The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1349 - Dumbing Down Education In The Name Of 'Decolonization'

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, there is a movement underway to quote-unquote decolonize academics,

00:00:04.780 especially subjects like math. One professor is spearheading an effort to bring indigenous math

00:00:09.340 into the classrooms. What does that mean exactly? We'll discuss. Also, more high-profile Democrats

00:00:13.380 refuse to condemn the death-to-America chants. A student in North Carolina is suspended for using

00:00:17.820 the term illegal alien in class. And Joe Biden is now calling for WNBA players to be paid their

00:00:23.340 fair share. What is a fair share of the zero dollars in profit that the WNBA earns every year? 1.00

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00:01:56.460 989898. It's not every day that a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the Democratic Republic of Congo

00:02:03.000 attracts international media attention. Normally, Congo flies under the radar, we might say, even

00:02:07.840 though it's actually one of the biggest countries in the world. It's bigger than Mexico, believe it or

00:02:11.180 not. But a couple of years ago, this incredible footage from the capital of Congo was picked up by

00:02:16.120 Western media. It's from the grand opening of a footbridge that was apparently a big deal for

00:02:21.160 the locals. And here's how it worked out.

00:02:46.120 I don't know. Was the ribbon holding up the bridge? I mean, why did it collapse the second

00:02:58.640 they cut the ribbon? I don't get it. But it's a little like the collapse of that bridge in

00:03:03.640 Baltimore, except in this case, a barge didn't need to hit anything. All they had to do was cut

00:03:08.860 the ribbon and stand on the bridge, and the whole thing came crashing down on them. Now, fortunately,

00:03:14.460 nobody was hurt in that incident. It got a few laughs on social media. Everybody moved on. But

00:03:19.420 in retrospect, the collapse of that footbridge in Congo's capital was more than just a meme on the

00:03:24.880 internet. It was a practical manifestation of something that Western academics now want to

00:03:29.460 import into this country. There is a concerted effort underway in universities all over the world

00:03:34.340 to, quote, decolonize mathematics, engineering, and science in general. It's been generations since

00:03:41.060 Congo was under Belgian rule. So presumably, that footbridge is a great example of decolonized 0.95

00:03:46.940 engineering. That's what it looks like when it's decolonized. And now the West wants to emulate

00:03:51.460 that. I first noticed this trend when I came across a recent article from Australian National

00:03:56.560 University, which, according to Wikipedia, is supposedly an impressive institution. And the

00:04:02.380 gist is that a professor in Australia named Rowena Ball is trying to get the concept of

00:04:06.940 indigenous mathematics off the ground because aboriginal people struggle with European 0.81

00:04:13.740 mathematics, quote, unquote, otherwise known as real mathematics. The article includes this

00:04:18.080 remarkable line, quote, numbers and arithmetic and accounting often are of secondary importance

00:04:24.160 in indigenous mathematics. Now, that seems to make as much sense as saying that words are of secondary

00:04:30.920 importance in linguistics or that maps are of secondary importance in the science of cartography.

00:04:38.180 I mean, how can you have mathematics without numbers and arithmetic exactly?

00:04:42.740 Well, read on and Professor Ball will tell you, quote, mathematics is primarily the science of patterns

00:04:47.940 and recognizing and classifying those patterns. One interesting example that we're currently investigating

00:04:52.440 is the use of chiral symmetry to engineer a long distance smoke signaling technology in real time.

00:04:58.320 If you light an incense stick, you'll see the twin counter-rotating vortices that emanate.

00:05:04.180 These are a chiral pair, meaning they are non-superimposable mirror images of each other.

00:05:09.480 The article goes on to explain, quote, a memoir by Alice Duncan Kemp, who grew up on a cattle station in

00:05:15.100 the early 1900s, vividly describes the signaling procedure in which husband and wife expert team

00:05:20.000 Bogie and Marianne selected and pulsed the smoke waves with a left to right curl to signal white men 0.80

00:05:25.800 instead of the more usual right to left spiral. To create and understand these signals, you have

00:05:31.140 to be a skilled, practical mathematician, Professor Ball says. Well, it's not hard to see what's being

00:05:37.420 conflated here. Yes, it's possible to argue that the act of lighting the incense stick and producing

00:05:42.780 counter-rotating vortices does, in a way, implicate mathematics and especially geometry,

00:05:48.680 as does literally everything that happens in the physical world. I mean, it's like saying LeBron

00:05:55.140 James is a skilled mathematician because his three-pointers make nice parabolas. Now, he's not

00:06:00.800 thinking in his head about the parabolic equation when he's playing. He doesn't even know what that

00:06:05.040 is, probably. Now, in the case that Professor Ball is talking about, there's nothing really mathematical

00:06:10.780 in any traditional sense about generating smoke signals. And frankly, depending on the size of the

00:06:16.860 vocabulary of the signaling system, it's probably something you could train apes to do, even though 0.98

00:06:22.300 they have no understanding of language, much less math. I mean, it's like saying that a child

00:06:27.180 successfully flying a kite is doing math. I mean, it's nonsense. You might as well say that by walking

00:06:32.840 across the room, you are engaged in mathematics. Now, these are very simple sort of actions and

00:06:40.360 phenomena we're talking about. Throwing a basketball, lighting an incense stick. It's not rocket science.

00:06:46.360 Your brain is doing complex equations when you shoot a basketball, sure, or even when you walk

00:06:52.820 across the room. And because our mathematics is so sophisticated and precise, we can describe the

00:06:59.100 physical phenomenon to a great degree of sophistication and precision. But that's only

00:07:03.740 because our mathematics can penetrate reality to that degree. You don't have to wonder how precise

00:07:09.740 African folk math or whatever can get in describing that stuff. To say nothing of the math and mathematical 0.97

00:07:15.480 physics required to build stuff like nuclear reactors and rocket engines and computers and all

00:07:19.620 that. That stuff absolutely requires not just numbers, but advanced and highly abstract theories

00:07:25.680 that the people that are doing this are consciously engaged in. But highly abstract theories are out of

00:07:33.120 style now, and not just in Australia. Brain dead oversimplification is the name of the game.

00:07:38.600 So here, for example, is a recent TEDx talk delivered by a woman who teaches mathematics in Canada.

00:07:43.520 She's also a vice principal in the Ottawa School District. Listen to her communicate her understanding

00:07:50.440 of what mathematics is all about.

00:07:54.520 Before I begin, I am hoping you will do a little bit of math with me.

00:07:59.660 If you are willing, raise your hand if you have ever said or heard someone say one of these things,

00:08:05.940 yes, I am not a math person. I can't do math, or even I hate math.

00:08:14.380 Did you know that if you made it on time today, or even made a cup of coffee, chose what to wear,

00:08:20.660 you were doing math, even though you didn't think about it that way?

00:08:25.140 My talk today is about how mathematics has become, for me, an enriching opportunity to connect with

00:08:30.700 others and the world in ways my high school calculus class never really afforded.

00:08:36.300 Well, I guess there's some good news here. I mean, I must be a genius mathematician myself,

00:08:42.060 because I made coffee, and I picked out my own clothes this morning.

00:08:46.480 Now, this will come as news to all of my grade school math teachers who graded my math exams in

00:08:50.700 a manner that conveyed a certain lack of faith in my mathematical prowess. But if only they'd known

00:08:55.740 that I already passed the math test just by getting dressed before I came to school. And if only I'd

00:09:00.720 been as brain damaged as academic elites are today, then maybe I would have thought to make that

00:09:04.540 argument myself in my own defense. Anyway, a little over a year ago, there was an in-depth column in

00:09:10.260 The Spectator about this movement to discredit and undermine serious academic disciplines,

00:09:14.600 especially math. It was written by John Armstrong, who teaches at King's College London and previously

00:09:19.460 taught at Oxford. He's an actual mathematician with actual credentials, and he summed up the problem

00:09:24.520 with this whole push to decolonize math pretty simply. He said, quote,

00:09:27.980 the fact is that colonialism is irrelevant to the validity of mathematics. The Mayan civilization

00:09:32.580 was doing sophisticated mathematics in the Americas long before Christopher Columbus arrived on the

00:09:36.520 continent. The digits 0123456789 we use today were first written in India and inspired by Chinese

00:09:43.220 mathematics. They were popularized by Persian and Arab mathematicians and then made their way to

00:09:47.680 Europe via the Moors' conquest of southern Spain. Admittedly, the Moors' conquest of Spain was a form of

00:09:53.260 colonialism, but apparently not the type of colonialism we are meant to be interested in.

00:09:58.180 So what do these activists mean when they say they want to decolonize math, given that the entire

00:10:03.820 idea of decolonizing math is completely incoherent? The Arabs were colonizers too. And why are Australians, 0.63

00:10:10.600 of all people, so interested in promoting this idea? Well, one possibility is that by some estimates,

00:10:15.920 as the Twitter account IO points out, Aboriginal Australians happen to have, on average,

00:10:20.620 the second lowest IQ out of any demographic group on the planet. Now, that's the sort of thing that's

00:10:26.400 supposed to be unsayable, but it's impossible to talk about certain groups struggling academically

00:10:31.580 without bringing up the intellectual elephant in the room. I mean, there might be a reason why there

00:10:36.420 aren't many aboriginals working at NASA, let's say. And it's an important point because it means that 1.00

00:10:41.540 decolonization, practically speaking, entails dumbing down these subjects or destroying them altogether.

00:10:46.920 And mainly we see with this decolonization agenda, the embarrassment that liberal Westerners feel

00:10:56.060 about the fact that their ancestors were far more advanced in just about every way and by every

00:11:01.660 available measure than the native people they conquered. The liberal Westerners constantly looking

00:11:07.080 for ways to even out the score. And we're seeing that more and more in this country as well. The once

00:11:12.140 respected Nature magazine, for example, recently published an editorial with no byline that reads

00:11:16.940 quote, why we have nothing to fear from the decolonization of mathematics. And what's amazing

00:11:23.220 is that if you read the whole editorial, you won't actually find a definition of what decolonization

00:11:28.140 means in this context. You won't find anything close to a definition, actually. The most you'll discover

00:11:33.540 is that according to Nature, decolonization quote, shows that the roots of discovery and invention are

00:11:38.580 shared between many world cultures, which can be particularly empowering to people from historically

00:11:42.760 marginalized groups. Decolonizing science is the antidote to exceptionalism, the idea that any 0.78

00:11:47.880 single culture or civilization possessed special abilities in advancing science. But as we just

00:11:53.900 established, some cultures and civilizations did indeed advance science and mathematics more than

00:12:00.460 others. I mean, there were some cultures and civilizations that didn't advance it at all because

00:12:05.280 they didn't even have the concepts. And then there were others that did quite a bit to advance it,

00:12:11.260 and some of those were colonizers, and some of those colonizers were not white. And regardless,

00:12:16.300 none of this has anything to do with mathematics. I mean, maybe you can argue that this belongs in some

00:12:20.120 elective history course somewhere, but it has no place affecting courses on the fundamentals of

00:12:24.460 mathematics, which is exactly what's happening in this country. Pittsburgh Public Schools, for example,

00:12:29.880 recently announced a plan to make mathematics instruction more equitable. What does that mean?

00:12:35.860 Watch. The Pittsburgh Public Schools hiring a consultant to teach a new method of instructing

00:12:41.820 kids. It's intended to be anti-racist, and what some find curious is that the subject involved

00:12:46.860 is math. KDK lead investigator Andy Sheehan talked with the district leader who recommended it.

00:12:52.860 According to Assistant Superintendent Dr. Sean McNeil, this means addressing historic inequities

00:12:58.300 in educating students by exposing them to black professionals in STEM fields to tell students

00:13:05.040 of the African-American legacy in mathematics, emphasizing its practical applications in a hands-on

00:13:12.160 welcoming way, and McNeil says the emphasis is on concepts and reasoning rather than putting

00:13:18.120 importance on getting the answer right. Is this not sort of dumbing down the math curriculum

00:13:25.440 to say, hey, you know, you didn't get the right answer, but, you know, close enough?

00:13:31.300 At times, there is a right or wrong answer, but we don't just emphasize the right or wrong answer. We

00:13:37.180 emphasize the journey. At times, at least he was willing to concede, at times in mathematics, at times

00:13:44.500 there's a right or wrong answer. No, every time in mathematics, every single time there's a right or wrong

00:13:50.040 answer. But, you know, he says it's not about getting the right answer anymore in Pittsburgh's math

00:13:53.920 classes. It's about the journey. And the next time your bridge collapses, remember that, you know,

00:13:59.360 your death is not what's important. What matters is that the incompetent engineer who built the bridge

00:14:04.360 had high self-esteem. So, yes, you might be lying on the ground, mangled and dying with a giant metal

00:14:12.060 beam, like, spearing you through the stomach. But as you lay there expiring, just think about the journey

00:14:17.820 that those bridge engineers were on. And that should give you comfort. It's the same thing that the

00:14:23.520 Canadian teacher said in her TEDx talk. The goal is for everyone to feel like a mathematician regardless

00:14:28.860 of ability. None of this has anything to do with actually teaching math, of course, which is the

00:14:33.340 point. Students can fail math courses, and they've been doing a lot of that in Pittsburgh, but it's

00:14:38.580 harder to fail a course that begins with the assumption that every student is gifted in mathematics,

00:14:42.860 no matter what their test scores or actual mathematical aptitude might say about it. The other underlying

00:14:49.180 factor that drives all this superficial decolonization rhetoric and activism is a deep insecurity about 0.93

00:14:55.260 actual knowledge on the part of those circulating this garbage. And it's a very well-founded insecurity

00:15:00.540 for them, actually, especially when it comes to ignorance regarding history. Everything is a cartoon

00:15:06.200 with these people. Cartoon history, cartoon philosophy. It's barely high school debate talking point stuff.

00:15:12.560 It's more elementary school level thinking, which does make it easier to incorporate into lower

00:15:17.180 education, incidentally. But to be clear, this isn't just happening in Pittsburgh. It's easy to pick on

00:15:21.580 Pittsburgh for a lot of reasons. As I said before, the city is falling apart. But this effort to

00:15:26.380 decolonize math has serious financial backers, and schools everywhere are adopting similar approaches.

00:15:32.200 In 2018, Bill Gates's foundation created something called the Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction,

00:15:37.420 intended for use in grades six through eight. And the pathway trains teachers that, quote,

00:15:41.180 in order to embody anti-racist math education, teachers must engage in critical proxies that

00:15:47.120 interrogate the ways in which they perpetuate white supremacy culture in their own classrooms,

00:15:52.780 and develop a plan towards anti-racist math education to address issues of equity for black,

00:15:58.000 latinx, and multilingual students. Now, why would Bill Gates want to promote nonsense like that?

00:16:04.580 Well, it's hard to say. No one appears to have asked him. But we do know that in the years since

00:16:10.300 2018, math literacy in this country has plummeted. In 2018, something called the Program for

00:16:14.640 International Student Assessment measured the average 15-year-old's math aptitude in this country

00:16:19.180 at a score of 478. By 2022, that score had already dropped to 465, still trending in the wrong direction.

00:16:27.620 Meanwhile, data from the National Center for Education Statistics shows that U.S. math and reading scores

00:16:31.460 are at their lowest level in decades right now. Now, you can blame that on COVID and lockdowns and

00:16:38.260 wonky gain-of-function research if you want, which Bill Gates also funded through WHO, by the way.

00:16:44.760 But there's not a serious person alive who thinks that any of this decolonization propaganda

00:16:49.580 is actually helping these scores move in the right direction. It's doing the opposite by design.

00:16:55.880 And this is every bit as serious an attack on this country as the airport and bridge raids that I

00:17:01.140 covered yesterday. Because this is an attack on our ability to build airports and bridges in the

00:17:06.660 first place. And unless we want our bridges to function like Congos in the near future,

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00:18:24.780 Walsh. Daily Wire reports numerous House Democrats in the nation's capital refused to condemn burning the

00:18:30.680 American flag and chanting death to America when confronted by a reporter this week. The questions from the

00:18:35.620 reporter came in response to far-left protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City this week

00:18:40.100 holding a pro-Palestinian demonstration that disrupted traffic. And we also saw the American

00:18:45.700 flag was burned. They were chanting death to America. We've seen that in protests all across

00:18:48.800 the country. In fact, here's the video. Anti-Israel protesters blocking the Brooklyn Bridge were burning

00:18:56.740 the American flag and chanting death to America. Do you support that type of protest?

00:19:00.440 Congresswoman? Do you support burning the American flag and chanting death to America? 0.87

00:19:08.420 Does it sound like this is pro-Palestinian or anti-American if they're burning American flags 0.89

00:19:12.940 and chanting death to America? I'm not privy to... I haven't seen these reports. I'd have to check

00:19:19.520 for them myself. Anti-Israel protesters blocking the Brooklyn Bridge burned the American flag and

00:19:24.360 chanted death to America. Do you condemn this type of rhetoric? We've got to get her on to her next 0.97

00:19:30.860 event. Are you okay with people burning the American flag? If you'd like to follow up with that stuff.

00:19:36.880 Are you okay with people chanting death to America? Sorry, we've got to head into... Congresswoman Porter,

00:19:44.080 are you okay with people chanting death to America? Is it okay? Do you not have a problem with it?

00:19:52.160 Happy to reach out here. Okay, so that's Ayanna Pressley, AOC, and Katie Porter are all unwilling to 0.83

00:19:59.220 condemn the death to America chants. Last week, it was Rashida Tlaib we saw, also unwilling. And so

00:20:05.540 these are not just random politicians either. These are some of the most prominent Democratic elected

00:20:09.880 officials in the entire country. And they just can't bring themselves to say, no, I don't think

00:20:16.960 people should chant death to America. I am opposed to that. I do not want America to die. They can't

00:20:23.500 say that. And it should be a layup. This is like the easiest shot to make. They could even pivot.

00:20:30.080 They could answer the question and pivot. They could say something like, well, I condemn death to America

00:20:34.620 because I love my country, unlike Republicans, or trying to destroy our democracy and yada, yada,

00:20:39.980 yada, whatever. I mean, that's easy to do. Or it should be. And I think this is something that

00:20:44.860 maybe younger people listening might not fully appreciate. Because you see a video like that,

00:20:50.340 and you say, well, of course those people won't condemn death to America. Obviously, they won't.

00:20:56.360 And you're right. It is obvious. Of course, they won't. But what you should understand is that

00:21:01.320 this is a pretty new development. This is a, you know, we get jaded and we get very accustomed to

00:21:07.760 things very quickly. But this is a pretty new. Because 10 years ago, 15 years ago, Democrats would

00:21:16.260 have happily condemned that. Eagerly, in fact. Not because they were great patriots back then,

00:21:21.960 but because the political incentives would have been very high for them to go on the record and say,

00:21:27.240 hey, I'm not with those people. I love America. You know, God bless the USA. 15 years ago, that

00:21:34.440 would have been the incentive. And that's not the case anymore. These Democrats don't condemn the

00:21:38.740 chant because, for one thing, they agree with it. They're all anti-American traitors. But more 0.99

00:21:44.480 importantly, politically, they're held hostage by the most radical far-left elements on their side.

00:21:52.020 So they won't even pretend to be patriotic because patriotism, shows of patriotism are a betrayal to

00:22:02.440 their side. And this is a side whose agenda is dictated. It's dictated by people like this. Here's

00:22:08.300 an activist named Nerdine Kiswani, who was on Piers Morgan's show last night. And she was asked the

00:22:14.920 same question about death to America chants and does she condemn it? And here's how she dealt with that

00:22:20.840 issue. You know, phrases and actions that have been taken at the post haven't actually been

00:22:25.960 violent. They haven't harmed anyone. And I don't think we should focus. What do you think about

00:22:29.440 people chanting death to America, as they did in one video clip? I think that that's just a phrase

00:22:34.080 maybe said by an individual. Well, no, the whole crowd began joining in. I didn't see that. Yeah,

00:22:38.900 yeah. So this guy, this guy said it and then the whole crowd began chanting it. What would you

00:22:43.240 condemn that? I'm here to talk about the entire. You're here to answer my questions, actually. Would you

00:22:49.160 condemn what they were chanting, death to America? I think we should condemn Palestinians actually 1.00

00:22:54.240 being killed. OK, I think that and that's not the question I'm asking you. So I will ask you

00:22:58.460 about Gaza. But on the question I asked you, would you condemn people in America chanting death to

00:23:04.660 America? What do you say? I don't condemn how people choose to express their rage verbally.

00:23:10.140 I don't condemn that because at the end of the day, the reason they're saying that is because the U.S.

00:23:13.880 is sending the tax dollars and the weapons that are actually creating death to Gaza. Do you support

00:23:18.960 them chanting death to America? I don't chant that myself, so I don't know why you're trying to trap

00:23:24.180 me in this type of argument. I'm asking you to condemn it. You don't want to. So I'm asking,

00:23:28.100 I'm asking, do you therefore, should I assume you support them chanting? Those aren't the

00:23:31.720 chants that I would, I would personally. So then condemn it. Hang on, hang on, sorry, sorry. I just

00:23:36.860 want to pin you on this. You must surely either condemn it or support it. No, you don't need to.

00:23:41.340 It's not a binary thing. That's terrifying. How would, how would anyone do, do you think,

00:23:46.760 if they went to Gaza and chanted death to Palestine with Hamas terrorists nearby?

00:23:51.260 Oh, I'd like to see her answer to that. I'm sure she didn't really have an answer. No,

00:23:55.960 obviously that woman should be deported. And I don't care if she's lived here her whole life. 1.00

00:24:03.380 Get the hell out of the country. You don't belong here. If you legitimize death to America, 0.99

00:24:07.820 chance you don't belong here. And, and she legitimizes it by saying that these people are,

00:24:14.240 well, they're expressing their rage. This is how they feel. But these are the kinds of people that

00:24:20.680 Democrats are catering to. So where does it lead? I mean, what happens when one of the two major

00:24:27.000 political parties no longer has the political incentive to even pretend that they love their

00:24:32.200 own country? This is, again, this is something that if you're a little bit younger, it may come as a

00:24:38.420 surprise. But we used to complain that about politicians being like fake and phony and showy in

00:24:46.160 their displays of, of, uh, uh, of patriotism. Uh, you know, we used to complain about that sort of

00:24:51.980 thing, but now we've seen what happens when they no longer feel the need to engage in even phony

00:24:58.100 displays. As it turns out that the phoniness was vastly preferable to this. I got much rather that

00:25:06.260 they all go out of their way to talk about how much they love America and how patriotic they are,

00:25:09.560 even when it's not true. And we know it's not true, but at least when they feel the need to do

00:25:15.420 that, because if, if AOC had responded or Rashida Tlaib or Katie Porter had said, I condemn it, I'm a,

00:25:23.480 I'm opposed to it. I don't think anyone should say that, but we wouldn't, none of us would believe

00:25:28.400 what she's saying. So we know that if she did condemn it, it wouldn't be sincere, but

00:25:33.100 it's still good to be in a country where politicians at least feel the need to pretend

00:25:41.120 that they care about the country and that they love it and that they prioritize it above other

00:25:46.420 nations. Or at the very least that they don't have a seething contempt for the country that they're

00:25:52.360 supposed to be representing and, uh, and caring for. Um, so like best case scenarios, you have leaders

00:25:59.120 who, who, who, uh, express love of their country and really mean it like actual patriots. But

00:26:04.380 if you can't have that, then the next best scenario is to be in a country where you have leaders who

00:26:10.320 don't care about the country, but at least feel like they need to pretend they do.

00:26:14.640 Worst scenario is when you have the worst of all scenarios is when you have leaders who

00:26:18.520 don't care about the country and don't even feel incentivized to pretend that they do.

00:26:22.100 Uh, and that's, that's where we are now. Daily Wire, uh, report attorneys representing Nashville,

00:26:29.240 Tennessee argued Tuesday in court that police were still investigating aspects of the shooting

00:26:33.500 committed at the Covenant School last March when a transgender identifying shooter murdered six

00:26:37.340 people. And therefore the city is unable to release documents related to the case, such as the

00:26:42.180 shooter's writings. The argument came during a hearing over whether to release the killer's

00:26:46.620 writings, which have thus far been sealed from the public. The hearing overseen

00:26:51.540 by, uh, judge Lashia L. Miles comes just over a year after three young children and three school

00:26:58.860 staff members were killed during the shooting at Covenant. Uh, during the hearing, Laura Fox,

00:27:03.500 an attorney for the city of Nashville indicated the city's police were still investigating the

00:27:07.480 shooting, including probing whether the transgender identifying killer had any accomplices. The shooter

00:27:12.380 was shot dead by authorities on the scene. There, there has thus far been no indication that anybody

00:27:17.440 else was involved. Um, Fox stated the national police expected to wrap up their investigation

00:27:23.940 by July 1st. So that's what they're saying now. Now this really frustrates me as I think it does, uh,

00:27:30.680 many people in the community here in Nashville and, and across the country as well.

00:27:35.500 Because the idea that, well, first of all, the idea that, that a year after the shooting, 0.97

00:27:42.420 you can't release the writings because of an investigation is just asinine. Like, I don't, 0.94

00:27:50.360 I don't, I don't buy that for a second. I'm sorry. I don't buy that for a second. I don't think anybody

00:27:54.300 does. The shooter is dead. She's been dead since the shooting. And if she did have any accomplices,

00:28:00.820 something that hasn't, as far as I know, has not been mentioned as a, no one has hinted at that

00:28:05.400 until this moment, as far as I know. Um, but, and if there were accomplices, why would it take over

00:28:13.160 a year to make that arrest? Okay. If she had an accomplice, what are you waiting for? Does it take

00:28:22.620 a year, a year, over a year to establish that connection? And, and by the way, what is, if there

00:28:29.680 is an accomplice, what is the accomplice doing right now? What have they been doing for a year?

00:28:33.380 Are you telling us that there, there might be somebody out there who helped coordinate,

00:28:37.860 you know, the mass murder of, of innocent people and they're still walking free at this moment

00:28:44.560 in the community? Is that what you're saying? Where's your urgency? But all that is nonsense.

00:28:52.660 Of course, it's, it's, it's nonsense and we know it. Uh, it is just inconceivable that the content of

00:29:00.260 these journals could somehow hinder an investigation into a crime committed a year ago by a dead person.

00:29:07.520 Doesn't make any sense. What, what could there be in the journals that would somehow get in the way

00:29:16.560 of this investigation a year after the fact of a crime committed by someone who's dead? And, and even

00:29:23.380 if it were true, even if there was, let's say there's something in the, in the journal that somehow

00:29:28.280 would hinder the investigation. Well, it seems like by now you would have easily identified which

00:29:34.460 portions of the manifesto might cause this, uh, you know, unspecified hindrance. And then you can redact

00:29:43.440 those portions, but they haven't released any, they have not officially intentionally released

00:29:49.780 anything from the manifesto. So are you really telling us the whole thing, the whole entire thing

00:29:54.940 might somehow hinder this investigation into a crime that has, as far as we know, no living suspects?

00:30:02.400 Uh, that doesn't make any sense. It just doesn't make any sense. So, um, I would rather, you know,

00:30:11.020 there have been reports that, uh, some of the families, uh, of survivors and, and, and victims

00:30:20.060 of the shooting don't want the manifesto to be released. You know, that's been reported and not

00:30:27.640 because they're involved in some kind of coverup, but just because from their perspective, it's quite

00:30:31.440 understandable that they just don't, well, I would assume that their reasoning is that, is that, uh,

00:30:37.040 they don't want to have to relive this terrible thing that happened. They don't want to have the,

00:30:41.100 the insane ramblings of this mass killer who killed their loved ones, uh, circulating out there,

00:30:47.080 which is totally understandable. Um, now I think, although it is understandable,

00:30:53.260 the public still has a right to know why this, why this terrible crime was committed.

00:30:58.960 And so the writing still have to be released. But my point is that, like, I would rather that

00:31:06.660 the city just use that, make that argument. Instead of, instead of this absurd insulting to

00:31:16.340 our intelligence claim that it gets in the way of some kind of investigation and then even throwing

00:31:21.900 out the possibility a year later that, oh, by the way, we haven't ruled out the idea that there

00:31:27.100 might be accomplices to this crime. Um, it's totally absurd. The Carolina Journal has this

00:31:36.440 16 year old student at a 16 year old student at Central Davidson High School in Lexington, North

00:31:40.560 Carolina was suspended for three days last week after using the term illegal alien during a vocabulary

00:31:46.880 assignment in his English class. Leah McGee's son is a teacher who assigned vocabulary words during class

00:31:51.660 last Tuesday, including the word alien. McGee says that her son made an effort to understand

00:31:56.940 the assignment and responded to his teacher asking like space aliens or illegal aliens without green

00:32:02.260 cards. That was his question. Uh, he's just, he's just trying to clarify. And that's a, it's a fair

00:32:07.860 question. You know, these days, especially have to specify, we got a lot of, we got a lot of

00:32:12.760 different kinds of aliens on the planet right now. Um, and, uh, so we need to know which kinds of

00:32:17.820 aliens we're talking about. According to an email describing the incident sent to local officials

00:32:21.800 and shared with Carolina Journal, a young man in class took offense to his question and reportedly

00:32:26.300 threatened to fight him because of it. Prompting the teacher to call in the assistant principal.

00:32:31.660 Ultimately, his words were deemed by administrative staff to be offensive and disrespectful to classmates

00:32:35.660 who are Hispanic. Uh, the student in response to a suspension said, quote, I didn't make a statement

00:32:40.440 directed towards anyone. I asked a question. I wasn't speaking of Hispanics because everyone from

00:32:45.460 other countries needs green cards. And the term illegal alien is an actual term that I hear on

00:32:49.400 the news and can find in the dictionary. Um, yes, very, very intelligent point from, uh, the young

00:32:55.000 man that, uh, that, that, you know, not only is this a, is this a legitimate term, but this, it could

00:33:01.260 apply to like why you're the one assuming anyone who takes offenses as well, that's, that's, that applies

00:33:06.220 to Hispanics. Well, then apparently you, you think that only a Hispanic person can be an illegal

00:33:11.720 alien. That's not the case. Anyone from any country that's not America could be an illegal alien.

00:33:18.000 Um, meanwhile, state Senator Steve Jarvis said that he contacted the school's district superintendent

00:33:22.820 to make him aware of the situation. Jarvis told the Carolina journal that while he informed top

00:33:27.340 officials of the issue and urged officials to look for the best outcome, he did not take a stance on

00:33:31.980 what they should do because he wasn't there to understand all sides of the story. Very, very,

00:33:36.260 very courageous position from Steve Jarvis. So it's just a class is a classic Republican move

00:33:43.060 right there. Um, and you find it from Republicans at the national level, but also the state level as

00:33:50.220 well. So, yeah, I mean, he's, he's getting involved. Okay. That, that part is good. He's talking to

00:33:58.140 the superintendent about it. That part is good, but all he says to the superintendent is, well, let's

00:34:02.400 seek the best outcome. What is the best outcome? I have no opinion. I don't, I can't, I can't say

00:34:07.600 for sure. Just, just want it. Why are you even saying anything? Like why get involved if you're

00:34:12.620 not going to take a position on it? And what other sides to the story do you need to hear?

00:34:19.820 I don't think anyone disputes the basic facts of the case here. The kid used the term illegal alien

00:34:26.000 and they suspended him for that term. That's, I don't think anyone disputes that.

00:34:32.960 And not only that, but someone threatened, another kid threatened physical violence

00:34:36.860 against this student for using a term. And, and yet the student who was threatened

00:34:43.080 ends up suspended for it. That's the public school system for you. And, and by the way,

00:34:49.240 again, the term he used illegal alien is, as he says, a legal term. It like it's used by

00:34:56.280 the federal government right now. You could go to a, go to the DOJ's website and search

00:35:01.220 under the term illegal alien, and you'll get a bunch of hits because this is a term used

00:35:06.660 by the government right now. The same government that runs the public school system uses itself

00:35:12.300 the term illegal alien. And even if it wasn't a legal term, I mean, I, I, I, the fact that

00:35:18.280 the federal government still uses that term is like an oversight on their part, probably. So I

00:35:23.280 would expect that they're going to switch it all over eventually to the politically correct

00:35:27.860 undocumented migrant or whatever. But even if it wasn't a legal term, it still wouldn't be cause

00:35:34.440 for suspension, obviously. And so I can only hope that this kid's family is preparing to sue

00:35:39.960 because that's the only way to deal with stuff like this. The only way to deal with it is you have

00:35:45.800 to take it to court. We need to start getting a lot more litigious about these kinds of things.

00:35:53.880 This is discrimination against the child. It's a, it's a totally unjustified punishment that will

00:36:01.400 affect his life potentially in serious ways. And you can't let it stand. You have to take it to court.

00:36:07.320 It's the only way to deal with it. Uh, and then in the meantime, I know this part, I don't even need

00:36:12.960 to say because, uh, because you've heard my spiels many, many times, but, uh, in the meantime for

00:36:20.140 everybody else, this is a, another very good reason among so many other reasons to get your child out

00:36:26.140 of the public school system. Uh, kids in public school are totally at the mercy of a system that is

00:36:35.560 hostile, not just to conservative values. And that's an important point to establish that

00:36:43.520 because this is another case. And anytime we, we, we hear stories of this kind of insanity in the

00:36:49.260 public school system, usually you'll hear from conservatives that this is, well, it's discrimination,

00:36:53.660 ideological, political discrimination. This is ideological indoctrination. It's all. And yet it is

00:36:58.120 all of that. You know, it's a, it's a war on conservative values and sure that's happening, but

00:37:04.660 more importantly, the public school system is hostile, not just to conservative values,

00:37:11.000 but to the truth and to common sense. And when your child is in this system, your child is completely

00:37:21.360 vulnerable to it, totally subject to this system that, that punishes your kid for exercising common

00:37:34.320 sense and for saying things that are true. It's just, it's not fair to put your kid in that situation.

00:37:42.080 I couldn't do that with my own kids. I couldn't put them in a situation where they will be aggressively

00:37:48.540 punished just for being normal and having common sense and saying things that are true.

00:37:56.780 Now, sure. When you get out into the, uh, the, the, the wild world out there as an adult,

00:38:03.220 uh, you're going to encounter many situations where you'll be punished for speaking the truth.

00:38:07.900 And we want to prepare our kids for that. We want to equip them to deal with that. But the public

00:38:11.960 school system is not the way to equip them to do it. Because here's the thing you have to,

00:38:17.580 you have to equip them first, and then you send them out into situations where they'll be,

00:38:24.440 where they will be punished for speaking the truth. But the child is not equipped yet as a child.

00:38:31.580 And especially to, because in the adult world, you might run into situations like this at your job,

00:38:38.200 you know, in various different contexts. But as an adult, you have, you still, even at your job,

00:38:43.980 you have more control over it. Your, your kid is, is in that environment every single day,

00:38:49.480 uh, for 13 years, six or seven hours a day, five days a week, nine months a year for,

00:38:58.160 for 12 or 13 years with really no power, no rights, nothing. And expecting them to withstand

00:39:05.980 that, I think is just expecting far too much. All right. Finally, uh, some controversy in the

00:39:13.680 entertainment world. Always important. Daily Wire reports singer Courtney Love had some criticism

00:39:20.920 for some fellow recording artists, which she candidly shared during a recently published

00:39:24.840 interview with a UK best based outlet, The Standard. The 59 year old took aim at Taylor Swift,

00:39:30.440 Lana Del Rey, Madonna, and Beyonce specifically. Love told the outlet of the, uh, about the global

00:39:37.540 pop star. She said, Taylor is not important. She might be a safe space for girls and she's probably 1.00

00:39:42.040 the Madonna of now, but she's not interesting as an artist. The alt rocker said that she and the

00:39:48.240 material girl don't get along either. Uh, and at another point in the interview, the former whole

00:39:53.200 band member said that she's also not a fan of Beyonce's new album, Cowboy Carter. She said, quote,

00:39:58.480 I mean, I like the idea of Beyonce doing a country record because it's about black women going into 1.00

00:40:02.040 spaces where previously only white women have been allowed. Uh, not that I like it much as a concept. 0.99

00:40:09.060 I love it. I just don't like her music. Okay. Well, she's wrong about, I just, I, I, I, I love how

00:40:17.040 they're trying to make Beyonce out to be, uh, you know, the, the Jackie Robinson of, of country music,

00:40:22.380 but is it no black person's been allowed in country music up until now? What do you mean not allowed?

00:40:28.480 Uh, what do you think there's some sort of law stipulating? And there have been plenty of, uh,

00:40:35.680 of black artists that have made country music or, you know, have, have experimented with the genre

00:40:40.680 or whatever, but the rest of it, Courtney Love is absolutely right about. And her comments have,

00:40:44.880 as you would expect, very much upset the Swifties, but she's right. Uh, you know, Taylor Swift

00:40:49.380 knows how to churn out hit songs. She knows how to do that. 1.00

00:40:53.000 And her music is generally inoffensive and, you know, and, and fine as far as pop music goes.

00:41:00.540 Uh, I think there's a lot of pop music that's far more objectionable. And I made this point

00:41:04.240 several times back during that weird two month stretch when some people on the right were trying

00:41:08.380 to make Taylor Swift out to be like the arch nemesis of conservatism. And I guess we've, we've,

00:41:13.580 we've hopped off of that bandwagon now and nobody talks about it anymore, but for about two months,

00:41:17.420 it was the biggest deal in the world. But as far as pop music goes, you know, she's fine. She's

00:41:22.660 unobjectionable. She obviously has, she has talent, but it's also true. She doesn't make, 1.00

00:41:28.180 she doesn't make interesting music and she doesn't make important music. Um, she hasn't made a single 1.00

00:41:34.560 song that would qualify as a classic, even as a classic of its own era where the bar's pretty low,

00:41:41.220 but she hasn't made anything like that. Now, Courtney Love back in the nineties had a few

00:41:47.300 songs that would qualify as classics of her era. Celebrity Skin is a big one. It's a grunge classic.

00:41:53.660 She had several others and, you know, say what you want about the nineties grunge scene, but it was,

00:41:58.580 uh, you know, it was raw. It was real. It was, uh, it had feeling. Everybody was strung out on heroin

00:42:03.980 singing about how much they hated themselves. Like it's, I mean, it's not the most edifying music

00:42:07.920 probably. And it probably wasn't great to have a whole generation of, of kids, you know,

00:42:12.940 sitting in their rooms, listening to stuff like that. But yeah, at least there was some real human

00:42:17.460 emotion behind it. Uh, Taylor Swift music by contrast, all sounds like it was assembled out

00:42:22.840 of a, out of plastic in a factory. It's like, it's, you know, it sounds algorithmic and that's,

00:42:31.420 and that's a lot of popular music today. That's the worst thing about it is it's, it sounds like it was

00:42:35.580 made by an algorithm like it exists for no other reason than simply to be a hit. And, um, now that's

00:42:44.700 more, more of the case for somebody like Beyonce, who has absolutely no musical talent whatsoever,

00:42:49.580 but, uh, and doesn't even write her own stuff. But the whole scene, all these artists are just

00:42:54.820 churning out basically the musical equivalent of, of clickbait. It's a content that exists to be

00:43:00.420 consumed not to express anything real. Um, and I think that's what Courtney Love was saying there.

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00:45:03.540 The WNBA draft happened this past week, and according to the latest numbers I read,

00:45:07.900 the event usually averages about 14 total viewers. But this year, the WNBA draft won record ratings and 0.95

00:45:13.500 nearly doubled its normal viewership. And that added audiences largely thanks to Caitlin Clark,

00:45:20.140 who went number one overall to something called the Indiana Fever, which sounds like a disease you

00:45:27.020 might contract from a hooker in Fort Wayne, but it's apparently the name of a women's basketball team. 1.00

00:45:31.780 And Clark, for her part, is easily the most famous women's basketball star of all time. She's so famous

00:45:37.420 that I know her name, though I don't really know anything else about her. If you are in the very

00:45:42.420 small fraternity of people who qualify as WNBA fans, this sudden increased interest in the league,

00:45:48.980 even if it still amounts to basically no interest, should be cause for celebration and gratitude.

00:45:55.140 But we don't do celebration very well in this culture, and we don't do gratitude at all, really.

00:45:59.120 So instead, people found reasons to whine. And that whining led to what is surely the dumbest 0.99

00:46:04.920 discourse of the year 2024 so far. Now, I don't expect it to retain that title until January, but for now,

00:46:10.820 it lays claim to it easily. Because over the past couple of days since the draft,

00:46:15.860 the left has been complaining bitterly that WNBA salaries are too low. It started on social media

00:46:22.400 with posts like this one from somebody named Alyssa Leader, who identifies herself as a public

00:46:26.420 defender. She also has, needless to say, pronouns in her bio. She tweeted this, quote,

00:46:31.140 decided to Google WNBA salaries before the draft, and I actually want to die. What the hell? Now, 0.98

00:46:38.580 the salaries that have apparently zapped her will to live are $76,000 a year for the top four picks 0.93

00:46:44.080 in the draft and $70,000 for the rest of the round one selections. In subsequent tweets, Alyssa tells us

00:46:50.200 that the average starting salary for first round NBA draft picks is $10 million a year by comparison.

00:46:56.460 She says that this contrast is, quote, honestly devastating. And there were many other tweets

00:47:01.460 like this from similarly outraged, devastated, and apparently suicidal feminists. And soon the 1.00

00:47:07.520 media jumped on the bandwagon. NBC News had this headline, the gap between Caitlin Clark's WNBA salary 0.92

00:47:12.560 and her male counterparts draws outrage. Today.com added this, Caitlin Clark went number one in the WNBA 0.97

00:47:18.420 draft. Some fans are outraged at her salary. The outrage made its way all the way up to the White House, 0.99

00:47:24.000 where Joe Biden tweeted at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, right before bed, that, quote,

00:47:28.640 women in sports continue to push new boundaries and inspire us all. But right now, we're seeing

00:47:32.580 that even if you're the best, women are not paid their fair share. It's time that we give our 1.00

00:47:37.380 daughters the same opportunities as our sons and ensure that women are paid what they deserve. 0.99

00:47:43.360 Now, we'll get back to the fair share idea in a moment. But first, let's go to the ABC News

00:47:49.080 controversy, the report on this controversy, which inadvertently revealed the fundamental

00:47:54.720 confusion at work here. Watch.

00:47:57.820 Caitlin Clark, we got to start with her. No question goes number one last night. But for

00:48:03.460 her rookie season, she's only making $76,000. I say only, but that's just in comparison to other

00:48:10.580 NBA players and WNBA players. What does that say about the pay gap in women's sports? 1.00

00:48:16.700 Stephanie, it says that the nation is now going to wake up to

00:48:20.940 the inequality in terms of pay, and it will change. The media rights deal for the WNBA is up. There

00:48:27.660 will be negotiations. And Caitlin Clark will change that as well. But really, this is all about

00:48:32.400 capitalism. I mean, for a generation, people have ignored the WNBA. They haven't bought tickets.

00:48:37.240 They haven't watched. They haven't bought the products they're seeing on the commercials.

00:48:40.720 And everything changes. I think the eyeballs on this number, $76,000. Now, again, she's making

00:48:46.820 much more than that. Her endorsements are into the millions. There's also a chance of having $250,000 0.61

00:48:52.560 contract or addition for marketing the WNBA. I'm sure she'll get that as well. So she's going to be a

00:49:00.720 multimillionaire. But it's shining a light on something that we should be looking at. Title IX

00:49:05.840 is, of course, applying to high schools and colleges. This is about capitalism. This is

00:49:10.880 about Americans spending their money in a certain way. And that's going to change because of the

00:49:15.800 eyeballs, because of the TV ratings. Caitlin Clark will be the Caitlin Clark effect. Stephanie 0.84

00:49:20.580 will be impacting that as well. And it's about time because these women obviously have been 0.98

00:49:25.220 underpaid now for several decades.

00:49:27.920 OK, the talking head there can't seem to make up her mind because on one hand, she says that it's

00:49:32.540 capitalism. People aren't watching or supporting the game, so the women don't get paid much. 1.00

00:49:37.140 On the other hand, she says that the women are underpaid. Well, which is it? Well, if this needs to 0.99

00:49:44.880 be explained, I will explain it. It's very much the former. In fact, WNBA players are not underpaid

00:49:50.920 at all. They are, if anything, vastly overpaid. By all rights, as a simple economic matter,

00:49:56.340 WNBA players should not be getting paid anything. If they're getting paid anything above zero, 1.00

00:50:02.820 they are overpaid. So here are some basic facts to flesh this out. First of all, the WNBA has 0.97

00:50:08.380 existed for nearly 30 years. It has never once turned a profit. According to WSN.com, a sports

00:50:15.080 betting site, the WNBA generates about $60 million in revenue. For the record, an article in Vox claims

00:50:20.900 that the revenue is in the $100 million, $200 million range, which I find dubious. But either

00:50:25.440 way, the NBA, by contrast, brings in $10 billion of revenue with something like $3 billion in profits.

00:50:32.740 So that means that the NBA generates more than 150 times the revenue of the WNBA. And if you're going

00:50:41.160 with the, I think, quite generous $100 million estimate for the WNBA, then the NBA makes only,

00:50:47.100 only 100 times that amount. So do the math here, by the way. And you'll see that pound for pound,

00:50:53.920 WNBA rookies actually make about the same as NBA rookies. 70,000 times 150 is 10.5 million.

00:51:02.320 But even then, they're still overpaid because although the WNBA generates 60 million in revenue, 0.89

00:51:09.360 or even if it's 100 million, let's say, it makes no profit. These women are getting paid salaries to 1.00

00:51:15.980 play for a league that, economically speaking, shouldn't exist. You don't have to be a financial

00:51:21.440 wist to understand that losing money for 30 years is usually a recipe for bankruptcy. The only reason

00:51:26.680 the Women's League stays open is that the NBA subsidizes it. Every year, the Men's League hands

00:51:32.740 millions of dollars to the women. The men keep the Women's League afloat. And why do they do that? 0.99

00:51:40.020 Well, so that everyone can feel good about the fact that a Women's League exists. 1.00

00:51:44.180 You're probably familiar with those charities where you can metaphorically adopt somebody from the

00:51:48.940 third world by sending money to a charity that supposedly then goes to that family. Well, 0.91

00:51:56.100 that's basically what the NBA is to the WNBA. They have adopted it like a third world child. 0.78

00:52:03.720 Now, what does this mean? It means that, again, nobody watches the WNBA. The leftists on Twitter and in

00:52:10.760 the media complaining about WNBA salaries have never watched a game in their lives.

00:52:16.380 They've never sat down to watch a women's game on TV, much less have they purchased tickets to watch

00:52:21.220 it at the arena. They'll support the league by whining on its behalf on social media, but they

00:52:26.340 won't support it by actually supporting it. Last year, the WNBA had its most watched regular season in 1.00

00:52:32.620 20 years. So this was a record audience. And during that record season, the average audience for each

00:52:42.740 game was 500,000 viewers. Now, to put that into perspective, 500,000 is about the viewership of

00:52:49.820 CNN's weekly 10 p.m. show with Charles Barkley and Gayle King. And that show was just canceled after six

00:52:56.420 months because the audience was so low that it wasn't sustainable. 500,000 for professional sports

00:53:02.120 league that airs on network television is an even more catastrophic embarrassment and would be even

00:53:07.360 less sustainable if not for the fact that the WNBA doesn't have to sustain itself, which is fortunate

00:53:12.920 for the league because it would be out of business in a month if it did have to sustain itself.

00:53:17.500 Now, Joe Biden wants these women to get their fair share. Well, I ask you this, what is a fair share 0.98

00:53:28.060 of zero dollars in profit? That's a math problem so easy that even our vegetable of a president should

00:53:34.760 be able to do it. The fair share, the actual fair share is nothing. Zero. That's what you deserve to

00:53:43.160 get paid when you put a product on the airways that nobody cares to watch. That's the simple reality

00:53:49.480 here. And it's why the unequal pay discourse around the WNBA and everybody pushing it are all today

00:53:56.760 canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow.

00:54:01.520 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 17, 2024

Ep. 1349 - Dumbing Down Education In The Name Of 'Decolonization'

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