The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1338 - Scotland Makes It Illegal To Hurt A Trans Person's Feelings

00:00:00.080 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Scotland has just passed a bill imposing long prison sentences

00:00:04.120 for anyone who hurts the feelings of a transgender person.

00:00:06.880 This is the most draconian assault on free speech that we've seen in the Western world,

00:00:10.100 and it's just the beginning, I'm afraid.

00:00:11.540 Also, Richard Dawkins declares himself a cultural Christian.

00:00:14.940 What does that mean? Doesn't mean anything.

00:00:16.800 And a feminist writer tries being a trad wife for one week and does not enjoy the experience. 1.00

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00:01:50.500 If you were running the government of Scotland right now,

00:01:54.540 you'd have no shortage of serious, potentially civilization-ending social problems to contend with.

00:01:59.560 Chief among them would be that before long, there might not be very many Scottish people left.

00:02:04.500 Since 2011, Scotland's birth rate has been well below replacement level,

00:02:08.280 meaning far more people are dying than being born right now.

00:02:11.080 There were more than 630,000 deaths in the country and only 580,000 or so births.

00:02:17.040 And yet, despite those numbers, Scotland recorded its largest population in history as recently as 2022.

00:02:23.960 How could that be?

00:02:25.140 Well, you can probably guess.

00:02:26.100 Like many other nations all over the world, including the United States,

00:02:29.120 Scotland is importing poor foreigners by the boatload to make up the difference.

00:02:33.340 The result has been exactly what you'd expect.

00:02:35.160 In fact, Scotland's economy is now in a death spiral with more than 1 million of its 5.5 million residents living in poverty.

00:02:41.720 And no clear solution to the problem is in sight.

00:02:44.200 The number of people aged 65 and over is projected to grow by nearly 30% by 2045,

00:02:48.780 while the number of children is projected to drop by roughly 20%.

00:02:52.220 Unless something changes very soon, Scotland may be completely unrecognizable by the time its next census rolls around.

00:02:58.600 Now, in political terms, this is what's commonly called an existential threat.

00:03:01.700 A serious country would enact policies to reverse this trend immediately,

00:03:05.940 starting with turning away the so-called refugees and migrants that Scotland can't tolerate, much less accommodate. 1.00

00:03:11.260 But Scotland has decided on a very different course of action.

00:03:14.300 Instead of, say, encouraging more Scottish citizens to have families or something like that,

00:03:21.200 the government instead in Scotland has decided to suspend the right of freedom of speech.

00:03:26.080 And they've suspended the freedom of speech with the express purpose of endorsing and protecting transgenderism, 0.95

00:03:32.920 an ideology that's antithetical to reproduction and which openly calls for the sterilization and castration of children.

00:03:39.160 This is precisely the sort of thing that self-loathing societies do when they decide that they don't want to exist anymore.

00:03:44.500 This is a path to suicide.

00:03:47.060 It's the path that Scotland is on.

00:03:48.320 And as I'll explain in a second, it's exactly the same plan that our leaders are following in this country.

00:03:54.360 Now, this specific law that I'm talking about is called the Hate, Crime, and Public Order Act.

00:03:59.860 And Scotland formally enacted it on Monday.

00:04:02.280 It criminalizes the act of, quote,

00:04:04.240 behaving in a manner that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive.

00:04:08.660 If in doing so, quote,

00:04:10.160 the person intends to stir up hatred against a group of persons based on one of the following characteristics,

00:04:14.800 quote, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity, or variations in sex characteristics.

00:04:21.080 Anyone found guilty under this law can be sentenced to prison for up to seven years.

00:04:27.000 I'll say that again.

00:04:28.420 If you say something that a, quote,

00:04:30.400 reasonable person in Scotland considers abusive,

00:04:33.220 the government can put you in prison for seven years.

00:04:37.480 And there are sites springing up all over Scotland where people can report wrong think if they notice it,

00:04:42.220 including, for some reason, sex shops in Glasgow.

00:04:46.180 Watch.

00:04:46.460 These were the warnings change was coming.

00:04:50.980 Signs of a new system for tackling hate crime.

00:04:54.360 A system swirling in controversy.

00:04:57.160 We've always had laws about stirring up hatred against people because of their racial background.

00:05:01.080 Now the law has been expanded to include lots of other groups who are protected because of age,

00:05:05.620 disability, sexuality, transgender, and so on,

00:05:08.880 have now got this charge that can be brought if people are threatening or abusive towards this person

00:05:13.760 because they're part of that group and they're attempting to stir up hatred against that particular group.

00:05:18.360 This fish factory is one of dozens of sites where hate crimes can officially be reported.

00:05:23.780 Others include a sex shop in Glasgow,

00:05:26.400 branded progressive by some, draconian by others,

00:05:29.940 including women's groups embroiled in the trans debate.

00:05:32.900 We know that there are people out there who have got lists of people that they are looking to target,

00:05:39.540 that they are seeing this as an opportunity to settle scores.

00:05:43.820 This legislation is not going to catch people online saying things that I might disagree with,

00:05:49.160 that you might disagree with.

00:05:50.680 Freedom of expression is really important and there's a defence for that within the legislation.

00:05:54.700 What it does legislate against is when that freedom of speech strays into something that is abusive,

00:05:59.040 that could cause fear and alarm,

00:06:01.280 and that also incites hatred or incites people to act on that hatred.

00:06:06.000 Of course, we have the obligatory woman with big glasses defending this transgender hate crime legislation. 1.00

00:06:13.020 She reassures us that freedom of expression is really important,

00:06:17.260 except when it's abusive,

00:06:19.040 except when it causes, quote, alarm.

00:06:22.740 Well, you can say whatever you want as long as it's not alarming.

00:06:26.520 And that's not subjective or vague at all, is it?

00:06:29.760 But who defines these ideas?

00:06:31.440 Who defines what's abusive?

00:06:32.680 Well, the bill doesn't say.

00:06:33.740 I check.

00:06:34.160 The only limiting principle is that this legislation says it doesn't outlaw discussion or criticism,

00:06:39.720 whatever that means.

00:06:41.180 But once discussion or criticism becomes abusive,

00:06:43.680 according to, quote, reasonable people,

00:06:46.160 then it's a serious crime and you'll spend the better part of a decade in prison for it.

00:06:49.860 And the problem is that, by the bill's own terms,

00:06:52.080 the people determining what's reasonable and what's hateful

00:06:55.380 are people who believe that biology isn't real.

00:06:57.620 I mean, the whole bill is established with the express understanding

00:07:00.180 that it's reasonable by default to believe that anyone can change their gender in an instant.

00:07:06.180 Okay, that's what the bill is saying is a reasonable position.

00:07:11.080 It literally says that transgender identity is something that the law needs to recognize and protect.

00:07:15.880 And as we've seen, trans activists are willing to cry about genocide if you use a pronoun they don't like.

00:07:22.220 So these are the reasonable people who get to set the boundaries of what's abusive and what's not.

00:07:27.660 And in effect, what this means is that the truth has just been outlawed in Scotland.

00:07:34.000 Tell the truth about transgenderism.

00:07:35.900 Tell the truth about biological reality and you can go to prison. 0.99

00:07:38.540 You can go to prison for longer than a serial rapist.

00:07:41.280 And that's not an exaggeration, by the way. 0.50

00:07:42.640 Late last year, a man who raped three schoolgirls,

00:07:45.420 ages 14 and 15, in the Scottish town of Falkirk,

00:07:49.000 received a sentence of just six years in prison for three rapes of children.

00:07:52.740 Now consider this, if he had misgendered those same children,

00:07:57.560 he would have gotten a longer sentence.

00:08:00.940 And to be clear, this is not insanity, okay?

00:08:03.440 I mean, it certainly looks like insanity.

00:08:06.380 But it is deliberate.

00:08:07.640 This is a deliberate declaration of war by the government of Scotland against its own people.

00:08:12.200 At every turn, they are working towards the destruction of future generations.

00:08:15.740 And now they're making it illegal to talk about it.

00:08:18.320 As a result, there's now a non-zero chance that the children's author, J.K. Rowling,

00:08:23.580 could soon be arrested.

00:08:24.900 When this law took effect, Rowling posted a lengthy thread on social media

00:08:27.620 listing various men who identify as women in the U.K., 0.85

00:08:30.080 including men who have raped small children. 0.93

00:08:32.180 She said, quote, 0.95

00:08:33.740 Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, 1.00

00:08:37.040 but men, every last one of them.

00:08:38.920 Rowling wrote, she continued,

00:08:40.880 In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act,

00:08:42.260 Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men

00:08:45.280 performing their idea of femaleness.

00:08:47.660 However, misogynistically or opportunistically,

00:08:50.680 than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. 0.83

00:08:53.220 It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence

00:08:56.460 and sexual violence committed against women and girls,

00:08:58.600 or address the current assaults on women and girls' rights,

00:09:01.840 unless we're allowed to call a man a man.

00:09:03.880 Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland

00:09:06.520 if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.

00:09:09.740 I'm currently out of the country,

00:09:10.720 but if what I've written here qualifies as an offense under the terms of the new act,

00:09:14.540 I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.

00:09:19.500 Now, already, as you've probably guessed,

00:09:22.040 many people in the UK are calling for Rowling's arrest.

00:09:24.700 A lawyer named Rajon Barrow, for example,

00:09:26.960 wrote that Rowling had engaged in, quote,

00:09:28.760 a deliberate act of defiance,

00:09:30.660 and that the police must, quote,

00:09:32.480 mount a full investigation.

00:09:33.800 And by the letter of the law that was just enacted in Scotland,

00:09:38.880 the police are obligated, indeed, to do just that.

00:09:41.300 For offending the cult of transgenderism, 0.95

00:09:43.180 J.K. Rowling could be imprisoned for up to seven years.

00:09:47.940 This is the new definition of blasphemy in the UK.

00:09:52.040 Right?

00:09:52.260 These are essentially blasphemy laws that are being passed.

00:09:57.360 Transgenderism is the new state religion. 1.00

00:09:58.920 And just to underscore that point even further,

00:10:01.560 this same law,

00:10:02.380 the same hate crimes bill that bans anyone from criticizing transgenderism,

00:10:06.320 also repeals the existing blasphemy law on the books in Scotland.

00:10:10.400 And that's been in effect since the common law was created,

00:10:13.400 but it's gone now.

00:10:15.620 So, again, I'm not exaggerating for effect here.

00:10:17.780 This is literally a line from the same bill, quote,

00:10:20.340 the common law offense of blasphemy is abolished.

00:10:23.720 Now, really, it makes sense.

00:10:25.360 After all, you have to destroy the old religion to enact the new one. 1.00

00:10:28.920 Get rid of the old blasphemy in order to impose the new definition. 0.92

00:10:34.980 The Scottish government understands that as well as Mao did.

00:10:38.360 They understand it as well as Joe Biden's administration did on Easter Sunday.

00:10:42.500 But this is not a story about the internal affairs of Scotland.

00:10:45.020 The point is that what's happening in Scotland

00:10:46.740 is not some kind of aberrant, overly extreme application of leftist doctrine.

00:10:52.480 Rather, it's the logical end result of that doctrine.

00:10:56.560 So, when you value feelings over truth and you define untruth as truth,

00:11:01.960 what follows next is inevitable.

00:11:05.020 Anyone who really believes that men can become women 1.00

00:11:07.220 and that affirming biological reality is tantamount to genocide

00:11:09.960 is eventually going to throw you in prison.

00:11:12.960 That's why they use terms like genocide.

00:11:14.760 That's the whole point.

00:11:15.560 It's not just to be, it's not just for effect.

00:11:19.220 As I've been saying for years, they use these terms because it's the setup, right?

00:11:23.980 It's the pretense for later treating what you're saying as an actual act of physical violence.

00:11:32.100 They're not interested in accurately describing what you're doing.

00:11:35.200 It's to justify destroying your life by force through any means necessary.

00:11:39.680 Now, you might be thinking to yourself, well, that can't happen here,

00:11:45.000 at least not to the extent it's happening in a place like Scotland.

00:11:47.820 After all, we have a much more robust constitution.

00:11:50.180 We have First Amendment protections that, you know, enshrine freedom of speech

00:11:54.660 and protect us from government interference when it comes to our speech.

00:11:58.720 And surely, if the government explicitly said that it was going to target people

00:12:01.980 for their speech in this country and then ruin them and, you know,

00:12:06.520 there'd be a major outcry over it.

00:12:08.780 That's what you would want to think.

00:12:10.840 But if you thought that, you'd be wrong.

00:12:13.300 The Attorney General of New York, Letitia James,

00:12:16.000 is, of course, best known for her campaign to seize all the assets 0.99

00:12:18.940 of the leading presidential candidate, Donald Trump.

00:12:22.200 What she's not so well known for is her campaign to target the website VDARE

00:12:26.400 explicitly because of its inconvenient and unpopular beliefs.

00:12:30.600 This is a story that's gotten very little attention in conservative media,

00:12:34.160 but it's every bit as scandalous as what Letitia James is doing to Donald Trump. 1.00

00:12:39.600 Shortly after she took office, as reported by the fringe left-wing activist group

00:12:42.740 Southern Poverty Law Center, Letitia James promised to target conservative

00:12:47.780 and right-wing organizations based on their speech.

00:12:50.060 Quote, in 2020, James said her office would take tougher legal action 0.92

00:12:54.280 on organizations that engage in real-life discriminatory actions

00:12:57.180 and online hate speech against protected classes.

00:13:01.800 Now, this is an astonishing statement because there is no such thing

00:13:06.260 as online hate speech in this country.

00:13:09.820 We're not Scotland, at least not yet.

00:13:12.280 That's the point of the First Amendment.

00:13:14.880 But Letitia James just admitted out in the open 0.93

00:13:17.380 that she was going to ignore the First Amendment

00:13:19.680 and go after people saying things online that she does not like.

00:13:22.720 That's exactly what she's done.

00:13:25.320 Over the weekend, V-Dare explained that the New York Attorney General's office

00:13:29.240 has ruined them financially with a subpoena that requires them to, quote,

00:13:33.480 review 40 gigabytes of emails, an enormous amount.

00:13:36.560 And of course, these emails could, in fact, reveal the names of the synonymous writers

00:13:40.500 as well as donors, privileged communications with lawyers, etc.

00:13:43.180 Now, in all, V-Dare says the subpoena could cost them more than $150,000 to comply with.

00:13:49.700 And as a result, the website might not be around much longer.

00:13:53.700 And all of this is happening without V-Dare being accused of any criminal activity whatsoever.

00:13:59.760 There's apparently just a suspicion of a possible violation of New York's nonprofit rules, supposedly,

00:14:06.400 relating to their purchase of a castle as a conference venue several years ago,

00:14:09.940 which they needed to purchase because hotels wouldn't let them host conferences there,

00:14:14.340 so they had to get their own venue.

00:14:16.560 But the New York EHE's office isn't being very specific about what the problem is,

00:14:20.860 so we're really speculating about the specifics.

00:14:24.920 And as V-Dare's Lydia Brimlow said in a recent interview,

00:14:28.260 New York really doesn't have anything to do with V-Dare,

00:14:30.160 so their whole fixation with the organization is a little bit strange.

00:14:33.760 In fact, V-Dare has been trying to leave the state behind for a while now.

00:14:38.320 Now, the castle property that's at issue is in West Virginia.

00:14:42.520 That's where they're trying to go.

00:14:44.140 Watch.

00:14:45.440 But when the extreme political rhetoric started flying around in New York,

00:14:52.080 and we realized, hey, maybe we should incorporate in a state where we actually operate

00:14:58.940 that may not be hostile to the work that we do,

00:15:03.100 this was well before we had been subpoenaed.

00:15:05.360 And we did some research, and it turned out that in the state of New York,

00:15:09.380 you, as a nonprofit incorporated there,

00:15:12.380 you're not allowed to move without permission from the attorney general.

00:15:15.540 You're not allowed to reincorporate in another state.

00:15:17.640 You're also not allowed to sell or transfer assets without her permission,

00:15:20.700 and you're not allowed to dissolve without her permission.

00:15:24.060 So it really is Hotel California.

00:15:25.960 You can incorporate there, but you can't leave.

00:15:27.860 So V-Dare is being chased around by a vindictive attorney general for an out-of-state property

00:15:35.880 they bought.

00:15:36.840 Now, I'm no expert on the facts of the case, but at a glance,

00:15:39.640 what V-Dare is apparently being investigated for is somewhat similar to what BLM has admitted

00:15:43.920 to doing.

00:15:44.780 We know BLM spent a lot of money buying multiple lavish mansions, not just one conference venue.

00:15:49.940 But BLM was never subjected to any kind of investigation.

00:15:52.180 They never had the New York attorney general or any other attorney general bombard them with

00:15:55.820 subpoenas.

00:15:57.320 And we know why that is.

00:15:59.300 It's because BLM is on Letitia James' side. 0.99

00:16:03.000 V-Dare isn't.

00:16:04.200 V-Dare likes to talk about things like crime statistics and what happens in cities like Baltimore.

00:16:09.760 So therefore, like Donald Trump, they need to be crushed.

00:16:13.020 Every real estate transaction they've ever engaged in needs to be carefully scrutinized

00:16:17.060 until they're bankrupt.

00:16:18.920 Suddenly, Scotland's decision to suspend freedom of speech doesn't seem so unthinkable here.

00:16:25.740 If Letitia James can get away with targeting a right-wing media outlet like this while admitting 1.00

00:16:29.640 it, then we're basically there already.

00:16:33.800 If anything, we could learn from what's happening in Scotland.

00:16:37.320 At least they have some people like J.K.

00:16:38.660 Rowling who are willing to go to jail over what Scotland's government is doing.

00:16:42.340 Is there anyone in this country who's even suggested sacrificing anything for a site like

00:16:46.560 V-Dare?

00:16:46.960 Of course not.

00:16:47.360 They have unfashionable views.

00:16:50.960 So they're not going to be around much longer.

00:16:54.200 Inevitably, that means that the people who decide what's unfashionable will be coming

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00:18:08.960 All right, the White House, through spokeswoman Karen Jean-Pierre, was in damage control mode

00:18:16.640 yesterday, trying to clean up after the president angered all normal people in the country by

00:18:21.760 declaring Easter to be Trans Day of Visibility. 0.88

00:18:25.440 And that was upsetting to, again, any normal person, any actually reasonable person.

00:18:30.940 Here's Karen Jean-Pierre giving us the spin. 0.98

00:18:33.840 Let's watch.

00:18:34.240 So, the criticism over the Transgender Day of Visibility, the White House said that the

00:18:40.940 president wouldn't abuse his faith for political purposes.

00:18:45.560 Does the president think that's what Republicans are doing?

00:18:47.840 I mean, look, just a couple of things.

00:18:50.460 And really, I'm so surprised by the misinformation that's been out there around this.

00:18:58.040 And I want to be very clear.

00:18:59.360 Every year, for the past several years, on March 31st, Transgender Day of Visibility is

00:19:06.200 March.

00:19:07.000 And as we know, for folks who understand the calendar and how it works, Easter falls on

00:19:11.880 different Sundays, right?

00:19:13.800 Every year.

00:19:14.840 And this year, it happened to coincide with Transgender Visibility Day.

00:19:20.520 And so, that is the simple fact.

00:19:22.660 That is what has happened.

00:19:24.060 That is where we are.

00:19:25.040 And I do want to say a couple of things, because I think it's important here, as you just stated

00:19:30.760 in your questions, what we've been hearing out there, a lot of misinformation done on

00:19:35.100 purpose.

00:19:36.220 And as a Christian who celebrates Easter with family, President Biden stands for bringing

00:19:42.380 people together and upholding the dignity and freedoms of every American.

00:19:47.620 Now, sadly, and it's not surprising, right?

00:19:49.960 It is actually unsurprising that politicians are seeking to divide and weaken our country

00:19:55.360 with cruel, hateful, and dishonest rhetoric.

00:19:57.860 It is dishonest what we have heard the past 24 hours.

00:20:01.060 It is untrue what we heard over the weekend.

00:20:04.760 And, you know, we were at first, I want to be very clear, confused on their coverage.

00:20:12.920 We're grateful that Fox agrees with President Biden about the importance of recognizing Trans

00:20:18.640 Day of Visibility.

00:20:20.220 And I'll just quote something that Fox said back in 2021.

00:20:24.060 They tweeted this, Trans Day of Visibility is dedicated to celebrating transgender people.

00:20:29.380 To all the transgender men, women, and non-binary folk, we see you and stand with you.

00:20:35.100 President Biden will never abuse his faith for political purposes or for profit.

00:20:41.000 That is not what this administration is about.

00:20:43.800 That is not what being a leader is about.

00:20:46.620 That's enough.

00:20:50.060 So she throws a jab at Fox News there. 1.00

00:20:54.160 Well-deserved, by the way.

00:20:55.800 It doesn't surprise me.

00:20:57.060 It doesn't surprise me that Fox, she doesn't give a lot of context to that.

00:21:00.560 I mean, there's no context that makes that okay.

00:21:02.220 But apparently they issued some sort of statement or tweet, I guess, also celebrating Trans Day

00:21:06.920 of Visibility in the past, which doesn't surprise me.

00:21:09.240 The rest of this is exactly the response that you would expect from these people.

00:21:13.540 And this is why it's such a shame that the term gaslighting has been used and abused so much.

00:21:21.460 To the point where it's a cliche now and it really doesn't mean anything.

00:21:25.800 But this is, still, this is grade A gaslighting.

00:21:30.580 I mean, this is gaslighting in the extreme.

00:21:32.780 This is what gaslighting is.

00:21:33.780 The White House does something intentionally provocative and controversial, to put it mildly, right?

00:21:43.140 To put it mildly, controversial.

00:21:44.880 And then says, hey, I don't know what the fuss is all about.

00:21:48.800 We're confused.

00:21:50.080 We had no idea.

00:21:53.680 Everyone, people were upset.

00:21:55.180 We were so confused.

00:21:56.120 We didn't realize.

00:21:57.020 We had no idea that issuing a proclamation about celebrating trans people on Easter might be a little bit upsetting to some people.

00:22:07.500 We had no clue.

00:22:08.460 We just had the slightest idea.

00:22:10.400 We had no idea that would happen.

00:22:11.660 I mean, even if somehow you agree with them and you agree with the trans stuff and you think trans stuff should be celebrated, which makes you wrong.

00:22:22.940 But even if you agree with them, you should still have, like, the self-respect to admit that, I mean, this is just nonsense.

00:22:33.400 This is looking right in our eyes and lying to us.

00:22:36.280 Okay, obviously, again, even if you think that it's a good idea to proclaim trans day of visibility on Easter, you still must admit that, of course, it's a provocative thing to do.

00:22:58.480 And even worse, they accuse the other side of being divisive.

00:23:01.900 You know, we're divisive because we don't like the divisive thing that they just did.

00:23:07.900 Our reaction to their divisiveness is divisive.

00:23:11.140 We're being divisive about their divisiveness is what they're saying.

00:23:15.180 And, you know, we talked about this yesterday, but I just have to say I would have more respect for these people.

00:23:20.600 I still would have basically no respect for them, but I would have more, slightly more.

00:23:25.120 I would have, like, the slightest little shred, right, of respect if they at least just admitted what they were doing.

00:23:34.360 If they simply said, yeah, you know what?

00:23:38.600 Of course we know that taking Easter, the holiest day on the Christian calendar,

00:23:44.580 and proclaiming something in celebration of transgenderism on that particular day,

00:23:50.180 of course we know that's unprecedented.

00:23:52.400 It's never been done before.

00:23:53.400 We know it's going to be very upsetting.

00:23:55.140 We know there are millions of Christians in this country,

00:23:57.060 and that's the kind of thing to hear that from the president.

00:23:59.900 It's going to be alarming to them.

00:24:02.100 We knew that, and we did it anyway, and we did it because we thought it was important, and here's why.

00:24:11.980 You could at least admit that.

00:24:13.320 But as we discussed yesterday, they won't admit that, and whenever they do something,

00:24:20.480 no matter how outrageous it is, the moment they do it, they not only expect us to tolerate it,

00:24:26.660 they not only expect us to accept it, they expect us to act as though we're not even surprised, right?

00:24:34.780 We have to act like we've been here before.

00:24:36.840 We have to act like this is totally normal.

00:24:41.640 Don't even raise your eyebrows at it.

00:24:43.960 We don't even want an eyebrow raise.

00:24:45.920 Even that, they say, is too far.

00:24:53.560 If there's any point that I take away from this,

00:24:55.900 it's that if they have any valid point at all, which they don't,

00:25:05.080 but if I was trying to be really generous

00:25:07.140 and find some kind of valid point in the midst of all this,

00:25:12.400 it would be that, you know what, the president,

00:25:16.720 because the president has proclaimed Trans Day of Visibility two other times,

00:25:19.960 22 and 23, he proclaimed Trans Day of Visibility.

00:25:25.900 Maybe in 2021 also, I can't remember.

00:25:28.700 So two or three other times he's proclaimed it.

00:25:31.620 Those two or three other times it wasn't on Easter.

00:25:36.520 But that's outrageous too.

00:25:38.700 It's more outrageous and more offensive to do it on Easter, but anytime.

00:25:43.240 So that's what I take away from this.

00:25:44.260 I guess what you're saying is like,

00:25:47.040 God forbid if Joe Biden has another term in office,

00:25:52.120 that we have four more years of him proclaiming Trans Day of Visibility,

00:25:57.740 anytime that happens, we should be outraged by it.

00:26:00.380 It's outrageous no matter when it happens, even if it's not on Easter.

00:26:04.200 Now for the next four years, I don't think it will be.

00:26:06.520 So even if it does not coincide with Easter,

00:26:12.240 we should still be outraged about the president of the United States

00:26:16.280 recognizing at all something like this.

00:26:20.820 Anything the president does to promote or support this trans ideology,

00:26:34.420 which is certainly the most deranged

00:26:38.040 and one of the most destructive ideologies that has ever existed in the history of humanity.

00:26:42.840 Anything the president does to support, promote it, proclaim it, declare it,

00:26:48.540 should be met with resistance.

00:26:53.800 All right.

00:26:54.700 Richard Dawkins, famed atheist biologist, of course, was on a show recently

00:26:58.740 where he had or seemed to have some unusually positive things to say about Christianity.

00:27:08.500 And this was, many people found this to be somewhat curious and surprising.

00:27:13.340 Let's watch this.

00:27:15.080 I was slightly horrified to hear that Ramadan is being promoted instead.

00:27:18.980 I do think that we are culturally a Christian country.

00:27:22.460 I call myself a cultural Christian.

00:27:24.880 I'm not a believer.

00:27:26.600 But there's a distinction between being a believing Christian and being a cultural Christian.

00:27:30.500 And so, you know, I love hymns and Christmas carols.

00:27:33.880 And I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos.

00:27:39.380 I feel that we are a Christian country in that sense.

00:27:43.800 It's true that statistically the number of people who actually believe in Christianity is going down.

00:27:49.840 And I'm happy with that.

00:27:52.480 But I would not be happy if, for example, we lost all our cathedrals and our beautiful parish churches.

00:27:58.980 So I count myself a cultural Christian.

00:28:02.560 I think it would matter if we, certainly if we substituted any alternative religion, that would be truly dreadful. 0.99

00:28:09.280 Well, which brings me to my supplementary point, which is that, as we know, church attendance is plummeting.

00:28:16.000 But the building, the erection of mosques across Europe, I think 6,000 are under construction.

00:28:21.540 And there are many more, I mean, are being planned.

00:28:24.460 So do you think, do you regard that as a problem?

00:28:27.900 Do you think that matters?

00:28:28.740 Yes, I do, really.

00:28:32.020 I mean, I, I, I, I don't, I might just choose my words carefully.

00:28:37.200 I mean, I, if I had to choose between Christianity and Islam, I choose Christianity every single time. 0.94

00:28:43.320 I mean, it seems to me to be a fundamentally decent religion in a way that I think Islam is not. 1.00

00:28:49.920 I think you're going to have to explain why you say that, Professor Dawkins.

00:28:54.860 Why is Islam, well, the way, the way, fundamentally not decent like Christianity? 1.00

00:29:00.920 Yes, I mean, the, the, the way women are treated. 1.00

00:29:03.640 I mean, Christianity is not great about that.

00:29:06.160 It's had its problems with female vicars and female bishops and things. 0.83

00:29:10.780 But there's an active hostility to women, which is promoted, I think, by the holy books of Islam. 0.92

00:29:17.000 I'm not talking about individual Muslims, who, of course, are quite, quite different. 1.00

00:29:21.840 But the, but the doctrines of Islam, the Hadith and the, and the Quran, is fundamentally hostile to women, hostile to gays.

00:29:31.160 And I find that I like to live in a culturally Christian country, although I do not believe a single word of the Christian faith.

00:29:43.760 Okay, so Dawkins is, is right about one thing, which is that there are many advantages to living in a Christian society.

00:29:54.820 A Christian society is better than all available alternatives and also all unavailable alternatives. 1.00

00:30:02.360 Now, he didn't say that part, but it's true. 0.99

00:30:04.860 And the positives that he outlines, which are mostly aesthetic, you know, are, are also true.

00:30:11.840 Though there are a lot more positives than just the aesthetics, even though that's what he seems to focus on.

00:30:16.780 You know, he talks about the hymns and the Christmas carols and the cathedrals and so on.

00:30:21.000 But he's wildly wrong about almost everything else that he says here, because it's all based on this notion that you can be culturally Christian while not actually being Christian.

00:30:30.740 He thinks that, you know, an individual can be non-Christian, though culturally Christian, and that a society can be non-Christian, though culturally Christian.

00:30:40.880 And he's wrong on both counts, and for the same reasons.

00:30:43.680 There is no Christian culture without Christianity. 1.00

00:30:46.960 There may be imitations.

00:30:49.280 You know, there might be imitations.

00:30:50.520 There might be, you could try to wear Christianity like a skin suit and call it a culture. 0.99

00:30:56.040 That's not really a culture.

00:30:57.540 It's only skin deep.

00:30:58.340 It's rootless.

00:30:58.960 It's shallow.

00:30:59.400 But what Dawkins calls Christian culture is, you know, it's really the remnants of Christian culture.

00:31:07.940 Churches, the Christmas carols, those are the relics that survive in cultures that have abandoned Christianity, like the culture that Dawkins lives in.

00:31:17.700 But they don't survive forever.

00:31:18.860 The churches decay.

00:31:20.740 It may take a long time.

00:31:21.980 Or they're burned down.

00:31:23.980 Or they are defaced in various different ways.

00:31:31.060 You know, they can be defaced by actual vandalism and destruction of property.

00:31:38.060 But they can also be defaced by, you know, intentionally making them uglier, which is something that has happened in many old, especially in this country, although I assume in other countries as well.

00:31:55.160 But in this country, you'll find, you know, there are many old cathedrals that are beautiful inside and outside and have survived and have been preserved.

00:32:03.380 But then sometimes you'll see a church and it's an old church and it's beautiful on the outside and then you go inside and you see that there's been an effort made to uglify it.

00:32:14.620 Like it's been made ugly on the inside.

00:32:16.880 They've done, they've even done things like they're taking away statues, beautiful statues and works of art that were inside the cathedral.

00:32:24.400 They take them out to make it uglier inside intentionally.

00:32:30.440 So that's what ends up happening.

00:32:33.140 They don't survive forever.

00:32:34.600 And Christmas carols and hymns, you know, are replaced eventually with newer, uglier songs.

00:32:39.880 And we're seeing all that happen, of course.

00:32:42.660 So Dawkins is standing in the rubble of Christian culture and calling that rubble culture. 0.52

00:32:48.060 And ironically, he helped to tear down the very thing whose culture he allegedly loves and celebrates.

00:32:59.220 You know, Dawkins, in his own way, has been waging a war on Christianity for decades.

00:33:05.540 And now he says, I'm a cultural Christian.

00:33:08.280 And I say now he says that.

00:33:09.440 I think in reality he's been saying stuff like this for years, just that people are only just noticed now.

00:33:15.320 Which also means, by the way, some of the reaction to that clip, I've seen some Christians very hopeful, very optimistic, saying, oh, you know, it sounds like Dawkins is, he's slowly but surely making it over to our side of the aisle.

00:33:28.960 And maybe there's a conversion, a conversion on the horizon.

00:33:32.680 It could happen.

00:33:33.380 You know, greater miracles have happened.

00:33:36.140 You know, we just celebrated one on Easter, of course.

00:33:39.340 So it could happen.

00:33:41.200 Who's to say that it wouldn't?

00:33:42.080 But I will say this is actually, what he's saying here is not new.

00:33:45.800 He's been saying this kind of thing for a long time, calling himself a cultural Christian.

00:33:50.760 But, and it's been wrong the entire time.

00:33:53.700 And why can't you have Christian culture without Christianity? 1.00

00:33:56.520 Well, for one thing, it's the same reason why you can't have, you know, Chinese culture without China. 0.93

00:34:01.340 Even if you enjoy some of the products of that culture.

00:34:06.520 You know, maybe you like the Kung Pao chicken.

00:34:09.260 But you can't really have Chinese culture without China itself.

00:34:12.860 That's where the culture comes from.

00:34:13.940 So it's like if Dawkins, you know, Dawkins here is a bit like someone who leads an army into China and inflicts carnage across the country and eradicates its population, hollows it out, and destroys it. 0.51

00:34:26.220 And then turns around and says, you know, I really consider myself to be culturally Chinese.

00:34:31.660 I do love egg rolls, after all.

00:34:34.720 Now, I'm not saying that Richard Dawkins has done that to Christianity.

00:34:37.900 He has not vanquished Christianity as much as he might wish that he could. 0.98

00:34:43.080 But he has been waging war on it.

00:34:44.840 And now he pines, he pines for its hymns and its cathedrals.

00:34:50.980 The point is that Christian culture springs out of Christianity. 0.95

00:34:55.200 And this should be, I would think, rather obvious.

00:34:57.300 Christian culture is a product of Christianity. 0.67

00:35:01.680 The hymns that he likes, and I can see why anybody would like them, even if you're an atheist.

00:35:08.800 Like, again, aesthetically, it's beautiful.

00:35:12.340 But, and Christmas, we know Christmas in general.

00:35:19.800 Everybody loves Christmas, even if they're not Christian. 1.00

00:35:22.920 And yeah, a lot of the things that they kind of love about it now, it's a lot of the commercialized aspects of it that really have nothing to do with what Christmas is at its core.

00:35:34.040 But even all of that, like, that's all, without the core of what Christmas is, none of that other stuff exists.

00:35:38.960 But all of that exists because of Christianity. 0.92

00:35:44.240 The hymns were composed to worship Christ.

00:35:47.520 The cathedrals were built for that same reason.

00:35:50.620 The Christmas carols, the holidays, all of that exists because of Christian faith.

00:35:55.160 And without the faith, it never would have existed.

00:35:57.780 And when the faith decays, those things recede along with it.

00:36:02.500 And whatever is left is emptied of all meaning.

00:36:07.620 Whatever is left is, it's like the cathedrals that still on the outside look a little bit like a cathedral.

00:36:12.720 Then you go in and it's, you know, everything has been sanitized and made ugly.

00:36:19.720 Because culture, a culture is a living thing.

00:36:26.400 And a culture is a creative thing.

00:36:29.620 And if a culture is not creating, it is dead.

00:36:34.140 Now, we know that Christian culture creates many things.

00:36:36.880 Beautiful things.

00:36:37.760 Useful things.

00:36:38.560 Some of the greatest artists and inventors and philosophers and thinkers and so on and political leaders and everything that have ever lived were Christians in a Christian culture.

00:36:51.540 And those things are not, it's not a coincidence.

00:36:53.440 It's not just like, well, they just so happened to be in a Christian culture.

00:36:58.040 And if they had been in any other kind of culture, they still would have achieved all those great things.

00:37:02.260 Maybe they would have achieved some great things.

00:37:04.400 But, you know, the fact that they were Christians in a Christian culture is a large part of what drove them to do the great things that they did.

00:37:13.520 Well, a post-Christian culture, on the other hand, doesn't create any of that. 0.75

00:37:19.320 You know, a post-Christian culture does not build cathedrals.

00:37:25.400 It may build things that it calls churches.

00:37:29.760 But those churches are sort of bland office buildings.

00:37:34.400 Right?

00:37:34.740 They're the kind of buildings that you look at them from the outside.

00:37:37.500 And if you didn't see a sign anywhere, you wouldn't even know it was a church.

00:37:40.760 And even sometimes if you see the sign, you still don't know that it's a church.

00:37:44.180 Right?

00:37:44.600 Even the sign makes it look like, well, that could be, what is that?

00:37:47.320 That could be a, you know, is it a post office?

00:37:50.200 Like, what is it?

00:37:53.480 That's what a post-Christian culture builds. 0.99

00:37:55.400 It builds ugly, dull things because it's an ugly, dull culture. 0.92

00:37:59.660 You know, you cannot have the vibrancy of Christian culture without Christianity itself.

00:38:07.580 All you can have are the leftovers, which is what Dawkins is really talking about.

00:38:13.860 And what he seems now to at least pretend that he cherishes, even as, again, he's, you know,

00:38:26.140 and has always relentlessly opposed the thing that produces all those things that he cherishes.

00:38:33.640 All right.

00:38:35.740 One other thing to mention, this is our Daily Wire report.

00:38:40.300 Of course, the bridge collapsed last week and many theories and really questions about

00:38:49.480 what led to the bridge collapse and how did this happen and everything else.

00:38:53.220 And there were plenty of people who wondered aloud whether DEI, myself being one of them,

00:39:01.780 wondered aloud whether DEI policies may have had something to do with this.

00:39:07.840 Because we know that there's a crisis of competency in this culture and DEI is one of the main drivers

00:39:13.840 of that by putting people who are unqualified into important positions that they are not equipped

00:39:20.480 to be in. And when you do that, bad things happen.

00:39:25.180 But we were also told that that's a conspiracy theory. You can't talk about it.

00:39:28.480 Don't even, don't even, don't, don't, don't ask questions. Certainly don't speculate.

00:39:33.060 It's all a conspiracy theory.

00:39:34.620 Well, here's the report from Daily Wire.

00:39:37.180 Maryland Governor Wes Moore put a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant on the Maryland

00:39:41.840 Port Commission just months before a container ship crashed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge.

00:39:47.060 Supply chain on the East Coast and beyond now hangs in the balance as authorities

00:39:50.100 will have to swiftly undertake complex feats of engineering to reopen the port and eventually

00:39:55.280 the bridge. The Governor Wes Moore named Corinthia Barber to the commission last August. The headline

00:40:00.680 of the press release announcing the hire hailed her as the first black woman to serve as Maryland

00:40:05.600 Port Commissioner. Reports Commission bio says she is the founder and CEO of Professional

00:40:10.160 Development Associates, a consulting practice that provides leadership and workforce training,

00:40:14.600 coaching and diversity, equity, and inclusion audits, and consulting.

00:40:18.620 Well, that's good. They were doing the DEI audits. That's a, it's a really important thing.

00:40:24.100 We have to make sure that the DEI is all in place. According to the, an interview with Barber

00:40:27.380 posted to the Port website this January, part of her job was to bring her DEI expertise to the

00:40:33.040 commission. Barber said, quote, in the words of our governor, I want to make sure the NPA is leaving

00:40:39.740 no one behind, that we are broadening our impact, our revenue, but also expanding the net of inclusion.

00:40:44.780 Barber did not request or respond to a request for comment from the Daily Wire and her qualifications.

00:40:50.700 The Port Commission website says that it's established policies directed toward improving

00:40:54.060 the competitive position of the Port of Baltimore within the international maritime industry.

00:40:58.260 Commission meetings are held once a month and include a session open to the public,

00:41:01.500 et cetera, and so forth. You can, you can go read the whole report about this.

00:41:03.700 Um, so this is just the, the first bit of evidence that, you know, and we knew this was coming.

00:41:15.020 Um, we know that in any of these, these institutions, uh, any, any, anything the government is doing,

00:41:22.660 the DEI permeates all of it. So we knew this was coming, but now here's the first example

00:41:28.660 of DEI being in sort of the, let's say the vicinity of this catastrophe. Now,

00:41:34.700 does that prove that this individual person, Corinthia Barber is responsible for the bridge

00:41:41.020 collapse? Doesn't prove that. And that's almost certainly not the case. Uh, would the bridge

00:41:46.060 collapse have happened even if she was never appointed? Not quite possibly, but that's not

00:41:51.180 the point. The point is not about this individual person. Um, and the point isn't always, you know,

00:41:59.560 drawing a direct line of connection between, oh, well they have DEI in this industry and then look,

00:42:07.680 this terrible thing happened. Now there are times when that, when you can draw that direct line of

00:42:12.620 connection. And I think we're going to see those, those connections will become clearer and clearer and

00:42:16.460 more direct as time goes on. And as DEI, uh, spreads its, its tentacles, um, further and further.

00:42:24.540 But that's not really the point right now. The point is that, um, we know that they are emphasizing

00:42:35.140 and that the governor is putting people on the port commission, um, on the basis of something other

00:42:42.280 than their, their, their actual qualifications for the job. So we know that again, around the

00:42:51.300 vicinity of where, of, of, of, of this catastrophe, we know that they were putting people into place

00:42:58.020 who are there not because they're most qualified for the job. Um, and this is the first example of

00:43:08.960 somebody like that. And I suspect there's many more revelations to come. I've been extremely clear

00:43:15.320 and outspoken in my stance that abortion is undoubtedly evil and should be illegal in all

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00:43:36.420 justified because the mother doesn't have the means to take care of her baby. Now, I don't think these

00:43:40.800 people actually know what they're saying. Our society needs a massive overhaul when it comes to

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00:45:29.740 A year ago during this segment of the show, we discussed the trad wife movement. This was at the

00:45:34.200 time a new and growing trend on TikTok and other social media platforms. The trend consists mostly

00:45:38.920 of certain female influencers, the trad wives, documenting their day-to-day lives, taking care

00:45:44.260 of their homes, baking various things from scratch, cleaning, tending to their husbands and children,

00:45:48.580 etc., often while dressed like housewives from a 1950s TV show. And it's the kind of trend that is

00:45:54.180 tailor-made to piss off feminists, and indeed feminists have spent the last year complaining 1.00

00:45:58.240 about it. A social media war has been raging now between the girl bosses on one side and the trad 0.98

00:46:04.200 wives on the other. And recently, the girl bosses have launched a new counter-offensive. Suddenly,

00:46:08.840 over the course of just a few weeks, there have been articles and think pieces in several major

00:46:13.080 publications outlining all of the concerning and problematic aspects of the trad wife phenomenon.

00:46:18.940 The New Yorker has a piece this week that's approximately 500,000 words long, so relatively

00:46:23.480 short by New Yorker standards, telling the tale of what it calls the rise and fall of the trad wife.

00:46:28.860 And it tells us about a woman who was once deep in the trad wife lifestyle, but has now emerged 0.77

00:46:33.800 from that lifestyle to warn against the monster, quote unquote, that she helped create.

00:46:38.780 Meanwhile, an article on Fox News outlines the criticisms that some have launched at the trad

00:46:43.560 wives, calling their way of life a fetish, calling it creepy, alarming. Time has an article written

00:46:50.400 by a licensed psychologist who agrees that the trad wife trend is alarming, and also argues that it's a

00:46:55.480 form of, quote, false escapism from the drudgeries of life. And she says that women who participate in 1.00

00:47:03.500 this lifestyle are using it as basically a coping mechanism. And over at the Guardian, a feminist named 1.00

00:47:09.500 Emma Beddington has her own think piece dismissing trad wives as the product of, quote, a reactionary

00:47:15.280 fantasy. But my favorite anti-trad wife article from this latest batch comes to us courtesy of Vogue

00:47:23.260 and a woman named Monica Ainley. Now, these other feminists merely offered their critiques of trad 0.97

00:47:31.560 wives. But Monica took it a step further. To really prove how horrific the trad wife life is, 1.00

00:47:38.360 she bravely went deep undercover. And confessing that she feels a, quote, gut-flipping repulsion

00:47:43.940 when she sees trad wives on social media, she decided to become a trad wife herself for a week in order

00:47:49.020 to discover the true depths of its horrors from the inside. So in other words, Monica is, well, she's just

00:47:55.720 taking, you know, five days off of work and spending some time with her own kids, her two kids. And if this

00:48:02.820 does not seem very harrowing to you, keep in mind that Monica did, as she tells us, give her beloved nanny

00:48:08.560 the week off. So she's giving the nanny the week off. She's spending five days at home with her kids. 0.99

00:48:15.920 Very, very, this is risky stuff. Forging ahead into this unknown wilderness alone. Very brave.

00:48:24.580 Now, she keeps a daily journal documenting her struggles. On day one, on Monday, we're told that

00:48:29.700 she tries to do laundry, but her kids keep unfolding the laundry that she folded. On Tuesday,

00:48:35.600 she makes dinner for her husband, but is so exhausted by the routine that she says that she's not in the

00:48:42.420 mood for intimacy that evening because she's so, you know, making dinner. Very exhausting. On Wednesday,

00:48:47.520 she tries to make a TikTok video, but her kids keep interrupting. And at dinner, three days into this,

00:48:52.300 she says that she feels dead inside. Her world has become tiny. By Thursday, she says that she's

00:48:58.820 drowning her sorrows with Pinot Grigio. And Friday comes and she's barely alive, limping to the finish

00:49:04.580 line. She closes with this thought, quote, as my week-long experiment officially comes to a close,

00:49:10.400 I feel a rush of relief. Not only that it's over, but also that my husband hasn't become a convert.

00:49:16.280 Maybe I'll amend my first rule of feminism to, don't knock it till you tried it. And now that I have, 1.00

00:49:22.360 I know one thing for sure. If my daughter one day expresses an interest in the trad wife life, 1.00

00:49:27.120 I will steer her in a different direction. Now, to point out the obvious here, Monica did not 0.94

00:49:34.780 actually become a trad wife. You can't truly experience that life if you live it for five days 0.99

00:49:41.620 and all for the express purpose of writing an article about it. So we haven't discovered anything

00:49:47.220 one way or another about trad wives or stay-at-home moms through Monica's experiment. All we've

00:49:52.100 discovered is that Monica apparently can't stand to be around her own children for five days. 1.00

00:49:57.460 Three and a half days into this thing, that's the span of a long weekend, okay? Like if you have a

00:50:02.040 Monday off, that's three days, the span of a Saturday to Monday. Three days into it,

00:50:06.660 she's so flustered by being around her two kids that she has to turn to booze to soothe herself. 0.54

00:50:13.100 That's how emotionally taxing it is to simply spend time with her own family for a few days.

00:50:19.020 Again, that reveals nothing about trad wives, but it does reveal a lot about Monica personally

00:50:23.680 and quite a bit about her own lifestyle and ideology. She wanted to expose trad wives, 1.00

00:50:29.920 but instead she exposed feminism instead, accidentally. In fact, there was really never

00:50:35.400 any chance that any of these feminist critics would say or discover anything revelatory about 0.99

00:50:40.060 trad wives because they aren't even actually criticizing trad wives. What they're doing is 0.91

00:50:44.940 they're attacking the social media trend, which is different from the thing itself. Because trad wife 0.86

00:50:51.680 means, of course, traditional wife. And what does traditional mean? Well, traditional in this context

00:50:57.360 simply means a wife who stays home and raises the children while her husband works. That's what 1.00

00:51:02.700 we're talking about. Now, you don't need to dress like a 50s housewife to do that. You don't need to 1.00

00:51:07.980 bake homemade cereal or whatever from scratch, although it's certainly admirable if you want to do that.

00:51:13.760 Most traditional wives, who we used to just call stay-at-home moms, and before that we used to just 1.00

00:51:19.400 call them adult women, most traditional wives have never even heard the term trad wife.

00:51:24.740 They've never been on TikTok. They certainly haven't posted any videos there documenting

00:51:29.340 their daily experiences. My own wife stays home to raise six kids. She's conservative and traditional, 1.00

00:51:35.360 just like me. But she's never referred to herself as a trad wife. And I've certainly never seen her in

00:51:42.160 the kitchen cooking up a TikTok video. Now, the trad wife TikTok trend itself may be somewhat new,

00:51:49.380 just like TikTok itself is new. But the thing, right, the thing itself at the most basic level

00:51:56.060 is not only not new, but is in fact one of humanity's oldest ideas. Traditional gender roles, 0.99

00:52:04.300 quote unquote, as we now call them, were not tested for the first time for a Vogue magazine article last

00:52:09.560 week. They've been tried and tested and found conducive to human happiness and flourishing all over the

00:52:14.660 world for thousands of years. And that's one of the many problems with the feminist critique, 1.00

00:52:20.680 their critique of the thing itself, not the TikTok trend. They say that it's alarming and dangerous and

00:52:27.160 unworkable and a right-wing escapist fantasy. And yet we already know from thousands of years of human

00:52:34.900 history that a life ordered around traditional gender roles works and can bring happiness.

00:52:41.080 We know that a society ordered around those roles, that indeed a world where every society is ordered

00:52:47.940 around those roles works and can bring happiness. We know that. We know it because this is how humanity

00:52:54.640 has always functioned. It's how most of humanity still functions. So anyone saying, well, I don't know,

00:53:02.240 this whole thing, it doesn't work. What do you mean it doesn't work? It's worked. It has worked

00:53:07.020 for literally thousands of years. If it doesn't work for us suddenly, then that tells us there's

00:53:13.700 something wrong with us. Okay. If we, in our culture, suddenly, as the first culture ever in 0.89

00:53:20.600 history, can't find a way to make that arrangement work, then there's a problem with us. We are the

00:53:26.300 problem. Now, feminism, feminism is the new thing. That's the trend. That's the experiment. That's the 1.00

00:53:37.100 fantasy. Traditional gender roles, so-called, they served humanity well for millennia. Feminism,

00:53:44.300 by comparison, may as well have just been invented last Tuesday. And yet it's already falling apart on

00:53:50.160 itself. It suggested, it demanded, a massive reordering of the way society is fundamentally

00:53:56.940 organized. It promised greater progress and human happiness if society did what it wanted.

00:54:02.280 And it has utterly failed to deliver on that promise. It has failed so much that already many

00:54:07.960 women are fleeing back to tradition, even if it is a kind of TikTok-ified version of it. 0.98

00:54:13.920 And feminism, for its part, can only stand by shaking its fist, screaming in protest, 1.00

00:54:20.160 and there's nothing else for it to do. It is a failed experiment, and everyone knows it.

00:54:27.880 And that is why, not the Tradwives, but their critics, are today canceled.

00:54:33.340 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.

00:54:35.840 Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 02, 2024

Ep. 1338 - Scotland Makes It Illegal To Hurt A Trans Person's Feelings

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