The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1364 - White Men Deserve Gratitude, Not Demonization

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the governor of Maine has announced a plan to get more women

00:00:03.660 involved in the construction industry. This is, of course, part of a nationwide plan to chase men,

00:00:07.880 especially white men, out of every occupation and field. And this is the thanks that white men get 0.92

00:00:13.040 for building civilization. Also, the governor of New York claims that many black kids have

00:00:17.080 never heard of computers. Protesters at Princeton attacked the university for not providing medical

00:00:21.020 aid to them as they choose to starve themselves. An influencer on TikTok is here to inform us that

00:00:25.520 it is our moral obligation to date fat people. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:53.940 If you've ever worked in some capacity on procuring a federal government contract,

00:01:58.900 then you're familiar with maybe the single most obvious and grotesque form of affirmative action

00:02:03.360 that exists in this country. It's been around for a long time. As far back as Nixon's administration,

00:02:08.400 gender and racial affirmative action became mandatory for federal construction projects

00:02:12.740 in the city of Philadelphia. And any federal contractor that hired fewer than 80% of the

00:02:18.860 local share of, quote, any race, sex, or ethnic group risked losing their contract and being barred

00:02:24.520 from working with the federal government entirely. Within a year, those requirements apply to

00:02:28.080 contracts with all federal agencies nationwide. As an attorney named Michael Toth pointed out recently

00:02:33.860 in the Wall Street Journal, those rules are still in place today, half a century later. In fact,

00:02:38.700 they've only been expanded in scope. Now the federal government can award no-bid contracts

00:02:42.480 to so-called minority-owned businesses in many cases. The end result of this policy has been

00:02:48.500 exactly what you'd expect. For one thing, contractors know that they need to employ a

00:02:53.080 token number of women and minorities in order to get any kind of government grants. And additionally,

00:02:57.340 so-called minority-owned contractors often get government contracts and then subcontract them out

00:03:02.900 to contractors who didn't meet the diversity quota. Now this is all highly inefficient.

00:03:08.640 It's fraud, basically. And it's resulted in taxpayers being forced to waste a lot of money.

00:03:13.660 As City Journal reported recently, some government contracts cost nearly 20% more than they would

00:03:19.300 have without these affirmative action programs. Multiply that by hundreds of billions of dollars

00:03:23.600 worth of federal government contracts every year, and you begin to see the problem.

00:03:27.780 Instead of ending this social engineering and simply allowing markets to work without crude

00:03:32.900 demographic manipulation, the Biden administration's allies and state and local governments

00:03:37.060 are doubling down. They've decided that they know exactly what the demographic makeup of each

00:03:42.200 industry should be. And it just so happens that white men aren't wanted in any industry. 0.68

00:03:48.340 So I'll start with Maine, where this week, Democrats have determined that the field of construction,

00:03:53.640 where blacks and Hispanics make up nearly 40% of the workforce, simply isn't diverse enough somehow.

00:03:59.440 Specifically, the governor, Janet Mills, has determined that more women need to be construction workers, 1.00

00:04:04.580 and therefore Mills has signed an executive order that, among other things,

00:04:07.860 will use state and federal funding to prioritize construction projects that involve women. Watch.

00:04:14.980 Janet Mills laying out the blueprint today to get more women working in Maine's construction industry.

00:04:20.460 We need construction workers, especially women, now. 1.00

00:04:24.620 Governor Mills signing an executive order at Maine DOT in Augusta, alongside female leaders in Maine's 0.73

00:04:29.980 construction industry. The executive order will kickstart data collection in collaboration with

00:04:34.800 partners in the construction industry, and implement grant programs to incentivize the hiring of women,

00:04:40.540 while providing supportive services that recruit and retain women in the construction industry.

00:04:45.260 There are qualified women across Maine who belong in fields dominated by men,

00:04:51.120 and I want to knock down the barriers that are keeping them from pursuing these good-paying jobs in construction

00:04:56.980 with good Maine employers.

00:04:59.920 We need construction workers, especially women, now. Why? Why especially women? 1.00

00:05:06.880 And this is odd coming from Janet Mills, who spent her college years traveling through Europe and

00:05:11.260 learning French before going into law school and spending the rest of her life in government.

00:05:15.560 What does Janet Mills know about construction, exactly? How is she qualified to say anything 0.89

00:05:19.820 about what the construction industry needs, or who's most qualified to fill those needs?

00:05:23.860 Now, as always, this DEI initiative is a solution in search of a problem.

00:05:29.320 There is absolutely no reason to believe, and not a single shred of evidence to suggest,

00:05:33.680 that the construction industry was in any way suffering due to a lack of female representation.

00:05:39.640 There is not one problem in the construction industry that you can point to and say,

00:05:44.380 you know what will solve that? More women. 1.00

00:05:47.620 That's because no problems at all can be solved by involving more females in construction. 1.00

00:05:52.820 And on top of that, there's no evidence at all that any qualified female has ever been denied a job

00:05:57.420 in construction due to her sex. By all accounts, fewer women are in construction for two simple 1.00

00:06:03.540 reasons. First, because most women don't want to do construction. And second, because men are 1.00

00:06:08.760 generally much better at it. And of course, it's completely rational for women to dislike the idea 1.00

00:06:14.560 of working construction. It's one of the most dangerous jobs you can have. As you can see from this chart

00:06:18.620 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it's among the top 20 most dangerous jobs, along with roofers,

00:06:23.500 police officers, truck drivers, miners, farmers, and ranchers. And you'll never guess what all of

00:06:29.000 these top 20 most dangerous jobs in America have in common. They are all overwhelmingly done by men. 1.00

00:06:35.700 Construction is more than 97% male-dominated. It has a fatal injury rate of 15 per 100,000 workers.

00:06:41.740 That's on par with cement and concrete manufacturing, which is also more than 97%

00:06:46.920 male-dominated. These jobs, again, can be very dangerous. And in fact, would be even more dangerous 1.00

00:06:52.600 for women. And that's not just because women are weaker and more injury-prone, though they are. 1.00

00:06:58.120 It's also because a large percentage of deaths on construction sites are caused, at least in part,

00:07:02.740 by heat exhaustion. And it just so happens that women are more sensitive to temperatures,

00:07:07.060 both hot and cold. Any married man is very familiar with this phenomenon. Like one minute,

00:07:11.980 your wife is complaining that she's freezing to death. You adjust the thermostat by one degree,

00:07:16.320 and now she insists that the house is a sweltering desert. That's not just anecdote. There's science

00:07:21.720 behind that. So that's just one of the reasons why men tend to do most of the physically demanding

00:07:27.080 jobs outside. Men tend to do most of the physically demanding and dangerous jobs everywhere.

00:07:32.000 This is not a privilege that men have, but rather a responsibility that they have carried.

00:07:40.280 The takeaway from this shouldn't be that we need more women doing these jobs. It's that men, 1.00

00:07:46.480 and white men in particular, historically, have had a unique and essential role in building and

00:07:52.580 maintaining our civilization. We would not have this civilization without them. So rather than this

00:07:59.860 constant drumbeat of scolding and lecturing and guilt and resentment, treating the presence of this

00:08:06.420 group as a problem that must be solved or a cancer that must be treated, the appropriate attitude is

00:08:13.500 one of appreciation and gratitude. Men built every building you've ever been in, every bridge you've

00:08:23.240 ever crossed, every road you've ever driven on. Now, sure, if you're a little bitter, resentful brat,

00:08:31.760 maybe that fact will make you feel somehow diminished. But if you're a smart, mature, decent person,

00:08:37.480 instead of demanding that we kick men out of these industries, you will instead have some gratitude.

00:08:42.860 You will say, thank you, men. Thank you for everything you've done for civilization and for me personally.

00:08:48.560 That should be our answer to the Janet Mills of the world. Rather than going on the defensive and

00:08:53.920 justifying ourselves, men as a group should say to her, hey, you ungrateful child, the correct 0.99

00:08:59.760 response is thank you. Didn't your parents teach you manners? And the same logic applies to race as

00:09:06.940 well. I mean, these days, of course, as noted, it's not just white men in the construction industry,

00:09:10.620 but historically speaking, white men have been uniquely indispensable contributors to Western

00:09:15.720 civilization. Most modern technology was invented by white men. Most of the great discoveries were 1.00

00:09:21.820 made by white men. Most of our wars were fought and won predominantly by white men. Most of the 0.67

00:09:27.640 advances in medicine and science have been achieved by white men. Most of the great leaders, artists, 0.61

00:09:32.740 thinkers, philosophers in Western history have been white men. And yet this is the one group most 0.98

00:09:39.560 demonized, most hated for the sin of what? Providing us with so much of what we value? A sane society

00:09:48.740 would be finding ways to get this group more involved in things, given its incredible track record of

00:09:55.900 success. Instead, we go the other way. Outside of communist countries, modern Western societies are the only

00:10:04.440 ones in the history of the world that go out of their way to identify the people most responsible for building

00:10:10.460 and maintaining their societies, only to villainize and alienate those same people. And we're doing it more and

00:10:18.100 more. This isn't just happening in the federal government or in Maine. It also happens, it's also happening in the

00:10:22.640 most populated city in the United States. Officials in New York have just proudly announced that they've awarded more than

00:10:28.300 $2 billion in contracts for the purpose of renovating JFK Airport. And all of that money has gone to so-called

00:10:35.140 MWBEs, which is short for Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises. Quoting from the governor's

00:10:41.180 press release, quote, this is the largest participation of MWBE firms on any public-private partnership project

00:10:46.460 in New York state history. With today's announcement, JFK surpasses the LaGuardia Airport redevelopment,

00:10:51.820 which set the previous New York state record for MWBE participation.

00:10:55.940 In other words, you know, nobody wants reparations. Even in New York, it was not a popular idea. So the

00:11:02.800 state government just decided to do it anyway by handing out money on the basis of race and gender.

00:11:08.500 And they've chosen airports as their preferred vehicle to launder this money, evidently. Now,

00:11:14.140 if you watch the New York Port Authority's press conference announcing this funding for the JFK

00:11:18.180 renovation, you'll see exactly what's motivating these officials. It's basically an hour of various New

00:11:23.800 York officials, including a sitting member of Congress, celebrating the fact that they excluded

00:11:28.080 white-owned businesses from receiving taxpayer funding. Here's how it began. Watch. 0.82

00:11:34.440 Here for another reason, because this building, the renovation of it, was for us a poster child for

00:11:41.380 what we wanted to achieve across the airport. It was built almost entirely by minority and women-owned 0.99

00:11:49.240 business enterprises. And we, in fact, ran what we called internally project readiness programs,

00:11:57.320 but they really were boot camps. They were really tough training sessions to equip MWBEs and local

00:12:05.080 businesses with the skills and training to both bid and succeed in the competition for contracts.

00:12:11.480 Now, this is the head of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announcing to applause

00:12:16.120 that JFK's renovation involved as few white men as possible. He's not proud of the quality of the 0.53

00:12:22.960 renovation. He doesn't talk about how the airport is going to be better as a result of this work.

00:12:26.340 Instead, he's just happy that white people didn't have a role in it. Never mind the fact that white 0.86

00:12:31.440 people, white men specifically, have pretty much single-handedly built the entire aviation industry,

00:12:38.400 beginning with inventing the airplane, and now we need to get them all out for some reason.

00:12:46.360 And then he goes on to explain that the government did everything it could to ensure that

00:12:50.160 non-white people secured the government contracts for JFK by preparing specialized segregated boot camps

00:12:57.140 to help them along in the application process. So he's acknowledging that this was not a remotely fair

00:13:02.300 or merit-driven process at any point. It was the purest form of affirmative action.

00:13:07.580 He's not celebrating that these minority businesses earned the job. He's celebrating that the 1.00

00:13:13.260 government rigged the process. And this is illegal, obviously, and it gets worse. Here's Congressman

00:13:18.420 Gregory Meeks explaining why it was so important to discriminate against white male contractors. Watch.

00:13:23.980 We got to have equity in these projects. Now, it's never a giveaway. Because, you know, as we're talking

00:13:34.480 and fighting now about DE&I, diversity, equity, and inclusion, some think that's a giveaway. Some think

00:13:41.300 that's just, you know, a charity. No, it's not. It's good business.

00:13:45.820 It's good business.

00:13:48.340 Now, the congressman says it's important for racial and gender discrimination in the form of DEI to be

00:13:53.240 a part of everything New York does. But he doesn't really say why. He gets some applause when he says

00:13:57.820 it's good for business. But he doesn't elaborate on that point. That's probably because, as I've

00:14:01.880 outlined before, it's demonstrably false that DEI is good for business. The only time DEI is good for

00:14:06.820 business is if you are a non-white business and you're looking to get a government payout. In that case, 0.94

00:14:10.460 DEI is good for business. Sure. For everybody else, it's a massive economic drain at a minimum

00:14:15.560 and almost certainly also a safety risk. But even if racial discrimination were somehow profitable,

00:14:21.360 that still wouldn't justify it. And it's pretty remarkable that a sitting member of Congress

00:14:26.120 would imply otherwise only a deep-seated hatred of white men would explain what we're seeing here.

00:14:32.620 And as if there was any doubt about that, the next speaker at this press conference,

00:14:35.720 a New York Assembly member named Alicia Hindman, came right out and admitted that, yes, that's

00:14:42.220 what's going on. She just hates white men. Watch. All of the Zoom meetings that we did during the 0.99

00:14:48.020 pandemic, led by Dr. Stacey N.C. Grant, your participation means everything. What we didn't

00:14:55.100 want to happen is to go back to the community. And Jim, you know this. And people look at us and say,

00:14:59.360 well, what did you do? No one on that project looks like us. No one in that project represents us.

00:15:04.360 We did not want to have those conversations. And that's why those tireless meetings that took

00:15:09.300 place on Zoom, it was Microsoft, WebEx or whatever it was, and it wasn't working in your bandwidth and

00:15:17.100 you had to turn off the camera or turn off the mic. As annoying as it was, we knew it was for us.

00:15:25.320 For us, by us, to make sure that this community that we represent looks like us.

00:15:31.200 So the woman can't figure out how Zoom works, apparently, but she's in charge of renovating 1.00

00:15:36.320 the airport because, with apologies to white people, the airport isn't for them anymore. 0.99

00:15:41.200 It's for people who look like Alicia Hindman now. Quote, we knew it was for us, for us, by us,

00:15:45.880 to make sure this community that we represent looks like us. Now, to be clear, again, she's talking

00:15:51.280 about an airport. This is a public facility that isn't for or by any racial group. And Alicia

00:15:58.480 Hindman is a public official. She supposedly represents a community that includes white 0.99

00:16:02.200 people. But here she is proudly declaring that the airport is for black people. And her community 0.99

00:16:08.600 doesn't include people who don't look like her. So white men don't get to build airports anymore. 0.97

00:16:14.420 The airports aren't for them. Neither are construction jobs. You have to wonder what,

00:16:20.000 if anything, these politicians want white men to do. Like, what do you want them to do? 0.94

00:16:24.380 What are white men supposed to be doing now? Should they ever receive any funding from the

00:16:29.200 government? Should they be allowed to compete for government contracts on a fair and equal

00:16:33.120 playing field? Apparently not. Should white men just build, maintain, and run their own airport? 0.91

00:16:41.740 I'd be quite happy to use that airport personally. I think most people would, actually.

00:16:46.360 Really, though, everyone knows what's happening here. Her goal and the goal of her party

00:16:50.040 isn't simply to erase white men from history. Their goal is to erase white men from the workforce 0.98

00:16:54.920 as punishment for doing everything so well for so long. It's not a secret at this point. 0.96

00:17:02.580 And as conservatives spend all their time talking about, you know, college campuses and so on,

00:17:07.160 their enemies are being very methodical and explicit about what they're doing.

00:17:12.480 One airport renovation and construction job at a time. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:18:21.800 today. That's tnusa.com slash Walsh. The governor of New York, Kathy Hokule, had some thoughts this

00:18:30.380 week about the struggles faced by young black kids. Let's listen to that. Young black kids growing up in

00:18:39.020 the Bronx who don't even know what the word computer is. They don't know. They don't know 0.95

00:18:43.860 these things. And I want the world open up to all of them. Because when you have their diverse voices

00:18:50.620 innovating solutions through technology, then you're really addressing society's broader challenges.

00:18:57.860 They don't even know what a computer is. They don't have electricity. They've never heard of cars or

00:19:03.740 indoor plumbing. If you use a lighter around them, they'll think that you're conjuring fire from the

00:19:09.580 heavens and they'll worship you as a god. This is what she thinks of black people because she's so 0.95

00:19:14.940 incredibly anti-racist. That's basically her position. Now, as many have pointed out, by the

00:19:20.120 way, Joe Biden infamously said almost exactly the same thing back when he was running for president

00:19:25.620 in 2016. So it's a very similar idea. Now, there was a fair amount of backlash against this from

00:19:34.200 both sides. And Kathy Hokule has backtracked now, predictably. The AP reports, New York Governor

00:19:41.000 Kathy Hokule says she regrets making an offhand remark that suggested black children in the Bronx

00:19:45.320 do not know what the word computer means. Let's see. In a statement later, Monday, Hokule said,

00:19:50.040 I misspoke and I regret it. Of course, black children in the Bronx know what computers are. 1.00

00:19:54.260 The problem is that they too often lack access to technology needed to get on track to high paying

00:19:59.180 jobs in emerging industries like AI. That's why I've been focused on increasing economic

00:20:03.620 opportunities since day one of my administration and will continue to fight to ensure every New

00:20:09.540 Yorker has a shot at a good paying job. Okay, so now to be clear, saying that black kids have never 0.95

00:20:17.680 heard of computers is not misspeaking. Like you misspeak when you stutter over your words or you 0.96

00:20:23.340 flub something or something like that. But this was just a false claim that she made.

00:20:29.220 Now, did she say it because she really believes that black kids haven't heard of computers? 0.80

00:20:34.080 Or was she saying this because it was her patronizing, condescending way of trying to

00:20:38.220 seem compassionate to minorities? I'm guessing the latter, but it could go either way.

00:20:43.220 And you know, a lot of conservatives are reacting to this by saying that Kathy Hokule is racist. 0.92

00:20:48.160 You know, the Dems are the real racists. You see that whole bit. And I think that kind of misses

00:20:53.680 the point. She's not racist. Like she doesn't hate black people. She probably doesn't like them 1.00

00:20:59.780 very much either, but she doesn't like anyone. Like I think she probably feels about black people the 0.95

00:21:04.460 way she feels about everybody, all of her constituents. She just doesn't care. She's a mediocre 1.00

00:21:07.880 Democrat politician who happens to be the governor, although she's never been elected to anything in 0.62

00:21:13.120 her life. Just an empty vessel, soulless, basically indifferent to everything and everybody.

00:21:20.260 I don't think she has any special hatred for black people though. No, this is just left-wing 0.96

00:21:24.540 victimology. She subscribes totally to left-wing victimology. That's all she was trying to do with 1.00

00:21:31.460 this claim. And she knows that black people are always supposed to be the victims in every situation. 0.56

00:21:36.360 So she just took it a little too far. And almost in her defense, I would say that it's hard to know

00:21:45.660 exactly where the line is supposed to be because she's probably thinking to herself, well, hang on a

00:21:50.140 second. We go around all the time claiming that black people don't know how to get driver's licenses. 0.96

00:21:56.280 That's a standard claim. So is it really that much more outlandish to say that they haven't heard

00:22:01.760 of computers? Isn't that like, that's just maybe one step beyond what we already say all the time.

00:22:09.920 And so she just didn't, you know, she, she, she went, went a step farther than they're willing to

00:22:14.760 go. And cause she doesn't know exactly where the lines are. And that's what happened. 0.89

00:22:21.080 Like how precisely how far are you supposed to go in infantilizing black people in order to paint 1.00

00:22:29.480 them as the victims? Cause this is what all of the left does. 0.65

00:22:37.160 And you know, she doesn't know, she wasn't sure where the line is. And now she knows trial and

00:22:41.740 error. That's the way it goes. I will mention one other thing in her follow-up statement. She says

00:22:47.840 that she didn't mean to say that black people haven't heard of computers. She meant that they don't 0.98

00:22:54.440 have, they don't have access to technology. And that's why there aren't more black kids becoming 1.00

00:22:59.560 scientists and engineers and astronauts and all the rest of it. Now that, that obviously is not true.

00:23:05.880 First of all, in modern America, pretty much everyone has access to technology. Like 92% of Americans have

00:23:12.120 smartphones. Um, as for computers, desktops, laptops, what have you, almost everybody either has one or

00:23:19.660 could get one or could at least access one, whether at school or at the library or at a family member's

00:23:25.400 house or a friend's house. You know, the number of people who simply cannot access computers at all

00:23:30.380 is very, very small. And in that very small group, I imagine there are at least as many

00:23:35.980 poor white people, uh, you know, in trailer parks in Appalachia or whatever, who legitimately have no 0.85

00:23:42.260 access to a computer, but it's still a small group. The point is that's not what's preventing

00:23:46.100 a lot of these black kids from becoming successful scientists and engineers and 1.00

00:23:51.100 building robots and working on AI and all the rest of it. Uh, it's not that it's not,

00:23:56.340 it's not that they lack access to computers. It's that they lack access to their fathers,

00:24:02.500 many of them to a stable family structure, to an intact nuclear family.

00:24:07.220 Um, that is the issue that is holding back a lot of these kids. And that's an important,

00:24:16.960 important point, obviously, because, uh, if you have a kid growing up in a dysfunctional

00:24:22.580 environment, in a dysfunctional community with no father figure, with a mother's not paying

00:24:27.880 attention, not, not equipped, not, uh, not doing much to raise the child. You grow up in that kind

00:24:33.500 of environment. It doesn't like someone you could, you could get a, you could be given a phone. You

00:24:38.860 can be given a free computer. They can give you everything that you want, and it's not going to

00:24:43.580 make a damn bit of difference. Uh, so that's really the issue. The Independent reports, more than a

00:24:51.040 dozen Princeton University students began a hunger strike on Friday in solidarity with Palestinians

00:24:55.200 in Gaza as university campuses in the U.S. continue, uh, along. Our hunger strike is a response

00:25:01.220 to the administration's refusal to engage with our demands for dissociation and divestment from

00:25:06.620 Israel. We refuse to be silenced by the university administration's intimidation and repression

00:25:11.720 tactics. We struggle together in solidarity with the people of Palestine. We commit our bodies to

00:25:18.060 their liberation. So we're back to the hunger strike. Um, but the activists are, so they've been on

00:25:27.900 this hunger strike since Friday, supposedly. And, you know, I'm never very impressed with the hunger

00:25:34.520 strike because how do we know, like, we don't, how do we know you're not sneaking snacks? You probably

00:25:39.320 are. So we, there's, there's no, and until we actually see you becoming emaciated and like gaunt 0.67

00:25:46.600 and skeletal until we see that, I'm not impressed. And I'm not saying I want you to do that because

00:25:52.460 you're going to kill yourself and I'm not, I don't want you to do that. But I don't, if we don't see

00:25:57.060 that, then there's no way for us to even know that you're actually doing the hunger strike.

00:26:01.060 Um, but anyway, the activists are upset because they are not being medically monitored

00:26:07.120 by the university while they carry on their hunger strike. Here's a one activist expressing

00:26:13.400 outrage over this point. Listen.

00:26:16.520 Strikers, we will continue to starve until they meet our demands. 0.99

00:26:20.400 In addition, I would like to note that the administration is also lying to the media,

00:26:28.540 to the, to the media, they have announced that they have been consistently sending their own

00:26:37.860 doctors to come to our area and monitor us hunger strikers and monitor our health. This is a lie.

00:26:45.680 They are not, they are not monitoring our health. They are not keeping track of our vitals. They are

00:26:54.560 not at all taking care of us in any regard. They have only sent a spokesperson from UHS twice to give us

00:27:04.640 informational pamphlets, but they are not at all, at all taking care of us in any regard. And I want to

00:27:11.680 make that very clear that they are not caring for us, that they do not care for us. And they are

00:27:17.600 lying. Uh, they were given informational pamphlets, which is very funny to me. I'd like to see those

00:27:24.640 pamphlets. What did the pamphlet say? Like it, if you don't eat, you'll die. Is that the, was it that

00:27:31.080 you just opened the pamphlet? It just says that why eating is important. Number one, it stops you from

00:27:38.920 dying. Number two, see reason number one. Uh, I have to say, I've really had enough of this. I can't

00:27:45.860 even talk about it anymore. It's so depressing. I just want it to stop. Like I want all this stuff

00:27:53.180 to stop mainly so that it stops taking up so much of the news cycle and forcing me to talk about it

00:27:58.300 because I find it so depressing. I mean, yes, it's, it's hilarious. It's very funny. The fact that

00:28:06.060 they're starving themselves and then demanding that the institution, that the institution they're

00:28:09.200 protesting provide them with medical care is funny. Um, and we've got some protesters demanding free

00:28:16.340 food on one hand and then others demanding medical care because they refuse to eat, you know, and,

00:28:23.560 and, and that's, yeah, it's funny. We can laugh at them. We should, we have, that's the appropriate

00:28:29.260 response, but it's also so depressing. Um, going on a hunger strike is very stupid going on a hunger 1.00

00:28:36.980 strike for this reason is even stupider. But as I've, as I've said many times now, I, it should at 1.00

00:28:45.040 least be a radical act. Hunger strikes have always been dumb. Um, especially when, again, you're, you're, 0.99

00:28:54.240 you're protesting someone and especially when you claim that like these people are supporters of

00:28:59.580 genocide, they don't care about us. Well, then what's the hunger strike going to do when they

00:29:05.560 just, so why? So you're saying to them, if you don't do what I want, I am going to continue to be

00:29:11.960 very uncomfortable. Well, why should they care about that? That's, that doesn't, why does that make

00:29:17.340 them uncomfortable? Um, so it's like, it's like the, it's like, it's like the opposite of a boycott.

00:29:25.840 It's like rather than boycotting a company to, to, to take away their profit, you just set your own

00:29:32.580 money on fire. If you said to a company, if you don't do what I want, I'm going to, you see this,

00:29:37.440 this pile of my own money, I'm going to burn it. Yeah. How does that make you feel? It doesn't make a lot

00:29:44.140 of sense. Um, but at least the hunger strike should be a radical act. And yet this isn't even radical.

00:29:56.380 Um, when you do the, the hunger strike in protest and you also expect the institution you're

00:30:02.760 protesting to be there to provide medical aid, there's nothing radical about it. You have,

00:30:09.700 here's, you found a way to turn a hunger strike into something neutered and limp and like non-committal.

00:30:19.760 We, we are, I'm telling you right now, we are days away from one of these people setting themselves

00:30:24.520 on fire and then in their dying breaths, screaming at the university for not being there with a fire

00:30:30.260 extinguisher. They will set themselves on fire and scream. Why isn't anyone here to put this out? 0.79

00:30:35.560 Like that is good. I'm telling you right now, it's going to happen. All right. Daily Wire has

00:30:42.480 this report. Reading for fun sharply declines around age nine, an alarming trend that coincides

00:30:47.320 with years of learning loss since the pandemic. Data shows only 35% of nine-year-olds are reading

00:30:53.640 at least five days a week compared to 57% of eight-year-olds. According to the latest scholastic

00:30:58.720 survey on the issue, the number of kids who say they love reading dropped significantly from 40%

00:31:03.960 among eight-year-olds to 28% among nine-year-olds. The trend dubbed the decline by nine has concerned

00:31:10.980 researchers who note that reading, uh, reaching reading proficiency by third grade is a good

00:31:16.040 predictor of academic success. Sales of books aimed at children eight through 12 were down 10% in the

00:31:21.500 first three quarters of last year after dropping 16% in 2022. Meanwhile, books aimed at other age groups

00:31:27.480 are not underperforming compared to 2019. Uh, smartphones and more screen time could also be part of the

00:31:32.420 problem. Experts say, but the issue seems to go deeper than just screens. One of the main drivers

00:31:38.680 of the decline by nine appears to be the pandemic school disruptions. Well, uh, yeah, maybe that plays

00:31:46.560 a part, but really it is all, it's all smartphones. I mean, that, that is actually what it is. It's,

00:31:50.220 it's all smartphones. It's all screens. That's what this is about. That's the cause of it. Um,

00:31:55.180 it, it, that is the reason I harp on it so much is that it's clearly one of the primary causes

00:32:03.760 of almost every problem that kids are collectively suffering from right now. Um, it is, it is either

00:32:13.320 the main driver of every problem or it's a, it's a major driver. And this case it is the, it's,

00:32:20.240 it's the reason it is the number one. And it might as well be the only reason why young people today

00:32:27.640 aren't reading. Um, and look, 40% of kids get their first smartphone around the ages of nine

00:32:32.620 and 10. That's also when they stop reading. So it's, it's not hard to do the math here. It's very

00:32:37.760 clear. And kids who are staring at screens all the time, they aren't going to have the attention

00:32:42.060 span necessary to read books. Uh, they aren't going to be interested. They're, they're conditioned

00:32:48.260 to need much more stimulation, immediate sort of surface level stimulation with, with lots of

00:32:55.420 movement and, and bright lights and sounds and, and stuff like that. Like that's what they need.

00:33:00.680 And, um, or not what they need rather, but what they, what they have been conditioned to want.

00:33:06.040 And a book doesn't provide that books require quiet, thoughtful attention. Uh, kids with smartphones

00:33:12.160 are just not capable of that. Most adults with smartphones are not capable of that,

00:33:16.140 which is why, although maybe according to the, the study here, uh, reading books among adults

00:33:22.700 hasn't declined that much since 2019, it certainly has declined a whole lot since like 1990 or, you

00:33:29.860 know, anytime prior to that. And, um, this is why it's important to teach your kids about the thrill of

00:33:38.620 pursuing knowledge. Really? A lot of this is not just gaining it, but pursuing it, uh, the pursuit

00:33:46.840 of knowledge for its own sake. And with a book you're, you are pursuing knowledge. It's a fiction

00:33:53.100 or nonfiction. You're still gaining knowledge and insight and wisdom. That's what makes books great.

00:34:00.180 That's what makes books cool kids. Okay. That's why you should read them. And you're, you are pursuing

00:34:05.580 these things sort of the long way. You're taking the scenic route, right? The only real hope for

00:34:11.740 your kid is to instill and instill in them a love of, uh, of the chase of the pursuit of knowledge

00:34:18.380 and wisdom. So that maybe when they do have smartphones later on, they'll still like to read

00:34:23.160 books rather than just Googling everything to find out what they need to know. And that's,

00:34:29.220 that's, you know, I was thinking about this yesterday. Um, cause you know, I'm a dork, 0.63

00:34:33.960 so I like to tie everything back to these books that I'm reading. And, uh, I was, I was just,

00:34:38.460 I just started reading Candace Millard's book, River of Gods. Uh, and I really enjoyed her book

00:34:43.440 about Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon expedition, which I've talked about before on the show. It's a great

00:34:46.900 book, River of Doubt. That one's called, that one's River of Doubt. This one is River of Gods.

00:34:51.140 And this one is just as compelling so far. It's a book about, uh, explorer Richard Burton

00:34:55.380 in his search for the source of the Nile in the 19th century. Uh, last week I finished, uh,

00:35:01.140 into Africa, which is about David Livingston's search for the same thing and which actually

00:35:06.540 he, he took up where, uh, Burton and speak left off. So I'm kind of, I'm sort of, uh, reading this

00:35:12.640 a bit out of order, but anyway, there, there are many parallels that you notice between the quest,

00:35:19.460 uh, in the 19th century to find the Nile source in Africa and then the search for the Northwest

00:35:25.600 passage and British explorers in particular in the 19th century. And for centuries before that

00:35:29.760 we're, we're preoccupied with both goals on two very different parts of the globe. Obviously

00:35:35.920 many people died horrible deaths, uh, on these quests, many hundreds of people over the years

00:35:41.320 and over the centuries starved, you know, they died of scurvy and dysentery and hypothermia and

00:35:46.700 were attacked and murdered, sometimes eaten by, uh, natives and, and, and all of this incredible

00:35:53.500 suffering was all in pursuit of knowledge. They mainly, there were other things to, you know,

00:36:01.480 there, there were other motivations for these sorts of expeditions, but the main motivation was

00:36:06.800 really just to know, like the, you know, the, they wanted to know what the world looked like.

00:36:13.660 And there was only one way to find out. You had to send people to go look and come back and tell you,

00:36:18.280 and then they would die. And so you have to send more people and keep sending people until someone

00:36:21.780 finds out and they come back and they tell you. And, and now it's okay. Well now we know.

00:36:26.700 And, uh, that's the thing. The great men of history would risk their lives and endure unthinkable

00:36:31.560 suffering in order to gain the sort of knowledge that we can all now access instantly with the

00:36:39.200 machines that we carry around in our pockets. And, um, this is a fact that I think about all the time

00:36:46.440 because knowledge comes so cheap now and we do nothing to earn it. Like the fact that you can

00:36:55.840 pull out your phone and you could just pull up, uh, uh, your GPS and you could like plug in the

00:37:04.280 Nile and you can just, Oh, there it is. You can look at it and you can see the whole thing in five

00:37:08.060 seconds. He used to take like a three-year expedition through the jungle or two years drifting through

00:37:13.900 pack ice in the Arctic to find out information that you can now discover in two seconds on Wikipedia.

00:37:20.440 And we don't appreciate this fact. Our lives are so incredibly easy in a million ways that we never

00:37:25.420 even think about. And I don't think we're necessarily better for it. We don't value knowledge because it

00:37:31.520 comes so cheap. And because we don't value it, we also don't really possess it in any kind of

00:37:37.400 meaningful way. So we, we know lots of things. We have a wider, we probably have a wider breadth of

00:37:46.640 information that we are aware of than anyone else, any other group of people that's ever existed on

00:37:54.640 the planet. But we don't know these things deeply. Like we have a wide sort of superficial awareness

00:38:01.500 of many things because of our phones. We could pull out our phone and you have a question about

00:38:06.780 anything in the world. You can just Google it. There it is. Okay. Now you have that information.

00:38:12.100 Of course, you're going to forget it five seconds later because there's all this other information

00:38:15.160 you're bombarded with all the time. But if you forget it, you can pull out your phone and find it

00:38:18.280 again. So we have that information, but we don't really know things. We don't, we don't really,

00:38:23.860 we don't really know them. There's a difference between having information in your head or accessible

00:38:30.420 to you on a phone and actually knowing and understanding because true knowledge has to be pursued.

00:38:36.780 And you have to enjoy the pursuit. And we have to raise our kids to enjoy that. And if we don't,

00:38:46.100 you know, we're, it's worse than living in a country full of morons. We're going to live in 1.00

00:38:52.780 a country full of people who just are indifferent to knowledge, who just, who have no desire to know

00:39:01.100 anything. All right. Finally, the Daily Wire has this, speaking of a important knowledge and

00:39:08.260 information, I think it's a very important story. Zoo goers in China became upset after discovering

00:39:15.340 that an advertised panda exhibit actually just contained dogs that were painted white and black.

00:39:21.240 It happened at the Taizu Zoo in Jiangsu province on May 1st, when people went to see what was

00:39:28.700 advertised as a new exhibit of pandas and instead saw painted chow chow dogs. Photos and videos of

00:39:35.120 the fake pandas have since gone viral. We of course have some video of these alleged pandas. Let's watch.

00:39:42.160 I mean, close enough, like close enough. I don't really see the problem here. I guess the zoo patrons

00:40:07.540 were complaining about it because they saw this or like that. Those are clearly dogs. Those are

00:40:12.480 obviously not pandas. But I don't know what the issue is. Like the two most useless kinds of animals

00:40:19.160 are small dogs and pandas. There's no reason why either type of animal should exist. Every time I see 0.89

00:40:27.140 someone walking a tiny dog like that, I think, why does that exist? I want to stop them and ask them,

00:40:34.200 why does that thing exist? Oh, it's a cute dog. What's its name? What type of dog is it? Oh, okay.

00:40:40.700 Why does it exist? Why do you own it? And why is it here on the planet is my question. Without

00:40:48.960 that kind of dog there, without people keeping it as a pet, there is no way that it would exist.

00:40:56.340 What would it do in the wild? It would be screwed. And we obviously know that pandas wouldn't exist 0.93

00:41:02.200 without human intervention. So I don't know what's the difference between the two. I think

00:41:06.360 they're kind of interchangeable. At worst, this is like, at worst, this is a Coke, Pepsi kind of thing.

00:41:12.820 And it's like when you go to a restaurant and you say, can I get a Diet Coke? And they bring you out

00:41:16.420 a Diet Pepsi. And, you know, it may be a little disappointing, but it's basically the same thing.

00:41:22.060 There are some people who make a big show of, oh, I don't drink Pepsi. I only drink Coke. Come on.

00:41:26.000 You can't. It's the same thing. You really can't. You can't really tell the difference. You claim

00:41:30.260 that you can, but you actually can't. Nobody can. No one can. Sorry, you can't. It's been

00:41:34.360 proven by science. And so same deal here. In fact, if I went to that zoo, I would probably

00:41:40.420 prefer that exhibit. At least there was some effort put into it, some thought put into it.

00:41:48.440 You get to see creatively spray painted dogs. That's a whole other thing. That could be a whole

00:41:53.900 exhibit all to its own, really. And of course, why do you want to see pandas in the first place?

00:42:01.240 I'm not going to get into my whole panda rant. You know how I feel about pandas. I will say that

00:42:08.180 a panda exhibit is pointless. They don't do anything. They just sit there. They're completely useless.

00:42:16.560 They're incompetent, useless animals. So you go and you sit there, see them sitting there, 1.00

00:42:21.760 eating bamboo or whatever. Why? But I really wanted to read this part. This is the only thing

00:42:28.080 about the story that is arguably important, is this part. It says, zoo officials reportedly dyed the

00:42:35.960 faces of the dogs black and trimmed their hair to make them look like the popular bamboo-eating bears.

00:42:42.140 They then put the fake pandas in the exhibit every day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., drawing in people to

00:42:47.140 come and see these little bears, per the sanctuary staffers. When zoo officials were asked why they

00:42:53.400 had tricked people into thinking the dogs were pandas, one zoo rep replied, quote,

00:42:57.940 there are no panda bears at the zoo, and we wanted to do this as a result. So you can't argue with that

00:43:04.740 logic. Like, hey, why did you trick people into thinking these are pandas? Well, because we didn't

00:43:09.420 have pandas, and we wanted to make money off of a panda exhibit? What are you confused about?

00:43:16.000 We, you have money, we want your money, we know you're dumb enough to spend your money on a panda, 0.99

00:43:21.580 we don't have a panda, and so we spray painted a dog. Like, that's why. That's the whole reason. 0.99

00:43:27.520 What's the problem? You can appreciate a straightforward answer. It's like, why did you steal money out of

00:43:35.100 my wallet? Well, because I didn't have money, and you did, and I wanted the money that is in your

00:43:41.480 pocket to be in mine, and so I stole it. That's why. It is why. Can't argue with the logic.

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00:45:23.320 We live in a confusing world. We all are walking around every day, lost, bewildered, trying to

00:45:29.640 feel our way through in the dark, alone, and scared. We need guidance. We need wisdom. We

00:45:35.380 need someone to light the path for us. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of people on social media

00:45:40.340 ready to perform that service for us. If you want advice, there's plenty of that available. If you

00:45:44.840 want moral guidance, you can have it. Lots and lots of it, every day. Now, is there any reason to

00:45:50.340 trust the people dispensing that moral guidance? Do they have any actual insight? Do they have

00:45:53.900 wisdom? Have they even demonstrated a capacity to exercise basic common sense? On all counts,

00:45:59.140 no. But they're out there anyway. And they are legion, and they are ready to tell you how to live,

00:46:04.140 and how to think, and how to feel. TikTok influencers are particularly big on this, as you know.

00:46:09.240 Here's one TikTok influencer who went viral this week, as she delivered lectures and admonitions

00:46:14.880 to people in the dating scene. Listen. If you do not date fat people because you just happen

00:46:21.620 to view fatness as neutral, but not be particularly attracted to it, fine. That's a preference. If you

00:46:29.240 don't date fat people because you think being fat means that they are gross, lazy, live an unhealthy 0.99

00:46:36.320 lifestyle, or are embarrassing to be seen with in public, that's fatphobic. But to insist, 0.99

00:46:43.100 your preference is for people who aren't lazy, sloppy, and disgusting, and unhealthy, 0.96

00:46:47.860 meaning that means you prefer skinny people because all fat people are those other things, 0.97

00:46:54.180 that's actually bigoted. That's actually deciding that one group is all the same because of how they

00:47:02.440 look. Hope that makes sense. Have a good day.

00:47:06.280 So this is all that TikTok is now, by the way. It's just nothing but snide women speaking in the 1.00

00:47:11.020 most condescending tones possible as they inform us that some normal thing is actually bigoted,

00:47:17.300 actually. That's not just TikTok, of course. That's our entire society. The good news is that

00:47:22.400 this woman, whose name is Tracy, I think, will permit you, she will permit you to refrain from dating fat

00:47:28.540 people. She will, in her generosity, allow you to not have sex with the morbidly obese. She will grant 0.99

00:47:34.480 you an exemption from the fat sex quota, but only if your reasons for not having sex with fat people 0.99

00:47:41.000 are judged acceptable by her. So what are the reasons that are acceptable? Well, you may refrain from 0.95

00:47:47.220 such sexual encounters if you have a neutral feeling about fatness, but if you somehow, for some crazy

00:47:55.240 reason, actually find fatness to be off-putting and even unattractive, then you are not exempt,

00:48:01.880 Tracy says. Your parole is denied. You must go out right this instant and find a fat person to sleep 1.00

00:48:06.980 with. It is your duty. Now, how will this work exactly? Does Tracy think that by commanding people 0.99

00:48:13.000 to stop being turned off by obesity that they will comply and their preferences will just suddenly change?

00:48:18.500 Does she think that everyone will watch her TikTok video and say, oh, you mean I'm supposed to be

00:48:22.780 attracted to the morbidly obese? Well, okay then. Thank you for telling me. I'll get right on top of

00:48:28.160 that. Literally. Is that how she thinks it will go? The problem is that it can't go that way because

00:48:33.540 that's not how the human mind works. You cannot conjure desire simply out of a sense of obligation.

00:48:40.560 Now, the other way to comply, of course, would be to suppress your innate aversion and date fat people

00:48:45.700 anyway because you've been guilted into it. But is that really what she wants? Even if she could

00:48:52.580 berate someone into pretending to be attracted to her, would she want that? How would you feel if,

00:49:00.100 what if somebody wrote this on a Valentine's card? Roses are red, violets are blue. I'm afraid of being

00:49:05.900 fatphobic, so I'm dating you. It's not the most romantic sentiment, I would think. Now, the truth is

00:49:12.440 that people like Tracy, they really actually do want this kind of compliance. They're not going

00:49:18.540 to get it, but it's what they want. It's no different from the very similar videos we've seen

00:49:22.680 from trans influencers giving the same kind of speech to people who aren't attracted to trans

00:49:27.100 people. And in both cases, the people giving the speech would be perfectly happy if you dated them

00:49:32.520 out of a sense of obligation and just pretended to find them attractive. In fact, if anything,

00:49:36.980 they might prefer that. It's just like the LGBT activists who want to force you to bake the cake 1.00

00:49:41.820 or respect the pronoun. Now, most of us would not want someone to bake us a cake to celebrate

00:49:48.380 some occasion that they personally are deeply opposed to, even if we think they shouldn't be

00:49:53.720 opposed to it. If they are, we wouldn't want to force them to do it. We'd prefer if they didn't.

00:50:00.300 And we wouldn't want someone to pretend to affirm some sort of perception that we have about ourselves

00:50:04.860 if they actually think the perception is false. And we certainly wouldn't want anyone to be

00:50:09.260 romantically involved with us if, in truth, they find us deeply unattractive and viscerally unappealing.

00:50:15.640 We wouldn't want any of that. But the Tracys of the world do want that. And I'm not going to 1.00

00:50:21.800 attempt to plunge too deeply into their psyche and analyze their motivations. Maybe they've given up

00:50:25.920 on being truly loved and respected. And so now they've convinced themselves to prefer the false

00:50:30.720 performance of love and respect. Who knows what's underlying it? Whatever the reason, the point is

00:50:36.780 that wielding this kind of moral blackmail against you, wielding it successfully and having you comply

00:50:41.520 makes them feel powerful. And they like that feeling. And that's what's going on here.

00:50:47.940 There is something else to be learned from this. We used to hear the live and let live slogans all the

00:50:54.820 time from the left, right? They used to insist that we should let people love who they love. We should

00:50:59.900 let people do whatever they want in their own homes. We should mind our own business. We should,

00:51:03.500 you know, what other people do, the lifestyles they live, the people they have relationships with,

00:51:08.320 none of that affects us. As the logic went, we should butt out. We really shouldn't have any

00:51:13.720 opinions about it. We certainly shouldn't express those opinions out loud. Now, we've known for a

00:51:18.780 while that this was all a lie. The perceptive among us always knew it was a lie. And we knew it because,

00:51:25.040 for one thing, we know how the left operates. They speak in euphemism. They use misdirection and red

00:51:29.860 herrings. The argument they present is never the real argument. But we knew something else, too.

00:51:36.760 Which is that nobody, nobody on earth, not one person, actually subscribes to the live and let live

00:51:46.380 idea. Nobody does. Lots of people claim to. Nobody actually does. Lots of people will say that you

00:51:54.740 shouldn't have opinions about the choices other people make in their private lives. But nobody

00:51:58.560 really means that. They make that argument solely to justify and defend the sorts of choices that they

00:52:05.460 personally think are acceptable. But it doesn't take too much prying to discover that there's a whole

00:52:10.600 wide range of things that they don't think you should do, even in private. Thoughts they don't think you

00:52:16.960 should think. Feelings they don't think you should indulge. Beliefs they don't think you should

00:52:21.740 have. Now, they may not necessarily want the law to impose itself in these matters, though oftentimes

00:52:28.120 they do, it turns out. But whatever they think about the government's role, they certainly do have

00:52:33.080 all sorts of opinions about the morality and immorality and acceptability and unacceptability

00:52:38.500 of private actions, thoughts, preferences, and beliefs. Everyone does. Live and let live is a sham.

00:52:47.200 It is a cover used by people who aren't brave enough to defend their actual position.

00:52:53.940 The left, as it turns out, has very strong beliefs about how you should conduct yourself,

00:52:57.920 even in private. What sorts of priorities you should have. Even what your sexual preferences ought to be.

00:53:05.020 Now, especially when it comes to sex, everyone has a moral code. Everybody judges other people for how

00:53:11.460 they conduct themselves in that realm. What sorts of sexual behaviors they engage in. Everybody does.

00:53:18.820 The left has its own sexual moral code. Part of the code is that you're supposed to be attracted 0.99

00:53:23.480 to fat people and trans people. That's their moral code. Now, it's the wrong moral code, but 1.00

00:53:30.000 that's their code. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that everyone has these moral ideas and

00:53:36.460 all of the ideas are equally valid. Certainly not. Not remotely. My only point is that the whole,

00:53:41.920 hey, don't judge people for what they do in private thing, was always nonsense. And it's been nonsense

00:53:47.400 from literally everyone who has ever said it or anything like it. We all judge people for what they

00:53:54.220 do and say in private. For their preferences, for their beliefs, and so on. We all do. So rather than

00:54:01.120 debating whether we should be making these sorts of judgments, it would be much more fruitful if we moved on

00:54:06.020 and focused on determining what the right judgments actually are. Because contrary to popular belief,

00:54:13.240 it is not wrong to judge. It is wrong to judge wrongly, as our friend Tracy has done. And that is

00:54:22.520 why she is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

00:54:27.660 Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

00:54:36.020 Godspeed.

00:54:41.200 Godspeed.

00:54:43.240 Godspeed.

00:54:45.120 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 08, 2024

Ep. 1364 - White Men Deserve Gratitude, Not Demonization

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