When you challenge what have become the most sacred myths in American history, the myths that provide the foundation and rationalization for leftist ideology, particularly the myths of the civil rights era, people are going to come after you. And today, as comprehensively as I can, I m going to respond to these people.
00:02:57.120It is my critics, of course, who've decided to glom on to this 30-second bit
00:03:01.220and pretend that it's the entirety of my case1.00
00:03:04.240because they're too afraid or too dishonest or too stupid to engage with the whole argument.0.99
00:03:09.500Now, all that said, I have no intention of backtracking,0.99
00:03:11.660certainly no intention of apologizing for what you heard in that clip.
00:03:14.120As a factual matter, everything I said was true. You can pull up a typical history textbook, including textbooks and resources published by the largest textbook publishers in the country, and you will not be told the full story about Rosa Parks.
00:03:28.300We'll cycle through some images from these books on the screen right now. Every single one of these history textbooks fails to mention that Rosa Parks was a longtime activist. One of them simply describes her as a seamstress.
00:03:42.560That is indeed the whole story that millions of school children have been taught for generations in which have been immortalized by Hollywood and the media.
00:03:51.040The story is that Parks was an unassuming seamstress who sat herself down in the whites only section of the bus one day, tired after a long shift at work.
00:03:58.680She was arrested and suddenly this meek and mild woman became the organic spark that set off a movement that changed the world.
00:04:06.040It is just a fact that this is the story taught by our mainstream institutions.
00:04:10.760it's also a fact that that story isn't entirely true. It fails to mention that she got arrested
00:04:18.580on purpose as part of a larger movement of which she was a formal participant to galvanize public
00:04:22.880support and change the law. It fails to mention that the iconic photograph of her on an empty
00:04:27.300bus was staged. It fails to mention that she was a radical who was a regular attendee at
00:04:32.420Communist Party meetings for years. It fails to mention that she attended the Highlander Folk0.64
00:04:36.800School in New Market, Tennessee, which was a school set up by a major labor union to train
00:04:40.640agitators. And it fails to mention that, in fact, months before the Rosa Parks incident, another
00:04:45.140woman, Claudette Colvin, was arrested in Montgomery when she refused to give up her seat for a white
00:04:49.320passenger. But her story was not used as the same kind of rallying cry because she had an out of
00:04:53.580wedlock child and was judged to be less sympathetic as a result. Now, these are all facts about Rosa
00:04:58.320Parks. Do they mean that she was an evil person or that segregation was good? Do they mean that0.54
00:05:04.400the tactics were unjustified in this case? Do they mean that Rosa Parks ought to have just0.51
00:05:09.400sat in the back of the bus without complaint? No, obviously not. And if you interpret my
00:05:14.180statements that way, then you are willfully obtuse or unwillfully obtuse, but certainly
00:05:18.680obtuse in either case. And whatever the reason for your obtuseness, you are not suited to be
00:05:23.620involved in adult conversations. The point about the facts is, first of all, that they are facts.
00:05:32.140and they are facts that have been deliberately withheld from millions of Americans. Now, sure,
00:05:37.560the facts are available to anyone who wants to go find them. It's not like I had to go searching in
00:05:43.420an ancient tomb in the jungle somewhere like Indiana Jones to uncover these hidden secrets
00:05:48.140of history. The facts are out there for anyone to discover at any time, but they are not a part
00:05:53.320of the story that the school system generally tells. And they are not a part of our popular
00:05:58.840conversation about Rosa Parks or the civil rights movement generally. I do want to mention one
00:06:04.720thing somewhat as an aside, although I am obviously not demonizing Rosa Parks as I've
00:06:10.720been accused of doing or attacking her, denigrating her at all, really. It's interesting to notice
00:06:15.500that the very idea of someone allegedly attacking her is so repulsive and offensive to so many
00:06:23.820people. Meanwhile, some of the greatest heroes in the history of mankind are regularly demonized,
00:06:32.340denigrated, slandered, defamed, their monuments defaced, torn down, in some cases set on fire.
00:06:39.300So Rosa Parks may not be even mildly critiqued. Her myth must not be questioned to the slightest
00:06:45.960degree at all. And that is according to the very people who at the exact same time are pissing on
00:06:52.580the ashes of the men who literally built Western civilization. And that should tell you something.
00:06:58.780Now, anyway, back to the textbooks. One of the textbooks calls Parks an NAACP member,
00:07:04.640which is obviously underselling her role in the organization. In truth, she was elected
00:07:07.480secretary of the Montgomery branch of the NAACP. E.D. Nixon, president of the Montgomery NAACP
00:07:13.920branch, had told her to contact him if she was ever arrested for refusing to comply with the
00:07:17.880us's segregation rules after an earlier incident in which she was thrown off. And indeed, the
00:07:23.180moment Parks was arrested, the NAACP sprang into action using Parks' arrest as a test case in the
00:07:28.280courts, which of course was the plan all along. Textbooks also states, quote, Parks refused to
00:07:33.620give her seat to a white man after being bailed out of jail. She decided to fight the laws requiring1.00
00:07:38.720segregation in court. This is from the textbook produced by OpenStax U.S. History, which describes
00:07:43.620itself as a comprehensive peer-reviewed open educational resource textbook published by
00:07:47.780OpenStax at Rice University. This is a resource that supposedly is used by more than 7 million
00:07:52.620students annually, and it's deliberately misleading. She certainly did not spontaneously decide to fight
00:07:59.160the laws requiring segregation after she got out of jail. That was instead the whole point of her
00:08:04.900act of defiance in the first place. And that's not even getting into the egregious use of the
00:08:10.640staged photograph of Rosa Parks, which I mentioned. We'll put that Scholastic book cover up on the
00:08:17.360screen again. This is a book that, according to Scholastic, is attended for children in grades
00:08:22.460four to six. It's a staged image showing Rosa Parks sitting on a mostly empty bus in front of0.54
00:08:27.980a white journalist. But if you're a fourth grader, or even if you're an adult, you probably don't
00:08:32.320realize that. You'll come to the conclusion that you're seeing a photo of her civil disobedience
00:08:36.220in action. The cruel white guy is demanding that she move, even though the bus is empty and, you
00:08:42.320know, she's standing her ground. Pretty much every politician in the country has reinforced that0.94
00:08:48.300narrative, just as one example of many. Watch. This morning, we celebrate a seamstress,
00:08:57.740slight in stature, but mighty in courage. She reminds us that this is how change happens.
00:09:06.220Not mainly through the exploits of the famous and the powerful, but through the countless
00:09:14.080acts of often anonymous courage and kindness and fellow feeling and responsibility that
00:09:25.740continually, stubbornly expand our conception of justice, our conception of what is possible.
00:09:36.740Which reminds us, this is how change happens, not mainly through the exploits of the famous and powerful, but through the countless acts of often anonymous courage and kindness and fellow feeling and responsibility.
00:09:45.820This seamstress, though small in stature, was really mighty, he says.
00:09:49.760Now, again, the implication is that she was just some anonymous woman who bravely defied expectations.
00:09:59.120And I could pull a million more examples of these kinds of claims being made by school teachers and presidents and everybody in between.
00:10:06.220We're all repeating the same narrative, which, again, is not true, and that should matter to you because the truth should matter to you.
00:10:14.960Yet, as I mentioned, I was attacked pretty viciously from both sides of the political aisle just for pointing out the basic truth of this historical episode.
00:10:22.620It would be impossible to go through and read every criticism, many of them totally hysterical, accusing me of somehow supporting segregation by attempting to shed light on the Rosa Parks narrative.
00:10:31.900And instead of sifting through the entire pile of dim-witted gripes and complaints and accusations, instead I'll highlight and respond to just a few.
00:10:39.260And these are all coming from people who claim to be on the right or at least not on the left.
00:10:45.000So, for example, here's a hot take from Alex Griswold at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Expression, which used to be the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE.
00:10:57.040This is an organization that many conservatives respect, and here's his defense of lying to schoolchildren about a key moment in American history.1.00
00:11:04.180Quote, the thing is, children are stupid. You do not present a nuanced version of history to five-year-olds, and that's okay.1.00
00:11:10.720The sole downside is that those who remain stupid don't pay attention when you introduce nuance later in their teens and believe they were lied to.0.93
00:11:18.040Now I should mention that Alex is in charge of comms over at FIRE0.98
00:11:23.160Whose foundational mission originally was an organization to defend the rights of students1.00
00:11:27.420And so it perhaps is somewhat alarming that this person also believes that students, at least at a young age, are, quote, stupid0.99
00:11:35.280Now perhaps Alex is only speaking for himself as a child0.99
00:11:38.800As a parent of six, I will tell you that in my experience, children are not stupid at all1.00
00:11:43.440Although they have a higher likelihood of becoming stupid if you treat them like they already are.0.97
00:11:50.780And in any case, there's nothing particularly nuanced about saying that Rosa Parks engineered the incident in the context of a larger coordinated effort rather than being some totally random person, anonymous person, who spontaneously became the focus of national discourse.0.99
00:12:09.060Children can certainly grasp the context, the concept of that, and the context.
00:12:13.480And of course, contrary to what Griswold says, most of these children are never informed about the lie.
00:12:20.640They continue to believe that the Rosa Parks story into adulthood because everybody, even Obama himself, is repeating it.
00:12:27.400So Alex imagines some fantasy scenario where young children are given an un-nuanced, largely false version of civil rights history,
00:12:35.940and then a few years later are granted access to the full truth by the very same education system
00:12:41.660that, by his own admission, lied to them earlier.
00:12:45.020Now, that would be a rather insane way of teaching American history if it were real, but it isn't.
00:12:51.560The fact is that the vast majority of Americans are never given anything but the childish version of events.
00:12:59.980I mean, perhaps Alex will next claim that at some point later in their teens,
00:13:03.720Children in school are also told that Martin Luther King Jr. was actually a communist, a plagiarist, and a sexual degenerate who did not preach or believe in a colorblind society, but rather advocated openly for a white men versus everyone else approach to race relations.
00:13:21.120Will Alex Griswold look at us with a straight face and pretend that there's a point in a child's mainstream education where those facts are ever presented honestly?
00:13:29.940No, we all know, put all this gaslighting to the side, that children in school are never given the true version of Martin Luther King Jr., the childish version of Martin Luther King Jr., which is to say the false version, is the only version ever provided.
00:13:49.020That's also true of Rosa Parks, who I will freely admit was a much better human being than Martin Luther King Jr.
00:13:55.420Now, continuing on, here's a post from the account Bronze Age Pervert, who pretends to be some kind of right-wing dissident, yet here our bold and brave right-wing dissident is strongly implying that I am racist for questioning the Rosa Parks narrative.
00:14:10.100The photo was staged, but is Matt Walsh saying there was no colored seat rule for bus? Is he
00:14:15.740admitting there was and that it would be a good thing? What was Rosa Parks arrested for? Is Matt
00:14:21.140Walsh for that law or is he just saying facile things that seem radical but aren't?1.00
00:14:28.600No, I don't know much about the Bronze Age pervert. I don't really want to know much about him,1.00
00:14:33.460though I can't be surprised that a man who calls himself a pervert would also suffer apparently
00:14:37.360from intellectual disabilities. Claiming that I must support segregation on buses if I question
00:14:42.460the narrative about some of the people who oppose segregation on buses is like claiming that I must
00:14:47.240support slavery if I question the mainstream narrative about slavery. And as it happens,
00:14:51.600oh yeah, I have indeed been accused of just that. This is the game that leftists and now even
00:14:57.180right-wing dissidents and self-described perverts like to play. They tell a story about the history
00:15:02.020of slavery or segregation or some other evil. And if you just raise your hand and say, hey,
00:15:06.640you know, that story is not entirely true, then you're immediately accused of supporting the evil
00:15:12.240itself. You know, it's like if you got into a car accident and lied about some of the details and
00:15:17.040then accused me of supporting car accidents or being happy that you were in one when I correct
00:15:23.420you. Now, of course, all of the people attacking me understand that the truth does indeed matter.
00:15:30.060It's a mortal threat to the narrative they've built. In fact, the point of portraying Rosa Parks
00:15:34.540in that staged photograph, all alone or an empty bus with one white guy behind her,
00:15:39.700is to send a message about white people in general, not just the white people involved
00:15:44.600in segregation. Now, it's not a coincidence that the civil rights era and slavery are used today
00:15:50.120to demonize white people universally and imbue a kind of blood guilt onto the entire race.
00:15:55.840The reason why the civil rights movement is, to put it very generously, simplified in schools
00:16:02.220is precisely so that this demonization effort will not be obstructed or made complicated
00:16:09.640in any way. And then those same children learn false narratives or simplified mythologies about
00:16:17.560Emmett Till or Martin Luther King Jr. or Harriet Tubman or George Floyd. And over time,
00:16:25.000these narratives are cumulative. They all reinforce the perspective that black civil
00:16:30.280rights activists were unquestionably righteous in every way, and white people didn't go along0.89
00:16:34.480with whatever they said were vile sociopathic bigots, and that's all there is to say about it.
00:16:38.500Black activists are portrayed as noble and peaceful, while whites, really all white people0.98
00:16:43.540during that era and also today, are the unthinking violent aggressors, and that's just kind of the0.69
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00:20:38.840That's the kind of emotional narrative that's at the core of the legacy of the civil rights movement.0.82
00:20:44.060And what it has done over the years is lock white and black into permanent oppressor and oppressed roles.0.97
00:20:50.100And it's being used to justify things that go far beyond allowing people to sit wherever they want on the bus, which everybody agrees with.0.98
00:20:59.780In other words, they lie about this because it matters.0.82
00:21:04.400Only last month, decades after full legal equality was achieved, did the Supreme Court finally throw out parts of a civil rights era law that set aside special congressional districts for black people.0.72
00:21:15.820And for decades, policies that disadvantaged white people and favored minorities were not just widely accepted.
00:21:20.320They were pushed by the government itself in many areas.
00:21:23.200The legacy of the civil rights era is about something much more than equality.
00:21:26.500And it would be far more difficult to sell to the public if it weren't for the decades of programming, which Americans are exposed to through media and the education system.
00:21:37.580Now, the ultimate effect of all the little lies and omissions you see frequently in the popular history of the civil rights movement is to prime people to believe that even when atrocities were committed against whites by blacks, the white people deserved what they got due to some earlier collective offense.0.55
00:21:55.020and this priming worked. In part two of our civil rights documentary which will come out soon
00:22:00.080we discussed the book Left Behind in Rosedale. It's full of first-hand accounts of the horrific
00:22:05.380abuse that elderly whites endured in suburban Texas as a mostly white area gradually became0.94
00:22:10.640mostly black after the main drama of the civil rights movement and these are the white people0.72
00:22:15.560who couldn't flee, couldn't participate in so-called white flight and what happened to them0.95
00:22:21.080is they were beaten, raped, and even killed.
00:22:24.180The elderly, women, people who couldn't defend themselves,1.00
00:22:47.780the liberal academics told him essentially that,
00:22:49.580Well, you know, the white people had it coming. Local officials refused to respond to the most obvious problem in the world, which is mass racial attacks on the elderly, because they too had internalized this view or had been rendered powerless by a society that had internalized it.
00:23:06.240Of course, we saw similar arguments when major cities were torched during the 2020 racial reckoning.0.91
00:23:12.100We were told that small businesses in Kenosha, Wisconsin, had insurance, so we shouldn't object to mobs of black rioters destroying them.0.97
00:23:20.280Racist jokes can make national headlines, while horrific anti-white murders will go largely ignored.0.99
00:23:26.620This kind of insanity doesn't develop overnight.0.91
00:23:35.300And again, this is why the truth matters. Over at something called Unheard Magazine, thus named, I assume, because nobody's ever heard of it, a writer named Saurabh Amari pretended not to understand any of this.
00:23:49.160And again, this is someone who would claim to be conservative or at least not a leftist.
00:23:53.600And here's what he wrote in a blog post titled, Matt Walsh is promoting junk civil rights history.
00:23:58.680This is a response to that 30 second clip of my show last week. Quote from Unheard.
00:24:03.220The high school story on which I was reared in rural Utah, of all places, didn't hide the ball on Parks' activist background or the role of the wider civil rights movement in creating a confrontation that would lead to a constitutional challenge to de jure racial apartheid in the American South.
00:24:18.520Meanwhile, the fact that there was planning involved doesn't turn Parks' case into play acting.
00:24:23.160There really were laws in the books relegating black people to the back of the bus.
00:24:26.500Parks really did break one such ordinance in 1955, and she really was arrested.
00:24:31.120Now, immediately from reading this, I could tell that Sohrab has not watched our civil rights documentary.
00:24:35.260It's obvious because we literally make this point in the episode he chose not to watch.
00:24:40.960He doesn't cite a word from the documentary, which goes into much more detail on Parks and her specific story,
00:24:46.820including why I'm bringing it up in the first place and why it matters.
00:24:52.040So you can just listen to that rather than making wild assumptions.
00:24:54.940but instead in a triumph of lazy editorializing, he quotes the 30-second clip of my daily show
00:25:01.940from someone else's ex-account. Accuses me of promoting junk history, which if it were true
00:25:06.740would certainly be a terrible indictment on my history series, but he didn't watch the history
00:25:11.080series, not even one minute of it. He watched only a 30-second out-of-context clip and then
00:25:15.880declared that my entire history project is junk. Now, I pointed this out to him and he responded
00:25:22.480by saying, and I'm not making this up, that he doesn't need to listen to the actual point I'm
00:25:27.800making, which he's allegedly responding to, because, quote, 10 million more hours wouldn't
00:25:34.320be enough to redeem it. But in fact, it doesn't take 10 million hours to explain why the mainstream
00:25:40.520Rosa Parks narrative is false. It actually took only a few minutes, but Sohrab doesn't have a few
00:25:45.440minutes to spare. He's too busy writing clickbait junk for his failing blog about a history special
00:25:49.820he didn't watch. This is not surprising coming from Sora, by the way, given that he has ties
00:25:53.820to George Soros, the left-wing billionaire who wants to destroy America. This is reporting from
00:25:58.900Vanity Fair, quote, this past June in London, the Open Society Foundations convened a meeting of
00:26:04.160small publications from around the world. Editors traveled from South America, Nigeria, Mexico,
00:26:08.240Argentina, the United States, and elsewhere. In the preceding year, the foundations, now under
00:26:12.240the championship of George Soros' son, Alexander, unleashed what felt like a flood of funding in
00:26:17.580a small budget world of little magazines. Standing apart from the other Americans
00:26:21.060was Saurabh Amari, an editor of the online magazine Compact and the former op-ed editor
00:26:26.220of the New York Post. Perhaps the only thing Amari shared with many of the other attendees
00:26:30.440is that his magazine is a recipient of OSF funding. The tension in London was palpable.
00:26:37.720Now with that history, you have to wonder who exactly is funding unheard? It's a tiny
00:26:43.520publication with no real following. They haven't produced anything worthwhile. Just kind of
00:26:47.600nonstop ankle biting like this. And they're furious about all about of all things, the fact
00:26:52.720that a commentator is telling the truth about Rosa Parks. It's almost as if they understand
00:26:57.280that if conversations about history continue, it will be devastating for the anti-American
00:27:01.960movement in this country. The myth of the civil rights movement is a load bearing element in the
00:27:07.260moral universe the left has tried to create. The more people learn how they've been lied to,
00:27:13.080the harder they are to control. You know, you can't guilt someone who no longer trusts you.
00:27:20.540Ironically enough, in the process of attacking me, Saurab claims I'm only interested in producing
00:27:24.360inflammatory content for clicks, which is projection. You know, the ratio of work that
00:27:31.040we put in with our history series compared to what he put into his hit piece is about, I don't know,
00:27:36.080a thousand to one. Guys like Saurab are interested in sniping. We're interested in telling people the
00:27:42.720truth about American history, which should be the goal of our public school systems and our
00:27:46.500journalists, but it isn't. Now, keeping with this theme of fake intellectuals, one of the most
00:27:51.440interesting responses I received was from the prominent blogger Matthew Iglesias. Here's what
00:27:57.080he wrote about my Rosa Parks segment, quote, I guess I went to a better school because this is
00:28:02.880exactly what they taught me. It's a brilliant case study in discipline, strategic, nonviolent action.
00:28:08.140This is one of the most revealing posts I've ever seen on X,
00:28:11.440and although we obviously didn't intend it to be,
00:28:13.840because Iglesias attended Harvard University as well as the Dalton School in New York,
00:28:17.660and these are some of the most elite schools in the United States.
00:28:20.120Tuition at the Dalton School is around $70,000 a year,
00:28:22.540which is quite a lot for a K-12 school, needless to say.
00:28:26.440Well, it makes complete sense for these kinds of schools,
00:28:29.220to be honest with their students about how the Rosa Parks narrative was engineered,
00:28:32.880schools like Harvard and Dalton see their role as educating the next generation of activists
00:28:37.000leaders. So these are the people who are supposed to go out into the world and concoct false
00:28:41.500narratives and race hoaxes and grievance politics. They need to understand the mechanics of the
00:28:46.700civil rights movement so they can re-implement them in the 21st century. Think of that con artist
00:28:51.600Justin Pearson in Tennessee. He went to an elite private liberal arts school in Maine,
00:28:57.540probably learned all about how civil rights leaders constructed this campaign
00:29:00.560and the mass deception that followed. And now he's doing the same thing concerning the Voting
00:29:05.840Rights Act and many other issues. Now, on the other hand, people who attended public school,
00:29:12.100state colleges, by and large are fed the stock propaganda narrative. Left-wing academics see
00:29:19.420these students as future foot soldiers or future victims, or both rendered passive by decades of
00:29:26.180emotional priming. They'll be on the front lines voting for Democrats, attending the No Kings
00:29:31.300rallies, blindly chanting the slogans that they're told to chant. Their role is to mindlessly
00:29:36.300support whatever fake narrative is cooked up by graduates of schools like Harvard or meekly
00:29:40.680accepted after the next round of mostly peaceful protests. And this is why there's been a full-on
00:29:47.160assault against my entire history series, not just the episode on civil rights. One of the most
00:29:52.120long-winded, though I won't say substantive objections that I've received in response to
00:29:58.080my real history series came from a lengthy youtube video that i've seen reposted a few times on on x
00:30:03.460and uh actually there have been a few of these several historians have posted positive reviews
00:30:08.400but we'll focus on this one for now uh here it is watch in total an estimated 3 000 blacks
00:30:14.980owned roughly 20 000 slaves in 1860 this figure seems to have its origins in a facebook meme i'm
00:30:20.440not kidding which louis jacobson of politifact tried to fact check in 2017 but couldn't because
00:30:26.700he couldn't trace it back to any sort of evidence. Even if the number was true, there's a couple of
00:30:30.700facts that are being left out. Once again. Quote. For starters, even if the number is accurate,
00:30:35.680it would still account for just a tiny percentage of all slaves held in the United States in 1860,
00:30:40.360specifically one half of one percent. In addition, in the southern United States, if you were a black
00:30:45.300person who bought a family member from a slave owner, you were not legally allowed to free that
00:30:49.500person. Legally speaking, they would remain a slave, and their children would legally be slaves too.
00:30:54.220Now, this has to be one of the more dishonest hit jobs on my work that I've ever seen.
00:32:08.220In other words, there is indeed evidence that Blacks owned 20,000 slaves.
00:32:13.440So ultimately, his criticism, I'm not effing kidding, is that my claim, according to the fact checker he is citing, is, quote, not that far off from being true.
00:32:26.500Fact check rated not that far off from being true.
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00:41:12.200my idea of an expose is the entire documentary I just published on the subject and which Giancarlo
00:41:18.160did not watch, did not cite, and yet has lumped in with World War II revisionism because people
00:41:22.720like Giancarlo, guys who are not particularly bright or imaginative, are basically biologically
00:41:27.600incapable of having any conversation about any historical subject without roping World War II0.67
00:41:32.300and Nazis into it. And along those lines, here's more sneering from Emily Zanotti. Again, this is
00:41:38.600about that 30 second Rosa Parks clip, quote, we're being led astray by the class idiots who let you1.00
00:41:44.040do all the work on the group project and only show up to the presentation. And it's time we0.99
00:41:48.240all just fought back a little. We weren't lied to. You're just dumb and lack any intellectual
00:41:52.800curiosity. So, you know, if you believe what your history books were telling you, if you believed it1.00
00:41:59.640for your whole life, what the historians and media outlets were telling you, then you're dumb.1.00
00:42:03.780You lack intellectual curiosity. It's not their fault they lied to you. It's your fault that1.00
00:42:08.480you as a child took their fraudulent narrative seriously. And you can read through many of the
00:42:13.660comments to my video, both on social media and on Daily Wire, and you'll find plenty of people
00:42:17.760who are admitting that, in fact, they had no idea they were being lied to. According to Emily
00:42:22.900Zanotti, all of those people are morons. And she's the enlightened one. She's much smarter than you,1.00
00:42:28.400you see. And she's very excited to let you know about that. We shouldn't worry about the fact
00:42:34.380that the schools are brainwashing people with false narratives. It's their fault for being
00:42:38.380brainwashed. Brilliant point, Emily. Now, there are about a million posts like this. Here's one
00:42:44.140more. This one's from Robert Downing, who's apparently a senior writer at Texas Monthly.
00:42:50.100Quote, it's funny that this is being treated like a dunk, as if Rosa Parks willingly challenged the
00:42:54.440system of segregation, despite knowing full well the dangers from her years investigating sexual0.72
00:42:57.960violence against black women, doesn't make her even more admirable. Well, it's interesting.
00:43:03.500If the true story of Rosa Parks makes her more admirable than the fake one, why are the vast majority of students in the country learning the fake one?
00:43:13.900Shouldn't you, of all people, be the—shouldn't you be even more upset that they're learning the fake story?
00:43:18.400That, as you say, makes her less admirable?
00:43:24.620Why is there no curiosity about this question whatsoever from a senior writer, whatever that means, at an outlet that describes itself as the national magazine of Texas?
00:43:33.500And speaking of intellectual curiosity, you'd think that this kind of reply would draw some
00:43:38.060ire from women like Emily Zanotti, but apparently not. Instead, because my show was clipped down
00:43:42.800to a 30-second soundbite, I'm described as dunking on Rosa Parks by simply the telling
00:43:47.640the truth. A truth that my critics at once insist is so obvious that it doesn't need to be said,
00:43:53.460and also that by saying it, I'm launching a racist attack against a civil rights hero.
00:43:58.960well which is it i'm either saying something everybody already knows which would make me0.95
00:44:06.040at worst guilty of needlessly stating the obvious or i'm attacking a black woman with racist
00:44:11.340invectives it can't possibly be both i mean this is true everyone knows it and also it's racist
00:44:20.400that seems to be the critical consensus and i must admit i find it a bit bewildering
00:44:27.160A leftist slop account with an inexplicably large following, which is to say they're mostly bots, called Evan Loves Wharf, posted this response.
00:44:38.080Attacking Rosa Parks literally only makes sense if you think black people should have to sit in the back of the bus.
00:44:47.140Giancarlo just informed me very reliably that my point is not edgy and is in keeping with what the Library of Congress itself would tell us.
00:44:54.420I mean, is this a boring historical factoid that nobody denies, or is it a broadside attack against the very idea of equal rights?
00:45:01.720My critics can't seem to choose between these two options, so instead they've just pulled both levers at once.
00:45:08.000The fact that so many respectable conservatives can't help but rush to defend a load-bearing liberal historical myth is extremely notable.
00:45:16.240And it gives us an idea of why, for decades, the American right basically accomplished nothing at all.
00:45:21.660Turns out the National Review types held the same assumptions and underlying beliefs as the modern left.
00:45:26.100They were more concerned with beating back effective elements of the right than taking on the left.
00:45:30.820And as you can see from the response to what we're doing today, that hasn't changed.
00:45:35.780What's changed is that these people are no longer relevant, and that really ticks them off.
00:45:41.520And by the way, this is what makes it impossible to have any kind of intellectual conversation about any subject, really.
00:45:51.380Because we can spend an hour laying out the facts in a well-researched, thoroughly explained way with copious citations and, you know, the vultures in social media who pretend to be the vanguards of intellectual discourse will look for the 30-second snippet that sounds the most inflammatory and use that to discredit the entire argument.
00:46:12.340And if nothing else, all this tells us a lot about the conservative movement, whose impulse here is to police the right rather than take on the left and their major culture-shaping myths.
00:46:21.780It makes you wonder what their goals are, what their goals ever were.
00:46:26.700Of course, apart from their ideological agenda, all these people are, you know, mainly doing this for clicks.
00:46:36.440And they do this all the while pretending to be the serious intellectuals in the conversation.
00:46:42.080We can speculate about what's really going on here.
00:46:44.520You know, maybe open society funding from Soros is contributing.
00:46:48.960Maybe we're seeing the result of personal jealousy and resentment, people who are upset that they've lost their audience, lashing out at someone who has not.
00:46:56.900Whatever the case, no one is more deserving of your suspicion and your contempt than someone who tells you that the truth doesn't matter.
00:47:08.000Anyone who attacks your motivations for telling the truth or who insists that the truth is subservient to a larger narrative simply cannot be trusted.
00:47:18.180communist agitators use the civil rights movement as a tool to enact a total transformation of the
00:47:24.840American legal system that has led to countless deaths and destroyed major U.S. cities and ushered
00:47:31.000in a campaign of overt anti-white discrimination that continues to this day. That is a fact.
00:47:38.900And the reason they don't want you to learn the truth about that, the reason both leftists and
00:47:44.200fake conservatives are united in trying to shout me down at the moment, is that they aren't done
00:47:49.640yet. I'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you