Tucker Carlson is being boycotted for comments that he made about immigration. Why are people so unwilling to engage with opposing ideas these days? Why do we insist on boycotting instead? Also, a federal judge has ruled that cops in schools have no duty to protect innocent kids. Finally, I have to tell you the most underrated perk of marriage, for men anyway. We'll talk about all that today on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:06:03.220And it fits right into the stereotype, anyway, of the bigoted conservative who's going around ranting about dirty foreigners.
00:06:10.240It's like, it's like the, it's a stereotype that you're allowing yourself to be tossed in with.
00:06:18.880Now, granted, he has been misquoted here in some of the headlines about this, claiming that Carlson called immigrants dirty.
00:06:28.420He didn't, he didn't actually say that.
00:06:30.260He said that they make the country dirtier.
00:06:31.880That's not the same thing as saying the immigrants themselves are dirty.
00:06:34.940And, um, he has himself pointed out that illegals do leave behind a lot of trash at the border and so forth.
00:06:42.940Um, so that's a part of a problem, but still there's no reason to say dirtiness is not the point.
00:06:49.040It has nothing to do with the point that Carlson himself was making.
00:06:52.580And the point he was making was a good point about the strain on the economy.
00:06:56.540So he detracted from his own point, which isn't a good idea, especially when the point is so important.
00:07:01.460Um, the other thing that I wish that prominent conservatives would keep in mind is that when you say stuff like that, when you say anything, right, and you're a prominent conservative with a lot of fans, there's always going to be a group of other conservatives of, you know, your fans who maybe the, and the, the sort, the kinds who maybe don't think for themselves quite as much, who are just going to reflexively defend whatever you say.
00:07:30.120And they're going to defend it in a far less nuanced and sophisticated way than you originally presented the view.
00:07:37.020So now we have to endure the spectacle of some conservatives, not a lot, but some conservatives on social media standing up and saying, no, he's right.
00:08:11.040However, it is also stupid and gratuitous, uh, and, and unnecessary to organize advertisers, advertiser boycotts over one word that you didn't like.
00:08:48.940When I, you know, when, when, when, when I hear the twins screaming at each other and I go downstairs and my daughter's screaming at my son, I say, I say, what do you use your word?
00:09:58.840Even if you, even if you're the kind of person who would rather shut down the opposing side than engage with it, boycotts still are going to be counterproductive for you.
00:10:08.280So if you're a proponent of unchecked immigration from the third world, and you want to shut the other side up and not engage with it, rather than actually discuss the issue with them, you aren't going to shut them up by boycotting and trying to silence them.
00:10:22.180You only embolden, encourage, rile up.
00:10:26.120So whatever your objective is, boycott culture ultimately will detract from it.
00:10:31.640I think in the end, whether you like it or not, and a lot of people obviously don't like it, but in the end, you are left with only one truly effective option, and that is to meet out on the battlefield of ideas and to fight the battle intellectually with ideas and arguments and simply to present your case.
00:10:54.340I think in the end, that's the only choice that any of us actually have.
00:11:02.140So if you think that Tucker Carlson or anyone else is wrong about immigration, you can, you can, you know, kind of vent your frustrations by boycotting and doing all this, trying to get your vengeance on him.
00:11:16.000Uh, but you're not going to win the argument that way.
00:11:19.320Even if you succeeded in, in, in, in getting Tucker Carlson fired and getting rid of him, he's just going to be replaced by someone else with the same point of view.
00:11:29.140So it's just not going to, you're not going to win the argument.
00:11:32.380If you are a fan of unchecked immigration from the third world, eventually you're really, you're going to have to make your case.
00:11:40.280And that's actually the point, the ultimate point that Carlson was making there.
00:11:47.440They had to throw in the dirtier line, like, uh, because he made the point that in terms of economic, nobody is willing on the, on the other side of this debate, nobody is willing to actually stand up and defend this economically.
00:12:20.040Uh, so one way you just, this is what I say to people on the left.
00:12:25.160Eventually you're going to have, eventually you're really going to have to make an argument here when it comes to immigration and pretty much any other issue.
00:12:32.260You're, you're going to have to eventually actually make your case.
00:12:35.720Um, this, this strategy of trying to punish the other side, it isn't going to work forever.
00:12:43.680Diminishing, you're getting some diminishing returns on it.
00:12:46.860And, uh, I think we're at the point now where it just, it just doesn't work at all.
00:12:51.460Now, I want to get now to a truly infuriating story here.
00:12:55.180Um, a federal judge has ruled that cops and schools have no duty to protect children during a school shooting or at any other point, I assume.
00:13:06.360Yes, that is, that's what's happening.
00:13:09.340Let me read a bit from the Miami Herald.
00:13:10.940Uh, it says a federal judge has ruled that Broward schools and the sheriff's office were not responsible for protecting students during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.
00:13:20.040That liability, the judge reasoned only works with incarcerated prisoners or others who are involuntary committed, not school children with the ability to take care of themselves, with the ability to take care of themselves as in quotes.
00:13:32.440According to a motion filed last week by U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom.
00:13:37.080So, you have to be a, you have to be a criminal in the custody of the police in order to warrant their protection.
00:13:44.140But if you're just an innocent child, well, then you, you gotta fend for yourself.
00:13:49.340Um, the Sun Sentinel on Tuesday reported that Bloom dismissed a suit filed by 15 unnamed students who say they suffered psychological trauma from a school shooting that killed 17 and injured another 17 in February.
00:13:59.780The lawsuit claimed the, um, school district and the Broward Sheriff's Office, along with former school resource officer, Scott Peterson and school campus monitor, Andrew Medina and former BSO captain, Jan Jordan failed through action or inaction to protect the students while at the school.
00:14:16.340Um, Bloom wrote, the claim arises from the actions of, of the shooter, a third party and not a state actor.
00:14:24.480Thus, the critical question the court analyzes is whether defendants had a constitutional duty to protect plaintiffs from the actions of Cruz.
00:14:33.380So, she's saying, well, Cruz, look, Cruz didn't work for the state.
00:14:39.360Um, plaintiffs suggest that the essential nature of a public school's role and control over its students requires that schools provide protection and safety for their students.
00:14:47.900Yes, that plaintiffs would seem to be correct about that, but not according to Bloom.
00:14:53.300Bloom says, however, the suggestion that school attendance equates to the level of custody implicating a constitutional obligation to protect has been expressly rejected by the 11th circuit.
00:15:02.940So, she's saying, yeah, well, students are in the custody of the school, but they're not so much in the custody of the school that the school should actually protect them from being murdered by a school shooter.
00:15:15.960That, that's what she's, that's her ruling, essentially, to, to rephrase it slightly, slightly.
00:17:16.960His whole job was to be at that school to ensure the safety of the kids who go to the school.
00:17:23.740So if you want to tell me that Peterson had no obligation to other people in the community,
00:17:28.520to like someone driving by or someone in a building next door, um, well, I would say that that's still crazy because he's a cop.
00:17:35.340But, but that's even different from telling me that he has, he doesn't even have an obligation to the kids in the school he was being paid to protect.
00:20:21.580But it all underscores a point that I think is a really important point.
00:20:29.540Um, if no, nobody has an obligation to protect you, apparently, uh, even the ones who ostensibly are being paid, uh, being paid to protect and serve, or even the people, even the people who demand that you hand their kids over to them, they don't even have a duty to protect your kids, apparently.
00:20:50.200Um, so this is why the second amendment is important, uh, because you really are, you're on your own when it comes down, when it comes down to it, uh, you're on your own.
00:21:02.440When push comes to shove, you can't rely on anybody else and you got to be able to protect yourself and protect your family.
00:21:10.600Now, obviously the second amendment, when it comes to public school, that's, that's not going to be much help because you can't follow your own kid around in school with a gun and you can't send your kids to school with a gun.
00:21:20.660So, unfortunately, when it comes to the public school, the second amendment is basically irrelevant.
00:21:28.380Um, but beyond that, in your everyday life and at your home, I think the point is, is being made extremely clear here that you need to have the ability to protect yourself.
00:21:42.820If you cannot rely on the government to do it, even though people who are not a fan of guns, people who are not supporters of gun rights, what they tell you is, well, you know, that's, you don't need a gun.
00:21:59.900Okay, well, you can call the police and hopefully the police will come, but the police have no, apparently no obligation to show up.
00:22:05.460They have no obligation to do anything for you.
00:22:07.200So you've got to have that ability yourself.
00:22:10.100If, if that was not already clear to you, it should be now.
00:22:18.460One last thing, um, as we gear up for Christmas and I'm wearing my, as you can see, my, um, beautiful Christmas sweater, make Christmas great again, great again.
00:22:30.080Of course, I want to, I feel it's worth saying something as we are just a few days before Christmas.
00:22:36.420And I was thinking about this this week, that there are a lot of underrated perks of marriage, um, benefits that aren't discussed very often.
00:22:49.440And I think that some of these underrated benefits and perks of marriage, the reason why they aren't discussed is because they're kind of one sided in favor of either the wife or the husband.
00:23:00.560So nobody wants to talk about them because it might alert the other side to the iniquity here.
00:23:06.460But, um, I have to mention it anyway, because just because it's so wonderful.
00:23:40.200But, um, back then I didn't have as big of a, I still had a big family though.
00:23:46.400And it was up to me as a single individual to buy Christmas presents for everyone in the family.
00:23:52.020And so I was like that stereotypical man running around the mall 30 minutes before closing on Christmas Eve, trying to do all my Christmas shopping right then and there.
00:24:18.540Uh, but she does everything else and she's great at it and she likes, she likes shopping.
00:24:25.520She, she's a, she's like some kind of Christmas shopping guru.
00:24:29.180She, she buys meaningfully, she buys meaningful gifts, creative gifts.
00:24:35.560She gets people things that they want without even looking at a list.
00:24:40.100She just kind of like knows what they want and she buys it for them.
00:24:43.740I don't understand it, but that's what she does.
00:24:46.300She'll even be, she'll be out at a store or something, um, in, in June and she'll see something and she'll say, oh, that'd be a great Christmas gift for so-and-so.
00:24:55.300And then she'll buy it right there on the spot in June.
00:25:00.360And then by the time it's December 1st, she's done all the Christmas shopping.
00:25:04.820And then there's also the added excitement as a man on Christmas when people are opening their gifts and I get to find out what I got everybody.
00:25:12.900Um, and then when they come up to me and they say, oh, thank you.
00:25:27.640I think everyone in my family knows that my wife does all the shopping, um, because the gifts are way too thoughtful to have come from me.
00:25:33.640But still, I'm telling you guys, Christmas is, if you want to, if you want to make Christmas great again, um, get married and Christmas is a breeze.
00:25:44.740You don't have to worry about Christmas shopping at all.
00:25:47.480I do contribute some, so I don't want you to think I'm some kind of lazy oaf and I don't contribute.
00:25:51.800Um, we usually get bottles of bourbon for various men in the family for Christmas.
00:25:55.680And so my wife will send me out to go buy the bourbon.
00:26:00.640Um, and it's a, it's a, it's a huge sacrifice that I have to make, honestly.
00:26:05.480Um, you know, it takes me, I mean, it takes me upwards of 15 minutes to go to the liquor store and buy bourbon for a few of the men in the family.
00:26:16.580Uh, it's a, but it's a cross that I bear and I try to have the right heart about it because it's, uh, it's the holidays.