The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 236 - White Woman Commits Racist Crime Of Opening Chinese Food Restaurant

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, good news for Bernie Sanders.

00:00:03.080 He's a millionaire, it turns out, but is that bad news for his campaign?

00:00:07.280 Also, a white woman is being viciously attacked for committing the sin of opening a Chinese food restaurant.

00:00:14.680 We'll talk about that.

00:00:15.700 And a woman wrote in to Slate wondering why it is that she can't find any good men for one-night stands.

00:00:23.700 Now, we'll try to get to the bottom of that mystery today as well on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:30.000 Well, it was a good time at Baylor last night, great turnout, respectful audience, no outbursts or anything of that sort, a peaceful event.

00:00:43.940 That could be because the university, from what I was told, they counter-programmed the event.

00:00:50.480 They were holding something called a, I think it was a love dinner or a love feast or something like that,

00:00:56.280 which, again, from what I was told, was advertised as an alternative to my speech.

00:01:03.340 So I think the idea was to try to siphon people away from what I was doing, but we still packed the house and it was great.

00:01:09.680 The only little strange thing was that it was, you know, it's pretty hot down here in Waco, right?

00:01:15.560 And so you can imagine if you pack hundreds of people into a little room, it gets even hotter.

00:01:21.940 Well, the AC wasn't running during my talk, so we were all just sweating, pouring sweat.

00:01:29.000 And then, strangely enough, as soon as the talk ended, the AC kicked on.

00:01:35.240 And so, kind of weird.

00:01:37.640 I mean, maybe just a coincidence, I don't know, but a little strange.

00:01:41.540 I don't want to get into conspiracy theories, but who knows.

00:01:45.580 Anyway, my next stop will be the Standing Up for Faith and Freedom conference at YAF headquarters in Reston, Virginia.

00:01:53.760 And then I'll be at Embry-Riddle University in Daytona Beach on April 16th.

00:01:58.880 So I hope to see you there.

00:02:00.600 Now, hopefully there'll be some AC cranking there in Daytona Beach, though.

00:02:05.180 Now, a bunch of things to talk about.

00:02:08.440 Let's start with this, some news from Bernie Sanders, very, very exciting news from him.

00:02:13.520 The Lifetime Avowed Socialist announced yesterday that he is a millionaire.

00:02:19.300 So congratulations to Bernie Sanders on that.

00:02:21.920 Congrats on being pretty exciting stuff.

00:02:24.140 He's planning to finally release his taxes.

00:02:28.420 You know how much grief he gave Donald Trump over never releasing his taxes.

00:02:32.380 Well, Sanders has yet to release his own.

00:02:35.000 But he says he's going to do that in the next few days.

00:02:37.380 But just to sort of pave the way and let us know ahead of time, he said that he is a millionaire.

00:02:43.780 He's not a billionaire, though.

00:02:44.860 He doesn't have, he said he doesn't have investments in Saudi Arabia.

00:02:47.640 He's not a billionaire, but he is a millionaire.

00:02:49.720 This was his exact quote.

00:02:51.120 He said, I wrote a best-selling book.

00:02:54.540 If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.

00:02:58.260 That sounds like the title of the book.

00:02:59.640 If you write a, you know, if you write a best-selling book, you could be a millionaire, too.

00:03:03.260 Well, what a change in messaging that is, right, for Bernie Sanders.

00:03:09.400 From ranting about the evil millionaires and billionaires to now saying, you can be a millionaire, too, that's very different.

00:03:24.000 That's quite a change from millionaires and billionaires are evil to now he's giving tips.

00:03:30.660 He's giving financial tips on how to become one.

00:03:32.940 But, of course, the whole point here is that his preferred policies, if his preferred policies were in place, if his socialist policies were in place, if we were a socialist nation, then you could not become a millionaire by writing a best-selling book.

00:03:49.640 You wouldn't have that option.

00:03:51.120 So this is something that he was able to do because we live in a capitalist country.

00:03:55.540 He capitalized on the fact that we are a capitalist nation and seemed to have no problem doing that, yet he still claims to be a socialist.

00:04:06.800 So it's just like AOC saying, hey, airplanes, commercial air travels, destroying the country, destroying the world, and we're all going to be dead in 12 years.

00:04:16.660 Yet she has no problem getting on planes and jet-setting around the country.

00:04:22.780 Now, I don't personally begrudge anyone going on an airplane or becoming a millionaire.

00:04:31.240 I think it's great that people are able to do that in this country.

00:04:34.640 I think it's great that people are able to become millionaires.

00:04:36.440 I think it's great that you're able to become a millionaire not just by writing a book, but by writing a bad book, like the one that Bernie Sanders wrote.

00:04:44.220 I think it's amazing that it's that easy.

00:04:48.000 Like, you don't even have to be good at anything.

00:04:49.580 You can still become a millionaire.

00:04:50.660 Um, what exactly, like, Bernie Sanders, what exactly is his, what is he good at?

00:04:57.020 What's his, what's his thing?

00:04:58.160 What is his skill?

00:04:59.140 What's his talent?

00:05:00.420 Uh, I'm not sure that he has one.

00:05:02.460 But he was still able to become a millionaire because of our free market system.

00:05:07.840 Uh, I think that's great, you know, as a, as a capitalist myself, but Bernie Sanders is not a capitalist.

00:05:18.040 So I would think that this would have to destroy his campaign, right?

00:05:22.640 I mean, uh, I don't see how he survives it.

00:05:25.480 And it's pretty sad when the fact that you're financially successful is some sort of scandal that, that, that, uh, can, can hurt, harm you politically, but it shouldn't be that way.

00:05:38.000 And for most politicians, it wouldn't be, but that's the situation that he set up for himself.

00:05:43.320 He's the one who's, um, who's been going around decrying wealth and he's going to have to face the music.

00:05:50.240 Someone said to me yesterday, I made this point and someone said, well, uh, you know, how could you criticize Bernie Sanders for, for being a millionaire when, uh, Donald Trump is a billionaire and you're not critical of that.

00:06:01.440 Yeah. Yeah. Except that Donald Trump wasn't going around and saying that there's anything wrong with being wealthy, quite the opposite, actually.

00:06:08.620 So if you're a capitalist and you're, and you're open and, uh, proud of it, then fine, be as rich as you want.

00:06:15.900 But if you're a socialist, you can't go getting rich on us. Can you?

00:06:20.260 So, um, I think this is going to hurt him, but at least Bernie can go home and, uh, console himself by rolling around in a huge,

00:06:31.440 pile of money. Okay. Let's take a look at this real quick. Um, our friend, Ilhan Omar was speaking to a Muslim rights group and she, uh, characterized nine 11 in kind of a bizarre way and a troubling way. Watch this care was founded after nine 11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.

00:07:01.440 Some people did something. That's how she categorizes nine 11. Some people did something. Um, that's pretty incredible. This woman is just so consistently vile. It's almost impressive. And I'll tell you this, if I were a Muslim, I would not be a fan of Ilhan Omar at all, because she seems determined to fulfill every negative Muslim stereotype she possibly can. 1.00

00:07:29.520 She's constantly, she's constantly, she's constantly complaining about Jews. Now she's downplaying nine 11. I mean, every stereotype she can think of, she tries to affirm this. This is, this is really incredible. 1.00

00:07:39.520 This is a, this is a, this is, you know, this is not just some cable news pundit or something. This is a sitting member of Congress who says of nine 11, some people did something.

00:07:53.400 That is horrifying. That is horrifying. All right. A woman, uh, by the name of Arielle, uh, Haspel, Haspel, Haspel, Haspel, we'll just say Haspel is under fire today. Um, she's under fire because she committed the sin of get, get ready for this because she did something pretty horrifying.

00:08:16.060 Um, here's what she did. Um, here's what she did. This woman, uh, she, she opened a Chinese restaurant and the restaurant is called Lucky Lee's. 0.53

00:08:27.120 And this is a sin because as I'm sure you've guessed it, um, Arielle is white gasp. 1.00

00:08:34.060 Uh, and she sinned further by endeavoring to make clean and healthy Chinese food. She said in a post online that she, that a lot of American Chinese food is unhealthy, according to her.

00:08:47.500 And she said, it makes you feel quote bloated and icky. And so she wanted to, um, make, make food that, that doesn't have that effect.

00:08:55.740 Now, as someone who has, uh, you know, myself eaten probably eight or nine tons of Chinese food in my life, or even just in the past, say, two months, um, I can confirm that yes, bloated and icky is, is, is probably a pretty accurate description of how you often feel after indulging in some, um, you know, uh, uh, General Tso's, uh, chicken or Kung Pao from your local Chinese place.

00:09:18.940 And that doesn't stop me. Of course, I still eat it, but I, I, I think that this is sort of, uh, undeniable that, that, uh, American Chinese food has that effect.

00:09:27.200 I can't speak to, you know, authentic Chinese food in China. I've never had it, but that's the case with American Chinese food. 0.97

00:09:33.280 Uh, yet it's all, it is, it is very racist apparently for this, uh, person to, to say that.

00:09:38.280 And the fact that she's, the fact that she's white, um, in opening this Chinese restaurant in the first place is racist.

00:09:44.340 The name of the establishment, Lucky Lee's is racist. 0.66

00:09:47.320 Um, the fact that she accused other Chinese food of being unhealthy is, is racist. All of that is racist.

00:09:52.860 So a bunch of leftists decided to get together and, uh, of course, destroy this woman's business because, 1.00

00:09:58.060 hey, why not? Let's, let's just try to tear down this woman and her business that she's been working 1.00

00:10:02.100 for, you know, to, to, to open your own business takes a lot of time and effort and capital. Um,

00:10:08.380 I'm sure this is a dream she's had for a long time and she finally gets the place open. She's so excited.

00:10:13.500 And, uh, but these people are saying, you know what, let's just, let's just, let's just tear it apart.

00:10:16.560 You know, let's just, we'll, we'll just destroy it because, because, uh, Hey, we got nothing better

00:10:20.720 to do. Um, ruin her livelihood, you know, uh, because, because we're vile, ridiculous idiots. 1.00

00:10:28.120 So the backlash seems to have started with, uh, let me see if I can pull up. 1.00

00:10:33.240 There were a couple of tweets that seem to have started this whole thing. Uh, one from

00:10:38.140 Lanya Olmsted who said, uh, who tweeted a picture of, of Ariel and said, wow, wow, wow. This white

00:10:47.000 woman pictured just opened a clean Chinese food restaurant in NYC called Lucky Lee's. Not only is

00:10:53.280 she using Chinese food stereotypes slash naming, she is shaming traditional Chinese food cooking 0.98

00:10:59.180 with MSG grease and starch. Um, and then one of the other early tweets came from someone named

00:11:05.560 McKenzie says, Oh, I can not with Lucky Lee's this new clean Chinese restaurant that some white 1.00

00:11:11.200 wellness blogger just opened in New York. Her blog talks about how Chinese food is usually

00:11:15.300 doused in brown sauces and makes your eyes puffy lady. What? Uh, and just a lot of, a lot of stuff like

00:11:22.820 that. Um, a lot of people who, who simply cannot, they just cannot. Well, you know what? If you

00:11:30.880 cannot, then, then leave the woman alone. You don't have to go to the restaurant if you don't like it. 0.95

00:11:35.300 Right. Uh, and again, is she wrong about what she's saying? American Chinese food is doused in 0.54

00:11:43.360 brown sauces. It is. I mean, I don't know if it makes my eyes puffy, but what are we now pretending

00:11:48.740 that it's, that it's healthy or something like that? And then from there, a bunch of morons flooded 1.00

00:11:53.780 her Yelp page, uh, posted negative reviews of her restaurant, even though these people had of course 0.99

00:12:00.460 never actually been to the restaurant. So they were just lying. Um, and then other websites jumped on

00:12:06.100 the dog pile. The site, uh, eater.com, a food site posted an article with a headline claiming in the

00:12:13.480 headline that the restaurant is, is drawing quote, swift backlash for quote, racist language

00:12:20.280 that it used. That was in the headline. It wasn't, it wasn't, didn't say alleged racist language or

00:12:26.140 some people claimed, right? No, just racist language. Well, what racist language? Where's the

00:12:30.820 racist language that you're telling me that if you, if you describe Chinese food in a negative way,

00:12:37.860 that that's racist, racist to the food, who are you being racist against? Accusing a certain kind

00:12:44.560 of fast food of being unhealthy is not racist. Is it racist? If I say that Taco Bell oftentimes

00:12:50.460 causes diarrhea? Well, it does. We all know that you have to pretend now that Taco Bell, so it says

00:12:56.740 anti-Hispanic. If we, uh, if we don't, uh, you know, if we, if we point out the, um, some of the

00:13:03.720 side effects of eating Taco Bell, this is just so excessively stupid. Um, and not just stupid, 1.00

00:13:11.780 but, but so callous and cruel and capricious, uh, arbitrarily trying to ruin this woman's life 1.00

00:13:19.960 for no reason. Uh, she didn't do anything wrong. She just opened a restaurant and that's all she did.

00:13:27.660 And, uh, by the way, people are complaining that the name Lucky Lee's is racist because Lee is a

00:13:35.020 typical Chinese name. Well, the woman's husband, who is also the chef, his name is Lee. So, uh,

00:13:41.560 the restaurant, so I guess his parents are racist for calling him Lee. Uh, oh man. Uh,

00:13:48.900 this kind of thing, it, it, it, it makes me so angry because you're, you're going after

00:13:57.440 some random person. It's not like you're attacking a public figure. Okay. It's not like you're

00:14:03.180 for the nine millionth time taking Donald Trump out of context and accusing him of racism. Well,

00:14:08.360 he's the president, he can take it, but it's just some, it's just a person who's excited to open a

00:14:15.340 change. This wasn't any conspiracy to try to, uh, you know, to try to be racist against Chinese

00:14:23.240 people. This was, she just wanted to open a restaurant. That's all. And, and for all the

00:14:29.920 talk that we hear from liberals about, Hey, you know, live and let live and let people live their

00:14:34.940 own lives. Well, as we've seen time and time again, uh, they certainly will not take their own

00:14:39.700 advice on that score. And you know what? There is of course a huge double standard here because

00:14:46.780 we all know that if Ariel was herself, let's say an Asian woman opening a pizza restaurant, 0.91

00:14:55.600 um, and, uh, and the pizza restaurant's name was, uh, was lucky lose or something like that.

00:15:02.120 Um, well, nobody would criticize. Would she be getting, would an Asian person who opened a pizza 1.00

00:15:10.440 restaurant get in trouble for appropriating Italian culture? No, that would never happen.

00:15:15.900 What, uh, what's, you know, an Indian person opening a burger joint, get in trouble for, 1.00

00:15:20.300 you know, appropriating Americana or whatever. No. Opening a barbecue joint. No, that would never,

00:15:28.100 ever happen. You would never see that happening. So if you are anything, if you're anything but

00:15:34.260 white, you can open any kind of restaurant you want, any kind of food you want. And, uh, people

00:15:39.520 will, and in fact, if you're, you know, if you, if you are non-white opening an Italian restaurant,

00:15:43.540 people would be thrilled. They would say, Oh, this is great. It's a, you know, diversity and

00:15:48.300 everything. But if you're white, no, you're not allowed to, you're not allowed to, uh, open 0.98

00:15:53.600 restaurants of, uh, you know, typically ethnic food. It's, it's simply absurd. And food is 0.71

00:16:02.040 one of those things that cultures share and it changes and people have their own take on it and

00:16:08.780 everything. All right. I just got to move on from that. Um, but if you, by the way, if you,

00:16:19.600 if you happen to be in New York, uh, why don't you go by Lucky Lee's and, uh, and give them your

00:16:25.040 support? I hope that this, I hope this woman makes, you know, $10 million this year, just,

00:16:29.680 just out of spite for these idiots. All right. Let's check in with Slate. Uh, Slate always has 1.00

00:16:35.640 intellectually engaging content, of course. And yesterday in Slate's advice column section, um,

00:16:42.360 a woman wrote in with an interesting question and I'm going to, let me see if I can pull this up here. 1.00

00:16:49.600 I'm going to read the, the question, um, that she wrote to Slate. I just think this is, this is

00:16:57.220 very, it's a very revealing kind of question. And, uh, and the answer is to, so this is the question

00:17:03.780 to Slate. It says, um, I'm a single woman in her early thirties. I'm attractive and have never had

00:17:09.140 issues attracting a partner, but after a series of disappointing relationships each around a year,

00:17:13.280 I'm just not in the mood to engage emotionally with men right now. The thing is I have a high sex drive

00:17:18.240 and I can't fully satisfy myself on my own. The cliche is that this should be an easy problem

00:17:23.420 to fix. Plenty of men, uh, want to have sex with a woman with no strings, right? Well, 0.98

00:17:28.180 here are my limitations. In the past, when I've had hookup buddies, I like them, but it never really

00:17:32.560 is just sex. We inevitably get to know each other better. And then, uh, I end up getting entangled

00:17:37.680 with him whether I want to or not. I also am not really into sex parties or the poly scene.

00:17:42.380 Um, so I'm not really sure how to proceed. I've identified a few bars in my town that are

00:17:48.520 good for this sort of thing, but that is hit or miss, uh, for finding an attractive guy. When I

00:17:53.320 tell my gay friends about this, they talk about how easy it is to find what they want on Grindr and

00:17:58.480 the like. And I'm honestly jealous. Uh, Tinder and similar apps for straight people are full of

00:18:04.300 creeps who have no game. And I'm afraid if I'm upfront about what I want, I'll attract even more of that

00:18:09.620 type. What's a straight girl who just wants good unattached sex to do? So the, um, this is a 1.00

00:18:17.280 woman who wants to find a good guy, a non-creep. That's what she's looking for. She wants a non-creep, 1.00

00:18:25.500 a good guy, decent guy who has game two, whatever that means. Um, but she just, just for sex. So she's 0.99

00:18:32.780 looking for a good guy who will just use her for sex. And then, and then comes the, the response from 1.00

00:18:38.400 Slate. Uh, it says it's true. Even when both parties are completely uninterested in anything

00:18:43.700 serious or romantic, you can still eventually end up in the bath products aisle together,

00:18:48.700 debating whether your connection means anything and having moments of odd, sticky feelings towards

00:18:53.180 each other. In your case, it sounds like at least some of the entanglement is coming from your end.

00:18:57.380 So put reminders in your phone, make the guys have names like Chris, nothing serious, Johnson, or,

00:19:03.960 uh, Joe, this is just sex beady, whatever will underscore the boundaries you've set and need

00:19:10.560 to respect for yourself. Uh, in addition to expecting the other guys to adhere to, hopefully

00:19:15.540 that'll make it easier to keep a good casual connection going without tipping into what you

00:19:20.360 don't want. Uh, and then it goes on from there. Okay. So, uh, uh, a couple of observations here.

00:19:29.140 Number one, you know, if you're looking for good guys for, for non creeps, well, the problem here 0.90

00:19:40.140 is going to be that good guys aren't looking to use women for sex. That that's, it is precisely 0.87

00:19:45.980 the creeps who you're going to be able to pick up at bars who are, have no emotional attachment and

00:19:52.360 not interested in anything like that. Uh, they're just looking for sex and then they're going to be 0.92

00:19:56.440 gone. So it could be that if you want a good man, um, then maybe you need to be a better person

00:20:05.760 yourself. See, this is the advice that I would give if she, if she had asked me, uh, it could be that

00:20:10.020 you yourself are not a very good person. Uh, it seems like, and so that's why you attract creeps.

00:20:16.460 You see, you're attracting creeps because you're a creep. Have you ever thought about that? You know,

00:20:21.660 I know that we, when we talk about people being creeps, we, we almost, we always refer to men that

00:20:26.720 way. It's, it's men are the only creeps. Well, there are a lot of men who are creeps, but then 0.64

00:20:30.480 there are women who are creeps too. And based on that, based on that question, uh, you're a creep. 0.97

00:20:35.400 That's just, that's just weird and gross and creepy. So you're getting exactly the kind of guy you 0.95

00:20:39.720 deserve. Uh, number two, what you find in the question. And then in the answer, um,

00:20:46.900 was this is so much effort, right? To get around the, the emotional attachments that you naturally

00:20:59.960 feel, um, towards someone who you're in a sexual relationship with. And so the, the answer that

00:21:09.840 this person is given is, well, here's some tips on, uh, on how to, you know, get a, get around those

00:21:15.120 emotional attachments. Well, did it ever occur to you perhaps that, uh, those natural, that those

00:21:22.880 emotional attachments are natural, um, because we're human beings, we're not animals. And you know,

00:21:32.340 maybe if you discover that you can't help, but feel some sort of emotional attachment to the people

00:21:39.480 that you have sexual relationships with, maybe that would, maybe that should tell you something

00:21:43.440 about the nature of a sexual act that, you know, it's, it's not just like shaking somebody's hand.

00:21:49.180 It's not just like playing video games with somebody, right? It's more than a recreational

00:21:54.080 activity because you could shake someone's hand and feel no, no emotional attachment. You can play

00:21:58.600 video games with them. Uh, right. You can sit and you can watch a movie with them and you can do all

00:22:03.060 those things and feel no emotional attachment. But with the sexual act, maybe there's something about

00:22:07.940 it that's different than that. Maybe it is a naturally, um, intimate and serious personal

00:22:14.460 thing. And so maybe that should tell you that the context, um, you know, there is an appropriate

00:22:23.960 context for the sexual act. And that context is not just finding someone at a bar for one night.

00:22:32.260 I think that could be the source of your problem. And I will say only as a follow-up, um, and I don't

00:22:42.240 want to, I don't want to, I'm not, I'm not looking to rub this into the faces of people who are still

00:22:45.480 single, but when I read stuff like this, I continue to be so happy that I'm married. I am so, I'm so happy

00:22:53.980 that I'm not on the dating scene dealing with stuff like this and people like that. Um, it really is so

00:23:01.400 much better being married. Uh, and again, if you want to get married and you're trying to, and you

00:23:06.120 haven't been able to yet, I'm not, I'm not trying to make you feel bad because it'll happen. You know,

00:23:10.180 you, if, if you're looking for marriage and you're serious about it, you're serious about a

00:23:13.940 relationship, eventually it will happen. Um, that's the good news. And it is something to look, it's

00:23:20.380 just, it's just so much better than this. It's so much more secure, so much happier, uh, you know,

00:23:25.740 as a married person, I have to, whatever the hell she's talking about there, I don't have to worry about 0.95

00:23:29.580 that. All of these things, you don't have to worry about, you don't have to worry about creeps or

00:23:33.300 anything like that because you've got somebody, you're in a secure relationship and, um, you know,

00:23:38.880 there are challenges in a marriage, but it's, it is, I'm telling you to so, so, so much better than

00:23:44.580 that is so much better. Um, I highly recommend, I couldn't recommend it enough. All right. Um, let's go

00:23:52.220 check out some emails, uh, mattwalshow at gmail.com, mattwalshow at gmail.com. This is from

00:23:58.720 Simon says, Hey Matt, what are your opinions on ghosts? Do you think they exist? Does having

00:24:04.620 people's, uh, do, do, do having people's souls stick around on earth after death and often become

00:24:11.400 malicious makes sense. Theologically are what people take for ghosts, just demons from a religious 1.00

00:24:16.720 standpoint. I've been on both sides of the issue throughout my life. What do you think? Well, Simon,

00:24:20.440 uh, no, I don't think, I don't believe in ghosts. Um, it doesn't make sense theologically at all

00:24:25.860 that you would have people who die and, uh, just hang around on earth. Um, certainly from a biblical 0.76

00:24:32.360 standpoint, there's, there's, there's no, no precedent for that. Uh, you die and, and, and you're

00:24:38.320 going somewhere, somewhere, but you're not going to be wandering around on earth. I do think that

00:24:42.840 sometimes you could have demonic activity that's, um, confused for ghostly activity, however. All right.

00:24:49.740 This is from, who is this from? Helen says, Hiya, Matt. I've been reading your work since you were

00:24:55.160 a humble alpaca groomer. It's okay. Here, thanks. Um, it's, uh, here, here's my question. Would you

00:25:03.460 consider aborted babies to be born? I've always thought of them as being born in the technical 0.95

00:25:08.020 sense because their bodies leave the bodies of their mothers. Obvious. No. However, it seems like

00:25:13.060 I hear both pro-life and pro-choice people talking about aborted babies as though they were never born.

00:25:17.700 For example, pro-choicers are, uh, often accuse us of being merely pro-birth and pro-lifers often

00:25:23.320 lament that these babies are never born, et cetera. Uh, could you please offer some clarification on

00:25:28.660 these semantics? I'm curious to hear your thoughts because I believe the language we use in regard to

00:25:32.820 this topic is incredibly important, especially when our offspring are so tiny that people seem to

00:25:37.280 have no trouble convincing themselves, um, that they do not exist. Well, uh, no, I don't think we can

00:25:43.960 say that they're born. Uh, I think born implies that the child is alive. Um, so I don't think born

00:25:53.320 is true, but I agree that the language is important and I agree that oftentimes pro-abortion people will

00:26:01.740 want to talk about these babies, uh, like they never existed at all. Right. And that's one of the,

00:26:08.740 one of the lies that the abortion clinic tells pregnant, pregnant mothers that, well, you could

00:26:13.880 just get rid of this pregnancy and, uh, be a, be a mother some other time in the future. Now's not a 1.00

00:26:18.980 good time to be a mother. You don't have to be a mother. Now, uh, you could be a mother in the future. 1.00

00:26:23.260 Well, no, um, because a woman who gets an abortion, well, a woman who is pregnant is a mother. The moment

00:26:30.560 you become pregnant, you're a mother. So she's a mother. Now there's no, there's no putting that genie

00:26:34.240 back in the bottle. And if she gets an abortion, she's not going to go back to being just a, a 0.79

00:26:42.300 childless woman. She will now be the, the mother of a dead child. So in that sense, you're right. I 0.96

00:26:49.440 think, um, in, in, in a certain sense, there is a kind of birth that occurs really upon conception

00:26:56.680 where upon conception, um, you, you have three lives that are created. You have the, the life of

00:27:05.800 the child, but then you have the mother who kind of turns in, transforms now, um, into a, in, in,

00:27:12.820 you, you have a, from a woman into a mother. So, um, and then you have the, the man who, who goes from

00:27:19.140 being a man to a father. And that's a, that's a very real transformation that happens, uh, upon

00:27:25.660 conception in that moment. And if you get an abortion, the, the, the terrible, tragic fact is

00:27:35.000 that no, you're, you're not, you, you can't, you're not reversing the clock. You're not undoing

00:27:41.900 anything. You're now the, the parents of a dead child. And, um, that of course is not the message

00:27:51.160 that they're going to hear from the abortion clinics. All right. This is from James says, hi,

00:27:54.860 Matt. Uh, my wife and I have three kids, ages three, two, and three months old. We also have

00:27:59.960 a dog. The kids love to go on walks around our neighborhood, but with the newborn, it requires

00:28:03.740 one of us to push a stroller and hold a toddler's hand while the other holds the dog's leash with the

00:28:08.200 other hand. And this would be very dangerous and nearly impossible without kid leashes. Uh,

00:28:13.440 ours are more like handcuffs than leashes though. One padded cuff goes on the patient, the parent,

00:28:18.560 the patient, the parent's wrist, the other on the child's separated by three feet of plastic coated,

00:28:23.920 coiled steel wire. We don't drag our kids behind us on the leashes. They're more of a backup for when

00:28:29.860 they let go of your hand or try to make a run for the street. Uh, I've got some strange looks with

00:28:35.120 them, but I think it gives my toddlers a sense of independence and adventure that they wouldn't

00:28:38.800 have otherwise if they were strapped into a double stroller. Stroller, love the show. Uh, yeah, you know,

00:28:43.520 this is why we talked about child leashes briefly on the show yesterday and I don't use them myself.

00:28:48.160 I admit that as a, as a non-parent, I used to be very judgmental of the, of the people who use

00:28:53.400 child leashes, but now that I have kids, I understand it. Um, makes sense. It's a practical

00:29:00.460 thing. And you're right. I mean, if, if there's nothing wrong with strapping a kid into a stroller

00:29:04.600 and carting them around, uh, then what's wrong with, you know, having them tethered that way? I don't,

00:29:10.400 I don't really see much of a difference, honestly. Um, let's see. This is from Grayson says,

00:29:17.800 I listened to your episode recently on body positivity. And I think that one of the biggest

00:29:21.680 things wrong with the movement is that they do not think all bodies should be positive.

00:29:26.420 I'm a college kid who's in love with fitness. And I've said that I'm so body positive. I don't let

00:29:31.380 myself get unhealthy and overweight. And I got excoriated in a college class for body shaming.

00:29:35.800 People need to understand that health is a definite range and the vast majority of people are

00:29:39.920 sedentary and fat, uh, harsh, but true probably. However, true body positivity is not accepting

00:29:47.400 gluttony and eating themselves to an early grave, but rather taking care of yourself by eating well

00:29:51.280 and exercising regularly. On another note, the BMI calculator is a very poor way to judge body

00:29:56.240 fatness, uh, in, in athletes, young adults, and the elderly, because muscles are denser than fat.

00:30:02.320 And someone like you who has more muscle than average is seen as overweight in the scale. When in

00:30:07.620 reality, you're perfectly healthy. I am a six foot male at about 180 pounds. And my BMI is still

00:30:13.200 registered as overweight. That's because my body fat percentage is about 11%, which means I carry lots

00:30:17.580 of muscle mass with little fat mass there by skewing the scale. Um, well, yeah, and I, of course I agree

00:30:23.800 that, that, uh, that it's not body shaming to encourage people to be healthy and to eat healthy.

00:30:30.940 Uh, that of course is absurd. I do think it's also true and we need to acknowledge that, um, there are

00:30:38.520 different body types and there are some people who just from birth are kind of destined to, to struggle

00:30:47.140 more with, with, with, you know, their weight, um, who are going to have a much harder time getting

00:30:53.900 into shape. And certainly you're gonna have a much harder time because of their body type of their body

00:30:58.280 shape going to have a harder time looking like they're in shape. Um, and I also recognize that

00:31:03.600 for me, like I, I've always had a very high metabolism and, uh, and so I can't take credit

00:31:11.260 for the fact that I'm not, if I had maybe a normal metabolism, I may very well be obese right now

00:31:17.660 because I don't have a very healthy diet and I basically eat whatever I want. And, um, so I can't,

00:31:23.860 you know, I have to, I have to recognize that it's a little bit, some of us have advantages in that

00:31:27.140 area that are not, that are just biological. And we didn't, we didn't, uh, we didn't do anything to

00:31:32.740 earn them. It's just, that's just how it is. Um, and there are also people who, you know, are going

00:31:38.640 to struggle all the more because of, of, of maybe they're of injury. And so they're not able to

00:31:43.640 exercise as much. And then also women, once they start having babies, um, that is, is going to be an 1.00

00:31:49.560 extra challenge. And, um, so all of these things, all these things need to be acknowledged and we can't

00:31:56.060 expect everyone to be a bodybuilder. I'm not a bodybuilder, right? We can't expect that of

00:31:59.580 everyone. Not everyone's supposed to be a bodybuilder or a, or a, you know, a fitness guru

00:32:05.660 or a runway model. All of that is true. However, you know, we could acknowledge that without

00:32:14.700 concluding that it's perfectly fine and acceptable and beautiful and wonderful to be morbidly obese.

00:32:22.120 So as you point out, there is a, there's a, there's a, there's a spectrum, there's a scale

00:32:26.680 of what is, you know, considered healthy and normal. And maybe it's a, it's a wider scale than

00:32:33.800 people thought for a long time, but definitely morbid obesity is not in, you know, is, is way on

00:32:41.240 the unhealthy end of that spectrum. And so we should be able to say that, um, without being accused of

00:32:49.340 body shaming. All right. Finally, this is from Heidi says, uh, Hey Matt, I have a scenario for

00:32:54.720 you. And it's one that really happened. My sister-in-law's sister is a social worker at a

00:32:58.080 high school. She was working with a girl who found out she was pregnant a few months down the road. 0.97

00:33:03.600 This girl also found out that she had brain cancer. Doctors told her that she needed to undergo chemo

00:33:08.580 and radiation to kill the cancerous tumor. But in doing that, it would also kill her baby.

00:33:13.080 Her parents were very religious decided not to give their daughter the chemo.

00:33:16.460 Their daughter eventually passed away a few months down the road. The baby survived.

00:33:20.880 Uh, when I heard this story, I struggled with it. I struggled with it because I'm pro-life,

00:33:24.220 but I was trying to put myself in the shoes of those parents. And I can't imagine denying my

00:33:28.680 daughter cancer treatment, knowing that if she didn't get it, it would kill her. Uh, I should

00:33:33.140 note that at the time when the daughter would have had to start the treatment, she was too early in her

00:33:36.740 pregnancy to deliver. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Well, that's a, just a terrible

00:33:42.480 case across the board. Um, but as I've really terrible case. Um, but as I've said before,

00:33:52.780 you know, these are the sorts of cases that pro-abortion people will often use to prove

00:34:00.560 supposedly that sometimes abortion is medically necessary, but that is not the case. Uh, these

00:34:06.480 sorts of cases, as horrible as they are, are irrelevant to the abortion discussion. Because

00:34:13.100 if a woman, uh, is pregnant and finds out that she has an aggressive form of cancer and needs to get

00:34:19.800 chemo, uh, it would not be abortion for her to get the, get the chemotherapy. Even if it's known that 0.99

00:34:27.520 the baby's probably going to die, that is not abortion. Abortion is the direct, intentional, 0.99

00:34:32.920 purposeful killing of the unborn child where you take an action for the sake of killing the child.

00:34:40.860 That's abortion. Now doing something to save the mother that you know, will, will probably have 0.96

00:34:47.700 the effect, unfortunately, tragically of killing the baby. That is not abortion. That's the principle 0.95

00:34:53.060 of double effect. And it's a, it could be a perfectly ethical thing to do. Um, where you are doing

00:34:59.260 something, you're doing a good thing with good intentions, even though it may have also a, a very

00:35:06.680 terrible negative side effect. And again, that, that can be a perfectly ethical action. So it is

00:35:13.360 not the case that pro-lifers say, at least I certainly wouldn't say that a woman who has, finds 0.99

00:35:19.720 out she has cancer while she's pregnant is, is required to just die of cancer and not get it treated. 0.99

00:35:24.520 I don't think that at all. And, um, you know, it's, it's impossible to know what you would do

00:35:31.480 in these situations until you're in them. But I can tell you personally, if that was my wife,

00:35:37.220 um, I would be urging her strongly to get the chemo. And if that was my child, that was my daughter,

00:35:44.840 uh, you better believe she's getting the chemo. Um, does that mean that I'm not pro-life? Does that

00:35:50.840 mean that I'm denying the, the, the personhood of the child? No, not at all. This is just a, a very,

00:35:57.480 this really is just a difficult choice that you have to make in order to save somebody's life.

00:36:03.320 And it does not involve denying the personhood of the child at all. It's a, it's a tragedy more in

00:36:08.360 the fact that the child may not survive the treatment. So the way that people talk about

00:36:13.480 abortion, they say, Oh, it's a difficult choice you have to make. Usually. No, it's not. This is,

00:36:17.020 this is with abortion. You're directly killing an innocent child. And, uh, no, that's not just,

00:36:21.500 that's not a difficult choice. That's just the wrong choice. This kind of situation that you're

00:36:25.600 talking about here, this really is a difficult choice where abortion has nothing to do with.

00:36:30.040 It doesn't factor in. Uh, so, you know, this is kind of similar to, um, these hypotheticals that

00:36:37.520 I've talked about before, uh, that, you know, somebody will say, well, uh, what if you're in a

00:36:42.260 building and it's on fire and, uh, there's a, there's a two-year-old child there and, but then

00:36:48.100 there's also a bunch of frozen embryos and you can only save one. I mean, who are you going to save?

00:36:53.480 Are you going to save the, the, the embryos or are you going to save the child? And of course,

00:36:58.400 everybody would, would, would save the two-year-old child, right? Um, and so that's supposed to prove

00:37:03.680 that we don't really consider those embryos to be human, but not, that's not the case at all.

00:37:07.960 You're just in a situation where you have to make that kind of horrible choice. It's like if,

00:37:13.380 if it was my wife, uh, in the, in the burning building and some other woman who I, who's, 0.87

00:37:19.040 who's not my wife, I would save my wife in a heartbeat. Does that mean I'm denying the personhood

00:37:24.080 of the other woman? Does that know? Does that mean that I want her to die? No. Does that mean I'm 0.84

00:37:27.440 killing the other woman? No. It just means that I'm in a situation where I can only save one. And so I 0.99

00:37:32.700 have to make that choice. And the fact that the other one dies is not my fault. I didn't

00:37:37.880 kill them. It's not me. I didn't do it. It's, it's, it's not murder, right? That's what abortion 0.86

00:37:41.480 is murder. So we could go all day with these kinds of hypotheticals. You got, you have, you have two

00:37:45.000 people hanging off a cliff. You've got your child and someone else's job. You can only save one. Who

00:37:50.080 are you going to say? Well, you're going to save your child, right? Um, so those are the hypotheticals.

00:37:56.640 This is a more real world situation. And look, I can't judge. I don't know the situation. Um,

00:38:02.920 I don't know the particulars of it. So I'm not going to make any judgments or anything like that.

00:38:06.780 I'm just saying, based on what you've told me, um, if it were me, uh, my, my daughter's getting

00:38:12.500 the chemo for sure there. And, uh, I wouldn't have to compromise my pro-life beliefs at all in,

00:38:21.100 uh, in, in making that choice. All right. We'll leave it there. Um, thanks for watching everybody.

00:38:27.160 Thanks for listening. Godspeed.

00:38:36.780 I'm Michael Knowles, host of the Michael Knowles show. After years and years of vilifying millionaires,

00:38:46.640 socialist gadfly Bernie Sanders prepares finally to release his tax returns. And guess what?

00:38:51.100 He's a millionaire. We will analyze why socialists always seem so interested

00:38:55.060 in accumulating wealth. Check it out at dailywire.com.

00:38:57.980 We'll see you next time.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 10, 2019

Ep. 236 - White Woman Commits Racist Crime Of Opening Chinese Food Restaurant

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