Ep. 1338 - Scotland Makes It Illegal To Hurt A Trans Person's Feelings
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Scotland has just passed a bill imposing long prison sentences for anyone who hurts the feelings of a transgender person. This is the most draconian assault on free speech we ve ever seen in the Western world, and it s just the beginning. Also, Richard Dawkins declares himself a cultural Christian. What does that mean? And a feminist writer tries being a trad wife for one week and does not enjoy the experience. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Scotland has just passed a bill imposing long prison sentences
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for anyone who hurts the feelings of a transgender person.
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This is the most draconian assault on free speech that we've seen in the Western world,
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Also, Richard Dawkins declares himself a cultural Christian.
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And a feminist writer tries being a trad wife for one week and does not enjoy the experience.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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If you were running the government of Scotland right now,
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you'd have no shortage of serious, potentially civilization-ending social problems to contend with.
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Chief among them would be that before long, there might not be very many Scottish people left.
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Since 2011, Scotland's birth rate has been well below replacement level,
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meaning far more people are dying than being born right now.
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There were more than 630,000 deaths in the country and only 580,000 or so births.
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And yet, despite those numbers, Scotland recorded its largest population in history as recently as 2022.
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Like many other nations all over the world, including the United States,
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Scotland is importing poor foreigners by the boatload to make up the difference.
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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.
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And no clear solution to the problem is in sight.
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The number of people aged 65 and over is projected to grow by nearly 30% by 2045,
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while the number of children is projected to drop by roughly 20%.
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Unless something changes very soon, Scotland may be completely unrecognizable by the time its next census rolls around.
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Now, in political terms, this is what's commonly called an existential threat.
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A serious country would enact policies to reverse this trend immediately,
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starting with turning away the so-called refugees and migrants that Scotland can't tolerate, much less accommodate.
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But Scotland has decided on a very different course of action.
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Instead of, say, encouraging more Scottish citizens to have families or something like that,
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the government instead in Scotland has decided to suspend the right of freedom of speech.
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And they've suspended the freedom of speech with the express purpose of endorsing and protecting transgenderism,
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an ideology that's antithetical to reproduction and which openly calls for the sterilization and castration of children.
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This is precisely the sort of thing that self-loathing societies do when they decide that they don't want to exist anymore.
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And as I'll explain in a second, it's exactly the same plan that our leaders are following in this country.
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Now, this specific law that I'm talking about is called the Hate, Crime, and Public Order Act.
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behaving in a manner that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive.
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the person intends to stir up hatred against a group of persons based on one of the following characteristics,
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quote, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity, or variations in sex characteristics.
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Anyone found guilty under this law can be sentenced to prison for up to seven years.
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reasonable person in Scotland considers abusive,
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the government can put you in prison for seven years.
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And there are sites springing up all over Scotland where people can report wrong think if they notice it,
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including, for some reason, sex shops in Glasgow.
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We've always had laws about stirring up hatred against people because of their racial background.
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Now the law has been expanded to include lots of other groups who are protected because of age,
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have now got this charge that can be brought if people are threatening or abusive towards this person
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because they're part of that group and they're attempting to stir up hatred against that particular group.
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This fish factory is one of dozens of sites where hate crimes can officially be reported.
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branded progressive by some, draconian by others,
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including women's groups embroiled in the trans debate.
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We know that there are people out there who have got lists of people that they are looking to target,
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that they are seeing this as an opportunity to settle scores.
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This legislation is not going to catch people online saying things that I might disagree with,
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Freedom of expression is really important and there's a defence for that within the legislation.
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What it does legislate against is when that freedom of speech strays into something that is abusive,
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and that also incites hatred or incites people to act on that hatred.
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Of course, we have the obligatory woman with big glasses defending this transgender hate crime legislation.
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She reassures us that freedom of expression is really important,
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Well, you can say whatever you want as long as it's not alarming.
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And that's not subjective or vague at all, is it?
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The only limiting principle is that this legislation says it doesn't outlaw discussion or criticism,
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But once discussion or criticism becomes abusive,
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then it's a serious crime and you'll spend the better part of a decade in prison for it.
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And the problem is that, by the bill's own terms,
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the people determining what's reasonable and what's hateful
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are people who believe that biology isn't real.
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I mean, the whole bill is established with the express understanding
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that it's reasonable by default to believe that anyone can change their gender in an instant.
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Okay, that's what the bill is saying is a reasonable position.
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It literally says that transgender identity is something that the law needs to recognize and protect.
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And as we've seen, trans activists are willing to cry about genocide if you use a pronoun they don't like.
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So these are the reasonable people who get to set the boundaries of what's abusive and what's not.
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And in effect, what this means is that the truth has just been outlawed in Scotland.
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Tell the truth about biological reality and you can go to prison.
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You can go to prison for longer than a serial rapist.
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Late last year, a man who raped three schoolgirls,
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ages 14 and 15, in the Scottish town of Falkirk,
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received a sentence of just six years in prison for three rapes of children.
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Now consider this, if he had misgendered those same children,
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This is a deliberate declaration of war by the government of Scotland against its own people.
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At every turn, they are working towards the destruction of future generations.
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And now they're making it illegal to talk about it.
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As a result, there's now a non-zero chance that the children's author, J.K. Rowling,
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When this law took effect, Rowling posted a lengthy thread on social media
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listing various men who identify as women in the U.K.,
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Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all,
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Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men
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However, misogynistically or opportunistically,
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than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls.
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It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence
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and sexual violence committed against women and girls,
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or address the current assaults on women and girls' rights,
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Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland
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if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.
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but if what I've written here qualifies as an offense under the terms of the new act,
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I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.
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many people in the UK are calling for Rowling's arrest.
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And by the letter of the law that was just enacted in Scotland,
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the police are obligated, indeed, to do just that.
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J.K. Rowling could be imprisoned for up to seven years.
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This is the new definition of blasphemy in the UK.
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These are essentially blasphemy laws that are being passed.
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And just to underscore that point even further,
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the same hate crimes bill that bans anyone from criticizing transgenderism,
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also repeals the existing blasphemy law on the books in Scotland.
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And that's been in effect since the common law was created,
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So, again, I'm not exaggerating for effect here.
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This is literally a line from the same bill, quote,
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the common law offense of blasphemy is abolished.
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After all, you have to destroy the old religion to enact the new one.
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Get rid of the old blasphemy in order to impose the new definition.
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The Scottish government understands that as well as Mao did.
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They understand it as well as Joe Biden's administration did on Easter Sunday.
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But this is not a story about the internal affairs of Scotland.
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is not some kind of aberrant, overly extreme application of leftist doctrine.
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Rather, it's the logical end result of that doctrine.
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So, when you value feelings over truth and you define untruth as truth,
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Anyone who really believes that men can become women
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and that affirming biological reality is tantamount to genocide
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As I've been saying for years, they use these terms because it's the setup, right?
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It's the pretense for later treating what you're saying as an actual act of physical violence.
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They're not interested in accurately describing what you're doing.
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It's to justify destroying your life by force through any means necessary.
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Now, you might be thinking to yourself, well, that can't happen here,
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at least not to the extent it's happening in a place like Scotland.
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After all, we have a much more robust constitution.
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We have First Amendment protections that, you know, enshrine freedom of speech
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and protect us from government interference when it comes to our speech.
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And surely, if the government explicitly said that it was going to target people
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for their speech in this country and then ruin them and, you know,
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The Attorney General of New York, Letitia James,
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is, of course, best known for her campaign to seize all the assets
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of the leading presidential candidate, Donald Trump.
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What she's not so well known for is her campaign to target the website VDARE
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explicitly because of its inconvenient and unpopular beliefs.
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This is a story that's gotten very little attention in conservative media,
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but it's every bit as scandalous as what Letitia James is doing to Donald Trump.
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Shortly after she took office, as reported by the fringe left-wing activist group
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Southern Poverty Law Center, Letitia James promised to target conservative
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and right-wing organizations based on their speech.
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Quote, in 2020, James said her office would take tougher legal action
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on organizations that engage in real-life discriminatory actions
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and online hate speech against protected classes.
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Now, this is an astonishing statement because there is no such thing
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But Letitia James just admitted out in the open
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that she was going to ignore the First Amendment
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and go after people saying things online that she does not like.
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Over the weekend, V-Dare explained that the New York Attorney General's office
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has ruined them financially with a subpoena that requires them to, quote,
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review 40 gigabytes of emails, an enormous amount.
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And of course, these emails could, in fact, reveal the names of the synonymous writers
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as well as donors, privileged communications with lawyers, etc.
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Now, in all, V-Dare says the subpoena could cost them more than $150,000 to comply with.
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And as a result, the website might not be around much longer.
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And all of this is happening without V-Dare being accused of any criminal activity whatsoever.
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There's apparently just a suspicion of a possible violation of New York's nonprofit rules, supposedly,
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relating to their purchase of a castle as a conference venue several years ago,
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which they needed to purchase because hotels wouldn't let them host conferences there,
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But the New York EHE's office isn't being very specific about what the problem is,
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so we're really speculating about the specifics.
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And as V-Dare's Lydia Brimlow said in a recent interview,
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New York really doesn't have anything to do with V-Dare,
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so their whole fixation with the organization is a little bit strange.
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In fact, V-Dare has been trying to leave the state behind for a while now.
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Now, the castle property that's at issue is in West Virginia.
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But when the extreme political rhetoric started flying around in New York,
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and we realized, hey, maybe we should incorporate in a state where we actually operate
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that may not be hostile to the work that we do,
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And we did some research, and it turned out that in the state of New York,
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you're not allowed to move without permission from the attorney general.
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You're not allowed to reincorporate in another state.
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You're also not allowed to sell or transfer assets without her permission,
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and you're not allowed to dissolve without her permission.
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You can incorporate there, but you can't leave.
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So V-Dare is being chased around by a vindictive attorney general for an out-of-state property
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Now, I'm no expert on the facts of the case, but at a glance,
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what V-Dare is apparently being investigated for is somewhat similar to what BLM has admitted
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We know BLM spent a lot of money buying multiple lavish mansions, not just one conference venue.
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But BLM was never subjected to any kind of investigation.
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They never had the New York attorney general or any other attorney general bombard them with
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V-Dare likes to talk about things like crime statistics and what happens in cities like Baltimore.
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So therefore, like Donald Trump, they need to be crushed.
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Every real estate transaction they've ever engaged in needs to be carefully scrutinized
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Suddenly, Scotland's decision to suspend freedom of speech doesn't seem so unthinkable here.
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If Letitia James can get away with targeting a right-wing media outlet like this while admitting
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If anything, we could learn from what's happening in Scotland.
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All right, the White House, through spokeswoman Karen Jean-Pierre, was in damage control mode
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yesterday, trying to clean up after the president angered all normal people in the country by
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declaring Easter to be Trans Day of Visibility.
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And that was upsetting to, again, any normal person, any actually reasonable person.
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So, the criticism over the Transgender Day of Visibility, the White House said that the
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president wouldn't abuse his faith for political purposes.
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Does the president think that's what Republicans are doing?
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And really, I'm so surprised by the misinformation that's been out there around this.
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Every year, for the past several years, on March 31st, Transgender Day of Visibility is
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And as we know, for folks who understand the calendar and how it works, Easter falls on
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And this year, it happened to coincide with Transgender Visibility Day.
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And I do want to say a couple of things, because I think it's important here, as you just stated
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in your questions, what we've been hearing out there, a lot of misinformation done on
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And as a Christian who celebrates Easter with family, President Biden stands for bringing
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people together and upholding the dignity and freedoms of every American.
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It is actually unsurprising that politicians are seeking to divide and weaken our country
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It is dishonest what we have heard the past 24 hours.
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And, you know, we were at first, I want to be very clear, confused on their coverage.
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We're grateful that Fox agrees with President Biden about the importance of recognizing Trans
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And I'll just quote something that Fox said back in 2021.
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They tweeted this, Trans Day of Visibility is dedicated to celebrating transgender people.
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To all the transgender men, women, and non-binary folk, we see you and stand with you.
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President Biden will never abuse his faith for political purposes or for profit.
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It doesn't surprise me that Fox, she doesn't give a lot of context to that.
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I mean, there's no context that makes that okay.
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But apparently they issued some sort of statement or tweet, I guess, also celebrating Trans Day
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of Visibility in the past, which doesn't surprise me.
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The rest of this is exactly the response that you would expect from these people.
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And this is why it's such a shame that the term gaslighting has been used and abused so much.
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To the point where it's a cliche now and it really doesn't mean anything.
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But this is, still, this is grade A gaslighting.
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The White House does something intentionally provocative and controversial, to put it mildly, right?
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And then says, hey, I don't know what the fuss is all about.
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We had no idea that issuing a proclamation about celebrating trans people on Easter might be a little bit upsetting to some people.
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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.
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But even if you agree with them, you should still have, like, the self-respect to admit that, I mean, this is just nonsense.
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This is looking right in our eyes and lying to us.
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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.
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And even worse, they accuse the other side of being divisive.
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You know, we're divisive because we don't like the divisive thing that they just did.
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Our reaction to their divisiveness is divisive.
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We're being divisive about their divisiveness is what they're saying.
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And, you know, we talked about this yesterday, but I just have to say I would have more respect for these people.
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I still would have basically no respect for them, but I would have more, slightly more.
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I would have, like, the slightest little shred, right, of respect if they at least just admitted what they were doing.
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Of course we know that taking Easter, the holiest day on the Christian calendar,
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and proclaiming something in celebration of transgenderism on that particular day,
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We know there are millions of Christians in this country,
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and that's the kind of thing to hear that from the president.
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We knew that, and we did it anyway, and we did it because we thought it was important, and here's why.
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But as we discussed yesterday, they won't admit that, and whenever they do something,
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no matter how outrageous it is, the moment they do it, they not only expect us to tolerate it,
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they not only expect us to accept it, they expect us to act as though we're not even surprised, right?
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If there's any point that I take away from this,
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it's that if they have any valid point at all, which they don't,
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and find some kind of valid point in the midst of all this,
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it would be that, you know what, the president,
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because the president has proclaimed Trans Day of Visibility two other times,
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22 and 23, he proclaimed Trans Day of Visibility.
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So two or three other times he's proclaimed it.
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Those two or three other times it wasn't on Easter.
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It's more outrageous and more offensive to do it on Easter, but anytime.
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God forbid if Joe Biden has another term in office,
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that we have four more years of him proclaiming Trans Day of Visibility,
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anytime that happens, we should be outraged by it.
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It's outrageous no matter when it happens, even if it's not on Easter.
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Now for the next four years, I don't think it will be.
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we should still be outraged about the president of the United States
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Anything the president does to promote or support this trans ideology,
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and one of the most destructive ideologies that has ever existed in the history of humanity.
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Anything the president does to support, promote it, proclaim it, declare it,
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Richard Dawkins, famed atheist biologist, of course, was on a show recently
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where he had or seemed to have some unusually positive things to say about Christianity.
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And this was, many people found this to be somewhat curious and surprising.
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I was slightly horrified to hear that Ramadan is being promoted instead.
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I do think that we are culturally a Christian country.
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But there's a distinction between being a believing Christian and being a cultural Christian.
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And so, you know, I love hymns and Christmas carols.
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And I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos.
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I feel that we are a Christian country in that sense.
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It's true that statistically the number of people who actually believe in Christianity is going down.
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But I would not be happy if, for example, we lost all our cathedrals and our beautiful parish churches.
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I think it would matter if we, certainly if we substituted any alternative religion, that would be truly dreadful.
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Well, which brings me to my supplementary point, which is that, as we know, church attendance is plummeting.
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But the building, the erection of mosques across Europe, I think 6,000 are under construction.
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And there are many more, I mean, are being planned.
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So do you think, do you regard that as a problem?
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I mean, I, I, I, I don't, I might just choose my words carefully.
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I mean, I, if I had to choose between Christianity and Islam, I choose Christianity every single time.
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I mean, it seems to me to be a fundamentally decent religion in a way that I think Islam is not.
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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?
00:29:00.920
Yes, I mean, the, the, the way women are treated.
00:29:06.160
It's had its problems with female vicars and female bishops and things.
00:29:10.780
But there's an active hostility to women, which is promoted, I think, by the holy books of Islam.
00:29:17.000
I'm not talking about individual Muslims, who, of course, are quite, quite different.
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.
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.
00:30:50.520
There might be, you could try to wear Christianity like a skin suit and call it a culture.
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.
00:31:31.060
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.
00:32:16.880
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.
00:32:34.600
And Christmas carols and hymns, you know, are replaced eventually with newer, uglier songs.
00:32:42.660
So Dawkins is standing in the rubble of Christian culture and calling that rubble culture.
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.
00:33:09.440
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.
00:33:36.140
You know, we just celebrated one on Easter, of course.
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.
00:33:53.700
And why can't you have Christian culture without Christianity?
00:33:56.520
Well, for one thing, it's the same reason why you can't have, you know, Chinese culture without China.
00:34:01.340
Even if you enjoy some of the products of that culture.
00:34:09.260
But you can't really have Chinese culture without China itself.
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.
00:34:26.220
And then turns around and says, you know, I really consider myself to be culturally Chinese.
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.
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.
00:34:55.200
And this should be, I would think, rather obvious.
00:34:57.300
Christian culture is a product of Christianity.
00:35:01.680
The hymns that he likes, and I can see why anybody would like them, even if you're an atheist.
00:35:12.340
But, and Christmas, we know Christmas in general.
00:35:19.800
Everybody loves Christmas, even if they're not Christian.
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.
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.
00:36:34.140
Now, we know that Christian culture creates many 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.
00:37:19.320
You know, a post-Christian culture does not build cathedrals.
00:37:29.760
But those churches are sort of bland office buildings.
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.
00:37:44.600
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?
00:37:55.400
It builds ugly, dull things because it's an ugly, dull culture.
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.
00:38:35.740
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.
00:39:37.180
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
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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
00:45:58.240
about it. A social media war has been raging now between the girl bosses on one side and the trad
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
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
00:47:03.500
this lifestyle are using it as basically a coping mechanism. And over at the Guardian, a feminist named
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
00:47:31.560
wives. But Monica took it a step further. To really prove how horrific the trad wife life is,
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.
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,
00:49:22.360
I know one thing for sure. If my daughter one day expresses an interest in the trad wife life,
00:49:27.120
I will steer her in a different direction. Now, to point out the obvious here, Monica did not
00:49:34.780
actually become a trad wife. You can't truly experience that life if you live it for five days
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.
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.
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,
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
00:50:40.060
trad wives because they aren't even actually criticizing trad wives. What they're doing is
00:50:44.940
they're attacking the social media trend, which is different from the thing itself. Because trad wife
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
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
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
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,
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,
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,
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
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
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.
00:54:13.920
And feminism, for its part, can only stand by shaking its fist, screaming in protest,
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.