Ep. 519 - The Left Introduces The Racial Version Of 'Believe All Women'
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Believe All Women has been reborn, except now it s racialized as well. Before we were told that we must believe all women who claim that they were sexually assaulted or harassed, now we re told we ll believe any non-white person who claims they re the victim of racism. But this idea is just as dangerous and irrational as Believe All Women, and we ll talk about why.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Believe All Women has been reborn, except now it's been racialized
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as well. Before we were told that we must believe all women who claim that they were sexually
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assaulted or harassed. Now we're told that we must believe any non-white person who claims
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they're the victim of racism. But this idea is just as dangerous and irrational as Believe All
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Women. We'll talk about why. Also, five headlines, including a true American hero, I don't use that
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phrase lightly, who stood up against a couple of women at the store who were hectoring him
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slash Walsh. All right, so the Me Too movement, with its Believe All Women slogan, has been reborn,
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resurrected, only more like Frankenstein than Jesus Christ in this case.
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What we can look forward to now in our culture is a racialized version of the same concept. We've
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already seen it, of course, playing out, but I think it's only going to get worse, which is why
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it's worth spending some time on today talking about it. And I'm going to focus to frame this
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discussion, focus especially on an article in the Wall Street Journal just published, says,
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what does being an ally look like? Companies offer training in support of black colleagues.
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And then it says, acknowledge past mistakes and question workplace practices to support
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the advancement of black co-workers, corporate leaders say. And in a posting to Twitter, the
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journal provides in the caption this quote from the article. It says, if a black person
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tells you that they're feeling something is racist, just believe them. So we'll get to that
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in a moment. But first, let's read a bit from this article as we work up to that. It says,
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difficult conversations with colleagues about their experiences are a critical part of being
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an ally in the workplace. Ms. Shiler said, we have to allow people to voice what they've
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been through and the physical and mental exhaustion. She said, you have to be uncomfortable every single
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day or we're not going to get this right. Ms. Shiler, Shannon Shiler, by the way, she's the
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chief purpose and inclusion officer at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Purpose and inclusion officer.
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How do you get that job? And how much does it pay? I'm going to bet well into the six figures to
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be a purpose and inclusion officer. Prompted by protests after the killing of George Floyd in
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Minneapolis, many corporate leaders are evaluating how best to advocate for underrepresented employees
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as part of a broader diversity and inclusion effort. From tech giant Microsoft Corp to law firm
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Winston and Strawn, companies are unveiling plans to provide training and host discussions about the
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concept of allyship. Ally training promotes the idea that an ally, generally someone who is white or
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otherwise in the majority, supports the workplace advancement of people who are black or otherwise in
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the minority and stands up for them when they experience discrimination or unfair treatment.
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By the way, this article is doing that new thing where black is capitalized, but white isn't.
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There is no grammatical defense of that whatsoever. Really, neither word should be capitalized.
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But if you're going to capitalize one, you should capitalize the other. There's no grammatical
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reason to do this. It's just that the left injects ideology into every single crack and crevice of the
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national conversation that it can. Everything is turned into an ideological issue, even what words
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you capitalize. And that's one of the reasons why the left wins all the time, by the way, is that
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they're making everything into an ideological fight and they're fighting. They're going to have fights
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that are so petty and ridiculous, seemingly, that normal people won't even engage. So another classic
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example, I'm getting away from this, I'll get back to it in a second. But another example just for the
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last few days is this, the thing with the Goya company that makes, you know, most people know them
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for their beans. That's why I buy their cans of beans. But the CEO said that he supports Trump.
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And now there's this massive campaign against the company. And meanwhile, for most, like when I'm
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going to buy a can of beans, it wouldn't even occur to me to refrain from buying a certain kind of bean
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because the CEO of the company that produced it supports a politician I don't like. I don't know
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what politicians my cans of beans support. I don't care. It's just not. But on the left,
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they are that petty that they won't even buy beans from you unless you sign on to all of their doctrinal
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beliefs. And that's one of the reasons why they win. It's because they're going to fight.
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They're going to have fights that the rest of us won't even participate in because we're just
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too rational at times. All right, let's back to this. It says, at supermarket chain Kroger,
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one of its workplace groups, the African-American Associate Resource Group developed an allyship
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guide with advice on how to support black colleagues and recommendations for books and movies that discuss
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race. Allies can serve as a sounding board for peers and work to understand where bias is
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exists in the organization. Okay, so on and so forth. Further on, it says,
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when white co-workers refer to their black co-workers as being too loud or aggressive or
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their appearance doesn't fit within their personal acceptable standards, managers need to address
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these microaggressions. According to Helen Aboa, who's the CEO of Urban Zen, a New York-based
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clothing, beauty, and home decor retailer. Okay, well, what if they're really just being too loud,
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aggressive or they're out of uniform? Isn't that a possibility for anybody of any race?
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If a white employee is acting that way, there will be no problem with saying so, right?
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So it's always racist to say that of a black employee, but never racist to say it of a white
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employee? If that makes sense to you, you're either high or suffering from psychotic delusions
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because it makes no sense whatsoever. Okay, and then we get to the money quote.
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Wilda White, a consultant who serves as the chair of a Vermont, of a Vermont, Vermont. I don't know why
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I said it like that. Of a Vermont, the state of Vermont, the chair of a Vermont oversight commission
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on mental health and law enforcement said she has been getting texts recently from colleagues asking
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how she's doing. It's nice that people are trying to express solidarity, she said, but in the absence
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of a meaningful relationship, such efforts can feel empty like empty gestures. White employees can
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help black co-workers by being respectful of their experiences instead of arguing or trying to
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invalidate their feelings, she said. If a black person tells you that they're feeling something
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is racist, just believe them. Okay, now this is an important point. Believe them. If they say that
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they feel something is racist, believe them. Well, believe what exactly? Believe that they feel that
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way? Okay, sure. If someone says they feel a certain way or don't feel a certain way, all you can do is
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believe them. I'm with you on that. And why is that? Because nobody else can speak for someone else's feelings
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other than the person experiencing those feelings. That's the only person who could be an authority
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on the feelings that are being felt. Yes, I agree. But you see what that means. That idea invalidates
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the claim being made here is that you can't, if somebody feels a certain way, you have to believe
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how they feel, take them at their word, essentially, and I agree with that. But the
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problem is, at least for the claim made here, that the person being accused of saying or
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doing something racist is also the only person who can verify that claim. In other words, when
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you say that a statement or action is racist, you're making a claim not about your own
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feelings, but about the feelings of the person who did or said the thing. You might feel like
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it was racist, but whether or not it actually is racist, well, that goes to the feelings and
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intentions of the person who did or said it. That's what, you're really making a claim about
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their emotional state, about their intentions. And the only person who can speak to that, as
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we just covered, the only authority on that subject is the person themselves. In lieu of mind-reading
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capabilities, only the person being accused is an authority on the subject of their own alleged
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racism. So, you feel something is racist. Okay, you feel that. Fine. But your feelings about someone
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else's feelings have no evidentiary value whatsoever. If I want to know whether something
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was racist, I'm not going to go talk to other people to see how it made them feel, because
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that's not going to tell me whether or not it actually was racist. Your feelings about
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my feelings don't prove anything at all about my feelings. It's true that I could lie about
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my feelings, and it's true sometimes that my actions can speak so clearly to a certain feeling
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or intention that my claims after the fact have to be treated skeptically. So, for example,
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if I walk up to you out of the blue and punch you in the face, and then later on I say I didn't mean
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to hurt you, in that case you would be justified in feeling skeptical about my claims. That's
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because there's almost no other conceivable reason why I would walk up to a person and punch
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him in the face. So, you as the punchee are left to surmise either that the puncher wanted to do you
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harm or that they're insane. There really isn't any third option. Maybe they were aggressively
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trying to swat a mosquito away from your nose, but that, again, seems dubious. So, there are nuances
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here, but even so, the only true authority on a person's feelings and intentions is the person.
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If that authority chooses not to be honest or to conceal the truth, then that's what they're going to do,
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but they are still the only authority. The rest of us can only guess, surmise, theorize,
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come to tentative conclusions, but we can't know the way the person can know.
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And all of that means that in a situation where there could be any number of reasonable ways to
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explain a person's actions, when a person's actions could plausibly be motivated by good or bad or
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neutral intentions, and this is the case most of the time. I mean, with most of the things people do,
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especially in their interactions with other people, there's any number of ways to interpret it.
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And in those cases, all you can do is listen to their own account of their own actions,
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It says that it's a microaggression and it's racist to tell a black employee that they're being too loud.
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if someone in a work environment says to another person,
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it seems to me that there's any number of reasons why a person might say that.
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One reason, I guess, is that they're racist and that they're trying to shut up a black person because
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they're racist. That is a possibility, I guess. But there are a lot of other possibilities, too.
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One possibility is that the person is really just being too loud.
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And others in their work environment can't focus. That's a possibility.
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There may even be, you know, options, see D&E here. I don't know.
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does have ill intentions, but that aren't racially based.
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Maybe they have a personal animus against this person.
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Maybe it's, you know, some passive-aggressive dig at an individual they don't like.
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given that there are so many possible explanations,
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and in fact, the most plausible and immediate explanation
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You know, the most plausible and immediate explanation being
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as people contend to be in a workplace environment.
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and we want to know why Samantha said that thing,
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is that every white person is racist inherently.