Ep. 501 - It's Time To Stop Applauding
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A story from Stalin's Soviet Russia that seems harrowingly relevant today. Also, five headlines including the rampaging mob tearing down a statue of Christopher Columbus in Virginia, and HBO banning Gone with the Wind because it isn't racially enlightened enough by our standards.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, I want to talk about a story from Stalin's Soviet Russia that
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seems harrowingly relevant today. So we're going to talk about that. Also, five headlines,
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including the rampaging mob tearing down a statue of Christopher Columbus in Virginia,
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and HBO banning Gone with the Wind because it isn't racially enlightened enough by our standards
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today. We have officially entered the book-burning stage of our societal collapse. Isn't it wonderful?
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And today in our daily cancellation, sadly, tragically, my wife must be canceled again
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for the fifth time, I believe. You will be outraged and truly scandalized when you hear
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what she did. So that's coming up as well. Now, I believe I've mentioned this story before,
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many shows ago, so I apologize if I'm repeating myself. But I've been thinking about this a lot,
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especially recently. There's a book that I know I've mentioned before, and that's called
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The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn. This is his masterwork, his magnum opus, and he had a lot of
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great opuses. Opi, maybe is the plural of that. So to say this is his greatest really says something
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indeed. The Gulag Archipelago is about the Soviet gulag system, their prison camp, labor camp system,
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and the book. It's three books, actually, three volumes. It covers several decades with a
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significant focus, especially in the first volume, on Stalin's reign over the Soviet Union. Solzhenitsyn
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knew something about the gulag system because he spent a good amount of time in it. He went to a
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prison camp, I think, for seven or eight years. He suffered the same fate as many Soviet soldiers did
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after coming home from the front during World War II. After seeing some of the most brutal and violent
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fighting in the war, in any war, a lot of them came home and were shipped off to prison camps on
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some, you know, on one pretense or another. A reason was found many times to send them back because of a
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suspicion that the Soviet government had that these people were, you know, may have encountered Western
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ideas and so we need to go in and sort of reset them, re-educate them by sending them to a prison
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camp. The reason that Solzhenitsyn was sent to prison camp is that he wrote some critical things
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about Stalin in a private letter to a friend. And of course, those letters were intercepted and read
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and that's a big no-no in a communist dictatorship. You don't say anything bad about the communist
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dictator. And so he went to prison camp for seven or eight years. The book is not a memoir,
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though, not exclusively anyway. It's also a history of the labor camp system and of Soviet Russia.
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A chilling read, highly relevant, highly relevant to our current situation. And I think one of the
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many failures of our public school system is that high school kids are not required to read all three
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volumes of this book or even one volume of it. One of the many failures, although I suppose it makes
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sense. I mean, why would a prison camp want its inmates to read a book criticizing prison camps?
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In any case, there are many stories from the Gulag Archipelago that will haunt you and stay with you
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after reading it. One in particular has been on my mind really ever since I read the book, which was a
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few years ago. But especially in recent months and especially in recent weeks, I have been thinking
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about this story. An incident is recounted that, well, actually, I guess I'll just, I'll read it
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a story from Gulag Archipelago that really resonates today. Let me read this to you.
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It says, a district party conference was underway in Moscow province. It was presided over by a new
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secretary of the district party committee, replacing one recently arrested. At the conclusion of the
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conference, a tribute to comrade Stalin was called for. Of course, everyone stood up. The small hall
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echoed with stormy applause rising to an ovation. For three minutes, four minutes, five minutes,
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the stormy applause rising to an ovation continued. But palms were getting sore and raised arms were
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already aching. And the older people were panting from exhaustion. It was becoming insufferably silly
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even to those who really adored Stalin. However, who would dare to be the first to stop? The secretary
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of the district party committee could have done it. He was standing on the platform and it was he who
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had just called for the ovation. But he was a newcomer. He had taken the place of a man who'd
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been arrested. He was afraid. After all, NKVD men were standing in the hall applauding and watching
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to see who quit first. And in that obscure small hall, unknown to the leader, the applause went on.
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Six, seven, eight minutes. They were done for. Their goose was cooked. They couldn't stop now till they
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collapsed with heart attacks. At the rear of the hall, which was crowded, they could, of course,
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cheat a bit, clap less frequently, less vigorously, not so eagerly. But up there with the presidium
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where everyone could see them? The director of the local paper factory, an independent and strong-minded
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man, stood with the presidium. Aware of all the falsity and all the impossibility of the situation,
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he still kept on applauding. Nine minutes, ten. In anguish, he watched the secretary of the district
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party committee. But the latter dared not stop. Insanity to the last man, with make-believe
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enthusiasm on their faces, looking at each other with faint hope. The district leaders were just
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going to go on and on applauding till they fell where they stood, till they were carried out on
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the hall on stretchers. And even then, those who were left would not falter. Then, after 11 minutes,
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the director of the paper factory assumed a business-like expression and sat down in his
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seat. And, oh, a miracle took place. Where had the universal, uninhibited, indescribable enthusiasm
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gone? To a man, everyone else stopped dead and sat down. They had been saved. The squirrel had been
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smart enough to jump off his revolving wheel. That, however, was how they discovered who the
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independent people were. And that was how they went about eliminating them. That same night, the factory
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director was arrested. They easily pasted 10 years on him on the pretext of something quite different.
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But after he had signed Form 206, the final document of the interrogation,
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his interrogator reminded him, don't ever be the first to stop applauding.
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So, there it is. Don't ever be the first to stop applauding. That could be the title of the book
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that some historian one day writes about our society and especially this moment in our society.
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We live in a culture that demands we affirm mainstream orthodoxy by performing ever more
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elaborate displays of approval and adulation. It is not enough to simply tolerate. The days of
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tolerance are long past. Which is why, if you notice, you don't hear that word quite as much as you used to.
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Because now, it is affirmation. It is applause. It is pronouncements of your agreement and your
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admiration. That is what you're required to provide. Tolerance will not do it. That's not
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going to cut it. That's not going to be enough. Now, we see this, of course, with every item on the
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left's agenda. Particularly with anything related to the sacred initialism, LGBT. Okay, you can't simply
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tolerate the gay pride parade. You have to join it. You have to express your approval of it.
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You can't simply tolerate a man identifying as a woman. You must invite him into the women's
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bathroom, women's sports team. You must use whatever language he assigns, whatever pronouns
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he demands. The English language itself, the very rules of the English language, must be changed to
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accommodate him. And on down the list. Applaud. Join the chorus. Don't stop. Don't sit down.
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Look at that man in the dress. What? You won't cheer for him? You're not going to cheer? Tears of admiration
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and joy are not welling up in your eyes? Then you're a bigot. You're a dirtbag. You are Hitler incarnate.
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And now we see it especially with Black Lives Matter. And this is what has really brought this to the
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forefront of my mind. You know, Black Lives Matter, an extremist left-wing organization.
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A violent organization. But we can't say any of that. I mean, it's obviously true. Black Lives Matter
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protests all over the country have for years descended into anarchy and arson and looting and murder.
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But somehow we're not allowed to point that out. No, no, no. You can't do that.
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No, no. And it's not just that you can't point that out. It's not just that you can't point out
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how violent and dangerous and wrong this organization is about everything. No, no, no. You need to kneel.
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Kneel before them. Literally kneel before them in submission and worship. And then stand up and applaud.
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Whatever they say, whatever they demand, agree, approve, accept. Want to burn down a building? Want
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to burn down a police precinct? Go right ahead. And this is what many people do. This is what entire
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companies, billion-dollar companies, do. They've been tripping over themselves to throw their support
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behind the radical left-wing agenda of Black Lives Matter. What about George Floyd? Well,
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it's not enough to say that his death was unjustified, that it's sad, that it's an injustice,
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that it should be adjudicated in court. No, no, no, no, no. That's not nearly enough. You can't just
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say that. You again have to fall on your knees and worship this man as a saint, as a hero, as an icon.
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And don't you dare mention any of the, shall we say, less savory aspects of George Floyd's life. Don't
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mention that. And this is what's happening. Democrats in the House knelt in silence to honor
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him for eight minutes. Murals with his face are spray-painted, are defacing, in fact, buildings
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across the country. He was buried yesterday in a funeral attended by hundreds, even as many American
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families have been prohibited from holding funerals with more than 10 or 15 people, and buried in a
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golden casket. A golden casket. I'm not kidding. Dignitaries and politicians showed up from across
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the country to performatively weep over him. Here's the mayor of Minneapolis who changed out of his wife's
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pants for the occasion, so I respect that at least. But here's him at George Floyd's golden casket.
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Now, I have been to plenty of funerals, as many of us have, unfortunately.
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You don't often see that sort of scene, even from the family members of the deceased.
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Okay, but the mayor, and the mayor didn't know this man.
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It's been weeks since this occurred. Are we supposed to? Really? You're breaking down on the
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ground in tears, weeping. Again, you go to, if you go to, you don't even usually see that from
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family members at funerals. Not quite to that extent, although, of course, in their case,
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it would be totally understandable. But the mayor's playing his part, doing what he's told,
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doing is what's demanded of him, like a good boy. Here's Father James Martin, heretic priest,
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literally canonizing George Floyd in a tweet, or trying to at least. The tweet says,
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this is not a great day for George Floyd, who only wanted to breathe, or for his family or friends
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who wanted him to live. May Mr. Floyd pray for us in heaven, forgive us for the violence we did to
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him, and for the disgraceful lack of sorrow, mourning, and remorse shown here, referencing
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something that Trump said. But listen to that. May Mr. Floyd pray for us in heaven. Now, note that
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among Catholics, a saint is anybody in heaven. Anybody in heaven is a saint. So, Father James Martin has
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declared that George Floyd is in heaven. He's St. Floyd. St. George Floyd. He has been christened.
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Again, this is, I keep using the phrase, I think, beyond parody, but it really is.
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But he's playing his part, once again, doing as he's told, like a good boy.
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So, whether it is applause demanded of us or weeping or any other emotion, and the emotion
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will be assigned to us, here's the emotion you're supposed to experience right now and
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demonstrate, and you damn well better demonstrate it. But whatever the emotion is, the principle
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is the same. It's the same that applied to that unfortunate but brave man who had enough
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and sat down at that party meeting in Soviet Russia. The principle is never be the first to
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stop applauding. And that is all the more reason why we should stop applauding. Someone, someone
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eventually has to sit down and say, enough, I'm done. I'm done with this charade. I won't participate.
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I won't do it. I don't believe this. This is crazy. This is irrational.
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Most of the people pretending to believe it really don't. And I'm not going to pretend anymore.
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I won't applaud. That is what we need to say, whatever the cost. And we'll move on to our news
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a statue of Christopher Columbus in Richmond was torn down by a mindless mob last night.
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They tore down the statue, set the statue on fire and then threw it into a lake.
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Once again, they were allowed to do this. They were allowed to destroy property, commit crime.
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No attempt to enforce the law was apparently made.
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Now, now listen, if you are not speaking out forcefully against this kind of thing right now,
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then I don't know what to say about you. You're brain dead. You're clueless.
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There is a rampaging mob tearing down our history, literally tearing it down brick by brick,
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statue by statue. And you know what? However you feel about
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the person that the statue was supposed to represent, you should oppose a rampaging mob
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tearing it down. You should oppose that on principle.
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Now, as far as that goes, though, let me say this about Christopher Columbus specifically.
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I think I think more than the principle, when it comes to Columbus, you should oppose it being
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torn down. Number one, because we can't allow rampaging mobs to do this kind of thing.
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Number two, because Christopher Columbus deserves to have a statue.
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Now, did he commit atrocities? Yes, he did. This was a brutal time across the world. It was not a
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racially enlightened time. It was a time when every single person on earth in, say, the year 1492,
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when Columbus is sailing the ocean blue, every single person on earth in 1492, every single person
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would be racist by our standards today. Every single person on earth, no exceptions.
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It is just impossible. It is actually impossible to believe that there was anyone in 1492 existing on
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the planet with 21st century Western ideas about race. Impossible. There was nobody.
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Okay. That's that's something we have to keep in mind. It was also a time when slavery was commonplace
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across the world. Not everybody supported it. Thankfully. Most people probably did. And it was
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a commonplace institution across the world. It was a time when land was taken by conquest.
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If you had land and you wanted to keep it, you had to protect it. If there was land and you wanted to
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take it, you took it. If you were able to. It was a time when people from different lands and tribes
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hated each other reflexively. Assumed the worst of each other. In fact, we still live in that time.
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It's just that the tribes are different now. They're more ideological than racial.
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Now, Columbus was guilty of all of that and more. And the thing is, no matter what you say,
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if you were born in the 15th century, you would have been a brutal bigot also. Doesn't mean you would
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have done everything Columbus did, good and bad. But this much is a guarantee. If you were alive in
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1492, you would be a brutal bigot. You just would be. Unless you have the arrogance to claim that you
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would have been the exception across it. Everybody else is one way, but you, you would have been the
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enlightened one. Yes. You would have been the one who could see the world, you know, who could,
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who could have a mindset that was 500 years ahead of its time. Yes. You, I'm sure you would have.
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Right. Those people tearing down the statues. Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure that they would have been the
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exception, right? They would have had the mindset 500 years ahead of its time. Sure. Yeah. I'm, I'm,
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I'm sure. Right. Now, does any of this excuse evil? No, but it puts it in context and context is
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important. It's important to, to thinking people. It's important. Thinking intelligent people with
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brains care about context because it helps us decide how to analyze, how to see things.
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But these mobs are not comprised of thinking people. These are ungrateful, ignorant, pompous
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brats who live in Western civilization, luxuriating in its comforts, enjoying the fruits of labor performed
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by greater men than themselves while hating those same men and claiming that the achievements which
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they take for granted and which make their lives so easy and comfortable and wonderful and joyful
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are nothing. You know, it's common now to hear people say that Columbus didn't really achieve
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anything because this land was already occupied and he didn't mean to find it. So what? Are you
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really that stupid that you think that that makes it unimpressive? He set sail across an uncharted
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ocean, thousands of miles to find a part of the world that, that nobody in his world knew about.
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And he established a permanent settlement in a hostile world wilderness and then repeated that
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feat three more times. Did he know where he was going exactly? No, because this was a 15th and 16th
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century. He didn't have GPS. He didn't have the internet. He didn't even have a map. You know why?
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He didn't have a map because guys like Columbus created the map. We needed men like him to go out
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and sail around and discover stuff so that we could have maps that later generations could use so that
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we could understand what the world was like. Is that an achievement? Yes, I would say it is.
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It's a greater achievement than anything you will ever do in your life or that I will ever do.
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And by the way, this idea that it's not impressive because people live there already.
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Okay. So in the future, when a space explorer sets out for a distant solar system and on the way bumps
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into an inhabited planet, discovers, uh, you know, life on another planet, are we going to say that that
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achievement doesn't matter, that it's not impressive? Whatever. I mean, yeah, he discovered a
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planet with inhabited life, uh, intelligent life, uh, you know, 3 billion miles away, but, uh, he,
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he didn't even mean to go there. He was going to that solar system over there. What a moron. What a
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dummy. Is that what we're going to say? Pretending that this event doesn't radically transform our
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world and our understanding, our understanding of the very, very reality of the world we live in is
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not, is not now being, uh, transformed because of this. No, I hope we would not say that.
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And the comparison is 100% apt. What Columbus did was at least as impressive and significant as
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discovering a new planet in outer space. In fact, I would say probably a lot more significant,
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whether it's more impressive. I mean, it's, you know, that we could debate that.
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Is that worthy of a statue? Yes, I would say it is.
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Until the non-contributing idiot, dumb brats tore it down.
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And one other, one other point here, if, again, if you think this isn't impressive,
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okay, then, you know, just give it a shot. I mean, go to, um, even with all of your modern
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understanding of everything, you know, you, you understand, you know, more about how the entire
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world looks, what the entire world looks like than Columbus did. Not because you're smart,
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not because you're smarter than he was, but just because guys like him told you what the world's
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like. Um, but anyway, even with that modern understanding, try to, you know, set off in a,
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in a ship from, I mean, anywhere on the, on the, on the East coast. I mean, just take the,
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the outer banks of North Carolina, let's say, and, uh, just, just, just head that away,
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uh, and try to see if you can land on, I don't know, Ireland. These are all known areas. Okay.
00:25:14.980
See, see, see what you can do. Uh, by the way, no GPS. You don't get to have that. No map.
00:25:20.460
You don't get that either. Um, no, no help of satellites, no radio. So if you get stranded
00:25:25.840
out there, you're screwed, you're dead. So you're going to know going into this,
00:25:29.640
that there's a very good chance you'll die. Very good chance. You're going to do it anyway.
00:25:35.720
Um, and see if you can make it. I mean, see if you could even hit anywhere on the other side of
00:25:41.520
the world. Just, just try to try to make, in fact, I'll give you the, the entirety of Europe and, uh,
00:25:47.020
and, uh, and Africa and West Africa. I'll give you all of that. Just try to hit any part of that
00:25:52.980
without dying or like running into Antarctica. I bet you couldn't even come close to doing it.
00:26:01.940
I bet you'd be dead in two days. And so would I.
00:26:07.660
So impressive. Can we be impressed? Yeah, I think we can be impressed.
00:26:11.480
Important discovery. Yeah, I would say important.
00:26:13.800
But then again, if you're not impressed with Western civilization, if you, if you think it was
00:26:21.000
founded by marauders and rapists and, and we have no right to be here, you are free to leave
00:26:27.140
anytime you want. You're free to do that. No one's going to stop you. And in fact, we talk about
00:26:33.520
applauding. That is one thing that I will genuinely, sincerely applaud. I will give you a standing ovation
00:26:39.000
as you take your ungrateful ass out of here. Okay. Number two, HBO max, the new streaming
00:26:46.180
service has dropped, um, gone with the wind, the film classic, because it's depiction of race
00:26:51.040
is not woke enough by our standards today. So we have entered the book burning phase, uh, now.
00:26:56.740
And since I've been reading great works of literature on the show today, let me read this
00:27:00.820
from 1984, uh, George Orwell, of course. And, uh, there's a relevant passage says every record has
00:27:08.180
been destroyed or falsified. Every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted. Every statue and
00:27:12.740
street building has been renamed. Every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by
00:27:17.380
day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which
00:27:23.000
the party is always right. What more needs to be said. That's where we are. This is not Orwellian
00:27:30.120
anymore. It's just reality. Number three, here's an important PSA from Susan Meister, who's, uh,
00:27:35.860
apparently she says a PhD in religious studies, also a blue check on Twitter. Very important
00:27:40.980
person, podcast host. Uh, we're all very important to podcast hosts, you know, anyway, she says in a
00:27:46.100
since deleted tweet, she says white women, stop calling your friend group, your tribe. It's
00:27:51.620
appropriating native American culture. And also it's really, really annoying. Appropriating. And of
00:27:57.240
course, uh, Susan is white herself, which, which you could probably already guess.
00:28:00.880
Appropriating to say the word tribe. Yeah. Very, very good point there, Karen. Uh, I mean,
00:28:06.500
when I read about the tribes of Israel in the Bible, I'm always shocked and horrified that biblical
00:28:11.260
writers in the middle East 3000 years ago were appropriating from native American culture. Very,
00:28:16.260
very, very, very horrible stuff. Unless of course, tribe is actually an English word
00:28:20.860
with Latin roots that originally referred to the divisions of Roman society.
00:28:24.960
All right. I think that's it. I think that's what it is. Glad we could clear that up. Number four,
00:28:30.720
George Floyd's funeral, as mentioned was yesterday buried in a golden casket, um, as all saints deserve
00:28:35.900
to be. Al Sharpton, of course, was on the scene. He gave the eulogy. Now, usually the eulogy is given
00:28:41.880
by a family member or close friend or the local pastor, uh, someone who knew the deceased, or at least
00:28:48.200
had some kind of personal connection to him or his family and, and therefore could actually talk about
00:28:52.760
him and pay tribute to him and his life in a meaningful way. That's normally how the eulogy
00:28:57.100
is handled. Um, Al Sharpton, I don't think knew George Floyd, never met him, but he gave the eulogy
00:29:03.580
and here's how that went. All this family wants is justice. Oh, it's nice to see some people change
00:29:13.340
their mind. The head of the NFL said, yeah, maybe we was wrong. Football players. Maybe they did have the
00:29:23.940
right to peacefully protest. Well, don't apologize. Give Colin Kaepernick a job back.
00:29:30.480
Don't come with some empty apology. Take a man's livelihood, strip a man down of his talents. And four
00:29:43.200
years later, when the whole world is marching, all of a sudden you go and do a FaceTime talking
00:29:49.200
about you. Sorry. Minimizing the value of our lives. You sorry, then repay the damage you did to the
00:30:02.560
career. You stood down cause when Colin took a knee, he took it for the families in this building. And we
00:30:11.600
don't want an apology. We want him repaired. Okay. So we've got a guy who didn't know George
00:30:25.200
Floyd giving a eulogy for George Floyd by talking about Colin Kaepernick and Roger Goodell.
00:30:31.000
Great. That makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? Now, as, as to the, the, the question of why
00:30:37.320
Colin Kaepernick doesn't have a job, it's actually because Colin Kaepernick is not a very good
00:30:42.400
football player. Uh, he was a mediocre football player when he left the game like four years ago
00:30:48.520
and, uh, he hasn't gotten better since, you know, you don't go from mediocre athlete and then you
00:30:55.220
don't play for four years and you come back and you're a superstar. So that's the reason he's not,
00:30:59.380
it's not, it's, it's really not a mystery. If Colin Kaepernick was, you know, had the talent
00:31:05.520
of Lamar Jackson, let's say he would be playing right now. I don't care what he did or said.
00:31:17.320
Superstar quarterbacks are going to find a job. It doesn't matter what they do,
00:31:21.460
what they say, how much of a jerk they are. Doesn't matter. Colin Kaepernick is not a superstar
00:31:26.860
quarterback. Never was, will never be. And so he's just not worth the headache that comes with him.
00:31:31.860
That's why he doesn't have a job, but none of this has anything to do with George Floyd.
00:31:35.200
Of course. So why, why is this being brought up? Um, I know, I, of course I know why these are,
00:31:43.220
these are all rhetorical questions. I know why it's being brought up. I know why Al Sharpton is
00:31:48.380
there. Al Sharpton is there because he's a race hustling opportunistic, uh, creep, you know,
00:31:53.800
so that, that kind of, I guess, solves that mystery. Number five, finally, the LA galaxy,
00:31:59.780
which apparently is a soccer team because we apparently have soccer teams in this country for reasons that,
00:32:05.200
are unclear to me. Um, they have released Serbian soccer star, Alexander Katai. They released him
00:32:12.640
over offensive Instagram posts about the rioters. Now here's the kicker pun intended. They were not
00:32:22.380
his posts. They were his wife's posts. So his wife sent out a couple of Instagram posts that were deemed
00:32:28.680
defensive and racist. And so they fire him for what his wife said. That's where we are now is you don't
00:32:36.160
just get fired for your own wrong. Think you can get fired for someone, you know, they're wrong. Think
00:32:44.020
this is kind of interesting because I guess what we're telling Alexander Katai is that he should
00:32:52.540
have controlled his wife better. I guess. So he's being fired for not controlling everything his wife
00:32:58.600
does and says. That's why he's fired. I don't know what the conversation was when they pulled him into
00:33:04.700
the office, but essentially it boils down to, you know, you need to get a handle on your wife and
00:33:11.940
controller. That's why you're fired. I mean, that's what they're saying. I'm not saying that they're
00:33:16.880
saying that if you're going to fire a guy because of what his wife says, you're blaming him for what
00:33:22.920
his wife says. The only way you could do that is if you are saying it was his responsibility to control
00:33:28.440
what she says. That, uh, that to me doesn't seem very, I mean, that doesn't seem up to the woke
00:33:34.640
standards, but this, this again, you see where the poor feminists, they always lose out. They're
00:33:43.380
just going further and further down. Uh, they're descending the ranks of victims, the victim
00:33:48.060
hierarchy. They're getting, they're getting booted from their spot left and right further and further
00:33:51.660
down the ladder. Eventually feminists are going to be no better than conservative white men.
00:33:56.100
You guys are going to be with us soon enough. I mean, welcome, welcome down here to the pit.
00:34:02.980
Uh, because you know, they, they get soup, all of their, their agenda, their priorities,
00:34:08.080
constantly getting superseded by more important victim groups.
00:34:14.680
All right, let's move on to our daily cancellation. Um, speaking of with, uh, speaking of, of trouble
00:34:20.980
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00:34:25.760
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00:34:30.040
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00:34:35.140
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Okay. For our daily cancellation. And this guy, as you know, is very hard for me always to do this
00:35:41.500
deeply painful, but I have no choice. I have to cancel my wife again.
00:35:46.180
And let me tell you what she did this time. First, a little bit of background, uh, two things you
00:35:53.640
should know about me if you don't already. One is that I get into these little kicks where I order
00:35:58.200
an obscene number of books, uh, from Amazon in the span of a couple of weeks as I'm trying to restock
00:36:05.000
my reading supply for the month months ahead. So it's, it's sort of like a squirrel storing up food
00:36:09.760
for the winter, except this is the nerd version of that. And, um, I've been on one of those kicks
00:36:15.560
recently. So I've been ordering a lot of books and this annoys my wife. Okay. For some reason,
00:36:21.900
doesn't like the fact that there are six new books coming to the house every day. She thinks that
00:36:26.740
that's a little bit overdone. I don't know why. Um, second fact is that I am an apiarist or beekeeper
00:36:36.120
to you common folk. My wife is canceled for publicly shaming me on both of these counts.
00:36:43.160
Now, here's the tweet that she sent out last night. It says, I can't then with laughing face
00:36:49.300
emojis, her use of emojis, by the way, is a secondary reason for canceling her. Uh, anyways,
00:36:54.460
anyways, I can't, uh, nice light reading came for you today. Talking to me helped myself to opening
00:37:00.940
your Amazon package. And then it's a picture of a book I ordered called honeybee democracy about the
00:37:06.100
social structure of a honeybee hive in particular about the decision-making process of a honeybee
00:37:09.960
swarm, uh, after because what honeybee swarm after a faction of the bees, uh, leave the hive with,
00:37:15.880
with the deposed queen and, uh, they're in search of a new place to live. And this book really gets
00:37:21.440
into how they make that decision and how communication and navigation works within a honeybee swarm.
00:37:27.000
Yes. I bought an entire book on that subject. Fascinating stuff. I read a couple chapters
00:37:33.260
last night. I thought it was very interesting, but my wife is literally laughing at me publicly
00:37:39.760
over this. And she even, she takes, she takes screenshots of the different pages of the book
00:37:46.200
and then, and then post them to like making fun of it because she finds it absurd for some reason
00:37:52.560
that a man would read a book about bees or four books about bees in the past week in my case.
00:37:59.000
So, um, let's go through this now. Let's list all of the micro and macro aggressions my wife has
00:38:05.120
committed against me and not for the first time. Number one, she opened my package invasion of privacy,
00:38:13.280
unconstitutional federal crime. I could have her taken away in cuffs by federal agents. If I wanted to,
00:38:20.380
I could call the FBI right now and report that as a federal crime to tamper with mail.
00:38:27.060
Second, she bee shames me. She shames me for my interest in bees. And if it seems like I'm taking
00:38:34.240
that too personally, you know, if you don't understand, well, well, here's what you need
00:38:38.220
to understand that in my community, among those who identify as beekeepers, we have for so long had
00:38:44.820
our identities marginalized and trivialized. You know, this is one of the reasons why people are
00:38:49.820
very hesitant often to come out as beekeepers. I'll never forget the time when I worked up the
00:38:54.880
courage to finally come out and gather my family and friends around and tell them, you know, I have
00:38:59.120
something I need to tell you. It's very important to me. I've been thinking about this a long time.
00:39:01.680
I'm a beekeeper. It is a very important and intimate moment in my life.
00:39:09.140
And this is not something I'm choosing to be. This is my identity. This is my truth.
00:39:15.980
And I'm going to live it openly and publicly. And I'm not going to be afraid of who I am.
00:39:24.400
To have my own wife making a mockery of my deepest truth, otherizing me, erasing my identity,
00:39:35.880
denying me the right to exist and be free. Well, that's just, that's, that's literally the worst
00:39:43.220
thing that has ever happened to anyone. Ever. And all of this while my wife is a chicken farmer.
00:39:50.820
She has chickens. Like, are you really going to shame me over my bees when you have chickens?
00:39:58.240
Do you want to get into this competition? I don't think you do.
00:40:01.660
Look at a beehive. 50,000 bees working as one seamless unit. A super organism. Graceful and
00:40:11.400
industrious and productive. Meanwhile, I saw one of her chickens the other day
00:40:16.840
eat his own poop and then run into a wall. So I don't think this is a debate that she wants to
00:40:25.000
have. I really don't. And that's why she's cancer. Hopefully the lesson has finally been learned.
00:40:34.740
And, um, and I'm, I'm really sorry. I got to keep airing dirty laundry on this show, but this is my
00:40:41.980
safe space, uh, and my outlet for talking about the persecution that I suffered, even in my own home.
00:40:55.060
So, all right, let's, uh, we'll, we'll wrap it up there. Thanks for watching and listening, everybody.
00:41:00.640
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