. The guy he's running against, Joe Biden,

00:23:23.720 continues to decay in front of us, of course. And the funny thing, though, is that his staff

00:23:30.500 is getting pretty defensive about it. So I want you to watch this moment from the White House press

00:23:36.900 briefing yesterday. And here's Karen Jean Pair just fed up. She's had enough of all the questions. 1.00

00:23:45.000 Let's watch that.

00:23:46.780 If I may, the president, I noticed, had note cards at the border when he was doing his briefing there.

00:23:52.900 He also had note cards last Friday with the Italian prime minister. Why does the president

00:23:57.580 rely so heavily on note cards? You're upset because the president has note cards? You're asking me a

00:24:01.920 question about the president having note cards? I'm asking why. The president who has had a,

00:24:06.780 probably one of the most successful first three years of administration than any modern day

00:24:12.700 president. He's done more in the first three years than most presidents who had two terms.

00:24:17.380 You're asking me about note cards? I don't think that's, I don't think, wait, I'm not speaking to

00:24:22.940 you right now, James. I'm talking to, I'm talking to your friend over here, Ed. So thank you so much.

00:24:27.260 But thank you so much for interjecting. Go ahead, Ed.

00:24:29.420 I was just asking why he relies so heavily on note cards.

00:24:32.360 I think what's important here and what the American people care about is how this president is

00:24:35.880 delivering for them. And that's what he's doing. And that's what's the most important thing here.

00:24:40.100 That's good. It's like Karen Jean Paris Iverson moment. We're talking about practice. We're

00:24:45.580 talking about note cards. We're really out here talking about note cards. Yeah, well,

00:24:51.720 we are talking about note cards because this is what you call overcompensation on Karen Jean 1.00

00:24:57.620 Paris' part. And it's embarrassing to watch, secondhand embarrassment, but it's also sort of

00:25:07.420 infuriating because it's insulting to our intelligence. I mean, it's one thing for her 0.99

00:25:12.420 to do the usual song and dance about how Joe Biden is a firecracker. He's full of energy.

00:25:17.220 You know, he's doing great. Everything's fantastic. He's, you know, you should see him behind the

00:25:22.320 scenes. And that's one thing. But here, Karen Jean Paris is pretending like she doesn't understand 0.97

00:25:32.460 why people are concerned about the note cards or what that represents to people.

00:25:40.340 She's, and that's insulting to our intelligence. She's pretending like she doesn't understand at all

00:25:45.000 why anyone might be worried about the fact that the president has dementia.

00:25:50.380 That's just, that's an unreason, it's like she's pretending it's such an unreasonable concern that

00:25:56.600 it's not even worth answering the question. The question itself is, is silly. It's ridiculous. 0.97

00:26:03.000 So this is not just explaining away the concerns. That's what we expect her to do. 0.98

00:26:07.520 That's her job. Her job is to lie on behalf of the cucumber in the Oval Office. We get that. 1.00

00:26:13.320 But instead, she's going way overboard and pretending to be personally insulted, 0.96

00:26:16.540 even confused by questions relating to the president's senility. The question of whether

00:26:25.060 the president of the United States can speak, you know, for two minutes at a time without

00:26:34.720 reading off a note card. That's a pretty good question. It's one of those basic skills that

00:26:42.480 you want the president to have, the skill of being able to speak and think.

00:26:50.280 But it's not even, not even worth talking about, Karen Jean-Pierre tells us.

00:26:54.740 Here's a story we've been following for a while and reading now from the post-millennial

00:26:58.340 as we get sort of the final word on it, for now anyway.

00:27:03.740 Oregon lawmakers voted on Friday to make minor drug possession a criminal misdemeanor offense

00:27:08.120 following the state's disastrous attempts at decriminalization. In November of 2020,

00:27:13.720 it was voted for ballot measure 110, which decriminalized personal possession of drugs

00:27:22.480 such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and LSD. Oregon became the first state in the union to

00:27:27.500 approve such a measure, turning possession of hard drugs from a criminal misdemeanor into a class

00:27:31.660 E misdemeanor, which warrants a citation of up to $100 instead of criminal punishment.

00:27:35.120 The state's decriminalization effort resulted in heavy open-air drug use and a significant

00:27:39.680 surge in overdose deaths. Oregon lawmakers hailed the measure as an approach to addiction,

00:27:44.680 but in return, decriminalization was a hard lesson learned. In a 21-8 vote, the Oregon Senate

00:27:50.880 voted on Friday to recriminalize hard drugs as a misdemeanor criminal offense. The Oregon

00:27:55.440 House of Representatives also voted to roll back decriminalization in a 51-7 vote on Thursday.

00:28:00.640 The bill now heads to Democrat Governor Tina Koteck's desk, where it's expected to be signed into law.

00:28:08.820 According to federal data, Oregon recorded 1,387 drug overdose fatalities in 2022,

00:28:15.060 an increase of nearly 160% from the previous five years.

00:28:19.980 So this is a story that should be getting a lot more attention. What we're seeing here is a

00:28:28.980 dramatic repudiation of one of the most pervasive and increasingly popular left-wing policy ideas.

00:28:35.320 And of course, left-wing policy ideas are repudiated by reality all the time,

00:28:39.700 but rarely do you see it so clearly and so starkly and so quickly that it only took two years. And they

00:28:47.020 said, never mind, this was a terrible idea. It's a very simple process to follow. The left says we should

00:28:57.200 decriminalize drugs. Oregon said, okay, let's do it. Total unmitigated disaster follows. And now they're

00:29:07.460 recriminalizing. And that should be just the end of the decriminalization movement. It's a movement that

00:29:15.620 never should have begun to begin with, but this should be the end of it. It was put into practice.

00:29:22.380 Every bad thing that critics warned about happened. Like everything that the critics said would happen

00:29:28.140 did happen. And so what else is there to talk about? This should just be, I know we can never

00:29:35.160 end any conversation in this country. We can never come to a conclusion on any debate,

00:29:38.860 but this should be one where the debate's just over. Like you said, you know, you wanted this

00:29:44.320 policy. You said it would have a certain result. The exact opposite happened. And, uh, and so that's

00:29:49.660 it, but that's it. It's over. You lost the argument. If you go around talking about drug decriminalization,

00:29:55.100 it, it's not even a valid argument anymore. There's nothing to talk about. You've already lost the

00:29:58.760 argument. You might as well not even talk because you lost the argument. It's done. Keep in mind too,

00:30:04.420 that this Oregon law was presented initially as a model for the nation. So it wasn't just something

00:30:10.760 they were doing. It was when, when it happened, the media celebrated it and they said, this is a

00:30:15.140 model for everybody. Everybody could do the same thing. In fact, just for fun, I want to go back two

00:30:19.200 years ago, uh, just pulling one, one example. And this is a news report from PBS. And here's the

00:30:25.640 headline. Could Oregon's decision to decriminalize hard drugs provide a model for the country?

00:30:31.440 Well, we've already spoiled the answer to that question, but let's just watch a bit of this.

00:30:37.180 The report was published on, uh, April 5th, 2021 and lots of hope, lots, lots of optimism.

00:30:43.340 And let's, uh, let's watch. Well, the times, they are a changing with New York state's recent

00:30:49.340 legalization of recreational cannabis. More than 40% of Americans now live in states that have embraced

00:30:55.580 marijuana legalization. Oregon has been on the leading edge of drug law reform and in November

00:31:02.540 became the first to decriminalize possession of hard drugs. As other states eyes similar moves,

00:31:09.400 Stephanie Sy reports on Oregon's early rollout and the obstacles ahead.

00:31:15.320 37-year-old Sabrina Brandt has been an IV drug user since she was 16. 1.00

00:31:20.440 I had mental health issues and since age 12, um, have been on, uh, multiple antidepressants

00:31:29.040 and have multiple diagnoses. And so I think my IV drug use with heroin and cocaine was a way to

00:31:38.860 self-medicate. She describes her relationship with drugs as a love hate thing. I felt like if I quit

00:31:44.820 using drugs, like right now, it'd be like losing my closest confidant, like my best friend, because

00:31:50.260 she's been with me for so many years. So if Sabrina were caught with say less than a gram of heroin or

00:31:56.580 two grams of meth in Oregon today, she'd receive no more than the equivalent of a parking ticket with

00:32:02.820 a maximum fine of $100. She could avoid paying that by making a phone call with a counselor for a health

00:32:09.620 assessment. Now, this is not totally on topic, but I do want to make one point here, uh, and not to get

00:32:15.700 back on my, um, anti-psychotropics hobby horse, but I do have to point this out that the, this woman, 0.76

00:32:22.560 Sabrina has been on multiple antidepressants since she was 12. And, you know, she's a junkie, 1.00

00:32:29.660 a heroin addict. She's also addicted to anti, you know, to anti, the, the psychiatric drugs, 0.78

00:32:35.460 but you can, you can tell just by looking at her that her life is in shambles. I mean,

00:32:42.000 by definition, if you're a heroin addict, then your life is in shambles. And yet they have her

00:32:45.820 on antidepressants to deal with her depression. Um, because her depression is due to a mental

00:32:51.560 illness apparently, and not due to the fact that she's a junkie, not due to the fact that she, 0.97

00:32:56.940 she, she leads it in absolutely miserable, awful life governed by her addiction to a poison. 0.99

00:33:03.000 Even though anybody with a brain can look at this woman, listen to her speak for five seconds 1.00

00:33:09.240 and immediately identify the source of her despair. Like it's not that hard to figure out.

00:33:15.600 We don't need to talk about chemical imbalance and everything else. It's like, obviously she's

00:33:20.180 depressed. Anybody living that life would be depressed. It would be strange if you weren't.

00:33:24.020 And still they have her on multiple antidepressants, which, which obviously are doing nothing for her.

00:33:33.920 Like you would think if doctors were responsible at all at a minimum, they would say, okay,

00:33:39.720 stop doing heroin first. And then we'll talk about like, stop doing heroin and stop doing it for a

00:33:48.000 while. And if you're still depressed, maybe then we can talk about antidepressants. We're certainly

00:33:53.780 not going to talk about them while you're currently doing heroin because that is a thousand percent the

00:33:59.500 reason why you're depressed. Um, but we, there are very few doctors anymore that are responsible.

00:34:06.080 And so that's how she ends up on it. Anyway, um, I want to get to the, we'll, we'll just kind of skip

00:34:10.240 ahead to the end of this video. Let's, let's watch. Like Brandt, not everyone will choose the path of

00:34:16.660 sobriety, but Christina Avery did. She hasn't done drugs for more than three years. 1.00

00:34:22.160 Once I tapped into the support, once I accepted what it is that I had to do or was required to do,

00:34:30.320 um, my life changed dramatically. Oh my God. Everything.

00:34:34.980 Other states trying to find a way out of the failed war on drugs have their eyes on Oregon.

00:34:40.440 It's an experiment where the stakes could hardly be higher.

00:34:44.400 So what will, uh, the other states learn? Uh, what lessons will they learn from this experiment?

00:34:50.020 That's what PBS is asking. And, um, I mean, we can only hope that they learn lessons from the

00:34:55.840 experiment, uh, and, and, you know, the right lessons though. Now, you know, when we've talked

00:35:02.600 about this in the past, I've, I've pointed out the obvious, which should be obvious, which is that

00:35:05.920 when you want less of a certain behavior, you punish it. And if you punish that behavior less,

00:35:12.180 you get more of it, punish it more, you get less of it. That's the inverse relationship here.

00:35:18.080 Pretty basic. It's a fundamental fact of human nature. People are driven by incentives and

00:35:22.760 disincentives. Everything we do, we're either, you know, you're doing it to get something you

00:35:26.580 want, or you're doing it because you want to avoid something you don't want. Or, you know,

00:35:30.600 if you're not doing something, it's because doing that thing would give you something that you don't

00:35:34.060 want. Like that's, that's how people work. It's just, there's, there's no point in disputing it.

00:35:41.320 We don't need any, we don't need to see any study on, um, you know, whether or not, whether or not

00:35:48.980 these sorts of measures discourage people from, from committing crimes. Of course they do. Of

00:35:54.880 course they do. To deny that is to deny the most obvious facts of human nature. But the other point

00:36:03.440 is that there's a false distinction drawn in these conversations between compassion and punishment.

00:36:12.080 Uh, it's, it's always like, well, uh, we shouldn't punish drug users. We should have compassion.

00:36:19.180 Well, what I don't understand is why are those two distinct options? Why are we acting like those

00:36:23.740 are two different things? They're not. In fact, to punish is to have compassion in many cases.

00:36:29.480 Punishment is compassionate to the person you're punishing. Uh, parents know this, like hopefully

00:36:38.700 your kid is not a drug addict or a drug dealer, but he hasn't done anything nearly that bad. But,

00:36:43.400 but as a parent, of course, if, if you're a responsible parent, then you utilize punishments

00:36:48.540 and you do it, um, not in spite of your love for your child, but because you love your child.

00:36:55.060 In fact, you do it through that love for your child. Now it's possible, obviously to punish a

00:37:01.860 child in an unjust and cruel and unloving way that's abusive, that's evil, but a punishment

00:37:07.240 meted out proportionally and fairly with the objective of helping your child to be a better

00:37:12.880 person with the objective of incentivizing good behavior and disincentivizing bad behavior.

00:37:17.600 That again is not in spite of your love for your child. It is because of your love for your child.

00:37:24.040 Um, and, and, you know, you always kind of know, uh, that you're punishing fairly and lovingly because

00:37:29.660 you don't, you don't want to, right? Like I had this experience with my son a little while ago.

00:37:35.560 He was misbehaving to what I thought was a, an inordinate extent. You know, he was testing the

00:37:40.880 boundaries as kids will do. And so I, he, I sent him to bed with, to bed early. Um, we were going to

00:37:46.020 sit down as a family and watch a show together, you know, as we do sometimes at night. And, uh,

00:37:50.740 and, but he had to go to bed and he was not going to be a part of that. And for him, that's a major,

00:37:55.200 like, that's a major punishment. That's like, that's like the, that's life imprisonment basically

00:37:58.980 for him. That's, it's that level. It's like, that's, you know, it gets hard for kids in general,

00:38:03.560 go to bed early at an early bedtime. It's just, it's unthinkable. This is just, uh, from,

00:38:09.600 from his perspective, it's cruel and unusual punishment. So he's very distraught and very upset. And,

00:38:13.920 um, and the thing is, you know, I was upset too. I mean, not like distraught like he was,

00:38:18.280 but I wasn't happy about it. Um, I don't want to have to do it. You know, I wanted to hang out

00:38:22.200 with my, I like, I like my kids. I like being around them. Uh, I wanted to hang out with them.

00:38:25.560 I wanted to be part of the family, but, uh, it's, it's a punishment. And, uh, you know, so you talked,

00:38:31.920 you talked to my kid and said, Hey, I look, I'm sad about this too, buddy, but there are consequences

00:38:37.740 to your actions and these are the consequences, but I don't like it. Well, yeah, I know you don't like it,

00:38:42.940 but if, if you don't like the consequences, then don't do the thing that carries those

00:38:47.240 consequences. If that's the message that you want to get across as a parent, it's a very basic

00:38:51.280 message. If you don't get that message across, your kid is destined to become a, a, a dysfunctional

00:38:59.540 and probably ultimately very bad person. If, if they don't, if they don't come to understand that,

00:39:06.680 it's your job as a parent to make them understand that. And the same goes on a wider and much more

00:39:12.080 serious societal scale with criminal justice. It's compassionate to have drug laws and to

00:39:17.760 enforce them. And that goes for the drug dealers. You know, you know, you know, the punishments I

00:39:22.160 would like to see inflicted on drug dealers. Um, but, but that's sort of the easy, or that should

00:39:28.780 be the easy one. It's like, well, of course, drug dealers should be in my mind, should get the worst

00:39:34.080 punishments. Uh, and I think any, any rational person would agree at least that they should be

00:39:38.820 severely punished. Uh, when you get to the drug users, that's where even otherwise rational people

00:39:43.980 start to get a little squeamish and they say, well, we don't want to punish the drug users.

00:39:48.560 And this is what Oregon tried to do. They tried to do this. They said, well, we don't, you know,

00:39:53.920 we saw, we saw this story about Sabrina Brandt or whatever her name was. And, and, and, you know,

00:39:57.940 we don't want to have to punish her. She's obviously a broken person. Um, but no, they should be 0.99

00:40:04.220 punished too. Not as severely as the drug dealers should be, but they should be punished. Why?

00:40:11.500 Well, because punishment is just, it's right. It's, it's compassionate both to the punished

00:40:16.040 person and to society as a whole. Also, um, drug addicts are not above the law. Addiction should not

00:40:23.060 be considered an excuse to break the law. So we have laws and we say, this kind of stuff is poison.

00:40:29.620 It's not going to be allowed in our community. And then if somebody says, but I'm addicted to it.

00:40:34.020 Well, okay. So what the law, we're going to change the law now because you're addicted to it.

00:40:39.640 Why would we do that? That's all the more reason to not change the law.

00:40:43.540 Like the fact that it's addictive is one of the reasons why this stuff is illegal.

00:40:48.360 I mean, the idea that we're going to make it legal because of that is, it's exactly backwards.

00:40:53.580 And certainly don't tell me that addicts are only hurting themselves. I mean, again,

00:40:59.920 this is the kind of libertarian nonsense that should, should be done now. If you're a thinking

00:41:05.500 person, you should, if you've said that in the past, you should stop saying it now because you've

00:41:09.880 been proven wrong. So stop it. But you should have known that you shouldn't have needed. You

00:41:14.420 shouldn't need this experiment in Oregon to know that. Of course, drug addicts aren't only hurting

00:41:19.000 themselves. You can ask Oregon about it if you don't believe me. No, drug addicts, they hurt

00:41:25.000 their communities. They hurt, they hurt everybody. How many people are killed every year by drug

00:41:29.660 addicts, either because an addict is driving under the influence or because they're robbing someone

00:41:33.400 for drug money or whatever. And that's just the direct harm. Now, sure. One drug addict in isolation

00:41:39.700 alone in his apartment, uh, shooting heroin, isn't in that moment hurting anyone but himself,

00:41:48.160 but a city full of drug addicts, uh, you know, is, is a city in a state of decay. It's a city that is

00:41:57.980 unlivable, unlivable for everybody else. So that's harm too. And by the way, also the drug addicts are,

00:42:04.700 they don't just go off somewhere by themselves to do the drugs. As we heard that the whole city

00:42:10.520 becomes an open air drug den. And so everybody's surrounded by it. So yeah, when you're living in

00:42:17.480 a city where, where you've got drug addicts all over the place, yeah, that hurts everybody. You have

00:42:22.060 made the community like I, you, I can't even live. If I'm a normal person and I have a family, I can't

00:42:26.920 live here anymore because of you people. Does that hurt me? Yeah, of course it does. You've made my

00:42:32.420 community unlivable. You have no right to do that. I don't care if you're addicted. You don't have a

00:42:37.500 right. You have no right to that. You should be punished for it. And, uh, so what we should be

00:42:43.940 doing is obvious when it comes to hard drugs, especially heroin, fentanyl, meth, and so on.

00:42:48.520 Should be rounding everybody up who's involved dealer, distributor, buyer, throw them all in prison

00:42:55.680 for lengthy terms. Not the same length, but lengthy terms. And, oh, we don't have enough room in prison.

00:43:05.160 Okay, well build more prisons. Build as many as you need. Build a hundred more prisons if you need.

00:43:11.260 But however many prisons you need to round up all of the people that are on the street,

00:43:14.780 making, turning our cities into cesspools, however many prisons you need to round them all up and throw

00:43:20.380 them there. You know, we, we also heard, uh, I don't know if it was in that clip, but, um, one of

00:43:25.840 the, um, I think it was one of the drug addicts said, well, you can't force people to stop doing

00:43:30.020 drugs. Well, you can actually, you can, you know, prison can be one way to do it. Now they do get

00:43:36.500 drugs into prison, obviously, but like you could do it. If you have somebody in solitary confinement,

00:43:42.780 if you have them in isolation, they'd have no contact with the outside world. Yeah. You force them

00:43:47.900 to stop doing drugs. Now, I'm not saying we do that with every drug addict, but like,

00:43:52.580 actually you can, you know, actually we can force people to do whatever we want as a society.

00:43:59.740 If the incentive is high, if it's a bad, if it's a, if it's an action that we have decided is, um,

00:44:06.960 harmful enough to society, we can force people to stop doing it. If we have a stomach for it,

00:44:12.120 or at a minimum, we can strongly, strongly, strongly disincentivize it. And if that's still

00:44:21.120 not enough for somebody, then you can take them and you get them off the street, you get them out 0.99

00:44:27.280 of the community. You say, you're not, you're not fit to live out in your community. You're making

00:44:32.040 this an unlivable place for everybody else. And you have no right to do that. You have no right to be

00:44:36.640 lying out on the street, strung out on drugs. You have no right to it. People are trying to live

00:44:42.440 here. They're walking by with their kids. You just have no right to do this. Oh, but I'm addicted.

00:44:48.740 Okay. Well, I feel, I feel bad about that, but you still have no right to do this.

00:44:54.860 It's against the law. It's a crime. There's punishments.

00:44:57.560 You know, this is another one of those conversations that it's just, sometimes I try

00:45:07.680 to imagine, I like to imagine going back, you know, 80 years and explaining to people that this

00:45:15.980 is even like a conversation to be had. You know, should we allow, should we allow our cities to be

00:45:22.440 totally overrun by drug addicts laying out on the sidewalk, you know, with needles in their arm?

00:45:27.920 Should we allow that? You know, you don't have to go back that far in history where if you ask

00:45:33.000 that question, people are going to look at you like, what? Why are you even, how is this a

00:45:38.000 conversation? Of course you shouldn't allow it. Is that going to make life any better for anybody?

00:45:43.980 Is it going to make your community any better? Does it make society better? Does it improve

00:45:49.060 anything at all for anyone? No? Okay, well then don't allow it. Simple, simple equation there.

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00:47:27.620 to our daily cancellation. RuPaul is a fascinating figure in some ways. He's famous, he's wealthy, he's worth

00:47:40.520 millions of dollars, and yet he has no talent. He has no skill of any kind. He's not especially

00:47:44.880 intelligent or creative or innovative. And now that fact alone isn't very interesting. Lots of rich,

00:47:50.180 famous people are untalented and dull. But usually the untalented, dull, rich, and famous people are

00:47:55.320 rich and famous for performing a certain craft, you know, even if they perform it badly, like they're

00:47:59.700 singers, actors, etc. RuPaul, on the other hand, has no craft. He doesn't create anything, he doesn't do

00:48:04.840 anything. He just dresses up like a woman and he walks around and that's his craft. His craft is 1.00

00:48:10.620 putting on a dress. That's it. And for that, he has been made a millionaire because that's the kind

00:48:15.520 of world we live in. But RuPaul wants to be seen as a more serious and important cultural figure,

00:48:20.340 which is why this week the nation's preeminent cross-dresser announced that he would be joining

00:48:24.740 the fight against banned books. Now, not to skip ahead, but of course, the banned books are much

00:48:31.020 like RuPaul's talent. They don't exist. Nobody is banning books. And yet RuPaul wants to make sure

00:48:36.500 that these non-existent banned books, which are already available everywhere, are available

00:48:41.120 everywhere. The website dnyuz.com has more details. RuPaul is the co-founder of a new online bookstore

00:48:46.820 that will be sending a rainbow school bus from the West Coast to the South to distribute the books

00:48:51.320 targeted by bans. He announced on Monday that he was one of the three business partners behind the book

00:48:56.200 Allstora, which will promote underrepresented authors and provide writers with a

00:49:00.500 greater share of profits than other online booksellers do. RuPaul said that this sort of

00:49:05.080 book website would fill an important gap, especially in these strange days we're living in,

00:49:09.760 to support the ideas of people who are willing to push the conversation forward.

00:49:13.860 As part of Allstora's kickoff, the Rainbow Book Bus will be traveling in March from Los Angeles to

00:49:18.420 the South to fight book bans in these cities, which will include Birmingham, Tallahassee, Baton Rouge.

00:49:24.520 Allstora will team up with local LGBT organizations to distribute thousands of books. The goal is to give

00:49:28.800 away 10,000 books by the end of the year out of the brightly colored 22-foot former school bus.

00:49:34.720 So RuPaul will be going around in a rainbow bus giving books away to children. Luckily, there's nothing 1.00

00:49:41.740 creepy about that at all. And here he is on Stephen Colbert the other night talking about this initiative.

00:49:49.380 Watch.

00:49:50.320 I love this. Tell us about the Rainbow Book Bus.

00:49:52.920 Yeah. Allstora is a bookstore that I'm involved with that is bringing books to people who need to

00:50:02.920 read them and who, where, in areas where they've banned books. Because, you know, I've said this

00:50:08.380 before, and I wasn't the first to say it, but knowledge is power. Knowledge is power.

00:50:13.360 True. I didn't come up with it. Just the truth. And if somebody is trying to take away your power,

00:50:22.320 they are trying to render you powerless. So read a book. Read a book. Get some knowledge.

00:50:32.080 Yeah, I'd like for him to name three books he's read. Just on the spot. Someone put them on the spot.

00:50:36.120 Name three books you've read. Right now. Yeah, I guarantee you couldn't do it. I guarantee this

00:50:40.120 guy's never finished a book his entire life. Really, I'd put a lot of money on that.

00:50:43.880 But knowledge is power, he says. He didn't come up with that phrase, he clarifies,

00:50:47.160 which, of course, you know, we know he didn't. We know he didn't come up with it because,

00:50:50.900 for one thing, it's one of the most overused cliches in the English language. And also,

00:50:54.120 it's already established, the guy has never come up with an original idea in his entire life.

00:50:58.040 His whole public persona is based around the appropriation of womanhood. He's never experienced

00:51:02.000 a unique thought as long as he has lived. But you'll notice something. And, you know,

00:51:08.080 I've now read an article about the banned book bus, and we've heard RuPaul talking about it on a late

00:51:13.000 night talk show. And yet, interestingly enough, nobody has explained which banned books he plans

00:51:18.740 to distribute. That's because, again, there are no banned books. If there were, you wouldn't be able

00:51:24.520 to drive around in a giant rainbow bus and hand them out. Okay, people like RuPaul like to claim that

00:51:30.220 we're living in a new era of Nazi-style book bans. And yet, as a point of historical clarity,

00:51:35.440 I must mention that if the Nazis were really in charge and were banning books, you would not be

00:51:40.980 able to announce on national television that you're going to be driving from coast to coast

00:51:45.040 in a rainbow bus and giving away the very books that the fascist overlords have banned.

00:51:50.980 So that's not the way that it would work. So this is a good general rule. If you can announce on

00:51:56.360 television that you plan to do something, and then you can go around the country in a big,

00:52:01.420 bright-colored bus doing that thing, that means that you are, by definition, not banned from doing

00:52:08.500 it. The only thing RuPaul is not able to do is give out certain books in schools. That's because

00:52:16.840 all schools in the entire history of schools in every country that has schools have always included

00:52:22.900 certain books in their curriculum while not including other books. In fact, they don't include

00:52:28.140 most books. And I made this point before, but just to highlight, I looked this up, and there was some

00:52:35.220 study that was recently done. And I don't know if this number is accurate or not, but this is what

00:52:38.460 they're saying. There have been something like 130 million books published since the invention of the

00:52:44.400 printing press. 130 million. Yeah, it sounds like a good, probably logical ballpark. Now, let's just say

00:52:51.840 there are 130 million books that have been published. It's safe to say that easily 129 million

00:52:59.240 of them have never been made available in any school library anywhere. Now, does that mean that

00:53:06.120 schools have banned 129 million books? If there are 129 million books of the 130 million that have

00:53:12.560 never been available in a single school, does that mean that, can we say that schools have banned

00:53:17.640 129 million books? No, obviously not. It just means that only a very tiny fraction of books in

00:53:24.780 existence can be included in schools, and schools are, or should be, very selective and thoughtful about

00:53:30.660 which books they include. Historically, many books have been excluded because they are not relevant,

00:53:35.340 or they are not educational, or they are not appropriate for kids. That's not a ban. That's just

00:53:42.100 common sense. And yet, again, neither RuPaul, nor Stephen Colbert, nor anyone in the media,

00:53:47.640 wants to talk about the small selection of specific books that have been recently removed

00:53:52.140 from schools in some states because they have been judged not relevant, not educational,

00:53:56.700 and or not appropriate. They don't want to get into specifics because those books are essentially

00:54:01.840 gay pornography. They obviously can't defend pornographic books in schools, so instead they 1.00

00:54:06.740 recast the whole issue as book bans and never mention any of the actual titles that have allegedly

00:54:12.520 been banned. RuPaul isn't going to pull out the book Genderqueer in front of Colbert's audience

00:54:16.740 and show the pages that depict graphic sexual acts. He's not going to say, look at this.

00:54:22.120 This is what they don't want in schools, those Nazis. He knows that 99.9% of the audience would see 0.91

00:54:28.280 that and say, oh, oh, that's what they're taking out of schools? Well, of course we don't want that

00:54:32.140 in schools. Like, obviously not that. Instead, they talk about book bans in a broad sense to give

00:54:39.720 uninformed and ignorant people the impression that hundreds of substantive, intelligent,

00:54:44.740 worthwhile books have been prohibited from general distribution. Of course, you know, there are people

00:54:51.660 who do want to stop regular non-pornographic books from being distributed in schools and outside of

00:54:59.620 schools. In fact, RuPaul, with his new online bookstore, has run afoul of those people. So

00:55:06.220 this controversy has started because of his all-store-a-book store where people are upset

00:55:12.080 that there are certain books that are being made available on the website at all for anybody,

00:55:17.140 even adults. It's just that, as RuPaul has discovered, the people who are upset about this

00:55:23.540 are all on the left. And that's where this story gets pretty hilarious. So as mentioned in the article

00:55:29.280 we just read, the rainbow bus is being set out by the new online bookstore, Allstora, which RuPaul

00:55:35.740 co-founded. And the online bookstore is supposed to stand against these imaginary book bans and be a

00:55:41.580 haven for free expression. And so leftists applauded the idea when it was first announced. But now Allstora

00:55:49.260 is experiencing major backlash from the left when leftists discovered that books by conservative authors

00:55:56.720 would also be made available on the site. So the very people who pretend to care about book bans are

00:56:01.940 now demanding that RuPaul ban dozens of titles from his anti-book banning site. So it's like the

00:56:10.360 levels of irony here are it's impossible to keep track of. The website Vulture explains, quote,

00:56:15.240 according to Allstora's website, it offers 10 million titles. And as it turns out, that includes

00:56:19.480 controversial books with right-wing and anti-LGBTQ plus messages. As a publication time, for example,

00:56:24.920 you can purchase copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, Matt Walsh's What is a Woman, and a children's

00:56:31.220 book by Chaya Reitschik, aka Libs of TikTok, on Allstora. Riley Gaines, Robbie Starbuck, and Kirk

00:56:35.600 Cameron are among other authors known for anti-LGBTQ stances whose work is available on the site.

00:56:40.860 Critics feel this means Allstora is not actually committed to inclusivity. For example, Lady Bunny

00:56:45.480 took to Instagram, I don't know who that is, to describe the new venture as an example of rainbow

00:56:49.640 capitalism, while a TikToker who runs a lesbian bookstore criticized Allstora as a dropshipping 0.96

00:56:54.700 operation with a kind of veneer of progressivity over it. Okay, now there's a lot going on here.

00:57:03.100 And there are plenty of other examples from other outlets explaining why this new online bookstore

00:57:07.520 is problematic for refusing to ban books written by people like me. The left only wants to ensure

00:57:12.900 that gay porn for children isn't banned. But, you know, a perfectly wholesome, age-appropriate book 0.98

00:57:18.800 from Chaya Reitschik or Kirk Cameron, well, obviously they want that banned. And we could go

00:57:24.860 on and read through other examples of leftists revealing their insane hypocrisy on the subject 0.54

00:57:28.420 of book bans, but I don't think we need to move past just the two paragraphs I just read.

00:57:32.520 Because for one thing, Vulture has put Mein Kampf and my book, What is a Woman?, in the same category,

00:57:40.520 because obviously a book by Adolf Hitler and a book that argues for the existence of women

00:57:45.820 are morally comparable. And for another, we're told that the inclusion of books by me, Chaya,

00:57:53.320 Robbie Starbuck, and other conservatives means that Allstora is not actually committed to inclusivity.

00:57:59.340 So, the website has become less inclusive by including. It's funny how that works.

00:58:07.960 By the way, as it stands right now, after all the backlash, you can still buy a copy of What is a Woman

00:58:12.640 or Chaya's book or, you know, Kirk Cameron's book or Robbie Starbuck's book. You can still buy that

00:58:19.600 on the site, but if you go to the page, you'll find this note written in urgent red letters. It

00:58:24.340 says, Allstora note. With the help of our community, we flag this book as contrary to our core values.

00:58:30.800 All proceeds from this title will go towards protecting diverse literature

00:58:33.700 and marginalized communities from book bans through the rainbow book bus.

00:58:39.260 Ah, yes. Flagging books as contrary to your core values because they were written by people you

00:58:43.900 disagree with politically, that's what you do when you really believe in free expression, right?

00:58:49.160 The best ways to stand against book bans is to slap scary warning labels on any book that wasn't

00:58:55.220 written by a far-left radical. Knowledge is power, to use a phrase coined by RuPaul.

00:59:02.900 And what we've learned here, the knowledge we've gained, which we already knew, is that the left

00:59:08.640 is much more likely to complain that a book has not been banned than to complain that books are banned.

00:59:15.680 And that is why RuPaul and the left's whole fake anti-book banning crusade is today canceled.

00:59:22.980 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.

00:59:26.800 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 06, 2024

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