The Daily Wire pays me in bottles of whiskey and cans of beans to do videos in my car, but that doesn t mean I won t continue to do them there. I m a white Christian, heterosexual, cis-gendered human male, which means I have a ton of privilege. Christian privilege is one of those things that the left is starting to focus on more and more often. George Washington University is hosting a training session this week on Christian privilege.
00:00:00.000Welcome to the show, everybody. Thanks for watching. And before we get going, I wanted to just answer one question because a lot of people have asked me, they've said, you know, Matt, you have your own official podcast now with the Daily Wire. You're moving up in the world. Does that mean you'll stop doing your videos in the car now?
00:00:17.420Well, because, you know, all the other guys, they got the fancy studio and they've got the desk and they've got a building and they've got electricity and they've got, you know, special effects and all that stuff.
00:00:30.860But here you are screaming into a webcam in your car like the disappointing stepchild of the Daily Wire. Will you stop doing that now? And the answer is no. As you can clearly see, I'm in my car right now. I won't stop doing them in my car.
00:00:45.340Why do I do them in my car? That's the other big question. And to be honest with you, it's because I live in my car. I'm a I'm a nomad. I just wander the earth in my car doing Facebook videos.
00:01:00.320And the Daily Wire pays me in bottles of whiskey and cans of beans. And so that's why I'm in my car. You can stop asking now, because honestly, I feel a little judged, to be honest.
00:01:11.520All right. Let's talk about privilege. I think that's a good there's a good segue here.
00:01:18.900I'm a white Christian, heterosexual, cisgendered human male, which means that I've got a ton of privilege.
00:01:27.600I mean, I've got privilege stacked on top of privilege, stacked on top of privilege, even though I'm doing videos in my car.
00:01:32.760I still I don't have as much privilege as, say, Michael Knowles, but I have a lot of privilege.
00:01:40.300So I know a little bit. I know a little bit about it. I have a firsthand experience with privilege.
00:01:45.240But there's one particular aspect of that privilege that the left is starting to focus on more now, and that is Christian.
00:01:52.060We know about white male privilege. We know about heterosexual privilege.
00:01:55.100But let's talk about Christian privilege. George Washington University is hosting a training session this week, I believe, on Thursday.
00:02:05.380So just a few days after Easter, they figured this is a good day for this training session.
00:02:09.260They're doing a training session on Christian privilege. And I want to read just a little bit about this training session.
00:02:17.420The Christian Post, the Privilege Post, I should say, had an article about it.
00:02:21.560So a description of the training session asks, how do Christians in the USA experience life in an easier way than non-Christians?
00:02:32.180Even with the separation of church and state, are there places where Christians have built-in advantages over non-Christians?
00:02:42.300I haven't been to the training session yet, but I'm going to bet that the answer to that question is yes.
00:02:54.360Because this is what the left's all about now, these days, is it's about kind of keeping score and keeping track and figuring out who has it easier than who.
00:03:06.600So we're figuring out who has more of a right to complain.
00:03:09.660And so there's this constant competition.
00:03:11.280I talk about sometimes the left has a victim hierarchy or a victim pyramid, if you will.
00:03:18.340And there's this constant jockeying for position among the different groups and demographics on the left, wanting to be at the top of the pyramid, wanting to be the most victimized victims of all.
00:03:29.900Well, because that's, you know, that's power on the left, that's currency.
00:03:36.280But if you're a Christian and you're not familiar with how things work on the left, and you hear this, you'll say, what are you talking about?
00:04:04.280Is there a privilege exchange where you cash it in for dollar bills?
00:04:08.040Is it like with a Visa credit card points, you know, where you accrue points and then you can cash it in for airline tickets or a discount on a hotel or something?
00:04:19.140Well, fortunately, one of my favorite websites, everydayfeminism.com, and I visit it every day because it's everyday feminism, folks.
00:04:28.700Not every week, not annual feminism, everyday feminism.
00:04:32.460They did an article a couple of years ago titled, Don't Believe in Christian Privilege?
00:04:39.660These 15 examples will leave no doubt.
00:04:42.680So I thought, because I imagine that the George Washington University, these are probably the things they're going to talk about.
00:04:52.320So let's go through, I didn't even really look at this before I started doing the video, but let's go through a few.
00:04:57.440We won't do all 15, but here are a few of the examples that everyday feminism gives to prove that if you're a Christian, you have privilege.
00:05:10.000All right, right off the bat, number one, you get time off for your major religious holidays.
00:05:19.920See, this is a fascinating one to me because everybody gets off for Christian holidays.
00:05:25.820Everybody gets off for Christmas, for Easter.
00:05:27.520And I would think that if you get to take off for somebody else's religious holiday, then that's privilege, isn't it?
00:05:44.100You're taking off, you're taking a Christmas vacation, or you're taking a winter vacation, which coincidentally happens right around Christmas.
00:05:50.200So aren't you the one with privilege if you get to enjoy the benefits of my religion and you're not even a part of it?
00:12:14.100And that's the problem with privilege is that, invariably, it's a college-educated, upper-middle-class brat who's lecturing us about privilege, failing to see that in America we all are privileged compared to the rest of the world, especially if you're in college.
00:12:34.340Usually it's not someone in Ethiopia lecturing Americans about privilege.
00:12:39.600Usually it's a college student who's never worked a day in their life, and now they're taking a four-year vacation at this college where they're partying every night.
00:12:52.640And they're the ones turning around and lecturing us about privilege.
00:12:57.140And then we have to listen to the lecture and say, okay, fine, yeah, go back to your dorm room and let me get back to work.
00:13:02.500Let me go home to my kids who I take care of.
00:13:04.700You know, let me go back to the house that I'm paying for.
00:13:06.780Remember, we all should feel privileged to live in America as opposed to Zimbabwe or something like that.
00:13:18.320In fact, I don't feel ashamed of our privilege because our privilege comes from the fact that we have, you know, relatively, we are a relatively free and prosperous country.
00:13:31.180My shame, I don't feel ashamed of that.
00:13:35.320My shame comes from the fact that we are less free and less prosperous, and therefore we have less privilege today than we did in the past.
00:13:46.400Because these are privileges that were fought for and won and earned by our ancestors and handed to us, and we've been in the process of squandering them.
00:13:54.400So don't be ashamed of your privilege, the privilege that was given to you by your ancestors and the people who founded this country.
00:14:01.340Be ashamed of the fact that you have less of it now than you should because you squandered it.
00:14:21.180But if you want to single out Christians and use this term Christian privilege, well, that's a problem.
00:14:28.560Because across the world, across time, across history, Christians are among the least privileged people.
00:14:35.800Even now, today, Christians are easily among the least privileged and most persecuted group in the world.
00:14:49.000There was a report recently that revealed that Christian persecution and genocide is worse now than it's ever been in history.
00:14:57.420If Christians in Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Iran, Egypt, many other countries are regularly imprisoned, tortured, beaten, raped, martyred, their churches are destroyed, their houses are burned.
00:15:15.200They have to meet and worship in secret underground.
00:15:18.380You know, we're back in the catacombs in Rome and many parts of the world.
00:15:23.040They live their lives in constant danger just because they're Christian.
00:15:26.660So tell them about Christian privilege, okay?
00:15:30.220There's about 215 million Christians in the world who face what is referred to as extreme persecution.
00:15:39.220So that's persecution that is violent, oppressive persecution.
00:15:46.200And it's estimated that around a million Christians have been slaughtered since 2005.
00:15:53.780There's no way to know exactly how many because the countries that do this don't exactly keep records.
00:16:00.940But we do know and we can kind of come to estimates based on the fact that Christianity has been drastically, dramatically reduced in parts of the world where it's existed for nearly 2,000 years.
00:17:21.840Now, there are many examples of this persecution of Christians across the world.
00:17:30.880I wanted to point to just one while we're on the subject, because I think this is a particularly powerful and tragic, but also quite common example of the persecution they face.
00:18:00.220And this is a dangerous thing to do in Egypt.
00:18:05.940Whereas in this country, yeah, a Christian can get in his car, drive to church on Sunday, 10 minutes down the road, and there's not going to be any Islamic militants patrolling the area ready to put a bullet in their heads and make slaves of their children.