The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1336 - NYC Locks Good Samaritans In Prison, Then Wonders Where All The Good Samaritans Have Gone

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, women are being randomly assaulted by scumbags in New York City. 0.90

00:00:03.860 Now city leaders are wondering why Good Samaritans aren't stepping up to defend these victims. 0.80

00:00:07.900 Well, that's probably because those same leaders had the Good Samaritans thrown in prison.

00:00:11.980 Also, Glenn Youngkin vetoes a bill that would have allowed the retail sale of marijuana in Virginia.

00:00:16.180 This was the right call. I'll explain why.

00:00:18.240 Also, one of the hens on The View calls a black guest a charlatan for saying that society should be colorblind.

00:00:22.840 And in our daily cancellation, Governor Greg Abbott signs an executive order calling for punishment of anti-Semitic rhetoric on college campuses.

00:00:29.220 Because I'll explain why that is a horrible, not to mention un-American idea. 0.77

00:00:32.460 All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:45.900 One of the big milestones in a child's development is when he learns the principle of cause and effect.

00:01:51.580 And if you're a parent, you probably know that this typically happens at around eight months.

00:01:55.040 So, for example, a child might splash his hands in water and realize that as a result of that decision, he now has water all over his face.

00:02:02.140 And then based on that result, he might decide to continue splashing water or to stop doing it, depending on how entertaining he finds the idea of splashing water everywhere.

00:02:09.960 Now, this is not exactly higher order thinking.

00:02:12.260 You know, you don't get to put a gifted and talented bumper sticker on your car when this happens.

00:02:16.360 It comes naturally to all of us at a very young age.

00:02:19.160 And all that makes the curious case of Amanda Farias both fascinating and highly confusing at the same time.

00:02:25.000 Amanda Farias is a majority leader of the New York City Council. 1.00

00:02:28.560 She's a relatively powerful person in the largest city in the United States. 1.00

00:02:31.600 And at 34 years old, she is not an infant.

00:02:35.740 She's an adult woman whose brain stopped growing a long time ago. 1.00

00:02:39.460 And that means to all outward appearances, Amanda should have no problem understanding the idea that actions have consequences.

00:02:47.640 But yesterday, Amanda made it clear that, in fact, she struggles very mightily with this basic concept.

00:02:53.160 In response to the news that many women are now getting attacked in broad daylight in New York City, Amanda posted this on social media.

00:02:59.220 She wrote, quote,

00:03:00.560 Where are the men calling this out?

00:03:03.540 So she's totally bewildered.

00:03:04.940 She's confused.

00:03:05.640 How is it possible?

00:03:06.640 Amanda Farias wants to know that women are getting sucker punched all over New York and no men are standing up to protect them. 1.00

00:03:13.000 Why aren't there any men chasing down these deranged attackers and, oh, I don't know, subduing them by pinning them to the ground?

00:03:20.880 Where have all the good Samaritans gone to apprehend these dangerous and unhinged vagrants with extensive criminal records? 0.61

00:03:27.720 Now, that might not be a totally unreasonable question, except that less than one year ago, Amanda publicly called for the criminal prosecution of one such good Samaritan.

00:03:38.400 A man who defended an entire subway car against a dangerous and unhinged vagrant with an extensive criminal record.

00:03:44.520 And that good Samaritan's name, you probably recall, was Daniel Penny.

00:03:47.420 And here's what Amanda Farias said about that case at the time.

00:03:50.600 And again, that was just a year ago.

00:03:52.020 She wrote, quote,

00:03:52.820 I continue to be heartbroken and outraged by the death of Jordan Neely and the lack of justice.

00:03:58.100 The NYC Black, Latino, and Asian caucus stands together to demand justice for Jordan and to pay attention to the systems that failed him

00:04:04.840 so we do not lose any more black New Yorkers to senseless violence.

00:04:09.880 Now, of course, Amanda got her wish after that statement.

00:04:12.780 In fact, precisely one day after she called for Daniel Penny to face justice for defending that subway car,

00:04:18.360 he was arrested on charges of manslaughter and negligent homicide.

00:04:22.240 If you wanted to discourage all men in the city of New York from ever standing up to a violent thug ever again,

00:04:27.820 it's hard to think of a better way to do it.

00:04:29.520 And so now, because of the principle of cause and effect,

00:04:33.060 there are apparently very few men in New York City who are standing up for women who are getting punched in the face.

00:04:39.720 Now, Amanda can't see the connection, but it's pretty clear, I think, to those of us with functioning brain cells.

00:04:47.100 And just for good measure, it's worth noting that Amanda has also called for defunding the police.

00:04:50.760 So she wants a much smaller police force that prioritizes arresting people who exercise the right of self-defense, basically.

00:04:59.280 How's that working out?

00:05:00.640 Well, here's a snapshot of what's happening right now in New York as a result of this.

00:05:06.180 Watch.

00:05:07.300 You guys, I was literally just walking and a man came up and punched me in the face.

00:05:12.420 Oh, my God.

00:05:13.440 It hurts so bad.

00:05:14.540 I can't even talk.

00:05:16.100 Literally, I fell to the ground.

00:05:17.400 And now this gigantic seg is forming, and I'm like, I just got punched in the face walking home. 1.00

00:05:23.380 I was literally, like, leaving class.

00:05:25.640 I turned the corner, and I was looking down, and I was looking at my phone and, like, texting.

00:05:32.620 And then, out of nowhere, this man just came up and hit me in the face.

00:05:37.540 I literally just got punched by some man on the sidewalk.

00:05:41.040 He goes, sorry, and then punches me in the head.

00:05:43.720 As I was crossing the street, a man looked at me, and within a split second, pointed two fingers at me and a gun symbol, and then slammed a bag, plastic bag, full of God knows what, down on my face from about a foot away, and I fell onto the ground.

00:05:57.480 Now, one of the women that you just saw was allegedly attacked in Manhattan around 10 a.m. by a 40-year-old man who goes by the name Skiboki Stora, who has since been arrested.

00:06:07.900 We don't know who attacked the other women.

00:06:09.280 According to NYPD, this is the third time that Stora's been arrested in just the past six months.

00:06:14.780 And all of those times, he was released on the streets almost immediately.

00:06:18.020 Now, that's not because Stora was a Marine and an upstanding member of the community, like Daniel Penny.

00:06:24.600 Instead, for years, Stora has been posting videos complaining about white people and harassing everybody he sees.

00:06:30.780 And mostly, he seems to go after women in public.

00:06:33.720 So here's just a handful of Stora's recent videos, which somehow didn't result in his permanent incarceration, even though he posted all of them publicly.

00:06:42.220 Watch.

00:06:44.920 Slow down. What you in the rush for?

00:06:48.020 What you in the rush for?

00:06:54.900 Pay attention so you won't walk into people.

00:06:58.180 Can you stop?

00:06:59.660 Look, hell no. Look at this.

00:07:01.400 Look at her hair. 0.62

00:07:02.640 Look at this. 1.00

00:07:03.960 This is the only type of black people that the white people don't like to hang with. 0.99

00:07:07.920 It's black girls that don't do their hair. 1.00

00:07:09.940 That's the only way that these white people speak to them. 0.96

00:07:13.220 That's the only way they deal with them when they don't do their hair. 1.00

00:07:16.360 I'm running for governor.

00:07:17.180 I know that's right.

00:07:20.240 Okay, keep it up.

00:07:22.260 Keep it up.

00:07:24.060 Don't feel safe right now.

00:07:26.020 I went all the way on the other side.

00:07:28.480 Democrats.

00:07:28.840 He followed me and stopped recording.

00:07:31.060 Democrats.

00:07:31.600 I pushed the camera out of my face and that's when you thought he did me.

00:07:35.300 What? 1.00

00:07:36.320 You crazy. 0.99

00:07:36.960 And by the way, not only was he not arrested and taken off the streets completely, but apparently he wasn't even banned from social media, despite posting video after video of him harassing people. 0.98

00:07:55.020 That didn't get him even banned.

00:07:57.080 Now, as you can see, Stora has a lot in common with Jordan Neely.

00:08:01.060 He has a long and well-documented history of disregarding social norms and harassing people in public.

00:08:05.080 And nobody did anything about it, even after he committed several crimes.

00:08:09.800 But Stora isn't the only person attacking women with impunity, of course.

00:08:12.360 This is now a common occurrence in New York.

00:08:14.780 I mean, getting punched in the face by random vagrants is now part of the New York experience, basically.

00:08:19.560 It is a random, unprovoked, vicious attack on a 57-year-old woman in Brooklyn.

00:08:26.520 Watch as the suspect ignores another man walking nearby, then punches the woman in her face, causing her to stumble backwards.

00:08:33.960 What happened?

00:08:34.820 What are you hearing me?

00:08:35.820 What are you hearing me?

00:08:37.080 I was bleeding a lot.

00:08:39.180 I'm so scared.

00:08:40.560 I'm so afraid.

00:08:41.440 Dulce Picharda was on the receiving end of that punch. 1.00

00:08:43.940 Her mouth now wired shut, her face fractured in several places, drinking food out of a straw for six weeks, permanent damage to her lower lip.

00:08:52.500 Three teeth knocked out, and she might need surgery. 0.96

00:08:55.200 In this Eyewitness News exclusive, Pichardo says he didn't say a word, just stared at her, then broke her jaw.

00:09:01.220 He hit me very, very strong over here, and he break everything here, every day's break.

00:09:08.520 It happened yesterday around 5 p.m. on Grand Avenue near Dean Street.

00:09:12.100 Pichardo is a school bus aide and was returning from work, just steps away from home, when she was slugged.

00:09:18.280 Her brother owns a restaurant across the street from where she lives.

00:09:21.320 He and this employee chased the suspect down.

00:09:26.300 Johan Flores says he was still standing there.

00:09:28.900 When they confronted him, he denied attacking Pichardo, cold and emotionless.

00:09:32.980 They followed him for several blocks and stopped him from fleeing until police arrived.

00:09:37.380 Cops arrested 33-year-old Franz Judy.

00:09:39.920 The suspect was charged with misdemeanor assault, meaning he's not bail eligible.

00:09:44.440 He'll be released back onto the street.

00:09:47.100 Released back onto the street, of course.

00:09:48.700 So, in this case, a man did step up to help the woman because he was related to her.

00:09:52.600 Otherwise, presumably, this guy would have never been caught.

00:09:56.540 By the way, in case you missed it, there was a Black Lives Matter mural in the background of that report,

00:10:00.660 or right where the attack took place.

00:10:01.900 This is a movement that led to these so-called bail reforms that let this attacker out of jail seven times so he could assault this woman and then get right back out of jail.

00:10:13.160 Because somehow that's a misdemeanor to break a woman's jaw.

00:10:16.820 So, this is a movement that's caused a lot of death and destruction in this country, particularly in Black communities. 1.00

00:10:23.480 And so, it's fitting that BLM was right, you know, in the shot there. 0.95

00:10:27.060 In any event, once again, it's a heinous crime that only an animal would commit.

00:10:30.920 But the Democratic Party, with the help of George Soros, has no problem putting these animals back on the streets so they can commit more heinous crimes.

00:10:36.860 And sometimes these crimes are more serious than assault, as serious as assault is.

00:10:42.980 Guy Rivera, the ex-con who allegedly gunned down an NYPD officer this week, was also a repeat offender.

00:10:49.080 Actually, that's an understatement.

00:10:50.000 According to the New York Post, he had 21 prior arrests and was found to have a shiv stored in his rectum during the shooting in an apparent anticipation of being sent to jail again.

00:10:59.500 But instead of being thrown in prison for the rest of his life a long time ago, Guy Rivera was released and released and released and released until he killed a police officer.

00:11:10.520 So, getting back to the cause and effect, the solution here is actually pretty simple.

00:11:16.420 There aren't that many people committing these crimes.

00:11:19.720 It's a small number of criminals who are constantly committing crimes because they are incapable of living anywhere outside of a prison.

00:11:27.180 They are incapable of being functioning members of society.

00:11:30.340 They have communicated that message to society over and over and over again.

00:11:34.980 This week, the NYPD's chief of transit put the numbers in context.

00:11:38.500 He wrote, quote,

00:11:39.640 In calendar year 2023, NYPD cops made over 13,600 arrests in the subway system.

00:11:46.280 Of these 13,600 arrests, 124 people were arrested five or more times in the subway system in 2023 alone.

00:11:53.900 When looking further, these 124 people have been arrested over 7,500 times in their lifetimes.

00:12:02.580 So, in case you're curious what your cops are doing, well, they've arrested these people over 7,500 times.

00:12:09.240 So, to restate, of the 13,600 arrests on the NYC subway last year,

00:12:17.940 124 of the people arrested have been arrested 7,500 other times.

00:12:23.560 So, you could drastically cut down on the crime in New York City if you just sentenced those 124 people to life imprisonment.

00:12:30.420 The subway would become much faster overnight, that's for sure.

00:12:35.940 And by the way, these statistics hold up outside of the subway, too.

00:12:39.400 According to the NYPD police commissioner, as reported by Outkick,

00:12:42.540 nearly one-third of the city's shoplifting arrests last year involved just 327 people.

00:12:47.120 Collectively, these same 327 people were arrested, released, and re-arrested more than 6,000 times.

00:12:53.480 That is more than 18 arrests per person in a single year.

00:12:59.600 I mean, these are staggering figures.

00:13:03.200 They boggle the mind.

00:13:06.240 Now, in a city where the leaders understood cause and effect, the solution is clear.

00:13:11.060 All you have to do is punish these people, these habitual lawmakers.

00:13:15.840 You put them in prison, and you don't let them out.

00:13:19.040 That was the point of the three strikes laws, before everybody pretended that they were some grave human rights abuse.

00:13:26.440 Oh, no, we get three strikes, it's a terrible thing.

00:13:29.500 You know, to put someone away in prison, we got, you know, only allowing people to commit crimes three times,

00:13:34.420 that is cruel and unusual.

00:13:37.380 We have to let them commit 15 crimes before we put them in jail, and even then we shouldn't.

00:13:42.540 By the way, that was conservatives, so-called conservatives, have made that same argument as well.

00:13:49.040 What Soros DAs are doing is giving criminals unlimited strikes.

00:13:53.920 They're free to re-offend and terrorize the population as much as they want.

00:13:59.580 Instead of putting these career criminals in prison, the leaders of the city of New York

00:14:02.920 have decided instead to turn their entire city into a prison.

00:14:07.360 Because, you know, you could put the criminals in prison, or you could make the city itself a prison,

00:14:12.020 and they've decided to go with the latter here.

00:14:13.620 So they've opted to treat all 8 million residents of New York City as felons.

00:14:18.900 And to that end, the mayor has just announced that body scanners are coming to the subway.

00:14:22.680 Watch.

00:14:22.960 So Mike has his backpack on.

00:14:27.440 He has cell phones, wallet, and electronics in there.

00:14:30.340 It did not go off.

00:14:31.640 All right?

00:14:32.300 Mike, go one more time.

00:14:37.340 Vlad.

00:14:38.520 Vlad has two cell phones, and he also has a loaded gun, which is a bright gun.

00:14:44.400 These are the guns that we train with.

00:14:45.640 We practice the academy.

00:14:47.580 Go ahead, Mike.

00:14:48.280 Go field.

00:14:48.600 That's a real gun, but it doesn't have the firing pin in it.

00:14:54.520 Scott?

00:14:55.880 Is that it?

00:14:57.280 Is that it, bro?

00:14:57.980 Yeah, you see it.

00:14:58.580 Look, right here.

00:14:59.980 And we're showing, just showing where the gun is.

00:15:02.340 That box there.

00:15:03.900 Hold on.

00:15:04.460 So, he had a gun on his right, on his right side.

00:15:07.900 That box there.

00:15:09.060 Showing where the gun is.

00:15:10.460 So, this is what happens when you can't admit that a small number of people are committing

00:15:23.520 the crimes.

00:15:24.940 You have to pretend that an old white office worker from Midtown has the same likelihood 0.95

00:15:29.600 of pushing a woman in front of the subway tracks, or sucker punching a grandmother, or opening

00:15:33.820 fire, as anybody else.

00:15:36.840 But that's not true.

00:15:38.320 These attacks against women, as they're being called, that are taking place in Manhattan

00:15:43.580 and Brooklyn, are not being carried out simply by men, right?

00:15:47.320 That's what the councilwoman, the media, men are attacking women, is the way that they put 1.00

00:15:51.620 it, which is true, but you could be more specific than that, because they're actually being carried 0.98

00:15:58.360 out overwhelmingly by black men. 0.99

00:16:00.520 Nearly nine out of every ten assaults in New York City are committed by a black or Hispanic 0.98

00:16:04.100 perpetrator, according to I.O., which is an account on Twitter that studies crime statistics. 0.96

00:16:08.160 Black men have a per capita homicide rate that's more than 15 times the rate for white women, 0.65

00:16:12.280 for white men, rather, even more than that for white women, according to statistics pulled 0.92

00:16:16.860 by the account Data Hazard.

00:16:18.080 And these are statistics that, outside of Twitter, mainstream publications don't report

00:16:22.460 on, and that's why I'm citing social media accounts.

00:16:24.620 But really, you don't need these citations, because anyone looking at these videos can

00:16:28.720 tell the truth. 0.99

00:16:30.380 Black men are committing a wildly disproportionate amount of these violent crimes. 0.99

00:16:34.600 And in particular, it's the same black men over and over and over again who are not 1.00

00:16:38.920 being put in prison.

00:16:41.340 And because this is one group you're not allowed to criticize, New Yorkers are supposed to pretend 0.99

00:16:45.060 that everyone in the entire city is equally guilty.

00:16:48.880 That anybody at all walking down the street might assault you.

00:16:53.460 There's no way to tell who's more likely than anybody else.

00:16:58.040 And as they walk through the body scanners and women get punched in the face on the sidewalk, 1.00

00:17:02.600 they're supposed to pretend that their real problem is that, quote unquote, good men are

00:17:06.580 reluctant to step up.

00:17:09.020 But Daniel Penny proves why good men are reluctant to step up.

00:17:13.220 The powers that be are doing everything they can to demoralize and punish the good men.

00:17:18.080 And then they wonder why there aren't any around anymore.

00:17:23.080 And it reminds me of the C.S. Lewis line, we make men without chess and expect of them

00:17:27.720 virtue and enterprise.

00:17:29.040 We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

00:17:33.480 Well, politicians like Amanda Farias have spent the last year not only laughing at honor, 0.69

00:17:37.920 but punishing it.

00:17:38.940 And now, predictably, the traitors are in our midst.

00:17:46.260 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:18:37.100 Okay, so the Daily Wire has to support Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin

00:18:40.940 vetoed two bills on Thursday that were largely backed by Democrats in the state.

00:18:43.980 Youngkin released a statement explaining his decision to veto a bill that would allow the

00:18:47.440 retail sale of cannabis, along with a bill that would gradually raise the state's minimum

00:18:50.760 wage to $15 an hour.

00:18:52.740 The Republican governor cited danger to Virginians' health and safety, especially for children,

00:18:57.240 as the main reason for vetoing the marijuana bill.

00:19:00.180 Proposed legislation of retail marijuana in the Commonwealth endangers Virginians' health

00:19:03.260 and safety.

00:19:04.200 States following this path have seen adverse effects on children's and adolescents' health

00:19:08.600 and safety, increased gang activity and violent crime, significant deterioration in mental

00:19:12.000 health, decreased road safety, and significant costs associated with retail marijuana that

00:19:16.380 far exceed tax revenue.

00:19:18.500 That was according to Youngkin in a statement.

00:19:21.240 He spoke with a local news station further explaining his reasoning, and let's watch a little

00:19:26.680 bit of that.

00:19:27.000 Today, I have vetoed the bill to create a commercial retail market for cannabis.

00:19:35.320 Cannabis is bad for Virginia.

00:19:38.080 And in all the other states that have had an extensive retail market, what you see is, first,

00:19:46.200 it's terrible for children and adolescents' health and safety.

00:19:49.840 Massive increases in child poisonings, massive increases in adolescent usage.

00:19:57.200 And of course, when you combine that with the fact that the potency of cannabis today is

00:20:03.900 dangerous, it drives mental health challenges and mental health sickness to the point of psychosis.

00:20:10.960 There's also been a systematic increase in these states in violent crime.

00:20:16.860 Of course, the black market doesn't go away.

00:20:20.420 I mean, in California, the legal retail market only accounts for 10% of the entire cannabis

00:20:25.880 market, and therefore, gang activity escalates and violent crime increases.

00:20:32.380 And that's on top of the fact that you see traffic accidents and fatalities increase over

00:20:38.580 70% in marijuana-related accidents.

00:20:42.420 And then finally, you couple this with the reality that the overall costs through the system in

00:20:49.900 order to address the social requirements of this retail market far outweigh the tax receipts.

00:20:59.300 And in fact, a study in Colorado found that-

00:21:02.980 So the governor is exactly correct, even if he is standing in front of an oddly fake-looking

00:21:08.180 green screen, I don't know what the thought process was there.

00:21:11.400 But he's absolutely right.

00:21:13.200 That about sums it up.

00:21:13.880 Marijuana is bad for Virginia.

00:21:15.220 It's bad for any state.

00:21:16.220 It's bad for every state that's legalized or decriminalized it.

00:21:19.860 And this is the point with marijuana.

00:21:22.380 It is harmful.

00:21:23.740 And the pothead activists who've gone around shouting for years that pot doesn't have any

00:21:27.820 negative health effects were lying.

00:21:30.280 You know, they were lying the whole time.

00:21:31.320 Or they were just high and they didn't realize that what they were saying wasn't true.

00:21:34.880 Maybe it's some combination of the two, but it's a lie.

00:21:38.360 You know, of course, it has negative effects.

00:21:40.920 There's tons of research out there now.

00:21:42.320 And the research in particular about its link with psychosis is especially interesting and

00:21:48.620 especially terrifying.

00:21:50.040 And that's the kind of thing that potheads used to scoff at. 0.64

00:21:52.400 I mean, they still do, but nobody takes it seriously anymore.

00:21:55.220 But you used to be laughed off the stage if you were to say anything about the link between

00:22:00.500 people smoking marijuana and like actually losing their minds.

00:22:05.260 But now it's just a fact.

00:22:07.820 Like the link between weed and schizophrenia is especially well established.

00:22:12.660 So we know about that.

00:22:13.920 We know about the bad health effects.

00:22:15.180 We know about the dangers of people being under the influence.

00:22:18.300 You know, we know about all those things.

00:22:20.040 But mostly we now know from experience what happens in society, in a community, when weed

00:22:29.020 becomes legal, acceptable, and accessible everywhere.

00:22:31.820 And what happens, first of all, is that a whole lot more people start smoking it.

00:22:35.640 All right.

00:22:35.840 So there's always been this claim that, well, even if you make it illegal, everyone who wants

00:22:42.920 to smoke it's going to smoke it anyway.

00:22:45.020 Which, by the way, if that was true, then why do you care so much about making it legal?

00:22:48.620 Like, if the law has no effect on people's behavior, if you cannot stop people at all

00:22:53.800 from smoking weed by making it illegal, then why were you so desperate to make it legal?

00:22:57.780 Apparently it doesn't matter anyway.

00:23:00.940 But no, it turns out that, of course, when you make something legal and therefore at the

00:23:07.000 same time more accessible and you take away the penalties, of course more people are going

00:23:11.300 to do it.

00:23:12.440 I mean, you're always going to have a certain portion of people who will do something anyway,

00:23:14.960 regardless of the consequences, who are especially motivated to go out and,

00:23:18.280 you know, even if it's less accessible, they'll find a way to access it.

00:23:22.640 That's always been the case.

00:23:23.720 But the more accessible you make it, the more people do it.

00:23:26.580 And the more you take away legal consequences, the more people do it, obviously, obviously.

00:23:35.440 And so that's what's happened.

00:23:36.520 And we know that as people do it more often and they do it more openly, this precipitates

00:23:43.140 a rise in crime rates, a decline in the quality of life for everybody in the community.

00:23:48.320 And we've all seen this.

00:23:49.860 We don't have to speculate anymore.

00:23:51.320 We don't have to talk about what we think will happen.

00:23:53.500 We've seen it happen.

00:23:54.900 This is why I always go back to the question, has the legalization of weed in any city made

00:24:00.760 that city better?

00:24:01.840 And I know you might ask, well, what do you mean by better?

00:24:04.140 That's a that's kind of a subjective, more livable, like a better place to live for anybody.

00:24:10.400 Has it solved any problem?

00:24:12.220 Has it helped anything?

00:24:14.060 Like, give me a thing that has been helped.

00:24:16.360 Give me a show me a city where they've legalized weed and something about that city, something

00:24:20.720 tangible, improved.

00:24:23.440 Show me that you can't because it hasn't it has not made anywhere a better place to live.

00:24:28.400 Um, there's no example of that.

00:24:32.580 And because it always works the other way, it works the opposite way.

00:24:35.820 And we all know it.

00:24:37.240 Like having everybody walk around stoned all the time has made everything worse.

00:24:41.260 It has improved nothing, absolutely nothing.

00:24:43.280 It has created problems and solved none.

00:24:45.280 So it's bad.

00:24:45.840 It's a bad idea.

00:24:46.800 If you're going to do something that is guaranteed to make nothing better, better while making

00:24:51.280 a lot of things worse, then you shouldn't do it.

00:24:54.380 It's really that simple.

00:24:56.280 What else is there to even say about it?

00:24:58.680 And this, by the way, is why I changed my mind on it personally.

00:25:01.740 I was debating this yesterday on Twitter, as you know, where all the, uh, all the very

00:25:09.080 fruitful debates happen.

00:25:11.300 And somebody pulled the, you know, one of my favorite moves where they go and they dig

00:25:15.380 through and say, let me see, this is what you're saying on this topic now, but let me

00:25:19.100 see if you've always said this exact thing.

00:25:21.040 And someone went and they, uh, scandalously discovered that back in 2018, uh, I sent a tweet

00:25:25.920 out where I was advocating for legalizing marijuana.

00:25:29.580 Um, and the thing is, you didn't have to go search through my tweet.

00:25:31.780 You could just ask me and I'll tell you that.

00:25:33.300 Yeah, that used to be my position.

00:25:34.280 I've said that on the show.

00:25:35.600 Uh, I used to be in favor of legalizing marijuana.

00:25:37.700 I did, I was, uh, I was wrong.

00:25:40.460 So I changed my mind.

00:25:41.340 You're allowed to do that.

00:25:42.000 You know, just because you don't have to, if you say something now, you don't have to 0.60

00:25:45.220 say exactly that same thing forever until you die.

00:25:47.800 You're, if not only are you allowed to process new information and change your opinion, but

00:25:53.880 you should, you should be open to new information and your opinion should be open to change depending

00:25:58.840 on that new information.

00:26:00.400 And so that's what happened with legalizing marijuana.

00:26:03.320 I was kind of, you know, I was never like militant about it.

00:26:06.120 Um, and it's not something that I personally want to engage in, but I, I was generally persuaded

00:26:13.780 by, you know, the arguments people made in favor of it.

00:26:17.820 And what changed my mind?

00:26:19.580 Well, it was really no argument that anybody made on the other side.

00:26:22.160 It's that I saw in practice what happens.

00:26:24.280 So I heard all the arguments from the weed advocates saying, oh, you know, we can legalize

00:26:30.480 it and here's going to be the result.

00:26:33.260 Foolishly, I believe that argument.

00:26:35.040 And then we did legalize it.

00:26:36.620 And then I look and say, oh, well, none of that happened.

00:26:38.480 In fact, all the, everything that the, that the, uh, the prohibitionists said would happen

00:26:43.800 did happen.

00:26:45.600 And none of the positive results that the advocates promised panned out.

00:26:50.680 And so of course I changed my position.

00:26:52.380 Anyone, you, everybody should like, it's just, it's not even a valid position anymore to

00:26:58.240 be in favor of weed legalization because we've all seen it in front of our faces, what happens.

00:27:04.020 Um, and, and there's really nothing else to say about it, which is why you'll then get

00:27:08.160 a bunch of cliched slogans shouted at you by the potheads.

00:27:12.080 Um, and just using this as an example, you know, mentioning the debate, uh, I was having

00:27:16.300 yesterday and someone tweeted this.

00:27:18.520 I mean, this, I'm just using this again because this is, this is like, this is, it's like

00:27:22.040 running down all of the most cliched arguments.

00:27:24.460 Somebody said, bad call.

00:27:25.680 Alcohol and cigarettes are far worse.

00:27:27.260 God created it being weed. 0.70

00:27:29.400 It hasn't killed anybody.

00:27:30.600 Veterans need it for PTSD, et cetera.

00:27:32.200 Democrat made it illegal decades ago.

00:27:33.980 Joe Biden is against it and thinks it's a gateway drug.

00:27:36.460 Prohibition is unconstitutional.

00:27:38.020 Okay.

00:27:39.380 Now I'm using this as an example because this is the classic rundown of pro weed arguments

00:27:43.900 that you hear all the time.

00:27:44.960 And it's pretty much always like every tweet that anyone puts out or a post or anything,

00:27:49.100 uh, in favor of weed legalization.

00:27:51.520 It's always that it's like some variation.

00:27:53.600 They might mix it around a little bit, but it's always just that.

00:27:56.880 And what are the problems with these arguments?

00:27:58.380 Well, first of all, there are many substances, um, that exist in the natural world that you're

00:28:03.740 not supposed to put in your body.

00:28:05.040 Okay.

00:28:05.900 So this God created it stuff. 1.00

00:28:07.800 It's the dumbest. 0.99

00:28:08.820 Even back when I found the pro weed argument, legalization argument persuasive, I was never 1.00

00:28:14.620 persuaded by that because it's so stupid. 1.00

00:28:16.800 Like that doesn't, but God created it. 1.00

00:28:18.640 So therefore it's automatically a good idea to light it on fire and inhale it.

00:28:25.260 There are a whole lot of things God has created that you should not light on fire and inhale.

00:28:28.820 There are a lot of things God has created that you should not consume in any form.

00:28:32.300 Okay.

00:28:33.640 If you're lost in the woods one day and you're starving, okay.

00:28:38.020 It would not be a good idea to just stumble without any prior knowledge, to stumble across

00:28:43.400 some kind of a bush with berries and say, well, God created these berries, so they must

00:28:48.280 be okay.

00:28:49.480 God created it.

00:28:52.720 You know, that's an assumption that if you make that assumption enough times, you will

00:28:55.880 definitely die because God has created a lot of poison berries.

00:28:58.780 He's created a lot of poisonous things in the world that you're not supposed to consume.

00:29:01.820 So the God created it line is, it's true.

00:29:07.100 Like God did create, well, I mean, he created the plant, right?

00:29:11.800 That is, that is used to create this drug, but that doesn't mean that it's okay to consume.

00:29:18.400 As for alcohol and cigarettes, even if alcohol and cigarettes are worse, that still doesn't

00:29:22.540 mean that weed should be legal because all you've done by that logic is add to the problem.

00:29:27.260 Um, and saying that it hasn't killed anyone is just false.

00:29:30.600 It ignores, for one thing, the deaths caused by people under the influence.

00:29:35.600 Um, it again ignores all the volumes of research about all the negative health side effects

00:29:39.920 and everything else.

00:29:41.060 Um, and there's one other point that I want to make that came up last night and on this

00:29:45.020 thing about alcohol and tobacco products.

00:29:46.600 Again, even if I agree that alcohol and tobacco products are just as bad or worse, that's not

00:29:52.080 an argument for legalizing yet another bad thing.

00:29:55.120 It's sort of like, you know, if I was morbidly obese, but I didn't drink alcohol.

00:29:59.980 And then you said, well, you're already obese.

00:30:01.760 You might as well be a binge drinker too.

00:30:04.120 Well, that logic doesn't make any sense.

00:30:06.600 That only makes sense in a kind of defeatist suicidal sense.

00:30:11.020 So that's, that's, that's a, that's a, I mean, quite literally a suicidal argument when

00:30:15.760 you're saying, well, these other bad things are happening.

00:30:17.700 So let's just add another bad thing.

00:30:19.100 Let's give up basically.

00:30:21.740 Um, that doesn't make sense, but also alcohol and tobacco are part of American culture.

00:30:27.400 Okay.

00:30:27.880 Going back to the beginning of this country, that's one of the reasons why any effort to 0.99

00:30:31.640 totally ban them has not been successful because it's just, it's an ingrained part of American

00:30:38.020 culture.

00:30:38.260 Tobacco in particular has helped to build this country from the very beginning.

00:30:44.060 Uh, and so did alcohol.

00:30:46.660 Now I'm not saying that this is a, a definitive reason to not ban them, but, but it is a reason 0.83

00:30:52.300 to not ban them.

00:30:53.700 And it's a pretty good one.

00:30:55.480 Actually, tradition matters.

00:30:57.680 History matters.

00:30:59.160 Those are part of our culture.

00:31:00.500 Uh, marijuana historically is not.

00:31:03.820 Now somebody brought up that, uh, Native Americans, you know, Native Americans smoked and,

00:31:07.800 and, um, and so it is part of American heritage.

00:31:11.340 Um, and, you know, I think it's true that, that Indian tribes had marijuana.

00:31:16.580 Now, as far as I could be wrong, I haven't done a lot of research on this cause I don't

00:31:18.920 care that much, but I think that it was introduced.

00:31:22.140 I don't think that they had it, uh, you know, prior to, uh, contact with, with the new world.

00:31:27.680 As far as I'm aware, marijuana was introduced to the Native tribes in the 15th or 16th centuries.

00:31:34.220 Um, but even if it wasn't marijuana, you know, the Native tribes, they smoked peyote. 1.00

00:31:38.720 They, they had other kinds of, uh, drugs with hallucinogenic properties.

00:31:42.300 Um, the shamans, the witch doctors, they were always tripping on something, right? 0.98

00:31:46.480 So it is probably true that the, even if it wasn't exactly marijuana, it's probably true

00:31:52.480 that the drug habits of Native American tribes are closer to the drug habits of Americans today.

00:32:01.160 Like there's, there's a similarity, but, but think about that for a second because Native

00:32:08.020 tribes were 5,000 years behind the civilized world.

00:32:12.440 These people were stuck in the stone age, literally, literally in the stone age, many

00:32:16.600 of them, uh, they didn't have the wheel.

00:32:17.980 They didn't have written language.

00:32:19.160 Many of them were nomad, not all of them, but many of them were nomadic tribes, hunter

00:32:22.660 gatherers.

00:32:23.420 They were extremely primitive, even by 16th century standards.

00:32:26.860 So the fact that they were also high all the time, perhaps should tell us something.

00:32:32.640 You know, I mean, here's the fact we know, we know that a society where people smoke tobacco

00:32:38.160 constantly and drink whiskey from morning to night can also be a highly functional, highly

00:32:44.120 successful society.

00:32:45.220 We know that.

00:32:46.320 And we know that because that was our society.

00:32:48.820 Okay.

00:32:49.040 That was our society in the 20th century when we, when we, when we accomplished all of the

00:32:53.120 things that we accomplished, we were landing on the moon and winning world wars and doing

00:32:55.880 everything else, um, and going from like horse and buggy to, to, to the moon landing and

00:33:00.100 beyond, uh, well, not beyond, unfortunately, but at least to the moon landing.

00:33:03.120 Um, so, so we know that the greatest civilizations on earth in the, the history of the earth have

00:33:14.260 at least had booze and lots of it and the greatest civilization in the history of the world

00:33:21.220 had, had booze and people were drunk constantly.

00:33:24.740 Our own civilization, when it was great, again, had, had tobacco and booze and lots, lots of

00:33:30.300 both. Now I'm not saying that tobacco and booze made us great exactly. Uh, but it did,

00:33:37.600 it did not prevent our greatness. Like there is no evidence on a societal scale that having

00:33:44.220 easy access to legal tobacco and booze will precipitate a societal collapse. There's no 0.79

00:33:48.780 evidence of that because we've seen a society that is, that is like drowning in both of those

00:33:54.040 things. And also caffeine like nicotine, caffeine, and booze that that's America has run on those 1.00

00:34:00.160 things even more than a run on Duncan's, but also the booze and the, and the, uh, and, uh, the,

00:34:07.160 the tobacco. So we've seen that, but so we know, we know that what about a society full of stoners 0.50

00:34:16.340 and druggies. Can that kind of society thrive? There's no evidence of that. There has never been

00:34:24.240 a society of people who are drugged out of their mind, stoned. There's never been a society like

00:34:29.340 that, that has thrived. There are plenty of societies that have engaged, uh, you know, uh,

00:34:37.360 in large part in those sorts of activities and, and they, they live in mud huts. Okay.

00:34:43.000 It's like they struggle to invent, they don't invent the wheel. Okay. That's what that kind

00:34:46.860 of society looks like. And if we want to end up back there, if we want to just decline all the way

00:34:52.740 and take this thing full circle, then, then that's what's going to happen. All right. Daily Wire has

00:34:58.020 this report. A prominent independent writer was accused on ABC's The View this week of being a

00:35:01.500 pawn for the political right because of his views on race in America. Coleman Hughes, an author and

00:35:05.500 podcast host, joined the Left Wing Show on Wednesday to discuss his book, The End of Race Politics,

00:35:09.800 Arguments for a Colorblind America. Uh, co-host Sonny Hostin said that Hughes' belief that everyone

00:35:16.340 should treat people without, uh, regard to race was fundamentally flawed. All right. So Coleman Hughes

00:35:23.340 was arguing with the hens of The View. And as mentioned, his position is basically that we

00:35:26.680 should have laws and policies that exist and are enforced without reference to race, which is

00:35:30.980 correct. You know, it's not that we individuals can be colorblind, quote unquote. Uh, we notice race.

00:35:36.820 Race is a real thing. It exists. We aren't going to pretend it doesn't exist. We shouldn't. Why

00:35:41.080 should, it's real. Like, it's a thing. Why should we pretend we don't see it? But legally, we're all

00:35:46.060 supposed to be equal under the law. And that's the way it's supposed to work. No special protections,

00:35:50.180 no special punishments to anyone based on their race. That's the way it's supposed to work. But,

00:35:53.480 uh, Sonny of The View didn't like that. And here's what she said, uh, to Coleman Hughes.

00:35:59.540 Your argument for colorblindness, I think, is something that the right has co-opted. And so

00:36:06.440 many in the black community, if I'm being honest with you, because I want to be, believe that you 0.99

00:36:13.280 are being used as a pawn by the right and that you're a charlatan of sorts. He's not a Republican. 0.96

00:36:17.600 He's never voted as a Republican. You've said that you're a conservative. No, no. No, you did. You

00:36:23.320 actually said that, uh, in a podcast that you did two weeks ago. I said I was a conservative. He's not.

00:36:28.100 Yes, he's not. Yes, he did. So, but my question to you, my question to you is, how do you respond

00:36:33.980 to those critics? Okay, let's give it a, let them answer. Okay, so first thing I want to, I think it's

00:36:40.240 very important. The quote that you just pointed out about doing something special for the Negro,

00:36:45.880 that's from the book, Why We Can't Wait, that I just mentioned. Yes. A couple paragraphs later,

00:36:50.620 he lays out exactly what that something special was. Yes. And it was the Bill of Rights for the

00:36:55.120 disadvantaged, a broad class-based policy. But he also says you must include race. No, he didn't.

00:37:01.680 He says it's a... Yes, he does. Okay, well, everyone can go, everyone should go read the book,

00:37:05.120 Why We Can't Wait. Let's not get sidetracked by that. Yeah. Give me a note. Um, I'm, I don't think I've

00:37:09.300 been co-opted by anyone. I've only voted twice, both for Democrats, although I'm an independent. I would vote for

00:37:14.140 a Republican, probably a non-Trump Republican, if they were compelling. Um, I don't think there's

00:37:18.940 any evidence I've been co-opted by anyone. And I think that that's, that's an ad hominem tactic

00:37:24.160 people use to not address really the important conversations we're having here. And I think

00:37:29.000 it's better and it would be better for everyone if we stuck to the topics rather than make it about

00:37:33.940 me with no evidence that I've been co-opted. I just, I want to give you the opportunity to

00:37:37.920 respond to the... Yeah, I appreciate it. Okay, great. There you pause it. Um, that's very nice of

00:37:41.980 her. I was just giving you the opportunity. You know, a lot of people say that you're a fraud and

00:37:47.440 a charlatan. What do you say to that? I'm just giving the opportunity. I thought you'd love the 0.96

00:37:50.460 opportunity to respond to that charge. Now, Coleman Hughes, uh, very, uh, gracious, uh, responded,

00:37:56.540 I think quite intelligently. Um, now if that were me, my response would be, oh yeah, well,

00:38:03.380 a lot of people say that you're a dumb bimbo. How do you respond to that charge? I want to give 0.99

00:38:06.100 you, I want to give it, Sonny, I want to give you the opportunity. I'm a gracious person. I want

00:38:09.560 to give you the opportunity to respond to the charge that you are a dumb bimbo with, with a 1.00

00:38:13.500 single digit IQ. That's what people are saying. And I've heard people say it. Uh, so what do you say 1.00

00:38:18.360 to that? That would have been my response. Probably, uh, Coleman handled it better, but before we get

00:38:25.980 into the point about race, I just want to say that I find this style of argument, this strategy to be

00:38:31.220 incredibly lame and frustrating where someone doesn't engage, does not engage with your ideas,

00:38:38.720 as he points out at the end there, but instead dismisses your ideas on the basis that according 0.97

00:38:44.800 to them, you're only saying it because you've been paid off or you're a charlatan or you're a grifter. 0.94

00:38:50.460 This is the laziest kind of argument. It's not an argument at all. It is, it is the avoidance of an 0.94

00:38:55.600 argument. Um, and I find this more annoying and even lamer really than dismissing someone,

00:39:03.160 you know, by calling them a bigot or a racist or whatever. Uh, and that's very lame and stupid. 1.00

00:39:08.740 You know how I feel about that, but, but I, I think I prefer that over this, right? Because, 0.98

00:39:14.120 um, and maybe this is because it's because it's become so, so common these days that I find it

00:39:19.400 particularly frustrating. Um, she uses the term charlatan. Usually it's grifter that people 1.00

00:39:25.920 throw around and there are plenty of grifters out there, but it's just everything now is, is a grift.

00:39:34.260 You know, the moment you, you say anything that somebody disagrees with, you're automatically a

00:39:41.220 grifter. Grifter just means that someone disagrees with you. Any opinion you have, well, that's a grift.

00:39:46.300 It's like people are living in a world where not only do they, it's something that they disagree

00:39:51.640 with you. They deny that it's even possible that anyone could have an opinion other than their own.

00:39:57.680 So therefore, if you have an opinion other than their own, then it must be that you actually agree

00:40:02.940 with them, but you won't say it because you're, you're on some sort of, you're a grift. You're,

00:40:06.760 you're, you're, uh, on the take in some way. Um, you know, of course I get this all the time.

00:40:12.400 I'm accused of being a grifter, no matter what my opinion is about anything,

00:40:15.040 like whatever the issue, whatever I say about any issue, I'm automatically a grifter for saying

00:40:19.500 it. Even if the opinion is about something totally obscure and unimportant, unimportant to most people,

00:40:25.820 but important to me. Of course, everything I say is important, but, um, like, I mean, I've,

00:40:30.360 I've tweeted the most random sorts of opinions about things and people will accuse me of, I could say,

00:40:38.040 you know, uh, as I've said before, uh, my wife has too many throw pillows. She buys too many throw 1.00

00:40:44.180 pillows for the house and somebody will go, Oh, here you go again with your grift. There you're

00:40:49.140 on the grift again. Who paid you to say this? How much are they paying you over there to say that

00:40:55.460 Walsh? No matter what the opinion is, it doesn't matter. So this is a really stupid approach because

00:41:02.300 it's lazy and just dumb, but also because it's totally irrelevant. It's beside the point. 1.00

00:41:07.100 Like anytime you respond to an argument by impugning the motivations and character of the

00:41:11.740 person making the argument, rather than by refuting the argument itself, you've already lost.

00:41:16.460 Anytime somebody makes a point and your response begins with the words, Oh, you're only saying that

00:41:22.360 because you lost because it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter why they're saying it. What matters

00:41:28.740 is what they're saying. Okay. Even if the person is a total charlatan fraud, that doesn't make them

00:41:35.380 wrong. That doesn't make the argument incorrect. And if the argument is incorrect, then just say

00:41:41.300 that instead. So back to Coleman Hughes, let's say that he's on the take. Let's say that he's a

00:41:46.880 charlatan grifter. Let's say that, uh, the evil white people all get together for their evil white 1.00

00:41:52.540 people meeting and they call Coleman in and they throw a bag of money at his feet and they tell 0.96

00:41:58.740 him that, uh, well, here's your opinion that you're going to have today. Here it is. This is

00:42:01.640 your opinion. Take your bag and get out of here. Okay. Well, let's say that's happening.

00:42:08.660 So what is he wrong? Are the opinions wrong? Are they right or wrong? That's all that matters.

00:42:16.420 The weatherman only tells me that it's raining because he's paid to tell me that. Does that mean

00:42:21.040 that it isn't raining? I mean, he could be wrong. Weathermen are wrong all the time, but is he,

00:42:26.020 is he necessarily wrong because he was paid to tell me that? And in this case, Coleman Hughes,

00:42:32.320 uh, is not wrong, obviously. Um, and there's a reason why Sonny can't explain why he's wrong.

00:42:38.800 She can't explain her point because she doesn't have one. Um, you know, he's only saying that we

00:42:45.520 shouldn't give preferential treatment to people based on race. She's flailing around for a reason 1.00

00:42:51.320 to disagree, but it's like, are you saying that we should give preferential treatment to people

00:42:55.540 based on race? Is that what, are you saying that we should be doing that? Are you saying that we

00:43:00.880 should be intentionally creating disadvantages in the system for people of certain races?

00:43:08.380 Well, yes, that is what she's saying. We know that's what she's saying,

00:43:10.960 but she doesn't want to say that exactly. So she dances around as usual.

00:43:17.460 And the point that Hughes is making in this interview, um, is that, you know, when it comes

00:43:22.980 to sort of, uh, to, to, to helping disadvantaged groups, which we should do, we should help people,

00:43:28.680 but nobody's against helping people. Um, now we shouldn't do it by giving them preferential

00:43:33.080 treatment. We shouldn't do it by making them more than equal in the eyes of the law. We shouldn't do it

00:43:37.780 with affirmative action and those sorts of things. But, but, you know, we should help people by helping

00:43:41.320 them. Helping people is good. But the key factor in determining, um, like who needs the help the most

00:43:49.420 is socioeconomic. Uh, that's, that's all you really need for, for, for that conversation.

00:43:56.900 A poor white person is just as disadvantaged as a poor black person. In fact, he's more disadvantaged 0.97

00:44:02.560 these days because there are no programs specifically and specially for the poor white guy.

00:44:07.780 Um, and so you're taking disadvantage and you're creating more of it. In fact,

00:44:14.240 which we should not be doing. That's his only point. It's a point that is so obviously correct

00:44:20.640 that in another world at another time, um, you know, he, he, he, you'd write a book about this

00:44:28.440 and it would sell zero copies because everyone's like, well, of course. Now in this case, it's an

00:44:35.180 argument that needs to be made. Books need to be written about it. But, um, you know, it's like so

00:44:38.800 many other things. I mean, I did, I did a whole documentary on a subject that in a, in a different

00:44:43.800 time, in a different day and age, it's like nobody should have to even watch it because it's so obvious

00:44:48.520 what we're talking about and the reality of what we're talking about. But, uh, this is the world we

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00:46:17.620 now exclusively on Daily Wire Plus. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:46:27.900 Today, we must cancel Governor Greg Abbott of Texas. Abbott has been impressive recently in his

00:46:33.080 mission to defend the southern border, despite the Biden administration's efforts to prevent him

00:46:36.440 from doing so. And so I am loathe to cancel him in the midst of that fight. But he has left me no

00:46:42.620 choice. Here's the report from the ABC affiliate in Austin. Watch. The Israel-Hamas war has sparked

00:46:49.480 protests around the world and in Austin. It's chants like these.

00:46:57.280 And other incidents at public universities that led Governor Greg Abbott to issue an executive

00:47:04.420 order to fight anti-Semitism on college campuses. It requires universities to review and update

00:47:11.100 free speech policies, include the definition of anti-Semitism in those policies, and enforce those

00:47:17.080 policies, which could include expulsion. A move members of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas

00:47:23.060 say could set off a wave of problems. When the government starts to infringe on protected speech

00:47:29.940 and when the government starts to practice viewpoint discrimination, that has a trickle-down

00:47:34.720 effect to all sorts of populations. The governor pointed to a rise in anti-Semitic acts and took aim

00:47:41.200 at two student organizations, including UT's Palestine Solidarity Committee, which has led several

00:47:47.760 protests. So the governor naming two specific student-founded organizations as organizations that

00:47:56.140 are practicing hate speech or that are in violation of his order is viewpoint discrimination in a really

00:48:01.980 explicit way. So Governor Greg Abbott here has committed the ultimate sin. He has forced me to

00:48:07.100 agree with a woman from the ACLU with pronouns next to her name. The ACLU is rarely correct about anything

00:48:12.600 these days, and people with pronouns next to their name are correct even less often than that. But in this

00:48:17.240 case, they happen to have stumbled on the truth as Abbott signs an executive order to fight

00:48:20.840 anti-Semitism on college campuses. And what does fighting anti-Semitism mean? Well, here's the

00:48:25.980 statement that the governor's office put out this week. Quote, Governor Greg Abbott today issued an

00:48:30.420 executive order to fight the increase in access to anti-Semitism at colleges and universities in Texas

00:48:34.060 and ensure a safe learning environment for Jewish students and all Texans. Quote, anti-Semitism is never

00:48:39.120 acceptable in Texas, and we will do everything we can to fight it, said Greg, Governor Abbott. The state of

00:48:44.100 Texas stands with Israel and the Jewish community, and we must escalate our efforts to protect against 1.00

00:48:48.360 anti-Semitism at Texas colleges and universities and across our state. Across the country, acts of

00:48:52.420 anti-Semitism have grown in number, size, and danger to the Jewish community since Hamas' deadly attack

00:48:56.660 on October 7th. Texas took immediate action to protect Jewish schools, synagogues, and other key

00:49:01.100 locations. Many Texas colleges and universities have also acted quickly to condemn anti-Semitism,

00:49:06.740 but some radical organizations on our campuses engage in acts that have no place in Texas.

00:49:10.940 Now we must work to ensure that our college campuses are safe spaces for members of the Jewish

00:49:14.840 community. The governor's executive order requires that all higher education institutions

00:49:18.340 in Texas review their free speech policies to establish appropriate punishments

00:49:21.860 for anti-Semitic rhetoric on college and university campuses, ensure that policies that address the

00:49:26.920 sharp rise of anti-Semitic acts are enforced, and include the definition of anti-Semitism in free

00:49:32.520 speech policies. So this is an executive order targeting what he describes as anti-Semitic acts

00:49:38.200 and rhetoric. In fact, he is ordering colleges in a state to establish appropriate punishments

00:49:44.700 for this rhetoric, which he deems anti-Semitic. And he says explicitly that these offensive statements

00:49:50.040 must be shut down so that college campuses are safe spaces for Jewish people. Now, I seem to remember 1.00

00:49:57.680 Republicans spending the past, I don't know, 10 years complaining about the safe space mentality

00:50:03.500 on college campuses. And now here we have the Republican governor of Texas issuing an executive order

00:50:08.480 commanding college campuses to be safe spaces. So we seem to have lost the plot here somewhere along

00:50:15.500 the line. There are a lot of reasons why governors should not be issuing executive orders to combat

00:50:21.160 anti-Semitism or any other form of bigotry. But I'll focus on just three of those reasons.

00:50:28.080 First of all, violence, vandalism threats, and deliberate incitement are already illegal. Now, some have

00:50:34.720 defended this executive order by arguing that its real intent is to crack down on these sorts of crimes

00:50:39.840 that are committed against Jewish people. But again, these are crimes. They're already illegal.

00:50:44.140 If they're happening anywhere in Texas, whether on a college campus or not, the state already has all

00:50:48.020 of the authority it needs to arrest and prosecute the culprits. You don't need to make an illegal thing

00:50:53.340 even more illegal. You don't need an executive order making it extra illegal. Just enforce the laws that

00:51:00.240 are already on the books. So if, say, somebody is vandalizing a synagogue or assaulting a Jewish

00:51:07.140 person or explicitly calling for violence against Jews, they can already be arrested. This order will

00:51:13.100 do nothing to stop or punish those crimes because they already have the laws in place to stop or

00:51:17.160 punish those crimes. And if somehow they didn't have the laws in place, if, let's say, Texas had

00:51:22.360 forgotten to make vandalism or assault illegal, well, the solution would be to pass a law making those

00:51:28.440 violent acts illegal. But even then, this executive order would be the wrong way to do it. One, because

00:51:33.440 it's an executive order, not a law. And two, because it seeks to protect one particular group instead of

00:51:38.620 all groups. So vandalism, assault, et cetera, they are wrong no matter who they target. They are equally

00:51:45.580 wrong no matter who they target. They should be prosecuted with equal vigor regardless of the demographics

00:51:51.340 of the victim. We do not need laws protecting Jewish people. We need laws protecting people to include

00:52:00.180 Jews, obviously, and everybody else. And if we already have those laws, which we do, then we don't

00:52:05.200 need a second law or order making these crimes extra specially illegal if you commit them against a

00:52:10.340 certain group. But the real point here has nothing to do with physical crimes. The real point is the bit

00:52:14.820 about anti-Semitic rhetoric, which brings us to the second problem related to the issue that I just

00:52:20.400 raised in the first. Let's pretend for a moment that we all agreed that so-called hate speech should

00:52:28.080 be banned from universities. Let's pretend that hateful rhetoric really had no place in Texas or

00:52:32.920 anywhere else, as the governor would say. Now, I don't agree with this idea, as I'll explain in a

00:52:37.300 moment, but let's grant it for the sake of argument. Well then, why wouldn't the executive order

00:52:43.500 establish appropriate punishments, quote-unquote, for hateful rhetoric against anyone of any group?

00:52:50.840 And if, for whatever reason, it was decided that we needed to actually specifically outline every

00:52:55.720 single group that you cannot say hateful things about, then why are certain groups conspicuously

00:53:00.580 left off the list? It is rather hard to imagine Greg Abbott ever issuing an executive order calling for

00:53:07.900 punishments for anti-white rhetoric on college campuses, in spite of the fact that anti-whiteism is not only

00:53:13.440 incredibly pervasive on every major university campus in a country, but it's also part of the

00:53:18.600 curriculum. Students are forced to listen to anti-white screeds in the classroom, from their

00:53:24.420 professors. Every hateful thing imaginable has been said on college campuses about white people, by staff,

00:53:31.600 by administrators, by professors, let alone also, of course, the students. Yet, to my knowledge,

00:53:38.160 Greg Abbott has never issued an executive order addressing that. Why is that? You could, again,

00:53:45.340 easily kill all these birds with one stone if you just banned all hateful statements against all

00:53:49.800 people, but he doesn't do that. That doesn't happen anywhere. Instead, certain groups are singled out

00:53:55.540 for protections, while certain groups are given no special protections at all. Third, I make that last

00:54:02.040 point, as I said, for the sake of argument. My actual position is that there should not be any hate speech

00:54:06.600 laws or policies at all. I reject hate speech as a concept, as a category. Hate speech, if it's

00:54:16.440 anything, is simply speech that expresses hate, and some speech does express hate. But what I reject

00:54:23.460 is the idea that any governmental authority should ever be in the business of trying to read the mind of

00:54:29.000 a speaker and determine whether there was hatred behind it, and then punish the statement based on their

00:54:35.100 own interpretation of the emotional state of the person who made the statement. I reject that

00:54:39.860 completely. I also reject the idea that any form of rhetoric at all should be banned or punished on

00:54:46.320 college campuses. Threats and incitements are already illegal, as we've established. So putting those

00:54:51.940 aside, we are left with opinions, claims, ideas, exhortations, declarations. And as for those,

00:55:01.620 even if they're wrong, even if they're baseless, even if they're offensive, even if they are, yes,

00:55:07.280 hateful, they should not be banned or punished, and they certainly should not be the subject of an

00:55:11.500 executive order from the governor's office. We cannot pretend to care in the slightest bit about

00:55:18.260 free speech if we are banning speech on the basis that it's hateful towards protected groups.

00:55:23.460 This is not just an infringement on free speech. It is the total eradication of free speech.

00:55:30.000 Because after all, the only kind of speech that really needs legal protection in the first place

00:55:35.480 is the speech that is deemed hateful and inappropriate by the powers that be.

00:55:41.040 Speech that is pleasant and uncontroversial and friendly and gentle. That doesn't need to be

00:55:46.340 protected. I mean, you could live in a country with no free speech. You could live in North Korea. 0.78

00:55:50.120 You could be locked up in a communist prison camp, and you'd still be able to say all those sorts of

00:55:54.540 things. So when a person in power says, you have free speech, unless it's speech that I find to be

00:56:01.240 really inappropriate personally, that's another way of saying that you don't have free speech.

00:56:07.080 And this point, I would think, is obvious. Now, I don't know exactly what sort of speech the

00:56:14.400 governor considers anti-Semitic. That's a big part of the problem here. Because what we know is that

00:56:18.880 any popularly used label for any particular form of bigotry is in a constant state of expansion.

00:56:26.240 So bigotry labels, they're like the universe. Their boundaries expand and expand and expand

00:56:30.040 until they become as broad and all-encompassing as the universe itself.

00:56:35.100 That's reason enough why you can't ban speech on this basis.

00:56:38.240 Any speech at all could be included in the label, because the labels are so broad and so subjective.

00:56:47.540 But let's narrow the scope here just for a moment. Because in reality, to be anti-Semitic 0.60

00:56:54.820 is to hate Jewish people because they are Jews. That's what anti-Semitism is. 0.96

00:57:00.240 Everything that is not that is not anti-Semitism. You could say a lot of other things about Jewish

00:57:06.520 people that you can make a lot of other statements that are incorrect. You can even say things that

00:57:10.760 are offensive. But unless they express that you hate Jewish people for being Jews, they're not

00:57:17.220 anti-Semitic. Just like being racist against a particular race means that you hate the members

00:57:22.500 of that race because they are members of that race. And again, you could say a lot of other

00:57:28.000 things about people of a certain race that maybe are incorrect. You could even engage in stereotypes.

00:57:33.660 You could have misapprehensions. You could have misunderstandings. You could say a lot of things.

00:57:41.320 But unless you're expressing that you hate these people because they're members of that race,

00:57:46.060 it is not racist. Now, I realize this is the narrowest, most limited definition of these terms,

00:57:51.560 and it's also the only coherent and clearly delineated definition. If you expand it beyond

00:57:58.880 these boundaries, you will quickly find that now there are no real boundaries and anything can be

00:58:03.720 included. So what if somebody says something that is really clearly anti-Semitic? What if they stand up

00:58:11.520 and they say, this will be the clearest version of all, I hate Jews? What if they said that? Well, 0.99

00:58:17.860 there's no denying that such a statement is anti-Semitic. There's no denying that likely 0.99

00:58:22.540 statements like that have been made on college campuses. Should there be an executive order or

00:58:26.980 law prescribing punishments for such expressions? No, of course not. If a person hates Jews,

00:58:34.700 they should be allowed to say so without any legal repercussions. If they hate black people, 0.98

00:58:40.040 if they hate Asians, if they hate gay people, if they hate Christians, if they hate white people, 0.99

00:58:43.660 if they hate me, if they hate you, if they hate anyone for any reason, they should be allowed to 0.96

00:58:48.400 say it. And they are allowed to say it about some of those groups. They should be allowed to say it

00:58:55.560 about any of them. Because you know what? People can feel how they feel and they can say how they feel.

00:59:01.980 And if free speech doesn't mean that at least, then it doesn't mean anything.

00:59:10.620 So how should we respond to somebody who says such things? How should we answer a true expression of

00:59:18.840 hate? Well, through speech. Fight speech with speech. Why is that such a difficult concept?

00:59:27.500 On a college campus, we should be teaching students how to communicate their disagreement

00:59:32.920 and disgust and revulsion through speech of their own. They shouldn't need a quote unquote

00:59:38.700 safe space to retreat to. They shouldn't need the governor to come save them. If they don't like

00:59:45.680 something that somebody has said, they can say so and they can explain why. Now that's not going to

00:59:51.980 stop the other person from saying it, but that's the way it works in life or how it should work.

00:59:58.040 You don't get to control what other people think. And you don't get to control what other people say.

01:00:05.180 Unless you're Greg Abbott, apparently, which is why he is today cancelled.

01:00:10.180 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a blessed

01:00:14.860 good Friday and a very happy Easter. And I'll talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

01:00:27.500 God have a nice message.

01:00:28.740 am 2015. Yes, I will have a great visit. Godspeed.

01:00:41.180 Godspeed.

01:00:43.960 Godspeed.

01:00:45.320 Godspeed.

01:00:46.180 Godspeed.

01:00:46.620 Godspeed.

01:00:47.180 Godspeed.

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Ep. 1336 - NYC Locks Good Samaritans In Prison, Then Wonders Where All The Good Samaritans Have Gone

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