The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 441 - The Extraordinary Cowardice Of Left Wing Campus Protestors

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, I'm going to share a few thoughts about my experiences at University

00:00:04.600 of Maryland last night. I was giving a talk there on the left's war on reality,

00:00:08.360 and leftists on campus were not terribly thrilled to have me there, it turns out,

00:00:13.480 which of course is to be expected. But there's a few points I want to make about what happened

00:00:18.880 last night. I want to talk about the incredible intellectual cowardice of left-wing campus

00:00:24.300 protesters, and how that cowardice is instilled by and encouraged by the universities in so many

00:00:30.620 cases. And also, I want to talk about why labels like bigot and fascist don't mean anything anymore

00:00:39.720 and have no effect. And so if you're someone who relies on using those labels to shut down debate

00:00:45.140 or to try to win an argument, maybe you've noticed that it doesn't seem to be working that well.

00:00:49.660 Well, I want to explain why, so we'll talk about that. Also, five headlines including

00:00:53.080 the effort by thousands of people to try to shut down Pornhub. Now, even if you're not on board with

00:00:59.300 the banning porn bandwagon, can we at least agree that a website like Pornhub should be, if not shut

00:01:07.120 down, at least heavily regulated? We'll talk about that. And today in our daily cancellation, I have

00:01:11.320 to unfortunately cancel some people who are very close to me. Personally, I don't want to do it,

00:01:17.840 but I have to, and I'll explain why. And I think after I explain, you'll understand my decision.

00:01:23.080 And in our email section today, we will, I'll answer a couple of emails, including one from

00:01:28.080 Andrew who wants to tell me why I'm wrong about my stance on gay marriage. He apparently attended 0.54

00:01:34.300 my talk last night and took issue with one of the things I said on gay marriage, thinks I'm wrong,

00:01:40.300 and he'll try to make his case. So we'll get into all of that coming up. But first, yeah, so I went to

00:01:48.160 College Park last night, University of Maryland, to give my war on reality speech. And there were

00:01:53.060 flyers and leaflets that went up around campus before I showed up there warning people about me,

00:01:59.640 saying, be very careful, encouraging everyone to stay away because I am hazardous to your health,

00:02:05.160 it turns out. Now, I showed you one of the flyers yesterday, and here's another one. I'll put it up on

00:02:10.780 the screen for you. This one says, caution, this event is a threat to all LGBT plus people. Matt Walsh 0.95

00:02:18.820 is a raging transphobe, homophobe, racist, and fascist. He is not arguing in good faith and advocates 1.00

00:02:24.780 for the criminal, well, actually it says the criminalization, the criminalization and

00:02:30.260 institutionalization of all LGBT plus people. This is the kind of rhetoric that gets us killed.

00:02:36.420 We will not entertain debate about whether everyone deserves rights and basic human dignity.

00:02:43.020 On behalf of the LGBT student population of UMD, do not engage with this speaker or attend his event. 0.76

00:02:49.720 Leave now. By participating in this event, you are endangering all LGBT people and cannot claim 1.00

00:02:55.940 goodwill toward any of us. Now, for the people who did show up, you were endangering LGBT people just

00:03:05.020 simply by being there. I don't know if you knew that. Leave now. Get out. Get out while you still

00:03:11.160 can. And they took this advice, at least the leftists did, people who disagreed with me. They

00:03:18.040 did not show up. They did show up, I should say. They showed up outside of the room where they were

00:03:24.580 handing out brochures and telling people not to come. But they didn't actually come in. As far as I

00:03:30.760 could tell, not one of them came into the talk itself. And I assume that because during the Q&A

00:03:37.760 portion, many people went up to say something. I received no challenge at all, no pushback from the

00:03:43.920 left during the Q&A. And I guess because they didn't come in, they were afraid I was going to kill

00:03:51.960 them. I'm a threat to the lives of LGBT people, which is really unreasonable. I mean, look, 1.00

00:03:57.540 at most, okay, I will kill one person at my talks. Once I killed two people, but generally just one 0.96

00:04:05.860 person. So it's just one. Look, you kill one person at each talk and suddenly it's a big deal.

00:04:11.940 And it's not a bigoted thing. It's more of a ritualistic thing to appease the gods.

00:04:16.260 So we do a, you know, it's sort of a fun thing. It's audience participation. They all select one

00:04:20.440 person. You know, we'll do it different ways. I'll take a volunteer. Most of the time there is no

00:04:25.160 volunteer, surprisingly. But so then we'll talk about it as an audience, a lot of fun. And we

00:04:30.620 select one person. We kill them, you know, just as a ritualistic thing. And then I get going with 1.00

00:04:36.380 the talk. Because here's, I took public speaking classes and I learned that you always want to get

00:04:40.980 the audience's attention first before you start talking. And what better way to get their attention

00:04:47.820 than by ritualistically sacrificing someone to the gods? So that's it.

00:04:54.180 Other than that, there's really no need for concern, I think. But I think, you know, actually,

00:05:03.180 anyway, they weren't really worried that I'd physically kill anyone. They were worried that

00:05:06.940 my words would kill people or get people killed. How is that? Why? In what way would my words get

00:05:15.080 anybody killed? Nobody could explain. Nobody bothered explaining. They didn't come in to tell

00:05:20.200 me. Now, also, as I said, they were handing out pamphlets outside the event. I managed to get my

00:05:25.700 hands on one of these pamphlets. I want to show it to you in just a second because you have to see

00:05:29.040 this thing. It's pretty great. But before I do, I want to take a pause here to talk about our friends

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00:06:49.840 I know a number of people who as adults, as parents are saying, I want to go back to school. I want to

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00:07:21.680 degree today. Ashford.edu slash Walsh. Okay. Now, um, they were handing, okay. So they're handing out

00:07:30.920 these brochures, brochures. I don't know why I pronounce it that way. These brochures,

00:07:35.740 uh, they were handing them out at, I have to talk. And, um, here's, here's what this one

00:07:42.020 looked like. I don't know if you could see that. Uh, this is the bro, the brochure. And it says

00:07:47.300 the war on reality. Well, actually it says the war on realty. I'm not sure if that spelling mistake

00:07:53.520 is on purpose or not. I don't know why it would be on purpose. The war on realty. Yeah. I'm in real

00:07:58.840 estate. I guess I'm, I'm waging a war on real estate as someone who's, who's, who's, uh, sold

00:08:02.940 a house twice now in my life. I do kind of want to wager war on real estate. Uh, and then it says

00:08:07.600 featuring Matt Wasp, Matt Wasp of the Dally Wire. Clever stuff. That's devastating. Remember I've,

00:08:15.560 I've said in the past that it's very difficult for people to think of ways to change my last name in

00:08:19.900 an insulting way. Go as a kid, many, many bullies tried and failed because Walsh is just, there's not a

00:08:27.640 lot you can do with it here. They try Wasp, not even really correct because Wasp is white Anglo-Saxon

00:08:34.020 Protestant. I'm Catholic. So really I'm a Wask. Um, and, uh, and then at the, there's as young

00:08:40.240 America's foul nation rather than foundation. And then inside there's the same thing I showed you the

00:08:47.640 same, uh, uh, poster thing about how I'm a transphobe. And then there's a whole in, in the

00:08:55.980 brochure, it lists, uh, a number of my very disturbing viewpoints. So it gives a little

00:09:03.420 bit of a rundown, a resume of all of my bigoted and horrific things that I believe and have said

00:09:08.580 in my life. And, um, just for example, it says voting rights. Matt Walsh staunchly endorses stripping

00:09:16.560 people of the right to vote if he considers them to be ignorant or non-contributing. I do. I do 0.95

00:09:22.920 support that actually. Uh, and specifically only wants people to vote if they pay taxes and have

00:09:27.740 passed an eighth grade civics exam. Yes. What's the problem with that? Yes. I am fully on board

00:09:32.900 with stripping lots of people of the voting rights. I've been very clear about this. I, I unironically

00:09:37.140 believe that millions of people should not have the right to vote who currently do. And I think we

00:09:41.960 should take that right from them. I absolutely believe that if you can't pass an eighth grade civics

00:09:46.020 exam, you have no business voting. I think you should not have the right to vote.

00:09:49.760 This system was never set up to give literally every single person the right to vote.

00:09:54.920 And it doesn't work that way. It doesn't work. We don't need every ignoramus, every non-contributing

00:10:02.160 moron to vote. Um, that's not what the founding fathers had in mind. That's the system just doesn't 1.00

00:10:10.080 work anyway. And then it goes through and a bunch of all my other things. Uh, Walsh spends much of his

00:10:15.680 bandwidth attacking a handful of progressive figures such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria

00:10:19.260 Cesar Cortez. Um, yeah, yeah, that's true too. Anyway, it's very unfortunate that they didn't

00:10:26.100 actually come into the room to the talk itself because I was really hoping that last night would

00:10:29.700 be the night finally that after all of these many months of asking that I could finally get

00:10:35.500 a leftist to define the word woman for me. You know, I, it's been my goal as you know, to get

00:10:41.960 someone on the left to offer a definition. I was really hoping it would happen last night during

00:10:46.140 the Q and a finally, uh, but that hope and dream was dashed now. And so this is, this is the,

00:10:55.360 the, the, the really unfortunate thing. It, the stifling, suffocating intellectual cowardice

00:11:04.640 of these people. It's, it's fun to laugh at and easy to laugh at, but to view opposing ideas as attacks,

00:11:14.780 as mortal threats, rather than opportunities, opportunities to sharper, sharpen your own mental

00:11:23.140 tools to test your ideas and your perceptions, to engage with differing viewpoints, to grow

00:11:30.440 as a person, rather than viewing it as that, they view it as a mortal threat to their very lives.

00:11:35.640 And we've gotten so used to this that we're numb to it. And everybody says, yeah, well, that's the

00:11:41.200 way it goes on college campuses, but let's not lose sight. It is the way it goes, but let's not lose

00:11:46.020 sight of how extraordinary it is that it's become this. It's not, it shouldn't be normal. It might be

00:11:52.080 normal, but it shouldn't be people, not just any people, but young, young people talking about

00:11:59.280 young people here who view opposing ideas as physical threats to their safety. And these again,

00:12:05.080 are people in college, an institution of, of learning where thinking is supposed to be the whole point of

00:12:12.180 the exercise where encountering challenging ideas is supposed to be one of the, one of the great

00:12:17.960 benefits of going to a university. See, it's supposed to be old people, old and world weary people. 1.00

00:12:27.260 They're supposed to be the ones who are setting their ways, setting their ideas, setting their

00:12:30.860 opinions, immovable. I'm not saying, I'm not saying it's good even for older folks to be that way.

00:12:37.180 I don't think anyone should be that way, but I mean, at least it's understandable if you're a 75 year

00:12:41.960 old guy and you're saying, you know what, this is who I am. This is what I believe. This is what my opinions are.

00:12:48.220 I'm too old now. I'm not changing this. I'm going to ride this out. Even if I'm wrong, I'm riding this

00:12:53.360 thing out to the end because it's, I got other things to worry about. In fact, no, I don't want to

00:12:59.140 worry about anything. I'm just going to kick back and relax. Not worrying about, about debating you,

00:13:04.920 you little whippersnappers anymore. So I understand that mentality from an older person.

00:13:10.820 If you're 75, but 19, 20, and you're going to block out all other ideas at that age,

00:13:19.020 you're supposed to be experimenting with ideas fearlessly at that age. Again, I think you should

00:13:27.240 be doing that at any age. And it's great too, because it's okay to be wrong, especially when

00:13:33.860 you're young. People expect you to be wrong. So you got nothing to lose. You know, you, when you're,

00:13:39.300 when you're 19, you're in college, you don't have any family, no dependents, not, you have no real

00:13:44.240 responsibilities. You can be wrong about anything. There's, there's really no consequence to being

00:13:49.280 wrong. People expect it. No one's worried about it. So be as wrong as you want.

00:13:53.540 Um, you know, I think, and, and there, there used to be this stereotype and you still find this

00:14:02.520 sometimes among college age kids where they go, they, they, they go wildly from one extreme to

00:14:11.280 another. And one second you see them and they're a radical communist. The next thing you know,

00:14:15.640 they're a libertarian and they're back and forth like a, like a pinball machine, all these different

00:14:19.680 views. And they get very invested in this view. And then they're over here and over there back.

00:14:24.020 Um, that actually is good. I think that's what, that's sort of what youth should be because you're

00:14:28.880 experimenting with ideas and you've got that youthful enthusiasm. So when you stumble across an idea that

00:14:35.080 you think is interesting, you get very invested in it. Uh, but then, you know, you're still open to

00:14:39.740 other things. You're reading and you're thinking. And so now next thing you know, you're over there and

00:14:43.200 you're back and forth, that's fine. I think that's what being young should be all about. But now it's

00:14:49.640 become not that at all. Now it's, this is my viewpoint as, as, as irrational and deranged as it might be.

00:15:01.600 I'm not changing. This is what I believe. And I simply will not allow myself to even come in contact

00:15:09.760 with any other ideas, right? This is, these are my ideas and, and, uh, I'm quarantining myself

00:15:16.200 like the Corona virus. I'm quarantining myself. That's how they, I did think about that last night.

00:15:21.500 This is, this is how they treat opposing ideas. They treat it like a, if you have an opposing idea,

00:15:25.640 they treat you like you have the Corona virus and they're going to quarantine you stay away.

00:15:30.820 They're just one step away from asking for, from demanding that you wear a surgical mask so that

00:15:36.180 your opposing ideas don't, don't leak out on, uh, you know, uh, unintentionally and infect somebody.

00:15:42.460 Now, um, so that, that, that's one problem. The, the intellectual cowardice. The other thing is this

00:15:50.420 calling everything bigoted. And this is part of course, the way of, of trying to shut down debate,

00:15:55.460 call everything bigot and fascist. And you heard in the brochure there, I'm a bigot,

00:15:59.680 fascist, fascist, racist, all of those, all those various ists and phobias. That's the way these 0.99

00:16:06.140 things always go, but it has no effect anymore. Nobody cares about being called these things. I

00:16:10.000 don't care at all. People ask me sometimes, how do you deal with the labels? People call you bigoted.

00:16:16.360 How do I deal with it? I do not care at all. It means nothing to me that has no effect. It should

00:16:23.340 though. It should mean something to me. It actually should. I should care about somebody calling me a

00:16:29.000 bigot because bigotry is real. It's a bad thing to be a bigot. So I think maybe there was a time

00:16:35.820 when you accuse somebody of being a bigot. That was a serious charge, but now it's, it's so common

00:16:42.420 that I can't afford to care. And this is the analogy that I use yesterday in my talk to try to explain

00:16:50.660 why it works this way. Now, let's say that you bought a bottle of rat poison because you have a

00:16:58.480 problem in your house and, um, you got the rat poison. Would you then with your rat poison go

00:17:07.060 and label every container in your home, rat poison, just to be cautious, just to be safe.

00:17:12.340 You're going to call everything rat poison. Well, you wouldn't do that because the other people in

00:17:16.300 your home, you know, your kids, your wife, or if you, your parents, your siblings, now they're not

00:17:22.280 going to be really sure what the real rat poison is because you've called everything rat poison.

00:17:25.820 And the result is after a while, they're going to ignore the labels because they have no choice

00:17:31.220 because it's the only way to function now. And they're going to live their life. The problem is

00:17:37.020 that there actually is rat poison in one of those containers. And now you've just increased the

00:17:42.400 likelihood that someone is going to come in contact with or ingest the rat poison because you've negated

00:17:50.460 the effectiveness and the meaning of the label. In a similar way, when you go around reflexively

00:17:54.840 labeling every opinion, you don't like bigotry or fascism, you've made it so that those labels

00:18:00.120 mean nothing. Nobody can take them seriously anymore. And then what do you do when there

00:18:06.420 actually is bigotry or fascism to fight? Do you say, well, you can't, you can't say, Hey, look,

00:18:11.140 it's a bigot. It's a fascist. You can't say that. Well, you can, but no one's going to listen. 0.99

00:18:17.680 Everyone's going to yawn and say, Oh yeah, well, that's what you said about the last 19,000 people

00:18:21.220 you came in contact with. So, and that's really a problem because again, there is actual bigotry is

00:18:29.640 a real thing. Fascism is a real thing. There are racists out there. Um, but you've called everyone

00:18:40.420 that. And so not only have you, it's not just that you've made the label meaningless,

00:18:47.900 but now you've, you've really caused more people to go, you know, and end up becoming bigots

00:18:57.120 because when you try to warn someone away from that bigoted worldview, they're going to say,

00:19:04.480 what's what I mean? You call everything bigoted. So now you're saying this is bigoted too.

00:19:07.720 Maybe in this case, it actually is, but you have no way of telling them that you have no word left

00:19:14.100 to describe actual bigotry. I guess this is a, just a way, a way of retelling the boy who cried

00:19:21.040 wolf, I suppose. So I could, I could probably keep it at that, but, uh, and that's, that's what it is.

00:19:26.940 So even if I am a bigot or a fascist, which I don't think I am, but even if I was,

00:19:32.400 you calling me that has no effect. It has no meaning. It has no substance

00:19:35.480 because that's what you say about everybody. All right. We're going to get to headlines in a

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00:20:45.880 daily wire.com slash subscribe headlines. Number one, Bernie Sanders has officially unveiled his

00:20:51.420 extremist pro-abortion agenda for if he, uh, becomes president, he's calling it the reproductive

00:20:56.560 justice plan reading. Uh, let me read now from a report in one of my favorite websites,

00:21:01.460 life site news. It says Democrat presidential contender and avowed socialist Senator Bernie

00:21:05.720 Sanders has formally unveiled the abortion agenda he's running on in 2020, collecting in a single

00:21:10.320 location, the various absolutist promises he has made to the abortion lobby. The Vermont Senator's

00:21:16.560 so-called reproductive healthcare and justice for all plan pledges to repeal the Hyde amendment,

00:21:22.940 thereby allowing direct funding of elective abortions with tax dollars, make contraception free and

00:21:28.480 available over the counter and significantly expand funding for Planned Parenthood title

00:21:32.360 10 and other initiatives that offer and promote abortions. Uh, okay. A lot of problems here. Of

00:21:38.740 course, let's start with funding Planned Parenthood. He wants to dramatically increase funding for

00:21:43.980 Planned Parenthood. They already get half a billion dollars a year. This is a billion dollar corporation

00:21:49.700 that gets half a billion a year in tax funding. Sanders wants to give them more. So Sanders,

00:21:55.600 the guy who hates billionaires, hates corporations is actually okay with giving billions to a corporation. 0.99

00:22:01.480 He's the corporate welfare guy now, but only if they kill babies. Think about that. The only 0.99

00:22:08.660 corporation that Bernie Sanders likes and actually likes so much that he wants to give more money to 0.98

00:22:15.480 more than half a billion is the one that kills babies. This man is a demented freak. 1.00

00:22:22.460 Is that harsh? Maybe a little, but deserved. Number two, speaking of Bernie Sanders, 1.00

00:22:29.240 he said on Fox yesterday that it would be xenophobic to shut down the border, even in the case of trying

00:22:35.740 to contain a viral pandemic. We're going to move on to the next audience question, but if you had to,

00:22:41.640 if you had to, would you close down the borders?

00:22:43.520 No, I mean, what you don't want to do right now, we have a president who has propagated xenophobic

00:22:54.080 anti-immigrant sentiment from before he was elected. What we need to do is have the scientists

00:23:01.240 take a hard look at what we need to do. There are communities where the virus is spreading.

00:23:06.780 What does that mean? It may mean self-quarantining. It may be not having public assemblies. But let's

00:23:13.100 not go back to the same old thing. Isn't it interesting that a president who has been

00:23:17.840 demagoguing and demonizing immigrants, the first thing that he could think about is closing down

00:23:22.500 the border. So we need scientists to tell us the appropriate approach, not a political approach.

00:23:27.760 We see again here that leftist positions are actually religious doctrines. There is no reason

00:23:33.180 at all to oppose shutting down the border in the case of a pandemic. It's just an obvious

00:23:40.580 thing that you would do. Unless you believe in a doctrine that says shutting down the border is

00:23:46.380 intrinsically immoral. Controlling the border is intrinsically immoral, which is nonsense,

00:23:52.280 obviously, but that's their religious conviction and that's why they can never be talked out of it.

00:23:55.880 Number three, Representative Paul Gosar is in self-quarantine. He tweeted something yesterday

00:24:02.120 that went viral for all the wrong reasons. Here's the tweet. He says,

00:24:07.340 been thinking about life and mortality today. I'd rather die gloriously in battle than from a virus.

00:24:13.840 In a way, it doesn't matter, but it kind of does. And there's a picture there of guys in chain

00:24:19.500 league armor, sword fighting. And so he's in self-quarantine, worried about the virus, thinking

00:24:25.300 I'd rather die that way, which people are making fun of him. Don't we all feel that way? I, you know,

00:24:30.220 I certainly agree. Only personally, I've always imagined and hoped that my demise would come when I

00:24:37.900 trip, when I trip running away from some pursuing monster or enemy of some kind. And there's a whole

00:24:45.560 group of us. And then, and then I trip on a, on a route or something. And, uh, and, and I say to

00:24:50.420 the other people, you go on without me. And they stop and they say, no, no, no, we're going to take

00:24:54.840 you. And I, and I, and I, and I say, I look at them resolutely and I say, no, no go. And then as

00:25:03.800 they're turning to leave, I say something inspiring, like, uh, you know, I'll live on in your heart or not

00:25:08.900 that exactly. I'm workshopping it still a little bit, but of course, uh, but, but the main thing is

00:25:13.120 there is no reason for me to tell them to go on without me. Cause I could have gotten up,

00:25:17.760 you know, in all the movies, the person trips and says, go on without me. You could easily just

00:25:21.860 get up and keep running, but you decided it's not worth the effort. So I'm just going to die. 0.91

00:25:26.300 So that's my plan anyway, but we all have our dreams. Number four on the subject of the virus,

00:25:30.880 people in France are throwing caution to the wind in spite of the Corona outbreak. And they're doing

00:25:37.500 whatever in the hell this is. Okay. So that was 3,500 people dressed like Smurfs gathering

00:25:51.540 together to break the world record. I'm not sure what the record is exactly. Presumably the world

00:25:57.840 record for the most embarrassing thing that a group of people have ever done in their ever in history,

00:26:01.640 or maybe it's the world record for most people who've gathered together as Smurfs, which means

00:26:10.120 that there have been other groups and other occasions like this of, of, of smaller groups of

00:26:14.680 people gathering as Smurfs. In fact, this, you know, I mean, this goes back, I believe this is 0.67

00:26:20.080 how the black plague started. Maybe the blue plague, we should call it. All I can say is if France is 1.00

00:26:25.720 ultimately decimated by disease because thousands of people passed it to each other at a giant Smurf

00:26:30.960 gathering. Well, there's just something about that. That seems appropriate. It's very on brand

00:26:35.980 for France. It seems to me at number five from the daily caller reading. Now the report, it says

00:26:42.560 porn hub struck back Monday at a petition to shut down the website, demanding that the pornography

00:26:46.800 platform be held accountable for the role it's accused of playing in sex trafficking and allowing

00:26:51.440 child rape films. Director of abolition for Exodus cry, uh, Lila Micklewaite told the daily wire news,

00:26:58.860 the daily caller news foundation, I should say that she has focused her efforts for the past eight

00:27:04.160 years on the connection between pornography, sex trafficking and sexual exploitation. Her change.org

00:27:09.220 petition calls for the government to shut down porn hub and hold its executives accountable for aiding

00:27:13.960 trafficking. And it's garnered more than 400,000 signatures since it was created February 10th.

00:27:18.720 The petition criticizes porn hub for allegedly failing to have a system to reliably verify the age and

00:27:23.920 consent of those depicted in pornography. Uh, and it goes off there. Porn hub has responded saying that

00:27:30.680 this is wrong and this is a radical right-wing attempt to shut us down and, uh, and so on.

00:27:38.480 Now I think we'll talk more in detail about this later on in the week, because this is worth,

00:27:43.160 worth focusing on more, uh, intently. But we've talked about the issue of trying to ban porn.

00:27:50.520 And I realized that on that position, I am very much in a minority, which I'm in a minority in a

00:27:56.340 lot of my positions. So I'm used to it. But even if you, no matter how you feel about banning porn,

00:28:01.020 let's, let's put that conversation to the side for a moment.

00:28:05.100 We should be able to agree at a minimum as decent, rational people that a website like porn hub

00:28:14.540 that has billions of hours of pornography. It's the largest porn site in the world by a mile.

00:28:20.180 Uh, and, and, and, and, and many of those videos, many, many, many thousands of hours of that content 0.98

00:28:26.620 consists of rape porn and child porn. Um, I think we should be able to agree 0.95

00:28:35.600 that a company like that should face some regulations, at least some controls,

00:28:42.880 and it should be required by law to put a, to put something in place to verify that

00:28:50.240 the content it's allowing on its platform is not rape or child molestation.

00:28:56.600 We should be able to agree on that. They should be required by law to ensure that they are not

00:29:07.200 allowing child porn and rape films on their platforms. And they should also be required by

00:29:15.220 law to make sure that the people viewing, to put, they, they, there, there should be some age

00:29:20.580 restrictions on the content and there should be some, they, they should have to put something in

00:29:25.080 place to ensure that the people viewing the content are not kids. Because as it stands right now,

00:29:31.440 you know, just having to click, yes, I'm 18, that's not going to cut it. There should be something

00:29:36.620 more, something like you have to provide an ID. You know, there, there are many ways you could go

00:29:41.840 about this and it's no matter what you do. Okay. It's, it's not going to be 100%, but it'd be a lot

00:29:49.220 better than what it is now, where there is effectively no filter put in place whatsoever.

00:29:55.080 To stop kids from getting on the, getting on the site. And so Pornhub is making millions of

00:30:01.360 dollars on showing porn to kids. And they know that's what they're doing. In fact, they even

00:30:06.760 market to kids. If you look at the way that they market, especially on social media, it is

00:30:12.900 obviously tailored oftentimes to kids. So this, again, we should be able to agree. And the only,

00:30:20.620 I guess the, what you might say is, well, but if Pornhub is required to make sure they're not

00:30:26.820 showing rape films and child porn, that might be too onerous and it'd shut down the company.

00:30:32.300 Okay. What is that? Is that supposed to be some sort of dystopian worst case scenario? 0.85

00:30:40.420 You know what? If you can't run your company without ensuring that your business doesn't

00:30:50.440 involve showing child porn and rape films to millions of people, you know, if that is an

00:30:55.740 integral part of your business and there's no way for you to weed it out without your, your,

00:31:01.440 your company itself shutting down. Well, to me, that's a really good indication that your company

00:31:05.760 should shut down. All right. Let's go to your daily cancellation before we have emails here in

00:31:14.880 a moment. Today, I have a rather somber cancellation that I have to do. I don't want to have to do this.

00:31:22.620 It's not something that a parent ever wants to do, but it is something that I think many parents find

00:31:29.960 that they must do. There, there comes a time. And so I must cancel my kids today, at least the older

00:31:37.840 ones, the twins, six years old. And I guess my, my younger son, three years old, uh, I'm going to

00:31:43.140 have to cancel him as well. They're all canceled. I can't afford them. I for, I informed them this

00:31:48.220 morning. You're all canceled, canceled, canceled, canceled while they're eating breakfast.

00:31:52.580 And let me explain why. And I think you'll, you'll sympathize over the weekend. Actually,

00:31:58.340 it was on Saturday, Saturday morning. I was excited to finally show to my kids. And this is

00:32:04.060 something I've been, I've been waiting to do this for six years. And I, I felt like the time is now

00:32:08.260 that they're ready. And so I decided that, uh, I was going to show the kids the movie space jam.

00:32:14.360 Now, as a kid, space jam was for me, one of the great cinematic classics. How could you not love it?

00:32:20.740 Combining Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny is just, it's two worlds colliding. It's a,

00:32:25.820 it's like a dream come true. Uh, I probably, I, space jam came out when I think I was like nine.

00:32:31.720 I probably watched it 40 times the first year it came out. It was funny. It was dramatic. It was

00:32:37.420 inspirational. It was suspenseful. It was at times sad, but ultimately uplifting. Uh, Jordan's acting

00:32:44.960 was superb. He was able to portray two entire emotions, mildly amused and mildly concerned.

00:32:54.640 And those, that was his range. It's an incredible acting range. I think I'm betting that Daniel Day

00:32:59.560 Lewis, as he was watching space jam, which I'm sure he has, we, when he first saw it, he fell into deep

00:33:06.060 despair, knowing that he would never be able to act as well as Michael Jordan. So the point is,

00:33:11.740 this was a hugely influential movie to me in my life. And finally, it was time on a Saturday morning,

00:33:17.420 hearkening back to my days of watching Looney Tunes on a Saturday morning. That's why I chose a

00:33:20.860 Saturday morning. Everything was right. Time to show the kids the movie. And they were not impressed

00:33:28.300 at all. They hardly paid attention through the whole thing. Didn't take it seriously.

00:33:34.780 No respect for the artistry on display. No respect, um, for my childhood and my emotional attachment to

00:33:49.800 this movie. And finally, when it was over and I asked them what they thought, my daughter said

00:33:54.440 her exact words. It was kind of weird and boring, daddy. Sorry. And then my son said that it reminded

00:34:01.560 him a little bit of Zootopia because of the bunny, except Zootopia is good. That was what he said.

00:34:09.480 And I'll tell you why it hurt so much. It was the realization, realization that my kids are

00:34:14.560 uncultured Philistines who wouldn't know great art if it fell on their head like a cartoon anvil. 0.99

00:34:21.640 And, and, and, and by the way, which, which they also don't understand is the height of comedy.

00:34:26.040 An anvil falling on someone's head and they're squished down like a pancake.

00:34:30.840 Nothing is funnier than that. Happens in Space Jam. They don't even crack a smile.

00:34:37.660 I'm telling you right now, I, this, this weekend I've decided I'm going to show my kids

00:34:41.060 the never ending story. Um, as we, as we do this tour of my childhood films.

00:34:47.120 And if they don't like that one, I'm calling the adoption agency. Uh, it's, it's done. Enough is

00:34:52.540 enough. You got to put your foot down. All right. Now let's go to, uh, emails and you can email the

00:34:58.840 show. If you become a member of the daily wire, you get access to the, to the, uh, to the mailbag

00:35:03.260 and we'll, and so we'll get to one, uh, email here. And then, uh, and then we also have, as I said,

00:35:09.480 Andrew, who's going to tell me why I'm wrong. All right. This is from Rachel says,

00:35:12.420 Dear Galactic Lord Dictator and Culinary King, I'm hoping you can pass along your culinary skills

00:35:17.780 slash expertise. I have noticed that whenever I, uh, have a meal at a restaurant and enjoy it

00:35:23.640 and then try to replicate it at home, there's always something missing. I can never get it to

00:35:28.180 taste the same. I'm not sure I've ever made a quote restaurant quality meal in my life.

00:35:33.760 Where am I going wrong? Well, Rachel, um, I would need to know, and don't take this the wrong way,

00:35:40.980 but I would need to know your race and your location to answer this question.

00:35:47.180 Without that information, there's not much I can tell you because I, I haven't had your cooking,

00:35:51.160 which sounds like, thank God I haven't. But, uh, the reason I need to know your race and location

00:35:56.820 is that if you are white and not from the South, so if you're a white Yankee, then I could tell you 0.98

00:36:05.340 without having your cooking, I could tell you right now exactly what it is. I can tell you what the

00:36:09.500 problem is with 100% certainty. You're using, you're not using enough butter. You're not using

00:36:16.300 enough seasoning. Um, white northerners have had this problem for centuries now. This is, you know, 0.73

00:36:23.520 I think this is one of the things the civil war was over. The food is bland, butterless. See,

00:36:30.840 what you have to understand about restaurants, restaurants put butter on everything. If you're

00:36:33.520 asking why are, why is food so good at restaurants is because they put globs of butter on everything.

00:36:39.100 They put a, if you're having green beans at a restaurant, they put a, they put a gallon of

00:36:43.240 butter on it. It doesn't matter. Vegetables, meat, everything. Butter, butter, butter. That's why it

00:36:49.240 tastes so good. And, uh, that's why food in the South tastes good. In the South, they understand this.

00:36:54.800 They are just taking dump trucks of butter and putting it on everything they make down there.

00:36:59.080 They even, they even, you walk into a house in the South, they cover the walls and the, and the,

00:37:03.780 and the floor with butter. Everything has butter. And the food is great. Of course, that's why so

00:37:09.320 many Southerners are obese. I think eight of the fattest 10 states in the union are, are in the South,

00:37:14.920 but it's, it's, it's worth it for the great food. And then seasoning. This again is a problem among

00:37:19.400 white northerners, not nearly enough seasoning. Um, so if you're in that category, you should be using, 1.00

00:37:26.000 and I say this by the way, as a, as a white per is a white northerner myself. Okay. So I'm allowed

00:37:29.640 to say everything that I'm saying right now. These are, these are insulting stereotypes. They are

00:37:33.760 absolutely true. And, uh, so the other thing is a seasoning problem. Now you, and I have to tell

00:37:40.940 myself this because my friend, I've had to overcome this. My, I realized that my first inclination is to

00:37:47.080 use about a quarter of the seasoning that I should be. So I need to, what, what, when, when it feels like

00:37:51.540 I've used enough seasoning, put four times that amount on, uh, that's the rule of thumb. Now,

00:37:59.160 if you're making a steak or something, a really nice cut of meat, it's a little bit different.

00:38:02.380 In that case, you're putting salt, you're using the butter. The butter rule still applies, but you

00:38:06.800 want to let the flavors of the meat come out. The salt's going to help with that. Uh, you don't want

00:38:10.180 to drown it in seasoning in that case. But if, uh, for, for any dish that is not a very nice cut of

00:38:15.260 meat, you want the seasoning. I was at a, uh, someone's house the other day and they were making

00:38:20.260 tacos. And, uh, I watched them put one packet of the store-bought taco seasoning on two pounds of

00:38:29.700 ground beef, ground beef. Horrifying. Now you shouldn't be using the packets anyway. You should

00:38:34.840 make that at home, but because you should have a spice cabinet that has everything that the taco 0.99

00:38:38.780 seasoning is in, that's in the taco seasoning. But if you're using the packets, you want at least

00:38:43.660 three of them for that amount of meat, if not four. All right, let's go to, uh, why I'm wrong.

00:38:51.020 This is from Andrew. It says, hi, Matt. I attended your talk at College Park last night,

00:38:55.960 University of Maryland. I really enjoyed it and thought you gave easily the best speech of any

00:38:59.960 conservative I've seen on campus. Uh, but I did have a problem with one argument you made. Okay,

00:39:06.680 well, you just wrote it. So you compliment me and then you, and then you tell me that I'm wrong.

00:39:10.620 Didn't get a chance to talk to you about it in the Q&A. You said that only heterosexual people

00:39:16.280 should be able to get married because only that union can serve as the basis of the family because

00:39:20.640 only they can procreate. But you didn't adequately address the fact that some heterosexual unions are

00:39:25.940 not fertile and same-sex unions can still adopt. How does this not destroy your argument? Uh, well, 0.83

00:39:32.720 hi, Andrew. I think I did address that. Um, it's true, of course, that some straight couples 0.98

00:39:40.480 can't have kids. In fact, every straight couple is in that boat eventually if they stay together and 1.00

00:39:46.980 if, if, uh, if they live long enough. Also, it's true that same-sex couples can adopt, but none of 0.82

00:39:53.560 this has any bearing on my point. My point is that hetero, the heterosexual union in principle

00:39:58.960 has the capacity to create life. And this capacity sets it apart from any other union. In a similar

00:40:04.920 way, you know, I might say that human beings in principle have two arms and two legs. Meaning

00:40:10.380 these are fundamental features. As a general rule, human beings have two arms and two legs.

00:40:16.560 If somebody were to say to you, describe what a human being looks like, you're going to say,

00:40:23.120 you're going to give a description and it's going to include two arms and two legs.

00:40:27.920 Just like if I ask you, what does an elephant look like? In your description, you're going to

00:40:31.880 mention that the, uh, the trunk, right? That's what in principle is general rule. Now a person can

00:40:39.780 lose an arm. A person can be born with a deformity and not have any legs. Does this make them not human?

00:40:45.660 Well, of course not. But, uh, the point is that they would have arms and legs if not for the mutation

00:40:50.940 or disease or injury that caused, uh, things to be different for them. So they are exceptions,

00:40:56.260 but they are exceptions that prove the rule because if someone has one arm or no legs,

00:41:01.580 you automatically know that something went wrong. Automatically. You know that there was an injury,

00:41:07.320 there was a, there was a, a, a mutation, there was an illness. You know that for sure

00:41:12.640 because they're not supposed to be that way. And we know they're not supposed to be that way

00:41:17.640 because we know in principle what a human being is supposed to look like. Now, what happens if a

00:41:23.440 spaceship lands and creatures come out of the spaceship and, uh, all the creatures have eight

00:41:29.560 arms and four legs? Be a little top heavy, but well, in that case, we would know that these creatures,

00:41:39.640 whatever they are, are not human. This is not a case of a minority of people who happen to have

00:41:44.960 fewer limbs than they ought to have because of some misfortune that befell them. No, now we have

00:41:49.760 a whole race of creatures who it would appear in principle have, uh, eight leg or eight arms and

00:41:56.300 four legs or whatever it is. So they aren't human. That doesn't mean they have less moral value

00:42:01.360 necessarily than human beings do. It just means that they're something different. They are something

00:42:06.240 other. We would call them something different. We wouldn't call them human. Okay. Back to marriage.

00:42:10.940 We have two things here to consider. One thing is the heterosexual union, which in principle has, 0.77

00:42:18.680 or at one point had, barring illness or deformity, the capacity to in itself create new life. The other

00:42:26.240 thing, the homosexual union in principle does not have and has never had and can never have and will 0.99

00:42:33.880 never have the capacity to in itself create new life. Uh, so these are two things that are in

00:42:41.320 principle different. We don't even need to get into the moral valuations right now. They're just

00:42:47.760 different. I, I, I'm trying to get you to, to that point of acknowledging the difference and they're

00:42:54.400 different in an, in a powerful and important way. One of these things creates people. The other does not.

00:43:03.240 I mean, imagine if the, rather than marital unions, we were talking about machines and you had one

00:43:11.720 machine that created people and another machine that didn't do that. Okay. Well, these are different

00:43:17.640 machines, right? And you probably, you wouldn't give them the same name. Uh, and, and you would

00:43:23.920 probably come to the conclusion that the, the, the, uh, people making machine is probably a little bit

00:43:29.980 more important because of what it does because of the function, because of its purpose. So my argument

00:43:38.900 is the thing that creates people should have a different name, be called something different

00:43:43.500 and should be valued by and protected by society more simply because of its crucial importance to

00:43:51.000 society. Everyone says, well, maybe the answer is to get the government out of marriage. The reason 0.98

00:43:56.460 the government, the state had a vested interest in marriage is because of its procreative potential.

00:44:03.980 And so that, that makes it a, something that everybody is concerned with. It doesn't mean that

00:44:08.800 the entire world can barge into your marriage and dictate terms and have a say in everything you do.

00:44:13.780 It's just that, uh, there's a real interest in protecting and, and, uh, encouraging the,

00:44:20.520 that marital union because it, it, it serves as the basis for the formation of new life

00:44:27.020 and, and the family and the family is the foundation of human civilization. And so of course,

00:44:33.520 human civilization is interested in it. Now the same sex union, uh, doesn't have that capacity. So 1.00

00:44:40.320 society has no real interest in it. The state has no real interest in it.

00:44:44.560 And that, again, is apart from any moral valuation. It's just, it's, there's not any,

00:44:52.100 it's just, why does society need to protect the union of, of, of, of two people who are, you know,

00:44:59.800 living together or, or what have you, but there's no procreative potential there.

00:45:04.440 Uh, and, and so that's the difference. That's, that's my point. Just remember that phrase in

00:45:12.420 principle. And so that, that I think will help navigate all these exceptions and serenity and

00:45:17.780 infertility and all the things that you're mentioning, Andrew. And we'll leave it there.

00:45:21.440 Thanks everybody for watching. Thanks for listening. Uh, Godspeed. Oh, and remember by my book,

00:45:26.560 Church of Cowards. Godspeed. Okay.

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Ep. 441 - The Extraordinary Cowardice Of Left Wing Campus Protestors

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