The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 469 - The Elites Want To Ban Homeschool

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, a Harvard professor has made the case for banning homeschooling,

00:00:05.060 and her argument, of course, is insane on many levels. We'll get into all of that. I'll dissect

00:00:10.060 her argument today. Also, five headlines, including the media freaking out because

00:00:13.400 people in Florida are committing the crime of going to the beach.

00:00:17.680 But isn't it a lot healthier and safer to be outside in the sun, in the fresh air,

00:00:23.260 than inside breathing recirculated air along with the other people in your house?

00:00:28.060 And in our daily cancellation, we cancel a CNN anchor who cried for a reason that is not on

00:00:34.620 the approved reasons for a man to cry list. And so we'll talk about that, and we'll go over that

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00:02:27.320 country shut down, millions of parents, of course, have discovered the considerable joys and also

00:02:32.560 considerable challenges of homeschooling. And I think this has made our bettors in the media and

00:02:38.400 academia extremely nervous. And for good reason, really, because what if a sizable portion of

00:02:45.560 these parents decide that they quite prefer teaching their own kids? What if they never

00:02:50.200 send their offspring back into the government's education factories? Well, then they, our bettors, 0.99

00:02:56.100 I mean, may lose their hold on an entire generation of children, and that would be a great tragedy for

00:03:01.420 them. Anyway, for our kids, it would be great, but for our bettors, it would be pretty bad.

00:03:05.380 And that's why we're seeing now this sort of full court press from academia and the media

00:03:11.080 against homeschooling, which homeschoolers know that for decades, we've been sustaining these

00:03:18.580 attacks on the fact that we educate our children, but it's just been ramped up in recent weeks.

00:03:24.220 So there was a recent article in the Washington Post, which was pretty forthright about these fears.

00:03:29.240 The editorial claimed, quote, homeschooling during the coronavirus will set back a generation of

00:03:34.360 children. And then Harvard Law School is holding a summit to discuss these problems. The summit will

00:03:41.120 focus especially on, quote, educational deprivation and child maltreatment that too often occurs under

00:03:47.880 the guise of homeschooling in a legal environment of minimal or no oversight. And the conversation will

00:03:54.040 be led by experts, of course. You always got to have those experts in there who will offer suggestions

00:03:59.540 on, quote, legal reform for homeschooling. Now, you hear legal reform, you think, what does that

00:04:06.200 mean? Well, to give you an idea of what legal reform might mean, at least to the folks over at Harvard,

00:04:11.960 we can look at an article that was just published in Harvard Magazine titled, The Risks of Homeschooling.

00:04:19.180 And it's accompanied by this unintentionally ironic picture, which I'll show you here. Take a look at

00:04:26.980 this picture. So you see there's a homeschooled child locked in a prison made of books, which

00:04:34.800 there's a lot to be said about that image, that books are a prison. But so the homeschooled child

00:04:40.680 is locked in a prison, looking out despairingly at all of these public school children who are outside

00:04:46.940 frolicking in the great outdoors. That's how they want us to see the dichotomy between public school

00:04:55.320 and homeschool. Of course, in reality, it's exactly the opposite. The public school child is chained to

00:05:01.400 a desk in a government building for eight hours a day. It's the homeschool child who can go outside

00:05:06.780 whenever they please. You know, we homeschool, especially when it's nice out, my wife will take the kids

00:05:12.000 outside to homeschool. We can homeschool outside, you can homeschool anywhere.

00:05:16.940 And so it's public school where, you know, you might get 35 minutes of rec time like you're in

00:05:22.800 prison, where the kids can go outside in a very controlled environment. Don't play dodgeball.

00:05:28.640 You know, you don't want to play any aggressive games. Kickball, probably no good. But they can go

00:05:34.240 outside and play approved recreation for 35 minutes. That's the public school environment,

00:05:40.140 not the homeschool environment. Now, while the picture is a hilariously poor representation

00:05:44.580 of homeschooling, it is a spot on representation of the article, which time and time again confuses the

00:05:52.900 problems of public school with the problem of homeschool, with the problems in homeschool.

00:05:58.900 The piece extensively quotes Elizabeth Bartholay, I'll just pronounce her name that way,

00:06:06.340 who we are told is the public interest professor of law and faculty director of the law school's

00:06:12.340 child advocacy program at Harvard. And Bartholay advocates an outright ban on the dangerous

00:06:19.360 practice of parents teaching their own kids. And all the reasons she gives are both illogical and

00:06:26.920 morally absurd. So let's go through and take a look at it. There's basically three points to her

00:06:33.480 argument, and we'll go through each of those three points. One, she worries that the unregulated regime 0.90

00:06:40.980 of homeschooling, as she puts it, unregulated regime, might allow parents who, quote, don't read or

00:06:47.080 write to handle, or rather, I suppose, mishandle their children's education. And as evidence of this

00:06:54.220 problem, she points to a memoir written by a woman who was homeschooled by survivalists in Idaho.

00:07:00.360 And I guess she thinks that that's fairly representative of the way most people are homeschooled.

00:07:05.980 Now, if she had any evidence, any actual evidence that any significant or even insignificant percentage

00:07:14.620 of homeschool parents are illiterate, then she should provide it. But giving us an anecdote

00:07:20.700 about survivalists in Idaho is not going to cut it. Because I would dare say that a sizable majority

00:07:30.280 of homeschool parents are not Idahoan survivalists, right? Nothing against Idahoan survivalists,

00:07:37.240 by the way. Besides, two can play at the anecdote game, right? I was public schooled for 12 years,

00:07:43.400 13 years, including kindergarten. And I could give you plenty of anecdotes, all right? If we want to

00:07:48.040 play the anecdote game, we could do this all day. So I could, for example, tell you about the

00:07:52.560 geography teacher I had in high school who didn't know that Georgia was the name of a state and a

00:07:57.720 country. Or I could tell you about the Spanish teacher I had in seventh grade who was rather

00:08:02.520 hampered in her Spanish teaching duties by the fact that she apparently could not speak Spanish.

00:08:08.020 And so instead we watched the movie Selena with Jennifer Lopez about five times all the way through

00:08:12.480 during school. So for every story about dumb and neglectful homeschool parents, which I admit that 0.98

00:08:17.920 there are, that they exist, but for every one story of those you could, you could, you could present, 0.99

00:08:22.480 I could dig up 10 about dumb and neglectful public school teachers. So this, this isn't going to 0.93

00:08:27.560 work. Now, if we're going beyond mere anecdotes to compare the relative quality of homeschool and

00:08:33.700 public school, and we start looking at data and statistics, homeschool still fares pretty well.

00:08:42.100 Homeschoolers tend to perform better than the national average on both the ACT and the SAT.

00:08:47.660 Um, now granted standardized tests are, in my opinion, not a good way to measure these things,

00:08:54.540 but that in itself is another argument against public school as the entire public school system

00:09:00.040 is structured around these tests. But the point is that homeschooled kids can beat the public school

00:09:06.340 kids at their own game and succeed and do better on the, on the standardized tests than they do.

00:09:11.980 And this is a fact that I'm convinced makes the Elizabeth Bartholays of the world hate homeschool 0.98

00:09:17.060 even more. Now putting standardized tests to the side, all we need to do is take a look around

00:09:24.240 society, a society, which is largely the product of the public school system to see how effective

00:09:30.840 that system has been because by their fruits, you shall know them, right? According to a certain

00:09:36.680 hugely influential book that public, that at least kids in homeschool are still allowed to study.

00:09:41.380 Uh, uh, whereas a pub in public school, you're not allowed to, but surveys and studies show that

00:09:46.940 most American adults are downright ignoramuses in subjects like civics, geography, math. Uh, now most

00:09:55.040 Americans may know how to read and, and most homeschool parents do as well, despite what, what we're told

00:10:00.380 in this article, but they've largely given up on the practice, which, which to me is, is an even,

00:10:05.300 even more disturbing indicator. It's not just that many Americans are poorly educated. It's that

00:10:12.120 they've given up on education. And I think in large part, because they've been so poorly educated,

00:10:17.360 they have no interest in learning anymore. So they leave public school and then maybe they go to

00:10:20.900 college and they leave college and they give up on learning. They don't read anymore. They don't

00:10:23.820 learn anything. That's what you see when you look around. Now it would be irrational to lay the blame

00:10:29.340 for all of this entirely at the feet of public school. I'm not saying that we do that, but

00:10:32.700 it also would be irrational to survey this landscape of ignorance and stupidity, uh, that is modern 0.99

00:10:39.300 American culture and conclude that the education system is doing a bang up job. It obviously isn't, 0.99

00:10:43.940 it's doing a very poor job. And that's a big part of the reason why parents are pulling their kids

00:10:49.420 out of it. Now we'll go to the second argument, which is even worse than the first, but before we do,

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00:12:09.240 Okay, so the second argument she gives, she says that homeschooled families are driven by

00:12:14.540 conservative Christian beliefs. God forbid. And that some of these parents, quote, are extreme

00:12:21.100 religious ideologues who question science and promote female subservience and white supremacy.

00:12:27.280 Now, her fears in this case are partially justified, of course, because it is indeed true 1.00

00:12:30.700 that many homeschool parents have committed the crime of being Christian. But then all educators 0.77

00:12:35.400 in all educational environments have underlying beliefs, and inevitably they will bring those

00:12:40.160 underlying beliefs into the classroom with them. Whether that's in homeschool or public school,

00:12:43.360 it's going to happen. It does happen. As for the notion that homeschool parents promote

00:12:47.680 female subservience and white supremacy, I mean, this is, of course, nothing short of just ridiculous 0.98

00:12:53.680 fear-mongering that has no evidentiary basis whatsoever. And she doesn't bother to try to 0.99

00:12:59.020 prove that. I think her research into homeschooling apparently has consisted of reading like Jezebel.com 0.73

00:13:04.760 and the Daily Kos and that's it. Now, as far as homeschool parents questioning science and rejecting

00:13:11.720 science, and you hear this a lot from the anti-homeschool crowd, that they're worried that homeschool

00:13:16.780 kids will not get a good science education because these are all science deniers, right, that homeschool

00:13:22.780 their kids. I have to ask, though, we need some qualification here because when she says

00:13:27.660 questioning science, does she mean actual science or the kind of, quote, science they teach in public 0.99

00:13:33.460 school these days, the kind that says that girls have penises and boys can get pregnant? Because if 0.99

00:13:40.260 that's the kind of science she's talking about, then yes, as a homeschool parent, I fully admit,

00:13:44.320 I question that science. And in fact, that science is, again, one of the reasons why my kids are not

00:13:50.540 stepping foot in a public school classroom. Three, finally, she says that some homeschool parents 0.90

00:13:58.720 might abuse their children. And she explains that most public school teachers are mandated reporters

00:14:05.440 to the government. And so they can alert authorities if there's signs of abuse in the home. And she says,

00:14:11.060 if a child doesn't go to school, then he's being abused, there's not going to be anybody there.

00:14:16.360 There might not be anyone there to save him from the abuse. Now, the problem with this argument is

00:14:21.120 that it completely fails to account for the abuse that happens in public school. There was a study

00:14:27.280 commissioned a few years ago, several years ago, by the Department of Education. This is a Department

00:14:32.820 of Education commissioned study that found that one in 10 public school kids are victims of sexual

00:14:39.560 misconduct by educators. That's 10%. 10% of kids are victims of some form of sexual harassment,

00:14:49.360 abuse, or misconduct by educators. Now, there's how many kids go to public school? I think it's like

00:14:53.940 50 million or something like that. So 10% of that, you do the math. And that's to say nothing of the

00:14:59.920 many thousands of children who have been sexually abused at school by other students. Now, when you

00:15:05.940 compare this to the rate of abuse at home, and even when you compare just sexual abuse in school to all

00:15:15.560 forms of abuse at home, even when you do that comparison, it seems still apparent that a child

00:15:22.140 who is homeschooled will not be rescued from his situation by a vigilant teacher. It seems pretty

00:15:30.960 apparent that a child is more likely to be abused at school than at home. That's what the numbers tell

00:15:37.760 us when you look at the numbers. Percentage of kids that are abused at home versus percentage of kids

00:15:42.580 that are abused in school. And when you look at those numbers, it's more likely to happen at school.

00:15:48.120 So the idea of the school being there as this savior to save kids from abuse, that does happen

00:15:54.920 sometimes. But it's more likely. So yes, you may have kids who are abused at home and then are saved

00:16:01.220 from it because a teacher at school notices and is vigilant. That does happen. But it's much more

00:16:08.640 common that a kid who is not abused at home goes to school and is abused there. Now, on top of all

00:16:15.340 this, public school also offers bullying, suicide, drug abuse, alcoholism, social ostracization,

00:16:23.000 peer pressure. You know, when you consider the myriad dangers of public school and the harmful

00:16:29.320 effect it so often has and the generally abysmal job it has done of educating our children,

00:16:35.700 you start to think that if we're banning any form of school, maybe it should be public school that we

00:16:40.760 ban. Now, I'm not sure that I would go that far, but I could make a much more persuasive argument

00:16:47.660 in that direction than the one that Harvard Magazine has offered or that any anti-homeschool

00:16:52.920 person offers against homeschooling. But as I said at the top, even though their arguments are absurd

00:17:01.740 and are easily debunked, there's a good reason for these people to be nervous about homeschooling

00:17:09.680 and for them to oppose it. Because when it comes down to it, they want to have control over your

00:17:14.700 children. They don't trust you. It's not they don't trust you because they think that you're

00:17:18.680 physically abusing your kids. No, they don't trust you to instill the right values in your kid. This

00:17:24.880 is all about values and ideas. And they don't trust you with that. And so they want you to send your kid

00:17:30.780 into the government building for eight hours a day, five days a week, nine months a year for the first

00:17:34.980 13 years of their, or at least for 13, for 13 years or more of their formative years. They want

00:17:40.600 you to do that so that they can take over that part of it and make sure that your kids become 0.73

00:17:44.480 the right sort of person in their minds. Now let's move on to headlines. Number one, Florida opened

00:17:52.240 their beaches back up and the media has not stopped having a panic attack over it. Just to give you one

00:17:59.140 example among many, there's this headline in the Daily Beast. It says, very, very scary. Officials

00:18:04.920 dumbfounded as Florida beaches reopened three days after death spike. And the article goes on to quote

00:18:10.740 local officials who are very scared and scandalized by all the people allegedly packing the beaches.

00:18:16.980 Now, a guy who works on the Biden campaign posted a viral tweet showing the carnage. Take a look at this

00:18:24.760 picture here. And with the caption, it says, Jacksonville beach reopened 26 minutes ago. This is a

00:18:28.920 live picture. Oh my gosh. Terrible. This is terrifying. Look at all those, look at all those families

00:18:36.300 spaced out on the beach, in the open air, in the sun. Wait, so what exactly is the problem here?

00:18:48.560 Because when I look at that picture, I see clumps of people who we can assume are families. They went to

00:18:53.960 the beach together. Most people don't go to the beach by themselves. So what I see are little clumps of

00:18:58.700 people, families. And then I see a lot of space in between the clumps. And so I don't understand

00:19:04.600 what the problem is. And then the Hill posted a montage of video footage of the beaches. And this

00:19:10.940 is all, again, supposed to be terrifying when you see all these allegedly stupid people, reckless, 1.00

00:19:16.240 who've gone to the beach. So let's look at this montage. And again, for the most part, people are 1.00

00:19:21.780 spaced out. Now, you do see groups closer together, but those are in the shots where people are walking by

00:19:27.760 each other. So we're not looking at a bunch of whole crowds of people setting up shop,

00:19:33.920 camping out right next to each other. They're just walking by each other on the way to somewhere else.

00:19:38.880 Now, let me ask you, what is the chance that you transmit or catch the virus while walking past

00:19:46.500 someone for two seconds outside in the sun, in the heat, in the open air? What's the chance?

00:19:52.000 I'm not saying it's impossible, but what's the chance of it happening? I don't know the answer

00:19:59.160 to that. And neither does anyone freaking out about this. But all of the available research

00:20:04.300 tells us that the virus does poorly outside and especially in the sun. And it is not very

00:20:10.440 efficiently transmitted when you're out in the air where there's air circulation.

00:20:14.740 So the chance is very low. I think we can at least say that. Very, very low. And I would argue

00:20:21.980 that the negligible risk is counterbalanced by the psychological and physical benefits of getting

00:20:27.460 exercise and getting sun. Now, by the way, drive-thrus are still open everywhere in the country,

00:20:33.960 as far as I know. Even places like Dunkin' Donuts are open. So you can drive through. Now,

00:20:40.940 Dunkin' Donuts apparently is essential because you might really need that donut,

00:20:44.120 which, okay, I get it. Sometimes donuts are essential. But you can go to the drive-thru

00:20:49.780 at Dunkin' Donuts, for example, and come within six feet of another person to get a donut. Now,

00:20:56.000 they do have to, you might be in the drive-thru, but you are, I mean, most people, their wingspan

00:21:00.080 isn't more than six feet. So you got to get closer than six feet so they can pass the donuts to you.

00:21:03.660 Unless you're 50 feet away and they're throwing you the donuts, maybe we'll get to the point where

00:21:08.880 that's how it's done. But right now, you're getting within six feet so somebody can hand you

00:21:14.540 a donut, which they touched with their hands. So let's think about this for a second.

00:21:24.060 Which of those is more dangerous? To eat a donut that a stranger hands to you or to walk by a

00:21:32.900 stranger on the beach? Now, both, I think, are very safe and nothing to worry about. But which is more

00:21:39.360 likely to be an occasion of viral transmission? Seems pretty obvious to me that it's the one

00:21:44.980 where you're putting something in your mouth that a stranger has touched. Yet, everybody is shaming

00:21:50.420 the people on the beach, not the people in line for a glazed donut. That, to me, doesn't make any

00:21:54.760 sense. And there's a lot of shaming happening. Here's a video someone took of people at a park.

00:22:00.680 This is not in Florida, but this is at a park. But again, shaming them for being outside.

00:22:07.300 So you look at this. Once again, what's the problem? People are well-spaced. They're outdoors.

00:22:14.880 They're in the sun. Meanwhile, you're filming while you're driving. Just so you could be a snitch.

00:22:23.360 Which is a greater danger to public health? Someone who's more than six feet away from you outside or

00:22:29.580 someone who's filming while driving? Number two, there were protests all across the country this

00:22:35.920 weekend. Thousands of people taking to the street to demand an end to the lockdowns. Of course, many

00:22:40.120 proponents of the lockdowns have been less than charitable to the protesters, shall we say, 1.00

00:22:45.960 accusing them of being selfish, stupid, conspiracy theorists, so on and so on. But if you're wondering 0.99

00:22:53.100 why these people are protesting, let me give you a little hint. Here's a shot of a food bank line in

00:22:58.660 Texas. And this is happening all over the country. We've seen images like this in Maryland, Pennsylvania,

00:23:04.800 Florida, California, all over the country we've seen this. So if people are protesting, you know,

00:23:11.000 if you're confused about it, you're wondering, why would people protest? Well, maybe it's because they

00:23:14.680 can't eat. Have you thought about that? Maybe it's because they would like to be able to eat,

00:23:20.540 and the government has taken that ability from them. Now, for another hint at why might people

00:23:26.740 might protest, we could look at this image from a CNN article. It's a woman who was protesting in 0.84

00:23:32.560 Maryland, and she's got a very crudely made sign, and she's saying she wants to save her business. 0.97

00:23:40.400 You know, she needs her business to live. That's her livelihood, which makes sense, doesn't it?

00:23:44.820 You may not agree with the protesters. You may support the lockdown still. But if you sneer in

00:23:52.400 contempt at them, as so many people have been doing, then you're just a bad person. Because any

00:23:58.380 decent person, agree or not, can at least understand why desperate people who've had everything taken

00:24:05.340 from them and cannot even afford to eat or to feed their children would want this to end. You should at

00:24:12.040 least be able to understand that and sympathize with it. It is not selfish or dumb for a person

00:24:19.580 to fight to protect what they work their entire lives for. It is not selfish or dumb for them to

00:24:26.340 fight so they can feed their kids and care for their families. You know, I got into a back and forth

00:24:31.320 with somebody yesterday online, and they were telling me that, no, it is selfish and dumb because, 0.93

00:24:37.740 you know, besides, you don't really need your job. The government will take care of you. 0.93

00:24:43.120 If the government's there, the government can give you money. Well, the problem there is, number one,

00:24:49.380 that solution isn't working, and we'll talk more about this in a minute. But a lot of people who

00:24:54.760 need the money aren't getting it. A lot of people who are getting the money need a lot more than what

00:24:59.900 they're getting, the government cannot step in and become the sugar daddy for tens of millions of

00:25:07.240 Americans all at once. It just can't do that. The money has to come from somewhere, and it doesn't 0.97

00:25:11.960 work. And besides that, this person who I was talking to was a man, a man, allegedly. And I think a man

00:25:23.200 especially should understand, you know, this, as a, at least for me, as a man, I want to be able to provide

00:25:32.700 for my family, not have the government do it. I want to provide for my family. And if you took that away from

00:25:39.960 me, even if, if you took that away from me, even if the government was able to step in and compensate, which

00:25:47.420 it wouldn't be able to do, but even if it did, that would still be a great tragedy for me. Because I

00:25:54.920 want to provide for them. And you are taking that from me. That is something real and important that

00:26:00.240 you are taking from me. And from my family. That's something that every man should be able to

00:26:06.640 understand. And if you're a man and you, and you, you act like you don't understand that, then I have

00:26:09.600 to question your, your basic manhood, honestly. Now I'm not saying that there, there, this is exactly my

00:26:15.900 point. I'm not saying that if you, if you're a man and you're not able to provide for your family

00:26:18.660 right now, and the government has to step in, I'm not saying you're less of a man. My point is,

00:26:22.700 it's a terrible thing that's, that's happened to you. I'm sympathizing with you. And if I was in your

00:26:27.700 boat, well, look, if I was, if I lost my income, I would take whatever help I could get for the sake

00:26:32.840 of my family. And that would, in that sense, in that case, be the manly thing to do, to humble

00:26:36.940 yourself. But it's, it's, it's, it's not ideal. It's not good. It's, it's a tragedy.

00:26:41.940 Um, and I just can't help but take note of the fact that seemingly the vast majority of the people

00:26:49.620 criticizing lockdown protesters, certainly the loudest and most visible critics in media,

00:26:54.800 still have incomes. They have an income, but they're calling you selfish for wanting your income

00:27:01.220 back. Uh, three, and, uh, here are bulldozers in California filling a skate park in with sand,

00:27:08.500 uh, the Venice, uh, skate park to stop people from skateboarding there.

00:27:12.820 So there you go. Uh, once again, you know, because, of course, we don't want people outside,

00:27:18.920 you know, if you, if you skateboard past somebody, I'm sure there's a real outside,

00:27:23.780 I'm sure there's a real great chance of, uh, of, of the virus being transmitted, right?

00:27:28.300 And, you know, it's, it's better to, rather than having the kids outside in the sun, in the open air,

00:27:32.700 rather than that, let's have them inside with their older relatives, having prolonged contact

00:27:39.060 with their older relatives. That's, that's a much better plan, right? For here's an MSNBC report

00:27:44.100 about police departments across the country using Chinese made drones to spy on citizens for the

00:27:52.200 sake of enforcing social distancing. And I want you to especially pay attention to, uh, when, when

00:27:57.760 they're listing the areas where you might be spied on, there's one area in particular that I think

00:28:02.920 should cause your ears to perk up. Watch this. Mayors need to be creative. We have to figure out 1.00

00:28:09.240 a way to get to people that police cars can't get to. Elizabeth city police shot this video for us to

00:28:15.760 show us how drones work. The drones make it easier for police to see into certain areas where access by

00:28:22.800 patrol cars is more difficult. That includes tight spaces between buildings, behind schools, and in

00:28:29.440 backyards. Failure to comply could lead to a summons or a thousand dollar fine. You think the drones

00:28:38.300 watching over people is a good idea or a bad idea? I think at any, at this point, it's worth a try. It's

00:28:44.760 just an invasion of your privacy. The mayor's heard it all. My answer to those people are, if these drones

00:28:51.540 save one life, it is clearly worth the activity and the information that the drones are sending.

00:28:59.020 The drones donated by DJI, a Chinese company have gone to 43 agencies in 22 States, all to help

00:29:06.400 enforce social distancing rules. You should not be complicating in groups. Authorities say the drones

00:29:12.580 aren't taking pictures or collecting evidence. It's a high tech warning against a deadly virus.

00:29:18.160 Backyards. Backyards. You heard that, right? They said they're spying on you in your backyard

00:29:25.080 with a drone that was helpfully donated from China. I'm sure out of the goodness of their heart.

00:29:33.240 China, out of the goodness of its heart, has donated spy drones that police departments can use to spy

00:29:40.140 on Americans when they're sitting on their own property. And then the mayor there gives us the old,

00:29:45.660 if it saves one life bit. I mean, they're still giving us this. If it saves one life, you know,

00:29:52.060 if it saves one life, I, because I'm, I'm, I'm a humanitarian. This is, this is really, I'm so

00:29:57.100 concerned about saving lives. That's, that's all this is about. That's it. Well, guess what? No,

00:30:02.660 no, it is not worth it. If you save one life, it's not worth you spying on me in my own yard.

00:30:13.120 If it saves a life, I'll tell you this. I don't care if it saves 10,000 lives,

00:30:17.280 which it won't by the way. Okay. The drone's not going to save any lives. It's going to save zero

00:30:24.220 lives. But even if it saved 10,000 lives, it's not worth the price of having our privacy completely

00:30:33.280 destroyed and being spied on the, in the government by the government when we sit in our own yards.

00:30:41.300 I mean, maybe you could save lives by performing random house checks, maybe going door to door,

00:30:47.800 barging into people's homes, checking to make sure they're washing their hands correctly and so on.

00:30:52.040 In fact, you know what? Actually maybe install, install cameras in people's bathrooms and kitchens

00:31:00.260 to just to, you know, make and have hand-washing experts in the government watching. And if somebody

00:31:06.440 doesn't wash their hands properly, you know, they can come on over the intercom and they can

00:31:10.520 give, give instructions. Citizen, you did not wash your hands correctly. Maybe something like that.

00:31:16.280 That could save lives. Good. But, you know, I guess I'm so cruel and heartless. I would say,

00:31:23.780 I don't care if that would save a million lives. I would, I would say absolutely not.

00:31:30.440 The, the complete forfeiture of our privacy and freedom is not worth it. Period. Is not worth it.

00:31:38.040 I would rather die than have that. I would rather be dead. That used to be the American attitude. 0.99

00:31:46.460 That in fact is the attitude that our country was literally founded on. And now you have people

00:31:52.040 embracing this kind of stuff because they're scared. It's pathetic. But of course, you know, 1.00

00:31:57.880 we're really playing the government's game in a way when we argue about whether this is worth it to

00:32:02.020 save lives because it's not saving lives first of all. And that's not why they're doing it anyway.

00:32:07.140 That's not the point. So I, I feel the need to engage with this argument of it's worth it if it

00:32:12.560 saves one, saves one life, but, but maybe the best thing is to not engage with it because this is just

00:32:16.720 the excuse they're giving. Do you, do you really think the mayor, whatever mayor that was there,

00:32:20.240 I don't remember, um, sending spy drones to your house, you really think he's a humanitarian who

00:32:26.860 cares, who gives a damn about saving lives? No, it's just power. It's a, it's enormous power.

00:32:33.060 And he's saying to himself, Oh my gosh, I mean, I, you know, I have these fancy drones now

00:32:36.620 and I can go spy on people. Awesome. That's all the thought going into it from people like that,

00:32:43.300 that goober there that you saw. It's just, Whoa, cool. I can spy on people. Sweet. 0.99

00:32:50.360 That is the entire, that's it. That's the entire thought process.

00:32:55.500 Number five, uh, Shake Shack has announced that it's returning a $10 million government loan that was

00:33:00.200 part of the small business relief package, uh, for the coronavirus and they're returning it saying

00:33:06.960 they don't need it. I mean, good for Shake Shack. So they should be applauded for that. A little,

00:33:10.400 little positivity there. But of course this raises a question of why Shake Shack, which is definitely

00:33:16.560 not a small business, ever got a small business loan as part of the coronavirus relief effort.

00:33:21.260 And they aren't the only ones by a long shot, many large restaurant chains and other large businesses,

00:33:27.560 um, who, who by the way, are still operating and making money have been given these loans while

00:33:33.640 many actual small businesses have not. And this is why we were talking about before. This is why you

00:33:38.600 cannot shut down the economy and expect the government to fill in the gaps. The government

00:33:44.500 is not nearly competent enough for that, um, is far too corrupt. And even if the government was,

00:33:51.960 was perfectly benevolent and competent, it still would not be able to do this. You still wouldn't

00:33:56.460 be able to shut down a, a multi, multi trillion dollar economy, grind it to a halt and have a

00:34:03.620 bureaucracy step in and, uh, nothing is lost, lost in translation. That it just, it's, it would not

00:34:08.760 work. It can't work. All right, finally, let's go to your daily cancellation. Uh, today we have to

00:34:13.780 cancel CNN anchor, Brian Stelter, who, um, perhaps you might say has a bit of a melodramatic streak.

00:34:24.780 And so over the weekend he tweeted, this is what he tweeted. Take a look. He says,

00:34:29.500 last night I hit a wall gutted by the death toll, disturbed by the government's shortcomings,

00:34:34.540 dismayed by political rhetoric that bears no resemblance to reality, worried about friends

00:34:39.000 who are losing jobs, kids who are missing school and senior citizens who are living in fear.

00:34:42.300 I crawled in bed and cried for our pre pandemic lives. Tears that had been waiting a month to

00:34:49.260 escape. I wanted to share because it feels freeing to do so. Now is not a time for faux invincibility.

00:34:55.980 Journos are living this, hating this like everybody else. Okay. Now listen, uh, this is a tough time

00:35:06.180 for all of us. And I agree, but pull yourself together, man, pull yourself together. Be a man for

00:35:16.820 God's sake. Can you imagine? I asked the ladies in the audience, I ask you to imagine this. 0.83

00:35:22.040 What would you do if you, if you climbed into bed at night and you found your husband there sobbing?

00:35:26.920 Be honest. Okay. You'd feel bad for him. Probably part of you would feel bad for him,

00:35:33.500 but at the same time, wouldn't you be at least, wouldn't at least part of you also be embarrassed

00:35:39.040 for him as well? Unless he has a good reason, obviously. Um, and you know, we've gone over

00:35:46.380 before. What are the good reasons? What are the acceptable reasons for a man to cry? There are only a

00:35:51.200 few, but if he's crying because his dad just died or another immediate family member. Okay.

00:35:57.980 Or because his team just lost in the playoffs. Um, or because the cat jumped up on the counter and

00:36:04.340 knocked over his bottle of whiskey. Um, that would be acceptable. Or because he just watched the movie

00:36:12.480 Rudy. Uh, that, that would be fine. Or because he was just stabbed in the stomach. Now only in the

00:36:20.620 stomach, if he was stabbed like in the arm or the leg, then it's, I mean, it's walk it off. Right.

00:36:24.680 But if stag, stab like in the gut, and if it just happened 10 seconds ago, maybe you're the one who 0.99

00:36:31.260 stabbed him. Then I think you have to allow for a few tears, a few manly tears. And then, you know 0.99

00:36:36.780 what? I'll also allow for, um, for tears related to fatherly pride. So for example, if your son hits his

00:36:46.300 first, uh, home run in little league, you could cry over that also fatherly shame. So if your son,

00:36:55.540 if we're, you know, five games into the season and your, your son has not even gotten a hit yet,

00:37:00.240 hasn't even got a base hit. He strikes out every time because he's a bad athlete. Then you might

00:37:04.160 weep a little bit in the stands when you realize that your nerdy son has no athletic skill whatsoever.

00:37:09.000 So either of those I'll allow, but, but that that's pretty much it. And hopefully if you,

00:37:16.060 if you see your husband crying over that, you'll console him because that is a manly cry.

00:37:22.100 But if he's crying because he's stressed about stuff that's happening in the world,

00:37:25.760 well then yeah, part of you pities him, but the other part of you is worried

00:37:28.680 that you may have accidentally married a woman. Um, the real problem though, is I think just talking

00:37:35.340 about it publicly? Like, okay, you cry, you have a nervous breakdown, whatever. You don't need to

00:37:40.980 advertise it to everybody else. As a man, you shouldn't be going around telling people that

00:37:46.140 you cried last night. Have some self-respect, even if it's for one of the acceptable reasons.

00:37:52.060 That's still, it's an intimate moment. Maybe one other person witnessed you cry.

00:37:58.500 I mean, as a man, there should only be a very few people in your life who have ever seen tears

00:38:04.000 exit your tear ducts. And, um, and you don't want to share it with everybody else.

00:38:10.980 So have some self-respect. And if you don't have self-respect as a man, then you're canceled,

00:38:15.920 which will give you another thing to cry about, I suppose. Um, all right. And of course we haven't

00:38:24.240 even, I mean, we could even put all that aside in just the fact that he's again, trying to make

00:38:28.020 journalists, the victims and the heroes of this. It's just repulsive. So, um, but that's it. We

00:38:35.980 will, uh, we'll leave it there. I'm going to go have a good cry myself. I'm, I'm, I'm scheduled for

00:38:39.980 one and I'll talk to you guys tomorrow. God bless. Stay safe. Godspeed.

00:38:45.320 We'll see you next time.

00:39:15.320 Well, Brian Stelter couldn't get to work last week cause he had to cry like a little girl and

00:39:30.300 the media wants the rest of America to do the same. The elites have a message for you. Let them eat

00:39:35.060 dust. We have a message too about what they can eat and I'll talk about it on the Andrew Klavan show.

00:39:39.520 I'm Andrew Klavan.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 20, 2020

Ep. 469 - The Elites Want To Ban Homeschool

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