The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 303 - Ilhan Omar Is A Bigot Living In A Fantasy World

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Ilhan Omar, the unapologetic bigot, says that people in this 0.98

00:00:05.580 country should fear white men because white men cause most of the deaths in this country, 1.00

00:00:10.620 she says. This is not only bigoted but false, and I will correct the record today. Also, 0.98

00:00:15.760 speaking of correcting the record, is America one of the worst countries for women in the world? 1.00

00:00:20.620 Experts, quote unquote, say so. We'll look at the facts today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:30.000 Well, put your conspiracy caps on, folks, because Jeffrey Epstein was found injured in prison,

00:00:39.540 in his prison cell. He was found injured. Not much else is known other than that. He was found

00:00:43.880 laying in his cell, marks around his neck. Poor guy. Was he assaulted? Did he try to kill himself?

00:00:50.520 Did he fake a suicide attempt in hopes of being transferred or something like that?

00:00:54.660 We don't know. Based on what little we know, I tend to suspect maybe the third option,

00:00:59.000 but who knows? Yet, of course, the wild conspiracy theories start online. Maybe the Clintons tried to

00:01:07.080 off him because he knows too much. Maybe Trump tried to off him. Maybe it was aliens. Well,

00:01:13.540 I hate to be the one to ruin all of these cinematic plot lines, but I think if a powerful person

00:01:20.080 is sending a hitman to prison to kill you, you aren't going to end up with minor lacerations around

00:01:28.060 your neck. I think that's one ineffective assassin. I don't really know. My experience with hiring 0.99

00:01:36.440 prison assassins is admittedly limited. For me, it's sort of a once in a while type of thing that

00:01:42.680 I do that. But when the wife really nags you about it, it says, hey, did you hire that prison assassin 1.00

00:01:50.320 yet? I said I would. I'll get around to it. Get off my case. That kind of thing. So I'm not an expert

00:01:56.620 is the point. Here's a general rule, though, that I think people need to understand, even if it is

00:02:04.460 kind of depressing. Of all the possible explanations, and this is a general statement, of all the possible

00:02:12.720 explanations, the most boring one is always right. Every time. Whatever the situation is, the most

00:02:22.440 boring possible explanation is going to be correct. And I think if you remember that, life will start to

00:02:29.740 make a lot more sense to you, even if life is a little bit less interesting when you start looking

00:02:34.120 at it that way. That is going to be, most of the time, correct. All right. I want to begin with

00:02:42.260 something that I think is instructive. Our friend Ilhan Omar, there's a video, another video from last

00:02:50.420 year that has resurfaced, resurfaced, as they say. She was on Al Jazeera, and she was asked whether

00:02:58.440 Islamophobia can't be, in some sense, justified based on the fact that radical Muslims kill so 0.92

00:03:04.640 many people, and so maybe people are afraid for a reason, given all this terrorism and violence. 1.00

00:03:12.020 And she responded by, of course, as she tends to do, spewing ignorant bigotry. Watch this. 1.00

00:03:16.980 A lot of conservatives in particular would say that the rise in Islamophobia is a result,

00:03:20.940 not of hate, but of fear, a legitimate fear, they say, of quote-unquote jihadist terrorism,

00:03:27.000 whether it's Fort Hood or San Bernardino or the recent truck attack in New York. What do you say to

00:03:32.480 them? I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are 0.99

00:03:42.900 actually causing most of the deaths within this country. We should be profiling, monitoring,

00:03:51.680 and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men.

00:03:58.060 Okay, now, she could have said to that question, I don't expect her to say that, oh yeah, well,

00:04:04.900 Islamophobia is totally justified. Muslims are just the worst, man. I don't expect that answer, 1.00

00:04:10.100 okay? She could have said, we shouldn't fear anybody based on their race or ethnicity. We

00:04:17.700 should judge people on a case-by-case basis, so on and so forth. That's the answer that a non-bigot

00:04:24.320 would have given. Instead, she says, no, we should fear the white man. We should be fearful of white 0.97

00:04:30.420 men because white men are causing most of the deaths in our country. That's what she said, 0.99

00:04:34.180 causing most of the deaths in our country. Now, it is not this woman now, God help us, 1.00

00:04:41.780 is a lawmaker. She's also, God help us, one of the more influential voices in politics today. 0.99

00:04:47.980 So when she says something like that, it's not splitting hairs or being pedantic to analyze that

00:04:54.980 claim. That's a startling claim, and it's a claim that people believe. You'd be amazed if you try,

00:05:03.380 maybe you wouldn't be. You have this conversation, as I have been online this morning. There are a lot

00:05:11.760 of people who think that's true, who actually believe that, because they hear it from people 0.99

00:05:16.260 like Ilhan Omar, and they think, oh yeah, well, but white men by far kill the most people. 0.94

00:05:22.160 Now, when she says causing most of the deaths, I'm going to assume, now I will do her one favor. 0.75

00:05:28.480 I'm going to do her a favor, and I'm going to assume that she doesn't mean that completely

00:05:33.380 literally, because the leading causes of death are heart disease, car accidents, respiratory disease,

00:05:41.280 stroke, cancer, diabetes. These are the leading causes of death. I assume she is not suggesting

00:05:46.700 that the white man is engineering all of that, although honestly, who knows? I mean,

00:05:51.700 I wouldn't put it past her to make that claim, but I'm going to assume, I'm going to be generous

00:05:57.140 and assume she didn't mean that. I'll assume that what she meant is that white men are responsible 0.96

00:06:02.200 for most of the murders in this country, causing most of the death, to cause death. I'll assume 0.98

00:06:08.240 she means that in a sense of murdering people. And if that's what she means, then she's still wrong.

00:06:15.200 She is still catastrophically, insanely, incredibly wrong. According to the Bureau of Justice

00:06:24.360 Statistics, white people in general, not just men, but people, because women do kill people too, 0.98

00:06:30.600 despite what you may have heard. And in fact, we are in this whole conversation, we're just leaving 0.86

00:06:37.420 out the 800,000 or 900,000 babies who are killed every year in this country. If you were to allow that

00:06:44.900 into evidence, if that could be submitted into evidence, then in fact, the leading murderers in 0.87

00:06:51.620 America would be women. But we're going to look at law enforcement statistics for this. So I'm doing 0.99

00:07:01.440 Ilhan Omar a lot of favors here. I'm ruling that out. I'm trying to see her comments in the most

00:07:08.140 sensible light possible. So what do we find? White people in general commit 45% of all murders, 0.99

00:07:16.920 according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Black people commit 52% of all murders. Now, 1.00

00:07:27.420 this is remarkable because white people are 75% of the population. Black people are 13%. 0.99

00:07:33.820 75% of the population commits 45% of the murders. 13% commits 52%. Those are facts. Okay. White 0.99

00:07:42.760 people are way, way, way, way underrepresented in the murder stats. Again, that's a simple fact. 0.98

00:07:50.600 And that's all it is. If we're going to talk specifically about terrorism, that's not what

00:07:56.840 she said. She said, we should fear the white man because they're, they're the ones killing most of the 0.98

00:08:00.960 people. And when we look at that statistic again, it is proven utterly bogus, no basis in reality 0.98

00:08:11.640 whatsoever. Let's look at terrorism though. If we're looking specifically at terrorism and if we

00:08:17.940 take a global view of the problem, well, let's just put it this way. According to the global terrorism

00:08:23.680 index, far right groups killed, so-called far right groups kill. And we won't even get into how they

00:08:30.880 judge far right. Um, for instance, you know, any antisemitic, anytime a white person commits an

00:08:39.620 antisemitic hate crime, which we know does happen, they're going to call that far right, which

00:08:43.960 personally, I think we can quibble with that, but, um, I won't for this. So they say, they say far

00:08:49.780 right groups killed 66 people across the entire world, uh, between 2013 and 2017 is according to the

00:08:56.760 global terrorism index, 66 people in four years, 2013, 2017. Um, meanwhile, in 2017 alone, just that

00:09:05.340 year, 18,000 total people were killed by terrorists. So you've got 66 people in four years across the

00:09:12.940 entire world killed by right-wing terrorists, but 18,000 were killed total in just one year in 2017.

00:09:20.300 Who do you think is responsible for almost all of that? I'll, I'll, I'll put it to you this way.

00:09:27.300 That same index finds that nine of the 10 worst countries for terrorism, nine of the 10 countries

00:09:34.220 most, uh, plagued by terrorism are majority Muslim countries with one outlier, uh, number 10 being India.

00:09:42.080 India is like 15% Muslim. So again, those are the facts. Um, in order to make white men, 0.79

00:09:50.300 the greatest danger, you have to really do some serious special pleading. And you do hear this

00:09:56.780 from people. Like I said, I've been hearing it this morning that, uh, white men are the biggest 0.97

00:10:00.840 dangers. Right-wing groups are more dangerous in America than Islamic terrorists or any other 0.99

00:10:05.200 terrorists in, in order to, now you can make any statistic work. If you, if you whittle down the

00:10:12.480 parameters in a really specific way in order to make it work, that's called special pleading.

00:10:17.760 And if you do that, then sure, you can make that happen. So, so how do, how do people do that?

00:10:22.400 How do they reach the conclusion? If you, if you wanted to claim that right-wing terror groups,

00:10:26.820 white people, uh, in other words, are the deadliest, the most dangerous, how are you going to do that? 1.00

00:10:32.860 Well, a report from the government accountability office in 2017 found that right-wing terror groups 0.98

00:10:37.340 were responsible for more deaths than Islamic groups. Uh, and, and in fact, when you, when you hear

00:10:43.600 this claim, it's most of the time, if they will, well, most of the time, they're not going to cite it.

00:10:49.160 They're not going to give you a citation at all. Whoever's making the claim, you ask for a citation,

00:10:52.220 they won't have one, but if they do have one and they provide it to you, probably it's going to be

00:10:57.300 this or something based on this. Well, how do they arrive at that conclusion? Um, I'll, I'll quote now

00:11:04.600 from their report says of the 85 violent extremist incidents that resulted in deaths since September 12th,

00:11:10.120 2001, far right politics, violent extremist groups were responsible for 62, um, of the deaths,

00:11:17.680 73% total while radical Islamist violent extremist groups were responsible for 23, that's 27%. The

00:11:23.640 total number of fatalities is 106 for far right violent extremists and 119 for radical Islamist

00:11:30.460 violent extremists over the approximately 15 year period. However, 52% of the deaths attributable to

00:11:37.160 radical Islamist violent extremists occurred in a single event, an attack on Paul's nightclub in

00:11:42.920 Orlando, Florida in 2016. Okay. Hmm. Since September 12th, 2001, why such a specific date? I mean,

00:11:55.700 why not since the turn of the millennium? Why not in the past 20 years? Um, or past 30? I mean,

00:12:03.120 it says they're approximately 15 year period. Well, why not a 15 year period from when this study was

00:12:13.080 done? This, this study counted 2001 to 2016 said approximately 15. Why not fit? Why not just make

00:12:19.780 it 15, 2001 to 2016? Well, um, we know why, of course, because the deadliest attack on American

00:12:30.160 soil in history happened on September 11th. And that was brought to us courtesy of Muslims. So in 1.00

00:12:35.040 other words, if you don't count the deadliest attack on American soil ever in history, which

00:12:40.600 happened in this century, it's not ancient history. Now, if it happened a hundred years ago and you

00:12:45.660 weren't counting it, then, then fine. Okay. So if you were doing 2001 to 2015 or 2016 and the, the worst

00:12:53.640 attack in history was done by Muslims, you know, in 1907 or something, then I think that's fair. 1.00

00:13:00.200 But when you are specifically making the parameters to start the day after that attack, um, and to go

00:13:08.120 and, and to go 15 years before it, it's, as I said, I mean, this is the definition of special pleading

00:13:13.660 you're, you know, what conclusion you want. And so you're engineering it to get that conclusion.

00:13:19.540 It's just a worthless statistic. Um, if we include the deadliest attack in American history,

00:13:26.420 which is recent history, still recent, then you find that, um, deaths by Muslim terrorists 0.95

00:13:33.580 way outnumber. I mean, then it's, then it's, uh, over 3000 verse, what do they say?

00:13:40.360 106. Well, since this report, there've been, there've been other, uh, there've been other,

00:13:45.440 uh, mass casualty events. So, you know, what, let's say one, one 20 or something verse over 3000.

00:13:58.880 I mean, it's, it's just, it's not even close. And the really absurd thing is that even in this report,

00:14:05.440 they're also, now they know they can't do it, but they also say, well, also keep in mind that, uh,

00:14:11.880 that half of the deaths by Muslims was, was just at one event. So what they really want to do is 1.00

00:14:16.400 they want you to exclude that one too. That's what, that's kind of what they're saying. It's

00:14:20.240 like, well, you know, that one. So let's exclude that. That's an outlier. Let's exclude 9-11. And

00:14:25.160 then, uh, and then it's like a Muslim haven't killed anybody practically. I mean, if you exclude 0.98

00:14:30.140 all of the incidents of them killing people, they haven't killed anybody. It's just,

00:14:36.240 you see what has to be done to make the white man, the biggest threat. You see how ludicrously 0.99

00:14:43.720 specific and tailor made the parameters have to be in order to get to that conclusion.

00:14:51.460 Now this is instructive. And here's really the point to me is that what you see here from Ilhan Omar,

00:14:58.220 um, this is bigotry. Okay. What Omar is saying is bigotry. And I know you could say, well, how she said

00:15:05.400 the white men, uh, kill the most people and you're saying that's bigotry, but you just said that 0.98

00:15:09.320 black people are responsible for 52% of murders, even though the 13% population isn't that bigoted 0.99

00:15:13.920 on your part to bring that up. No, it's not. And I'll tell you the difference because what I said 0.99

00:15:19.040 is true. Okay. So a fact can never be racist. I want to say that again. A fact can never be racist

00:15:28.780 because it's a fact. Now you could use a fact to come to a racist conclusion. That's true.

00:15:37.580 It's very possible for a racist person to take facts and then arrive at racist conclusions.

00:15:44.740 Absolutely. But to simply cite a fact, uh, especially in, in, in contradiction of, of a,

00:15:53.020 of an, of a falsehood in order to correct the falsehood, that's not racist. It just is. It

00:15:59.420 that's just is the fact I'm not, I'm not arriving at any conclusion. I'm not saying anything beyond

00:16:05.140 this is, these are the facts. That's it. Here you go. Arrive at your own conclusions.

00:16:12.540 Um, Ilhan Omar on the other hand is, is saying something that is untrue, um, about,

00:16:22.640 uh, a racial group other than her own, uh, in order to stoke fear and suspicion of that group. 0.85

00:16:29.680 That is classic bigotry. That that's, that's, that is dictionary textbook dictionary, right? Uh,

00:16:37.700 bigotry right there. Yeah. I just said it's text, it's dictionary textbook dictionary.

00:16:45.560 I can barely even speak. It's so bigoted. It's, it's, it's rendered me almost speechless,

00:16:50.160 uh, but it really is. That's, that's just textbook stuff right there. You are, you're,

00:16:54.560 this is fear mongering. You're making up, uh, these untrue statements about another racial group

00:17:03.160 in order to fear monger. And she was explicit with it too. She said, we should fear them.

00:17:08.600 So let, let, let's imagine for a moment that a, uh, right wing white politician were to say, 0.99

00:17:18.200 Hey, you know, um, black people, uh, they, they, they're, they've killed 98% of the people, 1.00

00:17:24.860 98% of murders in this country from black people. Uh, and so we should fear them. 1.00

00:17:29.720 Now, if a white politician were to say that, first of all, they'd be run out of office in 30 seconds.

00:17:35.460 You would never see or hear from them ever again on a public stage. That would be it.

00:17:40.020 And that would be bigoted because you were explicitly trying to stoke fear against another

00:17:44.060 racial group and you're doing it with falsehoods. In fact, even if a white politician were to stick 0.78

00:17:50.840 with the facts and were to say, look, black people commit 52% of murders, even though the 13% of the 0.99

00:17:56.500 population, therefore we should fear them. So you started with a fact, but you arrived at a racist 0.95

00:18:03.040 conclusion. You're stoking fear. You're saying we should fear an entire race based on this fact.

00:18:08.100 That would be racist too, even though it's based in effect. But when you combine the falsehood

00:18:13.220 with the fear mongering, I mean, good Lord, good Lord. You just, you can't get more racist than that.

00:18:22.560 All right. Speaking of, I'm trying to pull something up as we are speaking of false claims.

00:18:32.640 Want to look at another one today. An article on the website, Big Think, which is ironically named,

00:18:39.120 and we'll see why in a minute, has been making the rounds today. Let me read a little bit of this

00:18:44.580 from the article. It says,

00:18:45.460 The worst countries in the world to be a woman, places torn apart by war or societies stifled by 1.00

00:18:50.980 centuries of male patriarchy. A recent survey by the Thomson Reuters Foundation show. So which

00:18:58.480 category does the United States fall into? Because the U.S. made 10th place, the old, I'm sorry,

00:19:03.580 this article is so poorly written, I'm having trouble reading it coherently. Because the U.S. 0.99

00:19:08.180 made 10th place, the only Western country on the list, conducted online by phone and in person

00:19:14.200 between March 26th and May 24th, the survey polled 548 experts on women's issues spread evenly across 0.54

00:19:21.200 Europe, the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific. Those surveys included academics and policymakers,

00:19:26.560 healthcare staff, and NGO workers, aid and development professionals, and social commentators,

00:19:30.180 social commentator, they're experts. They were asked which five of the U.N.'s 193 member states,

00:19:38.980 what does it even mean? Let me stop for a minute. Experts on women's issues, what does that even 0.58

00:19:45.820 mean? I mean, how are you, you're an expert on women? What? Can I be an expert on men?

00:19:52.800 So if you want to know about men's issues, can you call me up? I'm a social commentator and I'm a man,

00:19:57.900 so that makes me an expert. It says, they were asked which five of the U.N.'s 193 member states

00:20:07.600 they thought were the most dangerous for women in six areas, healthcare, economic resources, 1.00

00:20:12.120 culture, cultural or traditional practices, sexual violence and harassment, non-sexual violence and

00:20:17.620 human trafficking. So, okay, I'm just gonna, I'll stop reading from the article, which as I said,

00:20:25.780 is abysmally written. This is from Big Think. Worst countries to be a woman. Most dangerous 1.00

00:20:32.840 countries for women. Let's look then at the top 10 that this, that these experts give us. Number one,

00:20:41.080 India. Number two, Afghanistan. Number three, Syria. Number four, Somalia. Number five, Saudi Arabia.

00:20:46.480 Number six, Pakistan. Number seven, Democratic Republic of Congo. Number eight, Yemen. Number nine,

00:20:52.880 Nigeria. Number 10, the United States. One of these does not belong. That's a fun game to play. Which 1.00

00:21:00.960 of these is not like the other? The U.S. then, according to experts, is more dangerous for women 1.00

00:21:09.740 than Iran, Iraq, North Korea, China, Ethiopia, Egypt, Libya, Sudan. In fact, in our hemisphere,

00:21:17.700 we are the worst place for women, according to experts. Worse than Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, 1.00

00:21:23.700 Brazil, Nicaragua. We're worse than all those places. Which is weird, because all of those places

00:21:29.820 are places where women are fleeing to come here. Turns out we're worse. You know, it turns out we're

00:21:35.820 doing them a favor when we stand at the border. We got, and if we were to ever build a wall, which

00:21:40.160 looks like it's not gonna happen. If we have, we built a big wall that Donald Trump promised and

00:21:44.100 hasn't delivered. And we stood there and we said, no, turn around. We'd be doing them a favor. It's

00:21:48.760 so much worse here. Especially if you're a woman. Now, this is obviously completely ridiculous with 1.00

00:21:55.740 no basis in reality. There's a reason why they're doing this study by polling so-called experts. 0.88

00:22:05.080 Rather than looking at the statistics, you could look at the stats and see murder rate,

00:22:10.580 rates of sexual assault and rape, poverty rate, rates of, you know, people being in prison without

00:22:19.840 trial. I mean, violence against women, domestic, but you could, these things are, these are all

00:22:28.380 statistics. And in some of these countries, it's going to, because some of these countries are,

00:22:33.200 are just hell holes, it's going to be harder to get statistics from. But, but you, you could,

00:22:39.800 you could do it that way, but they're not doing it that way. Instead, they're just going to,

00:22:46.120 they're going to call up 538 random women and say, Hey, what do you think about this? 1.00

00:22:50.540 Well, just give us your opinion and we'll, we'll make a list.

00:22:55.460 So how could anyone actually make this claim? Well, I think for one, what you see here is a very

00:23:02.160 weird kind of self-centeredness. Um, I guarantee that the experts in America, the so-called experts,

00:23:10.240 they were the ones probably saying that America is so bad because they just assume that their own

00:23:16.760 experience, their own trials, their own tribulations, however petty must be the worst possible thing. 0.72

00:23:24.340 When you hear Americans talk about America as if it's the most dangerous and sexist and bigoted and 0.94

00:23:28.540 homophobic place on earth, what you're hearing in part is narcissism. They're saying that because 0.97

00:23:33.920 they live here. And so they just assume it has to be whatever they're going through. It's gotta be,

00:23:40.320 it's gotta be the worst or among the worst things that anyone could go through. So a woman, 1.00

00:23:48.040 a feminist in America, uh, she, if you're a feminist in America, living in a, you know, 1.00

00:23:54.240 living in a, in an urban center or whatever, um, and you're going about your day, what,

00:24:01.900 what's the sort of everyday incidents of sexism and, and, and what, what, what, what's the kind

00:24:08.740 of persecution and oppression that you could expect to experience on an everyday basis?

00:24:14.980 Cause you know, you can, you wake up in the house you own because you're allowed to own property in

00:24:20.180 America, which isn't the case in a lot of other countries, especially in the middle East.

00:24:24.240 You go to your job because you're allowed to have a job in America, not the case in many other

00:24:29.920 countries. Also, we have an economy that allows pretty much anyone to get a job if you really

00:24:35.100 want one, which is not the case in many other countries, including South of the border, which

00:24:38.960 is why they're coming here. You have a nice breakfast, which in many countries, there's not

00:24:44.840 going to be a lot to eat. Venezuela being one of them, you leave your house, you go to your job, 0.88

00:24:50.240 you walk down the street, you don't have to really worry. You get on the subway. Okay. Well,

00:24:57.880 now that you're on the subway, uh, now we've got our first incident because there might be man

00:25:01.320 spreading on the subway, right? You get on the subway. There might be, you want to sit down.

00:25:05.420 There might be a guy, uh, is spreading his legs a little bit too much and encroaching on your space

00:25:12.220 a little bit. Now there's also going to be women who take up entire seats with their purses, 1.00

00:25:16.860 but that's okay. You know, you're allowed to now a guy who needs to spread his legs a little bit 0.76

00:25:20.560 because of, because of the equipment that men carry around. That's not okay. But a woman takes 1.00

00:25:24.940 up an entire seat with her purse, with her stuff that she loves. Oh, that's fine. Anyway. Uh, but

00:25:30.360 that's, so there's oppression right there. That's your first incident. It's, it's nine 30 in the

00:25:34.920 morning. Uh, you've already, you've already been oppressed. Okay. Then you get off the subway,

00:25:37.720 you walk to work, you're fine. You get to work. Um, uh, and then maybe a male coworker,

00:25:44.800 uh, talks to you and maybe he's a little bit too friendly. Maybe he comp, maybe he compliments

00:25:51.500 you. If you could, uh, worst case scenario, maybe, maybe, maybe even compliments what you're

00:25:57.100 wearing. Says you look nice today. Maybe he asks you how you, how your weekend went, you know?

00:26:04.400 I mean, in a nightmare scenario, nightmare, maybe he even say, asks what you're doing later and

00:26:13.780 sees if you want to hang out. God forbid, God forbid. Okay. There's your second incident of,

00:26:21.280 uh, of oppression. And then you go about your day, you're working, um, you go home. I mean,

00:26:28.340 so, so we, I don't know, maybe we've got two incidents there, persecution for women on an everyday

00:26:33.760 basis. Um, but from a, from the perspective of a feminist in America, that has to be the, 1.00

00:26:42.740 that has to be among the worst. Of course, there are countries where you could essentially as a

00:26:49.300 woman be legally raped. There are countries where you're not allowed to drive. There are countries 0.95

00:26:54.080 where you, you can't, if you walk down the street with anything more than your face showing,

00:26:58.460 you could be stoned to death or beaten. Uh, there are countries where if you're raped, 0.96

00:27:03.900 you could be killed for it, but no, the man spreading on the subway, that's, that's just

00:27:10.320 as bad. It's gotta be, you know why? Because it happened to me. I think, and then the other

00:27:18.020 problem that we have is, and this is of course is related, but the other problem is people in this

00:27:23.860 country just having no understanding of no appreciation of the state of things in other

00:27:30.040 parts of the world. And that's become a big problem that people in this country are so privileged and

00:27:37.420 so comfortable and have just, we were, we're so fat and happy and, and maybe not happy, but fat

00:27:45.420 and satiated and comfortable living in luxury. We just, we have no idea what it's like in other parts

00:27:53.120 of the world and certainly throughout history. So we, we, we don't appreciate the fact that in

00:28:04.100 this country, you know, we have problems in this country. That's true. But when it comes to racism,

00:28:09.080 sexism, poverty, all those things, it's pretty much as good in this country as it's ever been

00:28:16.440 anywhere. It could still be better. We could still work on making it better,

00:28:20.300 but it says it's as good as it's ever been anywhere, but we have no appreciation for that.

00:28:30.480 And thus, and thus we have, um, we have no gratitude either. And that's, I think a big part of the

00:28:36.840 problem. All right. Um, let's see here. I think we'll move on to emails, mattwalshowatgmail.com,

00:28:44.800 mattwalshowatgmail.com. This is from Bridget says, hi, Matt. I just wanted to share a word.

00:28:50.400 I found that you were describing your podcast. You were talking about the feeling of recognizing,

00:28:54.560 uh, that everyone around you has their own life. That is as important as central as your,

00:29:00.140 as yours is to you. The word for that is sonder. The definition is the realization that each random

00:29:05.300 passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. What a humbling feeling. It's pretty cool

00:29:10.080 that enough people have encountered that emotion, that there's a word to describe it.

00:29:13.020 It sort of feels like a proof of shared humanity to me. Anyways, when I found that word,

00:29:17.080 I thought it was awesome. And I just wanted to share it with you. Uh, yeah, we were talking

00:29:20.040 yesterday on the show about, I was having my, I was essentially like a, like a stone 16 year old

00:29:25.760 in, in, in his friend's basement trying to get philosophical. Hey man, have you ever thought

00:29:30.220 about how like everybody is a, is a person, man? I was having that moment. Um, free of drugs though.

00:29:37.580 I should mention, I didn't know there was a word for it. Sonder. Is that, so where does that

00:29:41.220 word? Is that in the dictionary? That's, that's interesting that there's actually a word for that,

00:29:44.420 um, for that experience. And that just shows, I guess, what we're talking about that, that,

00:29:48.940 you know, you, you have these experiences, these internal experiences, you have this internal life

00:29:52.680 and you think, you sort of think you're alone with it. And then you recognize that all these

00:29:57.700 thoughts that you think were unique were other people have experienced the same thing,

00:30:01.120 which, um, I think, uh, is, is comforting. If you look at it the right way, this is from Nick

00:30:06.440 said, uh, yesterday, someone sent me the following quote in enjoy life to the fullest. It has an

00:30:12.480 expiration date. This saying obviously echoes many other, many others with a similar sentiment.

00:30:17.800 YOLO comes to mind. Uh, you only live once kids used to say that my question for you is from a

00:30:24.120 Christian worldview. Do you think this is a good, this is good or bad advice? Perhaps the answer 1.00

00:30:28.080 hinges on what constitutes a living life to the fullest taken to its logical conclusion. The mindset

00:30:32.080 could be used to justify immoral actions like infidelity, theft, or shaving off a perfectly

00:30:37.160 healthy beard. On the other hand, recognition of one's own mortality and finding joy in life seem

00:30:41.880 perfectly in keeping with the Christian worldview. I'm only asking you to wax philosophical, consider

00:30:46.040 yourself lucky. This isn't Canada. Yeah. Um, I think if we keep the proper perspective on it, I mean,

00:30:55.840 there there's truth to it. It's a cliche. There's when it comes down to, there's really no reason to say

00:31:00.560 it for the simple reason that it's a cliche. There's really no reason to say a cliche. That's

00:31:06.580 a cliche for a reason. We all know it already. We, it's all, it's in our head. We've encountered it

00:31:10.180 before. Uh, so there's no reason to say it for that reason. But yeah, I think that, um, leaving the

00:31:19.080 cliche nature of it aside, there is truth to the, to the fact that you should enjoy your life. You only

00:31:24.880 get it once. Now there is, we believe obviously as Christians that there's a life beyond this one,

00:31:29.200 but that doesn't make this life worthless. And I do think that's an important point.

00:31:34.220 And sometimes the way Christians sometimes can tend to talk about it. It's as if they think that

00:31:40.060 this life doesn't mean anything. Well, of course it means something. God gave us this life to live.

00:31:47.140 Uh, and so, and that's why when someone is killed, it's, it is a tragedy. That's why if you lose a loved

00:31:54.120 one, you mourn, even if you know that they hopefully went on to a better place, that there

00:31:58.940 is a life beyond this, but you still mourn because you recognize that something has been lost. Um,

00:32:03.580 one of my favorite CS Lewis books is a grief observed. And that's the book that he wrote after

00:32:07.740 his wife died. Uh, one of his, one of his last book during towards the end of his life, he wrote

00:32:13.040 this book. And, um, and I believe the book originally was not, he didn't intend to publish it.

00:32:18.900 He was just sort of his own, he was writing a journal and, and expressing kind of working

00:32:25.420 through his trauma that he was feeling after his wife died of, of, I believe it was cancer.

00:32:30.440 And this is, and at the beginning, it's a very short book, but at the beginning of the book,

00:32:34.560 he's angry at God. He's seems almost on the verge of giving up on faith by the end. He,

00:32:39.800 he doesn't, uh, spoiler alert, but this is one thing that he talks about. There's a great quote

00:32:46.200 in there that I'm going to have to paraphrase, but he says that, um, you know, even, even though he

00:32:51.040 knows that his wife has gone on to the next life, he also knows that this world, this physical world

00:33:00.240 is, is, is completely devoid of her. And that if he were to search the entire universe, every crack

00:33:05.320 and crevice of the universe, he would not find her anywhere. She is, she is in a very real sense gone.

00:33:11.000 And that is, that's, that's not an illusion or something. She really is gone

00:33:15.380 for all intents and purposes from this world. And that is a sad thing. So, um, the, the, the point

00:33:24.380 is that, that life is meaningful. And, uh, and so I don't think there's anything wrong with saying

00:33:28.260 live it to the fullest, but if by that you mean, um, throw morality, throw discipline,

00:33:36.940 throw self-control to the side, because when you die, you're just going to decay and, and, and fade

00:33:43.200 into nothingness and there's nothing beyond it. If that's what you mean, then, then obviously there's

00:33:47.200 a problem. Um, this is from Josh says, hello, Matt, short version of my question. Would you ever leave

00:33:54.280 Twitter? Even though I assume doing so would adversely affect your career as immediate personality,

00:33:58.460 what would Twitter need to do to make you leave? Uh, I I've gotten this question several times

00:34:03.600 as we've talked, I think it was yesterday or two days ago, we talked about what I think is the most

00:34:08.100 egregious thing Twitter has done. And they've done a lot of egregious things in terms of their bias

00:34:12.140 against conservatives, uh, or their bias in favor of far left ideology. The most egregious thing is, uh,

00:34:20.180 the case with this man who's trying to sue women in Canada to get his, uh, genitals waxed. And, um, 0.98

00:34:27.200 he has been harassing women online and the women who have stood up to him, one in particular,

00:34:31.940 who he harassed and mocked in a sexually degrading way. She stood up to him and responded in kind 0.99

00:34:38.340 and was perfectly justified to do it. She was banned from Twitter permanently. And he's still there.

00:34:44.880 Even though this guy is a creep and a, and a predator and just a monster in many ways with, 0.99

00:34:50.760 from the way that he treats women and, uh, and other things as well. 0.96

00:34:56.660 After we talked about that, I had a lot of emails like this, people saying, well, okay,

00:34:59.900 if you think Twitter is so bad, why don't you sign off? Why don't you leave? Why don't you boycott it?

00:35:03.780 And, uh, and I understand that question. And that is something that I struggle with.

00:35:07.940 I think the easy cop-out answer is that for me with my job, I really, I have to be on it.

00:35:12.520 I can't leave it, at least not by my own choice. That's the cop-out answer. But even, um,

00:35:20.180 even if I didn't have sort of a professional obligation to, to be on Twitter and to be on social

00:35:24.580 media, given my job, uh, I don't know if I would leave it because if I can use the platform,

00:35:34.300 if I'm able to use the platform to undermine Twitter's own ideological agenda,

00:35:40.440 if I can use this platform to get the truth out there, um, to get conservative ideas out there,

00:35:47.800 then why wouldn't I use it? I'll use it until I can't anymore, until they take it from me.

00:35:52.560 Um, so what I've decided, and I've long ago decided this with Twitter, with Facebook too,

00:35:58.120 but especially with Twitter, that, um, as long as I have this platform and I can use it to speak the

00:36:05.600 truth, I'm going to do that. I'm not going to censor myself at all. So that is my personal

00:36:11.280 pledge. I'm not going to, now, if you're, if you're, if you're on Twitter, you're on these social

00:36:14.860 media sites and you're censoring yourself, uh, in order to maintain that platform, well,

00:36:23.240 then there's really no point. Okay. Then you might as, then the best thing in that case would

00:36:27.920 be just to leave, but I'm not going to censor myself at all. Um, and I'll just continue. So I

00:36:38.500 don't know, maybe it's, it's, it's kind of a kamikaze mission. I'm just going to continue using it,

00:36:41.620 not censor myself in the least bit. And, uh, if they eventually come along and ban me, then they

00:36:46.860 do. But if they don't, I'm going to continue using it, uh, to undermine their own ideological

00:36:52.120 agenda. That's, that's the way that I, that I look at it. Um, you know, even when we've been

00:36:58.900 talking about this issue with this guy in Canada and when I'm on, when I'm, when I'm using Twitter,

00:37:03.960 you know, I'm, as I said, I'm going to, I'm going to speak the truth. I'm not, I'm not going

00:37:08.320 to, uh, say something that's not true just to follow the rules of a social media site.

00:37:14.580 So for instance, I'm going to refer to this man as a man. Um, even if Twitter says, oh,

00:37:21.020 you're not allowed to do that, that's misgendering. Well, I'm not going to lie for Twitter's sake.

00:37:27.100 And if they want to ban me too, in order to protect this predator,

00:37:30.160 if they want to keep doing that, then they can. But, um, until that time comes,

00:37:37.020 I'm just going to continue with what I'm doing. All right. Uh, I think we'll leave it there.

00:37:42.500 Thanks everybody for watching. Godspeed.

00:38:00.160 If you can still laugh at the nuttiness filling our national news cycle, well tune on into the

00:38:05.900 Ben Shapiro show where you'll get a whole lot of that and much more. We'll see you there.

The Matt Walsh Show - July 25, 2019

Ep. 303 - Ilhan Omar Is A Bigot Living In A Fantasy World

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