00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a former star football player has been acquitted of rape charges finally, but the accusations have permanently damaged his reputation and his career.
00:00:11.160So we're going to talk about that. Also, the Girl Scouts have gone all in on abortion advocacy.
00:00:17.200And why is it that really successful rich people often did poorly in grade school?
00:00:23.780There's a problem with our education system, a fundamental problem that leads to stuff like that.
00:00:28.060And I want to talk about that as well today on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:36.040OK, so I've been meaning to talk about this case for a few days and I haven't really had a chance to get into it yet.
00:00:42.560So let's do that now. As the Daily Wire reported this week, a former star football player for Baylor University and a certainly a surefire early round pick,
00:00:52.900probably a first round NFL draft pick, was acquitted in a high profile rape case a few days ago.
00:01:00.480Now, so the accuser claimed that the player whose name is Sean Oakman, we don't know the accuser's name.
00:01:06.920The media reports don't include it because she's an alleged rape victim.
00:01:12.400She says she says she says that Oakman raped her in his apartment near campus, near Baylor University.
00:01:20.360But it took the jury only about two hours for them to come to the conclusion that he's not guilty.
00:01:25.900And that's a that's not a long deliberation, especially for a case like this.
00:01:31.380But when you look at the specifics of the case, it's kind of easy to see why it didn't take them very long.
00:01:37.560And it makes you wonder why this ever went to trial in the first place, because there is such a lack of evidence to support the accuser's claims.
00:01:45.540Basically, the only evidence here, the prosecution had three avenues of evidence, if we can even call this evidence.
00:01:55.340They had the word of the accuser, obviously.
00:01:58.660They had the testimony of a few of her friends who say that now they didn't witness the assault, but they they talked to her after the fact.
00:02:07.400And they found her disheveled and distraught and crying, they say.
00:02:11.280And she told them what she claims happened.
00:02:15.540And then and then they had injuries, especially genital injuries to the woman, which medical experts for the defense testified could have easily been sustained in a consensual encounter with a this was a man is 300 pounds, six foot seven.
00:02:39.580The defense, though, had quite a bit more evidence.
00:02:43.980Number one, the woman texted Oakman, Oakman with with whom she'd previously had a sexual relationship.
00:02:52.400She texted him to come meet her at the bar on the night when the assault allegedly occurred.
00:02:57.540Then she willingly went back to Oakman's apartment, even texting a friend on the way to indicate that she was OK.
00:03:05.300Oakman's roommate, who was who was in the apartment when the alleged assault took took place, he testified that there he didn't hear any screams.
00:03:14.300He didn't hear any indication of a struggle coming from the defendant's bedroom.
00:03:17.680The woman said that she was too drunk to consent, but then multiple witnesses came forward to say that they interacted with her that night.
00:03:28.200There was also evidence that the accuser.
00:03:34.300Well, I don't want to get too graphic.
00:03:35.460There was there was based on DNA evidence, the accuser alleged that certain sexual acts took place against her will, that she was she tried to leave.
00:03:49.380She was physically prevented and then she was pinned down and certain things.
00:03:52.480Well, they were able to do DNA tests and they could kind of reconstruct what sorts of sexual acts took place that night.
00:04:01.400And that did not match with what the accuser said.
00:04:07.600Also, a forensic digital analyst took the stand and said that somebody deleted text messages from the woman's phone.
00:04:17.440The text messages where she asked Oakman to come to the bar, someone deleted those text messages.
00:04:50.220I mean, he had someone that was in the apartment when this was supposedly happening who said that there was no indication of anything like what she's talking about.
00:04:57.440So it's no wonder that the jury jury came to the conclusion that it did.
00:05:01.640That's the only conclusion it possibly could come to.
00:05:03.960There's just no reason to convict the guy unless you're just going to believe the woman's story, even instead of all of this other.
00:05:17.480It wasn't not just a he said, she said.
00:05:19.840It was a she said, he said, plus he has all this evidence.
00:05:24.360So there's no way that the she said can outweigh all of that, or at least it shouldn't.
00:05:31.720But, you know, the thing is, the story doesn't end there for Oakman because he's going to have to wear the accused rapist label around his neck for the rest of his life.
00:05:40.240You don't just you don't just go through something like that and then go and live your life like it never happened for the rest of his life.
00:05:45.800He's going to be the guy who was accused and went to trial for rape and he's never going to be able to escape that escape that and even if he's still able to salvage some kind of a football career, which which seems likely because given his talent and the fact that he could now be I'm sure some team will take a chance on him and financially it's going to be low risk for them because they're not going to have to pay him very much, which just shows that he also lost quite a bit of money.
00:06:12.620If he had gone in the first round, well, there's gonna be a lot of money and a lot of professional prestige and and job security that comes with that, that now he's not ever going to be able to recoup.
00:06:25.280That's just gone. Right now, of course, it's still possible.
00:06:30.780It's still possible that Oakman did what he was accused of doing.
00:06:34.360We don't know court cases are not designed to prove anyone innocent, but just to decide whether the prosecution has succeeded in proving them guilty.
00:06:44.460So all the jury is saying is the jury isn't saying this guy's innocent.
00:06:48.500The jury is saying you the prosecution did not do your job.
00:06:51.680You did not succeed in proving him guilty.
00:07:18.880It was certainly the right decision to not find him guilty, but who knows what actually happened.
00:07:33.260And there are a few, you know, there are a few factors that do weigh in the accuser's favor.
00:07:38.480I think primarily the fact that she did not wait 30 years, you know, like Christine Ford to make this accusation.
00:07:47.340She made it very soon after the fact, and she told her friends, you know, shortly after it happened.
00:07:51.760They found her, and she was crying, and she was clearly distressed about something, and she told them what happened.
00:07:58.860That is, you know, that fact alone is probably why the deliberations lasted two hours rather than two minutes, because you do have to weigh that.
00:08:08.100You have to say, well, I mean, did she decide right then and there that she was going to make up this lie?
00:08:13.120Was that all an act, or are her friends lying?
00:08:19.220There is a way to explain all of that without necessarily painting this woman as just an abject liar, and I'll talk about that in a minute.
00:08:25.320It's just, we have to emphasize that given the physical evidence, the eyewitnesses, the fact that she sought out Oakman and chose to go back to his apartment, indicating it would seem, at least at first, that she had the intention of having sexual relationships with him.
00:08:39.340It just, it seems just as likely, if not more likely, that the encounter was entirely consensual, because a woman doesn't generally go back to a man's apartment after having a few drinks late at night if she does not have that intention.
00:08:56.960Now, a friend of hers did testify that she only went back to his apartment because she wanted to see his new puppy.
00:09:02.500But that actually, you know, a claim like that really just casts even more suspicion on the accuser because there's just no way.
00:09:11.640I mean, it seems, it's highly unlikely that a woman, you know, a college-age woman in modern society would think that after you have some drinks with a guy that you've already been sexually active with,
00:09:26.740and you go back to his apartment after the bar at night, it just seems highly unlikely that, you know, that either person did not have in mind that we're probably going to have sex tonight.
00:09:48.240So, what lesson can we learn from this?
00:09:52.340Well, I think the same thing we've learned countless times already, which is we can't believe all women, as the hashtag urges us to do.
00:09:58.780We have to draw our conclusions based on evidence, not based on gender.
00:10:02.680Now, the proponents of the believe all women method, they would have us give the benefit of the doubt to the accuser.
00:10:08.860And if the fact, what they basically say is, if the facts could vindicate her claims, if there is some way to theoretically make it all gel with her version of events, then that's what we should do.
00:10:22.960Believe all women wants us, at a minimum, to interpret the facts in whatever light is most favorable to the woman.
00:10:29.980But that is precisely the wrong approach.
00:10:32.000We should interpret the facts in the most reasonable, plausible way.
00:10:36.140And if the facts could go one way or another, and there's no way to draw any conclusion with any degree of rational certainty, then we have to be satisfied with drawing no conclusion and saying, you know, we don't know what happened.
00:10:51.160But we can't, we can't assume that the guy's a rapist.
00:10:56.120And we, it's, we got to just leave it there.
00:10:59.060Um, that's the problem is that this believe all women, that slogan is really designed for cases like Oakman's.
00:11:07.760Because after all, you don't need to get into believe all women if the accused, uh, if, if the accused rapist is clearly guilty, if there's a lot of evidence, if he's clearly guilty, then we don't need to get into believe all women.
00:11:21.100It's just clearly, there's no need for slogans.
00:11:37.820And that's where the me too proponents swoop in.
00:11:41.020And they insist that in the absence of certainty, we assume guilt, which is a horrible and completely unethical and dangerous way of going about things.
00:11:50.140One other point here, the insistence by feminists in expanding, um, on expanding the definition of rape, expanding it to the point of absurdity.
00:12:04.920I think that makes it more difficult to get to the truth in any situation, especially a situation like this.
00:12:11.400Uh, the way that we talk about consent and the way that we've made rape into this very broad category, um,
00:12:20.140it only makes everything convoluted and more confused.
00:12:27.780Um, nobody, but Oakman and his accuser know what really happened that night.
00:12:33.100No one else is ever going to know, but let's imagine a perfectly plausible hypothetical.
00:12:38.360Let's imagine something that falls sort of in between Oakman being a rapist on one hand and his accuser being a liar on the other hand.
00:12:44.840Now, feminists don't allow for gray areas in these situations, but I think that's where the truth often, often falls with this sort of thing.
00:12:54.040So imagine that Oakman and the woman go back to his apartment, both intending on sexual relations.
00:13:01.040Um, then let's say the woman at some point realizes that she isn't into it, doesn't really want to do it.
00:13:09.040Um, let's say that Oakman then tries to convince her, uh, pressures her a little bit, not physically, but just not with threats or anything like that, but just tries to convince her to do what he wants to do.
00:13:21.900Um, and then let's say that she agrees of her own free will.
00:13:28.580She could leave, but she, she agrees after some convincing and she goes through with the act, uh, even though she didn't, she didn't really want to.
00:13:40.840The left tells us that that would be rape.
00:13:44.120If there is no continuous and enthusiastic, and they put that in the depth, it has to be enthusiastic, um, continuous, enthusiastic, affirmative consent all the way through in the absence of that, it's rape.
00:14:27.320But in reality, there's a lot of room in between.
00:14:29.400Uh, it is possible to have bad, immoral sexual relations, the kind that may leave a person feeling used, dirty, guilty, whatever, but which was entirely consensual and thus not rape.
00:14:43.920Um, those kinds of sexual relations happen all the time, especially on college campuses.
00:14:48.840And I think that's why we hear about one in four women are sexually assaulted.
00:14:52.200Well, uh, some of those women counted in that statistic really were sexually assaulted, but I think a lot of them, what actually happened is they consensually had sex that they didn't really want to have.
00:15:04.140Um, by expanding the definition of rape to include cases where there was actually consent by both parties, the left has diminished the severity of rape and created a whole mess of false rape claims.
00:15:18.020That the person making the false rape claim might not even know is false.
00:15:23.760So back to my hypothetical, it's perfectly possible, even plausible, that the woman went through with the act completely consensually, but she wasn't that into it.
00:15:33.020And she later realizes, based on what we're told these days, uh, she later realizes that, oh, I was raped.
00:15:39.260And she comes to believe that she really was raped.
00:15:41.900And then she maybe embellishes the story a little bit when she talks to the cops and she talks and she tells people about it.
00:15:47.420She embellishes a little bit just because she knows that if she tells the story exactly as it happened, it won't sound like rape.
00:15:53.200And maybe that's why she goes back and she deletes the text message and she does all this stuff.
00:15:56.940Um, she really believes that something did, that she was assaulted, but she knows that if the exact sequence of events, um, wouldn't support that claim.
00:16:07.280So she changes a little, a little bit.
00:16:09.720I, look, I don't know if that's actually what happened, but my point is that in our culture, we, we, we have now an environment that would create and encourage those kinds of situations.
00:16:21.160Situations where no rape occurs, but the person making the false rape claim may not realize it's false because they've been given a false definition of rape.
00:16:30.880They have been told that you may be raped even if you consent to the act, which is totally absurd.
00:16:39.220The, the, the definition of rape is to have sex with someone, uh, uh, or to have any kind of sexual contact with a person, uh, against their will.
00:16:58.200It could still be a lot of bad things.
00:17:02.240So, you know, good, moral, wonderful, uh, affirming, loving sex is, is one category.
00:17:12.700And I would say that, that that's a category that belongs entirely in the bonds of marriage.
00:17:17.600Um, and then, so you have that, and then you've got rape all the way over here, but then you've got a lot.
00:17:23.960I mean, the, the left, they're the ones who usually are all about spectrums and gray areas.
00:17:27.500Well, well, here is a place where you've got something like that, um, where you've got a lot of stuff in between here, where it's not, it's not rape.
00:17:35.300And if you fall into that middle ground, you, you, you're going to, you may leave the act, whether you're a woman or a man feeling used, feeling, um, uh, because you were used, right?
00:17:47.860There's, there's a lot, that's, that's the problem with the, these one night stands and the hookup culture and everything is that people, men and women, they use each other physically.
00:17:59.060Um, they're not raping each other because they both agree to it, but, um, they use each other.
00:18:07.300And then, uh, and then later on, they, they, they are left feeling used and they may now interpret, they may say, oh, I was used.
00:18:33.420An article on the daily wire right now, Girl Scouts gives highest award to, uh, to a girl who organized a pro-abortion campaign.
00:18:42.000So if you didn't, if you didn't already realize this about the Girl Scouts, here's a little bit from this article.
00:18:46.160Though the organization's ties to abortion conglomerate Planned Parenthood have been known for years, the Girl Scouts of America have yet to be so forthright about their closeted support for abortion until now.
00:18:55.360According to Life News, the group, mygirlscoutcouncil.com has been monitoring the organization for years over its pro-abortion stance.
00:19:03.700Uh, and it discovered last Friday that the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona honored a girl for her volunteer work on reproductive health justice.
00:19:11.880Uh, Meghna Gopalan, recently profiled in a Tucson publication, received the Gold Award, the Girl Scouts' highest honor for her work, reports Life News.
00:19:22.240Her project involved working with the pro-abortion women's march and its affiliate in Tucson.
00:19:26.340She said her goal was to educate people and, uh, de-stigmatize access to women's health care, euphemisms for abortion.
00:19:35.600Uh, she said, I'm planning on hosting an event to educate people about, about and de-stigmatize access to women's health care.
00:19:42.020I've been working with the El Rio Reproductive Health Access Project, and they've offered ideas on reproductive health justice, which would broaden the scope of the project a little bit, blah, blah, blah.
00:19:51.680Um, so Girl Scouts working now with reproductive health justice, and this, of course, is just another example of the ideological piracy that leftists engage in, where they invade institutions, they commandeer them, and they turn them into agents of their own agenda.
00:20:12.120And they've done that to the Boy Scouts, and, uh, and the Girl Scouts as well, where the Girl Scout, here's what's happened.
00:20:22.800The Boy Scouts have become the Girl Scouts, and the Girl Scouts have become a wing of Planned Parenthood.
00:20:28.900That, that's what's happened, um, thanks to the left.
00:20:32.440All right, I want to talk about one other thing before we get to emails, um, something that has nothing to do with politics or anything like that.
00:20:39.600I found this article linked on Drudge this morning on a website called theladders.com, and it has an interesting little tidbit that I thought I'd mention.
00:20:49.400Um, an author named Tom Corley, who wrote a book called Rich Habits, The Daily Success Habits of Rich Individuals, and he does a, in this book, he does a survey, um, of a bunch of, uh, different young, um, millionaires.
00:21:05.260And there was this fact that I thought was relevant.
00:21:10.900Uh, the fact is, according to the survey that he did, the majority of the young and successful people that he spoke to were C students in school.
00:21:19.720Um, most of them were not very successful in school academically.
00:21:23.160They were C students, which puts you, which means you're, you're not far above failing, right, at that point.
00:21:27.800Um, that's an interesting fact, doesn't surprise me, and you hear this a lot about really successful people where they didn't do well in school.
00:21:37.140Um, and a lot of them didn't even go to college.
00:21:42.020Not academic success stories, in other words, uh, but then they go on and they become success stories out in the world.
00:21:50.300I mean, we all, we all know the story about Albert Einstein, who was, it was not a very good student.
00:21:54.320I think those stories are probably exaggerated a little bit, but, uh, but still, it's, it's all part of this.
00:21:59.060Now, it's worth asking, well, why is that?
00:22:03.740How could it be that you could have people who are brilliant and very talented and hardworking and ambitious and ambitious and all that,
00:22:14.640which is what you would need to be to succeed in the world, um, but how could you have someone like that who, who, who, who can't handle, you know, grade school?
00:22:27.400Um, I think it's because the education system emphasizes, demands, certain skills, certain qualities that have nothing to do with intelligence,
00:22:38.840nothing to do with ingenuity, um, nothing to do with creativity, or any of the things that the education system should be fostering.
00:22:48.940Here are, these are really the two qualities that you need to have in order to do well in school.
00:23:49.360Um, because, well, it's just because of this.
00:23:54.440If you have the, if you can sit still and not think about anything else and just think about your busy work and you can memorize and then regurgitate what you're told,
00:24:06.480And those are good abilities to have, by the way.
00:24:08.800I'm not knocking them, but they aren't abilities that will necessarily translate to success and fulfillment outside of school.
00:24:15.580So there's a huge disparity where success in education depends entirely on qualities that of themselves won't do much for you outside of education.
00:24:26.040See, that's something we really need to focus on.
00:24:27.680Now, if you can sit still, memorize, and you happen to be a brilliant, logical thinker, or very gifted in math, or you happen to be very scientifically minded, or you're also artistic,
00:24:43.360well, then that combination absolutely will lead to success outside of school.
00:24:48.700That will, that will give you success in school and in life.
00:24:52.600When you find people who were straight A students all the way through, and then they go out there and they become extremely successful in whatever they're doing.
00:25:00.320Well, that's someone, yeah, that's best of both worlds.
00:25:02.340That's someone who could sit still, memorize, regurgitate, and also happened to be brilliant, and was a hard worker, ambitious, creative.
00:25:09.620If you've got all that going for you, well, then you're just, you're going to basically coast through life.
00:25:15.440But what if, see, there are a lot of people, what if you, what if you have trouble sitting still, you aren't great at memorization, but you're also extremely creative?
00:25:28.900Or what if you aren't great at sitting still and memorizing, but you're very gifted with building things, or fixing things?
00:25:34.780Or what if you can't sit still, can't memorize and regurgitate, but you're a great writer?
00:25:38.840And yes, there are a lot of writers who have trouble sitting still.
00:25:43.920I'm one of them, although I wouldn't call myself a great writer.
00:25:47.040Or let's say you have a great interest in history, and you have a keen eye for history.
00:25:51.740Or what if you're a gifted artist, or you're a compelling public speaker, or you're a budding inventor, or you have a great business sense, or you're a natural salesman, and so on.
00:26:00.140What if you have those qualities, but you can't really sit still, and you can't regurgitate and memorize?
00:26:04.160Well, all of those kinds of people, those are very gifted.
00:26:08.760They could all be extremely successful in life.
00:26:10.940I mean, any of those people, if they wanted to, they could turn that into, you know, they could become billionaires with those qualities.
00:26:20.880So there's nothing wrong with any of them, but all of them will struggle mightily in school, and many of them will probably end up on psychotropic drugs.
00:26:30.740Because it will be decided that they have ADHD, and so on.
00:26:34.160And that's the whole problem with our system, is that it's only built for one kind of person and no one else.
00:26:41.760And it often caters to qualities that, in most cases, do not translate.
00:26:54.640You know, as I said, if you have the ability to sit still, memorize, regurgitate, and you also happen to have other great qualities, well then, yeah, that'll translate.
00:27:05.660But that ability just on its own, well, I mean, that'll be good to put you in a cubicle.
00:27:11.960You know, you could take that and go sit in a cubicle or work at the DMV or something.
00:27:15.880And nothing wrong with doing either of those things, I'm just saying.
00:27:20.900That's, those qualities isolated, that's kind of where that leads.
00:27:24.980And it's so, there's just, it's an entire paradigm shift that needs to happen with our education system.
00:27:33.200We just, our education system is so deeply flawed down to its very roots.
00:27:37.320It's, it is just, it's not doing what it's supposed to do.
00:27:42.940And in the meantime, and that wouldn't be so bad in and of itself, but the problem is that you've got a lot of really gifted kids, very intelligent.
00:27:53.380They've got a bright future ahead of them, but they go through 12 or 13 years of school and they're just beaten down by it.
00:27:59.580Because that's the other thing, there's an emotional and psychological toll in, in being forced every day, especially as a kid, to be in an environment that isn't suited for you and where you're destined to fail constantly.
00:28:19.120Believe me, I went through this myself, where, you know, you, you, you go through your whole formative, all your formative years, you're in this environment where it's just, it is, it is not made for you.
00:28:31.860And so every day you're just failing and you're doing bad and you're, you know, it's just constantly every day.
00:28:38.160And after a while, it creates a complex where kids begin to believe that, oh, I'm, there's something wrong with me.
00:28:44.560And that can have, uh, you know, hopefully a kid will be able to cope with that and eventually get out of school and realize that, oh no, there's nothing wrong.
00:28:55.520There was something wrong with the system, not something wrong with me.
00:28:58.180There are a lot of things I can do well, and then they'll go and do those things.
00:29:00.720But I think there are a lot of kids who are not able to cope and they end up on drugs, uh, whether legal or illegal.
00:29:07.580Um, you know, they, they end up going off on a wrong path.
00:29:12.980Uh, they commit suicide, you know, worst case scenario.
00:29:16.380There's this part of where I think the suicide epidemic among our kids happens.
00:29:21.120It's not normal to have all these kids committing suicide.
00:30:02.380I hate so much about the way you choose to be.
00:30:05.760Dustin, I deeply appreciate, uh, that feedback and I will take it into consideration.
00:30:11.240From Nick, he says, Hey Matt, I just wanted to share an interesting observation that occurred to me recently about the left's abortion arguments.
00:30:16.860They seem to break down into two camps.
00:30:18.840One set of arguments seek to define life itself, viability, consciousness, ability to feel pain, et cetera.
00:30:24.280The other seeks to justify abortion, bodily autonomy, overpopulation, congenital defects, et cetera.
00:30:31.600But it seems like if you're going to argue for the right to abortion, that it's justified, then that presupposes that the fetus is a life.
00:30:38.400If you believe the fetus is just a clump of cells, then why would you need to make a case for the right to get rid of it?
00:30:44.120It's like arguing for the right to scrape gum off the bottom of your shoe.
00:30:48.520I think that you make a very insightful point, Nick, and I think you're exactly right.
00:30:53.080And in fact, uh, so you, you do have those two, um, veins of argument where the argument over life and then the argument over just abortion and, and, and bodily autonomy and everything.
00:31:05.360Now, what the pro-abortion advocates have done is they are increasingly abandoning that first category, which that used to be what, that used to be the centerpiece of the abortion.
00:31:19.460Debate was about definition of life and all of that personhood.
00:31:24.420Um, but I think abortion advocates are getting away from that for two reasons.
00:31:30.440Number one, that argument focuses for them uncomfortably.
00:31:35.720So it focuses on the, the life on the child and they don't want to, they don't want to bring attention to that.
00:31:42.820And also they, they're losing that argument.
00:31:45.000They know that they've, they've already, they've lost it.