Ep. 1589 - How The Shiloh Hendrix Case Killed Cancel Culture
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Major controversy over a viral video of a woman using a racial slur at a playground. Is this evidence that white supremacy is alive and well in America? Or does it show us something else? Also, Trump announces a plan to reopen the prison island Alcatraz, and Democrats come out to denounce Trump for posting a meme of himself dressed as the Pope. Suddenly, the Democrat Party has discovered a deep love and respect for the Catholic Church. What s that all about? We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, major controversy over a viral video of a woman using a racial slur
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at a playground. Now the woman has raised over half a million dollars. Is this evidence that
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white supremacy is alive and well in America? Or does it show us something else? Well, I'm going
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with something else and we'll talk about it. Also, Trump announces a plan to reopen the prison
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island Alcatraz and Democrats come out to denounce Trump for posting a meme of himself dressed as
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the Pope. Suddenly the Democrat Party has discovered a deep love and respect for the
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Catholic Church. What's that all about? We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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By now, you may have heard the name Shiloh Hendricks. Up until last week, no one outside of her friends
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and personal acquaintances knew she existed. Now she's at the center of one of the more intense
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social media controversies that we've seen in recent years. And it all began in the late afternoon
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on April 28th, when the woman we now know as Shiloh Hendricks took her young child to a park in
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Rochester, Minnesota. And at some point, a black child, reportedly five years old, tried to steal
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something from her diaper bag. Shiloh apparently responded in anger. And as the story goes, she called
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the boy the N-word. Now, a man named Sharmaki Omar, a Somali immigrant and not the boy's father,
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allegedly witnessed this altercation and decided to pull out his phone. And the resulting video has
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gone extremely viral across every major social media platform. Here it is.
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You call him a n***a child? Did you call the child a n***a word? It is my own business. You call him a n***a?
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Okay, why don't you have the boss to say it right now again?
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He'll go digging through people s***. F***. Nobody dig into your s***.
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That little kid, you call him a n***a? The little child?
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So that gives you the right to call a child five-year-old and f*** the n***a word?
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You know, that's a hate speech. And you can be recorded for that.
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F***. Okay, we'll see about that, what the internet has to say about you.
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Now, before we continue with this story, which takes several more twists and turns,
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we should note a few things. First of all, we don't actually know for sure that the boy is five years old.
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That's coming from the man filming, who is apparently not related to the child.
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In the video, we appear to get a glimpse of the kid.
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And from the glimpse, anyway, he definitely looks older than five.
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Omar has additionally claimed that the boy is autistic, which we also have no proof of.
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And we have no footage of the actual encounter between the kid and this woman.
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Did she say it about the child after he'd already run away?
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And as far as I've seen, we haven't heard anything from the boy's parents.
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We don't know where they were in all of this, if they were even there, which is very strange.
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So there are many aspects of this story that are bizarre and unconfirmed.
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The Somali man behind the camera, Omar, was charged a couple of years ago with sexually assaulting a minor.
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And according to the local news channel, KTTC, those charges were dismissed.
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A separate report by the local ABC affiliate adds that the charges were dismissed, quote,
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in the interest of justice, whatever the hell that means.
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But whatever it means, now Omar, who was previously charged with a sexually assaulting a minor,
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is at a playground with his camera out filming.
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So there are quite a few details that still need to be filled in here, but the saga continues anyway.
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Anyway, what happened next is quite predictable.
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They set out to identify this, at the time, anonymous woman and ruin her life or worse.
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Here's one of the guys who got things kicked off.
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She claims that that other child took her son's belongings.
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The guy who recorded the video is familiar with the other child.
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When he brings his children there, that child and his siblings are often there and play together.
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And even if he didn't have autism, nothing he could have done would justify her calling him slurs
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and pursuing him physically, which is what she says she was doing before this guy intervened.
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He said after he stopped recording, she sat down, hurled more slurs,
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told him and his wife that they should leave the country.
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And then got on the phone and acted like she was calling someone to come down there and handle things.
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And eventually she packed up her child and left.
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She doesn't need to be on a playground or around other kids.
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And she has at least one child of her own, which is also concerning.
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So Rochester, Minnesota, someone do me a favor.
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Not the guy that was charged with sexually assaulting a minor.
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And in some cases, they were calling for the woman to be imprisoned for saying a bad word.
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Trying to find the woman who called the little boy the N-word, the five-year-old little boy, artistic boy.
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Now, there are many other videos of people hoping that she would be found and physically assaulted or killed.
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Some were even threatening violence against her baby that you can see in the video.
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You said, hey, TikTok, I just got a real quick question.
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So we all know what happened with Shiloh Hendricks and how she got all this money, right?
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So I'm just sitting here thinking, what about the baby?
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Because technically, that baby is going to grow up and be part of the triple K.
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That baby is going to grow up and probably be the worst of the worst out there in the world.
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I don't want that baby policing children that look like me.
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I don't want that baby growing up doing anything else to people that look like me.
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But since, unfortunately, CPS is not going to be able to do nothing, what should we do?
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I think you guys should let me know in the comments.
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Because part of my thinking was, start a GoFundMe.
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Make that baby brainless or something for a while.
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I mean, it just might be a little, you know, but hey, that's what happens when you grow
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Now, I would say that encouraging people to beat a baby unconscious is worse than saying
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And yet there's no mob forming against that guy or the dozens of other people who hit like
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So this is all unfolded as you would expect up to this point, leading to the predictable
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news that the Rochester Police Department is now actively investigating the woman.
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And others began calling for CPS to get involved and remove her child from the home.
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For example, there's a guy we'll put up on the screen who wrote a letter to CPS, which
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he published on his website, claiming again that Shiloh is a danger to her own child and
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that the child should be taken out of the home.
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And pretty soon, with thousands upon thousands of people whipped into a pitchfork mob, she had
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But not just her name, her phone number was posted all over the internet, her address,
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her social security number, her alleged places of employment.
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People were calling her phone and making death threats and then bragging about it openly.
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Again, so far this story is following the script that we all know by heart.
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A random person is caught on camera doing something rude or offensive.
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The video is posted by some third party, usually somebody who wasn't even involved in the incident.
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And then thousands of sociopaths set out to destroy the person's life and possibly
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get them killed, all for sport, as a form of sadistic entertainment.
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Saying the N-word to a child in a moment of anger is bad.
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Is it so bad that it warrants the total and permanent destruction of a person's life?
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Is it so bad that they deserve to have their physical safety and the safety of their family
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Is it so bad that they deserve to have their child assaulted?
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Now to the social media mob, the answer is always yes.
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It's always yes, that is, provided that the offending stranger fits certain parameters.
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And the most important parameter is that the person, the offender, is white.
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The offender, in a desperate attempt to call off the dogs,
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tearfully apologizes and begs for mercy, a mercy that they surely will not receive.
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But that is where the M. Night Shyamalan twist ending comes into play.
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Instead, she posted a crowdfunding campaign on Give, Send, Go,
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where she doubled down and defended her actions
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and asked for help to relocate and get her family to safety.
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A different group formed to counter the outrage mob.
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And she surpassed her original funding goal in less than a day.
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Within three days, she had earned over half a million dollars.
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So the woman who was supposed to have her life ruined by the mob
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is instead on her way to potentially becoming a millionaire.
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Now, this twist, as you can imagine, has outraged the outrage mob even more.
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But a large number of prominent people on the right are also horrified by this turn of events.
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The woke right is now mirroring the woke left's tendency to glorify and martyr immoral degenerates
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This woke one-upmanship is a race to the very bottom.
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Many conservative influencers and commentators, many of them who I like and respect,
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They say that, you know, the people donating to this woman are behaving no better than the left.
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They say that this is the right's version of the Carmelo Anthony fundraiser
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that also raised half a million dollars, even though he stabbed somebody to death,
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which I hope we can agree is far, far worse than saying a bad word.
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Some have even speculated that this whole thing is some kind of psyop
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meant to delegitimize the movement and make conservatives look racist.
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To that, I must assure them, despite how it may seem,
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There are things that really just happen in life.
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Some things do just happen, and I think this is one of them.
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Now, I understand that some people on my side feel, to put it scientifically,
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I understand why they don't want to condone saying racial slurs to children.
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I don't want to condone it either, and I don't.
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You know, I don't think they understand what's actually happening here or why.
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It is, in the end, a net positive that this woman has raised half a million dollars.
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I will not be joining with some of my conservative friends and wagging my finger at her donors,
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First of all, she does have a legitimate need for the money.
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I don't believe that a woman should have her life threatened for saying a word, even a bad one.
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You could say freedom of speech, but not freedom from consequences for your speech, all you want.
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But if losing your livelihood and having your house burned down is a consequence of your speech, then you do not have free speech.
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Supporting free speech means supporting someone's ability to speak without having their family murdered for it.
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Second, more importantly, and, you know, this is the part that I really need everyone to stop and think about.
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This is the most devastating attack on cancel culture that we have seen, possibly ever.
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Shiloh Hendricks has, without really trying, effectively ended cancel culture.
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As Mark Dice said in his video about the incident, Shiloh is the final boss of cancel culture,
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or maybe rather the final boss that cancel culture has to fight.
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And this is the part that many conservatives seem to be missing.
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All they see is that this woman said something bad and is now getting rewarded for it.
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The whole thing is so unsavory that they can't help but recoil.
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You wish that Shiloh had said or done something that we could affirmatively defend.
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Nobody wants to affirmatively defend cussing out a five-year-old, even though I don't think the kid's actually five.
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The point is that the only way to put an end to this routine,
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the routine where the outrage mob mobilizes and assembles to destroy somebody's life,
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And the only way to disincentivize that behavior is to reward the person who's being targeted.
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Now, we can complain all we want about the mob tactics and how they silence and punish people
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and exact vengeance in wildly disproportionate ways.
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the only thing that will make them think twice about doing this again,
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is if they know that instead of getting their target canceled,
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they must know that their attempt to isolate and ostracize somebody will fail.
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That for every person condemning the targeted person,
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You know, the motto of the cancel mob for a long time
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And a lot of them were saying that about Shiloh.
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will have an exclusively negative effect on the person's life.