The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1374 - Violent Criminal Offenders Are Now 'Justice-Impacted Individuals'

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the language police have come up with a new term to describe dangerous

00:00:04.360 criminal offenders. If you really want to prove how enlightened you are, just call them

00:00:07.600 justice-impacted individuals. Also, a Democrat congresswoman, for some reason, starts listing

00:00:12.560 her professional achievements during a House hearing about DEI. In the process, she inadvertently

00:00:16.620 demonstrated why we should get rid of DEI. The coach of the Kansas City Chiefs has a great

00:00:20.400 response to a reporter who tried to get him to condemn Harrison Butker. And the movie Goodfellas

00:00:24.460 is the latest film to get a cultural sensitivity warning label. We'll talk about all that and more

00:00:29.040 today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:55.300 Walsh to 989898. That's Walsh to 989898. A couple of months ago in March, a 37-year-old man named

00:02:02.320 Corsetti Brand was released on parole in the state of Illinois. He had been locked up on a charge of

00:02:07.280 home invasion and sentenced to more than a decade in prison. But the state's prisoner review board

00:02:11.880 decided to let him out early with electronic monitoring. And what happened after that was

00:02:17.060 predictable. Just a day after he got out of prison, Chicago police say that Corsetti attacked a pregnant

00:02:21.160 woman and her 11-year-old boy killing the child and critically injuring his mother. According to

00:02:26.520 court documents, the last time he was on parole, Corsetti had threatened the same woman by text

00:02:30.360 and showed up at her home. But somehow none of Corsetti's criminal history, including

00:02:34.880 his alleged threats, were enough to keep him in prison. And now authorities say that a child is dead

00:02:41.380 as a result. Now, this is obviously clearly a massive failure of the judicial system in Illinois,

00:02:47.760 which particularly post-BLM has focused more on rehabilitation instead of punishment. It's the

00:02:52.680 kind of episode that you'd hope would spur lawmakers in Illinois to pass new laws to rein in their 0.94

00:02:58.040 approach of restorative justice, quote unquote, which we have talked about recently. But the Illinois

00:03:04.320 government has opted for a very different response. Instead of doing something to prevent violent

00:03:09.020 criminals from getting out of prison, state lawmakers have decided on a course of action

00:03:12.960 that's ripped straight from a Babylon Bee article. A new bill that was just passed by both houses of

00:03:18.800 the Illinois legislature, which is expected to be signed by the governor, would modify state law so

00:03:23.860 that the term offender becomes replaced by the term justice impacted individual. Justice impacted

00:03:33.300 individual. The Department of Corrections and a bunch of other government agencies will be

00:03:38.580 required to use that term from now on. So the plan is not to do anything about the criminals who are

00:03:44.140 getting out of prison. It's to use a nicer word to describe these criminals. Don't call them

00:03:50.240 offenders. Call them justice impacted individuals. Now, I had to check several times to make sure this

00:03:57.040 wasn't satire because it is quite literally beyond parody. Actually, if the Babylon Bee had come up with this

00:04:03.380 idea, I wouldn't even find it funny because it would be too on the nose. But this is reality now

00:04:08.920 in Illinois. This is their cutting edge approach to criminal justice. Watch.

00:04:13.480 Bankers have passed a bill that if signed into law by Governor Pritzker will change the term

00:04:19.240 offender in state law to justice impacted individual. WGN's Jewel Hillary here to explain. Jewel. 0.93

00:04:25.700 Hi, Micah and Bray. So this legislation has passed both the state house and Senate. And to be very

00:04:30.700 clear, the potential language change would only apply to about 1800 offenders across the state.

00:04:36.400 On Tuesday, Bill 4409 passed in the state Senate 34 to 20. The question is, shall House Bill 4409

00:04:45.300 pass? All those in favor of vote aye? Oppose nay? The voting is open. The proposed legislation would

00:04:50.340 remove the term offender and replace it with justice impacted individual for individuals in the state's

00:04:56.960 adult redeploy Illinois program, commonly referred to as ARI. According to the Illinois Criminal Justice

00:05:03.760 Information Authority, ARI is an initiative that diverts offenders from prison to programs to help

00:05:09.940 rehabilitate them to success. Republicans say the language change portrays a lack of empathy for

00:05:15.640 victims and lack of concern for public safety. Change this, change that. The only thing that you

00:05:23.320 don't want to change is the behavior of criminals. Now, before the fact checkers jump down my throat,

00:05:30.600 I'll emphasize one thing, which is that this rebrand doesn't apply to everyone who commits

00:05:35.340 crimes in the state of Illinois. Instead, this new term applies to many women in the state's 1.00

00:05:39.480 Adult Redeploy Illinois Program, or ARI, as you heard. According to the government of McLean County,

00:05:44.700 Illinois, the ARI program provides for comprehensive daily supervision of dozens of, quote,

00:05:50.540 high-risk adult felons as an alternative to costly penitentiary commitment.

00:05:54.960 So they're not rebranding every criminal as a justice-impacted individual. They're only

00:06:01.440 rebranding some of the high-risk adult felons who otherwise would be in prison. So if you're living

00:06:08.620 in Chicago, hopefully you can rest easy tonight with that distinction in mind. Now, the point of the

00:06:15.020 word game here is the same as always. First, it removes agency from the individual by making

00:06:21.060 terminology as passive as possible. An offender is not an offender anymore because offending is

00:06:26.780 something that a person actively does, right? It puts the onus on the individual. You have gone out

00:06:31.900 and offended. You've committed an offense. And instead, they're saying, well, they're justice-impacted.

00:06:37.700 They were impacted by justice. It's not their fault. You know, justice came along and impacted them.

00:06:44.120 I mean, they're the victims here, if anything. And second, on top of making everything passive and

00:06:51.060 removing agency, it also helps to identify the people that are in your club because they're the

00:06:57.980 ones who know about these lingo changes and follow the rules. So it's not much different from a child

00:07:02.960 who sets up a pillow fort and won't let you inside the fort unless you know the password, which changes

00:07:07.760 randomly and on a whim. It's like that kind of idea. Now, if you go looking online for the term

00:07:12.500 justice-impacted individual, you'll find that it's popular among Harvard podcasters,

00:07:17.220 billionaire left-wing activists, giant Silicon Valley corporations like Google.

00:07:22.560 These are the people and organizations that, conveniently enough, have distanced themselves

00:07:26.800 as much as possible from communities where crime is high. So they don't want anything to do with the

00:07:31.340 justice-impacted individuals, but they want you to have to live near them and treat them with respect

00:07:36.280 and even refer to them in a way that will not be alienating or otherizing for them.

00:07:42.500 Of course, nobody in the real world uses terms like justice-impacted individuals,

00:07:46.860 which is precisely the point. If you go around saying the word justice-impacted individual,

00:07:51.760 then you're instantly communicating where you stand on the political spectrum.

00:07:56.560 And perhaps more importantly, people who don't use these new terms are instantly identifiable as

00:08:01.020 outcasts, as racists, and terrible people. Every so often, wealthy elites and academics come up with

00:08:06.700 new ways to provide these kinds of signals. And then they inevitably filter down to activists

00:08:12.800 and government bureaucrats, which is what's happening right now in Illinois. Which is also

00:08:18.220 why, by the way, this may be the first time you're hearing of justice-impacted individual.

00:08:23.520 Give it like a year or six months and you'll be hearing it everywhere. That's the way this always goes.

00:08:28.540 Now, there was an episode during the Canadian trucker convoy a couple of years ago that

00:08:33.960 illustrates how this strategy works in practice. The truckers who gathered in the Canadian capital

00:08:38.700 city of Ottawa were exactly the kind of blue-collar workers that liberals pretend to care about. But

00:08:44.000 in this case, the blue-collar workers were protesting for, you know, freedom. So they had to

00:08:49.880 be crushed. It was vitally important for liberals to smear these truckers as racists. And one of the 0.98

00:08:55.700 ways the liberals did that was by criticizing the truckers for using the wrong lingo.

00:08:59.700 This is a clip from a Fox interview that leftists mocked relentlessly during the convoy.

00:09:04.940 And listen to it and see if you can spot what they considered the problem to be. Listen.

00:09:11.340 It was only one guy. So you are not racist. I have all type of friends, color friends, Spanish,

00:09:21.980 Chinese. You know, they are great people. There is no racism here.

00:09:30.060 So they're actually, and then there's, you know, this is a Romanian trucker who clearly speaks English

00:09:33.680 as a second language. And he's explaining on primetime television that he's not racist because

00:09:39.280 he has a bunch of colored friends. Now, logically, there's no difference whatsoever between saying

00:09:45.340 I have colored friends and I have friends who are people of color. It's just a slight grammatical

00:09:50.280 difference that means absolutely nothing. It's all semantics. If anything, the latter sentence is

00:09:54.600 unnecessarily wordy. Otherwise, they're the same. If a person can be of color, then it's accurate to 1.00

00:10:00.720 say that the person is colored. A person of color is a colored person. But your intellectual superiors 0.59

00:10:07.360 have decided, for reasons that cannot be explained, they've just decided that people of color is the

00:10:13.440 only phrase you're allowed to use. If you say colored people, and unless you're the NAACP,

00:10:18.220 you're a bigot. So they vilified this trucker all over social media,

00:10:22.560 both here and in Canada. And on top of that too, not only did he use the lingo or did he use the

00:10:28.360 wrong lingo, but he also tried to disprove accusations of racism by saying that he has black

00:10:35.220 friends. And we're also told by our betters that that doesn't prove anything. When of course,

00:10:42.520 it absolutely does. Like if you have friends of a particular race, it's a pretty good indication

00:10:48.620 that you're not racist against that race. But this is one of the main reasons that cutting-edge

00:10:54.240 PC lingo exists. It's why you're supposed to say, you know, people experiencing homelessness

00:10:58.660 instead of homeless drug addict. It's why you're supposed to say minor attracted person instead of

00:11:03.540 pedophile. And it's why, if at all possible, you're supposed to employ clever euphemisms to

00:11:08.940 describe criminals who happen to be really any race but white. The New York Post is particularly 0.82

00:11:13.900 adept at this last trick to the point that it's becoming a running joke online and presumably in

00:11:20.040 the Post newsroom. Among the euphemisms that New York Post has come up with to describe black suspects

00:11:24.380 are cold-hearted teens, knife-wielding sicko, misogynistic maniac, and my personal favorite, 0.99

00:11:32.140 lunchtime rowdies. Now, just in case there was any doubt that the Post is doing this deliberately, 0.99

00:11:37.580 here's a passage from that article on the lunchtime rowdies. See if you can count all

00:11:44.680 the euphemisms. Here it is. And this is totally real. A band of foul-mouthed, toy-gun-waving,

00:11:51.920 pot-puffing high school hooligans are keeping residents of West 13th off 6th Avenue hostage in

00:11:57.180 their own Tony homes. For at least a year while school's in session, the roughnecks roam from stoop 1.00

00:12:04.800 to stoop every day at lunchtime, rolling blunts, getting high, acting out, and taunting anyone who

00:12:09.560 gets in their way. Now, with terms like hooligans, roughnecks, lunchtime rowdies, you'd be forgiven

00:12:18.140 for thinking that this is like an article from a small-town newspaper somewhere out in Wyoming in

00:12:22.920 the year 1873. My only hope is that in the next Post article they can work in the terms ruffian and

00:12:29.060 scoundrel. But in any case, you read the whole article and you won't find any mention in the text

00:12:35.080 about the ethnicity of these lunchtime rowdies and pot-puffing hooligans. But if a white person is

00:12:40.560 causing problems, the Post will generally put the race in the headline. For example, one recent headline

00:12:45.340 in the Post read, video shows black NYC partiers scatter for cover as white neighbor douses them with 0.51

00:12:51.180 garden hose. Now, there was no euphemism for the white guy. He wasn't a hose-toting scoundrel or 0.91

00:12:59.520 anything like that. He's just a white neighbor. And for what it's worth, not all the people he hit 0.93

00:13:04.200 with the water were black. The Post went out of its way to mention the race of the white guy even when

00:13:07.920 it was misleading to do so, of course. And this isn't specific to the New York Post. It's the approach

00:13:12.540 of most major media outlets. As the account Data Hazard found, the race of white murderers is made clear 0.84

00:13:17.520 in more than 90% of news articles. But with black murderers, race is only mentioned in 30% of the 1.00

00:13:22.640 articles. And when it does appear, it's usually much lower down in the text of the article. 0.96

00:13:28.200 So this is obviously a very intentional thing that they're doing. And journalists do this in part to

00:13:32.500 signal that they're true believers in principles of restorative justice. And in the process, they're

00:13:37.400 denying the agency of black offenders by holding them to a completely different standard. 0.75

00:13:42.080 These criminals get additional protections in the media, even when they commit heinous crimes solely on 0.95

00:13:46.460 basis of their skin color. And now the state of Illinois is doing the same thing. It's almost as

00:13:52.380 if they hired the New York Post euphemism guy to write their legislation. Now, to give the left some

00:13:57.740 credit, they understand the role of language in shaping policy and shaping opinions and the views of the

00:14:05.720 public. In order to normalize crime and pedophilia, they first need to change the way people prefer

00:14:10.940 to crime and pedophilia. And that effort is now underway in Illinois, which means that many more

00:14:15.880 justice-impacted individuals will soon be out on the streets. It also means that many more innocent

00:14:22.900 people, including children and pregnant women, will be impacted by these justice-impacted individuals.

00:14:30.040 Because one euphemism at a time in Democrat-run cities all over the country, it's pretty clear that

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00:15:51.960 my favorite, maybe my favorite crazy woke congresswoman. She may have supplanted AOC at this point. 1.00

00:15:58.780 As, and I don't even know if the, so this is Jasmine Crockett, and I'm not sure, is she even in the

00:16:04.440 squad? That's an interesting question. Has she been, is the squad, is squad membership closed?

00:16:11.020 Um, or is it, is it, is it an ever-expanding group? I'm not exactly sure. So I don't know if

00:16:16.500 Jasmine Crockett is in the, in the squad, but, uh, she's back in the news. And of course, Jasmine

00:16:21.200 Crockett was last seen in a Waffle House style fight with Marjorie Taylor Greene during a House 0.86

00:16:26.480 Committee hearing, an altercation, which we should say, um, you know, the women on both sides of the 0.85

00:16:32.240 aisle embarrass themselves in equal measure. And now she's back. Here's the story from the left-wing

00:16:38.200 rag Raw story. It says, Representative Jasmine Crockett confronted a Republican plan to diminish

00:16:44.120 diverse hiring practices if a GOP presidential candidate wins in 2024. During a Wednesday House

00:16:49.860 oversight hearing on federal employment, Crockett noted that some of her Republican colleagues

00:16:54.620 appeared to be echoing Project 2025, which aims to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion

00:16:58.980 practices in the federal government. Crockett said that Republican arguments against diversity

00:17:03.500 workplace made her very frustrated because of her own personal qualifications. And then she then

00:17:09.600 proceeded to list off her qualifications. Um, this is a House Oversight Committee hearing. They're

00:17:16.420 running on taxpayer money. And Crockett decided to take up time during this hearing, for whatever

00:17:22.140 reason, to let everybody know about her resume. And she's very proud of it. Here it is.

00:17:29.760 All I could think about was the fact that I currently hold an honorary doctorate. I also

00:17:34.200 hold a juris doctorate. I also hold a bachelor's. I also technically hold the rank of lieutenant colonel

00:17:41.580 in the Civil Air Patrol. And I actually practiced law for almost two decades. In addition to serving on

00:17:48.500 various boards, in addition to being a prior state lawmaker. And there are those that would make some

00:17:56.920 people believe that because I happen to be black and or a woman, that somehow, even though I can rattle

00:18:05.320 off all the qualifications in the world, my blackness makes me unqualified. 0.98

00:18:11.060 Well, no, it's not your blackness, Jasmine. Your blackness does not make you unqualified. Your qualifications

00:18:19.040 make you unqualified. Um, qualifications that you claim amount to all the qualifications in the world. She has

00:18:26.220 all of them. She has all the qualifications that could exist. She has them all. And what are they? Well, let's

00:18:35.060 review. She has a bachelor's degree, which literally anyone can achieve if they feel like going into

00:18:42.320 debt for the sake of it. I mean, any, any person who can get a bachelor's degree, if you want to go

00:18:48.100 into, if you're willing to take on the debt, you can get a bachelor's degree. She has an honorary

00:18:52.740 doctorate, which means absolutely nothing. Uh, she has a JD from a mediocre mid-tier law school.

00:18:59.120 Well, she technically, technically she qualifies has the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Civil Air

00:19:04.960 Patrol, which is a truly hilarious thing to brag about. And that's about it. She has accrued various

00:19:11.060 pieces of paper that indicate that she attended various schools. Um, none of the schools are even

00:19:16.240 prestigious or difficult to get into. And even the prestigious schools these days aren't actually

00:19:21.820 prestigious. So that's where we are now. She hasn't achieved anything that could not be achieved by

00:19:28.180 an unskilled, unimpressive person of mediocre intelligence. You know, there isn't one thing

00:19:33.840 on the list where you hear that and you go, oh, wow, you did that. Wow. Well, I didn't know.

00:19:42.760 That's impressive. Like no one's going to respond to go, oh, wow, you got a bachelor's. Did you just

00:19:48.920 say you got a bet? This woman got a bet. She has a bachelor's. Hey, everyone, everyone, shut up, 0.99

00:19:53.440 shut up. Listen to her. She's got a, she's got a bachelor's. And did I mention she's in the Civil 1.00

00:19:59.940 Air Patrol? Now, I'm not trying to be mean here either, but when you completely unsolicited start

00:20:08.700 bragging about your accomplishments, you better actually have accomplishments. She didn't have to

00:20:13.780 bring it up. She decided to. Like going to school is not an accomplishment. I know this is news to a

00:20:19.880 lot of people. Going to school is not an accomplishment. The fact that you went to

00:20:23.540 school is not an accomplishment. It's not an achievement. I'm sorry. So if the only thing

00:20:28.660 you've done in your life is go to school, you haven't really achieved anything. You have zero

00:20:32.640 achievements so far. At best, going to school sets you up maybe and will help you in your pursuit

00:20:41.180 of achievements. But being there in and of itself is not an achievement. It's just not.

00:20:49.340 Being in the Civil Air Patrol is fine, you know, but it's not an accomplishment. And none of this

00:20:55.640 necessarily makes you qualified for anything in particular. And more importantly, all of this is

00:21:01.080 completely irrelevant to the subject at hand. What is the subject? Well, Republicans want to get rid of

00:21:07.620 DEI. Allegedly, they want to get rid of it. I hope they actually do. They want to get rid of it in

00:21:12.880 federal government. And they don't want to hire people based on, you know, DEI policies. And

00:21:19.040 Crockett's response to that is to insist that she's a black woman and deeply qualified for whatever job 0.84

00:21:24.780 she wants. Now, let's leave aside the fact that she's not really qualified for anything in particular.

00:21:29.240 Let's pretend that she is as impressive as she finds herself to be. And she finds herself to be so

00:21:35.620 impressive that it's the only thing she could think about. Notice she says that at the start of

00:21:39.540 her little spiel, because they have this whole hearing going on. And she says, yeah, I'm listening

00:21:44.740 to you guys. And all I could think about was myself and my own resume. Well, like, what does that tell

00:21:51.120 you? Really? That's the only thing you could think about? I believe you. I believe you, Jasmine.

00:21:54.700 That's the only thing you can think about. But so let's pretend for a moment that she is that

00:22:02.920 impressive. Well, OK, then, then you don't need DEI to get hired. If you truly are that accomplished

00:22:08.780 and impressive, you would easily be able to set yourself apart on a level playing field where race

00:22:13.440 is not taken into account. That's all that getting rid of DEI means in this context. It simply means

00:22:18.720 that people will be hired and promoted based on their actual merits and their actual skills and

00:22:22.380 accomplishments and not based on skin color. So if you're a black person who's very skilled and very

00:22:28.180 qualified, not only should you not fear the ending of DEI, but you should cheer its ending.

00:22:37.180 You know, because you don't need that helping hand. You don't need that kind of patronizing sort of

00:22:42.740 thing. And having it there, it only succeeds in diminishing your actual achievement. So you,

00:22:50.540 you of all people should be opposed to it. It's like, if you know how to ride a bike,

00:22:56.940 do you want to ride down the street with a bike with training wheels? Now, it might be true that

00:23:03.100 you don't need these training wheels. And maybe you insist to people as you're riding along,

00:23:07.780 I don't really need these. I know how to ride the bike. Maybe you do, but like you're riding

00:23:11.700 with training wheels. And so we have to at least suspect that you're a grown adult who doesn't know

00:23:15.180 how to ride a bike. And this is what happens if you're in one of the favored groups with DEI.

00:23:24.180 Anyway, it's like, it's quite possible that you would have gotten that job anyway.

00:23:30.180 You might be the best person, the most skilled person in the whole company or the whole organization.

00:23:34.360 But because that is there, we have to at least suspect that you might've only gotten it because

00:23:40.260 of DEI. Which again means that if you're the kind of person who can get the job anyway and climb the

00:23:46.520 ladder anyway without that, then you shouldn't, you should hate it the most. But of course,

00:23:54.720 Crockett is doing the thing that people in the internet age love to do. She's trying to argue 0.90

00:23:59.520 against a general point by offering some kind of hyper-specific and totally irrelevant personal

00:24:05.260 anecdote. So, and this is something that I will say, I think you find this on the internet all the

00:24:15.780 time. It's not only women who do this. It does appear that women tend to this sort of thing more

00:24:23.660 often. Responding to a general point with an anecdote that doesn't really advance the conversation

00:24:32.140 at all. So Republicans are saying, we should get rid of DEI because it's unfair and unconstitutional.

00:24:39.120 And Crockett responds, oh yeah, but I'm extremely qualified. Okay. What does that have to do with

00:24:45.680 anything? What does that have to do with anything? Who cares? Good for you. Thanks for the cool story.

00:24:55.720 But this is how it always goes. Like, you know, you could go on Twitter and say,

00:25:03.460 bananas are healthy and somebody will respond, oh yeah, but I don't like bananas. I like apples and

00:25:14.000 apples are healthy too. Oh, you're talking about bananas are healthy? What, you're saying apples

00:25:19.800 aren't healthy? I eat apples all the time. I ate an apple for breakfast this morning.

00:25:25.360 Okay. Good for you. It's got nothing to do, that doesn't negate the statement about bananas.

00:25:33.760 So just a failure across the board there by Jasmine Crockett,

00:25:39.900 who's always providing good content though. So I appreciate her for that at least.

00:25:44.880 Andy Reid, coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, was asked about the Harrison Butker speech by

00:25:48.960 a reporter yesterday. And here's what he said.

00:25:54.160 With so many women just on staff here and in the building, if, I mean, his comments kind of touched

00:25:59.500 on one of the workforce. I mean, what do you tell them if they come to you with a concern about

00:26:03.360 players speaking ill of, you know, women in general?

00:26:06.860 Yeah, that hasn't happened. I don't think he was speaking ill to women, but he has his opinions and

00:26:12.440 we all respect that. I let you guys in this room and you have a lot of opinions that I don't like.

00:26:17.960 So that's a good response. And Patrick Mahomes was also asked about it. And he gave,

00:26:26.760 you know, he gave a pretty good response too. It was a decent response.

00:26:30.480 And this has been the response of the team, which is why all the people speculating that Harrison

00:26:38.700 Butker would be fired over this. That's why I said all along, that's not, if you know anything

00:26:43.360 about football, that ain't happening. It's not happening. They're not going to cut. They're not

00:26:48.420 going to cut one of the best kickers in the league who helped them win a Super Bowl because he said 1.00

00:26:52.960 offensive, things that are allegedly offensive or were offensive anyway to morons. The fact that he said 0.99

00:26:57.560 offensive things to morons is not going to be enough to get him cut from the team. 0.99

00:27:02.600 And that's one of the things about, well, I wish this was true of professional sports in general, but 0.99

00:27:07.580 certainly football, it's still true that when it comes down to it on the field,

00:27:14.560 it is still a meritocracy. All the woke stuff can be happening around the peripheral and sort of on

00:27:21.780 the sideline a little bit too, because they got the Rooney rule and all the rules with,

00:27:24.940 you know, you got to hire a certain number of black coaches or at least interview them and all

00:27:28.640 that stuff is happening. But on the field, that is still a place where the guy who's there,

00:27:35.320 it's because he's the best at the job. And that's it. And all the wokeness, all the different,

00:27:41.260 the politically correct, political correctness, all the controversies, that really doesn't make

00:27:45.900 its way on the field. Because it still is about winning. And that's all. And when it comes down

00:27:54.860 to it, that's all that anyone really cares about. At least all when it comes to the people on the

00:28:00.020 field and the coaches on the sideline, the only thing they really care about is winning the game.

00:28:05.500 Which means that as long as that is the case, and it is still the case, 100%. As long as that's the

00:28:13.700 case, then football will remain a meritocracy. And as long as it's a meritocracy, that's an antidote

00:28:27.660 to wokeness. It's insulation. It's a defense against wokeness and a pretty good one.

00:28:35.040 So well done on Andy Reid's part. But I would like to focus on the question from this reporter

00:28:41.680 for a moment. He asks, what would he say to any woman on the staff who comes to him

00:28:48.860 concerned that Butker, quote, spoke ill of women in general?

00:28:53.620 And Reid was firm but polite in his response, which was probably the right tone to take.

00:29:03.340 But if that was me, I would not have been so polite. He spoke ill of women? What the hell

00:29:11.920 are you talking about? No, I mean, really, let's stop. If I'm up there at the podium, let's stop 0.97

00:29:22.360 everything. He spoke ill of women in general. Okay, what did he say that spoke ill of women?

00:29:30.800 Don't paraphrase. Don't paraphrase. Give me the quote. Give me one thing this guy said

00:29:37.140 that would count as speaking ill of women. 0.89

00:29:41.200 Now, of course, he didn't know such thing was said. And if you were to comb through the text of

00:29:51.140 that speech, looking desperately for anything that could even sort of count as an insult to women,

00:29:58.240 you're not going to find it. You just won't find it. It's not there. Because this whole controversy

00:30:03.800 was it's one of the dumbest. I feel like I keep saying this about every new controversy that comes 0.98

00:30:08.500 along. I declare it the dumbest one yet. And well, because it's true, it just keeps getting 0.99

00:30:12.680 dumber and dumber. And that one was, I mean, there'll be a dumber one coming up soon. But 0.99

00:30:17.420 for right now, that's the dumbest controversy yet. When it comes to things that have provoked that level 0.98

00:30:22.500 of outrage, I can't think of anything dumber than this. But of course, this guy, like he probably 0.98

00:30:28.400 didn't even, not probably, well, he certainly didn't read or listen to the whole speech.

00:30:33.120 He probably didn't even listen to the clip. Like there's a, there's a two minute clip

00:30:38.800 where he, where he talks about women. It's only in that two minutes where he talks about women.

00:30:43.420 And I bet this guy never even heard it. He doesn't even know what he says in the clip.

00:30:48.820 All he knows is that people are mad and he knows that his tribe is mad at Harrison Butker. And so

00:30:57.560 they must have a good reason in his mind. All right. I'm going to mention this briefly.

00:31:05.840 This is a report from Mary Margaret Olihan and she's a reporter of the Daily Signal.

00:31:14.260 The tweet says, the Catholic Diocese of Lexington issues a statement using male pronouns referring to

00:31:20.100 a woman who identifies as a transgender monk. Says Bishop Stowe has accepted his profession and is

00:31:27.260 grateful to this woman for her witness of discipleship, integrity, and contemplative prayer.

00:31:33.540 There's, that's the transgender monk who's not actually a monk, is a hermit, not a monk. 0.98

00:31:41.300 That's a female. Let me read the whole statement from the Diocese of Lexington.

00:31:45.740 On Pentecost Sunday, Brother Christian Mattson, a professed hermit in the Diocese of Lexington, 0.82

00:31:50.000 has made it public that he's a transgender person. Brother Christian has long sought to consecrate

00:31:55.820 his life to Christ and church by living the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity,

00:32:00.880 and obedience. He has consistently been accompanied by a competent spiritual director

00:32:04.980 and has undergone formation in the Benedictine tradition. He does not seek ordination, but has

00:32:10.340 professed a rule of life that allows him to support himself financially by continuing his work in the

00:32:15.340 arts and to live a life of contemplation in a private hermitage. Bishop John Stowe accepted his

00:32:21.400 profession and is grateful to Brother Christian for his witness of discipleship, integrity, and

00:32:26.040 contemplative prayer for the church. A couple of things to note here. First, when you look at the

00:32:34.140 picture of this woman, you see again this interesting phenomenon that I think we've remarked on in the

00:32:42.280 past that, and this again, this is not meant as a, this is just an observation, just an observation.

00:32:48.960 But it is true that it seems like the only people who are trans identified, who truly quote unquote

00:32:59.040 pass, who, in other words, might, you might actually mistake for the gender they're pretending to be. 0.70

00:33:07.620 The only ones who pull that off are those who are morbidly obese. They're the only ones.

00:33:13.580 And the reason is that morbid obesity has this kind of effect because it, when you're covering your

00:33:20.880 body and all of your features and traits in a layer of, of a rather large layer of lard, and so it's already,

00:33:28.340 it kind of has this, you know, effect of making people seem already sort of ambiguous.

00:33:33.420 Um, and then from that sort of template, um, a person can

00:33:39.760 successfully sometimes pull off looking like a morbidly obese member of the, uh, opposite sex.

00:33:47.100 Just an observation. More importantly, though, we should say that this woman, um, should be 0.66

00:33:55.900 excommunicated and whoever is responsible for this statement in the diocese should be excommunicated

00:34:04.460 as well. That that's what it will not happen. It'll never happen in a million years, but it should

00:34:10.980 happen because this is an insidious lie and it's a scandal and it's not Catholic. This is a rejection of, 0.92

00:34:21.960 this is a full rejection of the Catholic faith. Now it's also a rejection of reality. It's a 0.90

00:34:29.440 rejection of truth because of course I'd be the first to say as a Catholic that these things are

00:34:35.700 not distinct from one another, reality, truth, and the Catholic faith. Um, but it is a rejection of

00:34:41.620 science, of scientific realities, and it's a rejection of, of, uh, Catholicism.

00:34:48.600 You cannot be a faithful, what are the words here? Committed disciple of the Catholic church

00:34:59.000 while supporting trans ideology or while being a woman claiming to be a man. You can't, it's 1.00

00:35:06.240 impossible. This is a indirect contradiction of the Catholic faith. So you, you can either be a 0.96

00:35:13.620 disciple of trans ideology, which is its own religion, or you could be a Catholic. You cannot 0.73

00:35:18.780 be both. It's not possible. You know, you might as well have someone who's claiming to be, uh, you

00:35:25.040 know, uh, a Muslim Catholic or something like that. It's a, it's a, it is a, uh, completely different 1.00

00:35:34.700 faith entirely. And you can't be both. And there are a lot of reasons for that. One is that it's,

00:35:43.220 again, this just, this just contradicts Catholic teaching, clear Catholic teaching, Catholic teaching

00:35:49.740 that has been in place for 2000 years. Trans ideology totally contradicts and rejects it. So

00:35:55.940 there's that, but it also, it also, it, this is one of the reasons why it contradicts Catholic

00:36:03.240 teaching is that in order for trans ideology to be correct, we have to posit either that there is

00:36:09.140 no God, which obviously you can't believe that there's, you can't reject the existence of God and

00:36:14.100 also be a Catholic in a meaningful sense or in any sense whatsoever. Um, or it posits a, a God who is,

00:36:22.880 who makes rather significant mistakes. It posits a sort of bumbling, incompetent God, a foolish God 1.00

00:36:33.780 who can accidentally somewhere on the, I don't know, uh, celestial assembly line can accidentally, 0.98

00:36:42.880 uh, take a, a male soul, the essence of a male and, and put it into a female body. 1.00

00:36:49.840 And then the person is born and God says, ah, man, I screwed that one up. Sorry about that.

00:37:00.140 Yeah, we got to correct that. No, see, you're supposed to be, you're a woman, but you're supposed 1.00

00:37:05.780 to be a man and you, you weren't born how you were supposed to be born. And if you weren't born,

00:37:13.400 how you're supposed to be born? Well, there's only one person. There's only one being rather in, 0.86

00:37:17.620 in the universe and beyond it who could be responsible for the mistake. And that is God

00:37:23.100 himself. So you are rejecting God's omnipotence, his omniscience, his wisdom. You're rejecting

00:37:30.880 everything. You're rejecting that he's all powerful. And then you're, you are, I suppose,

00:37:38.500 correcting God's mistake by taking a bunch of hormone pills and, um, identifying as something

00:37:43.760 other than you are. So it's a rejection of truth. It's a rejection of Catholic teaching. It's a

00:37:48.020 rejection of God's omnipotence, uh, power, wisdom, love, knowledge.

00:37:53.740 And anyone who does that, anyone who stands up publicly and declares that shouldn't be a part,

00:38:03.100 should be excommunicated from the faith. And that should be obvious. All right. Daily Wire has this,

00:38:10.980 AMC is being mocked for placing a cultural stereotypes warning on the classic 1990 Martin

00:38:15.880 Scorsese mobster drama, Goodfellas. Anyone tuning into the film on the streaming service, AMC Plus

00:38:20.800 sees the following message before the movie begins. This film includes language and or cultural

00:38:25.100 stereotypes that are inconsistent with today's standards of inclusion and tolerance and may

00:38:29.240 offend some viewers. AMC provided the New York Post with a statement about the warning.

00:38:34.900 The company said that they started adding this content warning four years ago. Quote,

00:38:38.440 in 2020, we began adding advisories in front of certain films that include racial or cultural references

00:38:43.160 that some viewers might find offensive. Several individuals weighed in on the warning.

00:38:47.620 Michael Franzese, a former captain of the Colombo crime family, told the outlet he didn't agree with

00:38:53.880 adding the warning. We don't need anyone protecting mob guys. It's crazy, he said.

00:38:58.780 Former NYPD officer Bo Dietl, who played a police officer at Goodfellas, also disagreed with the

00:39:03.120 messaging. The effing political correctness is effing taking everything away. This is how life was back

00:39:08.140 then. It was not a clean, beautiful thing. You can't cleanse history. If you want to tell true

00:39:12.160 history, you got to tell it the way it is. So they've added this warning. And now,

00:39:19.600 was there a single person at any point who complained to AMC prior to this warning being put

00:39:28.020 in, who complained that it was culturally insensitive? Was there a single viewer of

00:39:33.300 Goodfellas who, after viewing it, or maybe viewed only a few minutes of it and turned it off and

00:39:38.300 discussed and then complained to AMC saying this is culture? Did that happen one single time? I think

00:39:44.580 we could probably assume no. Now, even if it did happen one single time or two times or five times,

00:39:49.720 that doesn't justify adding the warning in. But the point here is that they're doing this to

00:39:54.680 address a problem that doesn't even exist anywhere. And the most important point here,

00:40:01.980 of course, is that Goodfellas is based on a true story. So if there are cultural stereotypes,

00:40:06.920 it's because these historical figures really did behave in a way consistent with those stereotypes,

00:40:14.140 which isn't surprising because that's how the stereotypes exist. That's why every stereotype

00:40:19.500 has at least some truth to it. And most of them have a lot of truth, which is why it makes no sense

00:40:26.480 to declare stereotypes unsayable and horribly offensive. But that's why they do it. The fact

00:40:35.760 the stereotypes are usually at least somewhat true, that's why our cultural elites have called

00:40:41.280 them, have declared them unsayable because the stereotypes are true and you're not allowed to

00:40:46.600 notice true things. We know that noticing true things is the greatest sin of all. So let me ask you

00:40:51.580 this. Have you ever heard in your life a stereotype where you heard the stereotype and you

00:40:56.460 said to yourself, what? Where did that come from? Nobody in that group acts like that.

00:41:04.840 No, of course not. Every stereotype you've ever heard, whether you said it out loud or not,

00:41:10.460 you knew in your head like, okay, yeah, yeah, that makes sense. You're not going to hear a stereotype

00:41:16.900 that comes totally out of the blue. It makes no sense. You've never heard a stereotype where it's like,

00:41:24.640 Native American men always wear blue jeans on Thursdays. That, you know, like some kind of 1.00

00:41:33.020 non-sequitur stereotype. He's like, where did that come from? I don't know. What in the world does that

00:41:38.000 mean? No, because stereotypes like that have no resonance and therefore won't be stereotypes.

00:41:44.020 stereotypes. So stereotypes are an observation made collectively by society about a certain group

00:41:51.840 or type of person. Doesn't mean they're always true. Doesn't mean they're true of everybody. Doesn't

00:41:57.700 mean there aren't exceptions. It just means that like it's, it's kind of broadly speaking, this is

00:42:03.480 sort of how it is. So how did Italian people develop the stereotype of acting the way they do in

00:42:09.340 Goodfellas? Well, because lots of Italian people acted that way. That's why it resonates. And this 0.99

00:42:15.580 is one of the reasons why, by the way, when they do remakes of old movies and they do the race swap

00:42:21.520 thing, one of the many reasons why that doesn't work is because of this. Because it just doesn't,

00:42:27.600 like, it wouldn't surprise me if at some point they actually tried to do a Goodfellas remake

00:42:33.040 where the gangsters are, you know, uh, all black or something, but it would make no sense. I mean, 0.98

00:42:39.760 there are plenty of black gangsters, but the Goodfellas gangsters act the way they do because 1.00

00:42:44.380 they're white Italian guys. And so they act a certain way and the whole story and all the, you know, 0.64

00:42:49.680 the, the, the, the, um, characterizations and everything, it makes sense for that type of person.

00:42:57.060 But you make it a different type of person just doesn't make any sense anymore.

00:42:59.540 Um, I will say one other thing and, and, um, that this is what happens when the PC rules

00:43:09.420 are applied to protect the feelings of white people too. And it's actually not an improvement

00:43:16.800 because often you'll hear people on the right when they talk about these, um, these sorts of PC things

00:43:23.920 and trigger warnings and everything else, you'll hear conservatives on the right say, well, you never

00:43:29.240 do this for white people. You know, one of the big ones that I've used this example plenty of times, 0.89

00:43:33.940 but, uh, they want to get rid of all the native American mascots. And so you always hear the,

00:43:37.900 well, what about the fighting Irish? What about the leprechaun? What about the Notre Dame?

00:43:43.020 Well, then you find out that, yeah, they might eventually get around to that.

00:43:47.040 Like maybe eventually they'll come along and say, oh yeah, that's, that's insulting to Irish people.

00:43:51.120 We don't want that anymore. But that's, that is, that's not an improvement. That's actually

00:43:55.360 not the solution that we want where it's, it's like we bring that up to point out a double standard,

00:44:00.060 but, um, it's probably not the best argument because actually it turns out that the woke

00:44:05.840 people have no problems. Like, oh yeah, sure. What you want more sensitive over sensitivity.

00:44:10.740 You want more trigger warnings. You want more of that sort of, yeah. Like you want to take our idea

00:44:15.480 and expand it? Uh, sure. We'll do that. Absolutely. Okay. Yeah. You want, so we'll,

00:44:22.820 we'll be fair. Uh, we put a sensitivity warning on Aladdin because it's supposed to be offensive to

00:44:28.100 Arab people. Well, uh, fine. We'll, we'll, we'll take the sensitivity warnings and we'll put them on, 1.00

00:44:32.200 uh, on movies of, you know, Italian mobsters and problem solved. Now everybody's feelings are

00:44:38.940 protected. Yeah, but actually the problem hasn't been solved. We don't, we don't want more

00:44:45.360 of the thing. We want less of it. You know, I'm quite happy that they have not gotten rid of the

00:44:51.280 Notre Dame mascot. I don't want them to. Um, so we should be careful about the, the arguments that

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00:50:04.240 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:50:12.580 So for our daily cancellation today, I want to follow up on a conversation we had yesterday to open the show on Wednesday.

00:50:19.040 We discussed, like we have plenty of times in the past, the modern dating scene.

00:50:23.000 And during that conversation, I listed what I think are the main challenges that young single people face today.

00:50:29.640 And now I want to add one other challenge to the list that I neglected to include.

00:50:35.460 And it comes from this, that in response to the segment, I heard, as I always do, anytime we talk about this, from several people who insisted that I am neither qualified nor equipped to give dating advice because I'm too old and I've been out of the game for too long.

00:50:49.160 This is one of the most common rebuttals that I hear whenever this subject comes up.

00:50:53.920 Similar objection is raised whenever I try to offer advice to younger people who are struggling to or more likely refusing to move out of their parents' house and build an independent, successful adult life.

00:51:04.900 In that case, I'm often informed that I'm old, I have money, and therefore I can't possibly understand what younger people are experiencing or how difficult it is to be in their shoes.

00:51:13.500 And so I should just shut up because what do I know about any of this?

00:51:16.280 Now, I'm not the only one who encounters this attitude, of course, and this is what happens anytime someone my age or older who has reached a certain level of professional and personal success tries to offer a few morsels of wisdom on these subjects.

00:51:30.520 There's always going to be someone, usually a whole crowd of people, rushing into the scene to let us know that we're out of touch, we're old, we're spoiled, we're elitist somehow, we have it easy, and therefore we have nothing relevant to say.

00:51:42.100 We should just shut up.

00:51:42.700 Now, this is, as I said, one of the other great challenges that many young single people face today.

00:51:47.920 It is a self-inflicted challenge.

00:51:49.720 They're trying to do something, in this case, find a wife or a husband, but in many cases, they're unwilling to listen to advice from people who've actually succeeded in doing the thing that they want to do.

00:52:01.360 So they find themselves in the middle of the forest, off the trail and without a map, not because there is no trail or no map, but because they've chosen to discard those things and wander through the thicket aimlessly instead.

00:52:13.620 Now, it is true that I am ancient and decrepit at the advanced age of 37.

00:52:20.520 It's a wonder that I'm even able to walk without assistance at this age, but that doesn't mean that my relationship advice is obsolete.

00:52:28.140 In fact, there are many people even older than me, if you can believe it, whose advice is not obsolete either, but who have even better advice than I do.

00:52:35.160 And that's because, in part, the fundamental challenges that you face as a young single person looking for love in the world are the same fundamental challenges faced by anyone who has sought romance and companionship anywhere in the world at any point in history ever.

00:52:53.160 Now, it's true that you face some unique obstacles.

00:52:55.740 Some of those obstacles are quite daunting, quite significant.

00:52:58.420 No doubt about that.

00:52:59.840 But human nature is the same as it has always been.

00:53:03.500 And therefore, the basic roadmap to a successful relationship and a happy marriage is basically the same as it has always been.

00:53:13.680 Now, there's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy here that I've noticed, which is that we declare that everything is different now and the wisdom of the past no longer applies.

00:53:25.300 And the more we insist on that, the more screwed up things get, and therefore, the more different and less applicable that wisdom actually becomes.

00:53:34.800 So, for example, just to illustrate this, one piece of advice that I give, and that many people much wiser than me give, so that you can just listen to them if you want and not me, is to embrace what we now call gender roles.

00:53:49.860 And what in the past they didn't call gender roles because they didn't have a word for it because it just was what you did. 0.91

00:53:53.880 It was so obvious and innate that you didn't need a term to describe what it was.

00:53:59.260 But now we call it gender roles. 0.99

00:54:01.540 One of the things that makes it difficult for single people to match up with each other and form functional relationships and eventually marriages is that they have no idea what the point of a relationship is and what the man is supposed to do within that relationship and what the woman is supposed to do.

00:54:15.540 So, those of us who advocate for restoration of those roles or simply a recognition of them because they're innate, we will be told that our advice is antiquated because we don't do gender roles in our society anymore.

00:54:28.380 In other words, the people who reject these roles are making a mistake by rejecting them and then using that mistake as justification for continuing to make the same mistake.

00:54:38.900 Now, it's true that we live in a society where many people have rejected the timeless wisdom of the ages when it comes to how relationships are supposed to function.

00:54:48.180 This has created many unique difficulties.

00:54:51.360 But the solution, therefore, is to stop rejecting that timeless wisdom.

00:54:56.140 It's not to continue rejecting it on the basis that it's already been rejected.

00:55:01.060 You know, another piece of timeless wisdom, again, that is, this is not some brilliant, innovative idea that I came up with on my own,

00:55:06.420 is this is exactly what we're talking about right here.

00:55:10.600 Whatever it is that you're trying to do in life, you should seek out people who have actually done it and done it successfully and use them as an orientation point.

00:55:22.420 And if you will not listen to them, if you disqualify all of them on the basis that their situation is not precisely exactly like yours down to the last minute detail,

00:55:31.920 then you have doomed yourself to a life of dysfunction and confusion.

00:55:37.560 Now, of course, the situation is actually often worse than what I'm describing here.

00:55:42.480 Because often younger people will listen to relationship advice offered by voices actually outside of their own heads.

00:55:49.480 There are plenty of social media personalities and YouTubers and people in media who have garnered large followings,

00:55:54.680 in part by talking about these kinds of issues.

00:55:56.660 The problem is that many of them have never done the thing successfully either.

00:56:01.580 They aren't married.

00:56:02.500 They have not formed, maintained, and provided for a functional nuclear family.

00:56:06.680 Or they were married and now they're divorced.

00:56:09.200 You know, their lives are like total disasters.

00:56:11.760 They have not demonstrated that they have any real insight into the subject at all.

00:56:17.400 In fact, if anything, they demonstrated a profound lack of insight

00:56:20.240 and a tendency towards failure and dysfunction in the very arena that they're pontificating about.

00:56:27.080 And this is one of the reasons why many young people are lost in the dating world.

00:56:31.120 They either don't listen to anyone's advice,

00:56:33.760 or they seek advice from people who are just as lost as they are, if not more lost.

00:56:38.720 And this is reflected not just in the dating world.

00:56:40.920 Across our culture on nearly every subject,

00:56:43.480 experience, wisdom, and success are counted as negative somehow,

00:56:46.700 as hits against your credibility, as essentially disqualifying factors.

00:56:52.140 Now, it's true, and could be rightly pointed out here,

00:56:55.540 that plenty of people claim to be experienced and wise and actually aren't.

00:57:01.020 And part of the context here is the trust the experts thing.

00:57:04.480 And the problem, though, with trust the experts when it's so often used,

00:57:09.180 is that the people that are being put forward as experts actually aren't.

00:57:12.340 And so it's all a big lie.

00:57:13.620 And skepticism in that context is not only warranted, but highly recommended.

00:57:21.080 But there are some basic truths that can be learned and put into practice,

00:57:25.220 even by someone like me, who is not especially wise, but has at least some common sense.

00:57:29.720 At least the kind of sense common to those of us who have been married and had families

00:57:34.200 and learned what it takes and put it into practice.

00:57:37.080 And that is why those who say that we are somehow less qualified to give advice at all

00:57:43.540 are today the ones who are canceled.

00:57:47.320 That'll do it for the show today.

00:57:48.160 Thanks for watching.

00:57:48.700 Thanks for listening.

00:57:49.380 Talk to you tomorrow, Friday.

00:57:51.960 Godspeed.

00:57:52.320 Godspeed.

00:57:53.240 Thank you.

00:58:03.240 Thank you.

00:58:09.540 Thank you.

00:58:12.040 Thank you.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 23, 2024

Ep. 1374 - Violent Criminal Offenders Are Now 'Justice-Impacted Individuals'

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